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CHAP. XLVIII.

his prophecies. darkness, O daughter of the Chal-wander every one to his quarter; none deans: for thou shalt no more be shall save thee. called, The lady of kingdoms.

CHAP. XLVIII. I was wroth with my people; HEAR are called by the name of ye this, O house of Jacob, bave polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thy hand: thou didst Israel, and are come forth out of the show them no mercy; upon the an-waters of Judah, which swear by the cient hast thou very heavily laid thy name of the Load, and make mention yoke. of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

7 T And thou saidst, 1 shall be a lady for ever; so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thy heart, 1 am, and none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children;

2 For they cail themselves of the boly city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

9 But these two things shall come to 4 Because I knew that thou art obthee in a moment in one day, the loss stinate, and thy neck is an iron sinof children, and widowhood: they ew, and thy brow brass;

shall come upon thee in their perfec-5 1 have even from the beginning tion for the multitude of thy sorceries, declared it to thee; before it came to and for the great abundance of thine pass I showed it thee: lest thou enchantments.

10 TT For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said,None seeth ne. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and none else besides me.

11 ¶ Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth; and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off; and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

shouldest say, Mme idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. 6 Thou hast heard, see all this: and will not ye declare it? I have showed thee new things from this time, even bidden things, and thou didst not know them.

7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say,Behold, I knew them.

8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou 12 Stand now with thine enchant-knewest not; yea, from that time that ments, and with the multitude of thy thine ear was not opened: for I knew sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured that thou wouldest deal very treacherfrom thy youth; if so be thou shalt ously, and was called a transgressor be able to profit, if so be thou mayest from the womb. prevail.

13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off" but 10 Behold, I have refined thee, not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

11 For mine own sake, even for mine 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; own sake, will I do it: for how should the fire shall burn them; they shall my name be polluted ? and I will not not deliver themseives from the pow-give my glory unto another.

er of the flame: there shall not be a 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before Israel, my called; I am he; 1 am the first, I also am the last.

it. 15 Thus shall they be unto thee with 13 My hand also hath laid the foun whom thou hast laboured, even thy dation of the earth, and my right merchants, from thy youth; they shall hand hath spanned the heavens: olun

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to the Jerus. 1 call unto them, they stand up to-nought, ang in vain: yet surely my gether. judgment is with the LORD, and my

14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and work with my God. hear; which among them hath declar-] 5 ¶ And now, saith the Long that ed these things 2 The LORD hath formed me from the womb to be his loved him he will do his pleasure on servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Though Israel be not gathered, ye: Chaldeans. shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.

15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, 1 bave called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. 16 ¶ Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am 1: and now the Lord Goo, and his Spirit, hath sent me. 17 Thus saith the Lond,thy Redeem-the end of the earth. er, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto

7 Thus saith the Lono,the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abborreth, to a servant of 18 Oh that thou hadst hearkened to rulers, Kings shall see and arise my commandments! then had thy princes also shall worship, because of peace been as a river, and thy right-the LORD that is faithful,and the Holy cousness as the waves of the sea:

19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not liave been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

One of Israel,and he shall choose thee. 8 Thus saith the LORD, lu an accept. able time have I beard thee, and iù a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to estab 20 ¶ Go ye forth of Babylon, flee yelish the earth, to cause to inherit the from the Chaldeans, with a voice of [desolate heritages;

singing declare ye, tell this, utter it 9 That thou mayest say to the prisoneven to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servaut Jacob.

21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

22 There is no peace,saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

CHAP. XLIX.

LISTEN, O Isles, unto me; and
hearken, ye people, from far;
The Lono hath called me from the
womb; from the bowels of my mother
hath be made mention of my name.
2. And he hath made my mouth like
a sharp sword; in the shadow of his
uand bath he hid me, and made me a
polished shaft; in his quiver hath he

id me;

3 And said unto me, Thou art my eervant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

ers, Go forth; to them that are in dark ness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that bath mercy ou them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall be guide them. 11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

12 Behold, these shall come from far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

13 T Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lond hath com forted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

14 But Zion said, The LORD bath for saken me,and my Lond bath forgotten me.

15 Can a woman forget her sucking 4 Then I said, I have laboured in child, that she should not have com vain, I have spent my strength for passion on the son of her womb? yea,

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of the church. they may forget, yet will I not forget and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One thee. of Jacob.

16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers, and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

18 T Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lono, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

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Thus, faith the
HUS saith the Lond, Where is

the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? er which of my creditors is it to whom 1 have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

2 Wherefore, when I came,was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or 19 For thy waste and thy desolate have I no power to deliver? behold, places, and the land of thy destruc-at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make tion, shall even now be too narrow by the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinkreason of the inhabitants,and they that eth,because there is no water,and dieth swallow thee up shall be far away. for thirst. 20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, ehall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

31 clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. 4 T The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in seasor 21 Then shalt thou say in thy heart, to him that is weary: he wakeneth Who hath begotten me these, seeing 1 morning by morning: he wakeneth have lost my children, and am deso- mine ear to hear as the learned. late, a captive, and removing to and 5 The Lord God hath opened mine fro? and who hath brought up these?ear, and 1 was not rebellious, neither Behold, I was left alone; these, where turned away back. had they been ? 6 I gave my back to the emiters, and 22 Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my cheeks to them that plucked off I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, the hair: I hid not my face from and set up my standard to the people: shame and spitting.

and they shall bring thy sons in their 7 For the Lord GOD will help me; arms, and thy daughters shall be car-therefore shall I not be confounded: ried upon their shoulders. therefore have I set my face like a 23 And kings shall be thy nursing flint, and I know that I shall not be fathers, and their queens thy nursing ashamed. mothers; they shall bow down to 8 He is near that justifieth me; who thee with their face toward the earth, will contend with me? let us stand and lick up the dust of thy feet; and together; who is mine adversary? let thou shalt know that I am the LORD: him come near to me. for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

24 T Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive de livered ?

25 But thus saith the LORD,Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

9 Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemi me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. 10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.

11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, 26 And I will feed them that oppress that compass yourselves about with thee with their own flesh; and they sparks; walk in the light of your fire, shall be drunken with their own blood, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall This shall ye bave of my hand, ye know that I the LORD am thy Saviour shall lie down in sorrow.

An exhortation

ISALAH. to trust in God CHAP. LI. 12 I, even I, am he that comforteth ́EARKEN to me, ye that follow you; who art thou, that thou should

the LORD: look unto the rock whence and of the son of man which shall be ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit made as grass; tohence ye are digged. 13 And forgettest the LORD thy ma 2 Look unto Abraham your fatherker, that hath stretched forth the hea and unto Sarah that bare you: for Ivens, and laid the foundations of the called him alone, and blessed him,and earth; and hast feared continually increased him. every day, because of the fury of the 3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: oppressor, as if he were ready to dehe will comfort all her waste places; stroy? and where is the fury of the and he will make her wilderness like oppressor? Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall he may be loosed, and that he should be found therein, thanksgiving, and not die in the pit, nor that his bread the voice of melody. should fail.

4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

14 The captive exile hasteneth that

15 But I am the Lord thy God,that divided the sea, whose waves roared : The Lono of hosts is his name.

16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the 5 My righteousness is near; my sal-shadow of my hand, that I may plant vation is gone forth, and mine arms the heavens,and lay the foundations of shall judge the people: the isles shall the earth,and say unto Zion, Thou art wait upon me, and on mine arm shall my people.

they trust.

17 Awake, awake, stand up, O JeruLift up your eyes to the heavens, salem, which hast drunk at the hand and look upon the earth beneath: for of the Lord the cup of his fury: thou the heavens shall vanish away like hast drunken the dregs of the cup of emoke, and the earth shall wax old trembling, and wrung them out. ike a garment, and they that dwell 18 There is none to guide her among therein shall die in like manner: but all the sons whom she bath brought my salvation shall be for ever,and my forth; neither is there any that taketh righteousness shall not be abolished. her by the hand of all the sons that she 7 ¶ Hearken unto me, ye that know hath brought up.

righteousness, the people in whose 19 These two things are come unto heart is my law; fear ye not the re-thee: who shall be sorry for thee? proach of men, neither be ye afraid desolation, and destruction, and the of their revilings. famine, and the sword: by whom

8 For the moth shall eat them up shall I comfort thee? like a garment, and the worm shall eat 20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at them like wood: but my righteous- the head of all the streets, as a wild ness shall be for ever, and my salva-bull in a net: they are full of the fury tion from generation to generation. of the Lond, the rebuke of thy God. 9T Awake, awake, put on strength, 21 T Therefore hear now this, thou O arm of the Lond; awake, as in the afflicted, and drunken, but not with ancient days,in the generations of old. wine: drt thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury ; thou shalt no more drink it again : 11 Therefore the redeemed of the 23 But I will put it into the hand of Load shall return, and come with them that afflict thee; which have einging unto Ziou; and everlasting said to thy soul, Bow down, that we joy shall be upon their head; they may go over; and thou hast laid thy shall obtain gladness and joy; and body as the ground, and as the street Forrow and mourning shall flee away.Į to them that went over.

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the cross excused, CHAP. LII. (his visage was so marred more toan WAKE, awake; put on thy any man, and his form more than the strength, O Zion; put on thy sous of men ;) beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the 15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; holy city: for henceforth there shall the kings shall shut their mouths at no more come into thee the uncircum-hùm for that which had not been cised and the unclean. told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O

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CHAP. LIII.

HO hath believed our report ? 3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye lave and to whom is the arm of the sold yourselves for nought; and ye LORD revealed? shall be redeemed without money.

2 For he shall grow up before him

4 For thus saith the Lord God, My as a tender plant, and as a root out oľ people went down aforetime into a dry ground: be hath no form not Egypt to sojourn there; and the As-comeliness; and when we shall see eyrian oppressed them without cause. him, there is no beauty that we should 6 Now therefore, what have I here, desire him.

saith the LORD, that my people is ta- 3 He is despised and rejected of men; ken away for nought? they that rule a man of sorrows, and acquainted over them make them to lowl, saith with grief: and we hid as it were our the Loud and my name continually faces from him: he was despised, and every day is blasphemed. we esteemed him not.

6 Therefore my people shall know 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, my name: therefore they shall know and carried our sorrows: yet we did in that day that I am he that doth esteem him stricken, smitten of God, speak: behold, it is 1. and afflicted.

7 ¶ How beautiful upon the moun- 6 But he was wounded for our trans tains are the feet of him that bringeth|gressions, he was bruised for our ini. good tidings, that publisheth peace; quities: the chastisement of our peace hat bringeth good tidings of good,that was upon him; and with his stripes publisheth salvation; that saith unto we are healed. Zion, Thy God reigneth!

8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lond shall bring again Zion.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed, and he was af flicted, yet he opened not his mouth : 9 ¶ Break forth into joy, eing to-he is brought as a lamb to the slaugh gether, ye waste places of Jerusalem:ter, and as a sheep before her shearers for the Lord hath comforted his peo-is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. ple, he hath redecmed Jerusalem. 8 He was taken from prison and from

10 The LORD bath made bare bis holy | judgment; and who shall declare bis arm in the eyes of all the nations; generation ? for he was cut off out of and all the ends of the earth shall see the land of the living: for the transthe salvation of our God. gression of my people was he stricken. 11 T Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out 9 And he made his grave with the from thence, touch no unclean thing;|wicked, and with the rich in his go ye out of the midst of her; be ye death; because he had done no vioclean, that bear the vessels of the lence, neither tvas any deceit in his JORD. mouth.

12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight for the LORD will go before you ; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.

10 T Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an of fering for sin, he shall see his seed, 13 T Behold, my servant shall deal he shall prolong his days, and the prudently, he shall be exalted and ex-pleasure of the Lond shall prosper in tolled, and be very high.

his hand.

14 As many were astonished at thee;} 11 He shall ece of the fearailof bi