1 Listen to me, coasts, and let the peoples be strong; come near, and then speak; Let us be on trial together.
2 Who raised up the righteous from the east, called him to follow him, delivered nations before him, and made him rule over kings; He handed them over to his sword like dust, like stubble that his bow snatches away?
3 He followed them, he passed in peace along a path where his feet had never entered.
4 Who made and performed this? Who’s calling the generations from the beginning? I am Jehovah, the first, and I myself with the last.
5 They saw the shores, and were afraid; the ends of the earth were terrified; They gathered together, and came.
6 Each one helped his neighbor, and said to his brother, Be strong.
7 The carpenter encouraged the silversmith, and the one who smoothed with the hammer the one who beat on the anvil, saying, The solder is good; and he fastened it with nails, so that it did not move.
8 But you, Israel, are my servant; You, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendants of Abraham my friend.
9 For I took you from the ends of the earth, and called you from distant lands, and said to you, You are my servant; I chose you, and I did not reject you.
10 Do not be afraid, for I am with you; do not faint, because I am your God who strengthens you; I will always help you, I will always uphold you with the right hand of my justice.
11 Behold, all who are angry with you will be put to shame and confounded; They will be as nothing and those who contend with you will perish.
12 You will look for those who have strife with you, and you will not find them; Those who make war on you will be as nothing, and as something that is not.
13 For I, the Lord, am your God, who holds you by your right hand, and says to you, Fear not, I will help you.
14 Fear not, worm of Jacob, O ye few of Israel; I am your help, says the Lord; the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer.
15 Behold, I have made you a threshing floor, a new threshing floor, full of teeth; You will thresh mountains and grind them, and reduce hills to chaff.
16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them, and the whirlwind will scatter them; but you will rejoice in the Lord, you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 The afflicted and needy seek water, and there is none; His tongue is dry with thirst; I, the Lord, will hear them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers on high places, and fountains in the middle of the valleys; I will open pools of water in the desert, and springs of water in the dry land.
19 I will give cedars, acacias, myrtle trees and olive trees in the desert; I will put cypresses, pines and boxwoods together in the solitude,
20so that all may see and know, and notice and understand, that the hand of the Lord does this, and that the Holy One of Israel created it.
1 But the serpent was more crafty than all the animals of the field that the Lord God had made; which he said to the woman: Has God then said to you, Do not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;
3 But of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God said, You shall not eat of it, nor touch it, lest you die.
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die;
5 But God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
6 And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant in her eyes, and a desirable tree to make one wise; and she took of the fruit thereof, and ate; and he also gave it to her husband, who ate it as well as her.
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; So they sewed fig leaves together and made aprons for themselves.
8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, Where are you?
10 And he answered, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because he was naked; and I hid.
11 And God said to him: Who taught you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat?
12 And the man answered, The woman whom you gave me as a companion gave me the tree, and I ate.
13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
14 And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle and above all the animals of the field; You will walk on your chest, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; she will bruise your head, and you will bruise her heel.
16 To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply the pain of your pregnancies; In pain you will give birth to children; and your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.
1 Behold my servant, I will uphold him; my chosen one, in whom my soul is content; I have put my Spirit on him; he will bring justice to the nations.
2 He will not shout, nor lift up his voice, nor make it heard in the streets.
3 He will not break a bruised reed, nor quench a smoking flax; through the truth he will bring justice.
4 He will not grow weary nor faint, until he establishes justice in the land; and the coasts will wait for his law.
5 Thus says Jehovah God, Creator of the heavens, and he who spreads them out; the one who spreads the earth and its products; who gives breath to the people who dwell on it, and spirit to those who walk in it:
6 I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness, and I will hold your hand; I will keep you and make you a covenant to the people, a light to the nations,
7 to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from prison, and from prison houses those who sit in darkness.
8 I am Jehovah; This is my name; and I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to sculptures.
9 Behold, the first things have been fulfilled, and I announce new things; Before they come to light, I will make them known to you.
10 Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, the coasts and the inhabitants of them.
11 Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, the villages where Kedar lives; Let the inhabitants of Shelah sing, and from the top of the mountains let them shout for joy.
12 Give glory to the Lord, and announce his praises on the coasts.
13 The Lord will come out like a giant, and like a man of war he will stir up jealousy; he will shout, he will shout, he will strive against his enemies.
14 From the beginning I have been silent, I have kept silence, and I have stopped; I will cry like one who is in labor; I will destroy and devour together.
15 I will make mountains and hills a wasteland, I will make all the grass of it wither; I will turn the rivers into islands, and I will dry up the pools.
16 And I will guide the blind in a way they did not know, I will make them walk in paths they have not known; Before them I will turn darkness into light, and the rough places into plain. These things will I do, and not forsake them.
17 Those who trust in idols will be turned back and greatly confounded, and say to molten images: You are our gods.
18 Deaf, hear, and you blind, look to see.
19 Who is blind but my servant? Who is deaf as my messenger that I sent? Who is blind like my chosen one, and blind like the servant of the Lord,
20 who sees many things and does not notice, who opens his ears and does not hear?
21 The Lord was pleased for the sake of his righteousness to magnify the law and make it great.
22 But this is a people plundered and trampled, all of them trapped in caves and hidden in prisons; They are laid to spoil, and there is no one free; stripped, and there is no one who says: Restore.
23 Which of you will hear this? Who will attend and listen to the future?
24 Who gave Jacob a spoil, and handed Israel over to plunderers? Was it not Jehovah against whom we sinned? They did not want to walk in his ways, nor did they listen to his law.
25 Therefore he poured out upon him the fierceness of his wrath, and his might of war; He put fire on it everywhere, but he did not understand; and he consumed him, but he paid no attention.
1 Now thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, and your Maker, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I gave you a name, you are mine.
2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and if by the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you pass through the fire, you will not be burned, nor will the flame burn on you.
3 For I, Jehovah, your God, the Holy One of Israel, am your Savior; I have given Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Sheba for you.
4 Because you were highly esteemed in my eyes, you were honorable, and I loved you; Therefore I will give men for you, and nations for your life.
5 Do not be afraid, for I am with you; From the east I will bring your generation, and from the west I will gather you.
6 I will say to the north: Go this way; and to the south: Do not stop; bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth,
7 all who are called by my name; For my glory I have created them, formed them and made them.
8 Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.
9 Let all the nations gather together, and all the peoples be gathered together. Who among them is there who can give us news of this, and make us hear the first things? Present your witnesses, and justify yourselves; hear, and say: It is true.
10 You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know me and believe, and understand that it is I myself; God was not formed before me, nor will he be after me.
11 I am Jehovah, and besides me there is no one who saves.
12 I proclaimed, and saved, and made people heard, and there was no other god among you. You therefore are my witnesses, says the Lord, that I am God.
13 Even before there was a day, I was; and there is no one with my free hand. What I do, who will hinder?
14 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I sent to Babylon, and brought down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans in the ships of which they boasted.
15 I am Jehovah, your Holy One, Creator of Israel, your King.
16 Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in mighty waters;
17 who brings out chariot and horse, army and strength; They fall together so as not to get up; They die, like a candle they are extinguished.
18 Do not remember things of old, nor call to mind things of old.
19 Behold, I do a new thing; It will soon come to light; you won’t know her? Again I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in the desert.
20 The beasts of the field will honor me, the jackals and the ostrich’s chicks; For I will give water in the desert, rivers in the desert, so that my people, my chosen, may drink.
21 This people I have created for myself; He will publish my praises.
22 And you did not call on me, O Jacob, but you were weary of me, O Israel.
23 You did not bring me the animals of your burnt offerings, nor did you honor me with your sacrifices; I did not make you serve with an offering, nor did I make you weary with incense.
24 You did not buy me sweet reed for money, nor did you satisfy me with the fatness of your sacrifices, but you laid the burden of your sins on me, you wearied me with your iniquities.
25 I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
26 Remind me, let us enter into judgment together; You speak to justify yourself.
27 Your first father sinned, and your teachers transgressed against me.
28 Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and made Jacob an accursed and a reproach to Israel.
1 Now therefore hear, Jacob my servant, and you, Israel, whom I have chosen.
2 Thus says the LORD, your Maker, and he who formed you from the womb, who will help you: Fear not, my servant Jacob, and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
3 For I will pour water on the dry land, and rivers on the dry land; I will pour my Spirit on your generation, and my blessing on your offspring;
4 and they will sprout among the grass, like willows along the banks of the water.
5 This one will say: I am the Lord’s; the other will be called by the name of Jacob, and another will write with his hand: To the Lord, and he will be called by the name of Israel.
6 Thus says the Lord King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.
7 And who will proclaim the things to come, declare them, and set them in order before me, as I have done since I established the ancient people? Announce to them what is coming, and what is to come.
8 Do not fear, nor be afraid; Have I not made it to you from of old, and told you? Therefore you are my witnesses. There is no God but me. There is no Fort; I don’t know any.
9 The creators of grave images, all of them are vanity, and the most precious of them is of no use; and they themselves are witnesses to their confusion, that idols do not see or understand.
10 Who formed a god, or who cast an image that is of no use?
11 Behold, all his people will be put to shame, because the craftsmen themselves are men. They will all come together, present themselves, be astonished, and be put to shame together.
12 The blacksmith takes the tongs, works on the embers, shapes them with hammers, and works on them with the strength of his arm; then he is hungry, and his strength fails; He doesn’t drink water, and he faints.
13 The carpenter lays out the ruler, marks it with redwood, carves it with planes, shapes it with the compass, makes it in the shape of a man, in the likeness of a beautiful man, to have at home.
14 He cuts down cedars, and takes cypress and oak, which grow among the trees of the forest; He plants pine, which grows with the rain.
15 Then man uses it to burn, and takes it to warm himself; He also lights the oven, and bakes bread; He also makes a god, and worships him; He makes an idol, and kneels before it.
16 Part of the log burns in the fire; With part of it he eats meat, prepares a roast, and is satisfied; then he warms himself, and says: Oh! I have warmed myself, I have seen the fire;
17 and makes the remainder a god, an idol of his; He prostrates himself before him, worships him, and prays to him, saying: Deliver me, for you are my God.
18 They neither know nor understand; because their eyes are closed from seeing, and their hearts from understanding.
19 He does not reason within himself, he has no sense or understanding to say: I burned some of this in the fire, and on its coals I baked bread, roasted meat, and ate it. I will do the rest of him an abomination? Will I prostrate myself in front of a tree trunk?
20 He feeds on ashes; his deceived heart leads him astray, so that he does not free his soul, nor say: Is not what I have in my right hand a pure lie?
21 Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant. I formed you, you are my servant; Israel, don’t forget me.
22 I have destroyed your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a fog; return to me, for I redeemed you.
23 Sing praise, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout for joy, depths of the earth; Break forth, mountains, in praise; forest, and every tree that is in it; for the Lord redeemed Jacob, and in Israel he will be glorified.
24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: I am the LORD, who do everything, who alone stretches out the heavens, who stretches out the earth by myself;
25 I destroy the signs of the soothsayers, and I drive the soothsayers mad; that I turn back the wise, and I make their wisdom vanish.
26 I, who awaken the word of his servant, and fulfill the counsel of his messengers; that he says to Jerusalem: You will be inhabited; and the cities of Judah: They will be rebuilt, and I will rebuild their ruins;
27 that he says to the depths, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers;
28 that he says of Cyrus: He is my shepherd, and he will fulfill all that I desire, saying to Jerusalem: You will be built; and to the temple: You will be founded.
1 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whom I took by his right hand, to subdue nations before him and to loose the loins of kings; to open doors before him, and the doors shall not be shut:
2 I will go before you, and make straight the crooked places; I will break doors of bronze, and I will tear bars of iron to pieces;
3 and I will give you hidden treasures and closely guarded secrets, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who names you.
4 For the sake of my servant Jacob, and of Israel my chosen, I called you by your name; I gave you a nickname, even though you didn’t know me.
5 I am Jehovah, and there is none else; there is no God outside of me. I will gird you, although you did not know me,
6 so that it may be known from the rising of the sun, and as far as it sets, that there is none but me; I am Jehovah, and none but I,
7 who form light and create darkness, who make peace and create adversity. I, Jehovah, am the one who does all this.
8 Sprinkle, heavens, from above, and let the clouds drip with justice; let the earth be opened, and salvation and justice be produced; let them sprout together. I, Jehovah, have created it.
9 Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker! the pot with the pots of the earth! Will the clay say to the one who works it: What are you doing? or your work: he has no hands?
10 Woe to him who says to his father: Why did you beget? and to the woman: Why did you give birth?!
11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and the Maker of it: Ask me about things to come; command me concerning my children, and concerning the work of my hands.
12 I made the earth, and created man on it. I, my hands, stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all his army.
13 I have awakened him in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight; He will build my city and release my captives, not for price or gifts, says the Lord of hosts.
14 Thus says the LORD: The labor of Egypt, the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of great stature, will pass over to you and will be yours; They will go after you, they will pass by in fetters; They will reverence you and supplicate you, saying: Surely God is in you, and there is no other besides God.
15 Truly you are God who conceals yourself, God of Israel, who saves.
16 They will all be confused and ashamed; All image makers will be disgraced.
17 Israel will be saved in the Lord with eternal salvation; You will not be ashamed or disgraced, forever.
18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens; He is God, the one who formed the earth, the one who made it and composed it; He did not create it in vain, to be inhabited he created it: I am Jehovah, and there is no other.
19 I did not speak in secret, in a dark place on earth; I did not say to the descendants of Jacob: You seek me in vain. I am Jehovah who speaks justice, who proclaims righteousness.
20 Gather yourselves together, and come; Gather together all the survivors from among the nations. Those who erect the wood of their idol, and those who pray to a god who does not save, have no knowledge.
21 Proclaim, and bring them near, and let them all come into consultation; Who made this heard from the beginning, and has said it since then, but I, Jehovah? And there is no God but me; Just God and Savior; no one other than me.
22 Look to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is no other.
23 By myself I swore an oath, a word came out of my mouth in righteousness, and it shall not be revoked: That to me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall swear.
24 And it will be said of me: Surely in the Lord is justice and strength; They will come to him, and all who are angry against him will be put to shame.
25 In the Lord all the descendants of Israel will be justified and glory.
1 Bel fell down, Nebo fell down; The images of him were placed on beasts, on beasts of burden; Those things that you used to carry are lifted like burdens on the tired beasts.
2 They were humiliated, they were brought low together; They could not escape the burden, but had to go into captivity themselves.
3 Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the rest of the house of Israel, you who are borne by me from the womb, you who are borne from the womb.
4 And even to old age I myself, and even to gray hairs, will I endure you; I made, I will carry, I will endure and I will keep.
5 To whom do you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?
6 They take gold out of the bag, and weigh silver with scales, they hire a silversmith to make a god of it; They prostrate and worship.
7 They put it on their shoulders, carry it, and place it in its place; There it is, and it does not move from its place. They shout at him, and he does not respond, nor does he escape from the tribulation.
8 Remember this, and be ashamed; return to yourselves, prevaricators.
9 Remember the things of old from ancient times; for I am God, and there is no other God, and there is nothing like me,
10 who announce things to come from the beginning, and from ancient times what was not yet done; that I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do whatever I please;
11 I call the bird from the east, and the man of my counsel from a distant land. I have spoken, and I will make it come; I have thought about it, and I will too.
12 Hear me, you hard of heart, who are far from justice:
13 I will make my justice near; He will not depart, and my salvation will not stop. And I will put salvation in Zion, and my glory in Israel.
1 Go down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the earth, without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans; because they will never again call you tender and delicate.
2 Take the mill and grind flour; She uncovers your locks, barefoot your feet, uncovers your legs, crosses the rivers.
3 Your shame will be revealed, and your disgrace will be seen; I will make retribution, and no man will be spared.
4 Our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is the name of him, the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit down, be silent, and enter into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; because they will never again call you lady of kingdoms.
6 I was angry with my people, I defiled my inheritance, and I gave them into your hand; you had no compassion for them; You greatly aggravated your yoke on the old man.
7 You said: I will be a lady forever; and you have not thought about this, nor did you remember your end.
8 Hear now this, voluptuous woman, you who sit confidently, you who say in your heart: I am, and besides me there is nothing else; I will not be a widow, nor will I be orphaned.
9 These two things will come to you suddenly on the same day, orphanhood and widowhood; in all their might they will come upon you, despite the multitude of your spells and your many enchantments.
10 Because you trusted in your wickedness, saying: No one sees me. Your wisdom and your very knowledge deceived you, and you said in your heart: I, and no one else.
11 Therefore evil will come upon you, the origin of which you will not know; destruction will fall upon you, which you will not be able to remedy; and destruction that you do not know will come upon you suddenly.
12 Abide now in your enchantments and in the multitude of your spells, in which you toiled from your youth; Maybe you can improve yourself, maybe you will get stronger.
13 You have grown weary in your many counsels. Let the contemplators of the heavens, those who observe the stars, those who count the months, appear now and defend you, to predict what will come upon you.
14 Behold, they will be like chaff; fire will burn them, they will not save their lives from the power of the flame; There will be no ember left to warm themselves, nor a light by which to sit.
15 So will those with whom you toiled, those who traded with you from your youth, be like you; Each one will go their own way, there will be no one to save you.
1 Hear this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, who came out of the waters of Judah, who swear in the name of the Lord, and remember the God of Israel, but not in truth or in righteousness;
2 because they are named from the holy city, and they trust in the God of Israel; His name is Jehovah of hosts.
3 What happened, I already said before, and it came out of my mouth; I published it, I did it soon, and it was a reality.
4 Because I know that you are hard, and your neck is iron, and your forehead is bronze,
5 I told you long ago; Before it happened I warned you, so that you would not say: My idol did it, my sculptured and cast images commanded these things.
6 You heard it, and you saw it all; and you will not announce it? Now therefore I have made you hear new and hidden things that you did not know.
7 Now they were created, not in days gone by, nor before this day had you heard them, lest you should say, Behold, I knew it.
8 Yes, you had never heard of him, nor had you ever known him; certainly your ear was not opened before; because I knew that being disloyal you would disobey, therefore I called you a rebel from the womb.
9 For my name’s sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will restrain it so as not to destroy you.
10 Behold, I have purified you, and not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it, so that my name will not be tarnished, and my honor will not be given to another.
12 Hear me, Jacob, and you, Israel, whom I called: I myself, I the first, I also the last.
13 My hand also founded the earth, and my right hand measured the heavens with a span; When I called them, they appeared together.
14 Come together, all of you, and listen. Who between them announce this things? He whom the LORD loved will do his will in Babylon, and his arm will be upon the Chaldeans.
15 I, I spoke, and called him and brought him; therefore his way will be prosperous.
16 Come close to me, hear this: from the beginning I did not speak in secret; Since that was done, there I was; and now the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.
17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD your God, who teaches you profitably, who directs you in the path you should follow.
18 Oh, that you had heeded my commandments! Then be your peace like a river, and your justice like the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants are like sand, and the shoots of your womb are like grains of sand; His name would never be cut off, nor torn from my presence.
20 Leave Babylon, flee from among the Chaldeans; give news of this with a voice of joy, publish it, take it to the ends of the earth; say: The Lord has redeemed Jacob his servant.
21 They were not thirsty when he led them through the deserts; He made water flow from the stone for them; He opened the rock, and the waters flowed.
22 There is no peace for the wicked, says the Lord.
1 Hear me, coasts, and listen, distant peoples. Jehovah called me from the womb, from my mother’s womb he had my name in memory.
2 And he made my mouth like a sharp sword, he covered me with the shadow of his hand; and he made me a polished arrow, he kept me in his quiver;
3 And he said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, for I will glory in thee.
4 But I said, I have labored too much, in vain and without profit I have consumed my strength; but my cause is before the Lord, and my reward is with my God.
5 Now therefore, says the LORD, who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him and to gather Israel to him (for I will be precious in the sight of the LORD, and my God will be my strength);
6 says: It is a small thing for me that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the remnant of Israel; I also gave you a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the ends of the earth.
7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the despised in soul, to the abominated of the nations, to the servant of tyrants: Kings will see, and princes will arise, and they will worship the LORD; for the Holy One of Israel is faithful, who chose you.
8 Thus says the Lord: In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you; and I will keep you, and give you as a covenant to the people, that you may restore the land, that you may inherit desolate fields;
9 so that you may say to the prisoners: Come out; and to those who are in darkness: Show yourselves. They will be pastures on the roads, and on all the heights they will have their pastures.
10 They will not hunger or thirst, nor will the heat or the sun afflict them; for he who has mercy on them will guide them and lead them to springs of water.
11 And I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways will be raised.
12 Behold, these will come from afar; and behold these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim.
13 Sing praise, O heavens, and rejoice, earth; and burst into praise, O mountains; for the Lord has comforted his people, and will have mercy on his poor people.
14 But Zion said, The Lord has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.
15 Will a woman forget what she gave birth to, so that she no longer sympathizes with the son of her womb? Even if she forgets, I will never forget you.
16 Behold, I have graven you on the palms of my hands; Your walls are always in front of me.
17 Your builders will come quickly; your destroyers and your desolators will come out of you.
18 Lift up your eyes around you, and see: all these have gathered together, they have come to you. As I live, says the Lord, you will be clothed with everyone as a garment of honor; and you will be girt around them like a bride.
19 For your land, devastated, ruined, and deserted, will now be narrowed by the multitude of the inhabitants, and your destroyers will be removed far away.
20 Even your orphaned children will say in your ears: This place is a narrow place for me; depart, that I may dwell.
21 And you will say in your heart: Who begot these to me? Because I had been deprived of children and was alone, a pilgrim and an exile; Who then created these? Behold, I had been left alone; where were these?
22 Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will stretch out my hand to the nations, and I will lift up my standard to the people; and they will carry your sons in their arms, and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.
23 Kings will be your tutors, and their queens will be your nurses; with their faces bowed to the ground they will worship you, and lick the dust of your feet; and you will know that I am Jehovah, that those who wait for me will not be ashamed.
24 Will the spoils be taken from the mighty man? Is it rescued the captive of a tyrant?
25 But thus says the Lord: Surely the captive will be rescued from the mighty man, and the spoil will be taken from the tyrant; and I will defend your case, and I will save your children.
26 And I will make those who spoiled you eat their own flesh, and with their blood they will be drunk as with wine; and every man will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
1 Thus says the LORD: What becomes of your mother’s letter of divorce, with which I divorced her? Or who are my creditors, to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you are sold, and for your transgressions your mother was disowned.
2 Why when I came, I found no one, and when I called, no one answered? Has my hand shortened not to redeem? Is there no power in me to deliver? Behold, with my rebuke I dry up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; Their fish rot for lack of water, and die of thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with darkness, and make their covering like sackcloth.
4 The Lord God gave me the tongue of the wise, to know how to speak words to the weary; He will awaken morning after morning, he will awaken my ear to hear like the wise.
5 The Lord God opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn back.
6 I gave my body to the wounders, and my cheeks to those who pulled my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spit.
7 Because the Lord God will help me, therefore I was not ashamed; therefore I set my face like a flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.
8 He who saves me is near to me; who will contend with me? Let’s get together. Who is my cause adversary? He come closer to me.
9 Behold, the Lord God will help me; Who is there to condemn me? Behold, they will all wear out like clothing, they will be eaten by moths.
10 Who is there among you that fears the Lord, and hears the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and lacks light, let him trust in the name of the Lord, and rely on his God.
11 Behold, all of you kindle a fire, and surround yourselves with brands; walk in the light of your fire, and of the brands that you lit. This will come to you from my hand; in pain you will be buried.
1 Hear me, you who follow righteousness, you who seek the Lord. Look at the stone from which you were cut, and at the hole in the quarry from which you were torn.
2 Look at Abraham your father, and at Sarah who gave birth to you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him and multiplied him.
3 The Lord will surely comfort Zion; He will comfort all his deserts, and will change his desert into paradise, and his desert into the garden of the Lord; there will be found joy and joy, praise and voices of song.
4 Pay attention to me, my people, and listen to me, my nation; for the law will come from me, and my righteousness will be a light to the people.
5 My righteousness is near, my salvation has come forth, and my arms will judge the people; Those from the coast wait for me, and they place their hope in my arm.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look down at the earth; for the heavens will dissolve like smoke, and the earth will become old like clothing, and its inhabitants will perish in the same way; but my salvation will be forever, my righteousness will not perish.
7 Hear me, you who know righteousness, people in whose hearts is my law. Do not fear the reproach of man, nor be dismayed by his insults.
8 For the moth will eat them like a garment, the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will endure forever, and my salvation forever and ever.
9 Awake, awake, put on power, O arm of the Lord; wake up like in ancient times, in centuries past. Are you not the one who cut Rahab, and the one who smote the dragon?
10 Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; the one who transformed the depths of the sea into a path for the redeemed to pass through?
11 Surely the redeemed of Jehovah will return; They will return to Zion singing, and everlasting joy will be on their heads; They will have joy and gladness, and pain and groaning will flee away.
12 I, I am your comforter. Who are you that you should be afraid of man, who is mortal, and of the son of man, who is like hay?
13 And you have forgotten the Lord your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth; and all day long you continually feared the fury of him who afflicts, when he prepared to destroy. But where is the fury of him who afflicts?
14 The burdened prisoner will be released soon; He will not die in the dungeon, nor will his bread fail.
15 For I, the Lord, who stir up the sea and make its waves roar, am your God, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
16 And I have put my words in your mouth, and with the shadow of my hand I have covered you, stretching out the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, You are my people.
17 Awake, awake, arise, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath; because you drank the chalice of bewilderment to the dregs.
18 Of all the children she gave birth to, there is no one to guide her; nor whoever takes her hand, of all the children she raised.
19 These two things have happened to you: desolation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will hurt you? Who will comfort you?
20 Your children fainted, they lay at the crossroads of all the roads, like an antelope in a net, filled with the indignation of the Lord, the wrath of your God.
21 Hear therefore now this, you afflicted, drunk, and not with wine:
22 Thus says the Lord your Lord, and your God, who pleads for his people: Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of bewilderment, the dregs of the chalice of my wrath; You will never drink it again.
23 And I will put it in the hand of your distressers, who said to your soul, Bow down, and we will pass over you. And you made your body as a ground, and as a path, so that they might pass through.
1 Awake, awake, clothe yourself with power, O Zion; Put on your beautiful clothing, O Jerusalem, holy city; for he will never again come to you uncircumcised or unclean.
2 Shake off the dust; arise and sit down, Jerusalem; Release the bonds from your neck, captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing; Therefore, without money you will be rescued.
4 For thus says the Lord GOD: My people went down to Egypt long ago to live there, and the Assyrian took them captive for no reason.
5 And now what am I doing here, says the Lord, since my people are carried away unjustly? And those who rule over it make it howl, says the Lord, and my name is continually blasphemed all day long.
6 Therefore my people will know my name for this reason on that day; for I myself who speak, behold, I will be present.
7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings glad tidings, of him who announces peace, of him who brings good tidings, of him who publishes salvation, of him who says to Zion: Your God reigns!
8 Voice of your watchmen! They will raise their voices, together they will shout for joy; for eye to eye they will see that the Lord brings back Zion.
9 Sing praises, rejoice together, deserts of Jerusalem; Because the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all nations, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart, depart, get out of there, do not touch anything unclean, get out of the midst of it; Purify yourselves who carry the vessels of Jehovah.
12 For you will not leave in haste, nor will you flee; for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will gather you together.
13 Behold, my servant will prosper, he will be exalted and exalted, and he will be set very high.
14 As many were amazed at you, his appearance was so disfigured by men, and his beauty was more than that of the sons of men,
15 so he will astonish many nations; The kings will close their mouths before him, because they will see what was never told to them, and they will understand what they had never heard.
1 Who has believed our announcement? and upon whom has the arm of Jehovah been revealed?
2 He will come up like a branch before him, and like a root out of dry ground; There is no appearance in it, nor beauty; We will see him, but without attraction for us to desire him.
3 Despised and rejected among men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief; and as we hid his face from him, he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
4 Surely he bore our illnesses, and suffered our pains; and we considered him stricken, wounded by God and humbled.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our sins; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we were healed.
6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his way; but the Lord laid upon him the sin of us all.
7 He was distressed, and afflicted, he did not open his mouth; Like a lamb he was led to the slaughter; and like a sheep before his shearers, he was silent, and did not open his mouth.
8 By prison and by judgment he was taken away; and his generation, who will tell it? For he was cut off from the land of the living, and because of the rebellion of my people he was wounded.
9 And he made his burial with the wicked, but with the rich it was in his death; although he never did evil, nor was there deceit in his mouth.
10 With all this, Jehovah wanted to break him, subjecting him to suffering. When he has made life an atonement for sin, he will see his offspring, he will live long, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
11 He will see the fruit of the affliction of his soul, and he will be satisfied; By the knowledge of him my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him a share with the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong; for he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with sinners, having borne the sin of many, and prayed for transgressors.
1 Rejoice, O barren woman, who did not give birth; She lifts up song and shouts for joy, she who was never in labor; For the children of the homeless woman are more than those of the married woman, says the Lord.
2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your rooms be extended; do not be scarce; lengthen your ropes, and strengthen your stakes.
3 For you will reach out to the right hand and to the left hand; and your descendants will inherit nations, and will inhabit the desolate cities.
4 Do not be afraid, for you will not be confounded; and do not be ashamed, for you will not be shamed, but you will forget the shame of your youth, and you will no longer remember the shame of your widowhood.
5 For your husband is your Maker; Jehovah of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; God of all earth will be called.
6 For the Lord has called you like a woman abandoned and sad in spirit, and like the wife of youth who is divorced, says your God.
7 For a brief moment I abandoned you, but I will pick you up with great mercies.
8 In a little anger I hid my face from you for a moment; But with everlasting mercy I will have compassion on you, says the Lord your Redeemer.
9 For this will be to me as in the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again pass over the earth; so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor will I scold you.
10 For the mountains will move, and the hills will tremble, but my mercy will not depart from you, nor will the covenant of my peace be broken, says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
11 Poor thing, weary with the storm, without comfort; Behold, I will base your stones on carbuncle, and I will found you on sapphires.
12 I will make your windows of precious stones, your doors of carbuncle stones, and your entire wall of precious stones.
13 And all your children will be taught by the Lord; and the peace of your children will be multiplied.
14 With righteousness you will be adorned; you will be far from oppression, because you will not fear, and from fear, because it will not come near you.
15 If anyone plots against you, he will do it without me; He who plots against you will fall before you.
16 Behold, I made the blacksmith who blows the coals into the fire, and who draws out the tool for his work; and I have created the destroyer to destroy.
17 No weapon formed against you will prosper, and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their salvation will come from me, says the Lord.
1 To all you thirsty: Come to the waters; and those who have no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2 Why do you spend your money on what is not bread, and your work on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in fatness.
3 Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul will live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, firm mercies to David.
4 Behold, I gave him as a witness to the people, as a leader and as a teacher to the nations.
5 Behold, you will call people whom you did not know, and people who did not know you will run to you, for the sake of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of Israel who has honored you.
6 Seek the Lord while he can be found, call upon him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the wicked man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, who will have mercy on him, and to our God, who will be generous in forgiving.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
9 As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return, but water the earth, making it sprout and produce, and giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 so will my word be that comes out of my mouth; It will not return to me empty, but it will do what I want, and it will prosper in that for which I sent it.
12 For you will go out with joy, and with peace you will return; The mountains and the hills will raise a song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands in applause.
13 In place of the bush cypress will grow, and in place of the nettle myrtle will grow; and it will be to Jehovah for a name, for an eternal sign that will never be destroyed.
1 Thus says the Lord: Keep justice, and do justice; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who embraces it; that he keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and that he keeps his hand from doing all evil.
3 And let not the foreigner who follows the Lord speak, saying, The Lord will completely separate me from his people. Nor let the eunuch say: Behold, I am a dry tree.
4 For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose what I will, and embrace my covenant,
5 I will give them a place in my house and within my walls, and a name better than that of sons and daughters. daughters; I will give them a perpetual name that will never perish.
6 And to the children of foreigners who follow the Lord to serve him, and who love the name of the Lord to be his servants; to all those who keep the Sabbath from profaning it, and embrace my covenant,
7 I will take them to my holy mountain, and I will recreate them in my house of prayer; Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; because my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
8 Says the Lord God, who gathers together the dispersed of Israel: I will yet gather his gathered together to him.
9 All the beasts of the field, all the beasts of the forest, come and devour.
10 Their watchmen are blind, all of them ignorant; all of them mute dogs, they cannot bark; sleepy, lying down, they love to sleep.
11 And those gluttonous dogs are insatiable; and the shepherds themselves do not know how to understand; They all follow their own paths, each one seeks his own benefit, each one on his side.
12 Come, they say, let us drink wine, let us get drunk with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this, or much more excellent.
1 The righteous perishes, and no one thinks about it; and the pious die, and there is no one who understands that the righteous are removed from the face of affliction.
2 He will enter into peace; All who walk before God will rest on his beds.
3 But you come here, sons of the sorceress, generation of the adulterer and the fornicator.
4 Who have you mocked? Against whom have you widened your mouth and lengthened your tongue? Are you not rebellious children, a lying generation,
5 who enrage yourselves with idols under every leafy tree, who sacrifice your children in the valleys, under the rocks?
6 On the smooth stones of the valley is your part; They, they are your luck; and to them you poured out a libation, and offered a gift. Should I not punish these things?
7 On the high and steep mountain you placed your bed; There you also went up to make sacrifice.
8 And behind the door and the threshold you placed your remembrance; for you uncovered yourself to another, and not to me, and went up, and enlarged your bed, and made a covenant with them; you loved his bed wherever you saw it.
9 And you went to the king with ointment, and you multiplied your perfumes, and you sent your ambassadors far away, and you were cast down to the depths of Sheol.
10 In the multitude of your ways you were weary, but you did not say: There is no remedy; You found new strength in your hand, therefore you were not discouraged.
11 And of whom were you afraid and afraid, that you have lacked faith, and have not remembered me, nor did it occur to you? Have I not been silent since ancient times, and have you never feared me?
12 I will publish your righteousness and your works, which will not profit you.
13 When you cry, may your idols deliver you; but the wind will carry them all away, a breath will carry them away; but he who trusts in me will have the land as his inheritance, and he will possess my holy mountain.
14 And he will say, Raise, raid; Sweep the path, remove stumbling blocks from the path of my people.
15 For thus says the High and Lofty One, who dwells in eternity, and whose name is the Holy One: I dwell in highness and holiness, and with the broken and lowly in spirit, to make alive the spirit of the lowly, and to quicken the hearts of the broken.
16 For I will not contend forever, nor will I be angry forever; for the spirit would decay before me, and the souls that I have created.
17 For the iniquity of his greed I was angry, and I smote him, and I hid my face and was indignant; and he continued to rebel in the way of his heart.
18 I have seen his ways; but I will heal him, and I will shepherd him, and I will comfort him and his mourners;
19 I will produce fruit from the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far away and to him who is near, says the Lord; and I will heal him.
20 But the wicked are like the stormy sea, which cannot be still, and its waters throw up silt and mud.
21 There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.
1 Cry out loud, do not stop; He lifts up your voice like a trumpet, and declares to my people his transgression, and to the house of Jacob his transgression.
2 Who seek me every day, and want to know my ways, like people who have done justice, and who have not forsaken the law of their God; They ask me for fair judgments, and they want to get closer to God.
3 Why, they say, did we fast, and you did not heed; We humbled our souls, and you did not understand? Behold, on the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and you oppress all your workers.
4 Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and for striking wickedly with your fist; Do not fast as today, so that your voice may be heard on high.
5 Is the fast that I have chosen such that by day a man afflicts his soul, that he bows his head like a reed, and makes a bed of sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast, a day pleasing to the Lord?
6 Is it not rather the fast that I chose, to loose the bands of ungodliness, to loosen the burdens of oppression, and to let the broken go free, and to break every yoke?
7 Is it not that you break your bread with the hungry, and shelter the poor wanderers at home; that when you see the naked, you cover him, and do not hide from your brother?
8 Then your light will arise like the dawn, and your salvation will soon be seen; and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and the Lord will hear you; you will cry, and he will say: Here I am. If you take away from your midst the yoke, the threatening finger, and the speaking of vanity;
10 And if you give your bread to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, your light will arise in the darkness, and your darkness will be like the noonday.
11 The Lord will shepherd you always, and satisfy your soul in droughts, and give strength to your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters never fail.
12 And your people will build the ancient ruins; You will raise up the foundations of generation after generation, and you will be called the repairer of breaches, the restorer of highways for habitation.
13 If you withdraw your foot from the Sabbath day, from doing your will on my holy day, and call it a delight, holy, glorious of the Lord; and you will worship him, not walking in your own ways, nor seeking your own will, nor speaking your own words,
14 then you will delight yourself in the Lord; and I will make you climb upon the heights of the earth, and I will give you the inheritance of Jacob your father to eat; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened from saving, nor his ear heavy from hearing;
2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; Your lips utter lies, your tongue speaks evil.
4 There is no one who cries for justice, nor one who judges by truth; They trust in vanity, and speak vanities; They conceive iniquity, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch asp eggs and weave spider webs; He who eats its eggs will die; and if they squeeze them, vipers will come out.
6 Their fabrics will not be used for clothing, nor will they be covered with their works; His works are works of iniquity, and the work of plunder is in his hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, they rush to shed innocent blood; his thoughts, thoughts of iniquity; Destruction and destruction are in their paths.
8 They have not known the way of peace, nor is there justice in their ways; its paths are crooked; Whoever goes through them will not know peace.
9 For this reason justice has departed from us, and righteousness has not reached us; We wait for light, and here is darkness; shines, and we walk in darkness.
10 We feel the wall like blind men, and we grope as if without eyes; We stumble at noon as at night; We are in dark places like the dead.
11 We all growl like bears, and moan piteously like doves; We expect justice, and there is none; salvation, and went away from us.
12 For our transgressions have multiplied before you, and our sins have testified against us; for our iniquities are with us, and we know our sins:
13 transgressing and lying against the Lord, and turning away from following our God; speaking slander and rebellion, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.
14 And justice was withdrawn, and justice was put afar off; because the truth stumbled in the square, and equity could not come.
15 And the truth was detained, and he who turned away from evil was put in prison; and the LORD saw it, and it was displeasing in his sight, because the righteousness perished.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and he marveled that there was no one to stand between him; and he saved him with his arm, and established for him the same righteousness of him.
17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, with a helmet of salvation on his head; She took garments of vengeance as a garment, and covered herself with zeal as a cloak,
18 as for vindication, as for repaying his enemies in wrath, and repaying his adversaries; The payment will be given to those on the coast.
19 And they will fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; For the enemy will come like a flood, but the Spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from iniquity in Jacob, says the Lord.
21 And this shall be my covenant with them, saith the LORD: My Spirit which is upon thee, and my words which I put in thy mouth, shall not fail from thy mouth, nor from the mouth of thy children, nor from the mouth of their children. of your children, says the Lord, from now on and forever.
1 Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
2 For behold, darkness will cover the earth, and darkness the nations; but the Lord will rise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.
3 And nations will walk in your light, and kings in the brightness of your birth.
4 Lift up your eyes around you and see, all these have gathered together, they have come to you; Your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried in your arms.
5 Then you will see, and you will shine; Your heart will marvel and be enlarged, because the multitude of the sea has returned to you, and the riches of the nations have come to you.
6 A multitude of camels will cover you; dromedaries from Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba will come; They will bring gold and incense, and they will publish praises of the Lord.
7 All the cattle of Cedar will be gathered for you; rams of Nebaioth will be served to you; They will be offered with pleasure on my altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
8 Who are these that fly like clouds, and like doves to their windows?
9 Surely those on the coast will wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish from the beginning, to bring your children from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, who has given you glorified.
10 And foreigners will build your walls, and their kings will serve you; for in my anger I punished you, but in my good will I will have mercy on you.
11 Your doors will be continually open; They will not be closed day or night, so that the riches of the nations may be brought to you, and their kings brought to you.
12 For the nation or kingdom that does not serve you will perish and will be completely desolated.
13 The glory of Lebanon will come to you, cypresses, pines and boxwoods together, to decorate the place of my sanctuary; and I will honor the place of my feet.
14 And the children of those who afflicted you will come to you in humiliation, and all those who mocked you will bow down at the steps of your feet, and they will call you City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 Instead of being abandoned and hated, so much so that no one passed by you, I will make you an eternal glory, the joy of all ages.
16 And you will suck the milk of the nations, you will suck the breast of kings; and you will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
17 Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and silver for iron, and bronze for wood, and iron instead of stones; and I will provide peace for your tribute, and justice for your oppressors.
18 Violence, destruction and destruction will no longer be heard in your land, but you will call your walls Salvation, and your doors Praise.
19 The sun will no longer be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon give you light, but the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
20 Your sun will never set, nor will your moon wane; for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will be ended.
21 And your people, all of them will be righteous, they will inherit the land forever; shoots of my planting, the work of my hands, to glorify me.
22 The little one will become a thousand, the least a mighty people. I, Jehovah, will make this happen quickly at his time.
1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; He has sent me to preach good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and to the prisoners the opening of the prison;
2 to proclaim the year of Jehovah’s good pleasure, and the day of vengeance of our God; to console all those in mourning;
3 to command that the afflicted in Zion be given glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of gladness instead of the spirit of heaviness; and they will be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, for his glory.
4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins, and lift up the former desolations, and restore the ruined cities, the rubble of many generations.
5 And strangers will feed your sheep, and strangers will be your husbandmen and your vinedressers.
6 And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be called ministers of our God; You will eat the riches of the nations, and with their glory you will be exalted.
7 Instead of your double confusion and your dishonor, they will praise you in their inheritances; Therefore in their lands they will have double honor, and will have perpetual joy.
8 For I, the Lord, am a lover of justice, a hater of theft for a burnt offering; therefore I will establish his work in truth, and make a perpetual covenant with them.
9 And their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; All who see them will recognize that they are a blessed offspring of Jehovah.
10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul will rejoice in my God; For he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has surrounded me with the mantle of righteousness, he adorned me like a bridegroom, and adorned me like a bride adorned with his jewels.
11 For as the earth brings forth its shoot, and as the garden causes its seed to sprout, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all nations.
1 For Zion’s sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines forth, and her salvation burns like a torch.
2 Then the nations will see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory; and a new name will be given to you, which the mouth of the Lord will name.
3 And you will be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a diadem of kingdom in the hand of your God.
4 You will never again be called Forsaken, nor will your land be called Desolate anymore; but you will be called Hefzi-bá, and your land, Beula; for the love of the Lord will be in you, and your land will be espoused.
5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so will your children marry you; And as a husband rejoices with his wife, so will your God rejoice with you.
6 I have set guards upon your walls, O Jerusalem; All day and all night they will never be silent. You who remember the Lord, do not rest,
7 nor give him respite, until he restores Jerusalem, and makes it a praise in the land.
8 The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: I will never give your wheat as food to your enemies, nor will strangers drink the wine that is the fruit of your work;
9 but those who harvest it will eat it, and praise the Lord; and those who gather it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.
10 Come in, go through the gates; sweep the road to the town; level, level the road, remove the stones, raise a banner to the people.
11 Behold, the Lord made it heard to the ends of the earth: Tell the daughter of Zion: Behold, your Savior is coming; behold his reward with him, and before him his work.
12 And they will be called the Holy People, Redeemed of the Lord; and they will call you the Desired City, not forsaken.
1 Who is this that comes from Edom, from Bozrah, wearing red clothes? This beautiful one in his clothing, who marches in the greatness of his power? I, who speak in righteousness, are great to save.
2 Why is your dress red, and your clothes like one who has trodden in a winepress?
3 I alone have trodden the winepress, and there was no one from the people with me; I have trodden them in my anger, and trampled them in my fury; and his blood splattered on my clothes, and stained all my clothes.
4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.
5 I looked, and there was no one to help, and I marveled that there was no one to support; and he saved my arm, and sustained my anger.
6 And in my anger I trampled down the people, and made them drunk in my fury, and I poured out his blood on the ground.
7 I will remember the mercies of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has given us, and the greatness of his benefits toward the house of Israel, which he has shown to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude. of his pieties.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children who do not lie; and he was their Savior.
9 In all their distress he was distressed, and the angel of his face saved them; in his love and in his mercy he redeemed them, and brought them up, and raised them up all the days of old.
10 But they were rebellious, and made his holy spirit angry; Therefore he became an enemy to them, and he himself fought against them.
11 But he remembered the days of old, of Moses and of his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he who put his holy spirit in his midst,
12 who led them by the right hand of Moses with the arm of his glory; who divided the waters before them, thus making himself a perpetual name,
13 who led them through the depths, like a horse through the wilderness, without them stumbling?
14 The Spirit of the Lord guided them, like a beast descending into the valley; Thus you shepherded your people, to make yourself a glorious name.
15 Look from heaven, and behold from your holy and glorious abode. Where is your zeal, and your power, the commotion of your bowels and your pity toward me? Have they narrowed?
16 But you are our father, although Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not know us; You, O Jehovah, are our father; our perpetual Redeemer is your name.
17 Why, O Lord, have you caused us to err from your ways, and hardened our hearts to your fear? Return for the sake of your servants, for the tribes of your inheritance.
18 Your holy people possessed it for a short time; our enemies have trampled your sanctuary.
19 We have become like those over whom you never ruled, over whom your name was never called.
1 Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, and that the mountains would drain away from your presence,
2 like fire that burns molten metals, fire that makes waters boil, so that you would make your name known to your enemies, and the nations would tremble at your side. presence!
3 When you came down, doing terrible things such as we never expected, the mountains flowed before you.
4 Neither have they heard, nor have ears perceived, nor has any eye seen God apart from you, who would do for him who waits for him.
5 You went out to meet him who did justice with joy, those who remembered you in your ways; behold, you were angry because we sinned; We have persevered in sins for a long time; Can we be saved?
6 Although we are all like dirt, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; and we all fell like a leaf, and our iniquities carried us away like the wind.
7 There is no one who calls on your name, who wakes up to lean on you; Therefore you hid your face from us, and left us to wither in the power of our iniquities.
8 Now therefore, Jehovah, you are our father; we clay, and you who formed us; so we are all the work of your hands.
9 Do not be exceedingly angry, Jehovah, nor remember iniquity forever; Behold, look now, we are all your people.
10 Your holy cities are deserted, Zion is a desert, Jerusalem is a desert.
11 The house of our sanctuary and of our glory, in which our fathers praised you, was consumed by fire; and all our precious things have been destroyed.
12 Will you be still, O Lord, about these things? Will you be silent and afflict us greatly?
1 I was sought by those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. I said to people who did not invoke my name: Here I am, here I am.
2 I stretched out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their thoughts;
3 people who continually provoke me to anger in my face, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
4 who remain in the tombs, and spend the night in hidden places; who eat swine’s flesh, and in their pots there is broth of unclean things;
5 who say: Stay in your place, do not come near me, for I am holier than you; These are smoke in my fury, a fire that burns all day.
6 Behold, it is written before me;
7 For your iniquities, says the Lord, and for the iniquities of your fathers together , who burned incense on the mountains, and on the hills they reproached me; Therefore I will measure their ancient work in their bosom.
8 Thus says the LORD: As if someone found new wine in a cluster and said, “Do not waste it, for there is a blessing in it; This is what I will do for my servants, so that I will not destroy everything.
9 I will raise offspring from Jacob, and from Judah heir of my mountains; and my chosen ones will inherit the land, and my servants will live there.
10 And Sharon will be a habitation for sheep, and the valley of Achor for a pasture for herds, for my people who sought me.
11 But you who forsake the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune, and supply libations for Destiny;
12 I also will appoint you to the sword, and all of you will kneel at the slaughter, because I called, and you did not answer; I spoke, and you did not listen, but you did evil in my sight, and you chose what displeased me.
13 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, my servants will eat, and you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, and you will thirst; behold, my servants will rejoice, and you will be ashamed;
14 Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, and you will cry out for sorrow of heart, and you will howl for brokenness of spirit.
15 And you will leave your name as a curse to my chosen ones, and the Lord God will kill you, and will call his servants by another name.
16 He who blesses himself on earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and whoever swears on earth, he will swear by the God of truth; because the first troubles will be forgotten, and will be covered from my eyes.
17 For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth; and there will be no memory of the first, nor will it come to mind again.
18 But you will rejoice and be glad forever in the things that I have created; For behold, I bring joy to Jerusalem, and joy to its people.
19 And I will rejoice with Jerusalem, and I will rejoice with my people; and no more will the voice of weeping or the voice of crying be heard in it.
20 There will no longer be a child who dies within a few days, nor an old man who does not fulfill his days; for the child will die at a hundred years old, and the sinner at a hundred years old will be cursed.
21 They will build houses and live in them; They will plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22 They will not build for another to live in, nor plant for another to eat; for according to the days of the trees will be the days of my people, and my chosen ones will enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor in vain, nor give birth to a curse; for they are the offspring of the blessed of the Lord, and their descendants with them.
24 And before they cry, I will answer; while they still speak, I will have heard.
25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and the dust will be the serpent’s food. They shall not afflict, nor do evil in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
1 Thus says the LORD: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; Where is the house that you will build for me, and where is the place of my rest?
2 My hand made all these things, and so all these things were, says the Lord; but I will look to him who is poor and humble in spirit, and who trembles at my word.
3 He who sacrifices an ox is as if he killed a man; He who sacrifices sheep, as if he slaughtered a dog; he who makes an offering, as if he offered pig’s blood; he who burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. And because they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has loved their abominations,
4 I also will choose mockery for them, and will bring upon them what they feared; because I called, and no one answered; I spoke, and they did not listen, but did evil in my sight, and chose what displeased me.
5 Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name’s sake said, “Let the LORD be glorified.” But he will appear to your joy, and they will be confounded.
6 The voice of the city, the voice of the temple, the voice of Jehovah repaying his enemies.
7 Before she was in labor, she gave birth; Before pain came on her, she gave birth to a son.
8 Who heard such a thing? who saw such a thing? Will you conceive the earth in one day? Will a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, he gave birth to his children.
9 I who cause to be born, shall I not cause to be born? said Jehovah. I who cause begetting, will I prevent birth? says your God.
10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and rejoice with her, all you who love her; Be filled with joy with her, all of you who mourn for her;
11 so that you may suck and be satisfied with her consolations at her breasts; so that you may drink and delight in the brightness of its glory.
12 For thus says the Lord: Behold, I spread peace upon her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing torrent; and you will suck, and you will be carried in the arms, and on the knees you will be pampered.
13 As he whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you, and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 And you will see, and your heart will be glad, and your bones will be green like grass; and the hand of the LORD toward his servants will be known, and he will be angry with his enemies.
15 For behold, the LORD will come with fire, and his chariot will be like a whirlwind, to discharge his wrath with fury, and his rebuke with a flame of fire.
16 For the Lord will judge every man with fire and with his sword; and the dead of the Lord will be multiplied.
17 Those who sanctify themselves and those who purify themselves in the gardens, one after another, those who eat the flesh of swine and the abomination and the mouse, will be cut off together, says the Lord.
18 For I know his works and his thoughts; time will come to gather all nations and languages; and they will come and see my glory.
19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send of those who are escaped from them to the nations, to Tarshish, to Put and Lud that shoot the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the distant coasts that have not heard of me, nor seen my glory; and they will publish my glory among the nations.
20 And they will bring all your brothers from all nations as an offering to the Lord, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the children of Israel They bring the offering in clean utensils to the house of Jehovah.
21 And I will also take some of them for priests and Levites, says the Lord.
22 For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make will remain before me, says the Lord, so will your descendants and your name remain.
23 And from month to month, and from sabbath to sabbath, all shall come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
24 And they will go out, and see the corpses of the men who rebelled against me; for their worm will never die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be abominable to all men.
