 依:1.(is)   [依撒意亞]  Isaiah   [共 66 章]   [思高聖經]
  
           前編 預言集(1-35)
 依:1.1      [小引] 在烏齊雅、約堂、阿哈次和希則克雅為猶大王時，阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞，關於猶大和耶路撒冷所見的異象如下：
 依:1.2      [先知的譴責] 諸天，請諦聽! 大地，請側耳! 因為上主有話說：「我把孩子撫養長大，他們竟背叛了我 !
 依:1.3      牛認識自己的主人，驢也認識自己主人的槽，以色列卻毫不知情，我的百姓卻一點不懂。」
 依:1.4      禍哉，犯罪的民族，惡貫滿盈的百姓，作惡的後裔，敗壞的子孫! 他們離棄了上主，蔑視了以色列的聖者，轉身背棄了他。
 依:1.5      你們為什麼還繼續叛逆，再遭受打擊呢﹖整個頭已患了病，整個心已經焦悴；
 依:1.6      從腳掌直到頭頂已體無完膚，盡是創痍、傷痕和新的傷口；沒有擠淨，沒有包紮，也沒有軟膏滋潤。
 依:1.7      你們的地區變成荒蕪，你們的城市被火燒盡，你們面前的莊田被異民吞併，變成一片荒涼，宛如索多瑪的廢墟；
 依:1.8      僅存的熙雍女兒，有如葡萄園裏的茅舍，胡瓜園中的草廬，被圍困著的城市。
 依:1.9      若非萬軍的上主給我們留下些許殘餘，我們早已如同索多瑪，相似哈摩辣了。
 依:1.10     [上主的警戒]  索多瑪的統治者，請聽上主的話! 哈摩辣的百姓，請聽天主的訓示：
 依:1.11     「你們為什麼向我奉獻那麼多的犧牲﹖──上主說：我已飽饜了公羊的燔祭和肥犢的脂膏；牛犢、羔羊和山羊的血我已不喜歡；
 依:1.12     你們來見我的面時，誰向你們要求了這些東西﹖這簡直是蹂躪我的殿院。
 依:1.13     不要再奉獻無謂的祭品! 馨香已為我所憎惡，月朔、安息日、集會、齋戒和盛大的宴會，我已都不能容受。
 依:1.14     我的心痛恨你們的月朔和你們的慶節，它們為我是種累贅，使我忍無可忍。
 依:1.15     你們伸出手時，我必掩目不看；你們行大祈禱時，我決不俯聽，因為你們的手染滿了血!
 依:1.16     你們應該洗滌，應該自潔，從我眼前革除你們的惡行，停止作孽，
 依:1.17     學習行善，尋求正義，責斥壓迫人的人，為孤兒伸冤，為寡婦辯護。
 依:1.18     現在你們來，讓我們互相辯論──上主說：你們的罪雖似朱紅，將變成雪一樣的潔白；雖紅得發紫，仍能變成羊毛一樣的皎潔。
 依:1.19     假使你們樂意服從，你們將享用地上的美物；
 依:1.20     假使你們拒絕反抗，你們將為刀劍所吞滅。」這是上主親口說的。
 依:1.21     [聖城的罪孽]  忠貞的城邑，怎麼變成了蕩婦! 昔日充滿著正義，寄居著公平的，現今卻住滿了謀殺的兇手!
 依:1.22     你的銀子變成了渣滓，你的美酒攙和了水份；
 依:1.23     你的首領謀反作亂，成了盜賊的幫兇；他們都愛好賄賂，索取報酬，不為孤兒伸冤，不受理寡婦的訴訟。
 依:1.24     [天主的審判]  因此吾主，萬軍的上主，以色列的大能者說：「哎! 我必向我的敵人雪恨，我必向我的仇人復仇。
 依:1.25     我必向你伸出我的手，用爐火煉盡你的渣滓，除去你所有的鉛錫。
 依:1.26     我要使你的民長復興如初；使你的參謀恢復如初；以後你將被稱為正義的城市，忠貞的城邑。」
 依:1.27     [定案]  熙雍將因正直獲得救贖，她的居民將因正義蒙受救恩；
 依:1.28     然而惡人和罪人必將一同滅亡，背棄上主的人必要滅絕。
 依:1.29     你們必因你們所喜愛的橡樹而蒙羞，必因你們所選擇的花園而慚愧；
 依:1.30     你們將變成一棵落葉的橡樹，一座無水的花園。
 依:1.31     強者將似麻絮，他的工作猶如火花：二者必要同時焚燒，無人予以熄滅。
  
 依:2.1      [熙雍將為萬民的中心] 阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞關於猶大和耶路撒冷所見的事情：
 依:2.2      到末日，上主的聖殿山必要矗立在群山之上，超乎一切山岳，萬民都要向它湧來。
 依:2.3      將有許多民族前去，說：「來! 我們攀登上主的聖山，往雅各伯天主的殿裏去! 他必指示我們他的道路，教給我們循行他的途徑。因為法律將出自熙雍，上主的話將出自耶路撒冷。」
 依:2.4      他將統治萬邦，治理眾民；致使眾人都把自己的刀劍鑄成鋤頭，將自己的槍矛製成鐮刀；民族與民族不再持刀相向，人也不再學習戰鬥。
 依:2.5      雅各伯家! 來讓我們在上主的光明中行走罷!
 依:2.6      [上主的日子]  是的!上主拋棄了自己的百姓──雅各伯家族──因為他們充滿了術士和占卜者，有如培肋舍特人一樣，且與異民握手言歡。
 依:2.7      他們的地域充滿了金銀，財寶不可估計；他們的地域充滿了馬匹，戰車不可勝數。
 依:2.8      遍地都是偶像，人人崇拜自己手做的東西，崇拜自己手指的造像。
 依:2.9      如此，人自甘卑下，自甘墮落，對他們決無救援。
 依:2.10     當上主起來震撼大地時，你要潛入巖穴，躲在土中，為逃避上主的威嚇和他顯赫的光輝。
 依:2.11     目空一切的人必被抑制，性情高傲的人必被屈服：那一日，唯有上主受尊崇。
 依:2.12     因為萬軍的上主必有一日，要攻擊所有驕矜自誇和自高自大的人，並加以抑制。
 依:2.13     必要攻擊黎巴嫩的一切高大香柏樹和巴商的一切樟樹；
 依:2.14     必要攻擊一切高山和聳峙的山嶺，
 依:2.15     一切高塔和一切堅固的城牆，
 依:2.16     塔爾史士的一切船隻和一切美觀的畫舫。
 依:2.17     人的傲慢必被屈服，人的驕矜必被抑制：那一日唯有上主受尊崇。
 依:2.18     上主必要完全毀滅偶像。
 依:2.19     當上主起來震撼大地時，你們應潛入巖洞，躲在土穴中，為逃避上主的威嚇和顯赫的光輝。
 依:2.20     那一日，人必將為自己製造來崇拜的銀像和金像，拋給鼴鼠和蝙蝠，
 依:2.21     以便在上主起來震撼大地的時候，逃避上主的威嚇和他顯赫的光輝，而隱藏在磐石的孔洞裏和巖石的隙縫中。
 依:2.22     你們不要依恃人，因為他只有一口氣在鼻孔裏，他可算得什麼﹖
  
 依:3.1      [耶京陷於無政府狀態]  看啊! 主，萬軍的上主，將奪去耶路撒冷和猶大的支柱和依靠，【各種食糧的供應和水的供應：】
 依:3.2      勇將和戰士，判官和先知，占卜者和長老，
 依:3.3      五十夫長和顯貴，謀士、機警的術士和巧言的咒師。
 依:3.4      他將使青年人作他們的首領，使頑童管治他們；
 依:3.5      百姓將互相壓搾，彼此殘害；幼童欺凌老翁，賤者虐待貴人。
 依:3.6      那時，人要抓著自己家族裏的一個弟兄說：「你還有一件外衣，你可作我們的領袖，這廢墟即屬於你手下。」
 依:3.7      那一日，這人必要大聲回答說：「我不是個醫生，我家裏沒有糧食，也沒有外衣，不要立我作百姓的首領! 」
 依:3.8      耶路撒冷傾覆了，猶大崩潰了，因為他們的口舌和行為都與上主作對，使他光輝的眼目冒火。
 依:3.9      他們的厚顏已在指責他們，他們像索多瑪一樣揭示了自己的邪惡，而毫不隱瞞；這些人是有禍的，因為他們為自己招致了災禍。
 依:3.10     你們要說：「義人是有福的，因為他們必享受自己行為的善果。
 依:3.11     禍哉作惡的人! 他必遭災禍，因為他手中的作為必回報於他!」
 依:3.12     至於我的百姓：孩童要壓搾他們，婦女要管轄他們。我的百姓啊! 領導你的，領你走錯了路，混亂了你行徑的路途。
 依:3.13     [天主施行審判]  上主要站起來審判，立著審判他的百姓。
 依:3.14     上主要開庭審訊他百姓的長老和領袖：「是你們侵吞了我的葡萄園，窩藏了由窮人那裏勒索來的物件；
 依:3.15     你們為什麼壓搾我的百姓，折磨窮人的臉面﹖」──吾主，萬軍上主的斷語。
 依:3.16     [婦女的命運]  上主說：因為熙雍的女子趾高氣揚，走路挺直頸項，媚眼惑人，行路裝腔作勢，腳步鈴鈴作響，
 依:3.17     吾主必使熙雍女子的頭頂生長毒瘡，上主必揭露她們的恥辱。
 依:3.18     那一日，吾主必要剝奪她們的裝飾：踝環、圓環、月牙環、
 依:3.19     耳環、手鐲和面紗，
 依:3.20     帽巾、腳鍊、領帶、香盒、符籐、
 依:3.21     戒指、鼻環、
 依:3.22     禮服、斗蓬、披肩、手袋、
 依:3.23     面罩、襯衫、頭巾和夏衣。
 依:3.24     必有腥臭代替馨香，繩索代替腰帶，禿頭代替鬟髻，苦衣代替胸衣，烙印代替美麗。
 依:3.25     [耶京的荒涼]  你的男子要倒於刀下，你的勇士要死於戰場!
 依:3.26     熙雍的城門將慟哭哀悼，熙雍將悽涼地坐於地上。
  
 依:4.1      那一日，七個女人要抓住一個男人說：「我們吃自己的食糧，穿自己的衣服，只要你容許我們歸於你名下，除去我們的恥辱。」
 依:4.2      [新熙雍]  那一日，由上主所發出的苗芽，必成為以色列遺民的光輝與榮耀；地上的果實必成為他們的誇耀與光彩。
 依:4.3      凡留在熙雍的，遺在耶路撒冷的，即凡錄在耶路撒冷的生命冊上的，都必將稱為聖者。
 依:4.4      當吾主以懲治的神和毀滅的神，洗淨熙雍女子的污穢，滌除耶路撒冷中間的血漬時，
 依:4.5      上主將顯現在熙雍山整個地盤與其集會之上：白日藉著雲煙，黑夜藉光亮的火燄；因為在一切之上，有上主的榮耀，有如天蓋和帳棚，
 依:4.6      白日作蔭影以免炎暑，又可作庇護，以避狂風暴雨。
  
 依:5.1      [葡萄園寓言詩]  我要為我的愛友謳唱一首論及他葡萄園的愛歌：我的愛友有一座葡萄園，位於肥沃的山岡上；
 依:5.2      他翻掘了土地，除去了石塊，栽上了精選的葡萄樹，園中築了一座守望台，又鑿了一個榨酒池：原希望它結好葡萄，它反倒結了野葡萄。
 依:5.3      耶路撒冷的居民和猶大人啊! 現在請你們在我與我葡萄園之間，判別是非：
 依:5.4      我為我的葡萄園所能做的，還有什麼沒有做到﹖我原希望它結好葡萄，為什麼卻結了野葡萄﹖
 依:5.5      現在我要告訴你們，我將怎樣對待我的葡萄園：我必撤去它的籬笆，讓它被吞噬；拆毀它的圍牆，讓它受踐踏；
 依:5.6      我要使他變成荒地，不再修剪，不再耕鋤，荊棘和蒺藜將叢叢而生；並且我要命令雲彩不再在它上降下時雨。
 依:5.7      萬軍上主的葡萄園就是以色列家，而猶大人即是他鍾愛的幼苗。他原希望正義，看，竟是流血；他原希望公平，看，卻是冤聲!
 依:5.8      [指責以民中的罪行]  禍哉，你們這些使房屋毗連房屋，田地接連田地，而只讓你們自己單獨住在那地域內的人!
 依:5.9      萬軍的上主在我耳邊宣誓說：那許多房屋必將成為廢墟；巍峨華麗的，必無人居住；
 依:5.10     十畝葡萄園將只出一「巴特」酒，一「曷默爾」種子，只出一「厄法」穀。
 依:5.11     禍哉，那些早晨一起來即追求烈酒，留連至深夜，飲至酒酣耳熱的人!
 依:5.12     在他們的宴會上只有琴、瑟、手鼓、管笛和酒。卻沒有人注視上主的作為，沒有人留意他手中的工作：
 依:5.13     因此，我的百姓必因無知而被放逐，顯貴必將餓得要死，民眾必將渴得要命。
 依:5.14     為此，陰府張大了咽喉，敞開了無限的大口，顯貴、群眾以及那些喧嘩宴樂的人，都要落在裏面。
 依:5.15     人必將屈服，人必被抑制，目空一切的人必低首下心。
 依:5.16     萬軍的上主必因正義而受尊崇，至聖的天主必因公平而顯為聖。
 依:5.17     羔羊要在那裏吃草，有如在自己的草場上；肥羊要在荒田裏吃草。
 依:5.18     禍哉，那些用牛犢的韁繩引來邪惡，用牛車的繩索勾出罪孽的人，
 依:5.19     和那些說：「願他趕快，迅速完成他的工作，好使我們看看；願以色列聖者的決策盡速執行，好使我們知道」的人!
 依:5.20     禍哉，那些稱惡為善，稱善為惡；以暗為光，以光為暗；以苦為甘，以甘為苦的人!
 依:5.21     禍哉，那些自視為聰明和自以為通達的人!
 依:5.22     禍哉，那些飲酒的英雄，調酒的壯士!
 依:5.23     那些受賄釋放罪人，奪取義人權利的人!
 依:5.24     因此，他們必如捲入火舌中的禾湝，焚於烈燄中的枯草；他們的根必要糜爛，他們的嫩芽必要如塵埃般的飛揚，因為他們拋棄了萬軍上主的教導，藐視了以色列聖者的訓誨。
 依:5.25     為此，上主向自己的百姓大發雷霆，伸出自己的手來打擊他們；其時，山嶽為之震撼，他們的屍體，有如街道上的糞土。然而他的震怒並未因此而息滅，他的手仍然伸著。
 依:5.26     [懲罰即將來臨]  上主要向遠方的異民豎起一面旗幟，好由大地的四極號召他們，看，他們將疾趨前來。
 依:5.27     他們中沒有疲倦的，沒有仆倒的；沒有打盹的，沒有睡覺的；他們的腰帶沒有鬆解，他們的鞋帶也沒有折斷；
 依:5.28     他們的箭矢銳利，他們的弓弩全已張開；他們的馬蹄好似火石，他們的車輪有如旋風；
 依:5.29     他們怒吼有如母獅，吼叫有如幼獅；他們咆哮攫食，攜之而去，無人予以挽救。
 依:5.30     那一日，他們必如海嘯般向這民族怒號。人若注視大地，看，盡是黑暗痛苦；光明遮蔽在密雲中，成了晦暗。
  
 依:6.1      [先知受召神視]  烏齊雅王逝世那年，我看見吾主坐在崇高的御座上，他的衣邊拖曳滿殿。
 依:6.2      「色辣芬」侍立在他左右，各有六個翅膀：兩個蓋住臉，兩個蓋住腳，兩個用來飛翔。
 依:6.3      他們互相高呼說：「聖! 聖! 聖! 萬軍的上主! 他的光榮充滿大地! 」
 依:6.4      由於呼喊的聲音，門限的基石也震撼了；殿宇內充滿了煙霧。
 依:6.5      我遂說：「我有禍了! 我完了! 因為我是個唇舌不潔的人，住在唇舌不潔的人民中間，竟親眼見了君王──萬軍的上主! 」
 依:6.6      當時有一個「色辣芬」飛到我面前，手中拿著鉗子，從祭壇上取了一塊火炭，
 依:6.7      接觸我的口說：「你看，這炭接觸了你的口唇，你的邪惡已經消除，你的罪孽已獲赦免!」
 依:6.8      那時我聽見吾主的聲音說：「我將派遣誰呢﹖誰肯為我們去呢﹖」我回答說：「我在這裏，請派遣我 ! 」
 依:6.9      他說：「你去對這民族說：你們聽是聽，但不明白；看是看，卻不理解。
 依:6.10     你要使這民族的心遲鈍，使他們的耳朵沉重，使他們的眼睛迷矇，免得他們的眼睛看見，耳朵聽見，心裏覺悟而悔改，獲得痊癒。」
 依:6.11     我追問說：「吾主! 要到幾時呢﹖」他回答說：「直到城邑變成廢墟，沒有居民，房屋無人居住，田地變為荒蕪。」
 依:6.12     上主必將人民遷到遠方，本地區荒蕪異常。
 依:6.13     境內雖只留下十分之一，還要遭受摧殘；就如松樹和樟樹在伐倒後，尚留有餘幹，聖善的苗裔將由這餘幹產生。
  
 依:7.1      [先知勸王依恃上主]  當烏齊雅的孫子，約堂的兒子阿哈次為猶大王時，阿蘭王勒斤和以色列王勒瑪里雅的兒子培卡黑，上來攻打耶路撒冷，但是不能攻陷。
 依:7.2      有人報告達味家說：「阿蘭已經駐紮在厄弗辣因! 」君王與人民都膽戰心驚，有如風中搖動的樹木。
 依:7.3      上主對依撒意亞說：「你和你的兒子舍阿爾雅叔布出去，到上池的水溝盡頭，即漂工田間的大道上，去會見阿哈次；
 依:7.4      對他說：你必須審慎，保持鎮定，不必畏懼，不要因那兩個冒煙的火把頭──即勒斤、阿蘭和勒瑪里雅之子──的怒火而膽怯。
 依:7.5      雖然阿蘭、厄弗辣因和勒瑪里雅的兒子同謀，迫害你說：
 依:7.6      我們上猶大去，擾亂她，把她佔領過來歸於我們，並在那裏立塔貝耳的兒子為王；
 依:7.7      但是吾主上主卻這樣說：這事決不能成立，亦不能發生!
 依:7.8      因為阿蘭的首都是大馬士革，大馬士革的首領是勒斤；
 依:7.8      【六年或五年以後，阿蘭將被消滅，厄弗辣因將要衰敗。】假使你們不肯相信，你們必然不能存立。」
 依:7.9      厄弗辣因的首都是撒瑪黎雅，撒瑪黎雅的首領是勒瑪里雅的兒子。
 依:7.10     [厄瑪奴耳]  上主又對阿哈次說：
 依:7.11     「你向上主你的天主要求一個徵兆罷 ! 或求諸陰府深處，或求諸上天高處。」
 依:7.12     阿哈次回答說：「我不要求，我不願試探上主。」
 依:7.13     依撒意亞說：「達味的家族，你們聽著罷 ! 你們使人厭惡還不夠，還要使我的天主厭惡嗎﹖
 依:7.14     因此，吾主要親自給你們一個徵兆：看，有位貞女要懷孕生子，給他起名叫厄瑪奴耳。
 依:7.15     到他知道棄惡擇善的時候，要吃乳酪和蜂蜜；
 依:7.16     因為在這孩子尚未知道棄惡擇善以前，你在那兩個君王面前所擔心的國土，必將荒廢。
 依:7.17     上主必使患難的日子臨於你、你的百姓和你的父家身上；這是從厄弗辣因叛離猶大那一天所未有過的，【即亞述王加禍的日子。】
 依:7.18     [預言猶大被侵]  那一日，上主要喚來埃及大河盡頭的蠅和亞述境內的蜂，
 依:7.29     牠們將要前來，一起落在荒谷、巖穴，以及一切荊棘叢中和一切水溝上。
 依:7.20     那一日，吾主要用由大河那邊借來的剃刀【即亞述王】剃去你的頭髮和恥毛，連鬍鬚也要刮掉。
 依:7.21     到那一日，人僅能餵養一隻牛犢和兩隻母山羊，
 依:7.22     因為出奶很多，人將以乳酪為食，因而境內所有的遺民，都將以乳酪和蜂蜜為食。
 依:7.23     到那一日，先前所有種植一千棵葡萄，值一千塊銀子的地方，必將叢生荊棘和蒺藜。
 依:7.24     人往那裏去，必須攜帶弓箭，因為遍地都是荊棘和蒺藜。
 依:7.25     先前用鋤頭開墾的山地，沒有人敢到那裏，因為害怕荊棘蒺藜。那裏將成為放牛和羊群踐踏的地區。
  
 依:8.1      [聯軍必敗]  上主對我說：「你拿一塊大板，用通用的字體在上面寫：瑪赫爾、沙拉耳、哈市、巴次」
 依:8.2      我就叫了兩個忠直的證人，即司祭烏黎雅和耶貝勒基雅的兒子則加黎雅，為我作證。
 依:8.3      我接近了女先知，她便懷孕，生了一個兒子；上主對我說：「你給他起名叫瑪赫爾沙拉耳哈市巴次，
 依:8.4      因為在這孩子會喊「爸爸」「媽媽」以前，大馬士革的財富和撒瑪黎雅的贓物必要運到亞述王前。」
 依:8.5      [猶大受罰與得救]  上主又曉諭我說：
 依:8.6      因為這民族厭棄了緩緩徐流的史羅亞水，因而在勒斤和勒瑪里雅之子面前驚慌；
 依:8.7      為此，看，吾主必使洶湧澎湃的河水──即亞述王和他所有的軍隊──上來淹沒他們；他必將瀉出一切河道，溢出一切河岸，
 依:8.8      直沖入猶大，漲溢氾濫，高達人的頸項。厄瑪奴耳啊! 他展開的兩翼，將掩蓋你廣闊的疆土!
 依:8.9      眾民啊! 覺悟罷! 你們終必喪膽! 遠方的一切民族啊! 聆聽罷 ! 任憑你們怎樣束腰，終必喪膽! 任憑你們怎樣束腰，終必喪膽。
 依:8.10     你們雖然策劃，必然落空；你們雖然說定，決不能實現，因為天主與我們同在。
 依:8.11     [警告門徒]  當上主以手握住我，警惕我不要走這民族的道路時，這樣對我說：
 依:8.12     這民族稱為聖的，你們不得稱之為聖!他們畏懼的，你們不必畏懼，也不必戰兢!
 依:8.13     萬軍的上主，你們惟應以他為聖；他是你們當敬畏的，是你們當恐懼的。
 依:8.14     他將是以色列兩家的絆腳石和失足的暗礁，是耶路撒冷居民的羅網和陷阱。
 依:8.15     他們中間有許多人將失足跌倒而折傷，陷於圈套而被捕。
 依:8.16     [專心教誨門徒]  證件已綁好，訓誨在我門徒中已封緘，
 依:8.17     我只仰望那位現在轉面不顧雅各伯家的上主，我要等待他。
 依:8.18     看哪! 我和上主賞給我的孩子，在以色列中成了標識和預兆：這原是出於住在熙雍山上的萬軍的上主!
 依:8.19     有人或對你們說：「你們詢問那些喃喃細語的巫覡和術士罷! 百姓豈不能詢問自己的神，為活人而詢問幽魂嗎﹖」
 依:8.20     「應到訓誨和證件中去尋! 」誰若不照這話答覆，為他便沒有曙光。
 依:8.21     [黑暗中的曙光]  人將忍受著痛苦和飢餓，經過此地；當他由於飢餓而暴發忿怒時，必詛咒自己的君王和自己的神明；他無論仰望上天，
 依:8.22     或注視大地，他只見苦惱和幽暗，昏黯和恐怖! 但黑暗畢竟要被驅除，
 依:8.23     因為遭受災難的，必將免於黑暗。往昔上主曾使則步隆和納斐塔里地域受了侮辱，但日後卻使沿海之路，約但東岸，外方人的加里肋亞獲得了光榮。
  
 依:9.2      [光明與幸福]  在黑暗中行走的百姓看見了一道皓光，光輝已射在那寄居在漆黑之地的人們身上。
 依:9.1      你加強了他們的快樂，擴大了他們的歡喜；他們在你面前歡樂，有如人收割時的歡樂，又如分贓時的愉快；
 依:9.3      因為你折斷了他們所負的重軛、他們肩上的橫木，以及壓迫他們者的短棍，有如在米德楊那天一樣；
 依:9.4      因為戰士所穿發響的軍靴，和染滿血跡的戰袍，都要被焚毀，作為火燄的燃料。
 依:9.5      因為有一個嬰孩為我們誕生了，有一個兒子賜給了我們；他肩上擔負著王權，他的名子要稱為神奇的謀士、強有力的天主、永遠之父、和平之王。
 依:9.6      他的王權是偉大的，達味的御座和他王國的平安是無限的，他將以正義與公平對王國加以鞏固與保持，從今時直到永遠：萬軍上主的熱誠必要完成這事。
 依:9.7      [天主的懲罰與警戒]  吾主發出了一句相反雅各伯的話，這話臨於以色列。
 依:9.8      整個民眾，即厄弗辣因和撒瑪黎雅的居民，終必領悟，因為他們曾自負，且心高氣傲說：
 依:9.9      「假使磚瓦墮毀了，我們將以方石再建；假使桑樹伐倒了，我們將代以香柏! 」
 依:9.10     所以上主必興起他的對手，慫恿他的仇敵來攻擊他：
 依:9.11     東有阿蘭，西有培肋舍特，他們必張口併吞以色列；然而他的震怒並未因此而熄滅，他的手仍然伸著。
 依:9.12     但民眾仍沒有歸依打擊他們的天主，仍不尋求萬軍的上主。
 依:9.13     因此，上主要在一天之內，砍斷以色列的首尾、棕枝和蘆葦。
 依:9.14     【長者和尊者是首，傳授謊言的先知是尾。】
 依:9.15     因為領導這民族的人走入了歧途，受引導的人陷入了混亂。
 依:9.16     因此，吾主將毫不憐憫他的少年，毫不撫恤他的孤兒和寡婦，因為他們都是乖戾邪惡的，並且都是口出惡言的，然而他的震怒並未因此而熄滅，他的手仍然伸著。
 依:9.17     罪惡猶如燃燒的火燄，焚毀荊棘和蒺藜，使叢林燎起大火，煙柱因此旋轉上騰。
 依:9.18     由於萬軍上主的憤怒，地域將被燒毀，百姓成為火燄的柴薪，無人撫恤自己的弟兄，
 依:9.19     各吃自己近人的肉：向右攫食的，仍舊遭受飢餓；向左吞噬的，依然不得果腹。
 依:9.20     默納協吞噬厄弗辣因，厄弗辣因吞滅默納協，二者又合力併吞猶大；然而他的震怒並未因此而熄滅，他的手仍然伸著。
  
 依:10.1     [警戒猶大]  禍哉，那些制定不義的法例，記錄不義的斷案，
 依:10.2     為屈枉小民的案件，剝削我窮民的權利，攘奪寡婦和劫掠孤兒的人!
 依:10.3     當懲罰之日，風暴由遠而近的時候，你們將怎樣應付﹖你們將向誰求助﹖你們的財寶將棄於何地﹖
 依:10.4     唯有屈伏在被俘者中，倒斃在被殺者下；然而他的震怒並未因此而熄滅，他的手仍然伸著。
 依:10.5     [亞述的高傲與受罰]  禍哉，亞述! 我義怒的木棒，我震怒的棍杖!
 依:10.6     我派遣她是為攻擊一個邪惡的百姓，我委任他是為攻擊我所憤恨的民族，為擄掠劫奪，並為蹂躪他們，有如街上的糞土。
 依:10.7     但她並沒有這樣想，心裏也沒有這樣推測，只圖肆意破壞，剿滅不少的民族。
 依:10.8     因為她說：「我的首領不都是君王嗎﹖
 依:10.9     加耳諾不是與與加革米士一樣嗎﹖哈瑪特不是與阿爾帕得一樣嗎﹖撒瑪黎雅不是與大馬士革一樣嗎﹖
 依:10.10    我的手既然征服了這些偶像的王國──況且他們的偶像還多過耶路撒冷和撒瑪黎雅──
 依:10.11    難道我不能對待耶路撒冷和她的神像，有如對待了撒瑪黎雅和她的偶像嗎﹖」
 依:10.12    當吾主對熙雍山和耶路撒冷完成了他的一切工作時，必要懲罰亞述王心高氣傲的功績，和他目空一切的驕傲。
 依:10.13    因為他曾說過：「我完成了這一切，全憑我的手和我的智慧，因為我是聰明的；我撤除了各民族的界限，擄掠了他們的財寶，有如強者打倒了居於高位的人。
 依:10.14    我的手奪取了列國的財富，有如取諸窩巢；我兼併了大地，有如拾取遺卵，沒有誰敢鼓翼和張口鼓噪。」
 依:10.15    斧頭豈能對用斧頭砍伐的人自豪﹖鋸豈能向拉鋸的人自誇﹖難道棍杖能揮動那舉它的人﹖木棒能舉起那不是木頭的人﹖
 依:10.16    因此吾主，萬軍的天主，將瘦弱放在她的肥碩之中，在她的光輝之下燃起火燄，有如烈火焚燒。
 依:10.17    以色列的光將變為火，他的聖者將變為烈燄，一日間即將她的荊棘蒺藜焚燬。
 依:10.18    她的叢林和她田園的華麗，必將由內到外毀滅，有如為蟲蝕盡一樣。
 依:10.19    她的叢林所剩餘的樹木不多，一個兒童就能計算。
 依:10.20    [遺民獲利]  到那一日，以色列的遺民和雅各伯家的逃亡者，不再依恃打擊他們的人，卻誠心依賴上主，以色列的聖者。
 依:10.21    遺民必將歸回，雅各伯的遺民必將歸依強有力的天主!
 依:10.22    以色列啊! 你的百姓雖然多如海沙，其中唯有殘存者得以歸回：毀滅已經決定，但是充溢著公義，
 依:10.23    因為吾主，萬軍的上主必在大地上執行所決定的毀滅。
 依:10.24    因此吾主，萬軍的上主這樣說：我的百姓，熙雍的居民! 亞述雖然用木棒痛擊你，像埃及一樣，舉起棍杖敲打你，但你不必害怕，
 依:10.25    因為瞬息間我的怒氣即將終止，我的憤怒將轉為他們的毀滅。
 依:10.26    萬軍的上主將揮動刑鞭鞭打他們，有如昔日在曷勒布磐石處打擊米德楊一樣；高舉向海上伸出的棍杖，有如在埃及一樣。
 依:10.27    到那日，她的重負將由你肩上卸下，她的重軛將由你頸上解除。
 依:10.28    [亞述進軍與被罰]  破壞者由黎孟而來，來到阿雅特，經過米革龍，將輜重貯在米革瑪斯；
 依:10.29    又穿過要隘，夜宿革巴。辣瑪驚慌了，撒烏耳的基貝亞逃走了。
 依:10.30    巴特加林! 你們應大聲疾呼；拉依士! 你們應該傾聽；阿納托特! 你們應該回答。
 依:10.31    瑪德默納走散了，革平的居民逃避了。
 依:10.32    在諾布暫停一天，遂即揮手指向熙雍女兒山，耶路撒冷的山崗。
 依:10.33    看啊! 吾主，萬軍的上主將用斧鉞砍伐枝幹：高出的要削去，聳出的要砍低。
 依:10.34    他將用鐵斧砍伐叢林，黎巴嫩和她的壯麗必被伐倒。
  
 依:11.1     [默西亞與其王國]  由葉瑟的樹幹將生出一個嫩枝，由它的根上將發出一個幼芽。
 依:11.2     上主的神，智慧和聰敏的神，超見和剛毅的神，明達和敬畏上主的神將住在他內。
 依:11.3     【他將以敬畏上主為快慰，】他必不照他眼見的施行審訊，也不按他耳聞的執行判斷。
 依:11.4     他將以正義審訊微賤者，以公理判斷世上的謙卑者，以他口中的棍杖打擊暴戾者，以他唇邊的氣息誅殺邪惡者。
 依:11.5     正義將是他腰間的束帶，忠誠將是他脅下的佩帶。
 依:11.6     豺狼將與羔羊共處，虎豹將與小山羊同宿；牛犢和幼獅一同飼養，一個幼童即可帶領牠們。
 依:11.7     母牛和母熊將一起牧放，牠們的幼雛將一同伏臥；獅子將與牛一樣吃草。
 依:11.8     吃奶的嬰兒將遊戲於蝮蛇的洞口，斷奶的幼童將伸手探入毒蛇的窩穴。
 依:11.9     在我的整個聖山上，再沒有誰作惡，也沒有誰害人，因為大地充滿了對上主的認識，有如海洋滿溢海水。
 依:11.10    [預言遺民回歸] 那 一日，葉瑟的根子將成為萬民的旗幟，列邦必將尋求他；他駐節之地，將是輝煌的。
 依:11.11    那一日，吾主將再舉起自己的手，贖回他百姓的殘存者，即殘留於亞述、埃及、帕特洛斯、雇士、厄藍、史納爾、哈瑪特和海島上的人。
 依:11.12    他將向列邦高舉旗幟，召集以色列的流徙者，由大地四極聚集猶大的離散者。
 依:11.13    厄弗辣因的嫉妒必將止息，猶大的仇視勢必消滅：厄弗辣因不再忌恨猶大，猶大亦不再敵視厄弗辣因。
 依:11.14    他們將往西撲向培勒舍特的山麓，一起擄掠東方的子民；厄東和摩阿布將屬於他們的權下，阿孟子民將順服於他們。
 依:11.15    上主將使埃及海灣涸竭，藉烈風向大河揮手把它分成七個支流，使人穿著鞋即可渡過。
 依:11.16    為他百姓的殘存者，即存留在亞述中者，將有一條大道，有如為當日由埃及地上來的以色列一樣。
  
 依:12.1     [感恩歌]  當那日，你要說：「上主! 我稱頌你，因為你雖向我發了怒，但你的怒氣已止息，並且還安慰了我。
 依:12.2     看哪! 天主是我的救援，我依靠他，決不畏懼，因為上主是我的力量，是我的歌頌，他確是我的救援。
 依:12.3     你們要愉快地從救援的泉源裏汲水。」
 依:12.4     那一日，你要說：「你們應稱頌上主，呼號他的名! 將他的作為宣告於萬民，稱述他的名是崇高的。
 依:12.5     請歌頌上主，因為他行了顯赫的事，這事應該遍傳天下。
 依:12.6     熙雍的居民，你們應歡呼高唱，因為以色列的聖者在你們中間是偉大的。」
  
 依:13.1     預言巴比倫毀滅]  阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞所見有關巴比倫的神諭：
 依:13.2     你們在禿山上樹起旗幟，向他們高呼揮手，叫他們走進王侯的御門!
 依:13.3     我已向我聖潔的人下令，並為了我的憤怒，召集了我的戰士，我那驕矜自喜的常勝軍。
 依:13.4     聽! 山上有喧囂聲，好像有無數的人群。聽! 列國的嘈雜聲，萬民正在聚集；萬軍的上主正在檢閱赴敵的部隊：
 依:13.5     他們都來自遠方，來自天邊。上主和他盛怒的工具，要來毀滅整個大地。
 依:13.6     號啕罷! 因為上主的日子近了，它來有如全能者實行毀滅；
 依:13.7     為此，人手將要鬆懈，人心將要消融，
 依:13.8     人人都驚慌失措，劇疼和痛苦侵襲他們，痙攣得有如臨產的婦女；他們彼此驚愕相視，面容有如火燄。
 依:13.9     看哪! 上主的日子來到，必有殘忍、雷霆和烈怒，為使大地變為荒涼，為殲滅地上的罪人。
 依:13.10    那時，天上的眾星與群宿不再發光，太陽一升起即變為昏黑，月亮也不再放光明。
 依:13.11    我要懲罰世界，是為了它的罪惡；懲罰惡人，是為了他們的惡行；要抑制自負者的驕橫，要屈服暴虐者的傲慢；
 依:13.12    我要使人比提煉的黃金更少見，使人比敖非爾純金更希罕。
 依:13.13    為此，由於萬軍上主的憤怒，在他暴發怒火之日，天要震撼，地要震動，離其本位。
 依:13.14    那時，人們將如被追逐的羚羊，又如無人率領的羊群，各自轉向自己的民族，各自逃回自己的故鄉。
 依:13.15    凡被捕獲的，都要被刺殺；凡被擒住的，都要喪身刀下。
 依:13.16    他們的嬰兒將在他們眼前被人摔死，他們的房屋將被洗劫，他們的婦女要受姦污。
 依:13.17    我要鼓勵瑪待人來攻擊他們，這些人既不重視白銀，也必貪愛黃金。
 依:13.18    他們的弓箭要刺死青年，對腹中的胎兒毫不憐恤，對於嬰兒，他們的眼睛也毫不憐視。
 依:13.19    巴比倫──萬國的光輝，加色丁的驕矜榮耀，必要被上主傾覆，如同索多瑪和哈摩辣一樣，
 依:13.20    永遠再沒有居民，世世代代無人居住；阿剌伯人不在那裏設帳，牧人也不在那裏立欄；
 依:13.21    臥在那裏的只有野獸，他們的房屋滿了鴟鴞；駝鳥在那裏棲息，魍魎在那裏舞蹈；
 依:13.22    豺狼在宮殿裏嗥叫，野狗在御苑內呼應；她的時期已來近了，她的日子不會久延。
  
 依:14.1     [以色列回國]  上主必要憐恤雅各伯，再揀選以色列，使他們安居在自己的國土；外方人要與他們聯合，加入雅各伯的家族。
 依:14.2     選民要接受他們，要帶領他們回歸故里；以色列家族，在上主的國土內，要佔有他們為奴婢；於是以色列人要俘擄那俘擄過他們的人，要統治壓迫他們的人。
 依:14.3     [詠唱諷刺詩]  當上主賜你擺脫困苦、憂患和你受的苦役時，那天，
 依:14.4     你要對巴比倫王高唱這首諷刺詩說：怎麼，暴虐者住手了! 強橫止息了!
 依:14.5     邪惡者的棍棒，統治者的權杖，已為上主折斷，
 依:14.6     就是那懷著怒氣，三番五次痛擊過萬民，在忿恨中以無情的殘虐，蹂躪過萬邦的棍杖。
 依:14.7     大地安謐寧靜，人人興高采烈；
 依:14.8     連松樹和黎巴嫩的香柏也都因你而喜慶：「自從你仆倒後，再沒有誰上我們這裏來砍伐! 」
 依:14.9     地下的陰府為了你而激動，為歡迎你的來臨；並為了你，喚醒幽魂及地上所有的貴卿，使列國的君王由自己的寶座上起立；
 依:14.10    眾人都開口對你說：「連你也衰弱得和我們一樣啊! 你也與我們相同啊! 」
 依:14.11    你的豪華，你琴瑟的樂聲，也墮入了陰府；你下面舖的是蛆，上面蓋的是蟲。
 依:14.12    朝霞的兒子──晨星! 你怎會從天墜下﹖傾覆萬邦者! 你怎麼也被砍倒在地﹖
 依:14.13    你心中曾說過：「我要直沖霄漢，高置我的御座在天主的星宿以上；我要坐在盛會的山上，極北之處；
 依:14.14    我要升越雲表，與至高者相平衡! 」
 依:14.15    然而你卻下到了陰府，深淵的極處。
 依:14.16    看見你的，必注視你，仔細端詳你說：「這不是那使大地戰慄，列國動盪，
 依:14.17    化世界為荒野，摧毀城邑，不為俘囚開放監獄的人嗎﹖」
 依:14.18    萬邦的君王都在榮耀中安葬，各在自己的陰宅裏；
 依:14.19    但是你卻被拋於墳外，像一個叫人厭惡的流產胎兒，為刀箭殺戮的死者所掩蓋，有如遭踐踏的死屍。連那些被拋在石坑裏的，
 依:14.20    你也不得與他們一同埋葬，因為你破壞了你的國土，殘殺了你的人民：惡人的後代永不為人所提念。
 依:14.21    你們應為他們的兒子準備屠場，因為他們的父親有了罪孽；他們決不能再興起，佔據大地，而使地面滿是荒涼。
 依:14.22    [巴比倫全毀]  我要起來攻擊他們──萬軍上主的斷語──我要抹去巴比倫的名號、遺民、後裔和子孫──上主的斷語。
 依:14.23    我要使她成為刺蝟的領土和池沼，我以毀滅的掃帚將她掃淨──萬軍上主的斷語。
 依:14.24    [萬關亞述的神諭] 軍的上主起誓說：「實在，我怎樣想，必怎樣實現；我怎樣計劃，必怎樣成功：
 依:14.25    我要在我的國土內粉碎亞述，在我的山嶺上將她踐踏；她的重擔必要由他們肩上卸下。」
 依:14.26    這是對全地所決定的計劃，這是向萬邦所伸展的手臂，
 依:14.27    因為萬軍的上主已決定，誰能阻止﹖他的手已伸出，誰能使它收回﹖
 依:14.28    [警告培肋舍特]  在阿哈次駕崩那年有以下這個神諭：
 依:14.29    「全體培肋舍特啊! 你不要因為打擊你的棍棒折斷了就喜悅，因為由蛇的根子將生出毒蝮，而牠的子息必是飛龍。
 依:14.30    貧苦的人在我的牧場上必得飼養，窮困的人要泰然安息；但是我要以饑荒餓死你的餘生，殺絕你的遺民。
 依:14.31    門啊! 哀號罷! 城啊! 悲鳴罷! 全體培肋舍特啊! 戰慄罷! 因為有煙從北而來，在她的隊伍中沒有落伍者。」
 依:14.32    然而要怎樣答覆外邦的使者﹖「上主建立了熙雍，使他民族中的憂患者，在那裏獲得保護。」
  
 依:15.1     [弔摩阿布的輓歌]  有關摩阿布的神諭：實在，摩阿布的阿爾經過一夜的蹂躪，就滅亡了! 實在，摩阿布的克爾經過一夜的摧殘，就滅亡了!
 依:15.2     狄朋女兒走上高丘哭泣，摩阿布為乃波和默德巴悲號；眾人的頭都剃光了，眾人的鬍鬚都剪去了；
 依:15.3     有的在街道上穿著苦衣，有的在屋頂上痛哭；在廣場上的人，人人哀號，流淚痛哭。
 依:15.4     赫市朋和厄肋阿肋號啕，雅哈茲都可聽到他們的哭聲；因此摩阿布的兩腰為之顫動，她的心靈為之恐怖。
 依:15.5     我的心為摩阿布發出哀號，她的難民已逃至左哈爾。他們哭著攀上了路希特的山坡，在曷洛納因的道上揚起了失望的哀聲。
 依:15.6     尼默陵的水地成了荒野，青草枯焦了，嫩芽萎縮了，再也見不到青綠。
 依:15.7     為此，他們將所有的積蓄和財物，都帶過了「柳樹河。」
 依:15.8     因為哀叫聲傳遍了摩阿布四境，她的哭聲已傳到厄革拉因，她的哭聲已達到貝爾厄林。
 依:15.9     狄孟的水已滿了鮮血，我還要加禍於狄孟：為摩阿布的難民和當地的遺民將有一隻獅子。
  
 依:16.1     [向熙雍求救]  那地的主宰從曠野的磐石，應傳達一言，至熙雍女兒的山嶺!
 依:16.2     當時摩阿布女兒，在阿爾農渡口，猶如逃遁的小鳥，傾巢的幼雛。
 依:16.3     「請給我們出個主意，快下個決斷! 使你的蔭影在日中有如黑夜，遮蔽被驅逐的人，不要暴露出逃的人!
 依:16.4     讓被驅逐的摩阿布人僑居在你處，做他們的藏身地，以逃避劫掠者的面。」當壓迫終止，劫掠停止，蹂躪大地的人消滅時，
 依:16.5     必有一個寶座建立在慈惠中，在達味的帳幕內，必有一位尋求公義，急行正義的判官，憑真實坐於寶座之上。
 依:16.6     [摩阿布因傲慢受罰]  我們曾聽到摩阿布的驕傲，極其傲慢；聽到她的驕矜，她的傲慢，她的自負，她狂妄的矜誇。
 依:16.7     為此，摩阿布必將哀哭，人人都要為摩阿布哀哭：為克爾哈勒色特的葡萄乾餅，人人只有傷心嘆息!
 依:16.8     因為赫市朋的田園已零落，息貝瑪的葡萄已凋謝! 枝蔓為列國的君王所斬斷；那些枝蔓曾蔓延到雅則爾，漫遊至曠野；那些枝條曾向外伸展，越過了海洋!
 依:16.9     為此我要參與雅則爾的痛哭，來痛哭息貝瑪的葡萄；赫市朋啊! 厄肋阿肋啊! 我要用我的眼淚來灌溉你! 因為在你夏收和秋收時，戰爭的呼聲驟然降臨!
 依:16.10    田園中的喜樂與歡欣已歛跡，葡萄園中再也沒有歌聲與歡呼；搾酒的人不再在搾酒池上搾酒，歡呼的歌聲已斷絕!
 依:16.11    為此，我的肝腸為摩阿布哀鳴，有如琴瑟；我的五內為克爾哈勒斯嗚咽，有如簫笙。
 依:16.12    摩阿布在高丘上縱然現得疲勞，縱然到廟宇裏去祈禱，盡屬枉然 !
 依:16.13    [神諭]  這是上主以前反對摩阿布所說的話。
 依:16.14    但是現在，上主聲明說：「照僱工的年限計，三年之內，摩阿布的光榮將變為羞辱；縱然她的人數眾多，剩下來的甚是稀少，毫無勢力。」
  
 依:17.1     [大馬士革的命運]  有關大馬士革的神諭：看，大馬士革不再成為城市，將變為一堆廢墟。
 依:17.2     她的城邑將永被遺棄，成為羊群的牧場；牠們偃臥在那裏，無人驚擾。
 依:17.3     厄弗辣因的堡壘將被撤除，大馬士革的主權將要消失，阿蘭的遺民將如以色列子民的光榮──萬軍上主的斷語。
 依:17.4     [北國的命運]  到那天，雅各伯的光榮必要衰落，他肥滿的身軀必要消瘦。
 依:17.5     將如收割的人一手在抱麥稈，一手在割麥穗；又如人摘取葡萄，或在勒法因山谷採打橄欖樹，
 依:17.6     上面總有些殘粒剩下，或兩三粒留在樹梢，或四五個留在果樹的枝梢上──上主，以色列的天主的斷語。
 依:17.7     [警戒敬拜邪神]  到那天，人必仰望自己的造主，眼睛必要注視以色列的聖者。
 依:17.8     不願觀看他親手所造的祭壇；也不再顧盼他手指所製的「阿舍辣」和太陽柱。
 依:17.9     那天，你的堅城，將如希威人和阿摩黎人在以色列子民前所放棄的地域，成為一片荒野，
 依:17.10    為你忘卻了拯救你的天主，不懷念作你避難所的磐石。為此，你雖栽種阿多尼花木，種植異鄉的枝條；
 依:17.11    縱然在一日之間使你所栽種的生長，清晨使你所種植的開花，但是收穫卻消失在患難和絕望痛苦的日子中。
 依:17.12    [亞述大軍被罰]  靜再聽! 許多民族在喧嚷，喧嚷得有如海嘯；好多百姓在咆哮，咆哮得有如汪洋的怒號。
 依:17.13    然到而上主一叱責，他必飄逸遠逃，有如為颶風捲去山上的禾湝，有如旋風前的薊絮。
 依:17.14    晚間盡是恐怖；天還未亮，已無蹤影! 這是掠奪我們者的份子，搶劫我們者的命運。
  
 依:18.1     [對雇士使者的勸告]  那具有翼艇，位於雇士河對岸的地域，
 依:18.2     即由海上遣發使者，在海面上乘蘆舟的：「去罷! 輕快的使者! 到一個高瘦膚褐的民族那裏去，到一個一向可畏的國家那裏去，到一個強大而好勝，河流橫貫其地的民族那裏去! 」
 依:18.3     舉世的居民和住在大地上的人哪! 當山上的旗幟一舉，你們要觀望；號聲一響，你們要靜聽!
 依:18.4     因為上主曾對我這樣說：「我要在我的住處寧靜地觀察，彷彿日光中溫暖的熱氣，彷彿收割時炎熱中的露雲。」
 依:18.5     因為在收割前，花苞已放；花蒂成熟結為葡萄時，他就要用鐮刀砍去嫩枝，將參差的枝蔓斬除。
 依:18.6     這些枝蔓都要一律被棄捨給山中的猛禽，和地上的野獸；猛禽要在其上過夏，野獸要在其上過冬。
 依:18.7     到那時，那高瘦膚褐的民族，那一向可畏的國家，那強大而好勝，河流橫貫其地的民族，要帶禮品到熙雍山上，萬軍上主的名號的居所，獻給萬軍的上主。
  
 依:19.1     [埃及受罰]  有關埃及的神諭：看，上主乘著輕快的彩雲，來到了埃及，埃及的偶像在他面前戰慄，埃及人的心靈在己身內消溶。
 依:19.2     我要激動埃及人相反埃及人，使人人與自己的兄弟相鬥，人人與自己的近人作對，城與城爭，國與國戰。
 依:19.3     埃及的精神要紛亂，我要混亂她的計謀；為此他們必要去卜問神明、巫覡、陰魂和術士。
 依:19.4     我要把埃及交在暴君手中，暴虐的君王要統治他們──這是主，萬軍上主的斷語。
 依:19.5     海洋的水將乾涸，江河將荒涼乾旱；
 依:19.6     水道都將發臭，埃及的河渠都要轉弱乾涸；蘆荻和昌蒲必將萎謝；
 依:19.7     河畔的蘆葦必將枯萎，沿河的植物，盡將凋零，吹散，消滅。
 依:19.8     漁夫必要呻吟嘆息，河畔垂釣者必要悲傷，水面撒網者必要沮喪。
 依:19.9     種植亞麻者必要羞慚，理麻婦與紡織工也都要面色蒼白。
 依:19.10    她的顯貴將受輕視，受僱的工人莫不意志消沉。
 依:19.11    左罕的首領極其愚蠢，法郎的謀士出的，盡是糊塗計謀；你們怎敢對法郎說：「我是賢者的子孫，古代帝王的後裔﹖」
 依:19.12    你的賢士如今在那裏﹖何不讓他們告訴你知道，萬軍的上主對埃及打了什麼主意!
 依:19.13    左罕的首領都夠糊塗，諾夫的首領被人愚弄，各州的諸侯使埃及陷入迷途。
 依:19.14    上主在他們中間注入了昏神，叫他們使埃及在自己所作的事上無不錯亂，有如醉漢在嘔吐中打滾。
 依:19.15    不論是為首的、為尾的、為棕枝的、或為蘆葦的作什麼，為埃及無所作為。
 依:19.16    [埃及皈依]  到那天，埃及面對著正在她身上揮動著的萬軍上主的手臂，將如婦女般的戰慄害怕。
 依:19.17    猶大地將成為埃及的恐怖；凡提及她的，無不對萬軍的上主對埃及所打的主意而害怕。
 依:19.18    到那天，在埃及境內將有五座城說客納罕話，並指著萬軍的上主起誓，且有一座稱作「太陽城。」
 依:19.19    到那天，在埃及地域中，將有一座獻與上主的祭壇，在她的邊界上，將有一個為上主建立的石柱。
 依:19.20    這在埃及境內，將成為萬軍上主的記號和證據：當他們面臨迫害呼號上主時，他必給他們遣發一位救主，來奮鬥拯救他們。
 依:19.21    到那天，上主將為埃及所認識，埃及要認識上主，並奉獻犧牲和祭品，向上主許願還願。
 依:19.22    上主將打擊埃及，打擊只是為醫治；他們要歸依上主，上主要俯聽他們，要醫治他們。
 依:19.23    到那天，將有一條大路，由埃及通至亞述：亞述人要到埃及去，埃及人要到亞述來；埃及和亞述將共同敬拜上主。
 依:19.24    到那天，以色列將屬第三，聯同埃及和亞述成為大地上受祝福的，
 依:19.25    因為萬軍的上主曾這樣祝福說：「我的百姓埃及，我雙手的工程亞述，我的嗣業以色列，是應受祝福的! 」
  
 依:20.1     [先知裸體遊行的象徵] 亞述王撒爾貢派遣總司令來到阿市多得，進攻克服阿市多得的那一年──
 依:20.2     那時上主曾藉阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞發言說：「去! 脫下你腰間的苦衣，除去你腳上的鞋! 」他就這樣作了，裸體赤足而行──
 依:20.3     上主說：「就如我的僕人依撒意亞，三年之久，裸體赤足而行，為埃及和雇士是一個預言和先兆；
 依:20.4     同樣亞述王要將埃及的俘虜和雇士的流徙帶走，無論老幼，一律裸體赤足，露著下體，好羞辱埃及。」
 依:20.5     人們將對他們的仰望雇士，對他們的光榮埃及，感到失望和羞慚。
 依:20.6     這一帶海濱的居民，在那天要說：「看! 這原是我們所依賴，跑去求救，藉以擺脫亞述王的人! 我們又怎能逃避呢﹖」
  
 依:21.1     [預言巴比倫陷落]  有關瀚海的神諭：猶如風暴由南方掃來；同樣，仇敵將由沙漠，由可怕之地而來。
 依:21.2     一悽慘的神視顯示給我：搶奪的盡量搶奪，破壞的盡量破壞。厄藍，上前! 瑪待，圍攻! 我要結束所有的嘆息!
 依:21.3     為此我的兩腰滿是酸痛，侵襲我的劇痛無異產婦的痛苦；我惶亂得不能再聽，我昏迷得不能再看。
 依:21.4     我的心神錯亂了，恐怖驟然襲擊了我；我所渴望的黃昏，為我反成了恐怖。
 依:21.5     盛宴已擺，華毯已舖，人們正在吃喝之際：「將帥們! 起來! 用油擦盾! 」
 依:21.6     因為吾主對我這樣說：「去! 派置一個警衛，叫他報告他所見的!
 依:21.7     當他見到騎兵隊、一對一對的馬兵、驢隊和駱駝隊時，他要注意，要多多注意! 」
 依:21.8     守望者喊叫：「吾主! 我整日站在瞭望台上，長夜鵠立在我的守望所。
 依:21.9     看哪! 來了一隊人馬，一對一對的騎兵! 」有一個喊叫說：「陷落了! 巴比倫陷落了! 她所有的神像也都摔碎在地! 」
 依:21.10    我那被碾軋的百姓，我那禾場上的子民! 凡是我由萬軍的上主，以色列的天主所聽到的，我都告訴了你們。
 依:21.11    [厄東的災難未完]  有關厄東的神諭：從色依爾有人向我喊叫說：「警衛! 夜已何時了﹖夜已何時了﹖」
 依:21.12    警衛答說：「黎明已至，然而仍是黑夜；如果你們仍要詢問，詢問罷! 再來一次! 」
 依:21.13    [刻達爾逃難]  有關荒野的神諭：你們在森林中，在荒野裏過宿罷! 德丹的商旅，
 依:21.14    請攜水出來迎接口渴的人! 特瑪地的居民，請備糧接待逃難的人!
 依:21.15    因為他們出逃，是由於面臨刀劍，面臨出鞘的刀劍，面臨已張的弓弩，面臨激烈的戰爭。
 依:21.16    上主曾這樣對我說：「照僱工的年限計，還有三年，刻達爾所有的榮耀都要完結；
 依:21.17    刻達爾子民的英勇弓手人數，剩下的很少。」因為上主以色列的天主，早就這樣說了。
  
 依:22.1     [反對耶京的神諭] 有關「神視谷」的神諭：你究竟為了什麼上了屋頂﹖
 依:22.2     你這座充滿喧嘩嘈雜的城市，享樂的都會! 你的被殺者並不是被殺於刀劍，也不是死於戰場。
 依:22.3     你所有的官長都結伴逃遁，竄逃遠方；你所有的將士也都集體被俘，棄弓就縛。
 依:22.4     為此我說：「你們不要管我，讓我痛哭一場罷! 也不要為了我民族的女兒的零落，有勞你們來安慰我! 」
 依:22.5     因為這是一個混亂、蹂躪、惶惑的日子，是屬於吾主萬軍的上主的日子；在「神視谷」內，城牆倒塌，喊聲震撼山岳。
 依:22.6     厄藍取了箭囊，阿蘭騎上了戰馬，克爾亮出了盾牌。
 依:22.7     你最富麗的山谷充滿了戰車，騎兵已在門前佈好陣勢。
 依:22.8     猶大的屏障已被揭開。那天你們只仰望林宮內的武器，
 依:22.9     只看見了達味城上的許多裂縫，聚集了下池塘的蓄水，
 依:22.10    計算了耶路撒冷的房屋，拆毀了民房來鞏固城牆，
 依:22.11    在兩城牆之間，又鑿了個蓄水池，來貯藏池塘的水；卻沒有仰望這事的主事者，也沒有回顧那老早計劃了這事。
 依:22.12    那天，吾主萬軍的上主本來叫人哭泣、哀號、削髮、腰束苦衣；
 依:22.13    但是，看，仍是歡躍喜樂，宰牛殺羊，飲酒食肉：「吃喝罷! 明天我們就要死啦! 」
 依:22.14    萬軍的上主親自附耳傳示給我說：「決不赦免你們這罪惡，除非你們死去。」吾主萬軍的上主這樣說。
 依:22.15    [反對舍布納的神諭]  有關宮殿總管舍布納的神諭：吾主萬軍的上主這樣說：去! 到那個在高處給自己鑿墳墓，
 依:22.16    在巖石間給自己闢寢室的家宰那裏去，對他說：「你在這裏有什麼東西﹖你在這裏有什麼人，竟在這裏為你鑿墳墓﹖
 依:22.17    看哪! 上主要大力一擲，把你擲得遠遠的；他要抓緊你，
 依:22.18    將你捲了又捲，捲成一團，如一圓球，拋擲到廣闊之地。你要死在那裏，連你的彩車也要毀滅，你這個王宮的恥辱!
 依:22.19    我要革你的職，撤你的位。
 依:22.20    到那天，我要召希耳克雅的兒子厄里雅金作我的僕人。
 依:22.21    我要把你的朝衣給他穿上，把你的玉帶給他束上，將你的治權交在他手中；他將作耶路撒冷居民和猶大家室的慈父。
 依:22.22    我要將達味家室的鑰匙放在他肩上；他開了，沒有人能關；他關了，沒有人能開。
 依:22.23    我要堅定他，有如釘在穩固地方的木橛；他將成為他父家榮譽的寶座。
 依:22.24    他父家全部的榮耀、細枝、嫩芽、各種細小的物品，自碗具以至各種壺瓶都懸掛在它上面。
 依:22.25    到那一天──萬軍上主的斷語──釘在穩固地方的木橛必將脫落，破裂，掉下來，上面所掛的重載也要摔得粉碎。因為上主說了。
  
 依:23.1     [提洛受罰]  有關提洛的神諭：你們哀號罷! 塔爾史士的船隻! 因為你們的堡壘已遭破壞。由基廷地歸來的，他們得到了這消息。
 依:23.2     海濱的居民，靜默罷! 漆冬的商賈曾充實了你。
 依:23.3     在大水之上運來的，是史曷爾的穀物；尼羅河的收穫，是她的財富；她成了萬民的商場。
 依:23.4     漆冬! 羞慚罷! 因為海說過：【即海中的堡壘說過：】「我沒有分娩過，也沒有生產過；沒有撫養過青年，也沒有養育過處女。」
 依:23.5     這風聲一傳到了埃及，大家都為了提洛的消息而戰慄。
 依:23.6     你們過海到塔爾史士去罷! 海濱的居民你們哀號罷!
 依:23.7     這就是你們所誇耀的城嗎﹖她本起源於上古，她的雙腳曾將她帶至遠方寄居。
 依:23.8     是誰策劃了這事，來反對加過冕的提洛﹖她得商賈本來都是王侯，商販本來都是地上的顯要。
 依:23.9     是萬軍的上主策劃了這事，為打擊她一切自矜的狂傲，侮辱地上所有的顯要。
 依:23.10    塔爾史士女兒! 耕種你的地罷! 海港也不在了!
 依:23.11    上主的手已伸在海上，使萬國戰慄震驚；上主對客納罕已決定，要摧毀她的要塞。
 依:23.12    他說過：「漆冬女兒! 遭虐待的處女，你不要再歡樂! 起來，往基廷去! 在那裏你也得不到安寧! 」
 依:23.13    看基廷的地域! 【她已不成為民族，亞述已將她委棄予野獸；】人設立了高塔，毀壞了她的宮殿，使她成了一片廢墟。
 依:23.14    塔爾史士的船隻! 你們哀號罷! 因為你們的堡壘已遭破壞!
 依:23.15    [提洛復興]  到那天，提洛將被遺忘七十年之久，有如一位君王的歲月。過了七十年，提洛要像妓女歌曲中所唱的：
 依:23.16    「被遺忘的妓女! 拿琴遊城罷﹖巧彈多唱罷! 好使人再記起你來! 」
 依:23.17    過了七十年，上主要眷顧提洛，她要再接受纏頭，與地面世上各國交易。
 依:23.18    她的贏利和她的進項將祝聖與上主，必不再貯藏積蓄起來，因為她的贏利將歸於那些在上主面前度日的人，使他們吃得飽，穿得體面。
  
 依:24.1     [全世受罰]  看!上主使大地空虛，使它變為荒涼，翻轉它的面目，使它的居民四散：
 依:24.2     那時怎樣對百姓，也怎樣對司祭；怎樣對僕人，也怎樣對主人；怎樣對婢女，也怎樣對主母；怎樣對主顧，也怎樣對商賈；怎樣對債戶，也怎樣對債主；怎樣對貸方，也怎樣對借方。
 依:24.3     大地必要完全荒廢，慘遭浩劫，因為上主這樣定了。
 依:24.4     大地痛哭哀傷，世界衰頹零落，上天與下地一同衰頹。
 依:24.5     大地在居民腳下已被玷污，因為他們越規犯法，破壞了永久的盟約。
 依:24.6     為此詛咒吞噬了大地，其中的居民受了罪罰；為此地上的居民受了折損，剩下來的人數極少。
 依:24.7     新酒哀傷，葡萄凋殘；心情愉快的，都長聲嘆息!
 依:24.8     小鼓的喜樂已停止，歡笑的喧嚷已終結，琴瑟的喜樂已止息。
 依:24.9     人不再飲酒作樂，喝了濃酒的反覺酸苦!
 依:24.10    空虛的城市已破殘，家家戶戶都已關門閉戶!
 依:24.11    廣場上有人為酒而嗟歎，萬般娛樂已闌盡，大地的喜樂遭放逐!
 依:24.12    城中所留的只是淒涼，門戶被打得粉碎!
 依:24.13    [雨後殘蕾]  誠然，大地間萬民中，必像打過的橄欖樹，或如收割葡萄後所餘的殘粒。
 依:24.14    他們要提高聲音歌頌上主的尊嚴：「萬民啊! 你們歡呼罷!
 依:24.15    你們在東方的，應頌揚上主! 住在海島上的，應頌揚上主，以色列的天主的名!
 依:24.16    我們從地極聽到了歌聲：光榮屬於正義者。」然而我說：「我有禍了! 我有禍了! 我好可憐! 反叛的仍在反叛，反叛的仍在極力的反叛! 」
 依:24.17    地上的居民啊! 恐怖、陷阱、羅網，都聚集在你身上。
 依:24.18    那逃得了恐怖聲音的，必要落在陷阱裏；那由陷阱中跳出來的，必要落在羅網中!  [天地劇變] 的確，天上閘門已開放，大地基礎已動盪。
 依:24.19    大地必將粉碎又粉碎，大地必將崩裂又崩裂，大地必將動搖又動搖!
 依:24.20    大地必東搖西晃，有如一個醉漢，搖盪得好比一座帳幕；自己的罪惡又重壓在上面，倒塌了不能再起!
 依:24.21    到那一天，上主要在高天審視天上所有的軍旅，要在下地察考地上所有的君王。
 依:24.22    他們將被聚集起來，關在深坑內，監禁在監牢裏；待過了許多時日，將受懲罰。
 依:24.23    那時，月亮要臉紅，太陽要羞慚，因為萬軍的上主要在熙雍山上，要在耶路撒冷為王，在他的長老面前要備受頌揚。
  
 依:25.1     [感恩歌]  上主! 你是我的天主，我要稱揚你，我要讚頌你的名，因為你忠實真誠地成就了你舊日的奇妙計劃。
 依:25.2     因為你使那城成了一堆瓦礫，使設防的城市化為一片荒涼，使傲慢人的城堡不像城市，永遠不得重建。
 依:25.3     為此，強大的民族要頌揚你，威武邦國的城市要敬畏你。
 依:25.4     因為你是窮苦人的屏障，是患難中貧乏人的屏障，避風暴的藏身處，避炎熱的蔭涼所；因為殘暴人的狂怒有如冬日的暴風，
 依:25.5     有如旱地上的炎熱。傲慢人的狂暴你已抑止，有如濃蔭減輕了熱氣；連殘暴人的歌聲也從此低降。
 依:25.6     [設宴聖山]  萬軍的上主在這座山上，要為萬民擺設肥甘的盛宴，美酒的盛宴；肥甘是精選的，美酒是醇清的。
 依:25.7     在這座山上，你要撤除那封在萬民上的封面，那蓋在各國上的帷幔。
 依:25.8     他要永遠取消死亡，吾主上主要從人人的臉上拭去淚痕，要由整個地面除去自己民族的恥辱：因為上主說了。
 依:25.9     [選民歡樂]  到那一天，人要說：「看! 這是我們所依賴拯救我們的天主；這是我們所依賴的上主，我們要因他的救援鼓舞喜樂，
 依:25.10    因為上主的手停留在這山上。」敵人要在自己的地方受踐踏，有如禾湝被踐踏在糞坑之中。
 依:25.11    他要在其中伸開雙手，如同游泳的伸手游泳；但他的傲慢和他的手段已受了挫折。
 依:25.12    他城牆上高聳的堡壘必被打倒、推翻，倒在地上化為塵埃。
  
  
 依:26.1     那一天，猶大地要詠唱這首歌曲：「我們有座堅城，以救援作城牆與外郭。
 依:26.2     你們打開城門，好讓遵守信實的正義民族進去。
 依:26.3     你的意志堅定，因而你保全了永久的和平，故此人對你有信賴。
 依:26.4     你們應永遠信賴上主，因為上主是永固的磐石。
 依:26.5     他曾屈服了居高位的人，推翻了高聳的城市，將她推翻在地，使她粉碎，化為塵埃。
 依:26.6     踐踏她的，卻是困苦人的腳，是貧窮人的腳。」
 依:26.7     [虔誠的禱詞]  義人的道路是正直的，你上主啊，削平了正直人的途徑。
 依:26.8     的確，上主! 我們在你正義的路上期待你! 你的名號，你的記念，是我們心靈的欲望。
 依:26.9     我們的心靈在夜間渴望你，我們的心神在清晨尋覓你，因為當你的決斷顯於大地時，世上的居民都要學習正義。
 依:26.10    惡人雖然蒙受了憐憫，仍然不學習正義，在世上依然顛倒是非，毫不顧及上主的威嚴。
 依:26.11    上主! 你的手雖已高舉，但他們仍看不見；願他們見到你對百姓的熱忱而感到慚愧；並願你為你仇敵所保留的烈火吞滅他們!
 依:26.12    上主! 是你賜與了我們和平，因為凡我們所做的，都是你為我們成就的!
 依:26.13    上主，我們的天主! 除你以外，還有別的主宰治理過我們；然而我們所稱揚的，只有你，你的名號。
 依:26.14    死去的人不會再活，幽魂也不會復生，因為你如此懲罰了，並消滅了他們，使他們所有的記念盡被遺忘。
 依:26.15    你增加了本國的人民，上主，你增加了本國的人民，你得了光榮，你拓展了國家所有的邊界。
 依:26.16    上主 !我們在困難之中尋求了你，我們在壓迫之中呼求了你，因為那是你對我們的懲罰。
 依:26.17    有如懷妊臨產的婦女，在苦痛中痙攣呻吟；同樣，上主! 我們在你面前也是如此：
 依:26.18    我們也像懷妊痙攣；然而所產的竟是風，沒有給大地帶來救恩，世界的居民也未因此而得生。
 依:26.19    你的亡者將再生，他們的屍體將要起立；睡在塵埃中的人們都要甦醒歌詠，因為你的朝露是晶瑩的朝露，大地將拋出幽靈。
 依:26.20    [靜待救恩]  我的百姓! 去，進入你的內室，關上門，隱藏片刻，等待盛怒過去。
 依:26.21    因為，看哪! 上主已由自己的地方出來懲罰大地居民的罪惡，大地要暴露自己吞下的鮮血，不再遮掩被殺的人。
  
 依:27.1     [上主的最後勝利]  到那一天，上主要用他那厲害、巨大、猛烈的劍，來懲罰「里外雅堂」飛龍，和「里外雅堂」蜿蛇；並要擊殺海中的蛟龍。
 依:27.2     [葡萄園歌]  到那一天，你們要唱「那可愛的葡萄園」歌：
 依:27.3     「我，上主，親自作它的護守者，時加灌溉；我要日夜護守，免得受人侵害。
 依:27.4     我再沒有怒氣；萬一有了荊棘和蒺藜，我必前去攻擊，將它完全焚毀；
 依:27.5     除非不求我保護，不與我講和，不與我和好．．．」
 依:27.6     來日雅各伯將生根，以色列要發芽開花，她的果實要佈滿地面。
 依:27.7     [以民受罰後回國]  上主打擊以色列，那裏像他打擊那些打擊以色列的人呢﹖上主擊殺以色列，那裏像他擊殺那些擊殺以色列的人呢﹖
 依:27.8     上主以離棄，以驅逐，懲罰了她；在吹東風的日子，藉巨風將她捲去。
 依:27.9     惟其如此，雅各伯的罪過方得消除；她的罪孽得以赦免的代價，即在於她將祭壇所有的石塊，打得粉碎有如石灰，不在樹立「阿舍辣」和太陽柱。
 依:27.10    的確，設防的城市已荒涼，成了被撇下和放棄的住宅，有如荒野。牛犢在那裏牧放，在那裏偃臥，吃盡了那裏的枝葉。
 依:27.11    幾時樹枝枯萎，就自會斷落，婦女便來拿去燒火；她既不是個聰敏的民族，因此那創造她的，對她沒有憐憫；那形成她的，對她也不表恩情。
 依:27.12    到那一天，上主要從大河流域到埃及河畔收割果實，以色列子民啊! 你們都要一個一個地被聚集起來。
 依:27.13    到那一天，要吹起大號筒，凡是在亞述失迷的，在埃及地分散的，都要前來，在耶路撒冷聖山，朝拜上主。
  
 依:28.1     [撒瑪黎雅的末日]  禍哉，那為酒灌倒的厄弗辣因醉漢所驕矜的冠冕! 禍哉，那生於肥谷之巔作她美飾的殘花!
 依:28.2     看哪! 吾主興起一位強有力者，有如帶冰雹的暴雨，又如摧毀性的狂風，和漲溢氾濫的大水，猛力將一切拋落地上。
 依:28.3     厄弗辣因醉漢所驕矜的冠冕，必被人踏在腳下；
 依:28.4     生於肥谷之巔作她美飾的殘花，將如夏季前早熟的無花果，人一見到便伸手摘取吞下。
 依:28.5     到那一天，萬軍的上主將親作他殘餘的百姓的榮冠和華冕；
 依:28.6     他將是坐堂判案者的公義之神，將是門前禦敵者的力量。
 依:28.7     [斥責耶京政要]  連這些人也因清酒而搖晃，因濃酒而蹣跚；他們在異象中搖晃，在審斷時暈眩。
 依:28.8     一切筵席上都滿了嘔吐，沒有一處不是垢物。
 依:28.9     他要將智識授給誰呢﹖向誰解釋啟示呢﹖是向方才斷乳和剛離母懷的嬰兒嗎﹖
 依:28.10    這只是些「命上加命，命上加命，令上加令，令上加令，這裏一點，那裏一點! 」
 依:28.11    是的，上主要用口吃的唇，異人的舌，向這民族說話!
 依:28.12    雖然他曾對他們說過：「這就是安息的地方，讓困倦的人安息罷! 這就是休養的處所。」可惜他們總不肯聽從。
 依:28.13    因此上主的話對他們真成了「命上加命，命上加命，令上加令，令上加令，這裏一點，那裏一點! 」致使他們雖然前行，卻向後仰倒而跌傷，陷於圈套而被擄獲。
 依:28.14    [嘲笑者的末日]  為此，你們這些在耶路撒冷統治這民族的好嘲弄的人，聽上主的話罷!
 依:28.15    你們曾說過：「我們與死亡訂了盟，與陰府結了約，當狂怒的刑鞭經過時，不會落在我們身上，因為我們有欺詐作我們的遮掩，有虛偽作我們的庇護。」
 依:28.16    因此吾主上主這樣說：「看，我要在熙雍安放一塊石頭，一塊精選的石頭，一塊寶貴的角石作基礎，信賴的人必不動搖。
 依:28.17    我要以公平為準繩，以正義為權衡；冰雹將蕩盡欺詐的遮掩地，洪流將沖散虛偽的庇護所。
 依:28.18    你們與死亡所訂的盟約必要廢除，與陰府所結的約必不持久；當狂怒的刑鞭經過時，你們必被蹂躪；
 依:28.19    每次經過，每次必要打擊你們；他每朝經過，白日黑夜也經過；惟有恐怖方能使你們明白這啟示。」
 依:28.20    真是伸直身子床也短，縮作一團被又窄。
 依:28.21    因為上主要興起，如在培辣親山上一樣；要發怒，如在基貝紅山谷一樣，為履行他的工作──他神妙的工作，為完成他的事業──他奇異的事業。
 依:28.22    所以現在不要再嘲笑了，免得你們的繩索繫得更緊，因為我聽到的有關毀滅大地的決議，是來自吾主萬軍的上主。
 依:28.23    [農事的比喻]  請你們側耳靜聽我的聲音，請留意傾聽我的言語：
 依:28.24    耕田的人那有整日耕田，掘土耙地的呢﹖
 依:28.25    當他把地弄平了以後，不是要撒上小茴香，播種大茴香，種植大麥和小麥，地邊種玉蜀黍嗎﹖
 依:28.26    這是上主教給他的方式，他的天主指示他的。
 依:28.27    打小茴香不須用釘耙，打大茴香不須用碾機，而是用木棒打小茴香，用棍子打大茴香。
 依:28.28    五穀豈是要輾碎的嗎﹖不是! 人並不將它無限期地壓了又壓，而是叫碾機滾過，碾出穀粒來，並不是為碾碎它。
 依:28.29    這也是出自萬軍的上主：他的計劃真是神奇，他的智慧真是超絕。
  
 依:29.1     [耶京受罰與獲救]  禍哉，阿黎耳，阿黎耳，達味駐紮過的城! 任憑一年復一年，任憑節期的循環，
 依:29.2     我必圍困阿黎耳，那裏將發生呻吟和悲嘆。你於我必像一個「阿黎耳。」
 依:29.3     我要如達味一樣紮營圍攻你，以堡壘包圍你，築起高台攻擊你。
 依:29.4     你將降低，要由地下說話，你微弱的言語出自塵土。你的聲音有如幽魂的聲音出於地下，你的言語低聲地出自塵土。
 依:29.5     那殘害你的人，將多得有如微細的塵沙；那對你施虐的，將多得有如飛揚的糠屑。但是，忽然，轉瞬之間，
 依:29.6     萬軍的上主將帶著雷霆、地震、巨響、颶風、暴風如吞噬的火燄來眷顧你。
 依:29.7     那許多攻擊阿黎耳的民族，所有攻擊她並豎起堡壘包圍她的人們，都要成為一場夢境，有如夜間的異象。
 依:29.8     如同飢者夢中得食，及至醒來，仍然枵腹；又有如渴者夢中飲水，及至醒來，依舊疲憊，心裏仍有所欲：那攻擊熙雍山的各種民族，也將如此。
 依:29.9     [目盲心盲]  你們都在自我愚弄而愚蠢，你們都在自我蒙蔽而迷矇；你們沉醉，不是出於清酒；你們蹣跚，不是出於烈酒；
 依:29.10    而是由於上主將沉睡的神注在你們身上，封閉了你們的眼睛【即先知們，】蒙上了你們的頭顱【即先見們。】
 依:29.11    所有的異像為你們都像是封住的書中的話；若交給識字的人說：「請讀這書! 」他將答說：「我不能，因為這書是封著的；」
 依:29.12    若將這書交給一個文盲說：「請讀這書! 」他將答說：「我不識字! 」
 依:29.13    吾主說：「因為這民族祇在口頭上親近我，嘴唇上尊崇我，他們的心卻遠離我，他們對我的敬畏僅是人們所傳習的訓誡。
 依:29.14    所以，看哪! 我要向這民族再行奇事，最奇妙的事，致使他們智者的智慧必要消失，他們賢者的聰明必要隱遁。人算不如天算。
 依:29.15    禍哉，逃避上主而力圖掩蔽自己計劃的人! 禍哉，那些在暗中行事並說：「有誰看見我們，有誰知道我們的人! 」
 依:29.16    你們多麼顛倒事理! 豈能看陶工如泥工﹖製造品豈能論製造者說：「他沒有製造我﹖」陶器豈能論陶工說：「他不精明﹖」
 依:29.17    誠然，再稍過片刻，黎巴嫩即將變成果園，果園將被視為果林。
 依:29.18    到那一日，聾者將聽到書上的話，盲人的眼將由幽暗晦暝中得以看見；
 依:29.19    弱小的人將在上主內再得歡樂，貧困的人將因以色列的聖者而喜悅，
 依:29.20    因為暴虐者已經絕跡，輕蔑者已經滅亡，一切思念邪惡的人已經剷除：
 依:29.21    就是那些使人在訴訟上失敗，在城門口布置羅網陷害判官，用假理由屈枉義人的人。
 依:29.22    因此拯救亞巴郎的天主論雅各伯的家這樣說：「雅各伯今後不再慚愧，他的面貌不再失色，
 依:29.23    因為人們看見了我手在他們中所有的工作，必稱頌我名為聖，必稱頌雅各伯的聖者為聖，必敬畏以色列的天主。
 依:29.24    心內迷亂的人將要獲得知識，怨尤的人必學得教誨。
  
 依:30.1     [指責與埃及締盟]  禍哉，悖逆的子民──上主的斷語! 他們自作主張，不請示於我；自訂盟約，不依照我的精神，致使罪上加罪。
 依:30.2     他們沒有請求我的許可，便起程南下埃及，想託庇於法郎的保障之下，想隱匿於埃及的蔭庇之下。
 依:30.3     但是法郎的保障將是你們的羞恥，隱匿於埃及的蔭庇之下，將是一種污辱。
 依:30.4     雖然他的首領已在左罕，他的使者已到達哈乃斯；
 依:30.5     但是他們都要因這於他們毫無裨益的民族而受到羞慚，因為這民族為他們不但毫無幫助，毫無益處，反而是一種羞恥和污辱。
 依:30.6     他們以牲畜帶著貴物經過南方──殘酷苦痛的地域，即壯獅和牝獅咆哮，蝮蛇和火蛇飛行的地域──驢背上駝著他們的財富，駱駝背上駝著他們的寶物，到一個於他們毫無裨益的民族那裏去。
 依:30.7     埃及人的援助是無用的，是空虛的，因此我稱呼她是「靜坐的辣哈布。」
 依:30.8     [預言求救無益]  你現在去，當他們面前，寫在版上，記在書中，為後世作證據：
 依:30.9     「這是一個反叛的民族，不忠實的子女，拒絕聽從上主法律的子民。」
 依:30.10    他們曾對先見者說：「你們不要再看異象。」對先知說：「你們不要給我們說什麼預言，給我們說些好聽的話，預示些幻想故事罷!
 依:30.11    離開你們的正道罷! 轉移你們的路線罷! 在我們面前不要再提以色列的聖者! 」
 依:30.12    因此，以色列的聖者這樣說：「因為你們藐視了這話，而依賴邪說謬論，且傾心信賴；
 依:30.13    所以這罪惡，為你們將如一堵高牆上突起而將倒下的缺口，頃刻之間就會突然坍塌，
 依:30.14    坍塌得有如毫不痛惜地被摔碎的陶器，碎得找不到一塊碎片，能用以從爐中取火，從井裏取水。」
 依:30.15    因為吾主上主，以色列的聖者這樣說過：「你們的得救是在於歸依和安靜，你們的力量是在於寧靜和信賴。」然而你們不願意；
 依:30.16    你們反說：「不! 我們要騎馬逃去! 」的確，你們必要逃去。「我們要乘駿馬疾馳。」的確，追擊你們的必然疾馳。
 依:30.17    千人要逃避一人的叱吒，萬人要逃避五人的叱吒，直到你們所剩餘的，有如山頂上的木杆，或山嶺上的旗幟。
 依:30.18    [對信者的恩許]  然而上主仍舊等著向你們施惠，仍高興向你們表示憐愛，因為上主是正義的天主，凡仰賴他的人是有福的。
 依:30.19    熙雍的百姓，耶路撒冷的居民啊 ! 你不會再慟哭，他必垂憐你呼求的聲音，他一聽見必要應允你。
 依:30.20    吾主縱然給你們困苦的食物和酸辛的水，但你的教師再不躲藏，你的眼睛必能常見到你的教師。
 依:30.21    當你偏左或偏右時，你必會親耳聽到你後面有聲音說：「這是正路，你們要在這上面行! 」
 依:30.22    你必以那包銀的木偶和包金的神像為不潔之物，將它們拋棄，有如拋棄月經布一樣，並對它說：「去罷! 」
 依:30.23    你把種子種在地裏，上主必使雨降在其上，並使你地裏出產的食糧豐盛富饒；那一日你的群畜必將在廣闊的草場上牧放。
 依:30.24    耕田的牛和驢駒必吃用木杴或簸箕揚淨而拌上鹽的芻料。
 依:30.25    大行慘殺之日，當堡樓倒塌之時，所有的高山峻嶺必有溪水涓涓細流。
 依:30.26    當上主包紮他百姓的創口，治療他們傷痕的那日，月亮的光華將似太陽的光華，而太陽的光華必增加七倍，有如積累了七天的光華。
 依:30.27    [上主出征亞述]  看哪! 上主的名由遠方而來，他怒火如焚，濃煙衝天；他的口唇滿了敵愾，他的舌頭有如吞噬的火燄；
 依:30.28    他的氣息如氾濫的河川，漲到人的頸項；他要用盪滅的篩子篩淨列國，用引入歧途的馬勒拑住萬民的下顎。
 依:30.29    你們必要謳歌，有如歡祝慶節之夜；內心愉快，有如在笛聲之下登上主的山，到以色列的磐石那裏去一樣。
 依:30.30    上主必使人聽見他尊嚴的聲音，見到他降臨的手臂，在狂怒之中，在吞噬的火燄中，在狂風、暴雨、冰雹之中。
 依:30.31    亞述必因上主的聲音而戰慄，上主必用刑杖擊打亞述。
 依:30.32    當上主懲戒的刑杖加於他們身上時，每次擊撻都是在敲鼓和彈琴的聲中執行的。他將以激烈的戰爭擊敗他們。
 依:30.33    因為托裴特已準備好多時，還是為君王而設的，又深又廣，堆滿了許多柴火；上主的氣息有如一條硫磺河流，把它點燃起來。
  
 依:31.1     [惟上主能施救]  禍哉，那些南下埃及求救，依靠戰馬，信賴他們戰車眾多， 依恃他們鐵騎驍勇，而不仰望以色列的聖者，也不求問上主的人!
 依:31.2     但是上主仍然能降下災禍，他決不收回自己的言語；他必要起來攻擊惡人的家，攻擊助人作惡的人。
 依:31.3     埃及人是人，並不是神；他們的戰馬是血肉，並不是靈；只要上主一伸手，施助的人必將仆倒，受助的人必要顛覆：二者同歸於盡。
 依:31.4     因為上主曾這樣對我說：「猶如壯獅或幼獅為了獵物而怒吼，即使召集許多牧人攻擊牠，牠並不因他們的叫囂而畏懼，也不因他們的喧嚷而驚慌；同樣，萬軍的上主必要降下，為熙雍和她的丘嶺作戰。
 依:31.5     有如飛鳥展翼護雛，萬軍的上主也要這樣扞衛耶路撒冷，加以保護、拯救、憐恤、保存。」
 依:31.6     以色列子民啊! 再歸到你們所遠離的上主那裏罷!
 依:31.7     因為到那一天，人人必要拋棄自己的銀偶像和金偶像，即你們以污穢的手所製造的。
 依:31.8     亞述必將傾覆於超人的刀下，超人的刀必將吞噬她；她將由刀劍面前逃走，她的壯丁必要充作苦役。
 依:31.9     她的磐石由於震驚必要逃避，她的王侯，由於恐慌必將放棄軍旗：這是在熙雍有火，在耶路撒冷有爐的上主的斷語。
  
 依:32.1     [正義的王國]  看哪! 有個君王將秉義為王，王侯也將秉公執政。
 依:32.2     個個將如避風的處所，避雨的遮蓋，如荒漠中的水流，如旱乾地上巨石的蔭影。
 依:32.3     看得見的眼睛不再矇矓，聽得見的耳朵必將傾聽。
 依:32.4     急躁人的心將會體味智識，口吃者的舌將會暢於言談。
 依:32.5     愚昧的人不再叫作貴人，奸險的人必再稱為紳士，
 依:32.6     因為愚昧的人出言愚昧，心懷邪僻，肆意作惡，發表褻瀆上主的謬論，使飢者枵腹，使渴者絕飲。
 依:32.7     奸險者的手段毒辣，只籌劃惡計，用誑言毀滅卑微的人，在窮人的案件上顛倒曲直；
 依:32.8     但是貴人策劃高貴的事，他常以高貴行事。
 依:32.9     [警告安逸的婦女]  圖安逸的婦女們，起來，請聽我的聲音! 無憂的女子們，請傾聽我的言語!
 依:32.10    稍過年餘，你們無憂的女子必受驚擾，因為葡萄沒有收穫，穀粒一無收成。
 依:32.11    安逸的婦女們!你們必將顫抖；無憂的女子們! 你們必受驚擾；你們脫光衣服，腰間纏上麻布罷!
 依:32.12    你們必要為了肥沃的田地，為了結實的葡萄園而搥胸，
 依:32.13    為了我百姓生滿荊棘和蒺藜的土地，為了所有的娛樂家園，為了歡欣的城市而悲傷，
 依:32.14    因為宮闕已荒廢，喧擾的城市已荒涼，敖斐耳和巴罕永遠成了廢墟，成了野驢喜樂的地帶，成了羊群的牧場。
 依:32.15    [復興的展望]  及至神自上傾注在我們身上，荒野將變為田園，田園將變為叢林；
 依:32.16    公平將居於荒野，正義將住在田園。
 依:32.17    正義的功效是和平，公平的碩果是永恆的寧靜和安全。
 依:32.18    我的百姓將住安謐的寓所，安全的宅第，清靜憩息之所，
 依:32.19    縱然叢林全被摧毀，京城全被蕩平。
 依:32.20    你們播種於多水之濱；使牛驢任意走動的人，是有福的。
  
 依:33.1     [求求天主施救]  禍哉，你這不受侵害而侵害人，不受劫掠而劫掠人的人! 當你侵害完了，你將遭受別人的侵害；當你劫掠完了，你將遭受別人的劫掠。
 依:33.2     上主啊! 憐恤我們罷! 我們仰望你，每日清晨，請作我們的臂膊! 在窘迫時，請作我們的救援!
 依:33.3     叫囂的聲音一響，民眾遂即逃遁；你一奮起，萬民便都潰散。
 依:33.4     人們收集掠物，有如拾取蚱蜢；急於劫掠，有如蝗蟲疾跳。
 依:33.5     上主是崇高的，因為他居於高處；他以正義和公平充盈了熙雍。
 依:33.6     祂是你命運的保障，得救的府庫、智慧和明智；敬畏上主，將是你的寶藏。
 依:33.7     [上主前來干與]  看哪! 傳信的的人在外號叫，和平使者悲痛啼哭。
 依:33.8     大路已經荒廢，行旅已經絕跡。他撕毀了盟約，藐視了證人，不顧及任何人。
 依:33.9     地域悽慘頹廢，黎巴嫩慚赧憔悴，沙龍變成荒野，巴商和加爾默耳搖曳凋零。
 依:33.10    上主說：「現在我要起來，現在我要奮發，現在我要受尊崇!
 依:33.11    他們所懷的是枯草，所生的是碎湝；我的氣息有如火燄，必將你們焚盡!
 依:33.12    萬民將被焚燒，有如石灰，又如斬斷的荊棘燬於火中。
 依:33.13    遠方的人要聽到我的作為，近處的人要嘗試我的能力! 」
 依:33.14    熙雍的罪人戰兢害怕，不法之徒為恐懼所攫：「我們中誰能與吞噬的烈火同居﹖我們中誰能與不滅的烈燄共處﹖」
 依:33.15    那行走正道，出言真誠的，鄙棄欺詐入息的，搖手不受賄賂的，充耳不聞流血陰謀的，閉眼不看邪惡的：
 依:33.16    這樣的人要居高處，巖石上的堡壘將作他的保障，他的食物有人供應，他的水可得保全。
 依:33.17    [幸福的遠景]  你必要舉目瞻仰具有華美的君王，要遙望幅員廣闊的地帶。
 依:33.18    你的心追憶起已往的恐怖時，要說：「登記的人員在那裏呢﹖量銀的人員在那裏呢﹖數點城堡的人又在那裏呢﹖」
 依:33.19    你再見不到那野蠻的民族，即言語深邃而難以領悟，說話口吃而不易理喻的民族。
 依:33.20    你將觀看熙雍，我們集會的城邑；你的眼將見到耶路撒冷，安全的寓所，不動搖的帳幕；她的木樁永不能拔出，她所有的繩索也不能拉斷。
 依:33.21    榮耀的上主在那裏將作我們的巨川大河，沒有舟楫往來其間，也沒有遊艇划過。
 依:33.22    它的繩索鬆弛了，沒有穩固桅杆的力量，也沒有扯起船帆的力量。
 依:33.23    因為上主是我們的判官，上主是我們的立法者，上主是我們的君王，他必拯救我們。
 依:33.24    那時，瞎子要分得許多戰利品，瘸子要取得擄獲物。
 依:33.25    沒有一個居民再會說：「我病了。」住在那裏的人必將獲得罪赦。
  
 依:34.1     [天主審判萬國]  萬民，你們前來聆聽! 列邦，你們側耳靜聽! 大地與充塞其中的一切，世界與其所有的產物，都要諦聽!
 依:34.2     因為上主向萬民生了氣，對他們的一切軍隊發了怒，他注定了他們的劫數，命定了他們遭受屠殺。
 依:34.3     他們的被殺者被棄於外，他們屍體的腥臭浮浮上騰，他們的血溶化了諸山。
 依:34.4     天上的萬象必將解體，諸天要如卷軸般捲起；天上的星辰必將隕墜，有如葡萄葉的凋零，有如無花果葉的萎謝。
 依:34.5     當上主的刀在天上痛飲之後，看哪! 它將若在厄東，落在他所毀滅的百姓身上，實行懲罰。
 依:34.6     上主的刀劍染滿了血，漬滿了脂油，就是羔羊和羚羊的血，以及公羊腎臟的脂油：因為上主在波責辣舉行了一番祭祀，在厄東地方施行了一場屠殺。
 依:34.7     野牛與肥畜必同墮死，牛犢與公牛必同跌斃。他們的地區浸滿了血，他們的地面漬染了脂油。
 依:34.8     因為這是上主復讎的日子，是為報復熙雍敵人的一年。
 依:34.9     她的河水將變為瀝青，她的土壤將變為硫磺：大地成了燃灼的瀝青，
 依:34.10    晝夜燃燒不息，濃煙永遠上升；世世代代成為荒野，永久無人經過此地。
 依:34.11    鵜鶘和刺蝟據守其地，鴞鴟和烏鴉棲於其間；上主將以破壞性的繩墨和毀滅性的線錘測量那地。
 依:34.12    顯貴中沒有一個在那裏能夠建國，她所有的王侯都歸於烏有。
 依:34.13    她的宮闕將生滿荊棘，她的堡壘將繁生蒺藜和薊草；她將成為豺狼的洞穴，鴕鳥的苑囿。
 依:34.14    野貓在那裏將與野狗相會，野羊將呼叫牠的同類；夜間的魑魅將在那裏休憩，尋得一個安息的處所。
 依:34.15    箭頭蛇將在那裏築穴、下蛋、伏卵，並加以孵化；鷙鳥群集其間，雌雄相配。
 依:34.16    你們可查看上主的書，且閱讀一下，牠們中一種也不會缺少，沒有一個沒有配偶的，因為上主的口已這樣命定，他的神集合了牠們。
 依:34.17    上主親自要為牠們抽籤，他親手用繩索將為牠們分開這地；牠們將永久佔有這地，世世代代住在那裏。
  
 依:35.1     [獲救者的幸福] 荒野和不毛之地必要歡樂，沙漠必要欣喜，如花盛開，
 依:35.2     盛開的有如百合，高興得歡樂高唱，因為它們將獲得黎巴嫩的光華，加爾默爾和沙龍的美麗；它們將見到上主的榮耀，我們天主的光輝。
 依:35.3     你們應加強痿弱的手，堅固顫動的膝，
 依:35.4     告訴心怯的人說：「鼓起勇氣來，不要畏懼! 看，你們的天主，報復已到，天主的報酬已到，他要親自來拯救你們! 」
 依:35.5     那時瞎子的眼睛要明朗，聾子的耳朵要開啟；
 依:35.6     那時瘸子必要跳躍如鹿，啞吧的舌頭必要歡呼，因為曠野裏將流出大水，沙漠中將湧出江河，
 依:35.7     白熱的沙地將變為池沼，炕旱的地帶將變為水源，豺狼棲息的洞穴將生出蘆葦和菖蒲。
 依:35.8     那裏將有一條大路，稱為「聖路，」不潔的人不得通行：這原是他百姓所走的路，愚蠢的人也不會迷路。
 依:35.9     那裏沒有獅子，猛獸也不上來，路上遇不到一隻野獸，獨有被贖出的人們行走。
 依:35.10    上主所解救的人必要歸來，快樂地來到熙雍，永久的歡樂臨於他們頭上，他們將享盡快樂和歡喜，憂愁和悲哀必將遠遁。
  
           歷史附錄(36-39)
  
 依:36.1     [亞述進攻猶大]  在希則克雅為王第十四年，亞述王散乃黑黎布上來攻打猶大的一切堅城，而且都佔領了。
 依:36.2     亞述王從拉基市打發一位大將軍，帶著大軍到耶路撒冷去見希則克雅王。當大將站在上池溝旁，漂布田間的大路上時，
 依:36.3     出來迎接他的，有希耳克雅的兒子厄里雅金家宰、舍布納書記和阿撒夫的兒子約阿黑史官。
 依:36.4     [大將軍的恐嚇]  大將軍對他們說：「你們去告訴希則克雅說：大王，亞述王這樣說：你所依靠的算得什麼依靠，
 依:36.5     你想空口說話就是戰略和戰鬥的力量嗎﹖如今你靠誰來背叛我﹖
 依:36.6     看哪! 你依靠的埃及是一根破裂的蘆杖，誰依靠這杖，它就刺傷誰的手，且把手刺透；埃及王法郎對所有依靠他的人就是這樣。
 依:36.7     假使你們對我說：我們依靠雅威，我們的天主；希則克雅豈不是曾推翻他的高丘和祭壇，且對猶大和耶路撒冷說：你們只應在這祭壇前朝拜﹖
 依:36.8     如今你可與我的主上亞述王打賭：我給你兩千匹馬，你是否能給這些馬配上騎兵﹖
 依:36.9     若不能，你怎敢拒絕我主上最小僕人中的一個軍長，而去依靠埃及的戰車和騎兵﹖
 依:36.10    現在，我上來攻打毀滅這地，難道不是雅威的意思嗎﹖雅威對我說了：上去，攻打那地，加以毀滅! 」
 依:36.11    厄里雅金、舍布納和約阿黑對大將軍說：「請你對你的僕人說阿剌美話，因為我們都懂；你不要對我們講猶太話，因為城牆上的百姓能聽到。」
 依:36.12    大將軍回答說：「難道我的主上打發我來只對你的主上和你講這些話，而不是對那些坐在城牆上，和你們一樣吃自己的糞，喝自己的尿的人，講這些話嗎﹖」
 依:36.13    大將軍於是站起來仍用猶太話大聲喊說：「你們聽大王，亞述王的話罷!
 依:36.14    大王這樣說：你們別上希則克雅的當，他決不能拯救你們!
 依:36.15    也不要讓希則克雅使你們信賴雅威說：雅威必會拯救我們，這城決不會落在亞述王手中!
 依:36.16    不要聽從希則克雅，因為亞述王曾這樣說了：你們要與我和好，出來歸順我，各人就可以吃自己的葡萄和無花果，各人也可以喝自己井裏的水；
 依:36.17    直到我來領你們到一個與你們本國一樣的地方去，一個有五穀和新酒的地方，一個有食糧和葡萄園的地方。
 依:36.18    切不要上希則克雅的當，聽信他說：雅威必拯救我們! 萬國的神中有那一個由亞述王手中拯救了自己的國家﹖
 依:36.19    哈瑪特和阿帕得的神在那裏﹖色法瓦因的神在那裏﹖撒瑪黎雅的神在那裏﹖難道他們由我手中拯救了撒瑪黎雅﹖
 依:36.20    那些地域中的神，有那一個由我手中拯救了自己的國土﹖難道雅威就能由我手中拯救耶路撒冷嗎﹖」
 依:36.21    他們都不作聲，一句話也沒有回答，因為君王有命：「不要回答他。」
 依:36.22    希耳克雅的兒子厄里雅金家宰、舍布納書記和阿撒夫的兒子約阿黑史官撕裂了衣服，來見希則克雅，將大將軍的話告訴了他。
  
 依:37.1     希則克雅同依撒意亞會商]  希則克雅王一聽這話，就撕破了自己的衣服，穿上苦衣，走進了上主的殿；
 依:37.2     然後打發厄里雅金家宰、舍布納書記和幾位老司祭，穿著苦衣，去見阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞先知，
 依:37.3     對他說：「希則克雅這樣說：今天是受困難、受責罰，受凌辱的日子! 因為嬰兒到了要出生的時候，卻沒有產生的力量。
 依:37.4     但願上主你的天主聽見了那大將軍的話──即他的主子亞述王派他來辱罵永生的天主所說的話──願上主你的天主聽了那些話而加以懲罰。請你為剩下的人民祈禱罷! 」
 依:37.5     希則克雅王的臣僕來到了依撒意亞前，
 依:37.6     依撒意亞對他們說：「你們要這樣對你們的主上說：上主這樣說：你聽到亞述王的僕人辱罵我的話，不要害怕!
 依:37.7     看，我必叫他感到一種怕情，使他一聽到某種消息，就返回本國；我要使他在本國內喪身刀下。」
 依:37.8     [亞述王再次恐嚇]  大將軍回去時，正遇見亞述王去攻打里貝納，原來他已聽說君王離開了拉基士。
 依:37.9     那時散乃黑黎布聽人說：雇士王提爾哈卡出來攻打他，就再派使者去見希則克雅，並吩咐說：「
 依:37.10    你們要這樣對猶大王希則克雅說：不要讓你所依賴的天主哄騙你說：耶路撒冷決不會落在亞述王手中!
 依:37.11    看，你聽說過亞述的列王對各國所行的，將各國完全消滅了，你還能有救嗎﹖
 依:37.12    我祖先消滅的所有民族如：哥倉、哈郎、勒責夫，以及在特拉撒爾的厄登子民，他們的神何嘗救了他們﹖
 依:37.13    哈瑪特王、阿帕得王、色法瓦因城的王、赫納王和依瓦王，他們現今都在那裏﹖」
 依:37.14    [希則克雅的祈禱]  希則克雅從使者手中接過信來，讀了以後，就走進上主的殿；將那信在上主面前展開，
 依:37.15    然後希則克雅懇求上主說：
 依:37.16    「萬軍的上主，坐在革魯賓上面的以色列的天主，唯獨你是地上萬國的天主，你創造了天地。
 依:37.17    上主，請你側耳傾聽! 上主，求你睜眼垂視! 細聽那打發使者辱罵永生天主的散乃黑黎布的一切話 !
 依:37.18    上主，的確，亞述的列王曾毀滅了所有的民族和他們的土地，
 依:37.19    將他們的神像投入火中，因為它們不是神，只是人手造成的木石的作品，所以能被消滅。
 依:37.20    但是現今，上主，我們的天主，求你拯救我們脫離他的手，好使世上萬國都知道：惟獨你是上主天主。」
 依:37.21    [依撒意亞的預言]  那時，阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞打發人去見希則克雅說：「上主以色列的天主這樣說：你既然為了亞述王散乃黑黎布而向我懇求，我已經俯聽了你。
 依:37.22    這就是上主論他所說的話：熙雍貞女輕視你，嘲笑你；耶路撒冷少女在你背後搖頭!
 依:37.23    你辱罵詛咒的是誰﹖你提高聲音，仰起眼睛攻擊的是誰﹖是攻擊以色列的聖者。
 依:37.24    藉你的僕人辱罵了吾主，你說：我用我的大批車輛，登上了叢山的極峰，到黎巴嫩的山頂，砍伐了其中　最高的香柏，最好的青松；我衝入了人跡罕到之處，走進了果木的林園。
 依:37.25    我掘了井，喝了外邦的水，用我的腳掌踏乾了埃及所有的河川。
 依:37.26    難道你沒有聽見：很久以前我所計劃的，昔日我所決定的，現在我就實現，叫你毀壞堅城，化為廢墟，
 依:37.27    使城中的居民軟弱無力，驚惶失措，有如田野的青草，有如青綠的嫩苗，有如屋頂上被東風吹焦的小草。
 依:37.28    你或起或坐，或出或入，以及對我的癲狂，我都知道。
 依:37.29    因為你對我的暴怒，和你的狂囂，已達到我的耳鼓，所以我要把環子穿在你的鼻子上，把轡頭套在你的嘴上，由你來的路上將你牽回去。
 依:37.30    這是給你的記號：今年你要吃自然所生的，明年你仍要吃自然所生的，第三年你們要播種收穫，栽種葡萄園，吃園中的果實。
 依:37.31    猶大家所剩餘的人，仍要向下生根，往上結實。
 依:37.32    因為剩餘的人將由耶路撒冷而出，逃脫的人將從熙雍山而來：萬軍上主的熱誠必要成就這事。
 依:37.33    為此，上主論亞述王這樣說：他決不會進入這城，決不會向這城放射一箭，決不會持著盾牌，走近城下，造起土堆攻城。
 依:37.34    他必要由來路回去，決不能進入這城：上主的斷語。
 依:37.35    為了我自己，為了我的僕人達味，我必要保護拯救這城。」
 依:37.36    [亞述王受懲罰]  於是上主的使者出來，在亞述的營裏殺了十八萬五千人。清晨人們起來，見遍地是死屍。
 依:37.37    亞述王散乃黑黎布於是拔營，班師回國，住在尼尼微。
 依:37.38    當他在自己的神尼色洛客廟裏叩拜的時候，他的兒子阿德辣默肋客和沙勒責爾用劍刺殺了他，然後逃到阿辣辣特地方去了。他的兒子厄撒哈冬繼他為王。
  
 依:38.1     [國王患病復愈]  在那些日期內，希則克雅害病要死，阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞先知前來看他，並對他說：「上主這樣說：快料理你的家務，因為你快死，不能久活了! 」
 依:38.2     希則克雅就轉面朝牆懇求上主說：
 依:38.3     「上主! 求你記憶我如何懷著忠誠齊全的心，在你面前行走；如何作了你視為正義的事。」然後希則克雅放聲大哭。
 依:38.4     上主的話傳給依撒意亞說：
 依:38.5     「你去對希則克雅說：上主，你祖先達味的天主這樣說：我聽見了你的祈禱，看見了你的眼淚；看，我要在你的壽數上加多十五年，
 依:38.6     且由亞述王手中拯救你和這座城，我必要保護這座城。
 依:38.7     上主必實踐他所說的話，這將是給你的記號：
 依:38.8     看，我要使那射在阿哈次的日晷上的日影倒退十度。」果然，射在日晷上的日影倒退了十度。
 依:38.9     [希則克雅的謝恩歌]  猶大王希則克雅在病中與病愈後所詠的「金詩：」
 依:38.10    我曾想過：「正當我的中年，我就要離去；我的餘年將被交於陰府之門。」
 依:38.11    我曾想過：「我再不能在活人的地上看見上主，我再不能在世上的居民中看見世人。
 依:38.12    我的居所被拆除，由我身上撤去，彷彿牧童的帳幕；你好像織工，捲起了我的生命，由織機上將我割斷。白日黑夜你總想將我結束! 」
 依:38.13    我哀號直到清晨，上主卻如獅子咬碎了我所有的骨骸。
 依:38.14    我呢喃好似燕子，我哀鳴有如斑鳩；我痛哭的眼睛向上仰視：「上主! 我實在痛苦，求你扶持我!」
 依:38.15    我還有什麼話可說﹖因為是上主給我說的，因為是他行的；帶著我內心的痛苦，我要善度我的餘年。
 依:38.16    上主! 我的心唯有仰望你! 求你使我的精神甦醒，使我復原，使我生存。
 依:38.17    看，我的苦楚已變為安寧，是你保存了我的生命脫免滅亡的深淵，因為你將我所有的罪惡盡拋於你背後。
 依:38.18    誠然，陰府不會讚頌你，死亡也不會稱揚你；下到深淵的，也不會再仰望你的忠誠。
 依:38.19    再者，唯有生者能讚頌你，如我今日一樣；為父的當使自己的兒女認識你的忠信。
 依:38.20    上主救了我，為此我們願以終生的歲月，在上主的殿內彈奏絃琴!
 依:38.21    [附錄]  依撒意亞曾吩咐說：「拿一塊無花果餅來，貼在他的瘡口上，他就會好了。」
 依:38.22    希則克雅曾問說：「有什麼憑據，我將登上上主的殿﹖」
  
 依:39.1     [巴比倫的使者來訪]  那時，巴比倫王巴拉丹的兒子默洛達客巴拉丹給希則克雅呈上書信和禮物，因為他聽說希則克雅患病好了。
 依:39.2     希則克雅對他們非常高興，就叫使者參觀自己的寶庫、金銀、香料、珍膏和武器，以及他府庫內所有的財寶：凡他宮中和全國內所有的，希則克雅沒有不叫他們參觀的。
 依:39.3     [先知預言充軍]  依撒意亞先知來到希則克雅王前對他說：「這些人說了什麼﹖他們是從什麼地方到你這裏來的﹖」希則克雅回答說：「他們是從遠方，從巴比倫到我這裏來的。」
 依:39.4     先知又問說：「他們在你宮裏看見了什麼﹖」希則克雅回答說：「凡我宮裏所有的，他們都看了；凡我府庫內所有的，沒有一樣我不叫他們不看的。」
 依:39.5     依撒意亞遂對希則克雅說：「你聽萬軍上主的話罷!
 依:39.6     看，日子要到，凡你宮中所有的，及你祖先直到今日所積蓄的，都要被帶到巴比倫去，什麼都不會留下：上主說。
 依:39.7     此外，由你所出，即你所生的子孫中，也有一些要被擄去，在巴比倫王的宮殿裏充當太監。」
 依:39.8     希則克雅便對依撒意亞說：「你所說的上主的話很好。」他想：「只願在我有生之日有平安，有安全! 」
  
           後編 安慰書(40-66)
  
 依:40.1     [傳報喜訊]  「你們安慰，安慰我的百姓罷! 」你們的天主說。
 依:40.2     你們應向耶路撒冷說寬心的話，並向她宣告：她的苦役已滿期，她的罪債已清償，因為她為了自己的一切罪過，已由上主手中承受了雙倍的懲罰。
 依:40.3     有一個呼聲喊說：「你們要在曠野中預備上主的道路，在荒原中為我們的天主修平一條大路!
 依:40.4     一切深谷要填滿，一切山陵要產平，隆起的要削為平地，崎嶇的要闢成坦途!
 依:40.5     上主的光榮要顯示出來，凡有血肉的都會看見：這是上主親口說的。」
 依:40.6     有個聲音說：「呼喊罷! 」我答說：「我呼喊什麼﹖」「凡有血肉的都似草，他的美麗似田野的花；
 依:40.7     上主的風吹來，草必枯萎，花必凋謝。【的確，人民好像草。】
 依:40.8     草能枯萎，花能凋謝，但我們天主的話永遠常存。」
 依:40.9     給熙雍傳喜訊的啊! 請登上高山! 給耶路撒冷報喜訊的啊! 請大聲疾呼! 高呼罷! 不要畏懼! 向猶大各城報告說：你們的天主來了!
 依:40.10    吾主上主帶著威能來到，他的手臂獲得了勝利；他的勝利品與他同在，他獲得的酬勞在他面前。
 依:40.11    他必如牧人，牧放自己的羊群，以自己的手臂集合小羊，把牠們抱在自己的懷中，溫良地領導哺乳的母羊。
 依:40.12    [唯天主至高無上]  誰曾用手心量過海水，用手掌測量過天，用升斗量過地上的塵土，用天秤稱過高山，用戥子撐過丘陵呢﹖
 依:40.13    誰曾指揮過上主的心靈；或做過他的參謀，教導過他呢﹖
 依:40.14    他曾向誰請教過，請他教導自己，指導自己正路，教授自己智識，指示明智的行徑呢﹖
 依:40.15    看哪! 萬民像桶中的一滴水，如天秤上的一粒沙；看，島嶼重如一粒灰塵。
 依:40.16    黎巴嫩不夠當柴燒，其中的野獸不足作燔祭。
 依:40.17    萬民在他面前好像烏有，在他看來只是空虛淨無。
 依:40.18    你們要把天主同誰相比擬呢﹖你們把他與什麼相對照呢﹖
 依:40.19    與偶像嗎﹖偶像是工匠鑄造，金匠再包上金子，然後再鑄銀鍊圍起來。
 依:40.20    精於選料的人，在選擇一塊不朽的木頭，再尋找一位精明的工匠，將鑄像立定，不致倒下。
 依:40.21    難道你們不知道﹖難道你們沒有聽說﹖難道從起初沒有人告訴過你們﹖難道由大地肇基以來你們沒有細察過嗎﹖
 依:40.22    他坐在大地的穹窿之上，地上的居民有如蝗蟲一般。他展開天幕有如帷幔，伸開天空有如居住的蓬帳。
 依:40.23    他使王侯化為烏有，叫地上的士紳成為虛無。
 依:40.24    他們剛被栽上，剛被種植，剛在土中扎根，他向他們一噓氣，他們一噓氣，他們便立即枯萎，暴風捲枯湝似的將他們捲走。
 依:40.25    「你們把我同誰比擬呢﹖要我與誰相似呢﹖」聖者如此說。
 依:40.26    你們舉目向上，看看是誰造了這些呢﹖是他按照數目展開了他的萬軍，按照次序一一點名，在這強有力和威能者前，沒有一個敢缺席的。
 依:40.27    [唯有天主可靠]  雅各伯! 你為什麼說﹖以色列! 你為什麼講：「上主看不見我的命運! 天主忽略了我的案件! 」
 依:40.28    難道你不知道，或者沒有聽說：上主是永生的天主，是創造地極之主嗎﹖他縱不疲倦，決不困乏，他的智慧高深莫測。
 依:40.29    他賜給疲倦者力量，賜給無力者勇氣。
 依:40.30    少年人能疲倦困乏，青年人能失足跌倒；
 依:40.31    然而仰望上主的，必獲得新力量，必能振翼高飛有如兀鷹，疾馳而不困乏，奔走而不疲倦。
  
 依:41.1     [萬民畏懼居魯士]  群島啊! 請肅靜聽我! 讓萬民前來! 讓他們前來開口說話；讓我們一起互相辯論!
 依:41.2     是誰由東方喚醒了那人，使他步步遇到勝利﹖是誰將眾民交付給他，又使列王臣服於他呢﹖他的刀劍使他們化為灰塵，他的弓箭分散他們有如草芥。
 依:41.3     他追擊他們時，平安地經過；他的腳好像沒有踏著道路一樣。
 依:41.4     是誰從原始安排了歷代的事而予以實行成就呢﹖我，上主，是元始，與最末者同在的也是我。
 依:41.5     群島一見即害怕起來，地極為之震動，遂都聚集前來；
 依:41.6     彼此相助，並對自己的同伴說：「勇敢些! 」
 依:41.7     工匠鼓勵金匠，掄大鎚的鼓勵使小錘的，誇讚釬工說：「釬的好! 」遂用釘子釘住，使偶像不致動搖。
 依:41.8     [以民無需畏懼]  但是你，我的僕人以色列，我所揀選的雅各伯，我的好友亞巴郎的苗裔，
 依:41.9     你是我由地極領來的，是我從遠方召來的，我曾向你說過：「你是我的僕人，我揀選了你，我決不放棄你。」
 依:41.10    你不要害怕，因為我與你在一起；你不要驚惶，因為我是你的天主；我必堅固你，協助你，用我勝利的右手扶持你。
 依:41.11    凡向你洩怒的，必蒙羞受辱；凡同你爭辯的，必要滅亡，化為烏有。
 依:41.12    凡與你爭吵的人，你找他們，也找不到。凡與你交戰的人，必化為烏有，歸於虛無，
 依:41.13    因為是我，上主，你的天主，提攜著你的右手，向你說過：「不要害怕，有我協助你。」
 依:41.14    雅各伯蟲豸啊! 以色列蛆蟲啊! 不要害怕，我必協助你──上主的斷語──你的救主是以色列的聖者。
 依:41.15    看啊，我使你成為一架鋒利多齒的新打禾機，叫你壓搾高山，壓得粉碎，使丘陵變為碎末。
 依:41.16    你要簸揚它們，風必將它們捲去，暴風必吹散它們；然而你要因上主而喜樂，因以色列的聖者而誇耀。
 依:41.17    貧困和窮苦的人，若找水而無所獲，他們的舌頭渴得焦燥，我上主必俯允他們，我，以色列的天主必不棄捨他們。
 依:41.18    我要在禿山上開闢河流，在空谷中噴出泉源；我要使沙漠變為池沼，使乾地化為噴泉。
 依:41.19    我要在沙漠中種植香柏木、皂莢、桃金娘和橄欖樹；在荒野中要把柏樹、榆樹和雲杉樹一起栽植起來；
 依:41.20    為使人們看見，知道，同時因深思而瞭解：這是上主的手所做的，是以色列的聖者所創造的。
 依:41.21    [唯上主是真神]  拿出你的理由來，上主說：呈上你的證據來，雅各伯的君王說。
 依:41.22    讓他們前來，告訴我們將要發生什麼事；讓他們告訴我們，那以往的事有什麼意義，好叫我們記在心中；或者讓我們聽聽那要來的事罷，好叫我們知道那事的結果。
 依:41.23    請你們說說那以後要來的事，好叫我們知道你們是神；無論好壞請你們做一下，好叫我們都驚奇害怕。
 依:41.24    看哪! 你們竟是烏有，你們的工作也是虛無；那選擇你們的實在可憎。
 依:41.25    我由北方喚起了一個人，他就來了；我由日出之地呼喚了他的名字，他將蹂躪王侯有如泥濘，又如陶工踐踏黏土。
 依:41.26    誰首先說過這事，好叫我們知道，在事前說過，而叫我們說「對啦﹖」實在沒有一個預言過，沒有一個講過，也沒有一個聽見過你們說話。
 依:41.27    只有我是第一位給熙雍報告過這事，給耶路撒冷遣發了一位報告喜訊的。
 依:41.28    我環視四周，了無一人；他們中沒有一個可做謀士，向他詢問，可回答一句的。
 依:41.29    看哪，他們都是烏有，他們的工作是虛無，他們的鑄像是空氣，是空氣。
  
 依:42.1     [詠「上主僕人」的詩歌]  請看我扶持的僕人，我心靈喜愛的所選者! 我在他身上傾注了我的神，叫他給萬民傳佈真道。
 依:42.2     他不呼喊，不喧嚷，在街市上也聽不到他的聲音。
 依:42.3     受傷的蘆葦，他不折斷；將熄的燈心，他不吹滅；他將忠實地傳佈真道。
 依:42.4     他不沮喪，也不失望，直到他在世上奠定了真道，因為海島都期待著他的教誨。
 依:42.5     那創造且展布天空，舖張大地和佈置大地的產物，給世人賜予氣息，並給在地上行動的，賜與呼吸的天主上主這樣說：
 依:42.6     「我，上主，因仁義召叫了你，我必提攜你，保護你，立你作人民的盟約，萬民的光明，
 依:42.7     為開啟盲人的眼目，從獄中領出被囚的人，從牢裏領出住在黑暗的人。
 依:42.8     我是上主，這是我的名字；我決不將我的光榮讓與另一位，決不將我應受的讚美歸於偶像。
 依:42.9     以前的事，看，已經成就；我再宣告新近的事，在事未發生之前，我先告訴你們。」
 依:42.10    [詠讚天主的偉大]  你們應向上主高唱新歌，稱述他的榮耀直到地極! 願海洋和其中一切，願島嶼和其上的居民讚美他!
 依:42.11    願曠野和那裏的城邑，刻達爾人所居住的村落歡呼! 願色拉的居民高聲歌唱，從山頂上吶喊!
 依:42.12    願眾人都歸光榮於上主，在島嶼上稱述他的榮耀!
 依:42.13    上主出征有如勇士，激起怒火有如戰士；他要高喊呼叫，對自己的敵人顯出他的英勇。
 依:42.14    「我已緘默好久，安靜自抑；然而現今我要像待產的婦女，呼喊、呻吟和哀嘆。
 依:42.15    我要使大山丘陵乾透，使上邊的草木枯槁；我要使河流化為旱地，使池沼涸竭。
 依:42.16    我要領瞎子走他們不知道的路，帶他們行不認識的道；使黑暗在他們前化為光明，使崎嶇之途變為平坦；這些事我都要作，我決不放棄。
 依:42.17    凡依賴偶像且向神像說：「你們是我的神」的人，必要敗退，蒙受奇辱。」
 依:42.18    [民眾聾盲如初]  聾子，你們聽! 瞎子，你們睜眼看!
 依:42.19    除了我的僕人外，誰還那麼瞎呢﹖誰如同我派遣的人那麼聾呢﹖誰像與我立和約的人那樣瞎呢﹖誰似上主的僕人那樣聾呢﹖
 依:42.20    他雖然看見了許多事，卻一無所覺；耳朵開著，卻沒有聽見。
 依:42.21    上主為了自己的仁義，本來願意把法律發揚廣大，
 依:42.22    但這民族遭受了洗劫和搶掠，被束縛於桎梏之中，隱伏於監獄之內；他們成了搶掠之物，而無人搭救；受人劫奪，而無人敢說：「交出來! 」
 依:42.23    你們中有誰靜聽這事，今後傾耳靜聽呢﹖
 依:42.24    是誰把雅各伯交付給搶掠者﹖是誰將以色列交給了劫奪者﹖不是他們所得罪的，不肯行他的道路，不肯聽從他的法律的那位上主嗎﹖
 依:42.25    因此他在這民族身上發洩了自己的烈怒和戰火；火已在她四周燒起，她仍不理會，已燃燒著她，她仍未放在心上。
  
 依:43.1     [以民將返故鄉]  但是現今，雅各伯啊! 那創造你的，以色列啊! 那形成你的上主這樣說：「你不要害怕! 因為我救贖了你，我以你的名子召叫了你，你是我的。
 依:43.2     當你由水中經過時，我必與你在一起；當你渡河時，河水不得淹沒你；當你在火中走過時，你不致烙傷，火燄也燒不著你。
 依:43.3     因為我是上主，你的天主；以色列的聖者，你的救主；我使埃及作你的贖價，以雇士和色巴來代替你。
 依:43.4     因為你在我眼中是寶貴的，是貴重的，我愛慕你；所以我拿別人交換了你，拿別的民族交換了你的性命。
 依:43.5     不要害怕! 因為我同你在一起，我要從東方領回你的子女，從西方將你召集在一起；
 依:43.6     我要向北方說：「交出來! 」向南方說：「不要攔阻他們，要將我的兒子們從遠方帶來，要將我的女兒們由地極領回，
 依:43.7     就是凡歸於我名下，並為了我的光榮而創造、形成和造化的人。」
 依:43.8     [唯上主能施救]  領那有眼而瞎，有耳而聾的民族出來罷!
 依:43.9     讓列國聚在一起，萬民集合起來! 他們中誰能預言這事呢﹖誰能預先報告給我們過去的事呢﹖讓他們找出證人來，為證實自己有理，好讓聽眾能說：「對啊! 」
 依:43.10    你們就是我的證人──上主的斷語──你們是我揀選的僕人，為叫你們認識和信仰我，並明白我就是「那位；」在我以前，沒有受造的神，在我以後，也決不會有。
 依:43.11    我，只有我是上主，我以外沒有救主；
 依:43.12    是我預言了，是我施行了拯救，是我宣佈過的；你們中沒有別的神。你們是我的證人──上主的斷語──我是天主，
 依:43.13    且由永遠就是；沒有人能從我手中救出誰來；我要做的，誰能扭轉﹖
 依:43.14    [巴比倫將要毀滅]  上主，你們的救主，以色列的聖者這樣說：「為了你們，我派了人到巴比倫去，我要打斷一切門閂，將加色丁人的狂歡變為悲哀。
 依:43.15    我是上主，你們的聖者，以色列的造主，你們的君王。」
 依:43.16    [重演出谷奇蹟]  上主這樣說：──他曾在海中開了一條路，在怒潮中闢了一條道；
 依:43.17    曾使車、馬、軍隊和將領一同前來，使他們沉沒，再未浮起，他們遂被消滅，像燈心一樣被熄滅──
 依:43.18    「你們不必追念古代的事，也不必回憶過去的事!
 依:43.19    看哪! 我要行一件新事，如今即要發生，你們不知道嗎﹖看哪! 我要在荒野中開闢道路，在沙漠裏開掘河流。
 依:43.20    田野間的走獸、豺狼和鴕鳥都要讚美我，因為我在曠野中使水湧出，在沙漠裏使河流成渠，為賜給我揀選的百姓喝：
 依:43.21    就是我為自己所造化的人民，好叫他們講述我的榮耀。」
 依:43.22    [上主的怨訴]  「但是，雅各伯啊! 你並沒有呼號我；以色列啊! 你竟厭煩了我。
 依:43.23    你沒有獻給我全燔祭羔羊，也沒有用你的犧牲光榮我；我從來沒有因了素祭而勞累你，也沒有因了馨香祭而煩擾你。
 依:43.24    你不但沒有花錢給我買香蒲，也沒有以你犧牲的肥脂供養我，反而用你的罪惡勞累了我，以你的愆尤煩擾了我。
 依:43.25    是我，是我自己，為了我自己的緣故，免除了你的過犯，不再懷念你的罪惡。
 依:43.26    請你提醒我，讓我們一起來辯論：你先說罷! 好表示你無罪。
 依:43.27    你的祖先犯了罪，你的中保背叛了我!
 依:43.28    為此，我使你的聖君受了褻瀆，使雅各伯遭受了毀滅，使以色列遭到了恥辱。」
  
 依:44.1     [以民將蒙祝福]  但是現在，我的僕人雅各伯! 我所揀選的以色列! 你聽罷!
 依:44.2     那造成你，從母胎形成你，且協助你的上主這樣說：「我的僕人雅各伯! 我所揀選的耶叔戎，你不要害怕!
 依:44.3     因為我要把水倒在乾地上，使豪雨落在旱陸上；我要把我的神傾住在你的苗裔身上，把我的祝福降在你的子孫身上。
 依:44.4     他們要生長，有如水邊的青草，又如溪畔的楊柳。
 依:44.5     這個說：「我是上主的，」那個要起雅各伯的名字，另一個要在手上寫：「屬於上主，」並要起以色列的名號。
 依:44.6     [惟上主是真神]  上主，以色列的君王，救主，萬軍的上主這樣說：「我是元始，我是終末，在我以外沒有別的神。
 依:44.7     誰相似我﹖讓他前來伸述，讓他說明，給我拿出證據來! 誰能從永遠預言未來的事，請他告訴我們快要發生的事罷!
 依:44.8     你們不必驚慌，不用害怕! 我不是早已告訴過你，早已宣布了嗎﹖你們是我的證人，在我以外還有別的神嗎﹖決沒有別的磐石! 我一個也不認識! 」
 依:44.9     [崇拜偶像的昏愚]  製造偶像的人都是虛無，他們所喜愛的，也毫無用處；他們的見證人一無所見，毫無所知，必將蒙受恥辱。
 依:44.10    有誰製造神像或鑄偶像，不想得利呢﹖
 依:44.11    看哪! 凡作他夥伴的，都要蒙受恥辱，因為製造偶像的，也只是人而已! 讓他們集合起來一同前來罷! 他們必要驚慌羞愧!
 依:44.12    鐵匠先在炭火上工作，再用鎚子打成偶像，他用大力的手臂工作，當饑餓時，也就沒有力量；沒有水喝，他就疲勞不堪。
 依:44.13    木匠伸展繩墨，用筆劃線，後拿刨子刨平，再用圓規測量，做成一個人形，具有人的美麗，好供在廟裏。
 依:44.14    人先去砍伐一塊香柏，或取一塊榆木，或橡木；或在樹林中選一塊堅固的木料，或自己種植一棵月桂樹，讓雨水使之長大。
 依:44.15    這些木料原是為人作燃料，原可用來取煖，也可燃燒烘烤麵包；人卻用它來作神像去恭敬，或做偶像去叩拜：
 依:44.16    人把一半木頭投入火中燃燒，在火炭上烤肉吃；待吃飽了烤肉，又取了煖，遂說：「哈哈! 我暖和了，也覺得有了火! 」
 依:44.17    遂用剩下的一半作了一個神像，一個偶像，向它叩拜，俯伏懇求說：「求你救我，因為你是我的神! 」
 依:44.18    他們不瞭解，也不覺悟，因為他們的眼糊住了，什麼也看不見；他們的心也不知覺悟，
 依:44.19    也不回心想一下，也不會明智通達地說：「一半木頭我已投入火中燒了，並在火炭上烤了麵包，烤了肉吃；我竟將剩下的一半作了一個怪物，向這塊木頭敬拜。」
 依:44.20    他所追求的僅是一把灰；他迷惑的心領他走入歧途，而不能自拔，也不會問說：「我右手所拿的不是虛無嗎﹖」
 依:44.21    [唯上主能救以民]  雅各伯啊! 你要記住這些事! 以色列啊! 你也應記住，因為你是我的僕人，我造了你，是叫你作我的僕人。以色列啊! 我決不會忘了你!
 依:44.22    我消除了你的罪過，有如煙消；我消除了你的愆尤，有如雲散；歸依我罷! 因為我救贖了你。
 依:44.23    諸天，歡騰罷! 因為上主作了這一切；地下的深淵，歡呼罷! 山嶺、森林和其中的樹木，高聲歌唱罷! 因為上主拯救了雅各伯，在以色列顯揚了自己。
 依:44.24    [上主重建耶京]  你的救主，由母胎形成你的上主這樣說：「我是創造萬有的上主，只有我展開了諸天，佈置了大地，誰與我同在﹖
 依:44.25    是我破壞了占卜者的預兆，使巫士成為愚妄，使智者退後，使他們的知識變為愚蠢，
 依:44.26    是我叫我僕人們的話實現，叫我使者們的計謀成功；是我論及耶路撒冷說：「你必要有人居住。」論及猶大各城說：「你們要被重建，我必要重建你們的廢址。」
 依:44.27    是我對深淵說：「你必涸竭，我要使你的河流乾涸。」
 依:44.28    是我論及居魯士說：「他是我的牧人，他要履行我的一切計劃，要吩咐重建耶路撒冷，奠基重修聖殿。」
  
 依:45.1     [居魯士的使命]  上主這樣對他的受傅者居魯士說：──我牽著他的右手，使他蹂躪他面前的列國，解除列王的腰帶；我在他前開啟城門，使門戶不再關閉──
 依:45.2     「我要走在你前面，把岐嶇的路修平；我要把銅門打破，將鐵閂擊碎，
 依:45.3     把隱藏的錢財和秘密的寶物賜給你，為叫你知道：是我上主，以色列的天主，提著你的名召叫了你。
 依:45.4     為了我的僕人雅各伯和我揀選的以色列的緣故，我提著你的名召叫了你，給你起了這個稱號，縱然你還不認識我。
 依:45.5     我是上主，再沒有另一位；除我以外，沒有別的神；雖然你還不認識我，我卻武裝了你，
 依:45.6     為叫從日出到日落之地的人都知道：除我之外，再沒有另一位。我是上主，再沒有另一位；
 依:45.7     是我造了光明，造了黑暗；造了幸福，降了災禍：是我上主造成了這一切。」
 依:45.8     諸天，請由上滴下甘露，望雲彩降下仁義，願大地裂開生出救恩，願正義一同出生! 我上主創造了這事。
 依:45.9     [上主是主宰]  禍哉，那與自己的製造者爭辯的! 瓦器豈能與摶泥者爭辯﹖陶器豈能對陶工說：「你做的是什麼啊! 」或說：「你手製的不精美! 」
 依:45.10    禍哉! 那向父親說：「你為什麼生子﹖」或向母親說：「你為什麼生育」的人!
 依:45.11    以色列的聖者、安排將來的上主這樣說：「關於我子女的事，你們要質問我嗎﹖或者對我手中的工作，你們有所吩咐嗎!
 依:45.12    是我造了大地，又造了地上的人；是我親手展開了諸天，佈置了天上的星辰；
 依:45.13    是我由於仁義喚起了他；我要修平他的道路，他要修建我的城池，遣回我的俘虜，而不索取贖金，也不要求報酬。」這是萬軍上主說的。
 依:45.14    [普世歸主]  上主這樣說：「埃及的工人，雇士的商人，以及色巴的巨人，都要過來，歸屬於你；他們都要帶著鎖鍊追隨你後；並俯伏在你面前，懇求你說：惟獨你這裏有天主，以外沒有別的神明。」
 依:45.15    以色列的天主，救主! 你真是隱密的天主。
 依:45.16    製造偶像的人必蒙羞受辱，一同歸於羞慚。
 依:45.17    但以色列必因上主而得救，獲享永遠的救恩：你們不會蒙羞受辱，直到永遠。
 依:45.18    因為那創造諸天的上主──只有他是天主，是他創造、形成和奠定了大地：他並非創造了一團混沌，而是為使人居住纔造了它──他這樣說：「我是上主，沒有另一位。
 依:45.19    我沒有在隱秘處或黑暗之地說過話，我沒有給雅各伯的子孫說過：你們徒然尋求了我! 我上主，只說真實，惟講公理。
 依:45.20    列國的餘民! 你們一起集合起來，一同前來罷! 凡抬過偶像，敬拜過不能施救的神祇的，真是無知!
 依:45.21    請你們陳述，請你們證明，也讓你們一同商量商量：是誰從古時就叫人聽到這事呢﹖是誰早已宣佈了呢﹖不是我，上主嗎! 的確，除我以外，沒有別的神! 除我以外，再沒有一個仁義的神和救主。
 依:45.22    大地四極的人! 你們歸依我，必能得救，因為只有我是天主，再沒有另一個。
 依:45.23    我指著我自己起誓：真理一出我口，那話決不返回；人人都將向我屈膝，眾舌都要指著我起誓。
 依:45.24    人都要說：唯有在上主前有仁義和力量。凡向他發怒的，必要含羞地歸依他。
 依:45.25    以色列所有的後裔，必要因上主獲勝誇耀。」
  
 依:46.1     [邪神與真神之分]  貝耳塌下了，乃波傾倒了，他們的神像，負在走獸和牲口身上；他們的重載，重壓著筋疲的畜類。
 依:46.2     他們都一齊傾倒了，塌下了，神像不但不能救助馱運他們的畜類，甚至連自己也該流徙遠配。
 依:46.3     雅各伯家啊! 以色列家所有的遺民啊! 請你們聽我：自出母胎我就抱著你，自離母腹我就懷著你；
 依:46.4     直到你年老，我仍是一樣；直到你白頭，我依然扶持你。我既然如此做了，我必要提攜你，扶持你，拯救你。
 依:46.5     你們拿我同誰比擬，與誰相等，跟誰比較，以求我們相同呢﹖
 依:46.6     有些人從錢囊中把金子倒出，放銀子在天平上衡量；以後僱了一個金匠，製造了一個神像，遂向它屈膝朝拜；
 依:46.7     又將神像抬起，放在肩上扛著，以後安置在一個地方，它就立在那裏，再不能離開那地方；人呼求它，它也不答應，也不能救人脫離災殃。
 依:46.8     [上主既許必踐]  你們應記住這事，應站穩! 叛逆的人啊! 你們應記在心頭!
 依:46.9     你們應追憶以前古時所發生的事，因為我是天主，沒有另一個；我是天主，沒有與我相似的，
 依:46.10    我從起出就預言了末後的事，早就宣佈了未來的事；我如今說：「我的計劃必要成功，我的旨意都要實現；」
 依:46.11    我要把老鷹從東方召來，把履行我計劃的人由遠方叫來；我說了，必要去行；我決定了，必要去做。
 依:46.12    心硬的人! 遠離正義的人! 聽我說吧!
 依:46.13    我的仁義來近了，已不遠了，我的救恩不再延遲；我必在熙雍賜與救恩，把我的光榮賜給賜給以色列。
  
 依:47.1     [巴比倫滅亡]  巴比倫處女! 下去，坐在塵土中罷! 加色丁貞女! 讓位，坐在地上罷! 因為你已不再稱為「嬌媚」「柔嫩」了。
 依:47.2     揭去面紗，拿磨去磨麵罷! 捲起長裙，露出大腿去涉河罷!
 依:47.3     你的裸體要暴露，你的羞恥要現出! 我要復仇，決不憐惜任何人。
 依:47.4     我們的救主──他的名字是萬軍的上主──說。
 依:47.5     加色丁處女! 靜靜地坐下：進入黑暗中罷! 因為你不再稱為「萬國之后! 」
 依:47.6     我曾向我的人民發怒，污辱了我的產業；我將他們交在你手中，可是你對他們沒有表示仁慈，將你的軛重重地壓在老者身上。
 依:47.7     你說過：「我永久要作王后! 」但你心中從沒有考慮過這事，也沒有想過這事的結局。
 依:47.8     你這淫逸安居的人，你心裏想：「只有我而沒有別人! 我決不會寡居，也決不會喪子! 」如今你聽這話：
 依:47.9     這兩樣在一天內會突然一起降在你身上；雖然你能行許多巫術，能念極威力的符咒，喪子與守寡仍要完全降到你身上。
 依:47.10    你自恃於惡說：「沒有人看見我! 」那是你的聰明和知識迷惑了你，叫你心中妄想：「只有我而沒有別人。」
 依:47.11    災禍必要臨到你身上，你卻不能禳災；患難要降在你身上，但你不能阻止；你從未料到的滅亡，要突然來到你身上。
 依:47.12    請你繼續行你自幼即勞碌習行的咒術和那無數的巫術罷! 這或許能於你有利，或者能叫人害怕。
 依:47.13    你也許聽倦了那許多計謀，現在讓那些測天體，觀星辰和每月預告你未來之事的人們前來拯救你罷!
 依:47.14    看哪!他們都像枯草，必為火所焚燒；他們連自己也不能由火的威力中救出，因為這不是為取煖的炭火，也不是座前的爐火。
 依:47.15    你那些自幼與之共同勞碌的巫士，為你都是如此；他們各散東西，沒有誰來救你。
  
           [唯上主是歷史的主宰]
  
 依:48.1     雅各伯家請聽這話：──你們以以色列的名字自稱，出自猶大之後，奉上主的名字起誓，又稱揚「以色列的天主，」但都不是出自誠心誠意；
 依:48.2     雖然你們自稱是出自聖城，依賴名為「萬軍上主」的以色列的天主──
 依:48.3     「那過去的事，我早就預言過了，由我口中所發出的，也叫人聽見了；轉瞬間我行了那事，那事也就成就了。
 依:48.4     因為我知道你是頑固的，你的頸項似鐵槓，你的額是銅製的，
 依:48.5     為此我早就告訴了你，在事未發生之前我就向你說明了，免得你說：「是我的神像行了這事，是我雕刻鑄成的神像命定了這事。」
 依:48.6     你既聽見了，也看見了這一切，難道你們不該作證嗎﹖如今我要宣佈新事，即你不知的隱密事。
 依:48.7     這些事是現今而不是從前造成的，是今日之前你從沒有聽說過的，免得你說：「看，我早就知道了! 」
 依:48.8     你從來沒有聽過，也不知道，也是你的耳朵聞所未聞的。因為我知道你好背信叛逆，你實在可稱為「胎生的叛徒。」
 依:48.9     但是為了我名的緣故，我暫緩發怒；為了我榮譽的緣故，我抑制了我自己，而沒有消滅你。
 依:48.10    看啊! 我只是鍛煉了你，有如銀子，在患難的爐中磨煉了你。
 依:48.11    為了我自己，為了我自己的緣故，我必要去行。我豈能讓我的名字受褻瀆﹖我決不將我的光榮讓與別人。」
 依:48.12    [居魯士的使命]  雅各伯啊! 我所召叫的以色列啊! 你聽我說：我就是那位，我是元始，我也是終末。
 依:48.13    我的手奠定了大地，我的右手展開了諸天；我一叫它們，它們就一同出現。
 依:48.14    你們都集合起來聽罷! 邪神中有誰預言了這事呢﹖「我所愛的，必實行我的旨意：攻擊巴比倫和加色丁的苗裔。」
 依:48.15    只有我，只有我預言了這事，召叫了他，引導了他，使他所行的道路順利。
 依:48.16    你們走近我前，聽這話罷! 我從起初就沒有在暗處說過話，從實現之時起，我就在那裏。我上主現在即要施行救援。
 依:48.17    你的救主上主，以色列的聖者這樣說：「我是上主你的天主，教訓你為你有益的事，引你走當走的道路。
 依:48.18    恨不得你一向聽從我的命令! 那麼你的安樂將似江河，你的幸福將似海濤；
 依:48.19    你的子孫多如海沙，出於你身的苗裔多似沙粒；你的名字在我前決不會抹去，也決不會被刪除。」
 依:48.20    [出離巴比倫]  你們出離巴比倫，逃出加色丁罷! 你們要以歡樂的呼聲宣告此事，叫人聽見，傳佈到地極說：「上主救贖了他的僕人雅各伯。」
 依:48.21    當上主率領他們過曠野時，他們並不覺渴，因為他使水由巖石中流出給他們喝；他分開了巖石，水就湧流出來。
 依:48.22    上主說：惡人決無平安!
  
 依:49.1     [詠「上主僕人」的詩歌]  諸島嶼，請聽我! 遠方的人民，請靜聽! 上主由母腹中就召叫了我，自母胎中就給我起了名字。
 依:49.2     他使我的口好似利劍，將我掩護在他的手蔭下，使我像一支磨光的箭，將我隱藏在他的箭囊中。
 依:49.3     他對我說：你是我的僕人，是我驕矜的「以色列。」
 依:49.4     但是我說：「我白白勤勞了，我枉費了氣力而毫無益處；但是我的權利是在上主那裏，我的報酬在我的天主面前。」
 依:49.5     我在上主眼中是光榮的，天主是我的力量。那由母胎形成我作他的僕人，將雅各伯領回到他前，並把以色列聚在他前的上主，如今說：
 依:49.6     「你作我的僕人，復興雅各伯支派，領回以色列遺留下的人，還是小事，我更要使你作萬民的光明，使我的救恩達於地極。」
 依:49.7     上主，以色列的救主和聖者，向那極受輕慢，為列國所憎惡，且作統治者奴役的人這樣說：「列王必要見而起立，諸侯必要見而下拜：這是因為上主忠實可靠，以色列的聖者揀選了你的緣故。」
 依:49.8     上主這樣說：在悅納的時候，我俯允了你；在救恩的日期，我幫助了你；我必保護你，使你作為人民的盟約，復興國家，分得荒蕪的產業，好向俘虜說：「你們出來罷! 」向在黑暗中的人說：「你們出現罷! 」
 依:49.9     [俘虜歸國]  他們將在各路上被牧放，他們的牧場是在一切荒嶺上。
 依:49.10    他們不餓也不渴，熱風和列日也不損傷他們，因為那憐憫他們的率領著他們，引領他們到水泉傍。
 依:49.11    我要使我的一切山嶺變為大路，並把我的街道修高。
 依:49.12    看啊!有的由遠方而來，有的由北方和西方而來，還有些由息寧而來。
 依:49.13    諸天要歡樂，大地要踴躍，山嶺要歡呼高唱，因為上主安慰了他的百姓，憐恤了他受苦的人們。
 依:49.14    [熙雍必將重建]  熙雍曾說過：「上主離棄了我，吾主忘掉了我。」
 依:49.15    婦女豈能忘掉自己的乳嬰﹖出為人母的，豈能忘掉親生的兒子﹖縱然她們能忘掉，我也不能忘掉你啊﹖
 依:49.16    看哪! 我已把你刻在我的手掌上，你的城牆時常在我的眼前。
 依:49.17    建築你的工人急速動工，那毀滅你和破壞你的，要離你遠去。
 依:49.18    你舉目四望罷! 他們都已集合到你這裏來；我永遠生活──上主的斷語──他們必如裝飾品穿戴在你身上，把你裝扮得有如新娘。
 依:49.19    至於你的廢址，你那荒蕪和遭蹂躪之地，如今為你的居民都太狹小了，因為吞噬你的人已遠離他去。
 依:49.20    連你在不孕期中所生的子女也要說給你聽：「這地方為我太狹小了，請給我一個住處罷! 」
 依:49.21    那時你心裏會問：「誰給我生育了這些人呢﹖我原是不妊不孕的，【且是流放被逐的，】這些人是誰給我養大的﹖看! 我本是孤苦零丁的，他們卻是從那裏來的﹖」
 依:49.22    [形勢全變]  吾主上主這樣說：「看! 我要向列邦高舉我的手，向萬民樹起我的旗幟；他們必要把你的兒子抱在懷中帶來，把你的女兒放在肩上背來。
 依:49.23    列王要作你的養父，皇后要當你的保姆。他們要在你面前俯伏在地，並要舔去你腳上的塵土；那時你將知道：我是上主；凡仰賴我的，決不會蒙羞。」
 依:49.24    獵物豈能由勇士手中奪回﹖俘虜豈能由強者手中救出﹖
 依:49.25    但是，上主這樣說：「俘虜必要由勇士手中奪回，獵物必要由強者手中救出。我必與同你爭奪的人爭奪，我必拯救你的子孫。
 依:49.26    我要使壓迫你的人吃自己的肉，喝自己的血如喝新酒。如此，凡有血肉的人都知道我是上主，是你的拯救者，是你的救主，是雅各伯的大能者。」
  
 依:50.1     [以色列並非被休]  上主這樣說：「我離棄你們母親的離婚書在那裏呢﹖或者我把你們賣給了我的那一位債主呢﹖看! 因了你們的惡行，你們纔被出賣，因了你們的過犯，你們的母親纔被離棄。
 依:50.2     為什麼我來到的時候，沒有人在呢﹖為什麼我召呼的時候，無人答應﹖難道我的手短小而不能施救﹖或者我再無救助之力﹖看! 我一怒喝，海便涸竭，江河便成為曠野，其中的魚類因無水而萎縮渴死。
 依:50.3     我可使黑暗籠罩諸天，使麻衣掩蔽天際。」
 依:50.4     [詠「上主僕人」的詩歌]  吾主上主賜給了我一個受教的口舌，叫我會用言語援助疲倦的人。他每天清晨喚醒我，喚醒我的耳朵，叫我如同學子一樣靜聽。
 依:50.5     吾主上主開啟了我的耳朵，我並沒有違抗，也沒有退避。
 依:50.6     我將我的背轉給打擊我的人，把我的腮轉給扯我鬍鬚的人；對於侮辱和唾污，我沒有遮掩我的面。
 依:50.7     因為吾主上主協助我，因此我不以為羞恥；所以我板著臉，像一塊燧石，因我知道我不會受恥辱。
 依:50.8     那給我伸冤者已來近了。誰要和我爭辯，讓我們一齊站起來罷! 誰是我的對頭，叫他到我這裏來罷!
 依:50.9     請看! 有吾主上主扶助我，誰還能定我的罪呢﹖看!他們都像衣服一樣要破舊，為蠹蟲所侵蝕。
 依:50.10    你們中凡敬畏上主的，應聽他僕人的聲音! 凡於黑暗中行走而不見光明的，該依靠上主的名字，並仰仗自己的天主。
 依:50.11    看哪! 凡你們點了火，燃了火把的，必要在你們所點的火燄裏，在你們所燃的火把中行走! 這是我的手所加於你們的，你們必倒臥在痛苦之中。
  
 依:51.1     [熙雍必獲拯救]  你們追求正義，尋覓上主的人，請聽我說：你們又細察那巖石，你們是從那上邊鑿下來的；要細察那石穴，你們是從那裏挖出來的
 依:51.2     你們要細察你們的父親亞巴郎和產生你們的撒辣，因為當我召叫他時，只有他一人，但我祝福了他，使他繁盛。
 依:51.3     的確，上主必要憐憫熙雍，憐憫她所有的廢墟，使她的荒野成為伊甸，使她的沙漠變為上主的樂園，其中必有歡樂和愉快，歌頌和絃樂之聲。
 依:51.4     萬民啊! 請傾聽我；萬邦啊! 請側耳聽我：法律將由我而出，我的正義要作為萬民的光明。
 依:51.5     我的正義要迅速降臨，我的救恩業已出現，我的手臂要掌管萬民；諸島嶼都仰望我，依賴我的手臂。
 依:51.6     你們仰觀諸天，俯察大地：縱然諸天將如煙雲消散，大地要像衣服破舊，地上的居民要如蚊子死去，然而我的救恩永遠常存，我的正義決不廢除。
 依:51.7     你們認識正義，心懷法律的人民，請聽我說：不要怕人家的侮辱，對他們的嘲笑也不必驚恐；
 依:51.8     因為他們必如衣服一樣，為蠹蟲所吃掉；如羊毛一樣，為衣魚所吃掉；然而我的正義永遠常存，我的救恩直到萬世。
 依:51.9     [上主的手臂將施救]  上主的手臂!醒來，醒來! 施展威能罷! 醒來有如在古時古代一樣。不是你斬了辣哈布，刺殺了巨龍嗎﹖
 依:51.10    不是你令海令大洋的水涸竭了嗎﹖不是你使海底變為大路，叫蒙救的人走過嗎﹖
 依:51.11    上主所解救的人必要歸來，快樂地來到熙雍，永久的歡樂將臨於他們頭上；他們將享盡歡欣與快樂，憂愁與悲哀必將遠遁。
 依:51.12    是我，是我親自安慰了你，你怎麼還怕那有死的人，怕那命如草芥的人子呢﹖
 依:51.13    你怎麼竟忘記了那創造你，展開諸天，奠定大地的上主，而終日不斷對那壓迫你，決意要消滅你的人的狂怒恐怖呢﹖如今壓迫你者的狂怒在那裏呢﹖
 依:51.14    囚禁的人即將釋放，不致死於深坑，他的口糧也不會缺乏。
 依:51.15    我是上主你的天主，即那攪動海洋使浪濤澎湃的，他的名字是「萬軍的上主。」
 依:51.16    是我把我的話放在你的口中，將你掩護在我的手蔭之下；是我展開了諸天，奠定了大地，並給熙雍說：「你是我的百姓。」
 依:51.17    [熙雍的命運已轉]  起來，起來! 耶路撒冷! 立起來! 你這由上主手中飲了他震怒之杯，啜盡了那麻醉爵中渣滓的!
 依:51.18    她所生的兒子中沒有一個來引領她的，她養大的兒子中沒有一個來扶持她手的。
 依:51.19    這兩件事臨到了你身上，有誰哀憐你呢﹖就是荒涼與滅亡，饑饉與兵燹，有誰安慰你呢﹖
 依:51.20    你的兒子昏迷不醒，躺在街頭，像陷入羅網的羚羊；他們還飽嘗了上主的憤怒，受盡了你的天主的恐嚇。
 依:51.21    為此，你這受苦難的，非因酒而醉倒的，請聽這事!
 依:51.22    你的主宰上主，為自己的人民辯護的天主，這樣說：「看! 我已從你手中取回了那麻醉的杯，我憤怒的爵，你必不再喝，
 依:51.23    我將此杯放在壓迫你者的手中，就是曾對你說：「躺下來! 讓我們走過去! 」你便使你的背脊作為平地，作為街道，任他們走過去的那些人。
  
 依:52.1     [熙雍獲救受榮]  熙雍起來，起來，披上你的威能! 耶路撒冷聖城! 穿上你華麗的衣服，因為未受割損和不潔的人，再不得進入你內。
 依:52.2     被擄的耶路撒冷! 抖下灰塵，起來罷! 被俘的熙雍女子! 解下你頸項上的鎖鍊罷!
 依:52.3     因為上主這樣說：「你們是無代價被出賣的，也無需用金錢贖回。」
 依:52.4     吾主上主這樣說：「我的百姓昔日曾下到埃及，僑居在那裏，而後亞述又無故地虐待了她；
 依:52.5     如今我還在這裏作什麼﹖上主的斷語。我的百姓已無故地被擄去，治理他的人又自誇自大──上主的斷語──我的名又天天不斷地受褻瀆；
 依:52.6     為此我的百姓必要認得我的名，到那一天他們必明白：那說「看! 我在這裏! 」的那一位就是我。」
 依:52.7     那傳佈喜訊，宣佈和平，傳報佳音，宣佈救恩，給熙雍說「你的天主為王了! 」的腳步，在山上是多麼美麗啊!
 依:52.8     請聽，你的守望者都提高了喉嚨一起歡呼，因為他們親眼看見上主返回了熙雍。
 依:52.9     耶路撒冷的廢墟啊! 你們要興高采烈，一起歡呼，因為上主安慰了自己的百姓，救贖了耶路撒冷。
 依:52.10    上主在萬民眼前顯露了自己的聖臂，大地四極看見了我們天主的救恩。
 依:52.11    [出離巴比倫令]  離開! 離開! 從那裏出來罷! 不要觸摸不潔之物! 你們攜帶上主器皿的人，從巴比倫中間出來，聖潔自己罷!
 依:52.12    你們出走，不必慌張，更不必奔逃而去，因為上主要走在你們前面，以色列的天主將作你們的後盾。
 依:52.13    [詠「上主僕人」的詩歌]  請看，我的僕人必要成功，必要受尊榮，必要被舉揚，且極受崇奉。
 依:52.14    就如許多人對他不勝驚愕，因為他的容貌損傷得已不像人，他的形狀已不像人子，
 依:52.15    同樣，眾民族也都要對他不勝驚異，眾君王在他面前都要閉口，因為他們看見了從未向他們講述過的事，聽見了從未聽說過的事。
  
 依:53.1     有誰會相信我們的報道呢﹖上主的手臂又向誰顯示了呢﹖
 依:53.2     他在上主前生長如嫩芽，又像出自乾地中的根苗；他沒有俊美，也沒有華麗，可使我們瞻仰；他沒有儀容，可使我們戀慕。
 依:53.3     他受盡了侮辱，被人遺棄；他真是個苦人，熟悉病苦；他好像一個人們掩面不顧的人；他受盡了侮辱，因而我們都以他不算什麼。
 依:53.4     然而他所背負的，是我們的疾苦；擔負的，是我們的疼痛；我們還以為他受了懲罰，為天主所擊傷，和受貶抑的人。
 依:53.5     可是他被刺透，是因了我們的悖逆；他被打傷，是因了我們的罪惡；因他受了懲罰，我們便得了安全；因他受了創傷，我們便得了痊癒。
 依:53.6     我們都像羊一樣迷了路，各走各自的路；但上主卻把我們眾人的罪過歸到他身上。
 依:53.7     他受虐待，仍然謙遜忍受，總不開口，如同被牽去待宰的羔羊；又像母羊在剪毛的人前不出聲，他也同樣不開口。
 依:53.8     他受了不義的審判而被除掉，有誰懷念他的命運﹖其實他從活人的地上被剪除，受難至死，是為了我人民的罪過。
 依:53.9     雖然他從未行過強暴，他口中也從未出過謊言，人們仍把他與歹徒同埋，使他同作惡的人同葬。
 依:53.10    上主的旨意是要苦難折磨他；當他犧牲了自己的性命，作了贖過祭時，他要看見他的後輩延年益壽，上主的旨意也藉他的手得以實現。
 依:53.11    在他受盡了痛苦之後，他要看見光明，並因自己的經歷而滿足；我正義的僕人要使多人成義，因為他承擔了他們的罪過。
 依:53.12    為此，我把大眾賜與他作報酬，他獲得了無數的人作為獵物；因為他為了承擔大眾的罪過，作罪犯的中保，犧牲了自己的性命，至於死亡，被列於罪犯之中。
  
 依:54.1     [新耶路撒冷]  不生育的石女，歡樂罷! 未經產痛的女子! 歡呼高唱罷! 因為被棄者的子女比有夫者的子女還多：這是上主說的。
 依:54.2     拓展你帳幕的空位，伸展你住所的帷幔，不必顧忌! 拉長你的繩索，堅固你的木橛!
 依:54.3     因為你要向左右拓展，你的後裔將以外邦之地為業，住滿廢棄了的城邑!
 依:54.4     不要害怕!因為你再不會蒙羞；不要羞慚! 因為你再不會受辱；其實，你要忘記你幼年時所受的恥辱，再不懷念居寡時所受的侮慢，
 依:54.5     因為你的夫君是你的造主，他的名字是「萬軍的上主；」你的救主是以色列的聖者，他將稱為「全世界的天主。」
 依:54.6     是的，上主召見你時，你是一個被棄而心靈憂傷的婦女；人豈能遺棄他青年時的妻子﹖你的天主說。
 依:54.7     其實，我離棄了你，只是一會兒，但是我要用絕大的仁慈召你回來。
 依:54.8     在我的盛怒中，我曾一會兒掩面不看你，可是我要以永遠的慈悲憐憫你，你的救主上主說。
 依:54.9     這事對我有如諾厄的時日一般：就如那時我曾發誓說：諾厄的大水不再淹沒世界；同樣，我如今起誓：再不向你發怒，再不責斥你。
 依:54.10    高山可移動，丘陵能挪去，但我對你的仁慈決不移去，我的和平盟約總不動搖：憐憫你的上主說。
 依:54.11    你這遭磨難，受顛沛，無安慰的城啊! 看，我要用孔雀石安置你的基石，以碧玉奠定你的根基；
 依:54.12    我要以紅瑪瑙修你的城垛，以水晶石築你的門戶，以各種寶石建你的圍牆。
 依:54.13    你所有的兒子，都是上主所訓誨的；你的兒子們，要享受絕大的幸福。
 依:54.14    你將建築在正義的根基上；欺壓已遠去，你無需再有所恐懼；驚嚇也遠去了，它再不會臨近你。
 依:54.15    請看! 如果有人攻擊你，那不是出於我；凡攻打你的，必在你前跌倒。
 依:54.16    請看! 是我造了吹煤火的鐵匠，由於他工作中造出了各種武器，可是也是我造了毀滅者來加以破壞。
 依:54.17    所製造的各種武器，為攻打你，一概無用；在訴訟中，凡起來與你爭辯的舌頭，都要被你駁倒。這是上主的僕人應得之分，是他們由我所得的報酬──上主的斷語。
  
 依:55.1     [邀請眾人回國]  啊! 凡口渴的，請到水泉來! 那沒有錢的，也請來罷! 請來買不花錢，不索值的酒和奶吃!
 依:55.2     你們為什麼為那些不能充食的東西花錢，為那些不足果腹的東西浪費薪金呢﹖你們若細心聽我，你們就能吃豐美的食物，你們的心靈必因脂膏而喜悅。
 依:55.3     你們如側耳，走近我前來聽，你們必將獲得生命；我要與你們訂立一項永久的盟約，即誓許於達味的慈惠。
 依:55.4     看，我立了你為萬民的證人，為列國的領袖與主宰。
 依:55.5     看哪! 你要召見你不認識的民族，不曾認識你的民族也要奔向你；這都是為了上主你的天主，為了那光榮了你的以色列的聖者的緣故。
 依:55.6     [上主言出必行]  趁上主可找到的時候，你們應尋找他；趁他在近處的時候，你們應呼求他。
 依:55.7     罪人應離開自己的行徑，惡人該拋棄自己的思念，來歸附上主，好讓上主憐憫他；來歸附我們的天主，因為他是富於仁慈的。
 依:55.8     因為我的思念不是你們的思念，你們的行徑也不是我的行徑：上主的斷語。
 依:55.9     就如天離地有多高，我的行徑離你們的行徑，我的思念離你們的思念也有多高。
 依:55.10    譬如雨和雪從天降下，不再返回原處，只有灌溉田地，使之生長萌芽，償還播種者種子，供給吃飯者食糧；
 依:55.11    同樣，從我口中發出的言語，不能空空地回到我這裏來；反之，它必實行我的旨意，完成我派遣它的使命。
 依:55.12    的確，你們必要喜歡地出來，平安地為上主所引導，高山丘陵必在你們面前高呼歡騰，田間所有的樹木必要鼓掌。
 依:55.13    松柏要長起來代替荊棘，桃金娘要生出來代替苧麻：這將為上主留名，作為一座不能磨滅的永久紀念碑。
  
 依:56.1     [天國一視同仁]  上主這樣說：「你們應當持守公道，履行正義，因為我的救恩就要來到，我的正義就要出現。」
 依:56.2     遵行安息日而不予以褻瀆，防範自己的手而不做惡事，行這事的人，與固守此道的人子，是有福的。
 依:56.3     歸依上主的異邦人不應說：「上主必將我由他的民族中分別出來! 」閹人也不應說：「看! 我是一棵枯樹! 」
 依:56.4     因為上主這樣說：「對那些遵守我的安息日，揀選我所悅意的和固守我盟約的閹人，
 依:56.5     我要在我的屋內，在我的牆垣內，賜給他們比子女還好的記念碑和美名，我要賜給他們一個永久不能泯滅的名字。
 依:56.6     至於那些歸依上主，事奉他，愛慕上主的名，作他的僕人，又都遵守安息日而不予以褻瀆，並固守我盟約的異邦人，
 依:56.7     我要領他們上我的聖山，使他們在我祈禱的殿裏歡樂，他們的全燔祭和犧牲在我的祭壇上要蒙受悅納，因為我的殿宇將稱為萬民的祈禱所。」
 依:56.8     這是聚集四散的以色列民的吾主上主的斷語：「我還要召集其他民族歸於已聚集的人。」
 依:56.9     [斥責自私的官吏]  田間的一切走獸，林中的一切野獸，你們都來吞噬罷!
 依:56.10    我民族的守望者都是瞎子，什麼也看不清；都是啞巴狗，不能叫喚，只會作夢，偃臥，貪睡。
 依:56.11    他們又是貪食的狗，總不知足；都是什麼也不明瞭的牧人，只顧自己的道路，各求各自的利益。
 依:56.12    「來罷! 我去拿酒，讓我們痛飲美酒；明天如今天一樣，並且更要豐盛。」
  
 依:57.1     義人死去，沒有人放在心上；虔誠的人被收去，沒有人予以注意：義人被接去，是為了脫離災難，
 依:57.2     而進入安息；躬行正直的人，將安眠於自己的處所。
 依:57.3     [斥責以民拜偶像]  巫女的兒子，姦婦淫女的後裔，你們近前來!
 依:57.4     你們戲謔誰呢﹖你們向誰張口吐舌呢﹖不是你們這些反叛的兒子，不忠的後裔，
 依:57.5     在橡樹林中，在一切綠樹下慾火中燒；在山谷中，在磐石的夾縫裏祭殺嬰兒嗎﹖
 依:57.6     山谷中的光石竟是你的家產，它們竟成了你的產業；並且你還給它們奠了酒，獻了供物，對這些事我豈能容忍﹖
 依:57.7     在巍峨高聳的山上，你安置了你的床榻，並且上那裏去奉獻犧牲。
 依:57.8     你在門和門框後安置了你的記號，瞞著我裸體上了床，舖開了你的床榻，你喜歡與誰同寢，便與他茍合，且看了他的手。
 依:57.9     你擦滿了香膏，加多了香料，往摩肋客那裏去，又遣發使者到遠方去，你甚至深入了陰間。
 依:57.10    你因路途遙遠，已感疲倦，但總不說：「絕望了! 」因為你找著了你新生的力量，所以你不覺困乏。
 依:57.11    你害怕誰，畏懼誰，竟使你失去忠信，而不懷念我，不關心我﹖難道因為我久不作聲，你就不怕我了嗎﹖
 依:57.12    我要披露你的義舉，以及與你毫無裨益的行為。
 依:57.13    當你呼求時，讓你那一夥救你罷! 但是一陣風要把它們全部捲走，一口氣要把他們吹去。唯有那依賴我的，將承受地業，繼承我的聖山。
 依:57.14    [懺悔者將獲幸福]  有個聲音說：「修路，修路! 把路修平，把我民族道路上的障礙除去! 」
 依:57.15    因為至高者，卓越者，居於永遠者，名為聖者的這樣說：「我雖居於高處及聖所，但我也與懺悔和心靈謙卑的人在一起，為振奮謙卑者的心情，甦醒懺悔者的心靈。
 依:57.16    我不願永遠爭辯，也不願永久發怒，因為生氣是由我而出，靈魂是由我而造。
 依:57.17    因了她的罪惡我一時發怒，打擊了她，在怒氣中掩住我的面；可是她仍背叛，走她隨心所欲的道路。
 依:57.18    我看見了她的行為，我要醫治她，我要引她回來，將安慰賜給她和她的憂傷者。
 依:57.19    在他們的口唇上安放讚頌之辭：「平安，平安歸於遠近的人 ! 」上主說。【我要醫好她。】
 依:57.20    但惡人將如翻騰的大海，不能平息，它的海浪捲起黃土與淤泥。
 依:57.21    我的天主說：惡人決無平安!
  
 依:58.1     [真熱誠的表現]  你大聲呼喊，不要停止，提高你的喉嚨，有如號筒，向我的百姓宣佈他們的過犯，向雅各伯家指明他們的罪孽。
 依:58.2     他們固然天天尋找我，喜歡認識我的道路，好似一個行義而沒有背棄天主法令的民族，向我要求正義的措施，祈望天主與之接近：
 依:58.3     「為什麼我們守齋而你看不見，我們克苦而你不理會呢﹖」看哪! 你們在守齋日仍然苦心經營，勒索你們所有的工人。
 依:58.4     看哪! 你們一面守齋，一面爭吵，打架，以惡拳打人；你們不必再如今天一樣守齋了，免得你們的嘈雜在高處可以聽到。
 依:58.5     難道這就是我所中意的齊戒嗎﹖難道這就是人們克己的日子嗎﹖難道低頭如同蘆葦，以苦衣和灰塵舖床，你就稱為齋戒，稱為上主悅納的日子嗎﹖
 依:58.6     我所中意的齊戒，豈不是要人解除不義的鎖鏈，廢除軛上的繩索，使受壓迫者獲得自由，折斷所有的軛嗎﹖
 依:58.7     豈不是要人將食糧分給飢餓的人，將無地容身的貧窮人領到自己的屋裏，見到赤身露體的人給他衣穿，不要避開你的骨肉嗎﹖
 依:58.8     若這樣，你的光明將要射出，有如黎明，你的傷口將會迅速地復原；你的救援要走在你前面，上主的光榮要作你的後盾。
 依:58.9     那時，你如呼喊，上主必要俯允；你若哀求，他必答說：「我在這裏! 」你若由你中間消除欺壓、指手畫腳的行為和虛偽的言談，
 依:58.10    你若把你的食糧施捨給飢餓的人，滿足貧窮者的心靈；那麼，你的光明要在黑暗中升起，你的幽暗將如中午。
 依:58.11    上主必要時常引領你，在乾枯之地，使你心滿意足，並使你的骨頭堅強有力；你將成為一座灌溉的樂園，一個總不涸竭的水泉。
 依:58.12    你的後裔將重建往日的廢址，你要豎起那久遠的基礎，人要稱你為：「缺口的修補者，」「廢墟的興建者，」為叫人居住。
 依:58.13    [遵守安息日]  假使你在安息日限止你的腳步，在我的聖日停止你的營業，稱安息日為喜樂，為上主可敬的聖日；假使你尊崇聖日，而不去旅行，不苦心經營或談論生意，
 依:58.14    那時你將喜樂於上主。我要使你駕臨地之高處，使你享受你祖先雅各伯的產業：這是上主親口說的。
  
 依:59.1     [拯救遲緩的原因]  看哪! 並非上主的手短小而不能施救，並非他的耳朵沈重而不能聽見；
 依:59.2     而是你們的罪孽，使你們與你們的天主隔絕；是你們的罪惡，使他掩面不肯俯聽你們，
 依:59.3     因為你們的手沾滿了血，你們的手指沾滿了罪惡；你們的口唇說了謊言，你們的舌頭吐出了惡語。
 依:59.4     沒有人按正義起訴，沒有人照公正行審；都依賴虛無講說空話，孕育著詭詐，產生邪惡。
 依:59.5     他們所孵化的是毒蛇的蛋，他們所紡織的是蜘蛛的網；誰吃了這些蛋，必定要死；蛋若破了，出來的是條毒蛇。
 依:59.6     他們結的蛛網不能製作衣服，他們的手工不能遮蓋自己；他們的作為都是罪惡的作為，他們手中只有欺壓的行為。
 依:59.7     他們的腳趨向邪惡，急於傾流無辜者的血；他們的思念都是邪惡的思念，在他們的行徑上只有蹂躪與毀滅。
 依:59.8     和平的道路他們不認識，他們的行徑中決無公正；他們彎曲了自己的途徑，凡在上面行走的，必不認識和平。
 依:59.9     [民眾自訟自承]  因此公平遠離了我們，正義不與我們接近；我們尋求光明，看! 仍是黑暗；希望光亮，仍在幽暗中徘徊。
 依:59.10    我們摸索著牆壁，好像瞎子；我們摸索，有如無眼的人；我們在正午顛仆，有如處於黃昏；我們在健壯人中，卻如死人。
 依:59.11    我們一起號叫，有如狗熊；呻吟哀鳴，宛如鴿子；我們尋求公平，卻沒有公平；尋找救恩，救恩卻遠離了我們，
 依:59.12    因為我們的悖逆在你面前太多了，我們的罪過作證反對我們，因為我們的悖逆都擺在我們面前，我們認清了我們的罪過：
 依:59.13    背叛和否認上主，轉背離開我們的天主，說欺騙與反叛的話，從心中說出虛妄的言語；
 依:59.14    因此公平被制止，正義立在遠處，真誠在街市上仆倒於地，正義不得進入。
 依:59.15    真誠消逝了，避惡的人已蕩然無存。
 依:59.16    [上主親自施救]  上主見了，實在不悅，因為一點正直也沒有了；
 依:59.17    他看不見一個人，他詫異連一個調停者也沒有了，遂以自己的手臂來施救，以自己的正義來扶持。
 依:59.18    他身穿正義作鎧甲，頭戴救恩作鋼盔，身佩復仇作衣服，外披妒恨作外氅。
 依:59.19    他要按照各人的行為施行報復，向他的敵人發怒，向他的仇人復仇。【也向群島施行報應。】
 依:59.20    西方的人要看見上主的名號，東方的人要看見他的榮耀，因為他要來臨，好似被強烈的風催促的急流。
 依:59.21    拯救者必要臨於熙雍，臨於雅各伯家中的棄邪歸依者：上主的斷語。
 依:59.22    至於我──上主說──這是我與他們所立的盟約：我在你身上所賦的神，我在你口中所放的話，總不離開你的口和你子孫的口，以及你子子孫孫的口，上主說，從現今直到永遠。
  
 依:60.1     [新耶京的光榮]  耶路撒冷啊! 起來炫耀罷! 因為你的光明已經來到，上主的榮耀已經照耀在你身上。
 依:60.2     看啊! 黑暗籠罩著大地，陰雲遮蔽著萬民；但上主卻照耀著你，他的榮耀要彰顯在你的身上。
 依:60.3     萬民要奔赴你的光明，眾王要投奔你升起的光輝。
 依:60.4     舉起你的眼向四方觀望罷! 他們都聚集來到你這裏：你的眾子要從遠方而來，你的女兒要被抱回來。
 依:60.5     那時，你見到這情形，必要喜形於色，你的心靈必要激動而舒暢，因為海洋的珍寶都要歸於你，萬民的財富都要歸你所有。
 依:60.6     成群結隊的駱駝，以及米德楊和厄法的獨峰駝要遮蔽你，牠們都是由舍巴滿載黃金和乳香而來，宣揚上主的榮耀。
 依:60.7     刻達爾的一切羊群都要聚在你前，乃巴約特的公羊都要供你使用；牠們要登上我的祭壇作為我歡悅的祭品，以光榮我榮耀的處所。
 依:60.8     那些像雲彩飛來，像鴿子回籠的是誰﹖
 依:60.9     那是為我集合起來的船隻，塔爾史士的船隻為首，從遠處帶來了你的子女，以及他們的金銀；這都是為了上主你的天主的名，為了那光榮你的以色列的聖者的緣故。
 依:60.10    [萬民奔赴新京]  外邦的子民要修建你的城垣，他們的君王要來事奉你，因為我在怒氣中打擊了你，但我在慈悲中又憐憫了你。
 依:60.11    你的門要時常敞開，白天黑夜都不要關閉，好讓萬民的財富，在他們的君王領導下，運到你這裏來。
 依:60.12    因為凡不肯事奉你的民族和國家，必要滅亡，這樣的民族必要完全滅絕。
 依:60.13    黎巴嫩的光榮要歸於你；柏樹、榆樹和松樹都要聚在一起，裝飾我的聖所，因為我要光榮我立足之地。
 依:60.14    曾經欺壓過你者的子孫，要來向你屈服；凡輕視過你的人，都要在你腳前下拜；他們要稱呼你為「上主的城，」「以色列聖者的熙雍。」
 依:60.15    我要使你成為萬世的尊榮，萬代的喜悅，以代你從前所受的遺棄、惱恨，與無人經過的痛苦。
 依:60.16    你要吸萬國的奶，吮眾王的乳房，這樣你將知道我，上主，是你的拯救者，你的救主，雅各伯的強有力者。
 依:60.17    [超化的耶京]  我要以金子來代替黃銅，以銀子代替鐵，以黃銅代替木頭，以鐵代替石頭；我要立「和平」為你的官長，立「正義」為你的政要。
 依:60.18    在你的地域裏再聽不到強暴的事情；你要稱你的城垣為「救恩，」你的城門為「讚揚。」
 依:60.19    太陽不再是你白天的光明，月亮也不再照耀你，上主要作你永久的光明，你的天主要作你的光輝。
 依:60.20    你的太陽再不降落，你的月亮再不虧缺，因為上主要作你永久的光明，你悲哀的日子已經終結。
 依:60.21    你的人民都要成為義人，要永遠繼承地業，因為他們是我所栽植的嫩芽，是我手中的工程，使我得到榮耀。
 依:60.22    渺小的要成為千人村，微弱的要成為強大的民族：我是上主，我要在定期中迅速完成此事。
  
 依:61.1     [傳報喜訊]  吾主上主的神臨到我身上，因為上主給我傅了油，派遣我向貧苦的人傳報喜信，治療破碎了的心靈，向俘虜宣告自由，釋放獄中的囚徒，
 依:61.2     宣佈上主恩慈的喜年，揭示我們天主報仇的日期，安慰一切憂苦的人，
 依:61.3     給熙雍悲哀的人一項冠冕來代替灰塵，喜樂的油以代替喪服，頌讚以代替沮喪的心神。他們將被稱為正義的橡樹，上主為光榮自己所種植的園地。
 依:61.4     他們要重建古時的廢址，興建往日的荒域，建造傾圮的城邑，數代荒涼的地方。
 依:61.5     外邦人要來為你們牧放羊群，外方人的兒子要作你們的農夫和葡萄園丁。
 依:61.6     你們要被稱為「上主的司祭」人要稱你們為「我們天主的侍役；」你們要享用萬民的財物，以他們的財寶而誇耀。
 依:61.7     因為他們受了雙重的恥辱，侮辱與唾罵是他們的家業，因此他們要承受雙倍的土地；永遠的喜樂將歸屬於他們。
 依:61.8     因為我是愛慕公義的上主，我惱恨不義的搶劫；我要憑忠實賜給他們報酬，與他們訂立一項永久的盟約。
 依:61.9     他們的後裔在列國中，他們的苗裔在萬民中，要受人賞識；凡看見他們的，必要承認他們是上主所祝福的後裔。
 依:61.10    [讚主辭]  我要萬分喜樂於上主，我的心靈要歡躍於我的天主，因為他給我穿上救恩的衣服，給我披上義德的外衣，使我有如頭戴花冠的新郎，有如佩帶珍珠的新娘。
 依:61.11    正如大地怎樣產生苗芽，田園怎樣使種子發芽，吾主上主也要怎樣在萬民前產生正義和讚揚。
  
 依:62.1     [求主從速施救]  為了熙雍我決不緘默，為了耶路撒冷我決不休息，直到她的正義顯現有如光明，她的救恩燃灼有如火炬。
 依:62.2     萬民都要見到你的正義，眾王都要看見你的榮耀；人要給你起一個新的名號，是上主親口所指定的。
 依:62.3     你將是上主手中的榮冠，是你天主掌中的王冕。
 依:62.4     你不再稱為「被遺棄的，」你的地域也不再稱為「荒涼的；」因為你要稱為「我可愛的，」你的地域要稱為「已婚的，」因為上主喜愛你，你的地域將要婚嫁。
 依:62.5     就如青年怎樣娶處女，你的建造者也要怎樣娶你；新郎怎樣喜愛新娘，你的天主也要怎樣喜愛你。
 依:62.6     耶路撒冷啊! 我在你的城牆上派了守望者，他們日夜總不緘默；提醒上主的人哪! 你們總不要休息!
 依:62.7     你們也不要讓他休息，直到他建立了熙雍，直到他使耶路撒冷在大地成為可讚美的。
 依:62.8     上主憑他的右手和他強有力的手臂發誓說：「我決不再將你的五穀交給你的仇人吃，也決不再讓外邦人喝你所勞作的美酒。
 依:62.9     惟有那收割的能吃，並頌揚上主；那收集的，將在我聖殿的庭院裏喝。」
 依:62.10    [拯救來臨]  過去! 經過大門罷! 修平人民的路! 修路! 把路修好，除去上面的石頭；你們要為萬民豎起一面旗幟。
 依:62.11    看哪! 上主向大地四極宣佈說：你們應向熙雍女子說：看! 你的救主來了! 看! 他的勝利品與他同在，他獲得的酬勞在他面前。
 依:62.12    人要稱他們為「聖潔的民族，」「上主贖回的。」你要被稱為「蒙愛的，」「不被棄的城。」
  
 依:63.1     [凱旋歌]「那由厄東而來，身穿染紅了的衣服，那由波責辣而來，衣著華麗，力量強大，闊步前進的是誰啊﹖」「是宣佈正義，具有拯救大能的我。」
 依:63.2     「你的服裝怎麼成了紅色，你的衣服好似一個踏酒醡的呢﹖」
 依:63.3     「因為唯獨我一人踐踏了酒醡，我的人民中沒有一個與我在一起。我在怒氣中踐踏了他們，我在怒火中蹂躪了他們，因此他們的血液濺到我的衣服上，我的服裝就完全染污了。
 依:63.4     因為復仇的日子已在我心中，我施救的歲月已經來到。
 依:63.5     我四下觀看，但沒有人輔助；我驚愕四顧，但沒有人支持；因此惟有用我的手臂自行拯救，以我的怒氣來支持自己。
 依:63.6     我在怒氣中踐踏了民眾，我在怒火中粉碎了他們，使他們的鮮血流倒地下。」
 依:63.7     [民眾的禱詞]  我要依照上主以他的大慈大悲賜與我們的一切，和對以色列家所賜的宏福，稱頌上主的慈惠和上主可讚頌的作為。
 依:63.8     他曾說過：「他們的確是我的百姓，不行虛偽的子民；」因此他成了他們一切困難中的拯救者。
 依:63.9     並不是使者，也不是天使拯救他們，而是他自己。他以自己的愛情和憐憫贖回了他們；在往日，他時常扶持他們，懷抱他們。
 依:63.10    但是他們成了叛徒，刺傷了他的聖神；因此他變成了他們的敵人，親自攻擊他們。
 依:63.11    那時，他們想起古來的日子，想起他的僕人梅瑟。那引領羊群的牧者出離海洋的在那裏呢﹖那曾在他心中賦與自己聖神的在那裏呢﹖
 依:63.12    那在梅瑟右邊以其榮耀的手臂，在百姓前分開海水，使自己獲得永遠聲譽的在那裏呢﹖
 依:63.13    那領導他們走過深淵，有如馬行於曠野而不顛躓的在那裏呢﹖
 依:63.14    上主的神怎樣領導走獸下到山谷，你也怎樣領導了你的百姓，好使你獲得一個光榮的名號。
 依:63.15    如今求你從天垂顧，從你光榮的聖所俯視! 你的熱愛，你的大能和你的同情心在那裏呢﹖求你不要停止你的慈悲，
 依:63.16    因為你是我們的父親；亞巴郎雖不認識我們，以色列雖不記得我們，你上主卻是我們的父親，「我們自古以來的救主」就是你的名。
 依:63.17    上主! 你為什麼讓我們離開你的道路﹖使我們的心變硬而不敬畏你﹖求你為了你的僕人，為了你產業的各支派，回心轉意罷!
 依:63.18    你為什麼讓惡人踐踏你的聖殿﹖為什麼讓我們的敵人蹂躪你的聖所﹖
 依:63.19    我們儼然成了一個從未受你治理，從未屬你名下的民族。啊! 望你衝破諸天降下，諸山在你面前震盪。
  
 依:64.1     有如火怎樣燒乾了水，火也怎樣燒毀你的敵人，好使你的敵人認識你的名，使萬民在你面前戰慄，
 依:64.2     因為你行了誰也想不到的驚人事蹟；【你下降，使山嶺在你面前震盪。】
 依:64.3     是人從未聽過的，耳朵從未聽過，眼睛從未見過你以外，有一個神對依靠自己的人如此行事的。
 依:64.4     你是歡迎那些履行正義和紀念你道路的人；但是，看，你發了怒，我們仍犯罪如初，仍照舊違叛你。
 依:64.5     我們都好像成了不潔的人，所行的正義好似染了經血的內衣，又似乾枯的葉子；我們的罪惡好似狂風一般將我們捲去，
 依:64.6     沒有一個呼求你名的，或奮起契合於你的，因為你掩面不顧我們，將我們委棄於我們罪惡的權下。
 依:64.7     如今，上主啊! 你是我們的父親；我們只是泥土，你是的我們的陶工，我們都是你手中的作品。
 依:64.8     上主啊! 不要嚴加忿怒，不要時常記念我們的罪惡；求你垂顧! 我們都是你的子民。
 依:64.9     你的聖城都已成了荒地，熙雍已變為曠野，耶路撒冷成了廢墟。
 依:64.10    我們那華美的聖殿，即我們祖先讚頌你的所在，已被火焚燒，我們所喜愛的器皿都成了垃圾。
 依:64.11    上主，對這些事你還忍得住嗎﹖你還緘默，重重難為我們嗎﹖
  
 依:65.1     [懲罰由於罪過]  從未求問我的，我要讓他尋求我；從未尋找我的，我要讓他找到我；我對那從未稱呼我名的民族說：「看，我在這裏! 我在這裏! 」
 依:65.2     我整天向悖逆的民族，即隨自己的思念走邪辟路的人，伸出我的手。
 依:65.3     這民族時常在我面前惹我發怒，在園中獻祭，在磚台上焚香；
 依:65.4     他們住在墳墓內，宿在隱密處，吃豬肉，在他們的器皿中都是些不潔之物，
 依:65.5     他們還對人說：「站遠點，別靠近我，怕我聖潔了你。」這些事真叫我鼻子冒煙，整日冒火。
 依:65.6     看哪! 這一切已在我面前寫定；我決不緘默，我非報復不可。
 依:65.7     我要一起報復他們的罪惡和他們祖先的罪惡：上主說。因為他們在山上燒過香，在丘陵上褻謾過我，所以我要量好他們應得的報酬，報應到他們的懷中。
 依:65.8     [善良遺民得福]  上主這樣說：「就如當人發現葡萄內尚有酒汁時，就說：不要破壞它，因為裏面還有祝福；我為了我的僕人也要這樣作，不將他們完全消滅。
 依:65.9     我要使雅各伯生出苗裔，使猶大生出繼承我山的人；我的選民要以她為業，我的僕人要住在那裏。
 依:65.10    為那尋求我的百姓，沙龍將成為羊群的牧場，阿苛爾山谷為那尋求我的百姓，要成為牛群的棲所。」
 依:65.11    [善惡命運決不同]  「至於你們這些離棄上主，忘記我的聖山，為加得神設宴，給默尼神注滿調和的酒的人，
 依:65.12    我注定了你們歸於刀下，你們要屈身受戮；因為我喊叫你們，你們沒有回答；我說話，你們不肯聽，反而去行我視為惡的事，揀選我所不喜歡的事。」
 依:65.13    因此吾主上主這樣說：「你們要看見我的僕人有得吃，你們卻要飢餓；你們看見我的僕人有得喝，你們卻要口渴；你們看見我的僕人喜樂，你們卻要哭泣；
 依:65.14    你們看見我的僕人因心中快樂而歡慶，你們卻要因心中憂苦而悲號，因喪氣而哀傷。
 依:65.15    你們將留下你們的名給我的選民作咒詞：『吾主上主將如此叫你死! 』但是我的僕人要有另一個名字作稱呼。」
 依:65.16    所以那在地上為自己求福的，要向真實的天主求福；那在地上起誓的，要指著真實的天主起誓，因為先前的苦難都已忘記，從我的眼前隱匿了。
 依:65.17    [新天新地]  因為，看，我要創造新天新地，先前的不再被記憶，不再被關心。
 依:65.18    人們都要因我所造的而永遠喜悅快樂；因為，看，我要造一座令人喜悅的耶路撒冷，一個令人歡樂的百姓。
 依:65.19    我要因耶路撒冷而喜悅，因我的百姓而歡欣，其中再聽不到哭泣和哀號的聲音。
 依:65.20    那裏再沒有夭折的嬰兒和不滿壽數的老人；百歲死去的人算是青年，凡活不到百歲的人算是被詛咒的。
 依:65.21    他們要建築房舍，自居其中；種植葡萄，自食其果；
 依:65.22    並不是他們建築而別人來住，他們種植而別人來吃，因為我百姓的壽數有如樹木的年數，我的選民要享用她自己的勞作。
 依:65.23    他們不再徒然勤勞，生子不再受驚，因為他們是上主祝福的苗裔，他們的子孫亦將如此。
 依:65.24    那時，他們還未呼求，我已答應了；他們還在祈禱，我已俯允了。
 依:65.25    豺狼和羔羊將要一齊牧放，獅子要如牛犢一般吃草，塵土將是大蛇的食物；在我的整個聖山上，再沒有誰作惡，也沒有誰害人：上主說。
  
 依:66.1     [真敬禮之所在]  上主這樣說：「上天是我的寶座，下地是我的腳凳，你們還能在那裏給我造殿宇，建我休息的地方呢﹖
 依:66.2     這一切都是我手造的，這一切都是我的，上主的斷語。我要垂顧的是誰呢﹖是貧苦者、懺悔者和敬畏我言語的人。
 依:66.3     宰殺牛犢的，又擊死了人；祭殺羔羊的，又絞死了狗；奉獻禮品的，又獻了豬血；焚香頂禮的，又祝福了偶像：這些人既都揀選了自己的路，他們的心靈都喜悅他們可憎的事；
 依:66.4     那麼，我也要揀選磨難他們的事，使他們所恐懼的，臨到他們身上；因為我呼喚，沒有人回答；我說話，他們都不肯聽，反而去行我視為惡的事，揀選我所不喜樂的事。」
 依:66.5     敬畏上主言語的人哪! 你們聽上主的話：「那惱恨你們的，因我的名而擯棄你們的弟兄，曾說：『願上主顯示他的光榮! 讓我們看看你們的喜樂罷! 』他們必要蒙受羞辱! 」
 依:66.6     有吵鬧的聲音來自城中，有聲音發自殿宇：這是上主報復他敵人的聲音。
 依:66.7     [新民誕生]  還未受痛便已分娩，陣痛尚未來到她身上，就生了一個男孩。
 依:66.8     誰曾聽過這樣的事﹖誰曾見過這樣的事﹖一個國家豈能在一天之內產生嗎﹖一個民族豈能在一時之間誕生嗎﹖但熙雍剛一覺痛就產生了她的兒子!
 依:66.9     「我既開了母懷，難道不使她生產嗎﹖」上主說：「我既使人生產，難道封閉母胎嗎﹖」你的天主這樣說。
 依:66.10    凡愛慕耶路撒冷的，你們都應同她一起快樂，因她而歡喜! 凡為她而憂傷的，你們都要同她盡情歡樂的!
 依:66.11    如此你們能從她那安慰的懷裏吃奶而得飽飫，你們能從她那豐滿的乳房吸乳而得快樂。
 依:66.12    因為上主這樣說：看! 我要在她身上廣賜和平，有如河流一般；我要賜給她萬國的財寶，好似氾濫的江河；她的乳兒將被抱在懷中，放在膝上搖擺。
 依:66.13    就如人怎樣受母親的撫慰，我也要怎樣撫慰你們，你們必要在耶路撒冷享受安慰。
 依:66.14    你們見到這種情形，你們的心必要歡樂，你們的骨骸必要如青草一般的茂盛；那時，上主的手將顯示於他的僕人，他的憤恨必加於他的敵人。
 依:66.15    因為! 看哪! 上主乘火降來，他的車好似暴風；他要在狂風中發洩他的怒氣，在火燄中施展他的威赫，
 依:66.16    因為上主要用火審判大地，用刀審判所有血肉的，許多人將被上主消滅。
 依:66.17    凡聖化又潔淨了自己的，一個跟著一個到園子裏去，吃豬肉、爬蟲和鼠肉的人，他們的行為和他們的思念都要被消滅：這是上主的話。
 依:66.18    [萬民歸化]  我要來聚集萬民及各種語言的民族，他們都要來觀看我的榮耀。
 依:66.19    我要在他們中施行奇事，並派遣免難的人到外邦人那裏去，即往塔爾史士、普特、路得、默舍客、洛士、突巴耳、雅汪，遼遠的海島上，即沒有聽過我的聲譽，沒有見過我的光榮的地方。
 依:66.20    他們要從各民族中用馬、車、轎子、騾子、獨峰駝，把你們的弟兄送到我的聖山耶路撒冷來，當作獻於天主的獻儀，好像以色列子民用潔淨的器皿將供物獻於上主的殿中一樣：這是上主說的。
 依:66.21    我要從他們中間選拔司祭和肋未人：這是上主說的。
 依:66.22    實在，我行將創造的新天新地怎樣在我面前存在，你們的後裔與你們的名字也要怎樣存在：上主的斷語。
 依:66.23    將來每逢月朔，每逢安息日，凡屬血肉的，都要來我面前跪拜：上主說。
 依:66.24    他們要出去看那背叛我的人的屍體；他們的蟲決不會死，他們的火總不會滅；他們為一切有血肉的人將是可憎之物。   [依撒意亞完篇]
  
 1s:1.      [Isaiah]   66 chapaters     [依撒格先知書]  [英文版]
  
 is:1.1     The vision which Isaiah, son of Amoz, had concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
 is:1.2     Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the LORD speaks: Sons have I raised and reared, but they have disowned me!
 is:1.3     An ox knows its owner, and an ass, its master's manger; But Israel does not know, my people has not understood.
 is:1.4     Ah! sinful nation, people laden with wickedness, evil race, corrupt children! They have forsaken the LORD, spurned the Holy One of Israel, apostatized.
 is:1.5     Where would you yet be struck, you that rebel again and again? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.
 is:1.6     From the sole of the foot to the head there is no sound spot: Wound and welt and gaping gash, not drained, or bandaged, or eased with salve.
 is:1.7     Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire; Your land before your eyes strangers devour (a waste, like Sodom overthrown)--
 is:1.8     And daughter Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard, Like a shed in a melon patch, like a city blockaded.
 is:1.9     Unless the LORD of hosts had left us a scanty remnant, We had become as Sodom, we should be like Gomorrah.
 is:1.10    Hear the word of the LORD, princes of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, people of Gomorrah!
 is:1.11    What care I for the number of your sacrifices? says the LORD. I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs and goats I find no pleasure.
 is:1.12    When you come in to visit me, who asks these things of you?
 is:1.13    Trample my courts no more! Bring no more worthless offerings; your incense is loathsome to me. New moon and sabbath, calling of assemblies, octaves with wickedness: these I cannot bear.
 is:1.14    Your new moons and festivals I detest; they weigh me down, I tire of the load.
 is:1.15    When you spread out your hands, I close my eyes to you; Though you pray the more, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood!
 is:1.16    Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes; cease doing evil;
 is:1.17    learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan's plea, defend the widow.
 is:1.18    Come now, let us set things right, says the LORD: Though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; Though they be crimson red, they may become white as wool.
 is:1.19    If you are willing, and obey, you shall eat the good things of the land;
 is:1.20    But if you refuse and resist, the sword shall consume you: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken!
 is:1.21    How has she turned adulteress, the faithful city, so upright! Justice used to lodge within her, but now, murderers.
 is:1.22    Your silver is turned to dross, your wine is mixed with water.
 is:1.23    Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they defend not, and the widow's plea does not reach them.
 is:1.24    Now, therefore, says the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah! I will take vengeance on my foes and fully repay my enemies!
 is:1.25    I will turn my hand against you, and refine your dross in the furnace, removing all your alloy.
 is:1.26    I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as in the beginning; After that you shall be called city of justice, faithful city.
 is:1.27    Zion shall be redeemed by judgment, and her repentant ones by justice.
 is:1.28    Rebels and sinners alike shall be crushed, those who desert the LORD shall be consumed.
 is:1.29    You shall be ashamed of the terebinths which you prized, and blush for the groves which you chose.
 is:1.30    You shall become like a tree with falling leaves, like a garden that has no water.
 is:1.31    The strong man shall turn to tow, and his work shall become a spark; Both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench the flames.
  
 is:2.1     This is what Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
 is:2.2     In days to come, The mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills. All nations shall stream toward it;
 is:2.3     many peoples shall come and say: "Come, let us climb the LORD'S mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths." For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
 is:2.4     He shall judge between the nations, and impose terms on many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again.
 is:2.5     O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD!
 is:2.6     You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with fortunetellers and soothsayers, like the Philistines; they covenant with strangers.
 is:2.7     Their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; Their land is full of horses, and there is no end to their chariots.
 is:2.8     Their land is full of idols; they worship the works of their hands, that which their fingers have made.
 is:2.9     But man is abased, each one brought low. (Do not pardon them!)
 is:2.10    Get behind the rocks, hide in the dust, From the terror of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty!
 is:2.11    The haughty eyes of man will be lowered, the arrogance of men will be abased, and the LORD alone will be exalted, on that day.
 is:2.12    For the LORD of hosts will have his day against all that is proud and arrogant, all that is high, and it will be brought low;
 is:2.13    Yes, against all the cedars of Lebanon and all the oaks of Bashan,
 is:2.14    Against all the lofty mountains and all the high hills,
 is:2.15    Against every lofty tower and every fortified wall,
 is:2.16    Against all the ships of Tarshish and all stately vessels.
 is:2.17    Human pride will be abased, the arrogance of men brought low, And the LORD alone will be exalted, on that day.
 is:2.18    The idols will perish forever.
 is:2.19    Men will go into caves in the rocks and into holes in the earth, From the terror of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he arises to overawe the earth.
 is:2.20    On that day men will throw to the moles and the bats the idols of silver and gold which they made for worship.
 is:2.21    They go into caverns in the rocks and into crevices in the cliffs, From the terror of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he arises to overawe the earth.
 is:2.22    As for you, let man alone, in whose nostrils is but a breath; for what is he worth?
  
 is:3.1     The Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall take away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and prop (all supplies of bread and water):
 is:3.2     Hero and warrior, judge and prophet, fortune-teller and elder,
 is:3.3     The captain of fifty and the nobleman, counselor, skilled magician, and expert charmer.
 is:3.4     I will make striplings their princes; the fickle shall govern them,
 is:3.5     And the people shall oppress one another, yes, every man his neighbor. The child shall be bold toward the elder, and the base toward the honorable.
 is:3.6     When a man seizes his brother in his father's house, saying, "You have clothes! Be our ruler, and take in hand this ruin!"--
 is:3.7     Then shall he answer in that day: "I will not undertake to cure this, when in my own house there is no bread or clothing! You shall not make me ruler of the people."
 is:3.8     Jerusalem is crumbling, Judah is falling; for their speech and their deeds are before the LORD, a provocation in the sight of his majesty.
 is:3.9     Their very look bears witness against them; their sin like Sodom they vaunt, They hide it not. Woe to them! they deal out evil to themselves.
 is:3.10    Happy the just, for it will be well with them, the fruit of their works they will eat.
 is:3.11    Woe to the wicked man! All goes ill, with the work of his hands he will be repaid.
 is:3.12    My people--a babe in arms will be their tyrant, and women will rule them! O my people, your leaders mislead, they destroy the paths you should follow.
 is:3.13    The LORD rises to accuse, standing to try his people.
 is:3.14    The Lord enters into judgment with his people's elders and princes: It is you who have devoured the vineyard; the loot wrested from the poor is in your houses.
 is:3.15    What do you mean by crushing my people, and grinding down the poor when they look to you? says the Lord, the GOD of hosts.
 is:3.16    The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with necks outstretched Ogling and mincing as they go, their anklets tinkling with every step,
 is:3.17    The Lord shall cover the scalps of Zion's daughters with scabs, and the LORD shall bare their heads.
 is:3.18    On that day the LORD will do away with the finery of the anklets, sunbursts, and crescents;
 is:3.19    the pendants, bracelets, and veils;
 is:3.20    the headdresses, bangles, cinctures, perfume boxes, and amulets;
 is:3.21    the signet rings, and the nose rings;
 is:3.22    the court dresses, wraps, cloaks, and purses;
 is:3.23    the mirrors, linen tunics, turbans, and shawls.
 is:3.24    Instead of perfume there will be stench, instead of the girdle, a rope, And for the coiffure, baldness; for the rich gown, a sackcloth skirt. Then, instead of beauty:
 is:3.25    Your men will fall by the sword, and your champions, in war;
 is:3.26    Her gates will lament and mourn, as the city sits desolate on the ground.
  
 is:4.1     Seven women will take hold of one man on that day, saying: "We will eat our own food and wear our own clothing; Only let your name be given us, put an end to our disgrace!"
 is:4.2     On that day, The branch of the LORD will be luster and glory, and the fruit of the earth will be honor and splendor for the survivors of Israel.
 is:4.3     He who remains in Zion and he that is left in Jerusalem Will be called holy: every one marked down for life in Jerusalem.
 is:4.4     When the Lord washes away the filth of the daughters of Zion, And purges Jerusalem's blood from her midst with a blast of searing judgment,
 is:4.5     Then will the LORD create, over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her place of assembly, A smoking cloud by day and a light of flaming fire by night.
 is:4.6     For over all, his glory will be shelter and protection: shade from the parching heat of day, refuge and cover from storm and rain.
  
 is:5.1     Let me now sing of my friend, my friend's song concerning his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside;
 is:5.2     He spaded it, cleared it of stones, and planted the choicest vines; Within it he built a watchtower, and hewed out a wine press. Then he looked for the crop of grapes, but what it yielded was wild grapes.
 is:5.3     Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard:
 is:5.4     What more was there to do for my vineyard that I had not done? Why, when I looked for the crop of grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?
 is:5.5     Now, I will let you know what I mean to do to my vineyard: Take away its hedge, give it to grazing, break through its wall, let it be trampled!
 is:5.6     Yes, I will make it a ruin: it shall not be pruned or hoed, but overgrown with thorns and briers; I will command the clouds not to send rain upon it.
 is:5.7     The vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his cherished plant; He looked for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!
 is:5.8     Woe to you who join house to house, who connect field with field, Till no room remains, and you are left to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
 is:5.9     In my hearing the LORD of hosts has sworn: Many houses shall be in ruins, large ones and fine, with no one to live in them.
 is:5.10    Ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one liquid measure, And a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.
 is:5.11    Woe to those who demand strong drink as soon as they rise in the morning, And linger into the night while wine inflames them!
 is:5.12    With harp and lyre, timbrel and flute, they feast on wine; But what the LORD does, they regard not, the work of his hands they see not.
 is:5.13    Therefore my people go into exile, because they do not understand; Their nobles die of hunger, and their masses are parched with thirst.
 is:5.14    Therefore the nether world enlarges its throat and opens its maw without limit; Down go their nobility and their masses, their throngs and their revelry.
 is:5.15    Men shall be abased, each one brought low, and the eyes of the haughty lowered,
 is:5.16    But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted by his judgment, and God the Holy shall be shown holy by his justice.
 is:5.17    Lambs shall graze there at pasture, and kids shall eat in the ruins of the rich.
 is:5.18    Woe to those who tug at guilt with cords of perversity, and at sin as if with cart ropes!
 is:5.19    To those who say, "Let him make haste and speed his work, that we may see it; On with the plan of the Holy One of Israel! let it come to pass, that we may know it!"
 is:5.20    Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who change darkness into light, and light into darkness, who change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!
 is:5.21    Woe to those who are wise in their own sight, and prudent in their own esteem!
 is:5.22    Woe to the champions at drinking wine, the valiant at mixing strong drink!
 is:5.23    To those who acquit the guilty for bribes, and deprive the just man of his rights!
 is:5.24    Therefore, as the tongue of fire licks up stubble, as dry grass shrivels in the flame, Even so their root shall become rotten and their blossom scatter like dust; For they have spurned the law of the LORD of hosts, and scorned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
 is:5.25    Therefore the wrath of the LORD blazes against his people, he raises his hand to strike them; When the mountains quake, their corpses shall be like refuse in the streets. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, and his hand is still outstretched.
 is:5.26    He will give a signal to a far-off nation, and whistle to them from the ends of the earth; speedily and promptly will they come.
 is:5.27    None of them will stumble with weariness, none will slumber and none will sleep. None will have his waist belt loose, nor the thong of his sandal broken.
 is:5.28    Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses seem like flint, and their chariot wheels like the hurricane.
 is:5.29    Their roar is that of the lion, like the lion's whelps they roar; They growl and seize the prey, they carry it off and none will rescue it.
 is:5.30    (They will roar over it, on that day, with a roaring like that of the sea.)
  
 is:6.1     In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple.
 is:6.2     Seraphim were stationed above; each of them had six wings: with two they veiled their faces, with two they veiled their feet, and with two they hovered aloft.
 is:6.3     "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts!" they cried one to the other. "All the earth is filled with his glory!"
 is:6.4     At the sound of that cry, the frame of the door shook and the house was filled with smoke.
 is:6.5     Then I said, "Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"
 is:6.6     Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
 is:6.7     He touched my mouth with it. "See," he said, "now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged."
 is:6.8     Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" "Here I am," I said; "send me!"
 is:6.9     And he replied: Go and say to this people: Listen carefully, but you shall not understand! Look intently, but you shall know nothing!
 is:6.10    You are to make the heart of this people sluggish, to dull their ears and close their eyes; Else their eyes will see, their ears hear, their heart understand, and they will turn and be healed.
 is:6.11    "How long, O Lord?" I asked. And he replied: Until the cities are desolate, without inhabitants, Houses, without a man, and the earth is a desolate waste.
 is:6.12    Until the LORD removes men far away, and the land is abandoned more and more.
 is:6.13    If there be still a tenth part in it, then this in turn shall be laid waste; As with a terebinth or an oak whose trunk remains when its leaves have fallen. (Holy offspring is the trunk.)
  
 is:7.1     In the days of Ahaz, king of Judah, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, king of Israel, son of Remaliah, went up to attack Jerusalem, but they were not able to conquer it.
 is:7.2     When word came to the house of David that Aram was encamped in Ephraim, the heart of the king and heart of the people trembled, as the trees of the forest tremble in the wind.
 is:7.3     Then the LORD said to Isaiah: Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field,
 is:7.4     and say to him: Take care you remain tranquil and do not fear; let not your courage fail before these two stumps of smoldering brands (the blazing anger of Rezin and the Arameans, and of the son of Remaliah),
 is:7.5     because of the mischief that Aram (Ephraim and the son of Remaliah) plots against you, saying,
 is:7.6     "Let us go up and tear Judah asunder, make it our own by force, and appoint the son of Tabeel king there."
 is:7.7     Thus says the LORD: This shall not stand, it shall not be!
 is:7.8     Damascus is the capital of Aram, and Rezin the head of Damascus; Samaria is the capital of Ephraim, and Remaliah's son the head of Samaria.
 is:7.9     But within sixty years and five, Ephraim shall be crushed, no longer a nation. Unless your faith is firm you shall not be firm!
 is:7.10    Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz:
 is:7.11    Ask for a sign from the LORD, your God; let it be deep as the nether world, or high as the sky!
 is:7.12    But Ahaz answered, "I will not ask! I will not tempt the LORD!"
 is:7.13    Then he said: Listen, O house of David! Is it not enough for you to weary men, must you also weary my God?
 is:7.14    Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign: the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.
 is:7.15    He shall be living on curds and honey by the time he learns to reject the bad and choose the good.
 is:7.16    For before the child learns to reject the bad and choose the good, the land of those two kings whom you dread shall be deserted.
 is:7.17    The LORD shall bring upon you and your people and your father's house days worse than any since Ephraim seceded from Judah. (This means the king of Assyria.)
 is:7.18    On that day The LORD shall whistle for the fly that is in the farthest streams of Egypt, and for the bee in the land of Assyria.
 is:7.19    All of them shall come and settle in the steep ravines and in the rocky clefts, on all thornbushes and in all pastures.
 is:7.20    On that day the LORD shall shave with the razor hired from across the River (with the king of Assyria) the head, and the hair between the legs. It shall also shave off the beard.
 is:7.21    On that day a man shall keep a heifer or a couple of sheep,
 is:7.22    and from their abundant yield of milk he shall live on curds; curds and honey shall be the food of all who remain in the land.
 is:7.23    On that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand pieces of silver, shall be turned to briers and thorns.
 is:7.24    Men shall go there with bow and arrows; for all the country shall be briers and thorns.
 is:7.25    For fear of briers and thorns you shall not go upon any mountainside which used to be hoed with the mattock; they shall be grazing land for cattle and shall be trampled upon by sheep.
  
 is:8.1     The LORD said to me: Take a large cylinder-seal, and inscribe on it in ordinary letters: "Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz."
 is:8.2     And I took reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, son of Jeberechiah.
 is:8.3     Then I went to the prophetess and she conceived and bore a son. The LORD said to me: Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
 is:8.4     for before the child knows how to call his father or mother by name, the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried off by the king of Assyria.
 is:8.5     Again the LORD spoke to me:
 is:8.6     Because this people has rejected the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, And melts with fear before the loftiness of Rezin and Remaliah's son,
 is:8.7     Therefore the LORD raises against them the waters of the River, great and mighty (the king of Assyria and all his power). It shall rise above all its channels, and overflow all its banks;
 is:8.8     It shall pass into Judah, and flood it all throughout: up to the neck it shall reach; It shall spread its wings the full width of your land, Immanuel!
 is:8.9     Know, O peoples, and be appalled! Give ear, all you distant lands! Arm, but be crushed! Arm, but be crushed!
 is:8.10    Form a plan, and it shall be thwarted; make a resolve, and it shall not be carried out, for "With us is God!"
 is:8.11    For thus said the LORD to me, taking hold of me and warning me not to walk in the way of this people:
 is:8.12    Call not alliance what this people calls alliance, and fear not, nor stand in awe of what they fear.
 is:8.13    But with the LORD of hosts make your alliance-- for him be your fear and your awe.
 is:8.14    Yet he shall be a snare, an obstacle and a stumbling stone to both the houses of Israel, A trap and a snare to those who dwell in Jerusalem;
 is:8.15    And many among them shall stumble and fall, broken, snared, and captured.
 is:8.16    The record is to be folded and the sealed instruction kept among my disciples.
 is:8.17    For I will trust in the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob; yes, I will wait for him.
 is:8.18    Look at me and the children whom the Lord has given me: we are signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of hosts who dwells on Mount Zion.
 is:8.19    And when they say to you, "Inquire of mediums and fortune-tellers (who chirp and mutter!); should not a people inquire of their gods, apply to the dead on behalf of the living?"--
 is:8.20    then this document will furnish its instruction. That kind of thing they will surely say.
 is:8.21    The people will wander through the land, discouraged and hungry. In their hunger and their anger they will curse their king and their God.
 is:8.22    or stare at the ground, they will see nothing but trouble and darkness, terrifying darkness into which they are being driven.
 is:8.23    First he degraded the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the end he has glorified the seaward road, the land West of the Jordan, the District of the Gentiles. Anguish has taken wing, dispelled is darkness; for there is no gloom where but now there was distress.
  
 is:9.1     The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; Upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom a light has shone.
 is:9.2     You have brought them abundant joy and great rejoicing, As they rejoice before you as at the harvest, as men make merry when dividing spoils.
 is:9.3     For the yoke that burdened them, the pole on their shoulder, And the rod of their taskmaster you have smashed, as on the day of Midian.
 is:9.4     For every boot that tramped in battle, every cloak rolled in blood, will be burned as fuel for flames.
 is:9.5     For a child is born to us, a son is given us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace.
 is:9.6     His dominion is vast and forever peaceful, From David's throne, and over his kingdom, which he confirms and sustains By judgment and justice, both now and forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this!
 is:9.7     The Lord has sent word against Jacob, it falls upon Israel;
 is:9.8     And all the people know it, Ephraim and those who dwell in Samaria, those who say in arrogance and pride of heart,
 is:9.9     "Bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone; Sycamores are felled, but we will replace them with cedars."
 is:9.10    But the LORD raises up their foes against them and stirs up their enemies to action:
 is:9.11    Aram on the east and the Philistines on the west devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, and his hand is still outstretched!
 is:9.12    The people do not turn to him who struck them, nor seek the LORD of hosts.
 is:9.13    So the LORD severs from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day.
 is:9.14    (The elder and the noble are the head, the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.)
 is:9.15    The leaders of this people mislead them and those to be led are engulfed.
 is:9.16    For this reason, the Lord does not spare their young men, and their orphans and widows he does not pity; They are wholly profaned and sinful, and every mouth gives vent to folly. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched!
 is:9.17    For wickedness burns like fire, devouring brier and thorn; It kindles the forest thickets, which go up in columns of smoke.
 is:9.18    At the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land quakes, and the people are like fuel for fire; No man spares his brother, each devours the flesh of his neighbor.
 is:9.19    Though they hack on the right, they are hungry; though they eat on the left, they are not filled.
 is:9.20    Vanasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they turn on Judah. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched!
  
 is:10.1    Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and who write oppressive decrees,
 is:10.2    Depriving the needy of judgment and robbing my people's poor of their rights, Making widows their plunder, and orphans their prey!
 is:10.3    What will you do on the day of punishment, when ruin comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth,
 is:10.4    Lest it sink beneath the captive or fall beneath the slain? For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched!
 is:10.5    Woe to Assyria! My rod in anger, my staff in wrath.
 is:10.6    Against an impious nation I send him, and against a people under my wrath I order him To seize plunder, carry off loot, and tread them down like the mud of the streets.
 is:10.7    But this is not what he intends, nor does he have this in mind; Rather, it is in his heart to destroy, to make an end of nations not a few.
 is:10.8    "Are not my commanders all kings?" he says,
 is:10.9    "Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, or Samaria like Damascus?
 is:10.10   Just as my hand reached out to idolatrous kingdoms that had more images than Jerusalem and Samaria,
 is:10.11   Just as I treated Samaria and her idols, shall I not do to Jerusalem and her graven images?"
 is:10.12   (But when the LORD has brought to an end all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the utterance of the king of Assyria's proud heart,
 is:10.13   and the boastfulness of his haughty eyes. For he says:) "By my own power I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I am shrewd. I have moved the boundaries of peoples, their treasures I have pillaged, and, like a giant, I have put down the enthroned.
 is:10.14   My hand has seized like a nest the riches of nations; As one takes eggs left alone, so I took in all the earth; No one fluttered a wing, or opened a mouth, or chirped!"
 is:10.15   Will the axe boast against him who hews with it? Will the saw exalt itself above him who wields it? As if a rod could sway him who lifts it, or a staff him who is not wood!
 is:10.16   Therefore the Lord, the LORD of hosts, will send among his fat ones leanness, And instead of his glory there will be kindling like the kindling of fire.
 is:10.17   The Light of Israel will become a fire, Israel's Holy One a flame, That burns and consumes his briers and his thorns in a single day.
 is:10.18   His splendid forests and orchards will be consumed, soul and body;
 is:10.19   And the remnant of the trees in his forest will be so few, Like poles set up for signals, that any boy can record them.
 is:10.20   On that day The remnant of Israel, the survivors of the house of Jacob, will no more lean upon him who struck them; But they lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
 is:10.21   A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
 is:10.22   For though your people, O Israel, were like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant of them will return; their destruction is decreed as overwhelming justice demands.
 is:10.23   Yes, the destruction he has decreed, the Lord, the GOD of hosts, will carry out within the whole land.
 is:10.24   Therefore thus says the Lord, the GOD of hosts: O my people, who dwell in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian, though he strikes you with a rod, and raises his staff against you.
 is:10.25   For only a brief moment more, and my anger shall be over; but them I will destroy in wrath.
 is:10.26   Then the LORD of hosts will raise against them a scourge such as struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the sea as he did against Egypt.
 is:10.27   On that day, His burden shall be taken from your shoulder, and his yoke shattered from your neck. He has come up from the direction of Rimmon,
 is:10.28   he has reached Aiath, passed through Migron, at Michmash his supplies are stored.
 is:10.29   They cross the ravine: "We will spend the night at Geba." Ramah is in terror, Gibeah of Saul has fled.
 is:10.30   Cry and shriek, O daughter of Gallim! Hearken, Laishah! Answer her, Anathoth!
 is:10.31   Madmenah is in flight, the inhabitants of Gebim seek refuge.
 is:10.32   Even today he will halt at Nob, he will shake his fist at the mount of daughter Zion, the hill of Jerusalem!
 is:10.33   Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, lops off the boughs with terrible violence; The tall of stature are felled, and the lofty ones brought low;
 is:10.34   The forest thickets are felled with the axe, and Lebanon in its splendor falls.
  
 is:11.1    But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom.
 is:11.2    The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, A spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the LORD,
 is:11.3    and his delight shall be the fear of the LORD. Not by appearance shall he judge, nor by hearsay shall he decide,
 is:11.4    But he shall judge the poor with justice, and decide aright for the land's afflicted. He shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
 is:11.5    Justice shall be the band around his waist, and faithfulness a belt upon his hips.
 is:11.6    Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; The calf and the young lion shall browse together, with a little child to guide them.
 is:11.7    The cow and the bear shall be neighbors, together their young shall rest; the lion shall eat hay like the ox.
 is:11.8    The baby shall play by the cobra's den, and the child lay his hand on the adder's lair.
 is:11.9    There shall be no harm or ruin on all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the LORD, as water covers the sea.
 is:11.10   On that day, The root of Jesse, set up as a signal for the nations, The Gentiles shall seek out, for his dwelling shall be glorious.
 is:11.11   On that day, The Lord shall again take it in hand to reclaim the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria and Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia, and Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the isles of the sea.
 is:11.12   He shall raise a signal to the nations and gather the outcasts of Israel; The dispersed of Judah he shall assemble from the four corners of the earth.
 is:11.13   The envy of Ephraim shall pass away, and the rivalry of Judah be removed; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not be hostile to Ephraim;
 is:11.14   But they shall swoop down on the foothills of the Philistines to the west, together they shall plunder the Kedemites; Edom and Moab shall be their possessions, and the Ammonites their subjects.
 is:11.15   The LORD shall dry up the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and wave his hand over the Euphrates in his fierce anger And shatter it into seven streamlets, so that it can be crossed in sandals.
 is:11.16   There shall be a highway for the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria, As there was for Israel when he came up from the land of Egypt.
  
 is:12.1    On that day, you will say: I give you thanks, O LORD; though you have been angry with me, your anger has abated, and you have consoled me.
 is:12.2    God indeed is my savior; I am confident and unafraid. My strength and my courage is the LORD, and he has been my savior.
 is:12.3    With joy you will draw water at the fountain of salvation,
 is:12.4    and say on that day: Give thanks to the LORD, acclaim his name; among the nations make known his deeds, proclaim how exalted is his name.
 is:12.5    Sing praise to the LORD for his glorious achievement; let this be known throughout all the earth.
 is:12.6    Shout with exultation, O city of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel!
  
 is:13.1    An oracle concerning Babylon; a vision of Isaiah, son of Amoz.
 is:13.2    Upon the bare mountains set up a signal; cry out to them, Wave for them to enter the gates of the volunteers.
 is:13.3    I have commanded my dedicated soldiers, I have summoned my warriors, eager and bold to carry out my anger.
 is:13.4    Listen! the rumble on the mountains: that of an immense throng! Listen! the noise of kingdoms, nations assembled! The LORD of hosts is mustering an army for battle.
 is:13.5    They come from a far-off country, and from the end of the heavens, The LORD and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy all the land.
 is:13.6    Howl, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
 is:13.7    Therefore all hands fall helpless, the bows of the young men fall from their hands. Every man's heart melts
 is:13.8    in terror. Pangs and sorrows take hold of them, like a woman in labor they writhe; They look aghast at each other, their faces aflame.
 is:13.9    Lo, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and burning anger; To lay waste the land and destroy the sinners within it!
 is:13.10   The stars and constellations of the heavens send forth no light; The sun is dark when it rises, and the light of the moon does not shine.
 is:13.11   Thus I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their guilt. I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, the insolence of tyrants I will humble.
 is:13.12   I will make mortals more rare than pure gold, men, than gold of Ophir.
 is:13.13   For this I will make the heavens tremble and the earth shall be shaken from its place, At the wrath of the LORD of hosts on the day of his burning anger.
 is:13.14   Like a hunted gazelle, or a flock that no one gathers, Every man shall turn to his kindred and flee to his own land.
 is:13.15   Everyone who is caught shall be run through; to a man, they shall fall by the sword.
 is:13.16   Their infants shall be dashed to pieces in their sight; their houses shall be plundered and their wives ravished.
 is:13.17   I am stirring up against them the Medes, who think nothing of silver and take no delight in gold.
 is:13.18   The fruit of the womb they shall not spare, nor shall they have eyes of pity for children.
 is:13.19   And Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory and pride of the Chaldeans, Shall be overthrown by God like Sodom and like Gomorrah.
 is:13.20   She shall never be inhabited, nor dwelt in, from age to age; The Arab shall not pitch his tent there, nor shepherds couch their flocks.
 is:13.21   But wildcats shall rest there and owls shall fill the houses; There ostriches shall dwell, and satyrs shall dance.
 is:13.22   Desert beasts shall howl in her castles, and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Her time is near at hand and her days shall not be prolonged.
  
 is:14.1    When the LORD has pity on Jacob and again chooses Israel and settles them on their own soil, the aliens will join them and be counted with the house of Jacob.
 is:14.2    The house of Israel will take them and bring them along to its place, and possess them as male and female slaves on the Lord's soil, making captives of its captors and ruling over its oppressors.
 is:14.3    On the day the LORD relieves you of sorrow and unrest and the hard service in which you have been enslaved,
 is:14.4    you will take up this taunt-song against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has reached his end! how the turmoil is stilled!
 is:14.5    The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the staff of the tyrants
 is:14.6    That struck the peoples in wrath relentless blows; That beat down the nations in anger, with oppression unchecked.
 is:14.7    The whole earth rests peacefully, song breaks forth;
 is:14.8    The very cypresses rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon: "Now that you are laid to rest, there will be none to cut us down."
 is:14.9    The nether world below is all astir preparing for your coming; It awakens the shades to greet you, all the leaders of the earth; It has the kings of all nations rise from their thrones.
 is:14.10   All of them speak out and say to you, "You too have become weak like us, you are the same as we.
 is:14.11   Down to the nether world your pomp is brought, the music of your harps. The couch beneath you is the maggot, your covering, the worm."
 is:14.12   How have you fallen from the heavens, O morning star, son of the dawn! How are you cut down to the ground, you who mowed down the nations!
 is:14.13   You said in your heart: "I will scale the heavens; Above the stars of God I will set up my throne; I will take my seat on the Mount of Assembly, in the recesses of the North.
 is:14.14   I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will be like the Most High!"
 is:14.15   Yet down to the nether world you go to the recesses of the pit!
 is:14.16   When they see you they will stare, pondering over you: "Is this the man who made the earth tremble, and kingdoms quake?
 is:14.17   Who made the world a desert, razed its cities, and gave his captives no release?
 is:14.18   All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;
 is:14.19   But you are cast forth without burial, loathsome and corrupt, Clothed as those slain at sword-point, a trampled corpse. Going down to the pavement of the pit,
 is:14.20   you will never be one with them in the grave." For you have ruined your land, you have slain your people! Let him not be named forever, that scion of an evil race!
 is:14.21   He shall pass through it hard-pressed and hungry, and in his hunger he shall become enraged, and curse his king and his gods. He shall look upward, but there shall be strict darkness without any dawn;
 is:14.21   Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants.
 is:14.22   He shall gaze at the earth, but there shall be distress and darkness, with the light blacked out by its clouds.
 is:14.22   I will rise up against them, says the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, progeny and offspring, says the LORD.
 is:14.23   I will make it a haunt of hoot owls and a marshland; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts.
 is:14.24   The LORD of hosts has sworn: As I have resolved, so shall it be; As I have proposed, so shall it stand:
 is:14.25   I will break the Assyrian in my land and trample him on my mountains; Then his yoke shall be removed from them, and his burden from their shoulder.
 is:14.26   This is the plan proposed for the whole earth, and this the hand outstretched over all nations.
 is:14.27   The LORD of hosts has planned; who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out; who can turn it back?
 is:14.28   In the year that King Ahaz died, there came this oracle:
 is:14.29   Rejoice not, O Philistia, not a man of you, that the rod which smote you is broken; For out of the serpent's root shall come an adder, its fruit shall be a flying saraph.
 is:14.30   In my pastures the poor shall eat, and the needy lie down in safety; But I will kill your root with famine that shall slay even your remnant.
 is:14.31   Howl, O gate; cry out, O city! Philistia, all of you melts away! For there comes a smoke from the north, without a straggler in the ranks.
 is:14.32   What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has established Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."
  
 is:15.1    Oracle on Moab: Laid waste in a night, Ar of Moab is destroyed; Laid waste in a night, Kir of Moab is destroyed.
 is:15.2    Up goes daughter Dibon to the high places to weep; Over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. Every head is shaved, every beard sheared off.
 is:15.3    In the streets they wear sackcloth, lamenting and weeping; On the rooftops and in the squares everyone wails.
 is:15.4    Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, they are heard as far as Jahaz. At this the loins of Moab tremble, his soul quivers within him;
 is:15.5    The heart of Moab cries out, his fugitives reach Zoar (Eglath-shelishiyah). The ascent of Luhith they climb weeping; On the way to Horonaim they utter rending cries.
 is:15.6    The waters of Nimrim have become a waste; The grass is withered, new growth is gone, nothing is green.
 is:15.7    So now whatever they have acquired or stored away they carry across the Gorge of the Poplars,
 is:15.8    For the cry has gone round the land of Moab; As far as Eglaim the wailing, and to Beer-elim, the wail.
 is:15.9    The waters of Dimon are filled with blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon: Lions for those who are fleeing from Moab and for those who remain in the land!
  
 is:16.1    Send them forth, hugging the earth like reptiles, from Sela across the desert, to the mount of daughter Zion.
 is:16.2    Like flushed birds, like startled nestlings, Are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.
 is:16.3    Offer counsel, take their part: at high noon let your shadow be like the night, To hide the outcasts, to conceal the fugitives.
 is:16.4    Let the outcasts of Moab live with you, be their shelter from the destroyer. When the struggle is ended, the ruin complete, and they have done with trampling the land,
 is:16.5    A throne shall be set up in mercy, and on it shall sit in fidelity (in David's tent) A judge upholding right and prompt to do justice.
 is:16.6    We have heard of the pride of Moab, how very proud he is, With his haughty, arrogant insolence that his empty words do not match.
 is:16.7    Therefore Moab wails for Moab, everywhere they wail; For the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth they sigh, stricken with grief.
 is:16.8    The terraced slopes of Heshbon languish, the vines of Sibmah, Whose clusters overpowered the lords of nations, While they reached as far as Jazer and scattered over the desert, And whose branches spread forth and extended over the sea.
 is:16.9    Therefore I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I water you with tears, Heshbon and Elealeh; For on your summer fruits and harvests the battle cry has fallen.
 is:16.10   From the orchards are taken away joy and gladness, In the vineyards there is no singing, no shout of joy; In the wine presses no one treads grapes, the vintage shout is stilled.
 is:16.11   Therefore for Moab my breast moans like a lyre, and my heart for Kir-hareseth.
 is:16.12   When Moab grows weary on the high places, he shall enter his sanctuary to pray, but it shall avail him nothing.
 is:16.13   This is the word the LORD spoke against Moab in times past.
 is:16.14   But now the LORD has spoken: In three years, like those of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be degraded despite all its great multitude; there shall be a remnant, very small and weak.
  
 is:17.1    Oracle on Damascus: Lo, Damascus shall cease to be a city and become a ruin;
 is:17.2.   Her cities shall be forever abandoned, given over to flocks to lie in undisturbed.
 is:17.3.   The fortress shall be lost to Ephraim and the kingdom to Damascus; The remnant of Aram shall have the same glory as the Israelites, says the LORD of hosts.
 is:17.4.   On that day The glory of Jacob shall fade, and his full body grow thin,
 is:17.5.   Like the reaper's mere armful of stalks when he gathers the standing grain; Or as when one gleans the ears in the Valley of Rephaim.
 is:17.6.   Only a scattering of grapes shall be left! As when an olive tree has been beaten, Two or three olives remain at the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches, says the LORD, the God of Israel.
 is:17.7.   On that day man shall look to his maker, his eyes turned toward the Holy One of Israel.
 is:17.8.   He shall not look to the altars, his handiwork, nor shall he regard what his fingers have made: the sacred poles or the incense stands.
 is:17.9.   On that day his strong cities shall be like those abandoned by the Hivites and Amorites When faced with the children of Israel: they shall be laid waste.
 is:17.10   For you have forgotten God, your savior, and remembered not the Rock, your strength. Therefore, though you plant your pagan plants and set out your foreign vine slips,
 is:17.11   Though you make them grow the day you plant them and make your sprouts blossom on the next morning, The harvest shall disappear on the day of the grievous blow, the incurable blight.
 is:17.12   Ah! the roaring of many peoples that roar like the roar of the seas! The surging of nations that surge like the surging of mighty waves!
 is:17.13   But God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away; Windswept, like chaff on the mountains, like tumbleweed in a storm.
 is:17.14   In the evening, they spread terror, before morning, they are gone! Such is the portion of those who despoil us, the lot of those who plunder us.
  
 is:18.1    Ah, land of buzzing insects, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
 is:18.2    Sending ambassadors by sea, in papyrus boats on the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and bronzed, To a people dreaded near and far, a nation strong and conquering, whose land is washed by rivers.
 is:18.3    All you who inhabit the world, who dwell on earth, When the signal is raised on the mountain, look! When the trumpet blows, listen!
 is:18.4    For thus says the LORD to me: I will quietly look on from where I dwell, Like the glowing heat of sunshine, like a cloud of dew at harvest time.
 is:18.5    Before the vintage, when the flowering is ended, and the blooms are succeeded by ripening grapes, Then comes the cutting of branches with pruning hooks and the discarding of the lopped-off shoots.
 is:18.6    They shall all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts in the land; The birds of prey shall summer on them and on them all the beasts of the earth shall winter.
 is:18.7    Then will gifts be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and bronzed, from a people dreaded near and far, a nation strong and conquering, whose land is washed by rivers-to Mount Zion where dwells the name of the LORD of hosts.
  
 is:19.1    racle on Egypt: See, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud on his way to Egypt; The idols of Egypt tremble before him, the hearts of the Egyptians melt within them.
 is:19.2    I will rouse Egypt against Egypt: brother will war against brother, Neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kindgom.
 is:19.3    The courage of the Egyptians ebbs away within them, and I will bring to nought their counsel; They shall consult idols and charmers, ghosts and spirits.
 is:19.4    I will deliver Egypt into the power of a cruel master, A harsh king who shall rule over them, says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
 is:19.5    The waters shall be drained from the sea, the river shall shrivel and dry up;
 is:19.6    Its streams shall become foul, and the canals of Egypt shall dwindle and dry up. Reeds and rushes shall wither away,
 is:19.7    and bulrushes on the bank of the Nile; All the sown land along the Nile shall dry up and blow away, and be no more.
 is:19.8    The fishermen shall mourn and lament, all who cast hook in the Nile; Those who spread their nets in the water shall pine away.
 is:19.9    The linen-workers shall be disappointed, the combers and weavers shall turn pale;
 is:19.10   The spinners shall be crushed, all the hired laborers shall be despondent.
 is:19.11   Utter fools are the princes of Zoan! the wisest of Pharaoh's advisers give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a disciple of wise men, of ancient kings"?
 is:19.12   Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you and make known What the LORD of hosts has planned against Egypt.
 is:19.13   The princes of Zoan have become fools, the princes of Memphis have been deceived. The chiefs of her tribes have led Egypt astray.
 is:19.14   The LORD has prepared among them a spirit of dizziness, And they have made Egypt stagger in whatever she does, as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.
 is:19.15   Egypt shall have no work to do for head or tail, palm branch or reed.
 is:19.16   On that day the Egyptians shall be like women, trembling with fear, because of the LORD of hosts shaking his fist at them.
 is:19.17   And the land of Judah shall be a terror to the Egyptians. Every time they remember Judah, they shall stand in dread because of the plan which the LORD of hosts has in mind for them.
 is:19.18   On that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt speaking the language of Canaan and swearing by the LORD of hosts; one shall be called "City of the Sun."
 is:19.19   On that day there shall be an altar to the LORD in the land of Egypt, and a sacred pillar to the LORD near the boundary.
 is:19.20   It shall be a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt, when they cry out to the LORD against their oppressors, and he sends them a savior to defend and deliver them.
 is:19.21   The LORD shall make himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day; they shall offer sacrifices and oblations, and fulfill the vows they make to the LORD.
 is:19.22   Although the LORD shall smite Egypt severely, he shall heal them; they shall turn to the LORD and he shall be won over and heal them.
 is:19.23   On that day there shall be a highway from Egypt to Assyria; the Assyrians shall enter Egypt, and the Egyptians enter Assyria, and Egypt shall serve Assyria.
 is:19.24   On that day Israel shall be a third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land,
 is:19.25   when the LORD of hosts blesses it: "Blessed be my people Egypt, and the work of my hands Assyria, and my inheritance, Israel."
  
 is:20.1    In the year the general sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, fought against Ashdod and captured it,
 is:20.2    the LORD gave a warning through Isaiah, the son of Amoz: Go and take off the sackcloth from your waist, and remove the sandals from your feet. This he did, walking naked and barefoot.
 is:20.3    Then the LORD said: Just as my servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and portent against Egypt and Ethiopia,
 is:20.4    so shall the king of Assyria lead away captives from Egypt, and exiles from Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered (the shame of Egypt).
 is:20.5    They shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Ethiopia, their hope, and because of Egypt, their boast.
 is:20.6    The inhabitants of this coastland shall say on that day, "Look at our hope! We have fled here for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria; where can we flee now?"
  
 is:21.1    Oracle on the wastelands by the sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping in waves through the Negeb, there comes from the desert, from the fearful land,
 is:21.2    A cruel sight, revealed to me: the traitor betrays, the despoiler spoils. "Go up, Elam; besiege, O Media; I will put an end to all groaning!"
 is:21.3    Therefore my loins are filled with anguish, pangs have seized me like those of a woman in labor; I am too bewildered to hear, too dismayed to look.
 is:21.4    My mind reels, shuddering assails me; My yearning for twilight has turned into dread.
 is:21.5    They set the table, spread out the rugs; they eat, they drink. Rise up, O princes, oil the shield!
 is:21.6    For thus says my Lord to me: Go, station a watchman, let him tell what he sees.
 is:21.7    If he sees a chariot, a pair of horses, Someone riding an ass, someone riding a camel, Then let him pay heed, very close heed.
 is:21.8    Then the watchman cried, "On the watchtower, O my Lord, I stand constantly by day; And I stay at my post through all the watches of the night.
 is:21.9    Here he comes now: a single chariot, a pair of horses; He calls out and says, 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon, And all the images of her gods are smashed to the ground.'"
 is:21.10   O my people who have been threshed, beaten on my threshing floor! What I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I have announced to you.
 is:21.11   Oracle on Edom: They call to me from Seir, "Watchman, how much longer the night? Watchman, how much longer the night?"
 is:21.12   The watchman replies, "Morning has come, and again night. If you will ask, ask; come back again."
 is:21.13   Oracle on Arabia: In the thicket in the nomad country spend the night, O caravans of Dedanites.
 is:21.14   Meet the thirsty, bring them water; you who dwell in the land of Tema, greet the fugitives with bread.
 is:21.15   They flee from the sword, from the whetted sword; From the taut bow, from the fury of battle.
 is:21.16   For thus says the Lord to me: In another year, like those of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall come to an end.
 is:21.17   Few of Kedar's stalwart archers shall remain, for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.
  
 is:22.1    Oracle of the Valley of Vision: What is the matter with you now, that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,
 is:22.2    O city full of noise and chaos, O wanton town! Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor killed in battle.
 is:22.3    All your leaders fled away together, fled afar off; All who were in you were captured together, captured without the use of a bow.
 is:22.4    At this I say: Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly; Do not try to comfort me for the ruin of the daughter of my people.
 is:22.5    It is a day of panic, rout and confusion, from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, in the Valley of Vision. Walls crash; they cry for help to the mountains.
 is:22.6    Elam takes up the quivers, Aram mounts the horses, and Kir uncovers the shields.
 is:22.7    Your choice valleys are filled with chariots, and horses are posted at the gates,
 is:22.8    and shelter over Judah is removed. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest;
 is:22.9    you saw that the breaches in the City of David were many; you collected the water of the lower pool.
 is:22.10   You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, tearing some down to strengthen the wall;
 is:22.11   you made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to the city's Maker, nor did you consider him who built it long ago.
 is:22.12   On that day the Lord, the GOD of hosts, called on you To weep and mourn, to shave your head and put on sackcloth.
 is:22.13   But look! you feast and celebrate, you slaughter oxen and butcher sheep, You eat meat and drink wine: "Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"
 is:22.14   This reaches the ears of the LORD of hosts-- You shall not be pardoned this wickedness till you die, says the Lord, the GOD of hosts.
 is:22.15   Thus says the Lord, the GOD of hosts: Up, go to that official, Shebna, master of the palace,
 is:22.16   Who has hewn for himself a sepulcher on a height and carved his tomb in the rock: "What are you doing here, and what people have you here, that here you have hewn for yourself a tomb?"
 is:22.17   The LORD shall hurl you down headlong, mortal man! He shall grip you firmly
 is:22.18   And roll you up and toss you like a ball into an open land To perish there, you and the chariots you glory in, you disgrace to your master's house!
 is:22.19   I will thrust you from your office and pull you down from your station.
 is:22.20   On that day I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah;
 is:22.21   I will clothe him with your robe, and gird him with your sash, and give over to him your authority. He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
 is:22.22   I will place the key of the House of David on his shoulder; when he opens, no one shall shut, when he shuts, no one shall open.
 is:22.23   I will fix him like a peg in a sure spot, to be a place of honor for his family;
 is:22.24   On him shall hang all the glory of his family: descendants and offspring, all the little dishes, from bowls to jugs.
 is:22.25   On that day, says the LORD of hosts, the peg fixed in a sure spot shall give way, break off and fall, and the weight that hung on it shall be done away with; for the LORD has spoken.
  
 is:23.1    Oracle on Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your port is destroyed; From the land of the Kittim the news reaches them.
 is:23.2    Silence! you who dwell on the coast, you merchants of Sidon, Whose messengers crossed the sea
 is:23.3    over the deep waters. The grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue, and she the merchant among nations.
 is:23.4    Shame, O Sidon, fortress on the sea, for the sea has spoken: "I have not been in labor, nor given birth, nor raised young men, nor reared virgins."
 is:23.5    When it is heard in Egypt they shall be in anguish at the news of Tyre.
 is:23.6    Pass over to Tarshish, wailing, you who dwell on the coast!
 is:23.7    Is this your wanton city, whose origin is from old, Whose feet have taken her to dwell in distant lands?
 is:23.8    Who has planned such a thing against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, Whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the earth's honored men?
 is:23.9    The LORD of hosts has planned it, to disgrace all pride of majesty, to degrade all the earth's honored men.
 is:23.10   Cross to your own land, O ship of Tarshish; the harbor is no more.
 is:23.11   His hand he stretches out over the sea, he shakes kingdoms; The LORD has ordered the destruction of Canaan's strongholds.
 is:23.12   You shall exult no more, he says, you who are now oppressed, virgin daughter Sidon. Arise, pass over to the Kittim, even there you shall find no rest.
 is:23.13   (This people is the land of the Chaldeans, not Assyria.) She whom the impious founded, setting up towers for her, Has had her castles destroyed, and has been turned into a ruin.
 is:23.14   Lament, O ships of Tarshish, for your haven is destroyed.
 is:23.15   On that day, Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years. With the days of another king, at the end of seventy years, it shall be for Tyre as in the song about the harlot:
 is:23.16   Take a harp, go about the city, O forgotten harlot; Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs, that they may remember you.
 is:23.17   At the end of the seventy years the LORD shall visit Tyre. She shall return to her hire and deal with all the world's kingdoms on the face of the earth.
 is:23.18   But her merchandise and her hire shall be sacred to the LORD. It shall not be stored up or laid away, but from her merchandise those who dwell before the LORD shall eat their fill and clothe themselves in choice attire.
  
 is:24.1    Lo, the LORD empties the land and lays it waste; he turns it upside down, scattering its inhabitants:
 is:24.2    Layman and priest alike, servant and master, The maid as her mistress, the buyer as the seller, The lender as the borrower, the creditor as the debtor.
 is:24.3    The earth is utterly laid waste, utterly stripped, for the LORD has decreed this thing.
 is:24.4    The earth mourns and fades, the world languishes and fades; both heaven and earth languish.
 is:24.5    The earth is polluted because of its inhabitants, who have transgressed laws, violated statutes, broken the ancient covenant.
 is:24.6    Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants pay for their guilt; Therefore they who dwell on earth turn pale, and few men are left.
 is:24.7    The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted groan.
 is:24.8    Stilled are the cheerful timbrels, ended the shouts of the jubilant, stilled is the cheerful harp.
 is:24.9    They cannot sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who partake of it.
 is:24.10   Broken down is the city of chaos, shut against entry, every house.
 is:24.11   In the streets they cry out for lack of wine; all joy has disappeared and cheer has left the land.
 is:24.12   In the city nothing remains but ruin; its gates are battered and desolate.
 is:24.13   Thus it is within the land, and among the peoples, As with an olive tree after it is beaten, as with a gleaning when the vintage is done.
 is:24.14   These lift up their voice in acclaim; from the sea they proclaim the majesty of the LORD:
 is:24.15   "For this, in the coastlands, give glory to the LORD! In the coastlands of the sea, to the name of the LORD, the God of Israel!"
 is:24.16   From the end of the earth we hear songs: "Splendor to the Just One!" But I said, "I am wasted, wasted away. Woe is me! The traitors betray: with treachery have the traitors betrayed!
 is:24.17   Terror, pit, and trap are upon you, inhabitant of the earth;
 is:24.18   He who flees at the sound of terror will fall into the pit; He who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap. For the windows on high will be opened and the foundations of the earth will shake.
 is:24.19   The earth will burst asunder, the earth will be shaken apart, the earth will be convulsed.
 is:24.20   The earth will reel like a drunkard, and it will sway like a hut; Its rebellion will weigh it down, until it falls, never to rise again."
 is:24.21   On that day the LORD will punish the host of the heavens in the heavens, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
 is:24.22   They will be gathered together like prisoners into a pit; They will be shut up in a dungeon, and after many days they will be punished.
 is:24.23   Then the moon will blush and the sun grow pale, For the LORD of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, glorious in the sight of his elders.
  
 is:25.1    O LORD, you are my God, I will extol you and praise your name; For you have fulfilled your wonderful plans of old, faithful and true.
 is:25.2    For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; The castle of the insolent is a city no more, nor ever to be rebuilt.
 is:25.3    Therefore a strong people will honor you, fierce nations will fear you.
 is:25.4    For you are a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in distress; Shelter from the rain, shade from the heat. As with the cold rain,
 is:25.5    as with the desert heat, even so you quell the uproar of the wanton.
 is:25.6    On this mountain the LORD of hosts will provide for all peoples A feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines.
 is:25.7    On this mountain he will destroy the veil that veils all peoples, The web that is woven over all nations;
 is:25.8    he will destroy death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from all faces; The reproach of his people he will remove from the whole earth; for the LORD has spoken.
 is:25.9    On that day it will be said: "Behold our God, to whom we looked to save us! This is the LORD for whom we looked; let us rejoice and be glad that he has saved us!"
 is:25.10   For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, but Moab will be trodden down as a straw is trodden down in the mire.
 is:25.11   He will stretch forth his hands in Moab as a swimmer extends his hands to swim; He will bring low their pride as his hands sweep over them.
 is:25.12   The high-walled fortress he will raze, and strike it down level with the earth, with the very dust.
  
 is:26.1    On that day they will sing this song in the land of Judah: "A strong city have we; he sets up walls and ramparts to protect us.
 is:26.2    Open up the gates to let in a nation that is just, one that keeps faith.
 is:26.3    A nation of firm purpose you keep in peace; in peace, for its trust in you."
 is:26.4    Trust in the LORD forever! For the LORD is an eternal Rock.
 is:26.5    He humbles those in high places, and the lofty city he brings down; He tumbles it to the ground, levels it with the dust.
 is:26.6    It is trampled underfoot by the needy, by the footsteps of the poor.
 is:26.7    The way of the just is smooth; the path of the just you make level.
 is:26.8    Yes, for your way and your judgments, O LORD, we look to you; Your name and your title are the desire of our souls.
 is:26.9    My soul yearns for you in the night, yes, my spirit within me keeps vigil for you; When your judgment dawns upon the earth, the world's inhabitants learn justice.
 is:26.10   The wicked man, spared, does not learn justice; in an upright land he acts perversely, and sees not the majesty of the LORD.
 is:26.11   O LORD, your hand is uplifted, but they behold it not; Let them be shamed when they see your zeal for your people: let the fire prepared for your enemies consume them.
 is:26.12   O LORD, you mete out peace to us, for it is you who have accomplished all we have done.
 is:26.13   O LORD, our God, other lords than you have ruled us; it is from you only that we can call upon your name.
 is:26.14   Dead they are, they have no life, shades that cannot rise; For you have punished and destroyed them, and wiped out all memory of them.
 is:26.15   You have increased the nation, O LORD, increased the nation to your own glory, and extended far all the borders of the land.
 is:26.16   O LORD, oppressed by your punishment, we cried out in anguish under your chastising.
 is:26.17   As a woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pains, so were we in your presence, O LORD.
 is:26.18   We conceived and writhed in pain, giving birth to wind; Salvation we have not achieved for the earth, the inhabitants of the world cannot bring it forth.
 is:26.19   But your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise; awake and sing, you who lie in the dust. For your dew is a dew of light, and the land of shades gives birth.
 is:26.20   Go, my people, enter your chambers, and close your doors behind you; Hide yourselves for a brief moment, until the wrath is past.
 is:26.21   See, the LORD goes forth from his place, to punish the wickedness of the earth's inhabitants; The earth will reveal the blood upon her, and no longer conceal her slain.
  
 is:27.1    On that day, The LORD will punish with his sword that is cruel, great, and strong, Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the coiled serpent; and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
 is:27.2    On that day-- The pleasant vineyard, sing about it!
 is:27.3    I, the LORD, am its keeper, I water it every moment; Lest anyone harm it, night and day I guard it.
 is:27.4    I am not angry, but if I were to find briers and thorns, In battle I should march against them; I should burn them all.
 is:27.5    Or shall he cling to me for refuge? He must make peace with me; peace shall he make with me!
 is:27.6    In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall sprout and blossom, covering all the world with fruit.
 is:27.7    Is he to be smitten as his smiter was smitten? or slain as his slayer was slain?
 is:27.8    Expunging and expelling, I should strive against them, carrying them off with my cruel wind in time of storm.
 is:27.9    This, then, shall be the expiation of Jacob's guilt, this the whole fruit of the removal of his sin: He shall pulverize all the stones of the altars like pieces of chalk; no sacred poles or incense altars shall stand.
 is:27.10   For the fortified city shall be desolate, an abandoned pasture, a forsaken wilderness, where calves shall browse and lie. Its boughs shall be destroyed,
 is:27.11   its branches shall wither and be broken off, and women shall come to build a fire with them. This is not an understanding people; therefore their maker shall not spare them, nor shall he who formed them have mercy on them.
 is:27.12   On that day, The LORD shall beat out the grain between the Euphrates and the Wadi of Egypt, and you shall be gleaned one by one, O sons of Israel.
 is:27.13   On that day, A great trumpet shall blow, and the lost in the land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of Egypt Shall come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain, in Jerusalem.
  
 is:28.1    Woe to the majestic garland of the drunkard Ephraim, To the fading blooms of his glorious beauty, on the head of him who is stupefied with wine.
 is:28.2    Behold, the LORD has a strong one and a mighty, who, like a downpour of hail, a destructive storm, Like a flood of water, great and overflowing, levels to the ground with violence;
 is:28.3    With feet that will trample the majestic garland of the drunkard Ephraim.
 is:28.4    The fading blooms of his glorious beauty on the head of the fertile valley Will be like an early fig before summer: when a man sees it, he picks and swallows it at once.
 is:28.5    On that day the LORD of hosts will be a glorious crown And a brilliant diadem to the remnant of his people,
 is:28.6    A spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, And strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
 is:28.7    But these also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priest and prophet stagger from strong drink, overpowered by wine; Led astray by strong drink, staggering in their visions, tottering when giving judgment.
 is:28.8    Yes, all the tables are covered with filthy vomit, with no place left clean.
 is:28.9    "To whom would he impart knowledge? To whom would he convey the message? To those just weaned from milk, those taken from the breast?
 is:28.10   For he says, 'Command on command, command on command, rule on rule, rule on rule, here a little, there a little!'"
 is:28.11   Yes, with stammering lips and in a strange language he will speak to this people
 is:28.12   to whom he said: This is the resting place, give rest to the weary; Here is repose-- but they would not listen.
 is:28.13   So for them the word of the LORD shall be: "Command on command, command on command, Rule on rule, rule on rule, here a little, there a little!" So that when they walk, they stumble backward, broken, ensnared, and captured.
 is:28.14   Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, you arrogant, who rule this people in Jerusalem:
 is:28.15   Because you say, "We have made a covenant with death, and with the nether world we have made a pact; When the overwhelming scourge passes, it will not reach us; For we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have found a hiding place,"--
 is:28.16   Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: See, I am laying a stone in Zion, a stone that has been tested, A precious cornerstone as a sure foundation; he who puts his faith in it shall not be shaken.
 is:28.17   I will make of right a measuring line, of justice a level.-- Hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters shall flood the hiding place.
 is:28.18   Your covenant with death shall be canceled and your pact with the nether world shall not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes, you shall be trampled down by it.
 is:28.19   Whenever it passes, it shall take you; morning after morning it shall pass, By day and by night; terror alone shall convey the message.
 is:28.20   For the bed shall be too short to stretch out in, and the cover too narrow to wrap in.
 is:28.21   For the LORD shall rise up as on Mount Perazim, bestir himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, To carry out his work, his singular work, to perform his deed, his strange deed.
 is:28.22   Now, be arrogant no more lest your bonds be tightened, For I have heard from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, the destruction decreed for the whole earth.
 is:28.23   Give ear and hear my voice, pay attention and listen to what I say:
 is:28.24   Is the plowman forever plowing, always loosening and harrowing his land for planting?
 is:28.25   When he has leveled the surface, does he not scatter gith and sow cumin, Put in wheat and barley, with spelt as its border?
 is:28.26   He has learned this rule, instructed by his God.
 is:28.27   Gith is not threshed with a sledge, nor does a cartwheel roll over cumin. But gith is beaten out with a staff, and cumin crushed for food with a rod.
 is:28.28   No, he does not thresh it unendingly, nor does he crush it with his noisy cartwheels and horses.
 is:28.29   This too comes from the LORD of hosts; wonderful is his counsel and great his wisdom.
  
 is:29.1    Woe to Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year, let the feasts come round.
 is:29.2    But I will bring distress upon Ariel, with mourning and grief. You shall be to me like Ariel,
 is:29.3    I will encamp like David against you; I will encircle you with outposts and set up siege works against you.
 is:29.4    Prostrate you shall speak from the earth, and from the base dust your words shall come. Your voice shall be like a ghost's from the earth, and your words like chirping from the dust.
 is:29.5    The horde of your arrogant shall be like fine dust, the horde of the tyrants like flying chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
 is:29.6    you shall be visited by the LORD of hosts, With thunder, earthquake, and great noise, whirlwind, storm, and the flame of consuming fire.
 is:29.7    Then like a dream, a vision in the night, Shall be the horde of all the nations who war against Ariel with all the earthworks of her besiegers.
 is:29.8    As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakens with an empty stomach, Or when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakens faint and dry, So shall the horde of all the nations be, who make war against Zion.
 is:29.9    Be irresolute, stupefied; blind yourselves and stay blind! Be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from strong drink!
 is:29.10   For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes (the prophets) and covered your heads (the seers).
 is:29.11   For you the revelation of all this has become like the words of a sealed scroll. When it is handed to one who can read, with the request, "Read this," he replies, "I cannot; it is sealed."
 is:29.12   When it is handed to one who cannot read, with the request, "Read this," he replies, "I cannot read."
 is:29.13   The Lord said: Since this people draws near with words only and honors me with their lips alone, though their hearts are far from me, And their reverence for me has become routine observance of the precepts of men,
 is:29.14   Therefore I will again deal with this people in surprising and wondrous fashion: The wisdom of its wise men shall perish and the understanding of its prudent men be hid.
 is:29.15   Woe to those who would hide their plans too deep for the LORD! Who work in the dark, saying, "Who sees us, or who knows us?"
 is:29.16   Your perversity is as though the potter were taken to be the clay: As though what is made should say of its maker, "He made me not!" Or the vessel should say of the potter, "He does not understand."
 is:29.17   But a very little while, and Lebanon shall be changed into an orchard, and the orchard be regarded as a forest!
 is:29.18   On that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book; And out of gloom and darkness, the eyes of the blind shall see.
 is:29.19   The lowly will ever find joy in the LORD, and the poor rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
 is:29.20   For the tyrant will be no more and the arrogant will have gone; All who are alert to do evil will be cut off,
 is:29.21   those whose mere word condemns a man, Who ensnare his defender at the gate, and leave the just man with an empty claim.
 is:29.22   Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of the house of Jacob, who redeemed Abraham: Now Jacob shall have nothing to be ashamed of, nor shall his face grow pale.
 is:29.23   When his children see the work of my hands in his midst, They shall keep my name holy; they shall reverence the Holy One of Jacob, and be in awe of the God of Israel.
 is:29.24   Those who err in spirit shall acquire understanding, and those who find fault shall receive instruction.
  
 is:30.1    Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, Who carry out plans that are not mine, who weave webs that are not inspired by me, adding sin upon sin.
 is:30.2    They go down to Egypt, but my counsel they do not seek. They find their strength in Pharaoh's protection and take refuge in Egypt's shadow;
 is:30.3    Pharaoh's protection shall be your shame, and refuge in Egypt's shadow your disgrace.
 is:30.4    When their princes are at Zoan and their messengers reach Hanes,
 is:30.5    All shall be ashamed of a people that gain them nothing, Neither help nor benefit, but only shame and reproach.
 is:30.6    (Oracle on the Beasts of the Negeb) Through the distressed and troubled land of the lioness and roaring lion, of the viper and flying saraph, They carry their riches on the backs of asses and their treasures on the humps of camels To a people good for nothing,
 is:30.7    to Egypt whose help is futile and vain. Therefore I call her "Rahab quelled."
 is:30.8    Now come, write it on a tablet they can keep, inscribe it in a record; That it may be in future days an eternal witness:
 is:30.9    This is a rebellious people, deceitful children, Children who refuse to obey the law of the LORD.
 is:30.10   They say to the seers, "Have no visions"; to the prophets, "Do not descry for us what is right; speak flatteries to us, conjure up illusions.
 is:30.11   Out of the way! Out of our path! Let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel."
 is:30.12   Therefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you reject this word, And put your trust in what is crooked and devious, and depend on it,
 is:30.13   This guilt of yours shall be like a descending rift Bulging out in a high wall whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant.
 is:30.14   It crashes like a potter's jar smashed beyond rescue, And among its fragments cannot be found a sherd to scoop fire from the hearth or dip water from the cistern.
 is:30.15   For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: By waiting and by calm you shall be saved, in quiet and in trust your strength lies. But this you did not wish.
 is:30.16   "No," you said, "Upon horses we will flee." --Very well, flee! "Upon swift steeds we will ride." --Not so swift as your pursuers.
 is:30.17   A thousand shall tremble at the threat of one; if five threaten you, you shall flee, Until you are left like a flagstaff on the mountaintop, like a flag on the hill.
 is:30.18   Yet the LORD is waiting to show you favor, and he rises to pity you; For the LORD is a God of justice: blessed are all who wait for him!
 is:30.19   O people of Zion, who dwell in Jerusalem, no more will you weep; He will be gracious to you when you cry out, as soon as he hears he will answer you.
 is:30.20   The Lord will give you the bread you need and the water for which you thirst. No longer will your Teacher hide himself, but with your own eyes you shall see your Teacher,
 is:30.21   While from behind, a voice shall sound in your ears: "This is the way; walk in it," when you would turn to the right or to the left.
 is:30.22   And you shall consider unclean your silver-plated idols and your gold-covered images; You shall throw them away like filthy rags to which you say, "Begone!"
 is:30.23   He will give rain for the seed that you sow in the ground, And the wheat that the soil produces will be rich and abundant. On that day your cattle will graze in spacious meadows;
 is:30.24   The oxen and the asses that till the ground will eat silage tossed to them with shovel and pitchfork.
 is:30.25   Upon every high mountain and lofty hill there will be streams of running water. On the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall,
 is:30.26   The light of the moon will be like that of the sun and the light of the sun will be seven times greater (like the light of seven days). On the day the LORD binds up the wounds of his people, he will heal the bruises left by his blows.
 is:30.27   See the name of the LORD coming from afar in burning wrath, with lowering clouds! His lips are filled with fury, his tongue is like a consuming fire;
 is:30.28   His breath, like a flood in a ravine that reaches suddenly to the neck, Will winnow the nations with a destructive winnowing, and with repeated winnowings will he battle against them (and a bridle on the jaws of the peoples to send them astray).
 is:30.29   You will sing as on a night when a feast is observed, And be merry of heart, as one marching along with a flute Toward the mountain of the LORD, toward the Rock of Israel, accompanied by the timbrels and lyres.
 is:30.30   The LORD will make his glorious voice heard, and let it be seen how his arm descends In raging fury and flame of consuming fire, in driving storm and hail.
 is:30.31   When the LORD speaks, Assyria will be shattered, as he strikes with the rod;
 is:30.32   While at every sweep of the rod which the LORD will bring down on him in punishment,
 is:30.33   For the pyre has long been ready, prepared for the king; Broad and deep it is piled with dry grass and wood in abundance, And the breath of the LORD, like a stream of sulphur, will set it afire.
  
 is:31.1    Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who depend upon horses: Who put their trust in chariots because of their number, and in horsemen because od their combined power, But look not to the Holy One of Israel nor seek the LORD!
 is:31.2    Yet he too is wise and will bring disaster; he will not turn from what he has threatened to do. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against those who help evildoers.
 is:31.3    The Egyptians are men, not God, their horses are flesh, not spirit; When the LORD stretches forth his hand, the helper shall stumble, the one helped shall fall, and both of them shall perish together.
 is:31.4    Thus says the LORD to me: As a lion or a lion cub growling over its prey, With a band of shepherds assembled against it, Is neither frightened by their shouts nor disturbed by their noise, So shall the LORD of hosts come down to wage war upon the mountain and hill of Zion.
 is:31.5    Like hovering birds, so the LORD of hosts shall shield Jerusalem, To protect and deliver, to spare and rescue it.
 is:31.6    Return, O children of Israel, to him whom you have utterly deserted.
 is:31.7    On that day each one of you shall spurn his sinful idols of shlver and gold, which he made with his hands.
 is:31.8    Assyria shall fall by a sword not wielded by man,. no mortal sword shall devour him; He shall flee before the sword, and his young men shall be impressed as laborers.
 is:31.9    He shall rush past his crag in panic, and his princes shall flee in terror from his standard, Says the LORD who has a fire in Zion and a furnace in Jerusalem.
  
 is:32.1    See, a king will reign justly and princes will rule rightly.
 is:32.2    Each of them will be a shelter from the wind, a retreat from the rain. They will be like streams of water in a dry country, like the shade of a great rock in a parched land.
 is:32.3    The eyes of those who see will not be closed;. the ears of those who hear will be attentive,
 is:32.4    No more will the fool be called noble, nor the trickster be considered honorable,
 is:32.4    The flighty will become wise and capable, and the stutterers will speak fluently and clearly.
 is:32.6    For the fool speaks foolishly, planning evil in his heart:. How to do wickedness, to speak perversely against the LORD, To let the hungry go empty and the thirsty be without drink,
 is:32.7    And the trickster uses wicked trickery, planning crimes: How to ruin the poor with lies, and the needy when they plead their case.
 is:32.8    But the noble man plans noble things, and by noble things he stands.
 is:32.9    O complacent ladies, rise up and hear my voice, overconfident women, give heed to my words.
 is:32.10   In a little more than a year you overconfident ones will be shaken; The vintage will fail, there will be no harvest.
 is:32.11   Tremble, you who are complacent! Shudder, you who are overconfident! Strip yourselves bare, with only a loincloth to cover you,
 is:32.12   Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, the fruitful vine,
 is:32.13   And the soil of my people, overgrown whth thorns and briers; For all the joyful houses, the wanton city.
 is:32.14   Yes, the castle will be forsaken, the noisy city deserted;
 is:32.15   Until the spirit from on high is poured out on us. Then will the desert become an orchard and the orchard be regarded as a forest.
 is:32.16   Right will dwell in the desert and justice abide in the orchard.
 is:32.17   Justice will bring about peace; right will produce calm and security.
 is:32.18   My people will live in peaceful country, in secure dwellings and quiet resting places.
 is:32.19   Down it comes, as trees come down in the forest! The city will be utterly laid low. Hill and tower will become wasteland forever for wild asses to frolic in, and flocks to pasture,
 is:32.20   Happy are you who sow beside every stream, and let the ox and the ass go freely!
  
 is:33.1    Woe, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you finish destroying, you will be destroyed; when wearied with betraying, you will be betrayed.
 is:33.2    O LORD, have pity on us, for you we wait. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble!
 is:33.3    At the roaring sound, peoples flee; when you rise in your majesty, nations are scattered.
 is:33.4    Men gather spoil as caterpillars are gathered up; they rush upon it like the onrush of locusts.
 is:33.5    The LORD is exalted, enthroned on high; he fills Zion with right and justice.
 is:33.6    That which makes her seasons lasting, the riches that save her, are wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is her treasure.
 is:33.7    See, the men of Ariel cry out in the streets, the messengers of Shalem weep bitterly.
 is:33.8    The highways are desolate, travelers have quit the paths, Covenants are broken, their terms are spurned; yet no man gives it a thought.
 is:33.9    The country languishes in mourning, Lebanon withers with shame; Sharon is like the steppe, Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
 is:33.10   Now will I rise up, says the LORD, now will I be exalted, now be lifted up.
 is:33.11   You conceive dry grass, bring forth stubble; my spirit shall consume you like fire.
 is:33.12   The peoples shall be as in a limekiln, like brushwood cut down for burning in the fire.
 is:33.13   Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge my might.
 is:33.14   On Zion sinners are in dread, trembling grips the impious: "Who of us can live with the consuming fire? who of us can live with the everlasting flames?"
 is:33.15   He who practices virtue and speaks honestly, who spurns what is gained by oppression, Brushing his hands free of contact with a bribe, stopping his ears lest he hear of bloodshed, closing his eyes lest he look on evil--
 is:33.16   He shall dwell on the heights, his stronghold shall be the rocky fastness, his food and drink in steady supply.
 is:33.17   Your eyes will see a king in his splendor, they will look upon a vast land.
 is:33.18   Your mind will dwell on the terror: "Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?"
 is:33.19   To the people of alien tongue you will look no more, the people of obscure speech, stammering in a language not understood.
 is:33.20   Look to Zion, the city of our festivals; let your eyes see Jerusalem as a quiet abode, a tent not to be struck, Whose pegs will never be pulled up, nor any of its ropes severed.
 is:33.21   In a place of rivers and wide streams on which no boat is rowed, where no majestic ship passes,
 is:33.22   Indeed the LORD will be there with us, majestic; yes, the LORD our judge, the LORD our lawgiver, the LORD our king, he it is who will save us.
 is:33.23   The rigging hangs slack; it cannot hold the mast in place, nor keep the sail spread out.
 is:33.23   Then the blind will divide great spoils and the lame will carry off the loot.
 is:33.24   No one who dwells there will say, "I am sick"; the people who live there will be forgiven their guilt.
  
 is:34.1    Come near, O nations, and hear; be attentive, O peoples! Let the earth and what fills it listen, the world and all it produces.
 is:34.2    The LORD is angry with all the nations and is wrathful against all their host; he has doomed them and given them over to slaughter.
 is:34.3    Their slain shall be cast out, their corpses shall send up a stench; The mountains shall run with their blood,
 is:34.4    and all the hills shall rot; The heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll, and all their host shall wither away, As the leaf wilts on the vine, or as the fig withers on the tree.
 is:34.5    When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, lo, it shall come down in judgment upon Edom, a people I have doomed.
 is:34.6    The LORD has a sword filled with blood, greasy with fat, With the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams' kidneys; For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
 is:34.7    Wild oxen shall be struck down with fatlings, and bullocks with bulls; Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their earth greasy with fat.
 is:34.8    For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of requital by Zion's defender.
 is:34.9    Edom's streams shall be changed into pitch and her earth into sulphur, and her land shall become burning pitch;
 is:34.10   Night and day it shall not be quenched, its smoke shall rise forever. From generation to generation she shall lie waste, never again shall anyone pass through her.
 is:34.11   But the desert owl and hoot owl shall possess her, the screech owl and raven shall dwell in her. The LORD will measure her with line and plummet to be an empty waste for satyrs to dwell in.
 is:34.12   Her nobles shall be no more, nor shall kings be proclaimed there; all her princes are gone.
 is:34.13   Her castles shall be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She shall become an abode for jackals and a haunt for ostriches.
 is:34.14   Wildcats shall meet with desert beasts, satyrs shall call to one another; There shall the lilith repose, and find for herself a place to rest.
 is:34.15   There the hoot owl shall nest and lay eggs, hatch them out and gather them in her shadow; There shall the kites assemble, none shall be missing its mate.
 is:34.16   Look in the book of the LORD and read: No one of these shall be lacking, For the mouth of the LORD has ordered it, and his spirit shall gather them there.
 is:34.17   It is he who casts the lot for them, and with his hands he marks off their shares of her; They shall possess her forever, and dwell there from generation to generation.
  
 is:35.1    The desert and the parched land will exult; the steppe will rejoice and bloom.
 is:35.2    They will bloom with abundant flowers, and rejoice with joyful song. The glory of Lebanon will be given to them, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
 is:35.3    Strengthen the hands that are feeble, make firm the knees that are weak,
 is:35.4    Say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is your God, he comes with vindication; With divine recompense he comes to save you.
 is:35.5    Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf be cleared;
 is:35.6    Then will the lame leap like a stag, then the tongue of the dumb will sing. Streams will burst forth in the desert, and rivers in the steppe.
 is:35.7    The burning sands will become pools, and the thirsty ground, springs of water; The abode where jackals lurk will be a marsh for the reed and papyrus.
 is:35.8    A highway will be there, called the holy way; No one unclean may pass over it, nor fools go astray on it.
 is:35.9    No lion will be there, nor beast of prey go up to be met upon it. It is for those with a journey to make, and on it the redeemed will walk.
 is:35.10   Those whom the LORD has ransomed will return and enter Zion singing, crowned with everlasting joy; They will meet with joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning will flee.
  
 is:36.1    In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went on an expedition against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
 is:36.2    From Lachish the king of Assyria sent his commander with a great army to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem. When he stopped at the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field,
 is:36.3    there came out to him the master of the palace, Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, and Shebna the scribe, and the herald Joah, son of Asaph.
 is:36.4    The commander said to them, "Tell King Hezekiah: Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, 'On what do you base this confidence of yours?
 is:36.5    Do you think mere words substitute for strategy and might in war? On whom, then, do you rely, that you rebel against me?
 is:36.6    This Egypt, the staff on which you rely, is in fact a broken reed which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it. That is what Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is to all who rely on him.
 is:36.7    But if you say to me: "We rely on the LORD, our God," is not he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, commanding Judah and Jerusalem to worship before this altar?'
 is:36.8    "Now, make a wager with my lord the king of Assyria: 'I will give you two thousand horses, if you can put riders on them.'
 is:36.9    How then can you repulse even one of the least servants of my lord? And yet you rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen!
 is:36.10   'Was it without the LORD'S will that I have come up to destroy this land? The LORD said to me, "Go up and destroy that land!"'"
 is:36.11   Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic; we understand it. Do not speak to us in Judean within earshot of the people who are on the wall."
 is:36.12   But the commander replied, "Was it to you and your master that my lord sent me to speak these words? Was it not rather to the men sitting on the wall, who, with you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?"
 is:36.13   Then the commander stepped forward and cried out in a loud voice in Judean, "Listen to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
 is:36.14   Thus says the king: 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, since he cannot deliver you.
 is:36.15   Let not Hezekiah induce you to rely on the LORD, saying, "The LORD will surely save us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria."'
 is:36.16   Do not listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says: 'Make peace with me and surrender! Then each of you will eat of his own vine and of his own fig tree, and drink the water of his own cistern,
 is:36.17   until I come to take you to a land like your own, a land of grain and wine, of bread and vineyards.
 is:36.18   Do not let Hezekiah seduce you by saying, "The LORD will save us." Has any of the gods of the nations ever rescued his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
 is:36.19   Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Where are the gods of Samaria? Have they saved Samaria from my hand?
 is:36.20   Which of all the gods of these lands ever rescued his land from my hand? Will the LORD then save Jerusalem from my hand?'"
 is:36.21   But they remained silent and did not answer him one word, for the king had ordered them not to answer him.
 is:36.22   Then the master of the palace, Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, Shebna the scribe, and the herald Joah, son of Asaph, came to Hezekiah with their garments torn, and reported to him what the commander had said.
  
 is:37.1    When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his garments, wrapped himself in sackcloth, and went into the temple of the LORD.
 is:37.2    He sent Eliakim, the master of the palace, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, wrapped in sackcloth, to tell the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz:
 is:37.3    "Thus says Hezekiah: 'This is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace. Children are at the point of birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth.
 is:37.4    Perhaps the LORD, your God, will hear the words of the commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God, and will rebuke him for the words which the LORD, your God, has heard. Send up a prayer for the remnant that is here.'"
 is:37.5    When the servants of King Hezekiah had come to Isaiah,
 is:37.6    he said to them: "Tell this to your master: 'Thus says the LORD: Do not be frightened by the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
 is:37.7    I am about to put in him such a spirit that, when he hears a certain report, he will return to his own land, and there I will cause him to fall by the sword.'"
 is:37.8    When the commander returned to Lachish and heard that the king of Assyria had left there, he found him besieging Libnah.
 is:37.9    The king of Assyria heard a report that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had come out to fight against him. Again he sent envoys to Hezekiah with this message: "Thus shall you say to Hezekiah, king of Judah:
 is:37.10   'Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.
 is:37.11   You yourself have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: They doomed them! Will you, then, be saved?
 is:37.12   Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed save them? Gozen, Haran, Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar?
 is:37.13   Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, or a king of the cities of Sepharvaim, Hena or Ivvah?'"
 is:37.14   Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; then he went up to the temple of the LORD, and spreading it out before him,
 is:37.15   he prayed to the LORD:
 is:37.16   "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned upon the cherubim! You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.
 is:37.17   Incline your ear, O LORD, and listen! Open your eyes, O LORD and see! Hear all the words of the letter that Sennacherib sent to taunt the living God.
 is:37.18   Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,
 is:37.19   and cast their gods into the fire; they destroyed them because they were not gods but the work of human hands, wood and stone.
 is:37.20   Therefore, O LORD, our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O LORD, alone are God."
 is:37.21   Then Isaiah, son of Amoz, sent this message to Hezekiah: Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: In answer to your prayer for help against Sennacherib, king of Assyria,
 is:37.22   this is the word the LORD has spoken concerning him: She despises you, laughs you to scorn, the virgin daughter Zion; Behind you she wags her head, daughter Jerusalem.
 is:37.23   Whom have you insulted and blasphemed, against whom have you raised your voice And lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!
 is:37.24   Through your servants you have insulted the Lord: You said, "With my many chariots I climbed the mountain heights, the recesses of Lebanon; I cut down its lofty cedars, its choice cypresses; I reached the remotest heights, its forest park.
 is:37.25   I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands; I dried up with the soles of my feet all the rivers of Egypt.
 is:37.26   Have you not heard? Long ago I prepared it, From days of old I planned it, now I have brought it to pass: That you should reduce fortified cities into heaps of ruins,
 is:37.27   While their inhabitants, shorn of power, are dismayed and ashamed, Becoming like the plants of the field, like the green growth, like the scorched grass on the housetops.
 is:37.28   I am aware whether you stand or sit; I know whether you come or go, and also your rage against me.
 is:37.29   Because of your rage against me and your fury which has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and make you return the way you came.
 is:37.30   This shall be a sign for you: this year you shall eat the aftergrowth, next year, what grows of itself; But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit!
 is:37.31   The remaining survivors of the house of Judah shall again strike root below and bear fruit above.
 is:37.32   For out of Jerusalem shall come a remnant, and from Mount Zion, survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
 is:37.33   Therefore, thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not reach this city, nor shoot an arrow at it, nor come before it with a shield, nor cast up siegeworks against it.
 is:37.34   He shall return by the same way he came, without entering the city, says the LORD.
 is:37.35   I will shield and save this city for my own sake, and for the sake of my servant David.
 is:37.36   The angel of the LORD went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. Early the next morning, there they were, all the corpses of the dead.
 is:37.37   So Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, broke camp and went back home to Nineveh.
 is:37.38   When he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer slew him with the sword and fled into the land of Ararat. His son Esarhaddon reigned in his stead.
  
 is:38.1    In those days, when Hezekiah was mortally ill, the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came and said to him: "Thus says the LORD: Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you shall not recover."
 is:38.2    Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD:
 is:38.3    "O LORD, remember how faithfully and wholeheartedly I conducted myself in your presence, doing what was pleasing to you!" And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
 is:38.4    Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:
 is:38.5    "Go, tell Hezekiah: Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will heal you: in three days you shall go up to the LORD'S temple; I will add fifteen years to your life.
 is:38.6    I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; I will be a shield to this city."
 is:38.7    (Isaiah answered:) "This will be the sign for you from the LORD that he will do what he has promised:
 is:38.8    See, I will make the shadow cast by the sun on the stairway to the terrace of Ahaz go back the ten steps it has advanced." So the sun came back the ten steps it had advanced.
 is:38.9    The song of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:
 is:38.10   Once I said, "In the noontime of life I must depart! To the gates of the nether world I shall be consigned for the rest of my years."
 is:38.11   I said, "I shall see the LORD no more in the land of the living. No longer shall I behold my fellow men among those who dwell in the world."
 is:38.12   My dwelling, like a shepherd's tent, is struck down and borne away from me; You have folded up my life, like a weaver who severs the last thread. Day and night you give me over to torment;
 is:38.13   I cry out until the dawn. Like a lion he breaks all my bones; (day and night you give me over to torment).
 is:38.14   Like a swallow I utter shrill cries; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak, gazing heavenward: O Lord, I am in straits; be my surety!
 is:38.15   What am I to say or tell him? He has done it! I shall go on through all my years despite the bitterness of my soul.
 is:38.16   Those live whom the LORD protects; yours. . . the life of my spirit. You have given me health and life;
 is:38.17   thus is my bitterness transformed into peace. You have preserved my life from the pit of destruction, When you cast behind your back all my sins.
 is:38.18   For it is not the nether world that gives you thanks, nor death that praises you; Neither do those who go down into the pit await your kindness.
 is:38.19   The living, the living give you thanks, as I do today. Fathers declare to their sons, O God, your faithfulness.
 is:38.20   The LORD is our savior; we shall sing to stringed instruments In the house of the LORD all the days of our life.
 is:38.21   Isaiah then ordered a poultice of figs to be taken and applied to the boil, that he might recover.
 is:38.22   Then Hezekiah asked, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the temple of the LORD?"
  
 is:39.1    At that time when Merodach-baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, heard that Hezekiah had recovered from his sickness, he sent letters and gifts to him.
 is:39.2    Hezekiah was pleased at this, and therefore showed the messengers his treasury, the silver and gold, the spices and fine oil, his whole armory, and everything that was in his storerooms; there was nothing in his house or in his whole realm that he did not show them.
 is:39.3    Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and asked him, "What did these men say to you? Where did they come from?" Hezekiah answered, "They came to me from a distant land, from Babylon."
 is:39.4    "What did they see in your house?" he asked. Hezekiah replied, "They saw everything in my house; there is nothing in my storerooms that I did not show them."
 is:39.5    Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:
 is:39.6    Behold, the days shall come when all that is in your house, and everything that your fathers have stored up until this day, shall be carried off to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the LORD.
 is:39.7    Some of your own bodily descendants shall be taken and made servants in the palace of the king of Babylon."
 is:39.8    Hezekiah replied to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is favorable." For he thought, "There will be peace and security in my lifetime."
  
 is:40.1    Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God.
 is:40.2    Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service is at an end, her guilt is expiated; Indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.
 is:40.3    A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the LORD! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!
 is:40.4    Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill shall be made low; The rugged land shall be made a plain, the rough country, a broad valley.
 is:40.5    Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all mankind shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
 is:40.6    A voice says, "Cry out!" I answer, "What shall I cry out?" "All mankind is grass, and all their glory like the flower of the field.
 is:40.7    The grass withers, the flower wilts, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it. (So then, the people is the grass.)
 is:40.8    Though the grass withers and the flower wilts, the word of our God stands forever."
 is:40.9    Go up onto a high mountain, Zion, herald of glad tidings; Cry out at the top of your voice, Jerusalem, herald of good news! Fear not to cry out and say to the cities of Judah: Here is your God!
 is:40.10   Here comes with power the Lord GOD, who rules by his strong arm; Here is his reward with him, his recompense before him.
 is:40.11   Like a shepherd he feeds his flock; in his arms he gathers the lambs, Carrying them in his bosom, and leading the ewes with care.
 is:40.12   Who has cupped in his hand the waters of the sea, and marked off the heavens with a span? Who has held in a measure the dust of the earth, weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
 is:40.13   Who has directed the spirit of the LORD, or has instructed him as his counselor?
 is:40.14   Whom did he consult to gain knowledge? Who taught him the path of judgment, or showed him the way of understanding?
 is:40.15   Behold, the nations count as a drop in the bucket, as dust on the scales; the coastlands weigh no more than powder.
 is:40.16   Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor its animals be enough for holocausts.
 is:40.17   Before him all the nations are as nought, as nothing and void he accounts them.
 is:40.18   To whom can you liken God? With what equal can you confront him?
 is:40.19   An idol, cast by a craftsman, which the smith plates with gold and fits with silver chains?
 is:40.20   Mulberry wood, the choice portion which a skilled craftsman picks out for himself, Choosing timber that will not rot, to set up an idol that will not be unsteady?
 is:40.21   Do you not know? Have you not heard? Was it not foretold you from the beginning? Have you not understood? Since the earth was founded
 is:40.22   He sits enthroned above the vault of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; He stretches out the heavens like a veil, spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
 is:40.23   He brings princes to nought and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.
 is:40.24   Scarcely are they planted or sown, scarcely is their stem rooted in the earth, When he breathes upon them and they wither, and the stormwind carries them away like straw.
 is:40.25   To whom can you liken me as an equal? says the Holy One.
 is:40.26   Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these: He leads out their army and numbers them, calling them all by name. By his great might and the strength of his power not one of them is missing!
 is:40.27   Why, O Jacob, do you say, and declare, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?
 is:40.28   Do you not know or have you not heard? The LORD is the eternal God, creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint nor grow weary, and his knowledge is beyond scrutiny.
 is:40.29   He gives strength to the fainting; for the weak he makes vigor abound.
 is:40.30   Though young men faint and grow weary, and youths stagger and fall,
 is:40.31   They that hope in the LORD will renew their strength, they will soar as with eagles' wings; They will run and not grow weary, walk and not grow faint.
  
 is:41.1    Keep silence before me, O coastlands; you peoples, wait for my words! Let them draw near and speak; let us come together for judgment.
 is:41.2    Who has stirred up from the East the champion of justice, and summoned him to be his attendant? To him he delivers the nations and subdues the kings; With his sword he reduces them to dust, with his bow, to driven straw.
 is:41.3    He pursues them, passing on without loss, by a path his feet do not even tread.
 is:41.4    Who has performed these deeds? He who has called forth the generations since the beginning. I, the LORD, am the first, and with the last I will also be.
 is:41.5    The coastlands see, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble: these things are near, they come to pass.
 is:41.6    One man helps another, one says to the other, "Keep on!"
 is:41.7    The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, the one who beats with the hammer, him who strikes on the anvil; He says the soldering is good, and he fastens it with nails to steady it.
 is:41.8    But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend--
 is:41.9    You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth and summoned from its far-off places, You whom I have called my servant, whom I have chosen and will not cast off--
 is:41.10   Fear not, I am with you; be not dismayed; I am your God. I will strengthen you, and help you, and uphold you with my right hand of justice.
 is:41.11   Yes, all shall be put to shame and disgrace who vent their anger against you; Those shall perish and come to nought who offer resistance.
 is:41.12   You shall seek out, but shall not find, those who strive against you; They shall be as nothing at all who do battle with you.
 is:41.13   For I am the LORD, your God, who grasp your right hand; It is I who say to you, "Fear not, I will help you."
 is:41.14   Fear not, O worm Jacob, O maggot Israel; I will help you, says the LORD; your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
 is:41.15   I will make of you a threshing sledge, sharp, new, and double-edged, To thresh the mountains and crush them, to make the hills like chaff.
 is:41.16   When you winnow them, the wind shall carry them off and the storm shall scatter them. But you shall rejoice in the LORD, and glory in the Holy One of Israel.
 is:41.17   The afflicted and the needy seek water in vain, their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
 is:41.18   I will open up rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the broad valleys; I will turn the desert into a marshland, and the dry ground into springs of water.
 is:41.19   I will plant in the desert the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive; I will set in the wasteland the cypress, together with the plane tree and the pine,
 is:41.20   That all may see and know, observe and understand, That the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.
 is:41.21   Present your case, says the LORD; bring forward your reasons, says the King of Jacob.
 is:41.22   Let them come near and foretell to us what it is that shall happen! What are the things of long ago? Tell us, that we may reflect on them And know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come!
 is:41.23   Foretell the things that shall come afterward, that we may know that you are gods! Do something, good or evil, that will put us in awe and in fear.
 is:41.24   Why, you are nothing and your work is nought! To choose you is an abomination.
 is:41.25   I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes; from the east I summon him by name; He shall trample the rulers down like red earth, as the potter treads the clay.
 is:41.26   Who announced this from the beginning, that we might know; beforehand, that we might say it is true? Not one of you foretold it, not one spoke; no one heard you say,
 is:41.27   "The first news for Zion: they are coming now," or, "For Jerusalem I will pick out a bearer of the glad tidings."
 is:41.28   When I look, there is not one, no one of them to give counsel, to make an answer when I question them.
 is:41.29   Ah, all of them are nothing, their works are nought, their idols are empty wind!
  
 is:42.1    Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased, Upon whom I have put my spirit; he shall bring forth justice to the nations,
 is:42.2    Not crying out, not shouting, not making his voice heard in the street.
 is:42.3    A bruised reed he shall not break, and a smoldering wick he shall not quench,
 is:42.4    Until he establishes justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait for his teaching.
 is:42.5    Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spreads out the earth with its crops, Who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk on it:
 is:42.6    I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations,
 is:42.7    To open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.
 is:42.8    I am the LORD, this is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to idols.
 is:42.9    See, the earlier things have come to pass, new ones I now foretell; Before they spring into being, I announce them to you.
 is:42.10   Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the end of the earth: Let the sea and what fills it resound, the coastlands, and those who dwell in them.
 is:42.11   Let the steppe and its cities cry out, the villages where Kedar dwells; Let the inhabitants of Sela exult, and shout from the top of the mountains.
 is:42.12   Let them give glory to the LORD, and utter his praise in the coastlands.
 is:42.13   The LORD goes forth like a hero, like a warrior he stirs up his ardor; He shouts out his battle cry, against his enemies he shows his might:
 is:42.14   I have looked away, and kept silence, I have said nothing, holding myself in; But now, I cry out as a woman in labor, gasping and panting.
 is:42.15   I will lay waste mountains and hills, all their herbage I will dry up; I will turn the rivers into marshes, and the marshes I will dry up.
 is:42.16   I will lead the blind on their journey; by paths unknown I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them, and make crooked ways straight. These things I do for them, and I will not forsake them.
 is:42.17   They shall be turned back in utter shame who trust in idols; Who say to molten images, "You are our gods."
 is:42.18   You who are deaf, listen, you who are blind, look and see!
 is:42.19   Who is blind but my servant, or deaf like the messenger I send?
 is:42.20   You see many things without taking note; your ears are open, but without hearing.
 is:42.21   Though it pleased the LORD in his justice to make his law great and glorious,
 is:42.22   This is a people despoiled and plundered, all of them trapped in holes, hidden away in prisons. They are taken as booty, with no one to rescue them, as spoil, with no one to demand their return.
 is:42.23   Who of you gives ear to this? Who listens and pays heed for the time to come?
 is:42.24   Who was it that gave Jacob to be plundered, Israel to the despoilers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? In his ways they refused to walk, his law they disobeyed.
 is:42.25   So he poured out wrath upon them, his anger, and the fury of battle; It blazed round about them, yet they did not realize, it burned them, but they took it not to heart.
  
 is:43.1    But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name: you are mine.
 is:43.2    When you pass through the water, I will be with you; in the rivers you shall not drown. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned; the flames shall not consume you.
 is:43.3    For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in return for you.
 is:43.4    Because you are precious in my eyes and glorious, and because I love you, I give men in return for you and peoples in exchange for your life.
 is:43.5    Fear not, for I am with you; from the east I will bring back your descendants, from the west I will gather you.
 is:43.6    I will say to the north: Give them up! and to the south: Hold not back! Bring back my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth:
 is:43.7    Everyone who is named as mine, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.
 is:43.8    Lead out the people who are blind though they have eyes, who are deaf though they have ears.
 is:43.9    Let all the nations gather together, let the peoples assemble! Who among them could have revealed this, or foretold to us the earlier things? Let them produce witnesses to prove themselves right, that one may hear and say, "It is true!"
 is:43.10   You are my witnesses, says the LORD, my servants whom I have chosen To know and believe in me and understand that it is I. Before me no god was formed, and after me there shall be none.
 is:43.11   It is I, I the LORD; there is no savior but me.
 is:43.12   It is I who foretold, I who saved; I made it known, not any strange god among you; You are my witnesses, says the LORD. I am God,
 is:43.13   yes, from eternity I am He; There is none who can deliver from my hand: who can countermand what I do?
 is:43.14   Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sakes I send to Babylon; I will lower all the bars, and the Chaldeans shall cry out in lamentation.
 is:43.15   I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
 is:43.16   Thus says the LORD, who opens a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters,
 is:43.17   Who leads out chariots and horsemen, a powerful army, Till they lie prostrate together, never to rise, snuffed out and quenched like a wick.
 is:43.18   Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not;
 is:43.19   See, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? In the desert I make a way, in the wasteland, rivers.
 is:43.20   Wild beasts honor me, jackals and ostriches, For I put water in the desert and rivers in the wasteland for my chosen people to drink,
 is:43.21   The people whom I formed for myself, that they might announce my praise.
 is:43.22   Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob, for you grew weary of me, O Israel.
 is:43.23   You did not bring me sheep for your holocausts, nor honor me with your sacrifices. I did not exact from you the service of offerings, nor weary you for frankincense.
 is:43.24   You did not buy me sweet cane for money, nor fill me with the fat of your sacrifices; Instead, you burdened me with your sins, and wearied me with your crimes.
 is:43.25   It is I, I, who wipe out, for my own sake, your offenses; your sins I remember no more.
 is:43.26   Would you have me remember, have us come to trial? Speak up, prove your innocence!
 is:43.27   Your first father sinned; your spokesmen rebelled against me
 is:43.28   Till I repudiated the holy gates, put Jacob under the ban, and exposed Israel to scorn.
  
 is:44.1    Hear then, O Jacob, my servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
 is:44.2    Thus says the LORD who made you, your help, who formed you from the womb: Fear not, O Jacob, my servant, the darling whom I have chosen.
 is:44.3    I will pour out water upon the thirsty ground, and streams upon the dry land; I will pour out my spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing upon your descendants.
 is:44.4    They shall spring up amid the verdure like poplars beside the flowing waters.
 is:44.5    One shall say, "I am the LORD'S," another shall be named after Jacob, And this one shall write on his hand, "The LORD'S," and Israel shall be his surname.
 is:44.6    Thus says the LORD, Israel's King and redeemer, the LORD of hosts: I am the first and I am the last; there is no God but me.
 is:44.7    Who is like me? Let him stand up and speak, make it evident, and confront me with it. Who of old announced future events? Let them foretell to us the things to come.
 is:44.8    Fear not, be not troubled: did I not announce and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses! Is there a God or any Rock besides me?
 is:44.9    Idol makers all amount to nothing, and their precious works are of no avail, as they themselves give witness. To their shame, they neither see nor know anything; and they are more deaf than men are.
 is:44.10   Indeed, all the associates of anyone who forms a god, or casts an idol to no purpose, will be put to shame;
 is:44.11   they will all assemble and stand forth, to be reduced to fear and shame.
 is:44.12   The smith fashions an iron image, works it over the coals, shapes it with hammers, and forges it with his strong arm. He is hungry and weak, drinks no water and becomes exhausted.
 is:44.13   The carpenter stretches a line and marks with a stylus the outline of an idol. He shapes it with a plane and measures it off with a compass, making it like a man in appearance and dignity, to occupy a shrine.
 is:44.14   He cuts down cedars, takes a holm or an oak, and lays hold of other trees of the forest, which the Lord had planted and the rain made grow
 is:44.15   to serve man for fuel. With a part of their wood he warms himself, or makes a fire for baking bread; but with another part he makes a god which he adores, an idol which he worships.
 is:44.16   Half of it he burns in the fire, and on its embers he roasts his meat; he eats what he has roasted until he is full, and then warms himself and says, "Ah! I am warm, I feel the fire."
 is:44.17   Of what remains he makes a god, his idol, and prostrate before it in worship, he implores it, "Rescue me, for you are my god."
 is:44.18   The idols have neither knowledge nor reason; their eyes are coated so that they cannot see, and their hearts so that they cannot understand.
 is:44.19   Yet he does not reflect, nor have the intelligence and sense to say, "Half of the wood I burned in the fire, and on its embers I baked bread and roasted meat which I ate. Shall I then make an abomination out of the rest, or worship a block of wood?"
 is:44.20   He is chasing ashes-a thing that cannot save itself when the flame consumes it; yet he does not say, "Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?"
 is:44.21   Remember this, O Jacob, you, O Israel, who are my servant! I formed you to be a servant to me; O Israel, by me you shall never be forgotten:
 is:44.22   I have brushed away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like a mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.
 is:44.23   Raise a glad cry, you heavens: the LORD has done this; shout, you depths of the earth. Break forth, you mountains, into song, you forest, with all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and shows his glory through Israel.
 is:44.24   Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, who formed you from the womb: I am the LORD, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens; when I spread out the earth, who was with me?
 is:44.25   It is I who bring to nought the omens of liars, who make fools of diviners; I turn wise men back and make their knowledge foolish.
 is:44.26   It is I who confirm the words of my servants, I carry out the plan announced by my messengers; I say to Jerusalem: Be inhabited; to the cities of Judah: Be rebuilt; I will raise up their ruins.
 is:44.27   It is I who said to the deep: Be dry; I will dry up your wellsprings.
 is:44.28   I say of Cyrus: My shepherd, who fulfills my every wish; He shall say of Jerusalem, "Let her be rebuilt," and of the temple, "Let its foundations be laid."
  
 is:45.1    Thus says the LORD to his anointed, Cyrus, whose right hand I grasp, Subduing nations before him, and making kings run in his service, Opening doors before him and leaving the gates unbarred:
 is:45.2    I will go before you and level the mountains; Bronze doors I will shatter, and iron bars I will snap.
 is:45.3    I will give you treasures out of the darkness, and riches that have been hidden away, That you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.
 is:45.4    For the sake of Jacob, my servant, of Israel my chosen one, I have called you by your name, giving you a title, though you knew me not.
 is:45.5    I am the LORD and there is no other, there is no God besides me. It is I who arm you, though you know me not,
 is:45.6    so that toward the rising and the setting of the sun men may know that there is none besides me. I am the LORD, there is no other;
 is:45.7    I form the light, and create the darkness, I make well-being and create woe; I, the LORD, do all these things.
 is:45.8    Let justice descend, O heavens, like dew from above, like gentle rain let the skies drop it down. Let the earth open and salvation bud forth; let justice also spring up! I, the LORD, have created this.
 is:45.9    Woe to him who contends with his Maker; a potsherd among potsherds of the earth! Dare the clay say to its modeler, "What are you doing?" or, "What you are making has no hands"?
 is:45.10   Woe to him who asks a father, "What are you begetting?" or a woman, "What are you giving birth to?"
 is:45.11   Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, his maker: You question me about my children, or prescribe the work of my hands for me!
 is:45.12   It was I who made the earth and created mankind upon it; It was my hands that stretched out the heavens; I gave the order to all their host.
 is:45.13   It was I who stirred up one for the triumph of justice; all his ways I make level. He shall rebuild my city and let my exiles go free Without price or ransom, says the LORD of hosts.
 is:45.14   Thus says the LORD: The earnings of Egypt, the gain of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, tall of stature, Shall come over to you and belong to you; they shall follow you, coming in chains. Before you they shall fall prostrate, saying in prayer: "With you only is God, and nowhere else; the gods are nought.
 is:45.15   Truly with you God is hidden, the God of Israel, the savior!
 is:45.16   Those are put to shame and disgrace who vent their anger against him; Those go in disgrace who carve images.
 is:45.17   Israel, you are saved by the LORD, saved forever! You shall never be put to shame or disgrace in future ages."
 is:45.18   For thus says the LORD, The creator of the heavens, who is God, The designer and maker of the earth who established it, Not creating it to be a waste, but designing it to be lived in: I am the LORD, and there is no other.
 is:45.19   I have not spoken from hiding nor from some dark place of the earth, And I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, "Look for me in an empty waste." I, the LORD, promise justice, I foretell what is right.
 is:45.20   Come and assemble, gather together, you fugitives from among the gentiles! They are without knowledge who bear wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save.
 is:45.21   Come here and declare in counsel together: Who announced this from the beginning and foretold it from of old? Was it not I, the LORD, besides whom there is no other God? There is no just and saving God but me.
 is:45.22   Turn to me and be safe, all you ends of the earth, for I am God; there is no other!
 is:45.23   By myself I swear, uttering my just decree and my unalterable word: To me every knee shall bend; by me every tongue shall swear,
 is:45.24   Saying, "Only in the LORD are just deeds and power. Before him in shame shall come all who vent their anger against him.
 is:45.25   In the LORD shall be the vindication and the glory of all the descendants of Israel."
  
 is:46.1    Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols are upon beasts and cattle; They must be borne up on shoulders, carried as burdens by the weary.
 is:46.2    They stoop and bow down together; unable to save those who bear them, they too go into captivity.
 is:46.3    Hear me, O house of Jacob, all who remain of the house of Israel, My burden since your birth, whom I have carried from your infancy.
 is:46.4    Even to your old age I am the same, even when your hair is gray I will bear you; It is I who have done this, I who will continue, and I who will carry you to safety.
 is:46.5    Whom would you compare me with, as an equal, or match me against, as though we were alike?
 is:46.6    There are those who pour out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scales; Then they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god before which they fall down in worship.
 is:46.7    They lift it to their shoulders to carry; when they set it in place again, it stays, and does not move from the spot. Although they cry out to it, it cannot answer; it delivers no one from distress.
 is:46.8    Remember this and be firm, bear it well in mind, you rebels; remember the former things, those long ago:
 is:46.9    I am God, there is no other; I am God, there is none like me.
 is:46.10   At the beginning I foretell the outcome; in advance, things not yet done. I say that my plan shall stand, I accomplish my every purpose.
 is:46.11   I call from the east a bird of prey, from a distant land, one to carry out my plan. Yes, I have spoken, I will accomplish it; I have planned it, and I will do it.
 is:46.12   Listen to me, you fainthearted, you who seem far from the victory of justice:
 is:46.13   I am bringing on my justice, it is not far off, my salvation shall not tarry; I will put salvation within Zion, and give to Israel my glory.
  
 is:47.1    Come down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter Babylon; Sit on the ground, dethroned, O daughter of the Chaldeans. No longer shall you be called dainty and delicate.
 is:47.2    Take the millstone and grind flour, remove your veil; Strip off your train, bare your legs, pass through the streams.
 is:47.3    Your nakedness shall be uncovered and your shame be seen; I will take vengeance, I will yield to no entreaty, says our redeemer,
 is:47.4    Whose name is the LORD of hosts, the Holy One of Israel.
 is:47.5    Go into darkness and sit in silence, O daughter of the Chaldeans, No longer shall you be called sovereign mistress of kingdoms.
 is:47.6    Angry at my people, I profaned my inheritance, And I gave them into your hand; but you showed them no mercy, And upon old men you laid a very heavy yoke.
 is:47.7    You said, "I shall remain always, a sovereign mistress forever!" But you did not lay these things to heart, you disregarded their outcome.
 is:47.8    Now hear this, voluptuous one, enthroned securely, Saying to yourself, "I, and no one else! I shall never be a widow, or suffer the loss of my children"--
 is:47.9    Both these things shall come to you suddenly, in a single day: Complete bereavement and widowhood shall come upon you For your many sorceries and the great number of your spells;
 is:47.10   Because you felt secure in your wickedness, and said, "No one sees me." Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, And you said to yourself, "I, and no one else!"
 is:47.11   But upon you shall come evil you will not know how to predict; Disaster shall befall you which you cannot allay. Suddenly there shall come upon you ruin which you will not expect.
 is:47.12   Keep up, now, your spells and your many sorceries. Perhaps you can make them avail, perhaps you can strike terror!
 is:47.13   You wearied yourself with many consultations, at which you toiled from your youth; Let the astrologers stand forth to save you, the stargazers who forecast at each new moon what would happen to you.
 is:47.14   Lo, they are like stubble, fire consumes them; They cannot save themselves from the spreading flames. This is no warming ember, no fire to sit before.
 is:47.15   Thus do your wizards serve you with whom you have toiled from your youth; Each wanders his own way, with none to save you.
  
 is:48.1    Hear this, O house of Jacob called by the name Israel, sprung from the stock of Judah, You who swear by the name of the LORD and invoke the God of Israel without sincerity or justice,
 is:48.2    Though you are named after the holy city and rely on the God of Israel, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
 is:48.3    Things of the past I foretold long ago, they went forth from my mouth, I let you hear of them; then suddenly I took action and they came to be.
 is:48.4    Because I know that you are stubborn and that your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead bronze,
 is:48.5    I foretold them to you of old; before they took place I let you hear of them, That you might not say, "My idol did them, my statue, my molten image commanded them."
 is:48.6    Now that you have heard, look at all this; must you not admit it? From now on I announce new things to you, hidden events of which you knew not.
 is:48.7    Now, not long ago, they are brought into being, and beforetime you did not hear of them, so that you cannot claim to have known them;
 is:48.8    You neither heard nor knew, they did not reach your ears beforehand. Yes, I know you are utterly treacherous, a rebel you were called from birth.
 is:48.9    For the sake of my name I restrain my anger, for the sake of my renown I hold it back from you, lest I should destroy you.
 is:48.10   See, I have refined you like silver, tested you in the furnace of affliction.
 is:48.11   For my sake, for my own sake, I do this; why should I suffer profanation? My glory I will not give to another.
 is:48.12   Listen to me, Jacob, Israel, whom I named! I, it is I who am the first, and also the last am I.
 is:48.13   Yes, my hand laid the foundations of the earth; my right hand spread out the heavens. When I call them, they stand forth at once.
 is:48.14   All of you assemble and listen: Who among you foretold these things? The LORD'S friend shall do his will against Babylon and the progeny of Chaldea.
 is:48.15   I myself have spoken, I have called him, I have brought him, and his way succeeds!
 is:48.16   Come near to me and hear this! Not from the beginning did I speak it in secret; At the time it comes to pass, I am present: "Now the Lord GOD has sent me, and his spirit."
 is:48.17   Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I, the LORD, your God, teach you what is for your good, and lead you on the way you should go.
 is:48.18   If you would hearken to my commandments, your prosperity would be like a river, and your vindication like the waves of the sea;
 is:48.19   Your descendants would be like the sand, and those born of your stock like its grains, Their name never cut off or blotted out from my presence.
 is:48.20   Go forth from Babylon, flee from Chaldea! With shouts of joy proclaim this, make it known; Publish it to the ends of the earth, and say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.
 is:48.21   They did not thirst when he led them through dry lands; Water from the rock he set flowing for them; he cleft the rock, and waters welled forth."
 is:48.22   (There is no peace for the wicked, says the LORD.)
  
 is:49.1    Hear me, O coastlands, listen, O distant peoples. The LORD called me from birth, from my mother's womb he gave me my name.
 is:49.2    He made of me a sharp-edged sword and concealed me in the shadow of his arm. He made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me.
 is:49.3    You are my servant, he said to me, Israel, through whom I show my glory.
 is:49.4    Though I thought I had toiled in vain, and for nothing, uselessly, spent my strength, Yet my reward is with the LORD, my recompense is with my God.
 is:49.5    For now the LORD has spoken who formed me as his servant from the womb, That Jacob may be brought back to him and Israel gathered to him; And I am made glorious in the sight of the LORD, and my God is now my strength!
 is:49.6    It is too little, he says, for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.
 is:49.7    Thus says the LORD, the redeemer and the Holy One of Israel, To the one despised, whom the nations abhor, the slave of rulers: When kings see you, they shall stand up, and princes shall prostrate themselves Because of the LORD who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.
 is:49.8    Thus says the LORD: In a time of favor I answer you, on the day of salvation I help you, To restore the land and allot the desolate heritages,
 is:49.9    Saying to the prisoners: Come out! To those in darkness: Show yourselves! Along the ways they shall find pasture, on every bare height shall their pastures be.
 is:49.10   They shall not hunger or thirst, nor shall the scorching wind or the sun strike them; For he who pities them leads them and guides them beside springs of water.
 is:49.11   I will cut a road through all my mountains, and make my highways level.
 is:49.12   See, some shall come from afar, others from the north and the west, and some from the land of Syene.
 is:49.13   Sing out, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth, break forth into song, you mountains. For the LORD comforts his people and shows mercy to his afflicted.
 is:49.14   But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me."
 is:49.15   Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.
 is:49.16   See, upon the palms of my hands I have written your name; your walls are ever before me.
 is:49.17   Your rebuilders make haste, as those who tore you down and laid you waste go forth from you;
 is:49.18   Look about and see, they are all gathering and coming to you. As I live, says the LORD, you shall be arrayed with them all as with adornments, like a bride you shall fasten them on you.
 is:49.19   Though you were waste and desolate, a land of ruins, Now you shall be too small for your inhabitants, while those who swallowed you up will be far away.
 is:49.20   The children whom you had lost shall yet say to you, "This place is too small for me, make room for me to live in."
 is:49.21   You shall ask yourself: "Who has borne me these? I was bereft and barren (exiled and repudiated); who has reared them? I was left all alone; where then do these come from?"
 is:49.22   Thus says the Lord GOD: See, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; They shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
 is:49.23   Kings shall be your foster fathers, their princesses your nurses; Bowing to the ground, they shall worship you and lick the dust at your feet. Then you shall know that I am the LORD, and those who hope in me shall never be disappointed.
 is:49.24   Thus says the LORD: Can booty be taken from a warrior? or captives be rescued from a tyrant?
 is:49.25   Yes, captives can be taken from a warrior, and booty be rescued from a tyrant; Those who oppose you I will oppose, and your sons I will save.
 is:49.26   I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with the juice of the grape. All mankind shall know that I, the LORD, am your savior, your redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
  
 is:50.1    Thus says the LORD: Where is the bill of divorce with which I dismissed your mother? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? It was for your sins that you were sold, for your crimes that your mother was dismissed.
 is:50.2    Why was no one there when I came? Why did no one answer when I called? Is my hand too short to ransom? Have I not the strength to deliver? Lo, with my rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into a desert; Their fish rot for lack of water, and die of thirst.
 is:50.3    I clothe the heavens in mourning, and make sackcloth their vesture.
 is:50.4    The Lord GOD has given me a well-trained tongue, That I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear;
 is:50.5    And I have not rebelled, have not turned back.
 is:50.6    I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; My face I did not shield from buffets and spitting.
 is:50.7    The Lord GOD is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame.
 is:50.8    He is near who upholds my right; if anyone wishes to oppose me, let us appear together. Who disputes my right? Let him confront me.
 is:50.9    See, the Lord GOD is my help; who will prove me wrong? Lo, they will all wear out like cloth, the moth will eat them up.
 is:50.10   Who among you fears the LORD, heeds his servant's voice, And walks in darkness without any light, Trusting in the name of the LORD and relying on his God?
 is:50.11   All of you kindle flames and carry about you fiery darts; Walk by the light of your own fire and by the flares you have burnt! This is your fate from my hand: you shall lie down in a place of pain.
  
 is:51.1    Listen to me, you who pursue justice, who seek the LORD; Look to the rock from which you were hewn, to the pit from which you were quarried;
 is:51.2    Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth; When he was but one I called him, I blessed him and made him many.
 is:51.3    Yes, the LORD shall comfort Zion and have pity on all her ruins; Her deserts he shall make like Eden, her wasteland like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness shall be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of song.
 is:51.4    Be attentive to me, my people; my folk, give ear to me. For law shall go forth from my presence, and my judgment, as the light of the peoples.
 is:51.5    I will make my justice come speedily; my salvation shall go forth (and my arm shall judge the nations); In me shall the coastlands hope, and my arm they shall await.
 is:51.6    Raise your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; Though the heavens grow thin like smoke, the earth wears out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies, My salvation shall remain forever and my justice shall never be dismayed.
 is:51.7    Hear me, you who know justice, you people who have my teaching at heart: Fear not the reproach of men, be not dismayed at their revilings.
 is:51.8    They shall be like a garment eaten by moths, like wool consumed by grubs; But my justice shall remain forever and my salvation, for all generations.
 is:51.9    Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD! Awake as in the days of old, in ages long ago! Was it not you who crushed Rahab, you who pierced the dragon?
 is:51.10   Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, Who made the depths of the sea into a way for the redeemed to pass over?
 is:51.11   Those whom the LORD has ransomed will return and enter Zion singing, crowned with everlasting joy; They will meet with joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning will flee.
 is:51.12   I, it is I who comfort you. Can you then fear mortal man, who is human only, to be looked upon as grass,
 is:51.13   And forget the LORD, your maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth? All the day you are in constant dread of the fury of the oppressor; But when he sets himself to destroy, what is there of the oppressor's fury?
 is:51.14   The oppressed shall soon be released; they shall not die and go down into the pit, nor shall they want for bread.
 is:51.15   For I am the LORD, your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; the LORD of hosts by name.
 is:51.16   I have put my words into your mouth and shielded you in the shadow of my hand, I, who stretched out the heavens, who laid the foundations of the earth, who say to Zion: You are my people.
 is:51.17   Awake, awake! Arise, O Jerusalem, You who drank at the LORD'S hand the cup of his wrath; Who drained to the dregs the bowl of staggering!
 is:51.18   She has no one to guide her of all the sons she bore; She has no one to grasp her by the hand, of all the sons she reared!--
 is:51.19   Your misfortunes are double; who is there to condole with you? Desolation and destruction, famine and sword! Who is there to comfort you?
 is:51.20   Your sons lie helpless at every street corner like antelopes in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
 is:51.21   But now, hear this, O afflicted one, drunk, but not with wine,
 is:51.22   Thus says the LORD, your Master, your God, who defends his people: See, I am taking from your hand the cup of staggering; The bowl of my wrath you shall no longer drink.
 is:51.23   I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, those who ordered you to bow down, that they might walk over you, While you offered your back like the ground, like the street for them to walk on.
  
 is:52.1    Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; Put on your glorious garments, O Jerusalem, holy city. No longer shall the uncircumcised or the unclean enter you.
 is:52.2    Shake off the dust, ascend to the throne, Jerusalem; Loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter Zion!
 is:52.3    For thus says the LORD: You were sold for nothing, and without money you shall be redeemed.
 is:52.4    Thus says the Lord GOD: To Egypt in the beginning my people went down, to sojourn there; Assyria, too, oppressed them for nought.
 is:52.5    But now, what am I to do here? says the LORD. My people have been taken away without redress; their rulers make a boast of it, says the LORD; all the day my name is constantly reviled.
 is:52.6    Therefore on that day my people shall know my renown, that it is I who have foretold it. Here I am!
 is:52.7    How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings glad tidings, Announcing peace, bearing good news, announcing salvation, and saying to Zion, "Your God is King!"
 is:52.8    Hark! Your watchmen raise a cry, together they shout for joy, For they see directly, before their eyes, the LORD restoring Zion.
 is:52.9    Break out together in song, O ruins of Jerusalem! For the LORD comforts his people, he redeems Jerusalem.
 is:52.10   The LORD has bared his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; All the ends of the earth will behold the salvation of our God.
 is:52.11   Depart, depart, come forth from there, touch nothing unclean! Out from there! Purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
 is:52.12   Yet not in fearful haste will you come out, nor leave in headlong flight, For the LORD comes before you, and your rear guard is the God of Israel.
 is:52.13   See, my servant shall prosper, he shall be raised high and greatly exalted.
 is:52.14   Even as many were amazed at him-- so marred was his look beyond that of man, and his appearance beyond that of mortals--
 is:52.15   So shall he startle many nations, because of him kings shall stand speechless; For those who have not been told shall see, those who have not heard shall ponder it.
  
 is:53.1    Who would believe what we have heard? To whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
 is:53.2    He grew up like a sapling before him, like a shoot from the parched earth; There was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him, nor appearance that would attract us to him.
 is:53.3    He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity, One of those from whom men hide their faces, spurned, and we held him in no esteem.
 is:53.4    Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured, While we thought of him as stricken, as one smitten by God and afflicted.
 is:53.5    But he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins, Upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed.
 is:53.6    We had all gone astray like sheep, each following his own way; But the LORD laid upon him the guilt of us all.
 is:53.7    Though he was harshly treated, he submitted and opened not his mouth; Like a lamb led to the slaughter or a sheep before the shearers, he was silent and opened not his mouth.
 is:53.8    Oppressed and condemned, he was taken away, and who would have thought any more of his destiny? When he was cut off from the land of the living, and smitten for the sin of his people,
 is:53.9    A grave was assigned him among the wicked and a burial place with evildoers, Though he had done no wrong nor spoken any falsehood.
 is:53.10   (But the LORD was pleased to crush him in infirmity.) If he gives his life as an offering for sin, he shall see his descendants in a long life, and the will of the LORD shall be accomplished through him.
 is:53.11   Because of his affliction he shall see the light in fullness of days; Through his suffering, my servant shall justify many, and their guilt he shall bear.
 is:53.12   Therefore I will give him his portion among the great, and he shall divide the spoils with the mighty, Because he surrendered himself to death and was counted among the wicked; And he shall take away the sins of many, and win pardon for their offenses.
  
 is:54.1    Raise a glad cry, you barren one who did not bear, break forth in jubilant song, you who were not in labor, For more numerous are the children of the deserted wife than the children of her who has a husband, says the LORD.
 is:54.2    Enlarge the space for your tent, spread out your tent cloths unsparingly; lengthen your ropes and make firm your stakes.
 is:54.3    For you shall spread abroad to the right and to the left; Your descendants shall dispossess the nations and shall people the desolate cities.
 is:54.4    Fear not, you shall not be put to shame; you need not blush, for you shall not be disgraced. The shame of your youth you shall forget, the reproach of your widowhood no longer remember.
 is:54.5    For he who has become your husband is your Maker; his name is the LORD of hosts; Your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, called God of all the earth.
 is:54.6    The LORD calls you back, like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, A wife married in youth and then cast off, says your God.
 is:54.7    For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great tenderness I will take you back.
 is:54.8    In an outburst of wrath, for a moment I hid my face from you; But with enduring love I take pity on you, says the LORD, your redeemer.
 is:54.9    This is for me like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah should never again deluge the earth; So I have sworn not to be angry with you, or to rebuke you.
 is:54.10   Though the mountains leave their place and the hills be shaken, My love shall never leave you nor my covenant of peace be shaken, says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
 is:54.11   O afflicted one, storm-battered and unconsoled, I lay your pavements in carnelians, and your foundations in sapphires;
 is:54.12   I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of carbuncles, and all your walls of precious stones.
 is:54.13   All your sons shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.
 is:54.14   In justice shall you be established, far from the fear of oppression, where destruction cannot come near you.
 is:54.15   Should there be any attack, it shall not be of my making; whoever attacks you shall fall before you.
 is:54.16   Lo, I have created the craftsman who blows on the burning coals and forges weapons as his work; It is I also who have created the destroyer to work havoc.
 is:54.17   No weapon fashioned against you shall prevail; every tongue you shall prove false that launches an accusation against you. This is the lot of the servants of the LORD, their vindication from me, says the LORD.
  
 is:55.1    All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come, receive grain and eat; Come, without paying and without cost, drink wine and milk!
 is:55.2    Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what fails to satisfy? Heed me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare.
 is:55.3    Come to me heedfully, listen, that you may have life. I will renew with you the everlasting covenant, the benefits assured to David.
 is:55.4    As I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander of nations,
 is:55.5    So shall you summon a nation you knew not, and nations that knew you not shall run to you, Because of the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, who has glorified you.
 is:55.6    Seek the LORD while he may be found, call him while he is near.
 is:55.7    Let the scoundrel forsake his way, and the wicked man his thoughts; Let him turn to the LORD for mercy; to our God, who is generous in forgiving.
 is:55.8    For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
 is:55.9    As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways and my thoughts above your thoughts.
 is:55.10   For just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down And do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, Giving seed to him who sows and bread to him who eats,
 is:55.11   So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me void, but shall do my will, achieving the end for which I sent it.
 is:55.12   Yes, in joy you shall depart, in peace you shall be brought back; Mountains and hills shall break out in song before you, and all the trees of the countryside shall clap their hands.
 is:55.13   In place of the thornbush, the cypress shall grow, instead of nettles, the myrtle. This shall be to the LORD'S renown, an everlasting imperishable sign.
  
 is:56.1    Thus says the LORD: Observe what is right, do what is just; for my salvation is about to come, my justice, about to be revealed.
 is:56.2    Happy is the man who does this, the son of man who holds to it; Who keeps the sabbath free from profanation, and his hand from any evildoing.
 is:56.3    Let not the foreigner say, when he would join himself to the LORD, "The LORD will surely exclude me from his people"; Nor let the eunuch say, "See, I am a dry tree."
 is:56.4    For thus says the LORD: To the eunuchs who observe my sabbaths and choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant,
 is:56.5    I will give, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name Better than sons and daughters; an eternal, imperishable name will I give them.
 is:56.6    And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, ministering to him, Loving the name of the LORD, and becoming his servants-- All who keep the sabbath free from profanation and hold to my covenant,
 is:56.7    Them I will bring to my holy mountain and make joyful in my house of prayer; Their holocausts and sacrifices will be acceptable on my altar, For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
 is:56.8    Thus says the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: Others will I gather to him besides those already gathered.
 is:56.9    All you wild beasts of the field, come and eat, all you beasts in the forest!
 is:56.10   My watchmen are blind, all of them unaware; They are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; Dreaming as they lie there, loving their sleep.
 is:56.11   They are relentless dogs, they know not when they have enough. These are the shepherds who know no discretion; Each of them goes his own way, every one of them to his own gain:
 is:56.12   "Come, I will fetch some wine; let us carouse with strong drink, And tomorrow will be like today, or even greater."
  
 is:57.1    The just man perishes, but no one takes it to heart; Devout men are swept away, with no one giving it a thought. Though he is taken away from the presence of evil, the just man
 is:57.2    enters into peace; There is rest on his couch for the sincere, straightforward man.
 is:57.3    But you, draw near, you sons of a sorceress, adulterous, wanton race!
 is:57.4    Of whom do you make sport, at whom do you open wide your mouth, and put out your tongue? Are you not rebellious children, a worthless race;
 is:57.5    You who are in heat among the terebinths, under every green tree; You who immolate children in the wadies, behind the crevices in the cliffs?
 is:57.6    Among the smooth stones of the wadi is your portion, these are your lot; To these you poured out libations, and brought offerings. Should I decide not to punish these things?
 is:57.7    Upon a high and lofty mountain you made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.
 is:57.8    Behind the door and the doorpost you placed your indecent symbol. Deserting me, you spread out your high, wide bed; And of those whose embraces you love you carved the symbol and gazed upon it
 is:57.9    While you approached the king with scented oil, and multiplied your perfumes; While you sent your ambassadors far away, down even to the nether world.
 is:57.10   Though worn out by your many misdeeds, you never said, "It is hopeless"; New strength you found, and so you did not weaken.
 is:57.11   Of whom were you afraid? Whom did you fear, that you became false And did not remember me or give me any thought? Was I to remain silent and unseeing, so that you would not have me to fear?
 is:57.12   I will expose your justice and your works;
 is:57.13   They shall not help you when you cry out, nor save you in your distress. All these the wind shall carry off, the breeze shall bear away; But he who takes refuge in me shall inherit the land, and possess my holy mountain.
 is:57.14   Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove the stumbling blocks from my people's path.
 is:57.15   For thus says he who is high and exalted, living eternally, whose name is the Holy One: On high I dwell, and in holiness, and with the crushed and dejected in spirit, To revive the spirits of the dejected, to revive the hearts of the crushed.
 is:57.16   I will not accuse forever, nor always be angry; For their spirits would faint before me, the souls that I have made.
 is:57.17   Because of their wicked avarice I was angry, and struck them, hiding myself in wrath, as they went their own rebellious way.
 is:57.18   I saw their ways, but I will heal them and lead them; I will give full comfort to them and to those who mourn for them,
 is:57.19   I, the Creator, who gave them life. Peace, peace to the far and the near, says the LORD; and I will heal them.
 is:57.20   But the wicked are like the tossing sea which cannot be calmed, And its waters cast up mud and filth.
 is:57.21   No peace for the wicked! says my God.
  
 is:58.1    Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Tell my people their wickedness, and the house of Jacob their sins.
 is:58.2    They seek me day after day, and desire to know my ways, Like a nation that has done what is just and not abandoned the law of their God; They ask me to declare what is due them, pleased to gain access to God.
 is:58.3    "Why do we fast, and you do not see it? afflict ourselves, and you take no note of it?" Lo, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits, and drive all your laborers.
 is:58.4    Yes, your fast ends in quarreling and fighting, striking with wicked claw. Would that today you might fast so as to make your voice heard on high!
 is:58.5    Is this the manner of fasting I wish, of keeping a day of penance: That a man bow his head like a reed, and lie in sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD?
 is:58.6    This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke;
 is:58.7    Sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless; Clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own.
 is:58.8    Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed; Your vindication shall go before you, and the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
 is:58.9    Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer, you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am! If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech;
 is:58.10   If you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; Then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday;
 is:58.11   Then the LORD will guide you always and give you plenty even on the parched land. He will renew your strength, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring whose water never fails.
 is:58.12   The ancient ruins shall be rebuilt for your sake, and the foundations from ages past you shall raise up; "Repairer of the breach," they shall call you, "Restorer of ruined homesteads."
 is:58.13   If you hold back your foot on the sabbath from following your own pursuits on my holy day; If you call the sabbath a delight, and the LORD'S holy day honorable; If you honor it by not following your ways, seeking your own interests, or speaking with malice--
 is:58.14   Then you shall delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
  
 is:59.1    Lo, the hand of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.
 is:59.2    Rather, it is your crimes that separate you from your God, It is your sins that make him hide his face so that he will not hear you.
 is:59.3    For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt; Your lips speak falsehood, and your tongue utters deceit.
 is:59.4    No one brings suit justly, no one pleads truthfully; They trust in emptiness and tell lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth malice.
 is:59.5    They hatch adders' eggs, and weave spiders' webs: Whoever eats their eggs will die, if one of them is pressed, it will hatch as a viper;
 is:59.6    Their webs cannot serve as clothing, nor can they cover themselves with their works. Their works are evil works, and deeds of violence come from their hands.
 is:59.7    Their feet run to evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are destructive thoughts, plunder and ruin are on their highways.
 is:59.8    The way of peace they know not, and there is nothing that is right in their paths; Their ways they have made crooked, whoever treads them knows no peace.
 is:59.9    That is why right is far from us and justice does not reach us. We look for light, and lo, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom!
 is:59.10   Like blind men we grope along the wall, like people without eyes we feel our way. We stumble at midday as at dusk, in Stygian darkness, like the dead.
 is:59.11   We all growl like bears, like doves we moan without ceasing. We look for right, but it is not there; for salvation, and it is far from us.
 is:59.12   For our offenses before you are many, our sins bear witness against us. Yes, our offenses are present to us, and our crimes we know:
 is:59.13   Transgressing, and denying the LORD, turning back from following our God, Threatening outrage, and apostasy, uttering words of falsehood the heart has conceived.
 is:59.14   Right is repelled, and justice stands far off; For truth stumbles in the public square, uprightness cannot enter.
 is:59.15   Honesty is lacking, and the man who turns from evil is despoiled. The LORD saw this, and was aggrieved that right did not exist.
 is:59.16   He saw that there was no one, and was appalled that there was none to intervene; So his own arm brought about the victory, and his justice lent him its support.
 is:59.17   He put on justice as his breastplate, salvation, as the helmet on his head; He clothed himself with garments of vengeance, wrapped himself in a mantle of zeal.
 is:59.18   He repays his enemies their deserts, and requites his foes with wrath.
 is:59.19   Those in the west shall fear the name of the LORD, and those in the east, his glory; For it shall come like a pent-up river which the breath of the LORD drives on.
 is:59.20   He shall come to Zion a redeemer to those of Jacob who turn from sin, says the LORD.
 is:59.21   This is the covenant with them which I myself have made, says the LORD: My spirit which is upon you and my words that I have put into your mouth Shall never leave your mouth, nor the mouths of your children Nor the mouths of your children's children from now on and forever, says the LORD.
  
 is:60.1    Rise up in splendor! Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you.
 is:60.2    See, darkness covers the earth, and thick clouds cover the peoples; But upon you the LORD shines, and over you appears his glory.
 is:60.3    Nations shall walk by your light, and kings by your shining radiance.
 is:60.4    Raise your eyes and look about; they all gather and come to you: Your sons come from afar, and your daughters in the arms of their nurses.
 is:60.5    Then you shall be radiant at what you see, your heart shall throb and overflow, For the riches of the sea shall be emptied out before you, the wealth of nations shall be brought to you.
 is:60.6    Caravans of camels shall fill you, dromedaries from Midian and Ephah; All from Sheba shall come bearing gold and frankincense, and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.
 is:60.7    All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered for you, the rams of Nebaioth shall be your sacrifices; They will be acceptable offerings on my altar, and I will enhance the splendor of my house.
 is:60.8    What are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their cotes?
 is:60.9    All the vessels of the sea are assembled, with the ships of Tarshish in the lead, To bring your children from afar with their silver and gold, In the name of the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, who has glorified you.
 is:60.10   Foreigners shall rebuild your walls, and their kings shall be your attendants; Though I struck you in my wrath, yet in my good will I have shown you mercy.
 is:60.11   Your gates shall stand open constantly; day and night they shall not be closed But shall admit to you the wealth of nations, and their kings, in the vanguard.
 is:60.12   For the people or kingdom shall perish that does not serve you; those nations shall be utterly destroyed.
 is:60.13   The glory of Lebanon shall come to you: the cypress, the plane and the pine, To bring beauty to my sanctuary, and glory to the place where I set my feet.
 is:60.14   The children of your oppressors shall come, bowing low before you; All those who despised you shall fall prostrate at your feet. They shall call you "City of the LORD," "Zion of the Holy One of Israel."
 is:60.15   Once you were forsaken, hated and unvisited, Now I will make you the pride of the ages, a joy to generation after generation.
 is:60.16   You shall suck the milk of nations, and be nursed at royal breasts; You shall know that I, the LORD, am your savior, your redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
 is:60.17   In place of bronze I will bring gold, instead of iron, silver; In place of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron; I will appoint peace your governor, and justice your ruler.
 is:60.18   No longer shall violence be heard of in your land, or plunder and ruin within your boundaries. You shall call your walls "Salvation" and your gates "Praise."
 is:60.19   No longer shall the sun be your light by day, Nor the brightness of the moon shine upon you at night; The LORD shall be your light forever, your God shall be your glory.
 is:60.20   No longer shall your sun go down, or your moon withdraw, For the LORD will be your light forever, and the days of your mourning shall be at an end.
 is:60.21   Your people shall all be just, they shall always possess the land, They, the bud of my planting, my handiwork to show my glory.
 is:60.22   The smallest shall become a thousand, the youngest, a mighty nation; I, the LORD, will swiftly accomplish these things when their time comes.
  
 is:61.1    The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners,
 is:61.2    To announce a year of favor from the LORD and a day of vindication by our God, to comfort all who mourn;
 is:61.3    To place on those who mourn in Zion a diadem instead of ashes, To give them oil of gladness in place of mourning, a glorious mantle instead of a listless spirit. They will be called oaks of justice, planted by the LORD to show his glory.
 is:61.4    They shall rebuild the ancient ruins, the former wastes they shall raise up And restore the ruined cities, desolate now for generations.
 is:61.5    Strangers shall stand ready to pasture your flocks, foreigners shall be your farmers and vinedressers.
 is:61.6    You yourselves shall be named priests of the LORD, ministers of our God you shall be called. You shall eat the wealth of the nations and boast of riches from them.
 is:61.7    Since their shame was double and disgrace and spittle were their portion, They shall have a double inheritance in their land, everlasting joy shall be theirs.
 is:61.8    For I, the LORD, love what is right, I hate robbery and injustice; I will give them their recompense faithfully, a lasting covenant I will make with them.
 is:61.9    Their descendants shall be renowned among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; All who see them shall acknowledge them as a race the LORD has blessed.
 is:61.10   I rejoice heartily in the LORD, in my God is the joy of my soul; For he has clothed me with a robe of salvation, and wrapped me in a mantle of justice, Like a bridegroom adorned with a diadem, like a bride bedecked with her jewels.
 is:61.11   As the earth brings forth its plants, and a garden makes its growth spring up, So will the Lord GOD make justice and praise spring up before all the nations.
  
 is:62.1    For Zion's sake I will not be silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, Until her vindication shines forth like the dawn and her victory like a burning torch.
 is:62.2    Nations shall behold your vindication, and all kings your glory; You shall be called by a new name pronounced by the mouth of the LORD.
 is:62.3    You shall be a glorious crown in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem held by your God.
 is:62.4    No more shall men call you "Forsaken," or your land "Desolate," But you shall be called "My Delight," and your land "Espoused." For the LORD delights in you, and makes your land his spouse.
 is:62.5    As a young man marries a virgin, your Builder shall marry you; And as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride so shall your God rejoice in you.
 is:62.6    Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have stationed watchmen; Never, by day or by night, shall they be silent. O you who are to remind the LORD, take no rest
 is:62.7    And give no rest to him, until he re-establishes Jerusalem And makes of it the pride of the earth.
 is:62.8    The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: No more will I give your grain as food to your enemies; Nor shall foreigners drink your wine, for which you toiled.
 is:62.9    But you who harvest the grain shall eat it, and you shall praise the LORD; You who gather the grapes shall drink the wine in the courts of my sanctuary.
 is:62.10   Pass through, pass through the gates, prepare the way for the people; Build up, build up the highway, clear it of stones, raise up a standard over the nations.
 is:62.11   See, the LORD proclaims to the ends of the earth: Say to daughter Zion, your savior comes! Here is his reward with him, his recompense before him.
 is:62.12   They shall be called the holy people, the redeemed of the LORD, And you shall be called "Frequented," a city that is not forsaken.
  
 is:63.1    Who is this that comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments, from Bozrah- This one arrayed in majesty, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I, I who announce vindication, I who am mighty to save."
 is:63.2    Why is your apparel red, and your garments like those of the wine presser?
 is:63.3    "The wine press I have trodden alone, and of my people there was no one with me. I trod them in my anger, and trampled them down in my wrath; Their blood spurted on my garments; all my apparel I stained.
 is:63.4    For the day of vengeance was in my heart, my year for redeeming was at hand.
 is:63.5    I looked about, but there was no one to help, I was appalled that there was no one to lend support; So my own arm brought about the victory and my own wrath lent me its support.
 is:63.6    I trampled down the peoples in my anger, I crushed them in my wrath, and I let their blood run out upon the ground."
 is:63.7    The favors of the LORD I will recall, the glorious deeds of the LORD, Because of all he has done for us; for he is good to the house of Israel, He has favored us according to his mercy and his great kindness.
 is:63.8    He said: They are indeed my people, children who are not disloyal; So he became their savior
 is:63.9    in their every affliction. It was not a messenger or an angel, but he himself who saved them. Because of his love and pity he redeemed them himself, Lifting them and carrying them all the days of old.
 is:63.10   But they rebelled, and grieved his holy spirit; So he turned on them like an enemy, and fought against them.
 is:63.11   Then they remembered the days of old and Moses, his servant; Where is he who brought up out of the sea the shepherd of his flock? Where is he who put his holy spirit in their midst;
 is:63.12   Whose glorious arm was the guide at Moses' right; Who divided the waters before them, winning for himself eternal renown;
 is:63.13   Who led them without stumbling through the depths like horses in the open country,
 is:63.14   Like cattle going down into the plain, the spirit of the LORD guiding them? Thus you led your people, bringing glory to your name.
 is:63.15   Look down from heaven and regard us from your holy and glorious palace! Where is your zealous care and your might, your surge of pity and your mercy? O Lord, hold not back,
 is:63.16   for you are our father. Were Abraham not to know us, nor Israel to acknowledge us, You, LORD, are our father, our redeemer you are named forever.
 is:63.17   Why do you let us wander, O LORD, from your ways, and harden our hearts so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
 is:63.18   Why have the wicked invaded your holy place, why have our enemies trampled your sanctuary?
 is:63.19   Too long have we been like those you do not rule, who do not bear your name. Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, with the mountains quaking before you,
  
 is:64.1    As when brushwood is set ablaze, or fire makes the water boil! Thus your name would be made known to your enemies and the nations would tremble before you,
 is:64.2    While you wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for,
 is:64.3    such as they had not heard of from of old. No ear has ever heard, no eye ever seen, any God but you doing such deeds for those who wait for him.
 is:64.4    Would that you might meet us doing right, that we were mindful of you in our ways! Behold, you are angry, and we are sinful;
 is:64.5    all of us have become like unclean men, all our good deeds are like polluted rags; We have all withered like leaves, and our guilt carries us away like the wind.
 is:64.6    There is none who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to cling to you; For you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us up to our guilt.
 is:64.7    Yet, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay and you the potter: we are all the work of your hands.
 is:64.8    Be not so very angry, LORD, keep not our guilt forever in mind; look upon us, who are all your people.
 is:64.9    Your holy cities have become a desert, Zion is a desert, Jerusalem a waste.
 is:64.10   Our holy and glorious temple in which our fathers praised you Has been burned with fire; all that was dear to us is laid waste.
 is:64.11   Can you hold back, O LORD, after all this? Can you remain silent, and afflict us so severely?
  
 is:65.1    I was ready to respond to those who asked me not, to be found by those who sought me not. I said: Here I am! Here I am! To a nation that did not call upon my name.
 is:65.2    I have stretched out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, Who walk in evil paths and follow their own thoughts,
 is:65.3    People who provoke me continually, to my face, Offering sacrifices in the groves and burning incense on bricks,
 is:65.4    Living among the graves and spending the night in caverns, Eating swine's flesh, with carrion broth in their dishes,
 is:65.5    Crying out, "Hold back, do not touch me; I am too sacred for you!" These things enkindle my wrath, a fire that burns all the day.
 is:65.6    Lo, before me it stands written; I will not be quiet until I have paid in full
 is:65.7    Your crimes and the crimes of your fathers as well, says the LORD. Since they burned incense on the mountains, and disgraced me on the hills, I will at once pour out in full measure their recompense into their laps.
 is:65.8    Thus says the LORD: When the juice is pressed from grapes, men say, "Do not discard them, for there is still good in them"; Thus will I do with my servants: I will not discard them all;
 is:65.9    From Jacob I will save offspring, from Judah, those who are to inherit my mountains; My chosen ones shall inherit the land, my servants shall dwell there.
 is:65.10   Sharon shall be a pasture for the flocks and the valley of Achor a resting place for the cattle of my people who have sought me.
 is:65.11   But you who forsake the LORD, forgetting my holy mountain, You who spread a table for Fortune and fill cups of blended wine for Destiny,
 is:65.12   You I will destine for the sword; you shall all go down in slaughter. Since I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen, But did what was evil in my sight and preferred things which displease me,
 is:65.13   therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Lo, my servants shall eat, but you shall go hungry; My servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; My servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;
 is:65.14   My servants shall shout for joy of heart, But you shall cry out for grief of heart and howl for anguish of spirit.
 is:65.15   The Lord GOD shall slay you, and the name you leave Shall be used by my chosen ones for cursing; but my servants shall be called by another name
 is:65.16   By which he will be blessed on whom a blessing is invoked in the land; He who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; For the hardships of the past shall be forgotten, and hidden from my eyes.
 is:65.17   Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; The things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind.
 is:65.18   Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; For I create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight;
 is:65.19   I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying;
 is:65.20   No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime; He dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years, and he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed.
 is:65.21   They shall live in the houses they build, and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant;
 is:65.22   They shall not build houses for others to live in, or plant for others to eat. As the years of a tree, so the years of my people; and my chosen ones shall long enjoy the produce of their hands.
 is:65.23   They shall not toil in vain, nor beget children for sudden destruction; For a race blessed by the LORD are they and their offspring.
 is:65.24   Before they call, I will answer; while they are yet speaking, I will hearken to them.
 is:65.25   The wolf and the lamb shall graze alike, and the lion shall eat hay like the ox (but the serpent's food shall be dust). None shall hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the LORD.

 is:66.1   Thus says the LORD: The heavens are my throne, the earth is my footstool. What kind of house can you build for me; what is to be my resting place?
 is:66.2   My hand made all these things when all of them came to be, says the LORD. This is the one whom I approve: the lowly and afflicted man who trembles at my word.
 is:66.3   Merely slaughtering an ox is like slaying a man; sacrificing a lamb, like breaking a dog's neck; Bringing a cereal offering, like offering swine's blood; burning incense, like paying homage to an idol. Since these have chosen their own ways and taken pleasure in their own abominations,
 is:66.4   I in turn will choose ruthless treatment for them and bring upon them what they fear. Because, when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, no one listened; Because they did what was evil in my sight, and chose what gave me displeasure,
 is:66.5   Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: Your brethren who, because of my name, hate and reject you, say, "Let the LORD show his glory that we may see your joy"; but they shall be put to shame.
 is:66.6   A sound of roaring from the city, a sound from the temple, The sound of the LORD repaying his enemies their deserts!
 is:66.7   Before she comes to labor, she gives birth; Before the pains come upon her, she safely delivers a male child.
 is:66.8   Who ever heard of such a thing, or saw the like? Can a country be brought forth in one day, or a nation be born in a single moment? Yet Zion is scarcely in labor when she gives birth to her children.
 is:66.9   Shall I bring a mother to the point of birth, and yet not let her child be born? says the LORD; Or shall I who allow her to conceive, yet close her womb? says your God.
 is:66.10  Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her, all you who love her; Exult, exult with her, all you who were mourning over her!
 is:66.11  Oh, that you may suck fully of the milk of her comfort, That you may nurse with delight at her abundant breasts!
 is:66.12  For thus says the LORD: Lo, I will spread prosperity over her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing torrent. As nurslings, you shall be carried in her arms, and fondled in her lap;
 is:66.13  As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you; in Jerusalem you shall find your comfort.
 is:66.14  When you see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bodies flourish like the grass; The LORD'S power shall be known to his servants, but to his enemies, his wrath.
 is:66.15  Lo, the LORD shall come in fire, his chariots like the whirlwind, To wreak his wrath with burning heat and his punishment with fiery flames.
 is:66.16  For the LORD shall judge all mankind by fire and sword. and many shall be slain by the LORD.
 is:66.17  They who sanctify and purify themselves to go to the groves, as followers of one who stands within, they who eat swine's flesh, loathsome things and mice, shall all perish with their deeds and their thoughts, says the LORD.
 is:66.18  I come to gather nations of every language; they shall come and see my glory.
 is:66.19  I will set a sign among them; from them I will send fugitives to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory; and they shall proclaim my glory among the nations.
 is:66.20  They shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots, in carts, upon mules and dromedaries, to Jerusalem, my holy mountain, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their offering to the house of the LORD in clean vessels.
 is:66.21  Some of these I will take as priests and Levites, says the LORD.
 is:66.22  As the new heavens and the new earth which I will make Shall endure before me, says the LORD, so shall your race and your name endure.
 is:66.23  From one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, All mankind shall come to worship before me, says the LORD.
 is:66.24  They shall go out and see the corpses of the men who rebelled against me; Their worm shall not die, nor their fire be extinguished; and they shall be abhorrent to all mankind.  [end of Isaiah]

