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The
Book of the Prophet Isaias,
Chapter 1
1 THE vision of Isaias the son of Amos I which he saw
concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias,
Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda
2 Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord
hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them:
but they have despised me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib:
but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not
understood.
4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a
wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the
Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they
are gone away backwards.
5 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase
transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart
is sad.
6 From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there
is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling
sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented
with oil.
7 Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire:
your country strangers devour before your face, and it
shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.
8 And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a
vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as
a city that is laid waste.
9 Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as
Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.
10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to
the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
11 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your
victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not
holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of
calves, and lambs, and buck goats.
12 When you came to appear before me, who required these
things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?
13 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination
tome. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals
I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.
14 My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they
are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.
15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my
eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not
hear: for your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your
devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
17 Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,
judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins
be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if
they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.
19 if you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat
the good things of the land.
20 But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the
sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it.
21 How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment,
become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.
22 Thy silver is turned into dress: thy wine is mingled with
water.
23 Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all
love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the
fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.
24 Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one
of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries:
and I will be revenged of my enemies.
25 And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge
away thy dress, and I will take away all thy tin.
26 And I will restore thy judges se they were before, and thy
counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the
city of the just, a faithful city.
27 Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring
her back in justice.
28 And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together:
and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they
have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens
which you have chosen.
30 When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off,
and as a garden without water.
31 And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your
work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there
shall be none to quench it.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 2
1 THE word that Isaias the son of Amos saw, concerning Juda
and Jerusalem.
2 And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be
exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto
it.
3 And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up
to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God
of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk
in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people:
and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and
their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more
to war.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of
the Lord.
6 For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob:
because they are filled as in times past, and have had
soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to
strange children.
7 Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no
end of their treasures.
8 And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots
are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they
have adored the work of their own hands, which their own
fingers have made.
9 And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been
debased: therefore forgive them not.
10 Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from
the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of
his majesty.
11 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of
men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be
exalted in that day.
12 Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every
one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that
is arrogant, and he shall be humbled.
13 And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and
upon all the oaks of Basan.
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the elevated
hills.
15 And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall.
16 And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is
fair to behold.
17 And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the
haughtiness of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone
shall be exalted in that day.
18 And idols shall be utterly destroyed.
19 And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the
caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord,
and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up
to strike the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and
his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore,
moles and bats.
21 And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the
holes of stones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and
from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to
strike the earth.
22 Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his
nostrils, for he is reputed high.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 3
1 FOR behold the sovereign the Lord of hosts shall take away
from Jerusalem, and from Juda the valiant and the strong,
the whole strength of bread, and the whole strength of
water.
2 The strong man, and the man of war, the judge, and the
prophet, and the cunning man, and the ancient.
3 The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance,
and the counsellor, and the architect, and the skilful in
eloquent speech.
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and the
effeminate shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man
against his neighbour: the child shall make it tumult
against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6 For a man shall take hold or his brother, one of the house
of his father, saying: Thou hast a garment, be thou our
ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand.
7 In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no healer, and
in my house there is no bread, nor clothing: make me not
ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their
tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke
the eyes of his majesty.
9 The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they
have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have
not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to
them.
10 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the
fruit of his doings.
11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands
shall be given him.
12 As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and
women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call
thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way
of thy steps.
13 The Lord standeth up to judge, and he standeth to judge
the people.
14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his
people, and its princes: for you have devoured the
vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.
15 Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the
poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts.
16 And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are
haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and
wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they
walked with their feet and moved in a set pace:
17 The Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the
daughters of Sion, and the Lord will discover their hair.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the ornaments of
shoes, end little moons,
19 And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets,
20 And bodkins, and ornaments of the legs, and tablets, and
sweet balls, and earrings,
21 And rings, and jewels hanging on the forehead,
22 And changes of apparel, and short cloaks, and fine linen,
and crisping pins,
23 And looking-glasses, and lawns, and headbands, and fine
veils.
24 And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and
instead of a girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair,
baldness, and instead of a stomacher, haircloth.
25 Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy
valiant ones in battle.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit
desolate on the ground.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 4
1 AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,
saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own
apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take away our
reproach.
2 In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence
and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and
a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall be
left in Sion, and that shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be
called holy, every one that is written in life in
Jerusalem.
4 If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of
Sion, and shall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of
the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the
spirit of burning.
5 And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion,
and where he is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke
and the brightness of a flaming fire in the night: for
over all the glory shall be a protection.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime
from the heat, and for a security and covert from the
whirlwind, and from rain.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 5
1 I WILL sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin
concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a
hill in a fruitful place.
2 And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and
planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in
the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein: and he
looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought
forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of
Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that
I have not done to it? was it that I looked that it should
bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes?
5 And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I
will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted:
I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be
trodden down.
6 And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and
it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come
up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of
Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I
looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity:
and do justice, and behold a cry.
8 Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to
field, even to the end of the place: shall you alone dwell
in the midst of the earth?
9 These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts:
Unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate,
without an inhabitant.
10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure,
and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.
11 Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow
drunkenness, and to drink till the evening, to be inflamed
with wine.
12 The harp, and the lyre, and the timbrel, and the pipe, and
wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you
regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.
13 Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had
not knowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine,
and their multitude were dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her
mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their
people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down
into it.
15 And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled,
and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.
16 And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and
the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.
17 And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and
strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.
18 Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and
sin as the rope of a cart.
19 That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come
quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the
Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.
20 Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put
darkness far light, and light for darkness: that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
21 Woe to you that rue wise in your own eyes, and prudent in
your own conceits.
22 Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at
drunkenness.
23 That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the
justice of the just from him.
24 Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble,
and the heat of the dame consumeth it: so shall their root
be as ashes, and their bud shall go up se dust: for they
have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have
blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his
people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and
struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their
carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For
all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.
26 And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and
will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and
behold they shall come with speed swiftly.
27 There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them:
they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle
of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes
be broken.
28 Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The
hoofs of their horses shall be like the hint, and their
wheels like the violence of a tempest.
29 Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like
young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the
prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall
be none to deliver it.
30 And they shall make a noise against them that day, like
the roaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land,
and behold darkness of tribulation, and the light is
darkened with the mist thereof.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 6
1 IN the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting
upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the
temple.
2 Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and
the other had six wings: with two they covered his face,
and with two they covered his feet, and with two they hew.
3 And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy,
the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory.
4 And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of
him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace;
because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the
midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen
with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.
6 And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was
a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the
altar.
7 And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath
touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away,
and thy sin shall be cleansed.
8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I
send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I,
send me.
9 And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people:
Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision, and
know it not.
10 Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy,
and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and
be converted and I heal them.
11 And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the
cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses
without man, and the land shall be left desolate.
12 And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be
multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth.
13 And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall
turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and
as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that which shall
stand therein, shall be a holy seed.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 7
1 AND it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of
Joathan, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, that Basin king
of Syria, and Phacee the son of Romelia king of Israel,
came up to Jerusalem, to fight against it: but they could
not prevail over it.
2 And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath
rested upon Ephraim, and his heart was moved, and the
heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved
with the wind.
3 And the Lord said to Isaias: Go forth to meet Achaz, thou
and Jasub thy son that is left, to the conduit of the
upper pool, a in the way of the fuller's held.
4 And thou shalt say to him: See thou be quiet: fear not,
and let not thy heart be afraid of the two tails of these
fire brands, smoking with the wrath of the fury of Rasin
king of Syria, end of the son of Romelia.
5 Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the
evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying:
6 Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away to
us, and make the son of Tabeel king in the midst thereof.
7 Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this
shall not be.
8 But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of
Damascus is Basin: and within threescore and five years,
Ephraim shall cease to be a people:
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria
the son of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not
continue.
10 And the Lord spoke again to Achaz, saying:
11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God either unto the depth
of hell, or unto the height above.
12 And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will not tempt the
Lord.
13 And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a
small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are
grievous to my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold
a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and his name
shall be called Emmanuel.
15 He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse
the evil, and to choose the good.
16 For before the child know to refuse the evil, and to
choose the good, the land which thou abhorrest shall be
forsaken of the face of her two kings.
17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and
upon the house of thy father, days that have not come
since the time of the separation of Ephraim from Juda with
the king of the Assyrians.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall
hiss for the fly, that is in the uttermost parts of the
rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of
Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall all of them rest in the
torrents of the valleys, and in the holes of the rocks,
and upon all places set with shrubs, and in all hollow
places.
20 In that day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is
hired by them that are beyond the river, by the king of
the Assyrians, the head and the hairs of the feet, and the
whole beard.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall
nourish a young cow, and two sheep.
22 And for the abundance of milk he shall eat butter: for
butter and honey shall every one eat that shall be left in
the midst of the land.
23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place
where there were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of
silver, shall become thorns and briers.
24 With arrows and with bows they shall go in thither: for
briars and thorns shall be in all the land.
25 And as for all the hills that shall be raked with a rake,
the fear of thorns and briers shall not come thither, but
they shall be for the ox to feed on, and the lesser cattle
to tread upon.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 8
1 AND the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write
in it with a man's pen. Take sway the spoils with speed,
quickly take the prey.
2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest,
and Zacharias the son of Barachias.
3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore
a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to
take away the spoils: Make haste to take away the prey.
4 For before the child know to call his father and his
mother, the strength of Damascus, and the spoils of
Samaria shall be taken away before the king of the
Assyrians.
5 And the Lord spoke to me again, saying:
6 Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of
Siloe, that go with silence, and hath rather taken Basin,
and the son of Romelia:
7 Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters
of the river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians,
and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his
channels, and shall overflow all his banks,
8 And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over
shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of
his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Emmanuel.
9 Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome,
and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen
yourselves, end be overcome, gird yourselves, and be
overcome.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a
word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us.
11 For thus saith the Lord to me: As he hath taught me, with
a strong arm, that I should not walk in the way of this
people, saying:
12 Say ye not: A conspiracy: for all that this people
speaketh, is a conspiracy: neither fear ye their fear, nor
be afraid.
13 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let him be your
fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone
or stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses
of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
15 And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be
broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from
the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for
a sign, and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts,
who dwelleth in mount Sion.
19 And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of
diviners, who mutter in their enchantments: should not the
people seek of their God, for the living of the dead?
20 To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak
not according to this word, they shall not have the
morning light.
21 And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry:
and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and
curse their king, and their God, and look upwards.
22 And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble and
darkness, weakness and distress, and a mist following
them, and they cannot fly away from their distress.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 9
1 AT the first time the land of Zabulon, and the land of
Nephtali was lightly touched: and at the last the way of
the sea beyond the Jordan of the Galilee of the Gentiles
was heavily loaded.
2 The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great
light: to them that dwelt in the region of the shadow of
death, light is risen.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and hast not increased
the joy. They shall rejoice before thee, as they that
rejoice in the harvest, as conquerors rejoice after taking
a prey, when they divide the spoils.
4 For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their
shoulder, and the sceptre of their oppressor thou best
overcome, as in the day of Median.
5 For every violent taking of spoils, with tumult, and
garment mingled with blood, shall be burnt, and be fuel
for the fire.
6 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and
the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father
of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.
7 His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end
of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon
his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with
judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever:
the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
Israel.
9 And all the people of Ephraim shall know, and the
inhabitants of Samaria that say in the pride and
haughtiness of their heart:
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square
stones: they have cut down the sycamores, but we will
change them for cedars.
11 And the Lord shall set up the enemies of Rasin over him,
and shall bring on his enemies in a crowd:
12 The Syrians from the east, and the Philistines from the
west: and they shall devour Israel with open mouth, For
all this his indignation is not turned away, but his hand
is stretched out still.
13 And the people are not returned to him who hath struck
them, and have not sought after the Lord of hosts.
14 And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the
tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in
one day.
15 The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet
that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
16 And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them
to err: and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown
down headlong.
17 Therefore the Lord shell have no joy in their young men:
neither shall he have mercy on their fatherless, and
widows: for every one is a hypocrite and wicked, and every
mouth hath spoken folly. For all this his indignation is
not turned away, but his bend is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness is kindled as a fire, it shall devour the
brier and the thorn: and shall kindle in the thicket of
the forest, and it shall be wrapped up in smoke ascending
on high.
19 By the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is troubled,
and the people shall be as fuel for the fire: no man shall
spare his brother.
20 And he shall turn to the right hand, and shall be hungry:
and shall eat on the left hand, and shall not be filled:
every one shell eat the flesh of his own arm: Manasses
Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasses, and they together shall be
against Juda.
21 After all these things his indignation is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 10
1 WOE to them that make wicked laws: and when they write,
write injustice:
2 To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the
cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be
their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.
3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the
calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for
help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4 That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with
the slain? In all these things his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my
anger, and my indignation is in their hands.
6 I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him
a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the
spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them
down like the mire of the streets.
7 But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think
so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off
nations not a few.
8 For he shall say:
9 Are not my princes as so many kings ? is not Calano as
Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as
Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the king- dome of the idol, so also
their idols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria.
11 Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so
do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have
performed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem,
I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of
Assyria, and the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes.
13 For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have
done it, and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I
have removed the bounds of the people, and have taken the
spoils of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled
down them that sat on high.
14 And my hand hath found the strength of the people as a
nest; and as eggs are gathered, that are left, so have I
gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the
wing, or opened the mouth, or made the least noise.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that cutteth with
it? or shall the saw exalt itself against him by whom it
is drawn? as if a rod should lift itself up against him
that lifteth it up, and a staff exalt itself, which is but
wood.
16 Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall
send leanness among his fat ones: and under his glory
shall be kindled a burning, as it were the burning of a
fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy
One thereof as a flame: and his thorns and his briers
shall be set on fire, and shall be devoured in one day.
18 And the glory of his forest, and of his beautiful hill,
shall be consumed from the soul even to the flesh, and he
shall run away through fear.
19 And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be
so few, that they shall easily be numbered, and a child
shall write them down.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of
Israel, and they that shall escape of the house of Jacob,
shall lean no more upon him that striketh them: but they
shall lean upon the Lord the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall be converted, the remnant, I say, of
Jacob, to the mighty God.
22 For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the
sea, a remnant of them shall be converted, the consumption
abridged shall overflow with justice.
23 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, and an
abridgment in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: O my
people that dwellest in Sion, be not afraid of the
Assyrian: he shall strike thee with his rod, and he shall
lift up his staff over thee in the way of Egypt.
25 For yet a little and a very little while, and my
indignation shall cease, and my wrath shall be upon their
wickedness.
26 And the Lord of hosts shall raise up a scourge against
him, according to the slaughter of Madian in the rock of
Oreb, and his rod over the sea, and he shall lift it up in
the way of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden
shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke
from off thy neck, and the yoke shall putrify at the
presence of the oil.
28 He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at
Machmas he shall lay up his carriages.
29 They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was
astonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.
30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim, attend, O Laisa,
poor Anathoth.
31 Medemena is removed: ye inhabitants of Gabim, take
courage.
32 It is yet day enough, to remain in Nobe: he shall shake
his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Sion, the
hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall break the earthen
vessel with terror, and the tall of stature shall be cut
down, and the lofty shall be humbled.
34 And the thickets of the forest shall be cut down with
iron, and Libanus with its high ones shall fall.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 11
1 AND there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse,
and a flower shall rise up out of his root.
2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit
of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel,
and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of
godliness.
3 And he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the
Lord. He shall not judge according to the sight of the
eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears.
4 But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall
reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: land he
shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with
the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
5 And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith
the girdle of his reins.
6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall
lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the
sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead
them.
7 The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall
rest together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp:
and the weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of
the basilisk.
9 They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy
mountain, for the earth is filled with the knowledge of
the Lord, as the covering waters of the sea.
10 In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign
of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his
sepulchre shall be glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall
set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his
people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from
Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam,
and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of
the sea.
12 And he shall set up a standard unto the nations, and shall
assemble the fugitives of Israel, and shall gather
together the dispersed of Juda from the four quarters of
the earth.
13 And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the
enemies of Juda shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda,
and Juda shall not fight against Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines
by the sea, they together shall spoil the children of the
east: Edom, and Moab shall be under the rule of their
hand, and the children of Ammon shall be obedient.
15 And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of
Egypt, and shall lift up his hand over the river in the
strength of his spirit: and he shall strike it in the
seven streams, so that men may pass through it in their
shoes.
16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of my people,
which shall be left from the Assyrians: as there was for
Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of
Egypt.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 12
1 AND thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to
thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is
turned away, and thou hast comforted me.
2 Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and
will not fear: O because the Lord is my strength, and my
praise, and he is become my salvation.
3 You shall draw waters with joy out of the saviour's
fountains:
4 And you shall say in that day: Praise ye the Lord, and
call upon his name: make his works known among the people:
remember that his name is high.
5 Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath done great things: shew
this forth in all the earth.
6 Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great
is he that is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of
Israel.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 13
1 THE burden of Babylon, which Isaias the son of Amos saw.
2 Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the
voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the
gates.
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my
strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of
many people, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations
gathered together: the Lord of hosts hath given charge to
the troops of war.
5 To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of
heaven: tile Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to
destroy the whole land.
6 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as
a destruction from the Lord.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man
shall melt,
8 And shall be broken. Gripings and pains shall take hold of
them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every
one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances
shall be as faces burnt.
9 Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and
full of indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the
land desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of
it.
10 For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not
display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his
rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light.
11 And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the
wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of
infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of
the mighty.
12 A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the
finest of gold.
13 For this I will trouble the heaven: and the earth shall be
moved out of her place, for the indignation of the Lord of
hosts, and for the day of his tierce wrath.
14 And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, and as a sheep:
and there shall be none to gather them together: every man
shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to
his own land.
15 Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every
one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.
16 Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes:
their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be
ravished.
17 Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall
not seek silver, nor desire gold:
18 But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and
shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and
their eye shall not spare their sons.
19 And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous
pride of the Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha.
20 It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not
be founded unto generation and generation: neither shall
the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall shepherds
rest there.
21 But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall
be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there,
and the hairy ones shall dance there:
22 And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses
thereof, and sirens in the temples of pleasure.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 14
1 HER time is near at hand, and her days shall not be
prolonged. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will
yet choose out of Israel, and will make them rest upon
their own ground: and the stranger shall be joined with
them, and shall adhere to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them into their
place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the
land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they
shall make them captives that had taken them, and shall
subdue their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in that day, that when God shall
give thee rest from thy labour, and from thy vexation, and
from the hard bondage, wherewith thou didst serve before,
4 Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of
Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to
nothing, the tribute hath ceased?
5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of
the rulers,
6 That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound,
that brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a
cruel manner.
7 The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad and hath
rejoiced.
8 The fir trees also have rejoiced over thee, and the cedars
of Libanus, saying: Since thou hast slept, there hath none
come up to cut us down.
9 Hell below was in an uproar to meet thee at thy coming, it
stirred up the giants for thee. All the princes of the
earth are risen up from their thrones, all the princes of
nations.
10 All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded
as well as we, thou art become like unto us.
11 Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen
down: under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms
shall be thy covering.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise
in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that
didst wound the nations?
13 And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit
in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the
north.
14 I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be
like the most High.
15 But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth
of the pit.
16 They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee, and
behold thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that
shook kingdoms,
17 That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities
thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in
glory, every one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable
branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain
by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit,
as a rotten carcass.
20 Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for
thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people:
the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever.
21 Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of
their fathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the
land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts:
and I will destroy the name of Babylon, and the remains,
and the bud, and the offspring, saith the Lord.
23 And I will make it a possession for the ericius and pools
of waters, and I will sweep it and wear it out with a
besom, saith the Lord of hosts.
24 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have
thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed,
25 So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in
my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and
his yoke shall be taken away from them, and his burden
shall be taken off their shoulder.
26 This is the counsel, that I have purposed upon all the
earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all
nations.
27 For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul
it? and his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it
away?
28 In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden:
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of him
that struck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root
of the serpent shall come forth a basilisk, and his seed
shall swallow the bird.
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the poor
shall rest with confidence: and I will make thy root
perish with famine, and I will kill thy remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city: all Philistia is thrown down:
for a smoke shall come from the north, and there is none
that shall escape his troop.
32 And what shall be answered to the messengers of the
nations? That the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of
his people shall hope in him.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 15
1 THE burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is
laid waste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is
destroyed in the night, it is silent.
2 The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to
mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: ton
all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall
be shaven.
3 In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the
tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl
and come down weeping.
4 Hesebon shall cry, and Eleale, their voice is heard even
to Jasa. For this shall the well appointed men of Moab
howl, his soul shall howl to itself.
5 My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee
unto Segor a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent
of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of
Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction.
6 For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass
is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness
is perished.
7 According to the greatness of their work, is their
visitation also: they shall lead them to the torrent of
the willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the border of Moab: the
howling thereof unto Gallim, and unto the well of Elim the
cry thereof.
9 For the waters of Dibon are filled with blood: for I will
bring more upon Dibon: the lion upon them that shall flee
of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 16
1 SEND forth, O Lord, the lamb, the ruler of the earth, from
Petra of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Sion.
2 And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away,
and as young ones flying out of the nest, so shall the
daughters of Moab be in the passage of Arnon.
3 Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the
night in the midday: hide them that flee, and betray not
them that wander about.
4 My fugitives shall dwell with thee: O Moab, be thou a
covert to them from the face of the destroyer: for the
dust is at an end, the wretch is consumed: he hath failed,
that trod the earth under foot.
5 And a throne shall be prepared in mercy, and one shall sit
upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and
seeking judgment and quickly rendering that which is just.
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud:
his pride and his arrogancy, and his indignation is more
than his strength.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every one shall howl:
to them that rejoice upon the brick walls, tell ye their
stripes.
8 For the suburbs of Hesebon are desolate, and the lords of
the nations have destroyed the vineyard of Sabama: the
branches thereof have reached even to Jazer: they have
wandered in the wilderness, the branches thereof are left,
they are gone over the sea.
9 Therefore I will lament with the weeping of Jazer the
vineyard of Sabama: I will water thee with my tears, O
Hesebon, and Eleale: for the voice of the treaders hath
rushed in upon thy vintage, and upon thy harvest.
10 And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and
there shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards.
He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to
tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away.
11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and
my inward parts for the brick wall.
12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is
wearied on his high places, that he shall go in to his
sanctuaries to pray, and shall not prevail.
13 This is the word, that the Lord spoke to Moab from that
time:
14 And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In three years, as
the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken
away for all the multitude of the people, and it shall be
left small and feeble, not many.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 17
1 THE burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus shall cease to be
a city, and shall be as a ruinous heap of stones.
2 The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they
shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them
afraid.
3 And aid shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from
Damascus: and the remnant of Syria shall be as the glory
of the children of Israel: saith the Lord of hosts.
4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of
Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh
shall grow lean.
5 And it shall be as when one gathereth in the harvest that
which remaineth, and his arm shall gather the ears of
corn: and it shall be as he that seeketh ears in the vale
of Raphaim.
6 And the fruit thereof that shall be left upon it, shall be
as one cluster of grapes, and as the shaking of the olive
tree, two or three berries in the top of a bough, or four
or five upon the top of the tree, saith the Lord the God
of Israel.
7 In that day man shall bow down himself to his Maker, and
his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars which his hands made:
and he shall not have respect to the things that his
fingers wrought, such as groves and temples.
9 In that day his strong cities shall be forsaken, as the
ploughs, and the corn that were left before the face of
the children of Israel, and thou shalt be desolate.
10 Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast not
remembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou plant
good plants, and shalt sow strange seed.
11 In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in
the morning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken
away in the day of inheritance, and shall grieve thee
much.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude of
the roaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the noise
of many waters.
13 Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters
overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee
far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the
mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a
tempest.
14 In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble:
the morning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the
portion of them that have wasted us, and the lot of them
that spoiled us.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 18
1 WOE to the land, the winged cymbal, which is beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia,
2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of
bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a
nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people,
after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and
trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.
3 All ye inhabitants of the world, who dwell on the earth,
when the sign shall be lifted up on the mountains, you
shall see, and you shall hear the sound of the trumpet.
4 For thus saith the Lord to me: I will take my rest, and
consider in my place, as the noon light is clear, and as
a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.
5 For before the harvest it was all flourishing, and it
shall bud without perfect ripeness, and the sprigs thereof
shall be cut off with pruning hooks: and what is left
shall be cut away and shaken out.
6 And they shall be left together to the birds of the
mountains, and the beasts of the earth: and the fowls
shall be upon them all the summer, and all the beasts of
the earth shall winter upon them.
7 At that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of
hosts, from a people rent and torn in pieces: from a
terrible people, after which there hath been no other:
from a nation expecting, expecting and trodden under foot,
whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the
name of the Lord of hosts, to mount Sion.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 19
1 THE burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a
swift cloud, and will enter into Egypt, and the idols of
Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of
Egypt shall melt in the midst thereof.
2 And I will set the Egyptians to fight against the
Egyptians: and they shall fight brother against brother,
and friend against friend, city against city, kingdom
against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels
thereof, and I will cast down their counsel: and they
shall consult their idols, and their diviners, and their
wizards, and soothsayers.
4 And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters,
and a strong king shall rule over them, saith the Lord the
God of hosts.
5 And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river
shall be wasted and dry.
6 And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall
be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush
shall wither away.
7 The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its
fountain, and every thing sown by the water shall be dried
up, it shall wither away, and shall be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all that cast a hook
into the river shall lament, and they that spread nets
upon the waters shall languish away.
9 They shall be confounded that wrought in flax, combing and
weaving fine linen.
10 And its watery places shall be dry, all they shall mourn
that made pools to take fishes.
11 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise
counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will
you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of
ancient kings?
12 Where are now thy wise men? let them tell thee, and shew
what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the princes of
Memphis are gone astray, they have deceived Egypt, the
stay of the people thereof.
14 The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of
giddiness: and they have caused Egypt to err in all its
works, as a drunken man staggereth and vomiteth.
15 And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head or
tail, him that bendeth down, or that holdeth back.
16 In that day Egypt shall be like unto women, and they shall
be amazed, and afraid, because of the moving of the hand
of the Lord of hosts, which he shall move over it.
17 And the land of Juda shall be a terror to Egypt: every one
that shall remember it shall tremble because of the
counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined
concerning it.
18 In that day there shall be five cities in the land of
Egypt, speaking the language of Chanaan, and swearing by
the Lord of hosts: one shall be called the city of the
sun.
19 In that day there shall be an altar of the Lord in the
midst of the land of Egypt, and a monument of the Lord at
the borders thereof:
20 It shall be for a sign, and for a testimony to the Lord of
hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the Lord
because of the oppressor, and he shall send them a Saviour
and a defender to deliver them.
21 And the Lord shall be known by Egypt, and the Egyptians
shall know the Lord in that day, and shall worship him
with sacrifices and offerings: and they shall make vows to
the Lord, and per- form them.
22 And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a scourge, and shall
heal it, and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall
be pacified towards them, and heal them.
23 In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the
Assyrians, and the Assyrian shall enter into Egypt, and
the Egyptian to the Assyrians, and the Egyptians shall
serve the Assyrian.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third to the Egyptian and
the Assyrian: a blessing in the midst of the land,
25 Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying: Blessed be
my people of Egypt, and the work of my hands to the
Assyrian: but Israel is my inheritance.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 20
1 IN the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus, when Sargon
the king of the Assyrians had sent him, and he had fought
against Azotus, and had taken it:
2 At that same time the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaias the
son of Amos, saying: Go, and loose the sackcloth from off
thy loins, and take off thy shoes from thy feet. And he
did so, and went naked, and barefoot.
3 And the Lord said: As my servant Isaias hath walked, naked
and barefoot, it shall be a sign and a wonder of three
years upon Egypt, and upon Ethiopia,
4 So shall the king of the Assyrians lead away the prisoners
of Egypt, and the captivity of Ethiopia, young and old.
naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered to the
shame of Egypt.
5 And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their
hope, and of Egypt their glory.
6 And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in that day: Lo
this was our hope, to whom we fled for help, to deliver up
from the face of the king of the Assyrians: and how shall
we be able to escape?
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 21
1 THE burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come
from the south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible
land.
2 A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful
dealeth unfaithfully : and he that is a spoiler, spoileth.
Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Mede: I have made all the
mourning thereof to cease.
3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath
taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I
fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the
seeing of it.
4 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is
become a wonder to me.
5 Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat
and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.
6 For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman:
and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.
7 And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an
ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them
diligently with much heed.
8 And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the
Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward,
standing whole nights.
9 Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with
two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is
fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are
broken unto the ground.
10 O my thrashing and the children of my door, that which I
have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have
declared unto you.
11 The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman,
what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?
12 The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if
you seek, seek: return, come.
13 The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall
sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.
14 Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the
land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.
15 For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword
that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of
a grievous battle.
16 For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to
the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be
taken away.
17 And the residue of the number of strong archers of the
children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the
God of Israel hath spoken it.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 22
1 THE burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also,
that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain
are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all
that were found, are bound together, they are fled far
off.
4 Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep
bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of
the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and of
weeping to the Lord the God of hosts in the valley of
vision, searching the wall, and magnificent upon the
mountain.
6 And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman, and
the shield was taken down from the wall.
7 And thy choice valleys shall be full of chariots, and the
horseman shall place themselves in the gate.
8 And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou
shalt see in that day the armoury of the house of the
forest.
9 And you shall see the breaches of the city of David, that
they are many: and you have gathered together the waters
of the lower pool,
10 And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down
houses to fortify the wall.
11 And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water
of the old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker
thereof, nor regarded him even at a distance, that wrought
it long ago.
12 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to
weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with
sackcloth:
13 And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying
rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and
drink; for to morrow we shall die.
14 And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my
ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till
you die, saith the Lord God of hosts.
15 Thus saith the Lord God of hosts: Go, get thee in to him
that dwelleth in the tabernacle, to Sobna who is over the
temple: and thou shalt say to him:
16 What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for
thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed
out a monument carefully in a high place, a dwelling for
thyself in a rock.
17 Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a
cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up as a
garment.
18 He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will
toss thee like a ball into a large and spacious country:
there shalt thou die, and there shall the chariot of thy
glory be, the shame of the house of thy Lord.
19 And I will drive thee out From thy station, and depose
thee from thy ministry.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my
servant Eliacim the son of Helcias,
21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen
him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his
hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda.
22 And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his
shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he
shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he
shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father.
24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's
house, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from
the vessels of cups even to every instrument of music.
26 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be
removed, that was fastened in the sure place: and it shall
be broken and shall fall: and that which hung thereon,
shall perish, because the Lord hath spoken it.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 23
1 THE burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the
house is destroyed, from whence they were wont to come:
from the land of Cethim it is revealed to them.
2 Be silent, you that dwell in the island: the merchants of
Sidon passing over the sea, have filled thee.
3 The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the
river is her revenue: and she is become the mart of the
nations.
4 Be thou ashamed, O Sidon: for the sea speaketh, even the
strength of the sea, saying: I have not been in labour,
nor have I brought forth, nor have I nourished up young
men, nor brought up virgins.
5 When it shall be heard in Egypt, they will be sorry when
they shall hear of Tyre:
6 Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants of the island.
7 Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her
antiquity? her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, that was
formerly crowned, whose merchants were princes, and her
traders the nobles of the earth?
9 The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to pull down the pride
of all glory, and bring to disgrace all the glorious ones
of the earth.
10 Pass thy land as a river, O daughter of the sea, thou hast
a girdle no more.
11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled
kingdoms: the Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to
destroy the strong ones thereof.
12 And he said: Thou shalt glory no more, O virgin daughter
of Sidon, who art oppressed: arise and sail over to
Cethim, there also thou shalt have no, rest.
13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans, there was not such a
people, the Assyrian founded it: they have led away the
strong ones thereof into captivity, they have destroyed
the houses thereof, they have brought it to ruin.
14 Howl, O ye ships of the sea, for your strength is laid
waste.
15 And it shall come to pass in that day that thou, O Tyre,
shalt be forgotten, seventy years, according to the days
of one king: but after seventy years, there shall be unto
Tyre as the song of a harlot.
16 Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been
forgotten: sing well, sing many a song, that thou mayst be
remembered.
17 And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that the
Lord will visit Tyre, and will bring her back again to her
traffic: and she shall commit fornication again with all
the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be sanctified to
the Lord: they shall not be kept in store, nor laid up:
for her merchandise shall be for them that shall dwell
before the Lord, that they may eat unto fulness, and be
clothed for a continuance.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 24
1 BEHOLD the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip
it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad
the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest:
and as with the servant, so with his master: as with the
handmaid, so with her mistress: as with the buyer, so with
the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower: as
with him that calleth for his money, so with him that
oweth.
3 With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it
shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this
word.
4 The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the
world faded away, the height of the people of the earth is
weakened.
5 And the earth is infected by the in- habitants thereof:
because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed
the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the
inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that
dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left.
7 The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away,
all the merryhearted have sighed.
8 The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that
rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be
bitter to them that drink it.
10 The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up,
no man cometh in.
11 There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth
is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.
12 Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress
the gates.
13 For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the
midst of the people, as if a few olives, that remain,
should be shaken out of the olive tree: or grapes, when
the vintage is ended.
14 These shall lift up their voice, and shall give praise:
when the Lord shall be glorified, they shall make a joyful
noise from the sea.
15 Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of
the Lord God of Israel in the islands of the sea.
16 From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the
glory of the just one. And I said: My secret to myself, my
secret to myself, woe is me: the prevaricators have
prevaricated, and with the prevarication of transgressors
they have prevaricated.
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou
inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he that shall flee from
the noise of the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he
that shall rid himself out of the pit, shall be taken in
the snare: for the flood-gates from on high are opened,
and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.
19 With breaking shall the earth be broken, with crushing
shall the earth be crushed, with trembling shall the earth
be moved.
20 With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man,
and shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the
iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall
fell, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall
visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings
of the earth, on the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together as in the gathering of
one bundle into the pit, and they shall be shut up there
in prison: and after many days they shall be visited.
23 fend the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed,
when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in
Jerusalem, and shall be glorified in the sight of his
ancients.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 25
1 O LORD, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, and give glory
to thy name: for thou hast done wonderful things, thy
designs of old faithful, amen.
2 For thou hast reduced the city to a heap, the strong city
to ruin, the house of strangers, to be no city, and to be
no more built up for ever.
3 Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of
mighty nations shall fear thee.
4 Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength
to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind,
a shadow from the heat. For the blast of the mighty is
like a whirlwind beating against a wall.
5 Thou shalt bring down the tumult of strangers, as heat in
thirst: and as with heat under a burning cloud, thou shalt
make the branch of the mighty to wither away.
6 And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this
mountain, a feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat
things full of marrow, of wine purified from the lees.
7 And he shall destroy in this mountain the face of the bond
with which all pie were tied, and the web that he over all
nations.
8 He shall cast death down headlong forever: and the Lord
God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the
reproach of his people he shall take away from off the
whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 And they shall say in that day: Lo, this is our God, we
have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the
Lord, we have patiently waited for him, we shall rejoice
and be joyful in his salvation.
10 For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and
Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken
in pieces with the wain.
11 And he shall stretch forth his hands under him, as he that
swimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim: and he shall
bring down his glory with the dashing of his hands.
12 And the bulwarks of thy high walls shall fall, and be
brought low, and shall be pulled down to the ground, even
to the dust.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 26
1 IN that day shall this canticle be sung the land of Juda.
Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a
bulwark shall be set therein.
2 Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth
the truth, enter in.
3 The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace,
because we have hoped in thee.
4 You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God
mighty for ever.
5 For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high
city he shall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the
ground, he shall pull it down even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the
steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is right, the path of the just is
right to walk in.
8 And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently
waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the
desire of the soul.
9 My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my
spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to
thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the
inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.
10 Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn
justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked
things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.
11 Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let
the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire
devour thy enemies.
12 Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all
our works for us.
13 O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion
over us, only in thee let us remember thy name.
14 Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again:
therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and best
destroyed all their memory.
15 Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast
been favourable to the nation: art thou glorified? thou
hast removed all the ends of the earth far off.
16 Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the
tribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them.
17 As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of
her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so
are we become in thy presence, O Lord.
18 We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have
brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the
earth, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not
fallen.
19 Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake,
and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is
the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou
shalt pull down into ruin.
20 Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors
upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the
indignation pass away.
21 For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit
the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him:
and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover
her slain no more.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 27
1 IN that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong
sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan
the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in
the see.
2 In that day there shall be singing to the vineyard of pure
wine.
3 I am the Lord that keep it, I will suddenly give it drink:
lest any hurt come to it, I keep it night and day.
4 There is no indignation in m: who shall make me a thorn
and a brier in battle: shall march against it, shall I set
it on fire together?
5 Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make
peace with me, shall it make peace with me?
6 When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom
and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with
seed.
7 Hath he struck him according to the stroke of him that
struck him? or is he slain, as he killed them that were
slain by him?
8 In measure against measure, when it shall be cast off,
thou shalt judge it. He hath meditated with his severe
spirit in the day of heat.
9 Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of
Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin
thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all
the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces,
the groves and temples shall not stand.
10 For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city
shall be forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness :
there the calf shall feed, and there shall he lie down,
and shall consume its branches.
11 Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall
come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore
he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that
formed it, shall not spare it.
12 And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will
strike from the channel of the river even to the torrent
of Egypt, and you shall be gathered together one by one,
O ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass, that in that day a noise shall
be made with a great trumpet, and they that were lost,
shall come from the land of the Assyrians, and they that
were outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall adore
the Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 28
1 WOE to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,
and to the fading flower the glory of his joy, who were on
the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine.
2 Behold the Lord is mighty and strong, as a storm of hail:
a destroying whirlwind, as the violence of many waters
overflowing, and sent forth upon a spacious land.
3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be
trodden under feet.
4 And the fading flower the glory of his joy, who is on the
head of the fat valley, shall be as a hasty fruit before
the ripeness of autumn: which when he that seeth it shall
behold, as soon as he taketh it in his hand, he will eat
it up.
5 In that day the Lord of hosts shall be a crown of glory,
and a garland of joy to the residue of his people:
6 And a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment,
and strength to them that return out of the battle to the
gate.
7 But these also have been ignorant through wine, and
through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet
have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed
up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they
have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of
judgment.
8 For all tables were full of vomit and filth, so that there
was no more place.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
understand the hearing? them that are weaned from the
milk, that are drawn away from the breasts.
10 For command, command again; command, command again;
expect, expect again; expect, expect again: a little
there, a little there.
11 For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he
will speak to this people.
12 To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and
this is my refreshing: and they would not hear.
13 And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command,
command again; command, command again: expect, expect
again; expect, expect again: a little there, a little
there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken,
and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who
rule over my people that is in Jerusalem.
15 For you have said : We have entered into a league with
death, and we have made a covenant with hell. When the
overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come
upon us: for we have placed our hope in lies, and by
falsehood we are protected.
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a
stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner
stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He
that believeth, let him not hasten.
17 And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure:
and hail shall overturn the hope of falsehood: and waters
shall overflow its protection.
18 And Sour league with death shall be abolished, and your
covenant with hell shall not stand: when the overflowing
scourge shall pass, you shall be trodden down by it.
19 Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall take you away:
because in the morning early it shall pass through, in the
day and in the night, and vexation alone shall make you
understand what you hear.
20 For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and
a short covering can- not cover both.
21 For the Lord shall stand up as in the mountain of
divisions: he shall be angry as in the valley which is in
Gabaon: that he may do his work, his strange work: that he
may perform his work, his work is strange to him.
22 And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For
I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption
and a cutting short upon all the earth.
23 Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.
24 Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he
open and harrow his ground?
25 Will he not, when he hath made plain the surface thereof,
sow gith, and scatter cummin, and put wheat in order, and
barley, and millet, and vetches in their bounds?
26 For he will instruct him in judgment : his God will teach
him.
27 For gith shall not be thrashed with saws, neither shall
the cart wheel turn about upon cummin: but gith shall be
beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a staff.
28 But bread corn shall be broken small: but the thrasher
shall not thrash it for ever, neither shall the cart wheel
hurt it, nor break it with its teeth.
29 This also is come forth from the Lord God of hosts, to
make his counsel wonderful, and magnify justice.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 29
1 WOE to Ariel, to Ariel the city which David took: year is
added to year: the solemnities are at an end.
2 And I will make a trench about Ariel, and it shall be in
sorrow and mourning, and it shall be to me as Ariel.
3 And I will make a circle round about thee, and will cast
up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to
besiege thee.
4 Thou shalt be brought down, thou shalt speak out of the
earth, and thy speech shall be heard out of the ground:
and thy voice shall be from the earth like that of the
python, and out of the ground thy speech shall mutter.
5 And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like
small dust: and as ashes passing away, the multitude of
them that have prevailed against thee.
6 And it shall be at an instant suddenly. A visitation shall
come from the Lord of hosts in thunder, and with
earthquake, and with a great noise of whirlwind and
tempest, and with the flame of devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all nations that have fought against
Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all
that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it.
8 And as he that is hungry dreameth, and eateth, but when he
is awake, his soul is empty: and as he that is thirsty
dreameth, and drinketh, and after he is awake, is yet
faint with thirst, and his soul is empty: so shall be the
multitude of all the Gentiles, that have fought against
mount Sion.
9 Be astonished, and wander, waver, and stagger: be drunk,
and not with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness.
10 For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep
sleep, he will shut up your eyes, he will cover your
prophets and princes, that see visions.
11 And the vision of all shall be unto you as the words of a
book that is sealed, which when they shall deliver to one
that is learned, they shall say: Read this: and he shall
answer: I cannot, for it is sealed.
12 And the book shall be given to one that knoweth no
letters, and it shall be said to him: Read: and he shall
answer: I know no letters.
13 And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me
with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but
their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with
the commandment and doctrines of men:
14 Therefore behold I will proceed to cause an admiration in
this people, by a great and wonderful miracle: for wisdom
shall perish from their wise men, and the understanding of
their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel
from the Lord: and their works are in the dark, and they
say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us?
16 This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should
think against the potter, and the work should say to the
maker thereof: Thou madest me not: or the thing framed
should say to him that fashioned it: Thou understandest
not.
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be
turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a
forest?
18 And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book,
and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind
shall see.
19 And the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the
poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For he that did prevail hath failed, the scorner is
consumed, and they are all cut off that watched for
iniquity:
21 That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that
reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the
just.
22 Therefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Jacob, he
that redeemed Abraham: Jacob shall not now be confounded,
neither shall his countenance now be ashamed:
23 But when he shall see his children, the work of my hands
in the midst of him sanctifying my name, and they shall
sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall glorify the God
of Israel:
24 And they that erred in spirit, shall know understanding,
and they that murmured, shall learn the law.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 30
1 WOE to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you
would take counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web,
and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sill:
2 Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my
mouth, hoping for help in the strength of Pharao, and
trusting in the shadow of Egypt.
3 And the- strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion,
and the confidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame.
4 For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came
even to Hanes.
5 They were all confounded at a people that could not profit
them: they were no help, nor to any profit, but to
confusion and to reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the south. In a land of
trouble and distress, from whence come the lioness, and
the lion, the viper and the flying basilisk, they carry
their riches upon the shoulders of beasts, and their
treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that
shall not be able to profit them.
7 For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore
have I cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still.
8 Now therefore go in and write for them upon box, and note
it diligently in a book, and it shall be in the latter
days for a testimony for ever.
9 For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying
children, children that will not hear the law of God.
10 Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold:
Behold not for us those things that are right: speak unto
us pleasant things, see errors for us.
11 Take away from me the way, turn away the path from me, let
the Holy One of Israel cease from before us.
12 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because you
have rejected this word, and have trusted in oppression
and tumult, and have leaned upon it:
13 Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that
falleth, and is found wanting in a high wall, for the
destruction thereof shall come on a sudden, when it is not
looked for.
14 And it shall be broken small, as the potter's vessel is
broken all to pieces with mighty breaking, and there shall
not a sherd be found of the pieces thereof, wherein a
little fire may be carried from the hearth, or a, little
water be drawn out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel: If you
return and be quiet, you shall be saved: in silence and in
hope shall your strength be. And you would not:
16 But have said: No, but we will flee to horses: therefore
shall you flee. And we will mount upon swift ones:
therefore shall they be swifter that shall pursue after
you.
17 A thousand men shall flee for fear of one: and for fear of
five shall you flee, till you be left as the mast of a
ship on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign upon a
hill.
18 Therefore the Lord waiteth that be may have mercy on you:
and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the
Lord is the God of judgment: blessed are all they that
wait for him.
19 For the people of Sion shall dwell in Jerusalem: weeping
thou shalt not weep, he will surely have pity on thee: at
the voice of thy cry, se soon as he shell hear, he will
answer thee.
20 And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water:
and will not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any
more, and thy eyes shall see thy teacher.
21 And thy ears shall hear the word of one admonishing thee
behind thy back: This is the way, walk ye in it: and go
not aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
22 And thou shalt defile the plates of thy graven things of
silver, and the garment of thy molten things of gold, and
shalt cast them away as the uncleanness of a menstruous
woman. Thou shalt say to it: Get thee hence.
23 And rain shall be given to thy seed, wheresoever thou
shalt sow in the land: and the bread of the corn of the
land shall be most plentiful, and fat. The lamb in that
day shall feed at large in thy possession:
24 And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till the ground,
shall eat mingled pro vender as it was winnowed in the
floor.
25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon
every elevated hill rivers of running waters in the day of
the slaughter of many, when the tower shall fall.
26 And the light of the moon shall be se the light of the
sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the
light of seven days: in the day when the Lord shall bind
up the wound of his people, and shall heal the stroke of
their wound.
27 Behold the name of the Lord cometh from afar, his wrath
burneth, and is heavy to bear: his lips are filled with
indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire.
28 His breath as a torrent overflowing even to the midst of
the neck, to destroy the nations unto nothing, and the
bridle of error that was in the jaws of the people.
29 You shall have a song as in the night of the sanctified
solemnity, and joy of heart, as when one goeth with a
pipe, to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the Mighty
One of Israel.
30 And the Lord shall make the glory of his voice to be
heard, and shall shew the terror of his arm, in the
threatening of wrath, and the dame of devouring fire: he
shall crush to pieces with whirlwind, and hailstones.
31 For at the voice of the Lord the Assyrian shall fear being
struck with the rod.
32 And the passage of the rod shall be strongly grounded,
which the Lord shall make to rest upon him with timbrels
and harps, and in great battles he shall over throw them.
33 For Topheth is prepared from yesterday, prepared by the
king, deep, and wide. The nourishment thereof is fire and
much wood: the breath of the Lord as a torrent of
brimstone kindling it.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 31
1 WOE to them that go down to Egypt for help, trusting in
horses, and putting their confidence in chariots, because
they me many: and in horsemen, because they me very
strong: and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel,
and have not sought after the Lord.
2 But he that is the wise one hath brought evil, and hath
not removed his words: and he will rise up against the
house of the wicked, and against the aid of them that work
iniquity.
3 Egypt is man, and not God: and their horses, flesh, and
not spirit: and the Lord shall put down his hand, and the
helper shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall, and
they shall al be confounded together.
4 For thus saith the Lord to me: Like as the lion roareth,
and the lion's whelp upon his prey, and when a multitude
of shepherds shall come against him, he will not fear at
their voice, nor be afraid of their multitude: so shall
the Lord of hosts come down to fight upon mount Sion, and
upon the hill thereof.
5 As birds dying, so will the Lord of hosts protect
Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and
saving.
6 Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
7 For in that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver,
and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you
to sin.
8 And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword not of a man, and
the sword not of a man shall devour him, and he shall flee
not at the face of the sword: and his young men shall be
tributaries.
9 And his strength shall pass away with dread, and his
princes fleeing shall be afraid: the Lord hath said it,
whose die is in Sion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 32
1 BEHOLD a king shall reign in justice, and princes shell
rule in judgment.
2 And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and
hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in
drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a
desert land.
3 The eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears
of them that hear shall hearken diligently.
4 And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge, and the
tongue of stammerers shall speak readily and plain.
5 The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the
deceitful be called great:
6 For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will
work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the
Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the
hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty.
7 The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath
framed devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when
the poor man speaketh judgment.
8 But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a
prince, and he shah stand above the rulers.
9 Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident
daughters, give ear to my speech.
10 For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be
troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering
shall come no more.
11 Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident
ones: strip yen, and be confounded, gird your loins.
12 Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for
the fruitful vineyard.
13 Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come
up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city
that rejoiced?
14 For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is
left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for
ever. A joy of wild asses, the pastures of docks,
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the
desert shall be se a charmel, and charmel shall be counted
for a forest.
16 And judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and justice
shall sit in charmel.
17 And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of
justice quietness, and security for ever.
18 And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the
tabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest.
19 But hail shall be in the descent of the forest, and the
city shall be made very low.
20 Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither
the foot of the ox and the ass.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 33
1 WOE to thee that spoilest, shalt not thou thyself also be
spoiled? and thou that despisest, shalt not thyself also
be despised? when thou shalt have made an end of spoiling,
thou shalt be spoiled: when being wearied thou shalt cease
to despise, thou shalt be despised.
2 O Lord, have mercy on us: for we have waited for thee: be
thou our arm in the morning, and our salvation in the time
of trouble.
3 At the voice of the angel the people fled, and at the
lifting up thyself the nations are scattered.
4 And your spoils shall be gathered together as the locusts
are gathered, as when the ditches are full of them.
5 The Lord is magnified, for he hath dwelt on high: he hath
filled Sion with judgment and justice.
6 And there shall be faith in thy times: riches of
salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is
his treasure.
7 Behold they that see shall cry without, the angels of
peace shall weep bitterly.
8 The ways are made desolate, no one passeth by the road,
the covenant is made void, he hath rejected the cities, he
hath not regarded the men.
9 The land hath mourned, and languished: Libanus is
confounded and become foul, and Saron is become as a
desert: and Basan and Carmel are shaken.
10 Now will I rise up, saith the Lord: now will I be exalted,
now will I lift up myself.
11 You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble:
your breath as fire shall devour you.
12 And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle
of thorns they shall be burnt with fire.
13 Hear, you that are far off, what I have done, and you that
are near know my strength.
14 The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon
the hypocrites. Which of you can dwell with devouring
fire? which of you shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that
casteth away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands
from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear
blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.
16 He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall
be his highness: bread is given him, his waters are sure.
17 His eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall see
the land far off.
18 Thy heart shall meditate fear: where is the learned? where
is he that pondereth the words of the law? where is the
teacher of little ones?
19 The shameless people thou shalt not see, the people of
profound speech: so that thou canst not understand the
eloquence of his tongue, in whom there is no wisdom.
20 Look upon Sion the city of our solemnity: thy eyes shall
see Jerusalem, a rich habitation, a tabernacle that cannot
be removed: neither shall the nails thereof be taken away
for ever, neither shall any of the cords thereof be
broken:
21 Because only there our Lord is magnificent: it place of
rivers, very broad and spacious streams: no ship with oars
shall pass by it, neither shall the great galley pass
through it.
22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the
Lord is our king: he will save us.
23 Thy tacklings are loosed, and they shall be of no
strength: thy mast shall be in such condition, that thou
shalt not be able to spread the flag. Then shall the
spoils of much prey be divided: the lame shall take the
spoil.
24 Neither shall he that is near, say: I am feeble. The
people that dwell therein, shall have their iniquity taken
away from them.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 34
1 COME near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people:
let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world,
and every thing that cometh forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the Lord if upon all nations, and
his fury upon all their armies: he hath killed them, and
delivered them to slaughter.
3 Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their
carcasses shall rise a slink: the mountains shall be
melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of the heavens shall pine away, and the
heavens shall be folded together as a book: and all their
host shall fall down as the leaf falleth from the vine,
and from the fig tree.
5 For my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold it shall come
down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter unto
judgment.
6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made
thick with the blood of lambs and buck goats, with the
blood of rams full of marrow: for there is a victim of the
Lord in Bosra and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls
with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood,
and their ground with the fat of fat ones.
8 For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year
of recompenses of the judgment of Sion.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and
the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof
shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day it shall not be quenched, the smoke thereof
shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it
shall lie waste, none shall pass through it for ever and
ever.
11 The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and
the raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched
out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto
desolation.
12 The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call
rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be
nothing.
13 And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and
the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the
habitation of dragons, and the pasture of ostriches.
14 And demons and monsters shall meet, and the hairy ones
shall cry out one to another, there hath the lamia lain
down, and found rest for herself.
15 There hath the ericius had its hole, and brought up its
young ones, and hath dug round about, and cherished them
in the shadow thereof: thither are the kites gathered
together one to another.
16 Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord, and read:
not one of them was wanting, one hath not sought for the
other: for that which proceedeth out of my mouth, he hath
commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath
divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for
ever, from generation to generation they shall dwell
therein.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 35
1 THE land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad,
and the wilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like
the lily.
2 It shall bud forth and blossom, and shall rejoice with joy
and praise: the glory of Libanus is given to it: the
beauty of Carmel, and Saron, they shall see the glory of
the Lord, and the beauty of our God.
3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak
knees.
4 Say to the fainthearted: Take courage, and fear not:
behold your God will bring the revenge of recompense: God
himself will come and will save you.
5 Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears
of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of
the dumb shall be free: for waters are broken out in the
desert, and streams in the wilderness.
7 And that which was dry land, shall become a pool, and the
thirsty land springs of water. In the dens where dragons
dwell before, shall rise up the verdure of the reed and
the bulrush.
8 And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be
called the holy way: the unclean shall not pass over it,
and this shall be unto you a straight way, so that fools
shall not err therein.
9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any mischievous beast go
up by it, nor be found there: but they shall walk there
that shall be delivered.
10 And the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and shall come
into Sion with praise, and everlasting joy shall be upon
their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and
sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 36
1 AND it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king
Ezechias, that Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came up
against all the fenced cities of Juda, and took them.
2 And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces from Lachis to
Jerusalem, to king Ezechias with a great army, and he
stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the
fuller's held.
3 And there went out to him Eliacim the son of Helcias, who
was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the
son of Asaph the recorder.
4 And Rabsaces said to them: Tell Ezechias: Thus saith the
great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this
confidence wherein thou trustest?
5 Or with what counsel or strength dost thou prepare for
war? on whom dost thou trust, that thou art revolted from
me?
6 Lo thou trustest upon this broken staff of a reed, upon
Egypt: upon which if a man lean, it will go into his hand,
and pierce it: so is Pharao king or Egypt to all that
trust in him.
7 But if thou wilt answer me: We trust in the Lord our God:
is it not he whose high places and altars Ezechias hath
taken away, and hath said to Juda and Jerusalem: You shall
worship before this altar?
8 And now deliver thyself up to my lord the king of the
Assyrians, and I will give thee two thousand horses, and
thou wilt not be able on thy part to find riders for them.
9 And how wilt thou stand against the face of the judge of
one place, of the least of my master's servants? But if
thou trust in Egypt, in chariots and in horsemen:
10 And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to
destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up against this land,
and destroy it.
11 And Eliacim, and Sobna, and Joahe said to Rabsaces: Speak
to thy servants in the Syrian tongue: for we understand
it: speak not to us in the Jews' language in the hearing
of the people, that are upon the wall.
12 And Rabsaces said to them: Hath my master sent me to thy
master and to thee, to speak all these words; and not
rather to the men that sit on the wall; that they may eat
their own dung, and drink their urine with you?
13 Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in
the Jews' language, and said: Hear the words of the great
king, the king of the Assyrians.
14 Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you, for he
shall not be able to deliver you.
15 And let not Ezechias make you trust in the Lord, saying:
The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not
be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.
16 Do not hearken to Ezechias: for thus said the king of the
Assyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage,
and come out to me, and eat ye every one of his vine, and
every one of his dg tree, and drink ye every one the water
of his cistern,
17 Till I come and take you away to a land, like to your own,
a land of corn and of wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18 Neither let Ezechias trouble you, saying: The Lord will
deliver us. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered
their land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?
19 Where is the god of Emath and of Arphad? where is the god
of Sepharvaim? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 Who is there among all the gods of these lands, that hath
delivered his country out of my hand, that the Lord may
deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21 And they held their peace, and answered him not a word.
For the king had commanded, saying: answer him not.
22 And Eliacim the son of Helcias, that was over the house,
and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the
recorder, went in to Ezechias with their garments rent,
and told him the words of Rabsaces.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 37
1 AND it came to pass, when king Ezechias had heard it, that
he rent his garments and covered himself with sackcloth,
and went into the house of the Lord.
2 And he sent Eliacim who was over the house, and Sobna the
scribe, and the ancients of the priests covered with
sackcloth, to Isaias the son of Amos the prophet.
3 And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a
day of tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for
the children are come to the birth, and there is not
strength to bring forth.
4 It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of
Rabsaces, whom the king of the Assyrians his master hath
sent to blaspheme the living God, and to reproach with
words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up
thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
5 And the servants of Ezechias came to Isaias.
6 And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say to your
master: Thus saith the Lord: Be not afraid of the words
that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king
of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear
a message, and shall return to his own country, and I will
cause him to fall by the sword in his own country.
8 And Rabsaces returned, end found the king of the Assyrians
besieging Lobna. W For he had heard that he was departed
from Lachis.
9 And he heard say about Tharaca the king of Ethiopia: He is
come forth to fight against thee. And when he heard it, he
sent messengers to Ezechias, saying:
10 Thus shall you speak to Ezechias the king of Juda, saying:
Let not thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest,
saying: Jerusalem shall not be given into the hands of the
king of the Assyrians.
11 Behold thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians
hare done to all countries which they have destroyed, and
canst thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my
fathers have destroyed, Gozam, and Haram, and Reseph, and
the children of Eden, that were in Thalassar?
13 Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and
the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava?
14 And Ezechias took the letter from the hand of the
messengers, and read it, and went up to the house of the
Lord, and Ezechias spread it before the Lord.
15 And Ezechias prayed to the Lord, saying:
16 O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who sittest upon the
cherubims, thou alone art the God of all the kingdoms of
the earth, thou hast made heaven and earth.
17 Incline, O Lord, thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy
eyes, and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib,
which he hath sent to blaspheme the living God.
18 For of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have
laid waste lands, and their countries.
19 And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were
not gods, but the works of men's hands, of wood and stone:
and they broke them in pieces.
20 And now, O Lord our God, save us out of his hand: and let
all the kingdoms of the earth know, that thou only art the
Lord.
21 And Isaias the son of Amos sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus
saith the Lord the God of Israel: For the prayer thou hast
made to me concerning Sennacherib the king of the
Assyrians:
22 This is the word which the Lord hath spoken of him: The
virgin the daughter of Sion hath despised thee, and
laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath
wagged the head after thee.
23 Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed,
and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted
up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
24 By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord:
and hast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have
gone up to the height of the mountains, to the top of
Libanus: and I will out down its tall cedars, and its
choice fir trees, end will enter to the top of its height,
to the forest of its Carmel.
25 I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the
sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.
26 Hast thou not heard what I have done to him of old? from
the days of old I have formed it: and now I have brought
it to effect: and it hath come to pass that hills fighting
together, and fenced cities should be destroyed.
27 The inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled,
and were confounded: they became like the grass of the
field, and the herb of the pasture, and like the grass of
the housetops, which withered before it was ripe.
28 I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in,
and thy rage against me.
29 When thou wast mad against me, thy pride came up to my
ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit
between thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by
which thou camest.
30 But to thee this shall be a sign: Eat this year the things
that spring of themselves, and in the second year eat
fruits: but in the third year sow and reap, and giant
vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
31 And that which shall be saved of the house of Juda, and
which is left, shall take root downward, and shall bear
fruit upward :
32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a, remnant, and
salvation from mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts
shall do this.
33 Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the
Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an
arrow into it, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a
trench about it.
34 By the way that he came, he shall return, and into this
city he shall not come, saith the Lord.
35 And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own
sake, and for the sake of David my servant.
36 And the angel of the Lord went out, and slew in the camp
of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And
they arose in the morning, and behold they were all dead
corpses.
37 And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and
departed, and returned, and dwelt in Ninive.
38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the temple
of Nesroch his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons
slew him with the sword: and they fled into the land of
Ararat, and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 38
1 IN those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and Isaias
the son of Amos the prophet came unto him, and said to
him: Thus saith the Lord: Take order with thy house, for
thou shalt die, and not live.
2 And Ezechias turned his face toward the wall, and prayed
to the Lord,
3 And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have
walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and
have done that which is good in thy sight. And Ezechias
wept with great weeping.
4 And the word of the Lord came to Isaias, saying:
5 Go and say to Ezechias: Thus saith the Lord the God of
David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen
thy tears: behold I will add to thy days fifteen years:
6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of
the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it.
7 And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the
Lord will do this word which he hath spoken:
8 Behold I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by
which it is now gone down in the sun dial of Achaz with
the sun, ten lines backward. And the sun returned ten
lines by the degrees by which it was gone down.
9 The writing of Ezechias king of Juda, when he had been
sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
10 I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of
hell: I sought for the residue of my years.
11 I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the
living. I shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of
rest.
12 My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me,
as a shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver:
whilst I was yet but beginning, he out me off: from
morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.
13 I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my
bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of
me.
14 I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a
dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer
violence, answer thou for me.
15 What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas
he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my
years in the bitterness of my soul.
16 O Lord, if man's life be such, and the life of my spirit
be in such things as these, thou shalt correct me, and
make me to live.
17 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou
best delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou
hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18 For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death
praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit,
look for thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as
I do this day: the father shall make thy truth known to
the children.
20 O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days
of our life in the house of the Lord.
21 Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of
figs, and lay it as it plaster upon the wound, and that he
should be healed.
22 And Ezechias bed said: What shah be the sign that I shah
go up to the house of the Lord?
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 39
1 AT that time Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan king of
Babylon, sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had
heard that he had been sick and was recovered.
2 And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he shewed them
the storehouses of his aromatical spices, and of the
silver, and of the gold, and of the sweet odours, and of
the precious ointment, and all the storehouses of his
furniture, and all things that were found in his
treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his
dominion that Ezechias shewed them not.
3 Then Isaias the prophet came to king Ezechias, and said to
him: What said these men, and from whence came they to
thee? And Ezechias said: From a far country they came to
me, from Babylon
4 And he said: What saw they in thy house? And Ezechias
said: All things that are in my house have they seen,
there was not any thing which I have not shewn them in my
treasures.
5 And Isaias said to Ezechias: Rear the word of the Lord of
hosts.
6 Behold the days shall come, that all that is in thy house,
and that thy fathers have laid up in store until this day,
shall be carried away into Babylon: there shall not any
thing be left, saith the Lord.
7 And of thy children, that shall issue from thee, whom thou
shalt beget, they shall take away, and they shall be
eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
8 And Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which
he hath spoken, is good. And he said: Only let peace and
truth be in my days.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 40
1 BE comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God.
2 Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for
her evil is come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she
hath received of the hand of the Lord double for all her
sins.
3 The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way
of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of
our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill
shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight,
and the rough ways plain.
5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh
together shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken.
6 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I
cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the
flower of the held.
7 The grass is withered, and the dower is fallen, because
the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the
people is grass:
8 The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the
word of our Lord endureth for ever.
9 Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good
tidings to Sion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou
that bringest good tidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear
not. Say to the cities of Juda: Behold your God:
10 Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm
shall rule: Behold his reward is with him and his work is
before him.
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather
together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in
his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with
young.
12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
and weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised
with three fingers the bulk of the earth, and weighed the
mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13 Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath
been his counsellor, and hath taught him?
14 With whom hath he consulted, and who hath instructed him,
and taught him the path of justice, and taught him
knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?
15 Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are
counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the
islands are as a little dust.
16 And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts
thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 All nations are before him as if they had no being at all,
and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.
18 To whom then have you likened God? or what image will you
make for him?
19 Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the
goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with
plates of silver?
20 He hath chosen strong wood, and that will not rot: the
skilful workman seeketh how he may set up an idol that may
not be moved.
21 Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been
told you from the beginning? have you not understood the
foundations of the earth ?
22 It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the
inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out
the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent
to dwell in.
23 He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that
hath made the judges of the earth as vanity.
24 And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor
rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and
they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as
stubble.
25 And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith
the Holy One?
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these
things: who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth
them all by their names: by the greatness of his might,
and strength, and power, not one of them was missing.
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way
is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from
my God?
28 Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard? the Lord is the
everlasting God, who hath created the ends of the earth:
he shall not faint, nor labour, neither is there any
searching out of his wisdom.
29 It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth
force and might to them that are not.
30 Youths shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall
by infirmity.
31 But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength,
they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be
weary, they shall walk and not faint.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 41
1 LET the islands keep silence before me, and the nations
take new strength: let them come near, and then speak, let
us come near to judgment together.
2 Who hath raised up the just one from the east, hath called
him to follow him? he shall give the nations in his sight,
and he shall rule over kings: he shall give them as the
dust to his sword, as stubble driven by the wind, to his
bow.
3 He shall pursue them, he shall pass in peace, no path
shall appear after his feet.
4 Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the
generations from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first
and the last.
5 The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were
astonished, they drew near, and came.
6 Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his
brother: Be of good courage.
7 The coppersmith striking with the hammer encouraged him
that forged at that time, saying: It is ready for
soldering: and he strengthened it with nails, that it
should not be moved.
8 But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen,
the seed of Abraham my friend:
9 In whom I have taken thee from the ends of the earth, and
from the remote parts thereof have called thee, and said
to thee: Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee, and have
not cast thee away.
10 Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy
God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and
the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.
11 Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and
ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall
perish that strive against thee.
12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find the men that
resist thee: they shall be as nothing: and as a thing
consumed the men that war against thee.
13 For I am the Lord thy God, who take thee by the hand, and
say to thee: Fear not, I have helped thee.
14 Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that are dead of Israel:
I have helped thee, saith the Lord: and thy Redeemer the
Holy One of Israel.
15 I have made thee as a new thrashing wain, with teeth like
a saw: thou shall thrash the mountains, and break them in
pieces: and shalt make the hills as chaff.
16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away,
and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt
rejoice in the Lord, in the Holy One of Israel thou shalt
be joyful.
17 The needy and the poor seek for waters, and there are
none: their tongue hath been dry with thirst. I the Lord
will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in the high bills, and fountains in the
midst of the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of
waters, and the impassable land into streams of waters.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn,
and the myrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the
desert the fir tree, the elm, and the box tree together:
20 That they may see and know, and consider, and understand
together that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the
Holy One of Israel hath created it.
21 Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if
you have any thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob.
22 Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come:
tell us the former things what they were: and we will set
our heart upon them, and shall know the latter end of
them, and tell us the things that are to come.
23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall
know that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you
can: and let us speak, and see together.
24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which
hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.
25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come
from the rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name,
and he shall make princes to be as dirt, and as the potter
treading clay.
26 Who bath declared from the beginning, that we may know:
and from time of old, that we may say: Thou art just.
There is none that sheweth, nor that foretelleth, nor that
heareth your words.
27 The first shall say to Sion: Behold they are here, and to
Jerusalem I will give an evangelist.
28 And I saw, and there was no one even among them to
consult, or who, when I asked, could answer a word.
29 Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are
vain: their idols are wind and vanity.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 42
1 BEHOLD my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul
delighteth in him: I have given my spirit upon him, he
shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
2 He shall not cry, nor have respect to person, neither
shall his voice be heard abroad.
3 The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he
shall not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto
truth.
4 He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment
in the earth: and the islands shall wait for his law.
5 Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and
stretched them out: that established the earth, and the
things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the
people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.
6 I the Lord have called thee in justice, and taken thee by
the hand, and preserved thee. And I have given thee for a
covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles:
7 That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring
forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in
darkness out of the prison house.
8 I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to
another, nor my praise to graven things.
9 The things that were first, behold they are come: and new
things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make
you head them.
10 Sing ye to the Lora a new song, his praise is from the
ends of the earth: you that go down to the sea, and all
that are therein: ye islands, and ye inhabitants of them.
11 Let the desert and the cities thereof be exalted: Cedar
shall dwell in houses: ye inhabitants of Petra, give
praise, they shall cry from the top of the mountains.
12 They shall give glory to the Lord, and shall declare his
praise in the islands.
13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war
shall he stir up zeal: he shall shout and cry: he shall
prevail against his enemies.
14 I have always held my peace, I have I kept silence, I have
been patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I
will destroy, and swallow up at once.
15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make
all their grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into
islands, and will dry up the standing pools.
16 And I will lead the blind into the way which they know
not: and in the paths which they were ignorant of I will
make them walk: I will make darkness light before them,
and crooked things straight: these things have I done to
them, and have not forsaken them.
17 They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that
trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You
are our god.
18 Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see.
19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I
have sent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is
sold? or who is blind, but the servant of the Lord?
20 Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them?
thou that hast ears open, wilt thou not hear?
21 And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify
the law, and exalt it.
22 But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are
all the snare of young men, and they are hid in the houses
of prisons: they are made a prey, and there is none to
deliver them: a spoil, and there is none that saith:
Restore.
23 Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that
will attend and hearken for times to come?
24 Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers?
hath not the Lord himself, against whom we have sinned?
And they would not walk in his ways, and they have not
hearkened to his law.
25 And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his
fury, and a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about,
and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood
not.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 43
1 AND now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob,
and formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed
thee, and called thee by thy name: thou art mine.
2 When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with
thee, and the rivers shall not cover thee: when thou shalt
walk in the fire, thou shalt not be burnt, and the flames
shall not burn in thee:
3 For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy
Saviour: I have given Egypt for thy atonement, Ethiopia
and Saba for thee.
4 Since thou becamest honourable in my eyes, thou art
glorious: I have loved thee, and I will give men for thee,
and people for thy life.
5 Fear not, for I am with thee: I will. bring thy seed from
the east, and gather thee from the west.
6 I will say to the north: Give up: and to the south: Keep
not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from
the ends of the earth.
7 And every one that calleth upon my name, I have created
him for my glory, I have formed him, and made him.
8 Bring forth the people that are blind, and have eyes: that
are deaf, and have ears.
9 All the nations are assembled together, and the tribes are
gathered: who among you can declare this, and shall make
us hear the former things? let them bring forth their
witnesses, let them be justified, and hear, and say: It is
truth.
10 You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom
I have chosen: that you may know, and believe me, and
understand that I myself am. Before me there was no God
formed, and after me there shall be none.
11 I am, I am the Lord: and there is no saviour besides me.
12 I have declared, and have saved. I have made it heard, and
there was no strange one among you. You are my witnesses,
saith the Lord, and I am God.
13 And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none
that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who
shall turn it away?
14 Thus saith the Lord your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
For your sake I sent to Babylon, and have brought down all
their bars, and the Chaldeans glorying in their ships.
15 I am the Lord your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your
King.
16 Thus saith the Lord, who made a way in the sea, and a path
in the mighty waters.
17 Who brought forth the chariot and the horse, the army and
the strong: they lay down to sleep together, and they
shall not rise again: they are broken as flax, and are
extinct.
18 Remember not former things, and look not on things of old.
19 Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth,
verily you shall know them: I will make a way in the
wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
20 The beast of the field shall glorify me, the dragons and
the ostriches: because I have given waters in the
wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my
people, to my chosen.
21 This people have I formed for my- self, they shall shew
forth my praise.
22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob, neither hast
thou laboured about me, O Israel.
23 Thou hast not offered me the ram of thy holocaust, nor
hast thou glorified me with thy victims: I have not caused
thee to serve with oblations, nor wearied thee with
incense.
24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast
thou filled me with the fat of thy victims. But thou hast
made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with
thy iniquities.
25 I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own
sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
26 Put me in remembrance, and let us plead together: tell if
thou hast any thing to justify thyself.
27 Thy brat father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed
against me.
28 And I have profaned the holy princes, I have given Jacob
to slaughter, and Israel to reproach.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 44
1 AND now hear, O Jacob, my servant, and Israel whom I have
chosen.
2 Thus saith the Lord that made and formed thee, thy helper
from the womb: Fear not, O my servant Jacob, and thou most
righteous whom I have chosen.
3 For I will pour out waters upon the thirsty ground, and
streams upon the dry land: I will pour out my spirit upon
thy seed, and my blessing upon thy stock.
4 And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows
beside the running waters.
5 One shall say: I am the Lord's, and another shall call
himself by the name of Jacob, and another shall subscribe
with his hand, To the Lord, and surname himself by the
name of Israel.
6 Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer
the Lord of hosts: I am the brat, and I am the last, and
besides me there is no God.
7 Who is like to me? let him call and declare: and let him
set before me the order, since I appointed the ancient
people: and the things to come, and that shall be
hereafter, let them shew unto them.
8 Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled, from that time I have
made thee to hear, and have declared: you are my
witnesses. Is there a God besides me, a maker, whom I have
not known?
9 The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their
best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their
witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they
may be ashamed.
10 Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is
profitable for nothing?
11 Behold, all the partakers thereof shall be confounded: for
the makers are men: they shall all assemble together, they
shall stand and fear, and shall be confounded together.
12 The smith hath wrought with his file, with coals, and with
hammers he hath formed it, and hath wrought with the
strength of his arm: he shall hunger and faint, he shall
drink no water, and shall be weary.
13 The carpenter hath stretched out his rule, he hath formed
it with a plane: he hath made it with corners, and hath
fashioned it round with the compass: and he hath made the
image of a man as it were a beautiful man dwelling in a
house.
14 He hath cut down cedars, taken the holm, and the oak that
stood among the trees of the forest: he hath planted the
pine tree, which the rain hath nourished.
15 And it hath served men for fuel: he took thereof, and
warmed himself: and he kindled it, and baked bread: but of
the rest he made a god, and adored it: he made a graven
thing, and bowed down before it.
16 Part of it he burnt with fire, and with part of it he
dressed his meat: he boiled pottage, and was filled, and
was warmed, and said: Aha, I am warm, I have seen the
fire.
17 But the residue thereof he made a god, and a graven thing
for himself: he boweth down before it, and adoreth it, and
prayeth unto it, saying: Deliver me, for thou art my God.
18 They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are
covered that they may not see, and that they may not
understand with their heart.
19 They do not consider in their mind, nor know, nor have the
thought to say: I have burnt part of it in the fire, and
I have baked bread upon the coals thereof: I have broiled
flesh and have eaten, and of the residue thereof shall I
make an idol? shall I fall down before the stock of a
tree?
20 Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and
he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie
in my right hand.
21 Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art
my servant. I have formed thee, thou art my servant, O
Israel, forget me not.
22 I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins
as a mist: return to me, for I have redeemed thee.
23 Give praise, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath shewn mercy:
shout with joy, ye ends of the earth: ye mountains,
resound with praise, thou, O forest, and every tree
therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and Israel
shall be glorified.
24 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, and thy maker, from the
womb: I am the Lord, that make all things, that alone
stretch out the heavens, that establish the earth, and
there is none with me.
25 That make void the tokens of diviners, and make the
soothsayers mad. That turn the wise backward, and that,
make their knowledge foolish.
26 That raise up the word of my servant and perform the
counsel of my messengers, who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt
be inhabited: and to the cities of Juda: You shall be
built, and I will raise up the wastes thereof.
27 Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up
thy rivers.
28 Who say to Cyrus: Thou art my shepherd, and thou shalt
perform all my pleasure. Who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt
be built: and to the temple: Thy foundations shall be
laid.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 45
1 THUS saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand
I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face,
and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors
before him, and the gates shall not be shut.
2 I will go before thee, and will humble the great ones of
the earth: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and
will burst the bars of iron.
3 And I will give thee hidden treasures, and the concealed
riches of secret places: that thou mayest know that I am
the Lord who call thee by thy name, the God of Israel.
4 For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my elect, I
have even called thee by thy name: I have made a likeness
of thee, and thou hast not known me.
5 I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God,
besides me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me:
6 That they may know who are from the rising of the sun, and
they who are from the west, that there is none besides me.
I am the Lord, and there is none else:
7 I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and
create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.
8 Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds
rain the just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a
saviour: and let justice spring up together: I the Lord
have created him.
9 Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the
earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth
it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?
10 Woe to him that saith to his father: Why begettest thou?
and to the woman: Why dost thou bring forth?
11 Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of Israel, his maker: Ask
me of things to come, concerning my children, and
concerning the work of my hands give ye charge to me.
12 I made the earth: and I created man upon it: my hand
stretched forth the heavens, and I have commanded all
their host.
13 I have raised him up to justice, and I will direct all his
ways: he shall build my city, and let go my captives, not
for ransom, nor for presents, saith the Lord the God of
hosts.
14 Thus saith the Lord: The labour of Egypt, and the
merchandise of Ethiopia, and of Sabaim, men of stature
shall come over to thee, and shall be thins: they shall
walk after thee, they shall go bound with manacles: and
they shall worship thee, and shall make supplication to
thee: only in thee is God, and there is no God besides
thee.
15 Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel the
saviour.
16 They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors
are gone together into confusion.
17 Israel is saved in the Lord with as eternal salvation: you
shall not be con- founded, and you shall not be ashamed
for ever and ever.
18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God
himself that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker
thereof: he did not create it in vain: he formed it to be
inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.
19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth:
I have not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I
am the Lord that speak justice, that declare right things.
20 Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw near together, ye
that are saved of the Gentiles: they have no knowledge
that set up the wood of their graven work, and pray to a
god that cannot save.
21 Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared
this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that
time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else
besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none
besides me.
22 Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of
the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.
23 I have sworn by myself, the word of justice shall go out
of my mouth, and shall not return:
24 For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue
shall swear.
25 Therefore shall he say: In the Lord are my justices and
empire: they shall come to him, and all that resist him
shall be confounded.
26 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and
praised.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 46
1 BEL is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols are put upon
beasts and cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto
weariness.
2 They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not
save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go
into captivity.
3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the
house of Israel, who are carried by my bowels, are borne
up by my womb.
4 Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs
I will carry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will
carry and will save.
5 To whom have you likened me, and made me equal, and
compared me, and made me like?
6 You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh out
silver in the scales: and hire a goldsmith to make a god:
and they fall down and worship.
7 They bear him on their shoulders and carry him, and set
him in his piece, and he shall stand, and shall not stir
out of his place. Yea, when they shall cry also unto him,
he shall not hear: he shall not save them from
tribulation.
8 Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors,
to the heart.
9 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God
beside, neither is there the like to me:
10 Who shew from the beginning the things that shall be at
last, and from ancient times the things that as yet are
not done, saying: My counsel shall stand, and all my will
shall be done:
11 Who call a bird from the east, and from a far country the
man of my own will, and I have spoken, and will bring it
to pass: I have created, and I will do it. Hear me, O ye
hardhearted, who are far from justice.
12 I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off:
and my salvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in
Sion, and my glory in Israel.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 47
1 COME down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon,
sit on the ground: there is no throne for the daughter of
the Chaldeans, for thou shalt no more be called delicate
and tender.
2 Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip
thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.
3 Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall be
seen: I will take vengeance, and no man shall resist me.
4 Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One
of Israel.
5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of
the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the lady
of kingdoms.
6 I was angry with my people, I have polluted my
inheritance, and have given them into thy bend: thou hast
shewn no mercy to them: upon the ancient thou hast laid
thy yoke exceeding heavy.
7 And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever: thou hast
not laid these things to thy heart, neither hast thou
remembered thy latter end.
8 And now hear these things, thou that art delicate, and
dwellest confidently, that sayest in thy heart: I am, and
there is none else besides me: I shall not sit as a widow,
and I shall not know barrenness.
9 These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day,
barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee,
because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the
great hardness of thy enchanters.
10 And thou best trusted in thy wickedness, and hast said:
There is none that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and thy
knowledge, this hath deceived thee. And thou best said in
thy heart: I am, and besides me there is no other.
11 Evil shall come upon thee, and then shalt not know the
rising thereof: and calamity shall fall violently upon
thee, which thou canst not keep off: misery shall come
upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
12 Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude of
thy sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth,
if so be it may profit thee any thing, or if thou mayst
become stronger.
13 Thou hast failed in the multitude or thy counsels: let now
the astrologers stand and save thee, they that gazed at
the stars, and counted the months, that from them they
might tell the things that shall come to thee.
14 Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they
shall not deliver them- selves from the power of the
dames: there are no coals wherewith they may be warmed,
nor fire, that they may sit thereat.
15 Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou best
laboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one hath
erred in his own way, there is none that can save thee.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 48
1 HEAR ye these things, O house of Jacob, you that are
called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of
the waters of Juda, you who swear by the name of the Lord,
and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth,
nor in justice.
2 For they are called of the holy city, and are established
upon the God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name.
3 The former things of old I have declared, and they went
forth out of my mouth, and I have made them to be heard:
I did them suddenly and they came to pass.
4 For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an
iron sinew, and thy forehead as brass.
5 I foretold thee of old, before they came to pass I told
thee, lest thou shouldst say: My idols have done these
things, and my graven and molten things have commanded
them.
6 See now all the things which thou hast heard: but have you
declared them? I have shewn thee new things from that
time, and things are kept which thou knowest not:
7 They are created now, and not of old: and before the day,
when thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldst say:
Behold I knew them.
8 Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear
opened of old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt
transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the
womb.
9 For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for
my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.
10 Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have
chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.
11 For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may
not be blasphemed: and I will not give my glory to
another.
12 Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am
he, I am the first, and I am the last.
13 My hand also hath founded the earth, and my right hand
hath measured the heavens: I shall call them, and they
shall stand together.
14 Assemble yourselves together, all you, and hear: who among
them hath declared these things? the Lord hath loved him,
he will do his pleasure in Babylon, and his arm shall be
on the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I have spoken and called him: I have brought him,
and his way is made prosperous.
16 Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in
secret from the beginning: from the time before it was
done, I was there, and now the Lord God hath sent me, and
his spirit.
17 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
I am the Lord thy God that teach thee profitable things,
that govern thee in the way that thou walkest.
18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace
had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the
sea,
19 And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of
thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not
have perished, nor have been destroyed from before my
face.
20 Come forth out of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans,
declare it with the voice of joy: make this to be heard,
and speak it out even to the ends of the earth. Say: The
Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
21 They thirsted not in the desert, when he led them out: he
brought forth water out of the rock for them, and he clove
the rock, and the waters gushed out.
22 There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 49
1 GIVE ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from afar.
The Lord hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of
my mother he hath been mindful of my name.
2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword: in the
shadow of his hand he hath protected me, and hath made me
as a chosen arrow: in his quiver he hath hidden me.
3 And he said to me: Thou art my servant Israel, for in thee
will I glory.
4 And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my
strength without cause and in vain: therefore my judgment
is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
5 And now saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be
his servant, that I may bring back Jacob unto him, and
Israel will not be gathered together: and I am glorified
in the eyes of the Lord, and my God is made my strength.
6 And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my
servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert
the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the
light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation
even to the farthest part of the earth.
7 Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One,
to the soul that is despised, to the nation that is
abhorred, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see, end
princes shall rise up, and adore for the Lord's sake,
because he is faithful, and for the Holy One of Israel,
who hath chosen thee.
8 Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard
thee, and in the day of salvation I have helped thee: and
I have preserved thee, and given thee to be a covenant of
the people, that thou mightest raise up the earth, and
possess the inheritances that were destroyed:
9 That thou mightest say to them that are bound: Come forth:
and to them that are in darkness: Shew yourselves. They
shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in
every plain.
10 They shall not hunger, nor thirst, neither shall the heat
nor the sun strike them: for he that is merciful to them,
shall be their shepherd, and at the fountains of waters he
shall give them drink.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my paths shall
be exalted.
12 Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from
the north and from the sea, and these from the south
country.
13 Give praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth, ye
mountains, give praise with jubilation: because the Lord
hath comforted his people, and will have mercy on his poor
ones.
14 And Sion said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and the Lord
hath forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on
the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will
not I forget thee.
16 Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are
always before my eyes.
17 Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make
thee waste shall go out of thee.
18 Lift up thy eyes round about, and see all these are
gathered together, they are come to thee: I live, saith
the Lord, thou shalt be clothed with all these se with an
ornament, and as a bride thou shalt put them about thee.
19 For thy deserts, and thy desolate places, and the land of
thy destruction shall now be too narrow by reason of the
inhabitants, end they that swallowed thee up shall be
chased far away.
20 The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy
ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to
dwell in.
21 And thou shalt-say in thy heart: Who hath begotten these?
I was barren and brought not forth, led away, and captive:
and who hath brought up these? I was destitute and alone:
and these, where were they?
22 Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lift up my hand to
the Gentiles, and will set up my standard to the people.
And they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and carry thy
daughters upon their shoulders.
23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy
nurses: they shall worship thee with their face toward the
earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And
thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be
confounded that wait for him.
24 Shall the prey be taken from the strong? or can that which
was taken by the mighty be delivered?
25 For thus saith the Lord: Yea verily, even the captivity
shall be taken away from the strong: and that which was
taken by the mighty, shall be delivered. But I will judge
those that have judged thee, and thy children I will save.
26 And I will feed thy enemies with their own flesh: and they
shall be made drunk with their own blood, as with new
wine: and all flesh shall know, that I am the Lord that
save thee, and thy Redeemer the Mighty One of Jacob.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 50
1 THUS saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of
your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my
creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your
iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your
mother away.
2 Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and
there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and
become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no
strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make
the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land:
the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for
thirst.
3 I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make
sackcloth their covering.
4 The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should
know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth
in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I
may hear him as a master.
5 The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I
have not gone back.
6 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to
them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face
from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.
7 The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded:
therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I
know that I shall not be confounded.
8 He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me?
let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come
near to me.
9 Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall
condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment,
the moth shall eat them up.
10 Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, that heareth
the voice of his servant, that hath walked in darkness,
and hath no light? let him hope in the name of the Lord,
and lean upon his God.
11 Behold all you that kindle a fire, encompassed with dames,
walk in the light of your fire, and in the dames which you
have kindled: this is done to you by my hand, you shall
sleep in sorrows.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 51
1 GIVE ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and
you that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are
hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug
out.
2 Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara that bore you:
for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied
him.
3 The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and will comfort all
the ruins thereof: and he will make her desert as a place
of pleasure, and her wilderness as the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and
the voice of praise.
4 Hearken unto me, O my people, and give ear to me, O my
tribes: for a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment
shall rest to be a light of the nations.
5 My just one is near at hand, my saviour is gone forth, and
my arms shall judge the people: the islands shall look for
me, and shall patiently wait for my arm.
6 Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth
beneath: for the heavens shall vanish like smoke, and the
earth shall be worn away like a garment, and the
inhabitants thereof shall perish in like manner: but my
salvation shall be for ever, and my justice shall not
fail.
7 Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who
have my law in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of
men, and be not afraid of their blasphemies.
8 For the worm shall eat them up as a garment: and the moth
shall consume them as wool: but my salvation shall be for
ever, and my justice from generation to generation,
9 Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou arm of the Lord,
arise as in the days of old, in the ancient generations.
Hast not thou struck the proud one, and wounded the
dragon?
10 Hast not thou dried up the sea, the water of the mighty
deep, who madest the depth of the sea a way, that the
delivered might pass over?
11 And now they that are redeemed by the Lord, shall return,
and shall come into Sion singing praises, and joy
everlasting shall be upon their heads, they shall obtain
joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12 I, I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou
shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man,
who shall wither away like grass?
13 And thou hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, who stretched
out the heavens, and founded the earth: and thee hast been
afraid continually all the day at the presence of his fury
who afflicted thee, and had prepared himself to destroy
thee: where is now the fury of the oppressor?
14 He shall quickly come that is going to open unto you, and
he shall not kill unto utter destruction, neither shall
his bread fail.
15 But I am the Lord thy God, who trouble the sea, and the
waves thereof swell: the Lord of hosts is my name.
16 I have put my words in thy mouth, and have protected thee
in the shadow of my hand, that thou mightest plant the
heavens, and found the earth: and mightest say to Sion:
Thou art my people.
17 Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at
the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunk
even to the bottom of the cup of dead sleep, and thou hast
drunk even to the dregs.
18 There is none that can uphold her among all the children
that she hath brought forth: and there is none that taketh
her by the hand among all the children that she hath
brought up.
19 There are two things that have happened to thee: who shall
be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the
famine, and the sword, who shall comfort thee?
20 Thy children are cast forth, they have slept at the head
of all the ways, as the wild ox that is snared: full of
the indignation of the Lord, of the rebuke of thy God.
21 Therefore hear this, thou poor little one, and thou that
art drunk but no with wine.
22 Thus saith thy Sovereign the Lord and thy God, who will
fight for his people: Behold I have taken out of thy hand
the cup of dead sleep, the dregs of the cup of my
indignation, thou shalt not drink it again any more.
23 And I will put it in the hand of them that have oppressed
thee, and have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go
over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as a
way to them that went over.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 52
1 ARISE, arise, put on thy strength, O Sion, put on the
garments of thy glory, O Jerusalem, the city of the Holy
One: for henceforth the uncircumcised, and unclean shall
no more pass through thee.
2 Shake thyself from the dust, arise, sit up, O Jerusalem:
loose the bonds from off thy neck, O captive daughter of
Sion.
3 For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you
shall be redeemed without money.
4 For thus saith the Lord God: My people went down into
Egypt at the beginning to sojourn there: and the Assyrian
hath oppressed them without any cause at all.
5 And now what have I here, saith the Lord: for my people is
taken away gratis. They that rule over them treat them
unjustly, saith the Lord, and my name is continually
blasphemed all the day long.
6 Therefore my people shall know my name in that day: for I
myself that spoke, behold I am here.
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings, and that preacheth peace: of him
that sheweth forth good, that preacheth salvation, that
saith to Sion: Thy God shall reign!
8 The voice of thy watchmen: they have lifted up their
voice, they shah praise together: for they shall see eye
to eye when the Lord shall convert Sion
9 Rejoice, and give praise together, O ye deserts of
Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people: he hath
redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord hath prepared his holy arm in the sight of all
the Gentiles: and all the ends of the earth shall see the
salvation of our God.
11 Depart, depart, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean
thing: go out of the midst of her, be ye clean, you that
carry the vessels of the Lord.
12 For you shall not go out in a tumult, neither shall you
make haste by flight: For the Lord will go before you, and
the God of Israel will gather you together.
13 Behold my servant shall understand, he shall be exalted,
and extolled, and shall be exceeding high.
14 As many have been astonished at thee, so shall his visage
be inglorious among men, and his form among the sons of
men.
15 He shall sprinkle many nations, kings shall shut their
mouth at him: for they to whom it was not told of him,
have seen: and they that heard not, have beheld.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 53
1 WHO hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of
the Lord revealed?
2 And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as
a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him,
nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no
sightliness, that we should be desirous of him:
3 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows,
and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were
hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our
sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and
as one struck by God and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for
our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and
by his bruises we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned
aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the
iniquity of us all.
7 He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened
not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the
slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer,
and he shall not open his mouth.
8 He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who
shall declare his generation? because he is cut oh out of
the land of the living: for the wickedness of my people
have I struck him.
9 And he shall give the ungodly for his burial, and the rich
for his death: because he hath done no iniquity, neither
was there deceit in his mouth.
10 And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he
shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a long-lived
seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his
hand.
11 Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be
filled: by his knowledge shall this my just servant
justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall
divide the spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered
his soul unto death, and was reputed with the wicked: and
he hath borne the sins of many, and hath prayed for the
transgressors.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 54
1 GIVE praise, O thou barren, that bearest not: sing forth
praise, and make a joyful noise, thou that didst not
travail with child: for many are the children of the
desolate, more than of her that hath a husband, saith the
Lord.
2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and stretch out the skins
of thy tabernacles, spare not: lengthen thy cords, and
strengthen thy stakes.
3 For thou shalt pass on to the right hand, and to the left:
and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and shall inhabit
the desolate cities.
4 Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded, nor blush: for
thou shalt not be put to shame, because thou shalt forget
the shame of thy youth, and shalt remember no more the
reproach of thy widowhood.
5 For he that made thee shall rule over thee, the Lord of
hosts is his name: and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel, shall be called the God of all the earth.
6 For the Lord hath called thee as woman forsaken and
mourning in spirit, end se a wife cast off from her youth,
said thy God.
7 For a, small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great
mercies will I gather thee.
8 In a moment of indignation have I hid my face a little
while from thee, but with everlasting kindness have I had
mercy on thee, said the Lord thy Redeemer.
9 This thing is to me as in the days of Noe, to whom I
swore, that I would no more bring in the waters of Noe
upon the earth: so have I sworn not to be angry with thee,
and not to rebuke thee.
10 For the mountains shall be moved, and the hills shall
tremble; but my mercy shall not depart from thee, and the
covenant of my peace shall not be moved: said the Lord
that hath mercy on thee.
11 O poor little one, tossed with tempest, without all
comfort, behold I will lay thy stones in order, and will
lay thy foundations with sapphires,
12 And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of
graven stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones.
13 All thy children shall be taught of the Lord: and great
shall be the peace of thy children.
14 And thou shalt be founded in justice: depart far from
oppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for
it shall not come near thee.
15 Behold, an inhabitant shall come, who was not with me, he
that was a stranger to thee before, shall be joined to
thee.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in
the fire, and bringeth forth an instrument for his work,
and I have created the killer to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and
every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt
condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the
Lord, and their justice with me, saith the Lord.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 55
1 ALL you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have
no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and
milk without money, and without any price.
2 Why do you spend money for that which is not breed, and
your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken
diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your
soul shall be delighted in fatness.
3 Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall
lire, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
the faithful mercies of David.
4 Behold I have given him for a witness to the people, for
a leader and a master to the Gentiles.
5 Behold thou shalt call a nation, which thou knewest not:
and the nations that knew not thee shall run to thee,
because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of
Israel, for he hath glorified thee.
6 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him,
while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his
thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have
mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to
forgive.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my
ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my
ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your
thoughts.
10 And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and
return no more thither, but soak the earth, and water it,
and make it to spring, and give seed to the sower, and
bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth:
it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever
I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent
it.
12 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with
peace: the mountains and the hills shall sing praise
before yen, and all the trees of the country shah clap
their hands.
13 Instead of the shrub, shall come up the fir tree, and
instead of the nettle, shall come up the myrtle tree: and
the Lord shall be named for an everlasting sign, that
shall not be taken away.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 56
1 THUS saith the Lord : Keep ye judgment, and do justice:
for my salvation is near to come, and my justice to be
revealed.
2 Blessed is the man that doth this, and the son of man that
shall lay hold on this: that keepeth the sabbath from
profaning it, that keepeth his hands from doing any evil.
3 And let not the son of the stranger, that adhereth to the
Lord, speak, saying: The Lord will divide and separate me
from his people. And let not the eunuch say: Behold I am
a dry tree.
4 For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, They that shall
keep my sabbaths, and shall choose the things that please
me, and shall hold fast my covenant:
5 I will give to them in my house, and within my walls, a
place, and a name better than sons and daughters: I will
give them an everlasting name which shall never perish.
6 And the children of the stranger that adhere to the Lord,
to worship him, and to love his name, to be his servants:
every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and
that holdeth fast my covenant:
7 I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make them
joyful in my house of prayer: their holocausts, and their
victims shall please me upon my altar: for my house shall
be called the house of prayer, for all nations.
8 The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel,
saith: I will still gather unto him his congregation.
9 All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts
of the forest.
10 His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb
dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and
loving dreams.
11 And meet impudent dogs, they never had enough: the
shepherds themselves knew no understanding: all have
turned aside into their own way, every one after his own
gain, from the first even to the last.
12 Come, let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness:
and it shall be as to day, so also to morrow, and much
more.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 57
1 THE just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men
of mercy are taken away, because there is none that
understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before
the face of evil.
2 Let peace come, let him rest in his bed that hath walked
in his uprightness.
3 But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed
of the adulterer, and of the harlot.
4 Upon whom have you jested? upon whom have you opened your
mouth wide, and put out your tongue? are not you wicked
children, a false seed,
5 Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree,
sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high
rocks?
6 In the parts of the torrent is thy portion, this is thy
lot: and thou hast poured out libations to them, thou hast
offered sacrifice. Shall I not be angry at these things?
7 Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and
hast gone up thither to offer victims.
8 And behind the door, and behind the post thou best set up
thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself near me,
and hast received an adulterer: thou hast enlarged thy
bed, and made a covenant with them: thou hast loved their
bed with open hand.
9 And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment,
and hast multiplied thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy
messengers far off, and wast debased even to hell.
10 Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy ways: yet
thou saidst not: I will rest: thou hast found life of thy
hand, therefore thou hast not asked.
11 For whom hast thou been solicitous and afraid, that thou
hast lied, and hast not been mindful of me, nor thought on
me in thy heart? for I am silent, and as one that seeth
not, and thou hast forgotten me.
12 I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit
thee.
13 When thou shalt cry, let thy companies deliver thee, but
the wind shall carry them all off, a breeze shall take
them away, but he that putteth his trust in me, shall
inherit the land, and shall possess my holy mount.
14 And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of
the path, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of
my people.
15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth
eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high
and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to
revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart
of the contrite.
16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry
unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my
face, end breathings I will make.
17 For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and I
struck him: I hid my face from thee, and was angry: and he
went away wandering in his own heart.
18 I saw his ways, and I healed him, and brought him back,
and restored comforts to him, and to them that mourn for
him.
19 I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that
is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I
healed him.
20 But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest,
and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.
21 There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord God.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 58
1 CRY, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew
my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob
their sins.
2 For they seek me from day to day, sad desire to know my
ways, as a nation that hath done justice, and hath not
forsaken the judgment of their God: they ask of me the
judgments of justice: they are willing to approach to God.
3 Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we
humbled our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold
in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you
exact of all your debtors.
4 Behold you fast for debates and strife. and strike with
the fist wickedly. Do not fast as you have done until this
day, to make your cry to be heard on high.
5 Is this such a fast as I have chosen: for a man to afflict
his soul for a day? is this it, to wind his head about
like a circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? wilt
thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord?
6 Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the
bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let
them that are broken go free, and break asunder every
burden.
7 Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the
harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked,
cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy
health shall speedily arise, and thy justice shall go
before thy face, end the glory of the Lord shall gather
thee up.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt
cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away
the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch
out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not.
10 When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt
satisfy the afflicted soul then shall thy light rise up in
darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noonday.
11 And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will
fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and
thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain
of water whose waters shall not fail
12 And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be
built in thee: thou shalt raise up the foundations of
generation and generation: and thou shalt be called the
repairer of the fences, turning the paths into rest.
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing
thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath
delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify
him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is
not found: to speak a word:
14 Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift
thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed
thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the
mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 59
1 BEHOLD the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it
cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear.
2 But your iniquities have divided between you and your God,
and your sins have hid his face from you that he should
not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers
with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue
uttereth iniquity.
4 There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there
any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere
nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour,
and brought forth iniquity.
5 They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs
of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die:
and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a
basilisk.
6 Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they
cover themselves with their works: their works are
unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their
hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent
blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting
and destruction are in their ways.
8 They have not known the way of peace, and there is no
judgment in their steps: their paths are become crooked to
them, every one that treadeth in them, knoweth no peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not
overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness:
brightness, and we have walked in the dark.
10 We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have
groped as if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday
as in darkness, we are in dark places as dead men.
11 We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as
mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is
none: for salvation, and it is far from us.
12 For our iniquities are multiplied before thee, and our
sins have testified against us: for our wicked doings are
with us, and we have known our iniquities:
13 In sinning and lying against the Lord: and we have turned
away so that we went not after our God, but spoke calumny
and transgression : we have conceived, and uttered from
the heart, words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath
stood far off: because truth bath fallen down in the
street, and equity could not come in.
15 And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed from
evil, lay open to be a prey: and the Lord saw, and it
appeared evil in his eyes, because there is no judgment.
16 And he saw that there is not a man: and he stood
astonished, because there is none to oppose himself: and
his own arm brought salvation to him, and his own justice
supported him.
17 He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of
salvation upon his head: he put on the garments of
vengeance, and was clad with zeal as with a cloak.
18 As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath to his
adversaries, and a reward to his enemies: he will repay
the like to the islands.
19 And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord:
and they from the rising of the sun, his glory: when he
shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit of the
Lord driveth on:
20 And there shall come a, redeemer to Sion, and to them that
return from iniquity in Jacob, saith the Lord.
21 This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit
that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy
mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the
mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's
seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 60
1 ARISE, be enlightened, O Jerusalem: for thy light is come,
and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
2 For behold darkness shall cover the earth, and a mist the
people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory
shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and kings in the
brightness of thy rising.
4 Lift up thy eyes round about, and see: all these are
gathered together, they are come to thee: thy sons shah
come from afar, and thy daughters shall rise up at thy
side.
5 Then shalt thou see, and abound, and thy heart shall
wonder and be enlarged, when the multitude of the sea
shall be converted to thee, the. strength of the Gentiles
shall come to thee.
6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries
of Madian and Epha: all they from Saba shall come,
bringing gold and frankincense: and shewing forth praise
to the Lord.
7 All the flocks of Cedar shall be gathered together unto
thee, the rams of Nabaioth shall minister to thee: they
shall be offered upon my acceptable altar, and I will
glorify the house of my majesty.
8 Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their
windows?
9 For, the islands wait for me, and the ships of the sea in
the beginning: that I may bring thy sons from afar: their
silver, and their gold with them, to the name of the Lord
thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath
glorified thee.
10 And the children of strangers shall build up thy walls,
and their kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath
have I struck thee, and in my reconciliation have I had
mercy upon thee.
11 And thy gates shall be open continually: they shall not be
shut day nor night, that the strength of the Gentiles may
be brought to thee, and their kings may be brought.
12 For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee,
shall perish: and the Gentiles shall be wasted with
desolation.
13 The glory of Libanus shall come to thee, the Ar tree, and
the box tree, and the pine tree together, to beautify the
place of my sanctuary: and I will glorify the place of my
feet.
14 And the children of them that afflict thee, shall come
bowing down to thee, and all that slandered thee shall
worship the steps of thy feet, and shall call thee the
city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 Because thou wast forsaken, and hated, and there was none
that passed through thee, I will make thee to be an
everlasting glory, a joy unto generation and generation:
16 And thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles, and thou
shalt be nursed with the breasts of kings: and thou shalt
know that I am the Lord thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the
Mighty One of Jacob.
17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring
silver: and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I
will make thy visitation peace, and thy overseers justice.
18 Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor
destruction in thy borders, and salvation shall possess
thy walls, and praise thy gates.
19 Thou shalt no more have the sun for thy light by day,
neither shall the brightness of the moon enlighten thee:
but the Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting light,
and thy God for thy glory.
20 Thy sun shall go down no more, and thy moon shall not
decrease: for the Lord shall be unto thee for an
everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be
ended.
21 And thy people shall be all just, they shall inherit the
land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my
hand to glorify me.
22 The least shall become a thousand, and a little one a most
strong nation: I the Lord will suddenly do this thing in
its time.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 61
1 THE spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath
anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to
heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the
captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day
of vengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn:
3 To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a
crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of
praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called
in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord
to glorify hint.
4 And they shall build the places that have been waste from
of old, and shall raise up ancient ruins, and shall repair
the desolate cities, that were destroyed for generation
and generation.
5 And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks: and
the sons of strangers shall be your husbandmen, and the
dressers of your vines.
6 But you shall be called the priests of the Lord: to you it
shall be said: Ye ministers of our God: you shall eat the
riches of the Gentiles, and you shall pride yourselves in
their glory.
7 For your double confusion and shame, they shall praise
their part: therefore shall they receive double in their
land, everlasting joy shall be unto them.
8 For I am the Lord that love judgment, and hate robbery in
a holocaust: and I will make their work in truth, and I
will make a perpetual covenant with them.
9 And they shall know their seed among the Gentiles, and
their offspring in the midst of peoples: all that shall
see them, shall know them, that these are the seed which
the Lord hath blessed.
10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be
joyful in my God: for he hath clothed me with the garments
of salvation: and with the robe of justice he hath covered
me, as a bridegroom decked with a crown, and as a bride
adorned with her jewels.
11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden
causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God
make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the
nations.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 62
1 FOR Sion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for the sake
of Jerusalem, I will not rest till her just one come forth
as brightness, and her saviour be lighted as a lamp.
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy just one, and all kings thy
glorious one: and thou shalt be called by a new name,
which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
3 And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the
Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
4 Thou shalt no more be called Forsaken: and thy land shall
no more be called Desolate: but thou shalt be called My
pleasure in her, and thy land inhabited. Because the Lord
hath been well pleased with thee: and thy land shall be
inhabited.
5 For the young man shall dwell with the virgin, and thy
children shall dwell in thee. And the bridegroom shall
rejoice over the bride, and thy God shall rejoice over
thee.
6 Upon thy wails, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all
the day, and all the night, they shall never hold their
peace. You that are mindful of the Lord, hold not your
peace,
7 And give him no silence till he establish, and till he
make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of
his strength: Surely I will no more give thy corn to be
meat for thy enemies: and the sons of the strangers shall
not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured.
9 For they that gather it, shall eat it, and shall praise
the Lord: and they that bring it together, shall drink it
in my holy courts.
10 Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the
people, make the road plain, pick out the stones, and lift
up the standard to the people.
11 Behold the Lord hath made it to be heard in the ends of
the earth, tell the daughter of Sion: Behold thy Saviour
cometh: behold his reward is with him, and his work before
him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, the redeemed of
the Lord. But thou shalt be called: A city sought after,
and not forsaken.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 63
1 WHO is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bosra, this beautiful one in his robe, walking in the
greatness of his strength. I, that speak justice, and am
a defender to save.
2 Why then is thy apparel red, and thy garments like theirs
that tread in the winepress?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the Gentiles
there is not a man with me: I have trampled on them in my
indignation, and have trodden them down in my wrath, and
their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have
stained all my apparel.
4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, the year of my
redemption is come.
5 I looked about, and there was none to help: I sought, and
there was none to give aid: and my own arm hath saved for
me, and my indignation itself hath helped me.
6 And I have trodden down the people in my wrath, and have
made them drunk in my indignation, and have brought down
their strength to the earth.
7 I will remember the tender mercies of the Lord, the praise
of the Lord for all the things that the Lord hath bestowed
upon us, and for the multitude of his good things to the
house of Israel, which he hath given them according to his
kindness, and according to the multitude of his mercies.
8 And he said: Surely they are my people, children that will
not deny: so he became their saviour.
9 In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel
of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy
he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up
all the days of old.
10 But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of
his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he
fought against them.
11 And he remembered the days of old of Moses, and of his
people: Where is he that brought them up out of the sea,
with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put in
the midst of them the spirit of his Holy One?
12 He that brought out Moses by the right hand, by the arm of
his majesty: that divided the waters before them, to make
himself an everlasting name.
13 He that led them out through the deep, as a horse in the
wilderness that stumbleth not.
14 As a beast that goeth down in the field, the spirit of the
Lord was their leader: so didst thou lead thy people to
make thyself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven, and behold from thy holy habitation
and the place of thy glory: where is thy zeal, and thy
strength, the multitude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies?
they have held back themselves from me.
16 For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us,
and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our
father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.
17 Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why
hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear
thee? return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of
thy inheritance.
18 They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our
enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary.
19 We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not
rule over us, and when we were not called by thy name.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 64
1 THAT thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down:
the mountains would melt away at thy presence.
2 They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters
would burn with fire, that thy name might be made known to
thy enemies: that the nations might tremble at thy
presence.
3 When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear
them: thou didst come down, and at thy presence the
mountains melted away.
4 From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor
perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God,
besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that
wait for thee.
5 Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy
ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and
we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall
be saved.
6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices
as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen
as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken
us away.
7 There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up,
and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us,
and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.
8 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and
thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.
9 Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our
iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.
10 The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made
a desert, Jerusalem is desolate.
11 The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our
fathers praised thee, is burnt with fire, and all our
lovely things are turned into ruins.
12 Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon these things, wilt
thou hold thy peace, and afflict us vehemently?
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 65
1 THEY have sought me that before asked not for me, they
have found me that sought me not. I said: Behold me,
behold me, to a nation that did not call upon my name.
2 I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving
people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own
thoughts.
3 A people that continually provoke me to anger before my
face: that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.
4 That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of
idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in
their vessels.
5 That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou
art unclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire
burning all the day.
6 Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but
I will render and repay into their bosom.
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers
together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the
mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I
will measure back their first work in their bosom.
8 Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found in a cluster,
and it be said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing:
so will I do for the sake of my servants, that I may not
destroy the whole.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of
Juda a possessor of my mountains: and my elect shall
inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
10 And the plains shall be turned to folds of hocks, and the
valley of Achor into a place for the herds to lie down in,
for my people that have sought me.
11 And you, that have forsaken the Lord, that have forgotten
my holy mount, that set a table for fortune, and offer
libations upon it,
12 I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by
slaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I
spoke, and you did not hear: and you did evil in my eyes,
and you have chosen the things that displease me.
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants
shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants
shall drink, and you shall be thirsty.
14 Behold my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be
confounded: behold my servants shall praise for joyfulness
of heart, and you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall
howl for grief of spirit.
15 And you shall leave your name for an execration to my
elect: and the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his
servants by another name.
16 In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be
blessed in God, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth,
shall swear by God, amen: because the former distresses
are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
17 For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the
former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shell
not come upon the heart.
18 But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in these
things, which I create: for behold I create Jerusalem a
rejoicing, end the people thereof joy.
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and
the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor
the voice of crying.
20 There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old
man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall
die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred
years old shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they
shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not
plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree, so
shall be the days of my people, and the works of their
hands shall be of long continuance.
23 My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in
trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord,
and their posterity with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will
hear; as they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion and
the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent's
food: they shall not hurt nor kill in all my holy
mountain, saith the Lord.
The Book of the Prophet Isaias, Chapter 66
1 THUS saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my
footstool: what is this house that you will build to me?
and what is this place of my rest?
2 My hand made all these things, and all these things were
made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect,
but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite
spirit, and that trembleth at my words?
3 He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew a man: he that
killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog:
he that offereth an oblation, as if he should offer
swine's blood; he that remembereth incense, as if he
should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in
their ways, and their soul is delighted in their
abominations.
4 Wherefore I also will choose their mockeries, and will
bring upon them the things they feared: y because I
called, and there was none that would answer; I have
spoken, and they heard not; and they have done evil in my
eyes, and have chosen the things that displease me.
5 Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble at his word:
Your brethren that hate you, and cast you out for my
name's sake, have said: Let the Lord be glorified, and we
shall see in your joy: but they shall be confounded.
6 A voice of the people from the city, a voice from the
temple, the voice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to
his enemies.
7 Before she was in labour, she brought forth; before her
time came to be delivered, she brought forth a man child.
8 Who hath ever heard such a thing? and who hath seen the
like to this? shall the earth bring forth in one day? or
shall a nation be brought forth at once, because Sion hath
been in labour, and hath brought forth her children?
9 Shall not I that make others to bring forth children,
myself bring forth, saith the Lord? shall I, that give
generation to others, be barren, saith the Lord thy God?
10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that
love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you that mourn for
her.
11 That you may suck, and be filled with the breasts of her
consolations: that you may milk out, and flow with
delights, from the abundance of her glory.
12 For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring upon her as
it were a river of peace, and as an overflowing torrent
the glory of the Gentiles, which you shall suck; you shall
be carried at the breasts, end upon the knees they shall
caress you.
13 As one whom the mother caresseth, so will I comfort you,
and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 You shah see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones
shall flourish like an herb, and the hand of the Lord
shall be known to his servants, and he shall be angry with
his enemies.
15 For behold the Lord will come with fire, and his chariots
are like a whirlwind, to render his wrath in indignation,
and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For the Lord shall judge by fire, and by his sword unto
all flesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many.
17 They that were sanctified, and thought themselves clean in
the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat
swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they
shall be consumed
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