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ISAIAH
CHAPTER
1
1
A Vision of Isaiah, the sonne of Amoz, which he sawe concerning Iudah and
Ierusalem: in the dayes of Vzziah, Iotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah Kings of Iudah.
2 Heare, O heauens, and hearken, O earth: for the Lorde hath sayde, I haue
nourished and brought vp children, but they haue rebelled against me.
3 The oxe knoweth his owner, and the asse his masters crib: but
Israel
hath not knowen: my people hath not vnderstand.
4 Ah, sinfull nation, a people laden with iniquitie: a seede of the wicked,
corrupt children: they haue forsaken the Lord: they haue prouoked the holy one
of
Israel
to anger: they are gone backewarde.
5 Wherefore shoulde ye be smitten any more? For ye fall away more and more: the
whole head is sicke, and the whole heart is heauie.
6 From the sole of the foote vnto the head, there is nothing whole therein, but
wounds, and swelling, and sores full of corruption: they haue not bene wrapped,
nor bound vp, nor mollified with oyle.
7 Your land is waste: your cities are burnt with fire: strangers deuoure your
lande in your presence, and it is desolate like the ouerthrowe of strangers.
8 And the daughter of
Zion
shall remaine like a cotage in a vineyarde, like a lodge in a garden of
cucumbers, and like a besieged citie.
9 Except the Lorde of hostes had reserued vnto vs, euen a small remnant: we
should haue bene as
Sodom
, and should haue bene like vnto Gomorah.
10 Heare the worde of the Lorde, O princes of
Sodom
: hearken vnto the Law of our God, O people of Gomorah.
11 What haue I to doe with the multitude of your sacrifices, sayth the Lorde? I
am full of the burnt offerings of rams, & of the fat of fed beasts: and I
desire not the blood of bullocks, nor of lambs, nor of goates.
12 When ye come to appeare before me, who required this of your hands to tread
in my courts?
13 Bring no mo oblations, in vaine: incense is an abomination vnto me: I can not
suffer your newe moones, nor Sabbaths, nor solemne dayes (it is iniquitie) nor
solemne assemblies.
14 My soule hateth your newe moones and your appointed feastes: they are a
burden vnto me: I am weary to beare them.
15 And when you shall stretch out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from you: and
though ye make many prayers, I wil not heare: for your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you cleane: take away the euill of your workes from before
mine eyes: cease to doe euill.
17 Learne to doe well: seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed: iudge the
fatherlesse and defend the widowe.
18 Come nowe, and let vs reason together, sayth the Lord: though your sinnes
were as crimsin, they shalbe made white as snowe: though they were red like
skarlet, they shalbe as wooll.
19 If ye consent and obey, ye shall eate the good things of the land.
20 But if ye refuse and be rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the sword: for
the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
21 Howe is the faithfull citie become an harlot? It was full of iudgement, and
iustice lodged therein, but now they are murtherers.
22 Thy siluer is become drosse: thy wine is mixt with water.
23 Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeues: euery one loueth giftes,
and followeth after rewards: they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither doeth the
widowes cause come before them.
24 Therefore sayth the Lorde God of hostes, the mightie one of
Israel
, Ah, I will ease me of mine aduersaries, & auenge me of mine enemies.
25 Then I will turne mine hand vpon thee, and burne out thy drosse, till it be
pure, and take away all thy tinne.
26 And I will restore thy iudges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the
beginning: afterward shalt thou be called a citie of righteousnes, and a
faithfull citie.
27
Zion
shalbe redeemed in iudgement, and they that returne in her, in iustice.
28 And the destruction of the transgressers and of the sinners shalbe together:
and they that forsake the Lord, shalbe consumed.
29 For they shalbe confounded for the okes, which ye haue desired, and ye shall
be ashamed of the gardens, that ye haue chosen.
30 For ye shalbe as an oke, whose leafe fadeth: and as a garden that hath no
water.
31 And the strong shalbe as towe, and the maker thereof, as a sparke: and they
shall both burne together, and none shall quench them.
CHAPTER
2
1 The worde that Isaiah the sonne of Amoz sawe vpon Iudah and Ierusalem.
2 It shall be in the last dayes, that the mountaine of the house of the Lorde
shalbe prepared in the top of the mountaines, and shall be exalted aboue the
hilles, and all nations shall flowe vnto it.
3 And many people shall go, and say, Come, and let vs go vp to the mountaine of
the Lord, to the house of the God of Iaakob, and hee will teach vs his wayes,
and we will walke in his paths: for the Lawe shall go foorth of Zion, and the
worde of the Lord from Ierusalem,
4 And he shall iudge among the nations, and rebuke many people: they shall
breake their swords also into mattocks, and their speares into siethes: nation
shall not lift vp a sworde against nation, neither shal they learne to fight any
more.
5 O house of Iaakob, come ye, and let vs walke in the Lawe of the Lord.
6 Surely thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Iaakob, because they are
full of the East maners, and are sorcerers as the Philistims, and abound with
strange children.
7 Their land also was full of siluer & golde, and there was none ende of
their treasures: and their land was full of horses, and their charets were
infinite.
8 Their land also was full of idols: they worshipped the worke of their owne
hands, which their owne fingers haue made.
9 And a man bowed himselfe, and a man humbled himselfe: therefore spare them
not.
10 Enter into the rocke, and hide thee in the dust from before the feare of the
Lord, and from the glory of his maiestie.
11 The hie looke of man shall be humbled, and the loftinesse of men shalbe
abased, and the Lord onely shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the Lorde of hostes is vpon all the proude and hautie, and
vpon all that is exalted: and it shalbe made lowe.
13 Euen vpon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are hie & exalted, & vpon
all the okes of
Bashan
,
14 And vpon all the hie mountaines, and vpon all the hilles that are lifted vp,
15 And vpon euery hie tower, and vpon euery strong wall,
16 And vpon all the shippes of Tarshish, and vpon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the hautinesse of men shalbe brought low, and the loftinesse of men
shalbe abased, and the Lord shall onely be exalted in that day.
18 And the idoles will he vtterly destroy.
19 Then they shall goe into the holes of the rockes, & into the caues of the
earth, from before the feare of the Lorde, and from the glory of his maiestie,
when he shall arise to destroy the earth.
20 At that day shall man cast away his siluer idoles, & his golden idoles
(which they had made themselues to worship them) to the mowles and to the backes,
21 To goe into the holes of the rockes, and into the toppes of the ragged rockes
from before the feare of the Lorde, and from the glory of his maiestie, when he
shall rise to destroy the earth.
22 Cease you from the man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is he to
be esteemed?
CHAPTER
3
1 For lo, the Lord God of hostes will take away from Ierusalem and from Iudah
the stay and the strength: euen all the staye of bread, and all the stay of
water,
2 The strong man, & the man of warre, the iudge and the prophet, the prudent
and the aged,
3 The captaine of fiftie, and the honourable, and the counseller, and the
cunning artificer, and the eloquent man.
4 And I will appoint children to bee their princes, and babes shall rule ouer
them.
5 The people shalbe oppressed one of another, and euery one by his neighbour:
the children shall presume against the ancient, and the vile against the
honourable.
6 When euery one shall take holde of his brother of the house of his father, and
say, Thou hast clothing: thou shalt bee our prince, and let this fall be vnder
thine hand.
7 In that day hee shall sweare, saying, I cannot bee an helper: for there is no
bread in mine house, nor clothing: therefore make me no prince of the people.
8 Doubtlesse Ierusalem is fallen, and Iudah is fallen downe, because their
tongue & workes are against the Lord, to prouoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The triall of their countenance testifieth against them, yea, they declare
their sinnes as
Sodom
, they hide them not. Wo be vnto their soules: for they haue rewarded euil vnto
themselues.
10 Say ye, Surely it shalbe well with the iust: for they shall eate the fruite
of their workes.
11 Woe be to the wicked, it shalbe euill with him: for the reward of his handes
shalbe giuen him.
12 Children are extorcioners of my people, and women haue rule ouer them: O my
people, they that leade thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy
paths.
13 The Lorde standeth vp to pleade, yea, hee standeth to iudge the people.
14 The Lord shall enter into iudgement with the Ancients of his people & the
princes thereof: for ye haue eaten vp the vineyarde: the spoyle of the poore is
in your houses.
15 What haue ye to do, that ye beate my people to pieces, and grinde the faces
of the poore, saith the Lord, euen tho Lord of hostes?
16 The Lord also saith, Because the daughters of Zion are hautie, and walke with
stretched out neckes, and with wandering eyes, walking and minsing as they goe,
and making a tinkeling with their feete,
17 Therefore shall the Lord make the heades of the daughters of Zion balde, and
the Lord shall discouer their secrete partes.
18 In that day shall the Lorde take away the ornament of the slippers, and the
calles, and the round tyres,
19 The sweete balles, and the brasselets, and the bonnets,
20 The tyres of the head, and the sloppes, and the head bandes, and the tablets,
and the earings,
21 The rings and the mufflers,
22 The costly apparell and the vailes, and the wimples, and the crisping pinnes,
23 And the glasses and the fine linen, and the hoodes, and the launes.
24 And in steade of sweete sauour, there shall be stinke, and in steade of a
girdle, a rent, and in steade of dressing of the heare, baldnesse, and in steade
of a stomacher, a girding of sackecloth, and burning in steade of beautie.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sworde, and thy strength in the battell.
26 Then shall her gates mourne and lament, and she, being desolate, shall sit
vpon the ground.
CHAPTER
4
1 And in that day shall seuen women take hold of one man, saying, Wee will eate
our owne bread, and we wil weare our owne garments: onely let vs bee called by
thy name, and take away our reproche.
2 In that day shall the budde of the Lorde bee beautifull and glorious, and the
fruite of the earth shalbe excellent and pleasant for them that are escaped of
Israel
.
3 Then hee that shalbe left in Zion, and hee that shall remaine in Ierusalem,
shalbe called holy, and euery one shalbe written among the liuing in Ierusalem,
4 When the Lord shall wash the filthines of the daughters of Zion, and purge the
blood of Ierusalem out of the middes thereof by the spirite of iudgement, and by
the spirit of burning.
5 And the Lord shal create vpon euery place of mount Zion, and vpon the
assemblies thereof, a cloude and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire
by night: for vpon all the glory shall be a defence.
6 And a couering shalbe for a shadow in the day for the heate, and a place of
refuge and a couert for the storme and for the raine.
CHAPTER
5
1 Nowe will I sing to my beloued a song of my beloued to his vineyarde, My
beloued had a vineyarde in a very fruitefull hill,
2 And hee hedged it, and gathered out the stones of it, and he planted it with
the best plants, and hee builte a towre in the middes thereof, and made a wine
presse therein: then hee looked that it should bring foorth grapes: but it
brought foorth wilde grapes.
3 Now therefore, O inhabitants of Ierusalem and men of Iudah, iudge, I pray you,
betweene me, and my vineyarde.
4 What coulde I haue done any more to my vineyard that I haue not done vnto it?
why haue I looked that it should bring foorth grapes, and it bringeth foorth
wilde grapes?
5 And nowe I will tell you what I will do to my vineyarde: I will take away the
hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten vp: I will breake the wall thereof, and it
shall be troden downe:
6 And I will laye it waste: it shall not be cut, nor digged, but briers, and
thornes shall growe vp: I will also commande the cloudes that they raine no
raine vpon it.
7 Surely the vineyard of the Lord of hostes is the house of
Israel
, and the men of Iudah are his pleasant plant, and hee looked for iudgement, but
beholde oppression: for righteousnesse, but beholde a crying.
8 Woe vnto them that ioyne house to house, and laye fielde to fielde, till there
bee no place, that ye may be placed by your selues in the mids of the earth.
9 This is in mine cares, saith the Lorde of hostes. Surely many houses shall be
desolate, euen great, and faire without inhabitant.
10 For ten acres of vines shal yelde one bath, and the seede of an homer shal
yelde an ephah.
11 Wo vnto them, that rise vp early to followe drunkennes, and to them that
continue vntill night, till the wine doe inflame them.
12 And the harpe and viole, timbrel, and pipe, and wine are in their feastes:
but they regard not the worke of the Lorde, neither consider the worke of his
handes.
13 Therefore my people is gone into captiuitie, because they had no knowledge,
and the glorie thereof are men famished, and the multitude thereof is dried vp
with thirst.
14 Therefore hel hath inlarged it selfe, & hath opened his mouth, without
measure, and their glorie, and their multitude, and their pompe, and hee that
reioyceth among them, shall descend into it.
15 And man shalbe brought downe, and man shalbe humbled, euen the eyes of the
proude shalbe humbled.
16 And the Lorde of hostes shalbe exalted in iudgement, and the holy God shalbe
sanctified in iustice.
17 Then shall the lambes feede after their maner, and the strangers shall eate
the desolate places of the fat.
18 Woe vnto them, that draw iniquitie with cordes of vanitie, and sinne, as with
cart ropes:
19 Which say, Let him make speede: let him hasten his worke, that wee may see
it: and let the counsell of the holy one of
Israel
draw neere and come, that we may knowe it.
20 Woe vnto them that speake good of euill, and euill of good, which put
darkenes for light, and light for darkenes, that put bitter for sweete, and
sweete for sowre.
21 Woe vnto them that are wise in their owne eyes, and prudent in their owne
sight.
22 Wo vnto them that are mightie to drinke wine, and to them that are strong to
powre in strong drinke:
23 Which iustifie the wicked for a rewarde, and take away the righteousnesse of
the righteous from him.
24 Therefore as the flame of fire deuoureth the stubble, and as the chaffe is
cosumed of the flame: so their roote shalbe as rottennesse, and their bud shall
rise vp like dust, because they haue cast off the Lawe of the Lorde of hostes,
and contemned the word of the holy one of
Israel
.
25 Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and hee hath
stretched out his hand vpon them, and hath smitten them that the mountaines did
tremble: and their carkases were torne in the middes of the streetes, and for
all this his wrath was not turned away, but his hande was stretched out still.
26 And he will lift vp a signe vnto the nations a farre, and wil hisse vnto them
from the ende of the earth: and beholde, they shall come hastily with speede.
27 None shall faint nor fall among them: none shall slumber nor sleepe, neither
shall the girdle of his loynes be loosed, nor the latchet of his shooes be
broken:
28 Whose arrowes shall be sharpe, and all his bowes bent: his horse hoofes shal
be thought like flint, and his wheeles like a whirlewinde.
29 His roaring shalbe like a lyon, and he shall roare like
lyons
whelpes: they shall roare, and lay holde of the praye: they shall take it away,
and none shall deliuer it.
30 And in that day they shal roare vpon them, as the roaring of the sea: and if
they looke vnto the earth, beholde darkenesse, and sorowe, and the light shalbe
darkened in their skie.
CHAPTER
6
1 In the yeere of the death of King Vzziah, I saw also the Lord sitting vpon an
high throne, and lifted vp, and the lower partes thereof filled the
Temple
.
2 The Seraphims stoode vpon it: euery one had sixe wings: with twaine he couered
his face, and with twaine hee couered his feete, and with twaine he did flie.
3 And one cryed to another, and sayde, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hostes:
the whole world is full of his glory.
4 And the lintles of the doore cheekes moued at the voyce of him that cryed, and
the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then I sayd, Wo is me: for I am vndone, because I am a man of polluted lips,
& I dwell in the middes of a people of polluted lips: for mine eyes haue
seene the King and Lord of hostes.
6 Then flewe one of the Seraphims vnto me with an hote cole in his hand, which
he had taken from the altar with the tongs:
7 And he touched my mouth, and sayd, Loe, this hath touched thy lips, &
thine iniquitie shall be taken away, and thy sinne shalbe purged.
8 Also I heard the voyce of the Lord, saying, Whome shall I send? and who shall
goe for vs? Then I sayd, Here am I, send me.
9 And he sayd, Goe, and say vnto this people, Ye shall heare in deede, but ye
shall not vnderstand: ye shall plainely see, and not perceiue.
10 Make the heart of this people fatte, make their eares heauie, and shut their
eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand
with their hearts, and conuert, and he heale them.
11 Then sayd I, Lorde, howe long? And he answered, Vntill the cities be wasted
without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be vtterly
desolate,
12 And the Lord haue remoued men farre away, and there be a great desolation in
the mids of the land.
13 But yet in it shalbe a tenth, and shall returne, and shalbe eaten vp as an
elme or an oke, which haue a substance in them, when they cast their leaues: so
the holy seede shall be the substance thereof.
CHAPTER
7
1 And in the dayes of Ahaz, the sonne of Iotham, the sonne of Vzziah king of
Iudah, Rezin the King of Aram came vp, and Pekah the sonne of Remaliah King of
Israel, to Ierusalem to fight against it, but he could not ouercome it.
2 And it was tolde the house of Dauid, saying,
Aram
is ioyned with Ephraim: therefore his heart was moued, and the heart of his
people, as the trees of the forest are moued by the winde.
3 Then sayde the Lorde vnto Isaiah, Goe foorth nowe to meete Ahaz (thou and
Sheariashub thy sonne) at the ende of the conduit of the vpper poole, in the
path of the fullers fielde,
4 And say vnto him, Take heede, and be still: feare not, neither be faint
hearted for the two tailes of these smoking firebrands, for the furious wrath of
Rezin and of Aram, and of Remaliahs sonne:
5 Because Aram hath taken wicked counsell against thee, and Ephraim, and
Remaliahs sonne, saying,
6 Let vs goe vp against Iudah, and let vs waken them vp, and make a breach
therein for vs, and set a King in the mids thereof, euen the sonne of Tabeal.
7 Thus sayth the Lorde God, It shall not stand, neither shall it be.
8 For the head of
Aram
is
Damascus
, and the head of
Damascus
is Rezin: and within fiue and threescore yeere, Ephraim shalbe destroyed from
being a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is
Samaria
, and the head of
Samaria
is Remaliahs sonne. If ye beleeue not, surely ye shall not be established.
10 And the Lorde spake againe vnto Ahaz, saying,
11 Aske a signe for thee of the Lorde thy God: aske it, either in the depth
beneath or in the height aboue.
12 But Ahaz sayd, I wil not aske, neither will I tempt the Lord.
13 Then he sayd, Heare you nowe, O house of Dauid, Is it a small thing for you
to grieue men, that ye will also grieue my God?
14 Therefore the Lorde himselfe will giue you a signe. Beholde, the virgine
shall conceiue and beare a sonne, and she shal call his name Immanu-el.
15 Butter and hony shal he eate, till he haue knowledge to refuse the euill, and
to chuse the good.
16 For afore the childe shall haue knowledge to eschew the euill, and to chuse
the good, the land, that thou abhorrest, shalbe forsaken of both her Kings.
17 The Lord shall bring vpon thee, and vpon thy people, and vpon thy fathers
house (the dayes that haue not come from the day that Ephraim departed from
Iudah) euen the King of Asshur.
18 And in that day shall the Lorde hisse for the flie that is at the vttermost
part of the floods of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the lande of Asshur,
19 And they shall come and shall light all in the desolate valleys, and in the
holes of the rockes, and vpon all thorny places, and vpon all bushy places.
20 In that day shall the Lorde shaue with a rasor that is hired, euen by them
beyond the Riuer, by the King of Asshur, the head and the heare of the feete,
and it shall consume the beard.
21 And in the same day shall a man nourish a yong kowe, and two sheepe.
22 And for the abundance of milke, that they shall giue, hee shall eate butter:
for butter and hony shall euery one eate, which is left within the land.
23 And at the same day euery place, wherein shalbe a thousand vines, shalbe at a
thousand pieces of siluer: so it shalbe for the briers and for the thornes.
24 With arrowes and with bowe shall one come thither: because all the land shall
be briers and thornes.
25 But on all the mountaines, which shalbe digged with the mattocke, there shal
not come thither the feare of briers and thornes: but they shalbe for the
sending out of bullocks, and for the treading of sheepe.
CHAPTER
8
1 Moreouer, the Lord sayd vnto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with
a mans penne, Make speede to the spoyle: haste to the praye.
2 Then I tooke vnto me faithfull witnesses to recorde, Vriah the Priest, and
Zechariah the sonne of Ieberechiah.
3 After, I came vnto the Prophetesse, which conceiued, and bare a sonne. Then
sayd the Lord to me, Call his name, Mahershalalhash-baz.
4 For before the childe shall haue knowledge to crye, My father, & my
mother, he shall take away the riches of
Damascus
and the spoyle of
Samaria
, before the King of Asshur.
5 And the Lord spake yet againe vnto me, saying,
6 Because this people hath refused the waters of Shiloah that runne softly, and
reioyce with Rezin, and the sonne of Remaliah,
7 Nowe therefore, beholde, the Lorde bringeth vp vpon them the waters of the
Riuer mightie and great, euen the King of Asshur with all his glory, and he
shall come vp vpon all their riuers, and goe ouer all their banks,
8 And shall breake into Iudah, and shal ouerflowe and passe through, and shall
come vp to the necke, and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth
of thy land, O Immanu-el.
9 Gather together on heapes, O ye people, and ye shalbe broken in pieces, and
hearken all ye of farre countreys: gird your selues, and you shalbe broken in
pieces: gird your selues, and you shalbe broken in pieces.
10 Take counsell together, yet it shall be brought to nought: pronounce a
decree, yet shall it not stand: for God is with vs.
11 For the Lorde spake thus to me in taking of mine hand, and taught me, that I
should not walke in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say ye not, A confederacie to all them, to whome this people sayth a
confederacie, neither feare you their feare, nor be afrayd of them.
13 Sanctifie the Lord of hostes, and let him be your feare, and let him be your
dread,
14 And he shalbe as a Sanctuarie: but as a stumbling stone, and as a rocke to
fall vpon, to both the houses of
Israel
, and as a snare and as a net to the inhabitants of Ierusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and shal fall and shalbe broken and shalbe
snared and shalbe taken.
16 Binde vp the testimonie: seale vp the Law among my disciples.
17 Therefore I will waite vpon the Lord that hath hid his face from the house of
Iaakob, and I wil looke for him.
18 Beholde, I and the children whome the Lorde hath giuen me, are as signes and
as wonders in
Israel
, by the Lord of hostes, which dwelleth in
mount
Zion
.
19 And when they shal say vnto you, Enquire at them that haue a spirit of
diuination, and at the soothsayers, which whisper and murmure, Should not a
people enquire at their God? from the liuing to the dead?
20 To the Law, and to the testimonie, if they speake not according to this worde:
it is because there is no light in them.
21 Then he that is afflicted and famished, shal go to and fro in it: and when he
shalbe hungry, he shall euen freat himselfe, and curse his King and his gods,
and shall looke vpward.
22 And when he shall looke to the earth, beholde trouble, and darkenes, vexation
and anguish, and he is driuen to darkenes.
CHAPTER
9
1 Yet the darkenes shal not be according to the affliction that it had when at
the first hee touched lightly the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, nor
afteward when he was more grieuous by the way of the sea beyond Iorden in Galile
of the Gentiles.
2 The people that walked in darkenes haue seene a great light: they that dwelled
in the land of the shadowe of death, vpon them hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased their ioye: they haue
reioyced before thee according to the ioye in haruest, and as men reioyce when
they deuide a spoyle.
4 For the yoke of their burthen, and the staffe of their shoulder and the rod of
their oppressour hast thou broken as in the day of Midian.
5 Surely euery battell of the warriour is with noyse, and with tumbling of
garments in blood: but this shall be with burning and deuouring of fire.
6 For vnto vs a childe is borne, and vnto vs a Sonne is giuen: and the
gouernement is vpon his shoulder, and he shall call his name Wonderfull,
Counseller, The mightie God, The euerlasting Father, The prince of peace,
7 The increase of his gouernement & peace shall haue none end: he shall sit
vpon the throne of Dauid, and vpon his kingdome, to order it, and to stablish it
with iudgement and with iustice, from hencefoorth, euen for euer: the zeale of
the Lord of hostes will performe this.
8 The Lord hath sent a worde into Iaakob, and it hath lighted vpon
Israel
.
9 And all the people shall knowe, euen Ephraim, and the inhabitant of Samaria,
that say in the pride and presumption of the heart,
10 The brickes are fallen, but we will build it with hewen stones: the wilde
figge trees are cut downe, but we will change them into ceders.
11 Neuerthelesse the Lord will raise vp the aduersaries of Rezin against him,
and ioyne his enemies together.
12
Aram
before and the Philistims behinde, and they shall deuoure
Israel
with open mouth: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.
13 For the people turneth not vnto him that smiteth them, neither doe they seeke
the Lord of hostes.
14 Therefore will the Lord cut off from
Israel
head and taile, branche and rush in one day.
15 The ancient and the honorable man, he is the head: and the prophet that
teacheth lies, he is the taile.
16 For the leaders of the people cause them to erre: and they that are led by
them are deuoured.
17 Therefore shall the Lord haue no pleasure in their yong men, neither will he
haue compassion of their fatherlesse and of their widowes: for euery one is an
hypocrite and wicked, and euery mouth speaketh follie: yet for all this his
wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out stil.
18 For wickednesse burneth as a fire: it deuoureth the briers and the thornes
and will kindle in the thicke places of the forest: and they shall mount vp like
the lifting vp of smoke.
19 By the wrath of the Lorde of hostes shall the land be darkened, and the
people shall be as the meate of ye fire: no man shal spare his brother.
20 And he shall snatch at the right hand, and be hungrie: and he shall eate on
the left hand, and shall not be satisfied: euery one shall eate ye flesh of his
owne arme.
21 Manasseh, Ephraim: and Ephraim Manasseh, and they both shall be against Iudah
yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still.
CHAPTER
10
1 Wo vnto them that decree wicked decrees, and write grieuous things,
2 To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement, and to take away the iudgement of the
poore of my people, that widowes may be their pray, and that they may spoyle the
fatherlesse.
3 What will ye doe nowe in the day of visitation, and of destruction, which
shall come from farre? To whom will ye flee for helpe? And where will ye leaue
your glorie?
4 Without me euery one shall fall among them that are bound, and they shall fall
downe among the slayne: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still.
5 O Asshur, the rodde of my wrath: and the staffe in their hands is mine
indignation.
6 I will sende him to a dissembling nation, and I will giue him a charge against
the people of my wrath to take the spoyle and to take the pray, and to treade
them vnder feete like the mire in the streete.
7 But he thinketh not so, neither doeth his heart esteeme it so: but he
imagineth to destroy and to cut off not a fewe nations.
8 For he sayeth, Are not my princes altogether Kings?
9 Is not Calno as
Carchemish
? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not
Samaria
as
Damascus
?
10 Like as mine hand hath founde the kingdomes of the idoles, seeing their
idoles were aboue Ierusalem, and aboue Samaria:
11 Shall not I, as I haue done to Samaria, and to the idoles thereof, so doe to
Ierusalem and to the idoles thereof?
12 But when the Lorde hath accomplished all his worke vpon mount Zion and
Ierusalem, I will visite the fruite of the proude heart of the King of Asshur,
and his glorious and proud lookes,
13 Because he said, By ye power of mine owne hand haue I done it, and by my
wisdome, because I am wise: therefore I haue remooued the borders of the people,
and haue spoyled their treasures, and haue pulled downe the inhabitants like a
valiant man.
14 And mine hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people, and as one
gathereth egges that are left, so haue I gathered all the earth: and there was
none to mooue the wing or to open the mouth, or to whisper.
15 Shall the axe boast it selfe against him that heweth therewith? or shall the
sawe exalt it selfe against him that moueth it? as if the rod shoulde lift vp it
selfe against him that taketh it vp, or the staffe should exalt it selfe, as it
were no wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lorde God of hostes send amog his fat men, leannes, &
vnder his glorie he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of fire.
17 And the light of Israel shalbe as a fire, and the Holy one thereof as a
flame, and it shall burne, and deuoure his thornes & his briers in one day:
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitfull fieldes both
soule and flesh: and he shalbe as ye fainting of a standard bearer.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shalbe fewe, that a childe may tell
them.
20 And at that day shall the remnant of
Israel
, and such as are escaped of the house of Iaakob, stay no more vpon him that
smote them, but shal stay vpon ye Lord, ye Holy one of
Israel
in trueth.
21 The remnant shall returne, euen the remnant of Iaakob vnto the mightie God.
22 For though thy people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, yet shall the
remnant of them returne. The consumption decreed shall ouerflow with
righteousnesse.
23 For the Lord God of hostes shall make the consumption, euen determined, in
the middes of all the land.
24 Therefore thus saith ye Lord God of hostes, O my people, that dwellest in
Zion
, be not afraid of Asshur: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift vp his
staffe against thee after the maner of
Egypt
:
25 But yet a very litle time, and the wrath shall be consumed, and mine anger in
their destruction.
26 And ye Lord of hostes shal raise vp a scourge for him, according to the
plague of Midian in the rocke Oreb: & as his staffe was vpon the Sea, so he
will lift it vp after the maner of
Egypt
.
27 And at that day shall his burden be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his
yoke from off thy necke: and the yoke shalbe destroied because of the anoynting.
28 He is come to Aiath: he is passed into Migron: at Michmash shall he lay vp
his armour.
29 They haue gone ouer the foorde: they lodged in the lodging at Geba: Ramah is
afraide: Gibeah of Saul is fled away.
30 Lift vp thy voyce, O daughter Gallim, cause Laish to heare, O poore Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is remoued: the inhabitants of Gebim haue gathered themselues
together.
32 Yet there is a time that he will stay at Nob: he shall lift vp his hand
towarde the mount of the daughter
Zion
, the hill of Ierusalem.
33 Beholde, the Lorde God of hostes shall cut off the bough with feare, and they
of high stature shalbe cut off, and the hie shalbe humbled.
34 And he shall cut away the thicke places of the forest with yron, and
Lebanon
shall haue a mightie fall.
CHAPTER
11
1 Bvt there shall come a rodde foorth of the stocke of Ishai, and a
grasse
shall growe out of his rootes.
2 And the Spirite of the Lord shall rest vpon him: the Spirite of wisedome and
vnderstanding, the Spirite of counsell and strength, the Spirite of knowledge,
and of the feare of the Lord,
3 And shall make him prudent in the feare of the Lord: for he shall not iudge
after the sight of his eies, neither reproue by ye hearing of his eares.
4 But with righteousnesse shall he iudge the poore, and with equitie shall he
reprooue for the meeke of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod
of his mouth, and with the breath of his lippes shall he slay the wicked.
5 And iustice shall be ye girdle of his loynes, and faithfulnesse the girdle of
his reines.
6 The wolfe also shall dwell with the lambe, and the leopard shall lie with the
kid, & the calfe, and the
lyon
, and the fat beast together, and a litle childe shall leade them.
7 And the kowe and the beare shall feede: their yong ones shall lie together:
and the
lyon
shall eate strawe like the bullocke.
8 And the sucking childe shall play vpon the hole of the aspe, and the wained
childe shall put his hand vpon the cockatrice hole.
9 Then shall none hurt nor destroy in all the mountaine of mine holines: for the
earth shalbe full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters that couer the
sea.
10 And in that day the roote of Ishai, which shall stand vp for a signe vnto the
people, the nations shall seeke vnto it, and his rest shall be glorious.
11 And in the same day shall the Lord stretche out his hand againe the second
time, to possesse the remnant of his people, (which shalbe left) of Asshur, and
of Egypt, & of Pathros, and of Ethiopia, and of Elam, and of Shinear, and of
Hamath, and of the yles of the sea.
12 And he shall set vp a signe to the nations, and assemble the dispersed of
Israel
, and gather the scattered of Iudah from the foure corners of the worlde.
13 The hatred also of Ephraim shall depart, and the aduersaries of Iudah shalbe
cut off: Ephraim shall not enuie Iudah, neither shall Iudah vexe Ephraim:
14 But they shall flee vpon the shoulders of the Philistims toward the West:
they shall spoyle them of the East together: Edom and Moab shall be the
stretching out of their hands, and the children of Ammon in their obedience.
15 The Lorde also shall vtterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptians sea, and
with his mightie winde shall lift vp his hand ouer the riuer, and shall smite
him in his seuen streames, and cause men to walke therein with shooes.
16 And there shalbe a path to the remnant of his people, which are left of
Asshur, like as it was vnto Israel in the day that he came vp out of the land of
Egypt.
CHAPTER
12
1 And thou shalt say in that day, O Lorde, I will prayse thee: though thou wast
angrie with me, thy wrath is turned away, and thou comfortest me.
2 Beholde, God is my saluation: I will trust, and will not feare: for ye Lord
God is my strength and song: he also is become my saluation.
3 Therefore with ioy shall ye drawe waters out of the welles of saluation.
4 And ye shall say in that day, Prayse the Lord: call vpon his Name: declare his
workes among the people: make mention of them, for his Name is exalted.
5 Sing vnto the Lorde, for he hath done excellent things: this is knowen in all
the worlde.
6 Crie out, and shoute, O inhabitant of
Zion
: for great is ye holy one of
Israel
in the middes of thee.
CHAPTER
13
1 The burden of
Babel
, which Isaiah the sonne of Amoz did see.
2 Lift vp a standard vpon the hie mountaine: lift vp the voyce vnto them: wagge
the hand, that they may goe into the gates of the nobles.
3 I haue commanded them, that I haue sanctified: and I haue called ye mightie to
my wrath, and them that reioyce in my glorie.
4 The noyse of a multitude is in the mountaines, like a great people: a
tumultuous voyce of the kingdomes of the nations gathered together: the Lorde of
hostes nombreth the hoste of the battell.
5 They come from a farre countrey, from the end of the heauen: euen the Lord
with the weapons of his wrath to destroy the whole land.
6 Howle you, for the day of the Lorde is at hande: it shall come as a destroier
from the Almightie.
7 Therefore shal all hands be weakened, and all mens hearts shall melt,
8 And they shalbe afraid: anguish and sorowe shal take them, and they shal haue
paine, as a woman that trauaileth: euery one shall be amased at his neighbour,
and their faces shalbe like flames of fire.
9 Beholde, the day of the Lorde commeth, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger to
lay the land wast: and he destroy the sinners out of it.
10 For the starres of heauen and the planets thereof shall not giue their light:
the sunne shalbe darkened in his going foorth, and the moone shal not cause her
light to shine.
11 And I will visite the wickednes vpon the worlde, and their iniquitie vpon the
wicked, and I wil cause the arrogancie of the proud to cease, and will cast
downe the pride of tyrants.
12 I will make a man more precious then fine golde, euen a man aboue the wedge
of golde of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heauen, and the earth shall remooue out of her
place in the wrath of the Lord of hostes, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it shall be as a chased doe, and as a sheepe that no man taketh vp. euery
man shall turne to his owne people, and flee eche one to his owne lande.
15 Euery one that is founde, shall be striken through: and whosoeuer ioyneth
himselfe, shal fal by the sworde.
16 Their children also shall be broken in pieces before their eyes: their houses
shall be spoiled, and their wiues rauished.
17 Beholde, I will stirre vp the Medes against them, which shall not regarde
siluer, nor be desirous of golde.
18 With bowes also shall they destroy ye children, and shall haue no compassion
vpon the fruit of the wombe, and their eies shall not spare the children.
19 And
Babel
the glorie of kingdomes, the beautie and pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as
the destruction of God in
Sodom
and Gomorah.
20 It shall not bee inhabited for euer, neither shall it be dwelled in from
generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there,
neither shall the shepheardes make their foldes there.
21 But Ziim shal lodge there, and their houses shal be ful of Ohim: Ostriches
shal dwel there, and the Satyrs shall dance there.
22 And Iim shall crie in their palaces, and dragons in their pleasant palaces:
and the time thereof is readie to come, and the daies thereof shall not be
prolonged.
CHAPTER
14
1 For the Lord wil haue compassion of Iaakob, and wil yet chuse
Israel
, and cause them to rest in their owne lande: and the stranger shall ioyne him
selfe vnto them, and they shall cleaue to the house of Iaakob.
2 And the people shall receiue them & bring them to their owne place, and
the house of
Israel
shall possesse them in the land of the Lorde, for seruants & handmaids: and
they shall take them prisoners, whose captiues they were, and haue rule ouer
their oppressours.
3 And in that day when the Lord shal giue thee rest from thy sorrow, and from
thy feare, and from the sore bodage, wherein thou didest serue,
4 Then shalt thou take vp this prouerbe against the King of Babel, and say, Howe
hath the oppressor ceased? & the gold thirsty
Babel
rested?
5 The Lorde hath broken the rodde of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers:
6 Which smote the people in anger with a continuall plague, and ruled the
nations in wrath: if any were persecuted, he did not let.
7 The whole worlde is at rest and is quiet: they sing for ioye.
8 Also the firre trees reioyced of thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
Since thou art laid downe, no hewer came vp against vs.
9 Hel beneath is mooued for thee to meete thee at thy coming, raising vp the
deade for thee, euen all the princes of the earth, and hath raised from their
thrones all the Kinges of the nations.
10 All they shall crie, and saie vnto thee, Art thou become weake also as we?
Art thou become like vnto vs?
11 Thy pompe is brought downe to ye graue, and the sounde of thy violes: the
worme is spred vnder thee, and the wormes couer thee.
12 How art thou fallen from heauen, O Lucifer, sonne of the morning? and cutte
downe to the grounde, which didest cast lottes vpon the nations?
13 Yet thou saidest in thine heart, I will ascende into heauen, and exalt my
throne aboue beside the starres of God: I will sitte also vpon the mount of the
Congregation in the sides of the North.
14 I wil ascend aboue ye height of the cloudes, and I will be like the most
high.
15 But thou shalt bee brought downe to the graue, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee, shall looke vpon thee and consider thee, saying, Is this
the man that made the earth to tremble, and that did shake the kingdomes?
17 He made the worlde as a wildernesse, and destroied the cities thereof, and
opened not the house of his prisoners.
18 All the Kings of the nations, euen they all sleepe in glorie, euery one in
his owne house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy graue like an abominable branch: like the
raiment of those that are slaine, and thrust thorowe with a sword, which goe
downe to the stones of the pit, as a carkeise troden vnder feete.
20 Thou shalt not be ioyned with them in the graue, because thou hast destroied
thine owne lande, and slaine thy people: the seede of the wicked shall not be
renoumed for euer.
21 Prepare a slaughter for his children, for the iniquitie of their fathers: let
them not rise vp nor possesse the land, nor fil the face of the world with
enemies.
22 For I wil rise vp against them (sayth the Lorde of hostes) and will cut off
from Babel the name and the remnant and the sonne, and the nephew, sayth the
Lord:
23 And I wil make it a possession to ye hedgehogge, and pooles of water, and I
will sweepe it with the besome of destruction, sayeth the Lorde of hostes.
24 The Lorde of hostes hath sworne, saying, Surely like as I haue purposed, so
shall it come to passe, and as I haue consulted, it shall stand:
25 That I will breake to pieces Asshur in my land, and vpon my mountaines will I
treade him vnder foote: so that his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden
shall be taken from off their shoulder.
26 This is the counsell that is consulted vpon the whole worlde, and this is the
hande stretched out ouer all the nations,
27 Because the Lorde of hostes hath determined it, and who shall disanull it?
and his hande is stretched out, and who shall turne it away?
28 In the yeere that King Ahaz died, was this burden.
29 Reioyce not, (thou whole Palestina) because the rod of him that did beat
thee, is broken for out of the serpents roote shal come forth a cockatrise,
& the fruit therof shalbe a firy flying serpent.
30 For the first borne of the poore shall be fed, and the needie shall lie downe
in safetie: and I will kill thy roote with famine, and it shal slay thy remnant.
31 Howle, O gate, crie, O citie: thou whole lande of Palestina art dissolued,
for there shall come from the North a smoke, and none shalbe alone, at his time
appointed.
32 What shall then one answere the messengers of the Gentiles? That the Lorde
hath stablished
Zion
, and the poore of his people shall trust in it.
CHAPTER
15
1 The burden of
Moab
. Surely Ar of Moab was destroied, & brought to silece in a night: surely
Kir of Moab was destroied, and brought to silence in a night.
2 He shal goe vp to the temple, & to Dibon to the hie places to weepe: for
Nebo & for Medeba shall
Moab
howle: vpon all their heades shalbe baldnesse, and euery beard shauen.
3 In their streetes shall they bee gilded with sackecloth: on the toppes of
their houses, and in their streetes euery one shall howle, and come downe with
weeping.
4 And Heshbon shall crie, and Elealeh: their voyce shall bee heard vnto Iahaz:
therefore the warriers of
Moab
shall showt: the soule of euery one shall lament in him selfe.
5 Mine heart shall crie for
Moab
: his fugitiues shal flee vnto Zoar, an heiffer of three yere olde: for they
shall goe vp with weeping by the mounting vp of Luhith: and by the way of
Horonaim they shall raise vp a crie of destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim shal be dried vp: therefore the
grasse
is withered, the herbes consumed, and there was no greene herbe.
7 Therefore what euery man hath left, and their substance shall they beare to
the brooke of the willowes.
8 For the crie went round about the borders of
Moab
: and the howling thereof vnto Eglaim, and the skriking thereof vnto Beer Elim,
9 Because the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more vpon
Dimon, euen
lyons
vpon him that escapeth of
Moab
, and to the remnant of the land.
CHAPTER
16
1 Sende yee a lambe to the ruler of the worlde from the rocke of the wildernesse,
vnto the mountaine of the daughter
Zion
.
2 For it shall be as a birde that flieth, and a nest forsaken: the daughters of
Moab
shall be at the foordes of Arnon.
3 Gather a cousel, execute iudgement: make thy shadowe as the night in the
midday: hide them that are chased out: bewray not him that is fled.
4 Let my banished dwell with thee:
Moab
be thou their couert from the face of the destroyer: for the extortioner shall
ende: the destroyer shalbe consumed, and the oppressour shall cease out of the
land.
5 And in mercy shall the throne be prepared, and hee shall sit vpon it in
stedfastnesse, in the tabernacle of Dauid, iudging, and seeking iudgement, and
hasting iustice.
6 We haue heard of the pride of
Moab
, (he is very proud) euen his pride, and his arrogancie, and his indignation,
but his lies shall not be so.
7 Therefore shall
Moab
howle vnto
Moab
: euery one shal howle: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shal ye mourne, yet
they shalbe striken.
8 For ye vineyards of Heshbon are cut downe, and the vine of Sibmah: the lordes
of the heathen haue broken the principal vines thereof: they are come vnto
Iaazer: they wandred in the wildernesse: her goodly branches stretched out them
selues, and went ouer the sea.
9 Therefore will I weepe with the weeping of Iaazer, & of the vine of Sibmah,
O Heshbon: and Elealeh, I will make thee drunke with my teares, because vpon thy
sommer fruits, and vpon thy haruest a showting is fallen.
10 And gladnes is taken away, and ioy out of the plentifull fielde: and in the
vineyardes shall be no singing nor shouting for ioy: the treader shall not tread
wine in the wine presses: I haue caused the reioycing to cease.
11 Wherefore, my bowels shall sounde like an harpe for
Moab
, and mine inwarde partes for Ker-haresh.
12 And when it shall appeare that
Moab
shall be wearie of his hie places, then shall hee come to his temple to praie,
but he shall not preuaile.
13 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken against
Moab
since that time.
14 And nowe the Lorde hath spoken, saying, In three yeres, as the yeeres of a
hireling, and the glorie of
Moab
shall be contemned in all the great multitude, & the remnant shalbe very
small and feeble.
CHAPTER
17
1 The burden of
Damascus
. Beholde,
Damascus
is taken away from being a citie, for it shall be a ruinous heape.
2 The cities of Aroer shall be forsaken: they shall be for the flockes: for they
shall lye there, and none shall make them afraide.
3 The munition also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdome from
Damascus
, and the remnant of
Aram
shall be as the glory of the children of
Israel
, sayeth the Lord of hostes.
4 And in that day the glorie of Iaakob shall be impouerished, and the fatnes of
his flesh shalbe made leane.
5 And it shalbe as when the haruest man gathereth the corne, and reapeth the
eares with his arme, and he shall be as he that gathereth the eares in the
valley
of
Rephaim
.
6 Yet a gathering of grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an oliue
tree, two or three beries are in the top of the vpmost boughes, & foure or
fiue in the hie branches of the fruite thereof, sayeth the Lord God of
Israel
.
7 At that day shal a man looke to his maker, and his eyes shall looke to the
holy one of
Israel
.
8 And hee shall not looke to the altars, the workes of his owne hands, neither
shall he looke to those thinges, which his owne fingers haue made, as groues and
images.
9 In that day shall the cities of their strength be as the forsaking of boughes
& branches, which they did forsake, because of the children of
Israel
, and there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy saluation, and hast not remembred
the God of thy strength, therefore shalt thou set pleasant plantes, and shalt
graffe strange vine branches:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to growe, and in the morning shalt thou
make thy seede to florish: but the haruest shall be gone in the day of
possession, and there shalbe desperate sorrowe.
12 Ah, the multitude of many people, they shall make a sounde like the noyse of
the sea: for the noyse of the people shall make a sounde like the noyse of
mightie waters.
13 The people shall make a sounde like the noise of many waters: but God shall
rebuke them, and they shall flee farre off, and shalbe chased as the chaffe of
the mountaines before the winde, and as a rolling thing before the whirlewinde.
14 And loe, in the euening there is trouble: but afore the morning it is gone.
This is the portion of them that spoyle vs, and the lot of them that robbe vs.
CHAPTER
18
1 Oh, the lande shadowing with winges, which is beyond the riuers of Ethiopia,
2 Sending ambassadours by the Sea, euen in vessels of reedes vpon the waters,
saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroade, and
spoyled, vnto a terrible people from their beginning euen hitherto: a nation by
litle and litle, euen troden vnder foote, whose land the floods haue spoyled.
3 Al ye the inhabitants of ye world and dwellers in the earth, shall see when he
setteth vp a signe in the mountaines, and when he bloweth the trumpe, ye shall
heare.
4 For so the Lord saide vnto me, I will rest and beholde in my tabernacle, as
the heate drying vp the rayne, and as a cloude of dewe in the heate of haruest.
5 For afore the haruest when the floure is finished, and the fruite is riping in
the floure, then he shall cut downe the branches with hookes, and shall take
away, and cut off the boughes:
6 They shall be left together vnto the foules of the mountaines, & to the
beastes of the earth: for the foule shall sommer vpon it, and euery beast of the
earth shall winter vpon it.
7 At that time shall a present be brought vnto the Lord of hostes, (a people
that is scattered abroade, and spoyled, & of a terrible people from their
beginning hitherto, a nation, by litle and litle euen troden vnder foote, whose
land the riuers haue spoyled) to the place of the Name of the Lord of hostes,
euen the mount Zion.
CHAPTER
19
1 The burden of
Egypt
. Beholde, the Lord rideth vpon a swift cloude, and shall come into
Egypt
, and the idoles of
Egypt
shall be moued at his presence, and the heart of
Egypt
shall melt in the middes of her.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: so euery one shall fight
against his brother, and euery one against his neighbour, citie against citie,
and kingdome against kingdome.
3 And the spirite of
Egypt
shall faile in the middes of her, and I will destroy their counsell, and they
shall seeke at the idoles, and at the sorcerers, and at them that haue spirits
of diuination, and at the southsayers.
4 And I will deliuer the Egyptians into the hand of the cruell Lordes, & a
mightie King shall rule ouer them, sayth the Lord God of hostes.
5 Then the waters of the sea shall faile, and the riuers shall be dryed vp, and
wasted.
6 And the riuers shall goe farre away: the riuers of defence shalbe emptied and
dryed vp: the reedes and flagges shall be cut downe.
7 The
grasse
in the riuer, and at the head of the riuers, and all that groweth by the riuer,
shall wither, and be driuen away, and be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourne, and all they that cast angle into the riuer,
shall lament, and they that spread their nette vpon the waters, shall be
weakened.
9 Moreouer, they that worke in flaxe of diuers sortes, shall be confounded, and
they that weaue nettes.
10 For their nettes shalbe broken, and all they, that make pondes, shalbe heauie
in heart.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fooles: the counsell of the wise counselers of
Pharaoh is become foolish: how say ye vnto Pharaoh, I am the sonne of the wise?
I am the sonne of the ancient Kings?
12 Where are nowe thy wise men, that they may tell thee, or may knowe what the
Lorde of hostes hath determined against
Egypt
?
13 The princes of Zoan are become fooles: the princes of Noph are deceiued, they
haue deceiued
Egypt
, euen the corners of the tribes thereof.
14 The Lorde hath mingled among them the spirite of errours: and they haue
caused
Egypt
to erre in euery worke thereof, as a drunken man erreth in his vomite.
15 Neither shall there be any worke in
Egypt
, which the head may doe, nor the tayle, ye branch nor the rush.
16 In that day shall
Egypt
be like vnto women: for it shall be afraide and feare because of the moouing of
the hand of the Lorde of hostes, which he shaketh ouer it.
17 And the
land
of
Iudah
shall be a feare vnto
Egypt
: euery one that maketh mention of it, shalbe afraid thereat, because of ye
counsell of the Lord of hostes, which he hath determined vpon it.
18 In that day shall fiue cities in the lande of
Egypt
speake the language of
Canaan
, and shall sweare by the Lord of hostes. one shall be called the citie of
destruction.
19 In that day shall the altar of the Lorde be in the middes of the
land
of
Egypt
, and a pillar by the border thereof vnto the Lord.
20 And it shall be for a signe and for a witnes vnto the Lord of hostes in the
land
of
Egypt
: for they shall crie vnto the Lorde, because of the oppressers, and he shall
send them a Sauiour and a great man, and shall deliuer them.
21 And the Lorde shall be knowen of the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall knowe
the Lord in that day, and doe sacrifice & oblation, & shall vowe vowes
vnto the Lord, and performe them.
22 So ye Lord shall smite
Egypt
, he shall smite and heale it: for he shall returne vnto ye Lord, and he shall
be intreated of them and shall heale them.
23 In that day shall there be a path from
Egypt
to Asshur, and Asshur shall come into
Egypt
, and
Egypt
into Asshur: so the Egyptians shall worship with Asshur.
24 In that day shall
Israel
be the third with
Egypt
and Asshur, euen a blessing in the middes of the land.
25 For the Lorde of hostes shall blesse it, saying, Blessed be my people
Egypt
and Asshur, the worke of mine hands, and
Israel
mine inheritance.
CHAPTER
20
1 In the yeere that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon King of Asshur sent him)
and had fought against Ashdod, and taken it,
2 At the same time spake the Lord by ye hand of Isaiah the sonne of Amoz,
saying, Goe, and loose the sackecloth from thy loynes, and put off thy shooe
from thy foote; he did so, walking naked and barefoote.
3 And the Lord said, Like as my seruant Isaiah hath walked naked, &
barefoote three yeeres, as a signe and wonder vpon Egypt, and Ethiopia,
4 So shall the King of Asshur take away the captiuitie of Egypt, and the
captiuitie of Ethiopia, both yong men and olde men, naked and barefoote, with
their buttockes vncouered, to the shame of Egypt.
5 And they shall feare, & be ashamed of
Ethiopia
their expectation, & of
Egypt
their glory.
6 Then shall the inhabitant of this yle say in that day, Behold, such is our
expectation, whither we fledde for helpe to be deliuered from the King of Asshur,
and howe shall we be deliuered?
CHAPTER
21
1 The burden of the desert Sea. As the whirlewindes in the South vse to passe
from the wildernesse, so shall it come from the horrible land.
2 A grieuous vision was shewed vnto me, The transgressour against a
transgressour, and the destroyer against a destroyer. Goe vp
Elam
, besiege Media: I haue caused all the mourning thereof to cease.
3 Therefore are my loynes filled with sorow: sorowes haue taken me as the
sorowes of a woman that trauayleth: I was bowed downe when I heard it, and I was
amased when I sawe it.
4 Mine heart failed: fearefulnesse troubled me: the night of my pleasures hath
he turned into feare vnto me.
5 Prepare thou the table: watch in the watch towre: eate, drinke: arise, ye
princes, anoynt the shielde.
6 For thus hath the Lord said vnto me, Go, set a watchman, to tell what he
seeth.
7 And he sawe a charet with two horsemen: a charet of an asse, and a charet of a
camel: and he hearkened and tooke diligent heede.
8 And he cryed, A lyon: my lorde, I stand continually vpon ye watche towre in
the day time, and I am set in my watche euery night:
9 And beholde, this mans charet commeth with two horsemen; he answered and said,
Babel is fallen: it is fallen, and all the images of her gods hath he broken
vnto the ground.
10 O my threshing, and the corne of my floore. That which I haue heard of the
Lorde of hostes, the God of Israel, haue I shewed vnto you.
11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth vnto me out of Seir, Watchman, what was in ye
night? Watchman, what was in the night?
12 The watchman saide, The morning commeth, and also the night. If yee will aske,
enquire: returne and come.
13 The burden against
Arabia
. In the
forest
of
Arabia
shall yee tarie all night, euen in the waies of Dedanim.
14 O inhabitants of the lande of Tema, bring foorth water to meete the thirstie,
and preuent him that fleeth with his bread.
15 For they flee from the drawen swords, euen from the drawen sword, & from
the bent bowe, and from the grieuousnesse of warre.
16 For thus hath the Lorde sayd vnto me, Yet a yeere according to the yeeres of
an hireling, and all the glorie of Kedar shall faile.
17 And the residue of the nomber of ye strong archers of the sonnes of Kedar
shall be fewe: for the Lord God of
Israel
hath spoken it.
CHAPTER
22
1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee nowe that thou art wholy
gone vp vnto the house toppes?
2 Thou that art full of noise, a citie full of brute, a ioyous citie: thy slaine
men shall not bee slaine with sworde, nor die in battell.
3 All thy princes shal flee together from the bowe: they shalbe bound: all that
shall be found in thee, shall be bound together, which haue fled from farre.
4 Therefore said I, Turne away from me: I wil weepe bitterly: labour not to
comfort mee for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of trouble, and of ruine, and of perplexitie by the Lorde God
of hostes in the valley of vision, breaking downe the citie: and a crying vnto
the mountaines.
6 And
Elam
bare the quiuer in a mans charet with horsemen, and Kir vncouered the shield.
7 And thy chiefe valleis were full of charets, and the horsemen set themselues
in aray against the gate.
8 And hee discouered the couering of Iudah: and thou didest looke in that day to
the armour of the house of the forest.
9 And ye haue seene the breaches of the citie of Dauid: for they were many, and
ye gathered the waters of the lower poole.
10 And yee nombred the houses of Ierusalem, and the houses haue yee broken downe
to fortifie the wall,
11 And haue also made a ditche betweene the two walles, for the waters of the
olde poole, and haue not looked vnto the maker thereof, neither had respect vnto
him that formed it of olde.
12 And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call vnto weeping and mourning, and
to baldnes and girding with sackecloth.
13 And beholde, ioy and gladnes, slaying oxen and killing sheepe, eating flesh,
& drinking wine, eating and drinking: for to morowe we shall die.
14 And it was declared in ye eares of the Lorde of hostes. Surely this iniquitie
shall not be purged from you, til ye die, saith the Lord God of hostes.
15 Thus sayeth the Lord God of hostes, Goe, get thee to that treasurer, to
Shebna, the steward of the house, and say,
16 What haste thou to doe here? and whome hast thou here? that thou shouldest
here hewe thee out a sepulchre, as he that heweth out his sepulchre in an hie
place, or that graueth an habitation for him selfe in a rocke?
17 Beholde, the Lord wil carie thee away with a great captiuitie, and will
surely couer thee.
18 He wil surely rolle and turne thee like a bal in a large countrey: there
shalt thou die, and there the charets of thy glory shalbe the shame of thy
lordes house.
19 And I wil driue thee from thy station, and out of thy dwelling will he
destroy thee.
20 And in that day will I call my seruant Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah,
21 And with thy garments will I clothe him, and with thy girdle will I
strengthen him: thy power also will I commit into his hande, and hee shalbe a
father of the inhabitats of Ierusalem, and of the house of Iudah.
22 And the key of the house of Dauid will I lay vpon his shoulder: so hee shall
open, and no ma shal shut: & he shal shut, & no man shal open.
23 And I will fasten him as a naile in a sure place, and hee shall be for the
throne of glorie to his fathers house.
24 And they shall hang vpon him all the glorie of his fathers house, euen of the
nephewes and posteritie all smal vessels, from the vessels of the cuppes, euen
to all the instruments of musike.
25 In that day, sayeth the Lord of hostes, shall the naile, that is fastned in
the sure place, depart and shall be broken, and fall: and the burden, that was
vpon it, shall bee cut off: for the Lorde hath spoken it.
CHAPTER
23
1 The burden of Tyrus. Howle, yee shippes of Tarshish: for it is destroied, so
that there is none house: none shall come from the lande of Chittim: it is
reueiled vnto them.
2 Be still, yee that dwell in the yles: the marchantes of Zidon, and such as
passe ouer the sea, haue replenished thee.
3 The seede of Nilus growing by the abundance of waters, and the haruest of the
riuer was her reuenues, and she was a marte of the nations.
4 Be ashamed, thou Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, euen the strength of the sea,
saying, I haue not trauailed, nor brought forth children, neither nourished yong
men, nor brought vp virgins.
5 When the fame commeth to the Egyptians, they shall be sorie, concerning the
rumour of Tyrus.
6 Goe you ouer to Tarshish: howle, yee that dwell in the yles.
7 Is not this that your glorious citie? her antiquitie is of ancient daies: her
owne feete shall leade her afarre off to be a soiourner.
8 Who hath decreed this against Tyrus (that crowneth men ) whose marchantes are
princes? whose chapmen are the nobles of the worlde?
9 The Lorde of hostes hath decreed this, to staine the pride of all glorie, and
to bring to contempt all them that be glorious in the earth.
10 Passe through thy lande like a flood to the daughter of Tarshish: there is no
more strength.
11 He stretched out his hand vpon the sea: he shooke the kingdomes: the Lorde
hath giuen a commaundement concerning the place of marchandise, to destroy the
power thereof.
12 And he saide, Thou shalt no more reioyce when thou art oppressed: O virgin
daughter of Zidon: rise vp, goe ouer vnto Chittim: yet there thou shalt haue no
rest.
13 Behold the lande of the Caldeans: this was no people: Asshur founded it by
the inhabitantes of the wildernesse: they set vp the towers thereof: they raised
the palaces thereof and hee brought it to ruine.
14 Howle yee shippes of Tarshish, for your strength is destroyed.
15 And in that day shall Tyrus bee forgotten seuentie yeeres, (according to the
yeeres of one King) at the ende of seuentie yeeres shall Tyrus sing as an
harlot.
16 Take an harpe and go about the citie: (thou harlot thou hast beene forgotten)
make sweete melodie, sing moe songes that thou maiest be remembred.
17 And at the ende of seuentie yeres shall the Lorde visite Tyrus, and shee
shall returne to her wages, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdomes
of the earth, that are in the world.
18 Yet her occupying and her wages shall bee holy vnto the Lorde: it shall not
be laied vp nor kept in store, but her marchandise shalbe for them that dwell
before the Lorde, to eate sufficiently, and to haue durable clothing.
CHAPTER
24
1 Beholde, the Lorde maketh the earth emptie, and hee maketh it waste: hee
turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abrode the inhabitants thereof.
2 And there shalbe like people, like Priest, and like seruaunt, like master,
like maide, like mistresse, like bier, like seller, like lender, like borower,
like giuer, like taker to vsurie.
3 The earth shalbe cleane emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken
this worde.
4 The earth lamenteth and fadeth away: the world is feeble and decaied: the
proude people of the earth are weakened.
5 The earth also deceiueth, because of the inhabitantes thereof: for they
transgressed the lawes: they changed the ordinances, and brake the euerlasting
couenant.
6 Therefore hath the curse deuoured the earth, and the inhabitantes thereof are
desolate. Wherefore the inhabitants of the land are burned vp, and fewe men are
left.
7 The wine faileth, the vine hath no might: all that were of merie heart, doe
mourne.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye
of the harpe ceaseth.
9 They shall not drinke wine with mirth: strong drinke shall be bitter to them
that drinke it.
10 The citie of vanitie is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may
come in.
11 There is a crying for wine in the streetes: al ioy is darkened: the mirth of
the world is gone away.
12 In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 Surely thus shall it bee in the middes of the earth, among the people, as the
shaking of an oliue tree, and as the grapes when the vintage is ended.
14 They shall lift vp their voyce: they shall shout for the magnificence of the
Lord: they shall reioyce from the sea.
15 Wherefore praise yee the Lord in the valleis, euen the Name of the Lorde God
of
Israel
, in the yles of the sea.
16 From the vttermost part of the earth wee haue heard praises, euen glory to
the iust, and I sayd, My leanesse, my leanesse, woe is mee: the transgressours
haue offended: yea, the transgressours haue grieuously offended.
17 Feare, and the pitte, and the snare are vpon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And hee that fleeth from the noyse of the feare, shall fall into the pit: and
he that commeth vp out of the pit, shal be taken in the snare: for the windowes
from on high are open, & the foundations of the earth doe shake.
19 The earth is vtterly broken downe: the earth is cleane dissolued: the earth
is mooued exceedingly.
20 The earth shal reele to and fro like a drunken man, and shall be remooued
like a tent, and the iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it: so that it shall
fall, and rise no more.
21 And in that day shall the Lorde visite the hoste aboue that is on hie, euen
the Kinges of the world that are vpon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as the prisoners in the pit: and they
shal be shut vp in the prison, and after many daies shal they be visited.
23 Then the moone shal be abashed, and the sunne ashamed, when the Lorde of
hostes shall reigne in
mount
Zion
and in Ierusalem: and glory shalbe before his ancient men.
CHAPTER
25
1 O Lord, thou art my God: I will exalt thee, I will prayse thy Name: for thou
hast done wonderfull things, according to the counsels of old, with a stable
trueth.
2 For thou hast made of a citie an heape, of a strong citie, a ruine: euen the
palace of strangers of a citie, it shall neuer be built.
3 Therefore shall the mightie people giue glory vnto thee: the citie of the
strong nations shall feare thee.
4 For thou hast bene a strength vnto the poore, euen a strength to the needie in
his trouble, a refuge against the tempest, a shadow against the heate: for the
blaste of the mightie is like a storme against the wall.
5 Thou shalt bring downe the noyse of the strangers, as the heate in a drie
place: he wil bring downe the song of the mightie, as the heate in the shadowe
of a cloude.
6 And in this mountaine shall the Lorde of hostes make vnto all people a feast
of fat thinges, euen a feast of fined wines, and of fat thinges full of marow,
of wines fined and purified.
7 And he will destroy in this mountaine the couering that couereth all people,
and the vaile that is spread vpon all nations.
8 He wil destroy death for euer: and the Lord God wil wipe away the teares from
all faces, and the rebuke of his people will he take away out of all the earth:
for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 And in that day shall men say, Loe, this is our God: we haue waited for him,
and he wil saue vs. This is the Lorde, we haue waited for him: we will reioyce
and be ioyfull in his saluation.
10 For in this mountaine shall the hand of the Lord rest, and
Moab
shalbe threshed vnder him, euen as strawe is thresshed in Madmenah.
11 And he shall stretche out his hande in the middes of them (as he that
swimmeth, stretcheth them out to swimme) and with the strength of his handes
shall he bring downe their pride.
12 The defence also of the height of thy walles shall he bring downe and lay
lowe, and cast them to the ground, euen vnto the dust.
CHAPTER
26
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the
land
of
Iudah
, We haue a strong citie: saluation shal God set for walles and bulwarkes.
2 Open ye the gates that the righteous nation, which keepeth the trueth, may
enter in.
3 By an assured purpose wilt thou preserue perfite peace, because they trusted
in thee.
4 Trust in the Lord for euer: for in the Lord God is strength for euermore.
5 For hee will bring downe them that dwell on hie: the hie citie he will abase:
euen vnto the ground wil he cast it downe, & bring it vnto dust.
6 The foote shall treade it downe, euen the feete of the poore, and the steppes
of the needie.
7 The way of the iust is righteousnesse: thou wilt make equall the righteous
path of the iust.
8 Also we, O Lorde, haue waited for thee in the way of thy iudgemets: the desire
of our soule is to thy Name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9 With my soule haue I desired thee in the night, and with my spirit within mee
will I seeke thee in the morning: for seeing thy iudgements are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world shall learne righteousnesse.
10 Let mercie bee shewed to the wicked, yet hee will not learne righteousnesse:
in the land of vprightnesse will he do wickedly, and will not beholde the
maiestie of the Lord.
11 O Lorde, they will not beholde thine hie hande: but they shall see it, and
bee confounded with the zeale of the people, and the fire of thine enemies shall
deuoure them.
12 Lord, vnto vs thou wilt ordeine peace: for thou also hast wrought all our
workes for vs.
13 O Lord our God, other lords beside thee, haue ruled vs, but we will remember
thee onely, and thy Name.
14 The dead shall not liue, neither shall the dead arise, because thou hast
visited and scattered them, and destroyed all their memorie.
15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord: thou hast increased the nation: thou
art made glorious: thou hast enlarged all the coastes of the earth.
16 Lorde, in trouble haue they visited thee: they powred out a prayer when thy
chastening was vpon them.
17 Like as a woman with childe, that draweth neere to the trauaile, is in sorow,
and cryeth in her paines, so haue we bene in thy sight, O Lord.
18 We haue coceiued, we haue borne in paine, as though we should haue brought
forth winde: there was no helpe in the earth, neither did the inhabitants of the
world fall.
19 Thy dead men shall liue: euen with my body shall they rise. Awake, and sing,
ye that dwel in dust: for thy dewe is as the dew of herbes, and the earth shall
cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people: enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doores after
thee: hide thy selfe for a very litle while, vntill the indignation passe ouer.
21 For lo, the Lord commeth out of his place, to visite the iniquitie of the
inhabitants of the earth vpon them: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and
shall no more hide her slaine.
CHAPTER
27
1 In that day the Lorde with his sore and great and mightie sword shall visite
Liuiathan, that pearcing serpent, euen Liuiathan, that crooked serpent, and he
shal slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2 In that daye sing of the vineyarde of redde wine.
3 I the Lorde doe keepe it: I will water it euery moment: least any assaile it,
I will keepe it night and day.
4 Anger is not in mee: who would set the briers & the thornes against me in
battel? I would go through them, I would burne them together.
5 Or will he feele my strength, that he may make peace with me, and be at one
with me?
6 Hereafter, Iaakob shall take roote:
Israel
shall florish and growe, and the world shall be filled with fruite.
7 Hath hee smitten him as hee smote those that smote him? or is hee slaine
according to the slaughter of them that were slaine by him?
8 In measure in the branches thereof wilt thou contende with it, when he bloweth
with his rough winde in the day of the East winde.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquitie of Iaakob be purged, and this is all the
fruit, the taking away of his sinne: whe he shal make all the stones of the
altars, as chalke stones broken in pieces, that the groues and images may not
stand vp.
10 Yet the defenced citie shalbe desolate, and the habitation shalbe forsaken,
and left like a wildernes. There shall the calfe feede, and there shall he lie,
and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughes of it are drie, they shalbe broken: the women come, and set
them on fire: for it is a people of none vnderstading: therefore hee that made
them, shall not haue compassion of them, and he that formed them, shall haue no
mercie on them.
12 And in that day shall the Lord thresh from the chanell of the Riuer vnto the
riuer of
Egypt
, and ye shalbe gathered, one by one, O children of
Israel
.
13 In that day also shall the great trumpe be blowen, and they shall come, which
perished in the
land
of
Asshur
: and they that were chased into the lande of
Egypt
, and they shall worship the Lord in the holy Mount at Ierusalem.
CHAPTER
28
1 Woe to the crowne of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim: for his glorious beautie
shall be a fading flowre, which is vpon the head of the valley of them that be
fat, and are ouercome with wine.
2 Beholde, the Lorde hath a mightie and strong hoste, like a tempest of haile,
and a whirlewinde that ouerthroweth, like a tempest of mightie waters that
ouerflowe, which throwe to the ground mightily.
3 They shall be troden vnder foote, euen the crowne & the pride of the
drunkards of Ephraim.
4 For his glorious beautie shall be a fading floure, which is vpon the head of
the valley of them that be fatte, and as the hastie fruite afore sommer, which
when hee that looketh vpon it, seeth it, while it is in his hand, he eateth it.
5 In that day shall the Lord of hostes be for a crowne of glory, and for a
diademe of beautie vnto the residue of his people:
6 And for a spirite of iudgement to him that sitteth in iudgement, and for
strength vnto them that turne away the battell to the gate.
7 But they haue erred because of wine, and are out of the way by strong drinke:
the priest and the prophet haue erred by strong drinke: they are swallowed vp
with wine: they haue gone astraye through strong drinke: they faile in vision:
they stumble in iudgement.
8 For all their tables are full of filthy vomiting: no place is cleane.
9 Whome shall he teache knowledge? and whome shall he make to vnderstand the
thinges that hee heareth? them that are weyned from the milke, and drawen from
the breastes.
10 For precept must be vpon precept, precept vpon precept, line vnto line, line
vnto line, there a litle, and there a litle.
11 For with a stammering tongue and with a strange language shall he speake vnto
this people.
12 Vnto whome hee saide, This is the rest: giue rest to him that is weary: and
this is the refreshing, but they would not heare.
13 Therefore shall the worde of the Lord be vnto them precept vpon precept,
precept vpo precept, line vnto line, line vnto line, there a litle and there a
litle, that they may goe, and fall backward, and be broken, and be snared, and
be taken.
14 Wherefore, heare the worde of the Lorde, ye scornefull men that rule this
people, which is at Ierusalem.
15 Because ye haue said, We haue made a couenant with death, and with hell are
we at agreement: though a scourge runne ouer, and passe through, it shal not
come at vs: for we haue made falshood our refuge, & vnder vanitie are we
hid,
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will laye in Zion a stone, a
tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation. Hee that beleeueth,
shall not make haste.
17 Iudgement also will I laye to the rule, and righteousnesse to the balance,
and the haile shall sweepe away the vaine confidence, and the waters shall
ouerflowe the secret place.
18 And your couenant with death shalbe disanulled, and your agreement with hell
shall not stand: when a scourge shall runne ouer and passe through, then shall
ye be trode downe by it.
19 When it passeth ouer, it shall take you away: for it shall passe through
euery morning in the day, and in the night, and there shalbe onely feare to make
you to vnderstand the hearing.
20 For the bed is streight that it can not suffice, and the couering narowe that
one can not wrappe himselfe.
21 For the Lord shall stand as in
mount
Perazim
: hee shall be wroth as in the
valley
of
Gibeon
, that he may do his worke, his strage worke, and bring to passe his acte, his
strange acte.
22 Nowe therefore be no mockers, least your bondes increase: for I haue heard of
the Lorde of hostes a consumption, euen determined vpon the whole earth.
23 Hearken ye, and heare my voyce: hearken ye, and heare my speach.
24 Doeth the plowe man plowe all the day, to sowe? doeth he open, and breake the
clots of his ground?
25 When he hath made it plaine, wil he not then sowe the fitches, and sowe
cummin, and cast in wheat by measure, and the appointed barly and rye in their
place?
26 For his God doeth instruct him to haue discretion, and doeth teach him.
27 For fitches shall not be threshed with a threshing instrument, neither shall
a cart wheele be turned about vpon the cummin: but ye fitches are beaten out
with a staffe, and cummin with a rod.
28 Bread corne when it is threshed, hee doeth not alway thresh it, neither doeth
the wheele of his cart still make a noyse, neither will he breake it with the
teeth thereof.
29 This also commeth from the Lorde of hostes, which is wonderfull in counsell,
and excellent in workes.
CHAPTER
29
1 Ah altar, altar of the citie that Dauid dwelt in: adde yere vnto yere: let
them kil lambs.
2 But I wil bring the altar into distresse, and there shalbe heauines and sorowe,
and it shall be vnto me like an altar.
3 And I wil besiege thee as a circle, and fight against thee on a mount, and
will cast vp ramparts against thee.
4 So shalt thou be humbled, and shalt speake out of the ground, and thy speach
shalbe as out of the dust: thy voyce also shall be out of the ground like him
that hath a spirite of diuination, and thy talking shall whisper out of the
dust.
5 Moreouer, the multitude of thy strangers shalbe like small dust, and the
multitude of strong men shalbe as chaffe that passeth away, and it shal be in a
moment, euen suddenly.
6 Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hostes with thunder, and shaking, and a
great noyse, a whirlewinde, and a tempest, and a flame of a deuouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against the altar, shalbe as a
dreame or vision by night: euen all they that make the warre against it, and
strong holdes against it, and lay siege vnto it.
8 And it shalbe like as an hungry man dreameth, and beholde, he eateth: and when
he awaketh, his soule is emptie: or like as a thirsty man dreameth, and loe, he
is drinking, and when he awaketh, beholde, he is faint, and his soule longeth:
so shal the multitude of all nations be that fight against
mount
Zion
.
9 Stay your selues, and wonder: they are blinde, and make you blinde: they are
drunken but not with wine: they stagger, but not by strong drinke.
10 For the Lord hath couered you with a spirite of slumber, and hath shut vp
your eyes: the Prophets, & your chiefe Seers hath he couered.
11 And the vision of them all is become vnto you, as the wordes of a booke that
is sealed vp, which they deliuer to one that can reade, saying, Reade this, I
pray thee. Then shall he say, I can not: for it is sealed.
12 And the booke is giuen vnto him that can not reade, saying, Reade this, I
pray thee; he shall say, I can not reade.
13 Therefore the Lord sayd, Because this people come neere vnto me with their
mouth, and honour me with their lips, but haue remooued their heart farre from
me, and their feare toward me was taught by the precept of men,
14 Therefore behold, I wil againe doe a marueilous worke in this people, euen a
marueilous worke, and a wonder: for the wisdome of their wise men shall perish,
and the vnderstanding of their prudent men shalbe hid.
15 Wo vnto them that seeke deepe to hide their counsell from the Lorde: for
their workes are in darkenes, and they say, Who seeth vs? and who knoweth vs?
16 Your turning of deuises shal it not be esteemed as the potters clay? for
shall the worke say of him that made it, Hee made me not? or the thing formed,
say of him that facioned it, He had none vnderstanding?
17 Is it not yet but a litle while, and
Lebanon
shall be turned into
Carmel
? and
Carmel
shall be counted as a forest?
18 And in that day shall the deafe heare the wordes of the booke, and the eyes
of the blinde shall see out of obscuritie, and out of darkenesse.
19 The meeke in the Lorde shall receiue ioye againe, and the poore men shall
reioyce in the holy one of
Israel
.
20 For the cruel man shal cease, & the scornefull shalbe consumed: and all
that hasted to iniquitie, shalbe cut off:
21 Which made a man to sinne in ye worde, and tooke him in a snare: which
reproued them in the gate, and made the iust to fall without cause.
22 Therefore thus sayth the Lorde vnto the house of Iaakob, euen hee that
redeemed Abraham, Iaakob shall not now be confounded, neither now shal his face
be pale.
23 But when he seeth his children, the worke of mine hands, in the mids of him,
they shal sanctifie my Name, and sanctifie the holy one of Iaakob, and shal
feare the God of Israel.
24 Then they that erred in spirit, shall haue vnderstanding, and they that
murmured, shall learne doctrine.
CHAPTER
30
1 Wo to the rebellious children, sayth the Lord, that take counsell, but not of
me, and couer with a couering, but not by my spirit, that they may lay sinne
vpon sinne:
2 Which walke forth to goe downe into Egypt (and haue not asked at my mouth) to
strengthen them selues with the strength of Pharaoh, and trust in the shadowe of
Egypt.
3 But the strength of Pharaoh shalbe your shame, and the trust in the shadow of
Egypt
your confusion.
4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his Ambassadours came vnto Hanes.
5 They shalbe all ashamed of the people that cannot profite them, nor helpe nor
doe them good, but shalbe a shame and also a reproche.
6 The burden of the beasts of the South, in a land of trouble and anguish, from
whence shall come the yong and olde
lyon
, the viper and fierie flying serpent against them that shall beare their riches
vpon the shoulders of the coltes, and their treasures vpon the bounches of the
camels, to a people that cannot profite.
7 For the Egyptians are vanitie, & they shall helpe in vaine. Therefore haue
I cried vnto her, Their strength is to sit still.
8 Now go, and write it before them in a table, and note it in a booke that it
may be for the last day for euer and euer:
9 That it is a rebellious people, lying children, and children that would not
heare the law of the Lord.
10 Which say vnto the Seers, See not: and to the Prophets, Prophecie not vnto vs
right things: but speake flattering things vnto vs: prophecie errours.
11 Depart out of the way: go aside out of the path: cause the holy one of Israel
to cease fro vs.
12 Therefoe thus saith the holy one of Israel, Because you haue cast off this
worde, and trust in violence, and wickednes, and stay thereupon,
13 Therefore this iniquitie shalbe vnto you as a breach that falleth, or a
swelling in an hie wall, whose breaking commeth suddenly in a moment.
14 And the breaking thereof is like the breaking of a potters pot, which is
broken without pitie, and in the breaking thereof is not found a sheard to take
fire out of the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.
15 For thus sayd the Lorde God, the Holy one of
Israel
, In rest and quietnes shall ye be saued: in quietnes and in confidence shall be
your strength, but ye would not.
16 For ye haue sayd, No, but we wil flee away vpon horses. Therefore shall ye
flee. We will ride vpon the swiftest. Therefore shall your persecuters be
swifter.
17 A thousand as one shall flee at the rebuke of one: at the rebuke of fiue
shall ye flee, till ye be left as a ship maste vpon the top of a mountaine, and
as a beaken vpon an hill.
18 Yet therefore will the Lord waite, that he may haue mercy vpon you, and
therefore wil he be exalted, that hee may haue compassion vpon you: for the
Lorde is the God of iudgement. Blessed are all they that waite for him.
19 Surely a people shal dwell in
Zion
, and in Ierusalem: thou shalt weepe no more: he wil certainly haue mercy vpon
thee at the voyce of thy crye: when he heareth thee, he wil answere thee.
20 And when the Lorde hath giuen you the bread of aduersitie, and the water of
affliction, thy raine shalbe no more kept backe, but thine eyes shall see thy
raine.
21 And thine eares shal heare a worde behind thee, saying, This is the way,
walke ye in it, when thou turnest to the right hand, & when thou turnest to
the left.
22 And ye shall pollute the couering of the images of siluer, and the riche
ornament of thine images of golde, and cast them away as a menstruous cloth, and
thou shalt say vnto it, Get thee hence.
23 Then shall hee giue raine vnto thy seede, when thou shalt sowe the ground,
and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shalbe fat and as oyle: in that
day shall thy cattell be fed in large pastures.
24 The oxen also and the yong asses, that till the ground, shall eate cleane
prouender, which is winowed with the shoouel and with the fanne.
25 And vpon euery hie mountaine, and vpon euery hie hill shal there be riuers
and streames of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers shall
fall.
26 Moreouer, the light of the moone shall be as the light of the sunne, and the
light of the sunne shalbe seuen folde, and like the light of seuen dayes in the
day that the Lord shall binde vp the breach of his people, and heale the stroke
of their wound.
27 Beholde, the Name of the Lorde commeth from farre, his face is burning, &
the burden thereof is heauy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is
as a deuouring fire.
28 And his spirit is as a riuer that ouerfloweth vp to the necke: it deuideth
asunder, to fanne the nations with the fanne of vanitie, and there shall be a
bridle to cause them to erre in the chawes of the people.
29 But there shall be a song vnto you as in the night, when solemne feast is
kept: and gladnes of heart, as he that commeth with a pipe to goe vnto the mount
of the Lord, to the mightie one of
Israel
.
30 And the Lorde shall cause his glorious voyce to be heard, and shall declare
the lighting downe of his arme with the anger of his countenance, and flame of a
deuouring fire, with scattering and tempest, and hailestones.
31 For with the voyce of the Lord shal Asshur be destroyed, which smote with the
rod.
32 And in euery place that ye staffe shal passe, it shall cleaue fast, which the
Lord shall lay vpon him with tabrets & harpes: and with battels, and lifting
vp of hands shall he fight against it.
33 For Tophet is prepared of olde: it is euen prepared for the King: hee hath
made it deepe and large: the burning thereof is fire and much wood: the breath
of the Lord, like a riuer of brimstone, doeth kindle it.
CHAPTER
31
1 Woe vnto them that goe downe into
Egypt
for helpe, and stay vpon horses, and trust in charets, because they are many,
and in horsemen, because they be very strong: but they looke not vnto the holy
one of
Israel
, nor seeke vnto the Lord.
2 But he yet is wisest: therefore he wil bring euill, and not turne backe his
worde, but he will arise against the house of the wicked, and against the helpe
of them that worke vanitie.
3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirite:
and when the Lorde shall stretch out his hand, the helper shall fall, and hee
that is holpen shal fall, and they shall altogether faile.
4 For thus hath the Lord spoken vnto me, As the lyon or lyons whelpe roareth
vpon his praye, against whom if a multitude of shepheards be called, hee will
not be afraide at their voyce, neither will humble him selfe at their noise: so
shall the Lord of hostes come downe to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill
thereof.
5 As birds that flie, so shal the Lord of hostes defend Ierusalem by defending
and deliuering, by passing through and preseruing it.
6 O ye children of
Israel
, turne againe, in as much as ye are sunken deepe in rebellion.
7 For in that day euery man shall cast out his idoles of siluer, and his idoles
of golde, which your handes haue made you, euen a sinne.
8 Then shall Asshur fall by the sworde, not of man, neither shall the sworde of
man deuoure him, and hee shall flee from the sworde, and his yong men shall
faint.
9 And he shall go for feare to his towre, and his princes shall be afraide of
the standart, sayeth the Lord, whose fire is in
Zion
, and his fornace in Ierusalem.
CHAPTER
32
1 Beholde, a King shall reigne in iustice, and the princes shall rule in
iudgement.
2 And that man shall bee as an hiding place from the winde, and as a refuge for
the tempest: as riuers of water in a drie place, and as the shadowe of a great
rocke in a weary land.
3 The eyes of the seeing shal not be shut, and the eares of them that heare,
shall hearken.
4 And the heart of the foolish shall vnderstand knowledge, and the tongue of the
stutters shalbe ready to speake distinctly.
5 A nigard shall no more be called liberall, nor the churle riche.
6 But the nigarde will speake of nigardnesse, and his heart will worke iniquitie,
and do wickedly, and speake falsely against the Lorde, to make emptie the
hungrie soule, and to cause the drinke of the thirstie to faile.
7 For the weapons of the churle are wicked: hee deuiseth wicked counsels, to
vndoe the poore with lying words: and to speake against the poore in iudgement.
8 But the liberall man will deuise of liberall things, and he will continue his
liberalitie.
9 Rise vp, ye women that are at ease: heare my voyce, ye carelesse daughters:
hearken to my wordes.
10 Yee women, that are carelesse, shall be in feare aboue a yeere in dayes: for
the vintage shall faile, and the gatherings shall come no more.
11 Yee women, that are at ease, be astonied: feare, O yee carelesse women: put
off the clothes: make bare, and girde sackcloth vpon the loynes.
12 Men shall lament for the teates, euen for the pleasant fieldes, and for the
fruitefull vine.
13 Vpon the lande of my people shall growe thornes and briers: yea, vpon all the
houses of ioye in the citie of reioysing,
14 Because the palace shalbe forsaken, and the noise of the citie shalbe left:
the towre and fortresse shalbe dennes for euer, & the delite of wilde asses,
and a pasture for flockes,
15 Vntill the Spirit be powred vpon vs from aboue, and the wildernes become a
fruitfull fielde, and the plenteous fielde be counted as a forest.
16 And iudgement shal dwel in the desert, and iustice shall remaine in the
fruitfull fielde.
17 And the worke of iustice shall bee peace, euen the worke of iustice and
quietnesse, and assurance for euer.
18 And my people shall dwell in the tabernacle of peace, and in sure dwellings,
and in safe resting places.
19 When it haileth, it shall fall on the forest, and the citie shall be set in
the lowe place.
20 Blessed are ye that sowe vpon all waters, and driue thither the feete of the
oxe & the asse.
CHAPTER
33
1 Woe to thee that spoylest, and wast not spoyled: and doest wickedly, and they
did not wickedly against thee: when thou shalt cease to spoyle, thou shalt be
spoyled: when thou shalt make an ende of doing wickedly, they shall doe wickedly
against thee.
2 O Lorde, haue mercie vpon vs, wee haue waited for thee: be thou, which waste
their arme in the morning, our helpe also in time of trouble.
3 At the noise of the tumult, the people fled: at thine exalting the nations
were scattered.
4 And your spoyle shall be gathered like the gathering of caterpillers: and he
shall go against him like the leaping of grashoppers.
5 The Lorde is exalted: for hee dwelleth on hie: he hath filled
Zion
with iudgement & iustice.
6 And there shall be stabilitie of thy times, strength, saluation, wisdome and
knowledge: for the feare of the Lord shalbe his treasure.
7 Behold, their messengers shal cry without, and ye ambassadours of peace shal
weepe bitterly.
8 The pathes are waste: the wayfaring man ceaseth: hee hath broken the couenant:
hee hath contemned the cities: he regarded no man.
9 The earth mourneth & fainteth:
Lebanon
is ashamed, and hewen downe:
Sharon
is like a wildernes, and Bashan is shaken and
Carmel
.
10 Now will I arise, saith the Lord: now will I be exalted, now will I lift vp
my selfe.
11 Ye shall conceiue chaffe, and bring forth stubble: the fire of your breath
shall deuoure you.
12 And the people shall be as the burning of lime: and as the thornes cut vp,
shall they be burnt in the fire.
13 Heare, yee that are farre off, what I haue done, and ye that are neere, know
my power.
14 The sinners in
Zion
are afraide: a feare is come vpon the hypocrites: who among vs shall dwel with
the deuouring fire? who among vs shall dwell with the euerlasting burnings?
15 Hee that walketh in iustice, and speaketh righteous things, refusing gaine of
oppression, shaking his handes from taking of gifts, stopping his eares from
hearing of blood, and shutting his eyes from seeing euill.
16 He shall dwell on hie: his defence shall be the munitions of rockes: bread
shalbe giuen him, and his waters shalbe sure.
17 Thine eyes shall see the King in his glory: they shall beholde the lande
farre off.
18 Thine heart shall meditate feare, Where is the scribe? where is the receiuer?
where is hee that counted the towres?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a darke speache, that thou
canst not perceiue, and of a stammering tongue that thou canst not vnderstande.
20 Looke vpon
Zion
the citie of our solemne feastes: thine eyes shall see Ierusalem a quiet
habitation, a Tabernacle that can not be remooued: and the stakes thereof can
neuer be taken away, neither shall any of the cordes thereof be broken.
21 For surely there the mightie Lorde will be vnto vs, as a place of floods and
broade riuers, whereby shall passe no shippe with oares, neither shall great
shippe passe thereby.
22 For the Lorde is our Iudge, the Lord is our lawe giuer: the Lord is our King,
he will saue vs.
23 Thy cordes are loosed: they could not wel strengthen their maste, neither
coulde they spread the saile: then shall the praye be deuided for a great spoile:
yea, the lame shal take away the pray.
24 And none inhabitant shall say, I am sicke: the people that dwell therein,
shall haue their iniquitie forgiuen.
CHAPTER
34
1 Come neere, ye nations and heare, and hearken, ye people: let the earth heare
and all that is therein, the world & al that proceedeth thereof.
2 For the indignation of the Lord is vpon all nations, and his wrath vpon all
their armies: hee hath destroyed them and deliuered them to the slaughter.
3 And their slaine shalbe cast out, and their stincke shall come vp out of their
bodies, and the mountaines shalbe melted with their blood.
4 And all the hoste of heauen shalbe dissolued, and the heauens shall be folden
like a booke: and all their hostes shall fall as the leafe falleth from the
vine, and as it falleth from the figtree.
5 For my sword shalbe drunken in the heauen: beholde, it shall come downe vpon
Edom
, euen vpo the people of my curse to iudgement.
6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood: it is made fat with the fat &
with the blood of the lambes & the goates, with the fat of the kidneis of
the rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the
land
of
Edom
.
7 And the vnicorne shall come downe with them and the heiffers with the bulles,
and their lande shalbe drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatnesse.
8 For it is the day of the Lordes vengeance, and the yeere of recompence for the
iudgement of
Zion
.
9 And the riuers thereof shall be turned into pitche, and the dust thereof into
brimstone, and the land thereof shalbe burning pitch.
10 It shal not be quenched night nor day: the smoke thereof shall goe vp
euermore: it shall be desolate from generation to generation: none shall passe
through it for euer.
11 But the pelicane and the hedgehog shall possesse it, and the great owle, and
the rauen shall dwel in it, and he shall stretch out vpon it the line of vanitie,
and the stones of emptinesse.
12 The nobles thereof shal call to the kingdome, and there shalbe none, and all
the princes thereof shalbe as nothing.
13 And it shall bring foorth thornes in the palaces thereof, nettles and
thistles in the strong holdes thereof, and it shall be an habitation for
dragons, and a court for ostriches.
14 There shall meete also Ziim and Iim, and the Satyre shall cry to his fellow,
and the shricheowle shall rest there, and shall finde for her selfe a quiet
dwelling.
15 There shall the owle make her nest, and laye, and hatche, and gather them
vnder her shadowe: there shall the vultures also bee gathered, euery one with
her make.
16 Seeke in the booke of the Lord, and reade: none of these shall fayle, none
shall want her make: for his mouth hath commaunded, and his very Spirit hath
gathered them.
17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath deuided it vnto them by
line: they shal possesse it for euer: from generation to generation shall they
dwell in it.
CHAPTER
35
1 The desert and the wildernes shall reioyce: and the waste ground shalbe glad
and florish as the rose.
2 It shall florish abundantly and shal greatly reioyce also and ioye: the glory
of
Lebanon
shalbe giuen vnto it: the beautie of
Carmel
, and of
Sharon
, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellencie of our God.
3 Strengthen the weake handes, and comfort the feeble knees.
4 Say vnto them that are fearefull, Bee you strong, feare not: beholde, your God
commeth with vengeance: euen God with a recompense, he will come and saue you.
5 Then shall the eyes of the blinde be lightened, and the eares of the deafe be
opened.
6 Then shal ye lame man leape as an hart, and the dumme mans tongue shal sing:
for in the wildernes shal waters breake out, & riuers in ye desert.
7 And the dry ground shalbe as a poole, and the thirstie (as springs of water in
the habitation of dragons: where they lay) shall be a place for reedes and
rushes.
8 And there shalbe a path and a way, and the way shalbe called holy: the
polluted shall not passe by it: for he shalbe with them, and walke in the way,
and the fooles shall not erre.
9 There shall be no
lyon
, nor noysome beastes shall ascend by it, neither shall they be found there,
that the redeemed may walke.
10 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall returne and come to
Zion
with prayse: and euerlasting ioy shall bee vpon their heads: they shall obteine
ioye and gladnesse, and sorow and mourning shall flee away.
CHAPTER
36
1 Nowe in the fourteenth yeere of King Hezekiah, Saneherib King of Asshur came
vp against al the strong cities of Iudah, & tooke them.
2 And the King of Asshur sent Rabshakeh from
Lachish
toward Ierusalem vnto King Hezekiah, with a great hoste, & he stood by ye
conduite of the vpper poole in the path of the fullers fielde.
3 Then came foorth vnto him Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah the steward of the
house, and Shebna the chanceler, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder.
4 And Rabshakeh sayde vnto them, Tell you Hezekiah, I pray you, Thus sayth the
great King, the King of Asshur, What confidence is this, wherein thou trustest?
5 I say, Surely I haue eloquence, but counsell and strength are for the warre:
on whom then doest thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
6 Loe, thou trustest in this broken staffe of reede on
Egypt
, whereupon if a man leane, it will goe into his hand, and pearce it: so is
Pharaoh King of
Egypt
, vnto all that trust in him.
7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the Lord our God. Is not that he, whose hie
places & whose altars Hezekiah tooke downe, & said to Iudah & to
Ierusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
8 Nowe therefore giue hostages to my lorde the King of Asshur, and I wil giue
thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders vpon them.
9 For howe canst thou despise any captaine of the least of my lordes seruants?
and put thy trust on
Egypt
for charets and for horsemen?
10 And am I now come vp without the Lord to this land to destroy it? The Lord
sayd vnto me, Goe vp against this land and destroy it.
11 Then sayd Eliakim and Shebna and Ioah vnto Rabshakeh, Speake, I pray thee, to
thy seruants in the Aramites language, (for we vnderstand it) & talke not
with vs in the Iewes tongue, in the audience of the people that are on the wall.
12 Then said Rabshakeh, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee to
speake these wordes, and not to the men that sit on the wall? that they may eate
their owne doung, and drinke their owne pisse with you?
13 So Rabshakeh stood, & cryed with a loude voyce in the Iewes language, and
sayd, Heare the wordes of the great King, of the King of Asshur.
14 Thus saith the King, Let not Hezekiah deceiue you: for he shall not be able
to deliuer you.
15 Neither let Hezekiah make you to trust in the Lord, saying, The Lorde will
surely deliuer vs: this citie shal not be giuen ouer into the hand of the King
of Asshur.
16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus sayth the King of Asshur, Make appointment
with me, and come out to me, that euery man may eate of his owne vine, &
euery man of his owne fig tree, and drinke euery man the water of his owne well,
17 Till I come and bring you to a land like your owne land, euen a land of
wheate, and wine, a land of bread and vineyardes,
18 Least Hezekiah deceiue you, saying, The Lord wil deliuer vs. Hath any of the
gods of the nations deliuered his land out of the hand of the King of Asshur?
19 Where is the god of Hamath, and of Arpad? where is the god of Sepharuaim? or
howe haue they deliuered
Samaria
out of mine hand?
20 Who is hee among all the gods of these lands, that hath deliuered their
countrey out of mine hand, that the Lorde should deliuer Ierusalem out of mine
hand?
21 Then they kept silence, and answered him not a worde: for the Kings
commandement was, saying, Answere him not.
22 Then came Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah the steward of the house, and Shebna
the chanceller, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder, vnto Hezekiah with
rent clothes, and tolde him the wordes of Rabshakeh.
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1 And when the King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth
and came into the House of the Lord.
2 And he sent Eliakim the stewarde of the house, aud Shebna the chanceller, with
the Elders of the Priestes, clothed in sackcloth vnto Isaiah the Prophet, the
sonne of Amoz.
3 And they sayd vnto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of tribulation
and of rebuke and blasphemie: for the children are come to the birth, and there
is no strength to bring foorth.
4 If so be the Lorde thy God hath heard the wordes of Rabshakeh, whom the King
of Asshur his master hath sent to raile on the liuing God, and to reproch him
with wordes which the Lord thy God hath heard, then lift thou vp thy prayer for
the remnant that are left.
5 So the seruants of the King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah sayde vnto them, Thus say vnto your master, Thus saith the Lorde,
Be not afrayd of the wordes that thou hast heard, wherewith the seruants of the
king of Asshur haue blasphemed me.
7 Beholde, I wil send a blast vpon him, and he shall heare a noyse, and returne
to his owne land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his owne land.
8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the King of Asshur fighting against Libnah:
for he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish
.
9 He heard also men say of Tirhakah, King of Ethiopia, Beholde, he is come out
to fight against thee: and when he heard it, he sent other messengers to
Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speake to Hezekiah King of Iudah, saying, Let not thy God
deceiue thee, in whom thou trustest, saying, Ierusalem shal not be giuen into
the hand of the King of Asshur.
11 Beholde, thou hast heard what the Kings of Asshur haue done to all lands in
destroying them, and shalt thou be deliuered?
12 Haue the gods of the nations deliuered them, which my fathers haue destroyed?
as Gozan, and
Haran
, and Rezeph, and the children of
Eden
, which were at Telassar?
13 Where is the King of Hamath, and the King of Arpad, and the King of the citie
of Sepharuaim, Hena and Iuah?
14 So Hezekiah receiued the letter of the hand of the messengers and read it,
and he went vp into the House of the Lorde, and Hezekiah spread it before the
Lord.
15 And Hezekiah prayed vnto the Lorde, saying,
16 O Lorde of hostes, God of Israel, which dwellest betweene the Cherubims, thou
art very God alone ouer all the kingdomes of the earth: thou hast made the
heauen and the earth.
17 Encline thine eare, O Lord, and heare: open thine eyes, O Lorde, and see, and
heare all the wordes of Saneherib, who hath sent to blaspheme the liuing God.
18 Trueth it is, O Lord, that the Kings of Asshur haue destroyed all lands,
& their countrey,
19 And haue cast their gods in ye fire: for they were no gods, but the worke of
mans hands, euen wood or stone: therefore they destroyed them.
20 Nowe therefore, O Lorde our God, saue thou vs out of his hand, that all the
kingdomes of the earth may knowe, that thou onely art the Lorde.
21 Then Isaiah the sonne of Amoz sent vnto Hezekiah, saying, Thus sayth the Lord
God of Israel, Because thou hast prayed vnto me, concerning Saneherib king of
Asshur,
22 This is the worde that the Lord hath spoken against him, the virgine, the
daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, & laughed thee to scorne: the daughter
of Ierusalem, hath shaken her head at thee.
23 Whome hast thou railed on and blasphemed? and against whome hast thou exalted
thy voyce, & lifted vp thine eyes on hie? euen against the holy one of
Israel
.
24 By thy seruants hast thou railed on the Lord, and sayd, By the multitude of
my charets I am come vp to the top of the mountaines to the sides of Lebanon,
and will cut downe the hie cedars thereof, and the faire firre trees thereof,
and I will goe vp to the heightes of his top and to the forest of his fruitfull
places.
25 I haue digged and drunke the waters, and with the plant of my feete haue I
dryed all the riuers closed in.
26 Hast thou not heard howe I haue of olde time made it, and haue formed it long
ago? and should I now bring it, that it should be destroyed, and layde on
ruinous heapes, as cities defensed?
27 Whose inhabitants haue small power, and are afrayd & confounded: they are
like the grasse of the field & greene herbe, or grasse on the house tops, or
corne blassed afore it be growen.
28 But I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy comming in, and thy fury
against me.
29 Because thou ragest against me, and thy tumult is come vnto mine eares,
therefore will I put mine hooke in thy nostrels, and my bridle in thy lips, and
wil bring thee backe againe the same way thou camest.
30 And this shalbe a signe vnto thee, O Hezekiah, Thou shalt eate this yeere
such as groweth of it selfe: and the second yeere, such things as growe without
sowing: and in the third yeere, sowe ye and reape, and plant vineyards, and eate
the fruite thereof.
31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Iudah, shall againe take
roote downward and beare fruite vpward.
32 For out of Ierusalem shall goe a remnant, and they that escape out of mount
Zion
: the zeale of the Lord of hostes shall doe this.
33 Therefore thus sayth the Lord, concerning the King of Asshur, He shall not
enter into this citie, nor shoote an arrow there, nor come before it with
shield, nor cast a mount against it.
34 By the same way that he came, he shall returne, and not come into this citie,
saith the Lord.
35 For I will defend this citie to saue it, for mine owne sake, & for my
seruant Dauids sake.
36 Then the Angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the campe of Asshur an
hundreth, fourescore, and fiue thousand: so when they arose early in the
morning, beholde, they were all dead corpses.
37 So Saneherib king of Asshur departed, and went away and returned and dwelt at
Nineueh.
38 And as he was in the temple worshipping of Nisroch his god, Adramelech and
Sharezer his sonnes slewe him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of
Ararat: and Esarhaddon his sonne reigned in his steade.
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1 About that time was Hezekiah sicke vnto the death, and the Prophet Isaiah
sonne of Amoz came vnto him, and sayd vnto him, Thus sayth the Lord, Put thine
house in an order, for thou shalt dye, and not liue.
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord,
3 And saide, I beseeche thee, Lord, remember nowe howe I haue walked before thee
in trueth, and with a perfite heart, & haue done that which is good in thy
sight: and Hezekiah wept sore.
4 Then came the worde of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,
5 Goe, and say vnto Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord God of Dauid thy father, I
haue heard thy prayer, and seene thy teares: behold, I will adde vnto thy dayes
fifteene yeeres.
6 And I will deliuer thee out of the hand of the King of Asshur, and this citie:
for I will defende this citie.
7 And this signe shalt thou haue of ye Lord, that ye Lord will do this thing
that he hath spoken,
8 Beholde, I will bring againe the shadowe of the degrees (whereby it is gone
downe in the diall of Ahaz by the sunne) ten degrees backeward: so the sunne
returned by tenne degrees, by the which degrees it was gone downe.
9 The writing of Hezekiah King of Iudah, when he had bene sicke, and was
recouered of his sickenesse.
10 I saide in the cutting off of my dayes, I shall goe to the gates of the graue:
I am depriued of the residue of my yeeres.
11 I said, I shall not see the Lord, euen the Lord in the land of the liuing: I
shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
12 Mine habitation is departed, and is remoued from me, like a shepheards tent:
I haue cut off like a weauer my life: he will cut me off from the height: from
day to night, thou wilt make an ende of me.
13 I rekoned to the morning: but he brake all my bones, like a lion: from day to
night wilt thou make an ende of me.
14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourne as a doue: mine
eies were lift vp on high: O Lord, it hath oppressed me, comfort me.
15 What shall I say? for he hath said it to me, and he hath done it: I shall
walke weakely all my yeeres in the bitternesse of my soule.
16 O Lord, to them that ouerliue them, and to all that are in them, the life of
my spirite shalbe knowen, that thou causedst me to sleepe and hast giuen life to
me.
17 Beholde, for felicitie I had bitter griefe, but it was thy pleasure to
deliuer my soule from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinnes
behinde thy backe.
18 For the graue cannot confesse thee: death cannot praise thee: they that goe
downe into the pit, cannot hope for thy trueth.
19 But the liuing, the liuing, he shall confesse thee, as I doe this day: the
father to the children shall declare thy trueth.
20 The Lord was ready to saue me: therefore we will sing my song, all the dayes
of our life in the House of the Lord.
21 Then said Isaiah, Take a lumpe of drye figs and lay it vpon the boyle, and he
shall recouer.
22 Also Hezekiah had said, What is ye signe, that I shall goe vp into the House
of the Lord?
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1 At the same time, Merodach Baladan, the sonne of Baladan, King of Babel, sent
letters, and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had bene sicke, and
was recouered.
2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of the treasures, the
siluer, and the golde, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the
house of his armour, and all that was founde in his treasures: there was nothing
in his house, nor in all his kingdome that Hezekiah shewed them not.
3 Then came Isaiah the Prophet vnto King Hezekiah, & said vnto him, What
said these men? and from whence came they to thee? And Hezekiah saide, They are
come from a farre countrey vnto me, from
Babel
.
4 Then saide he, What haue they seene in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All
that is in mine house haue they seene: there is nothing among my treasures, that
I haue not shewed them.
5 And Isaiah saide to Hezekiah, Heare the worde of the Lord of hostes,
6 Beholde, the dayes come, that all that is in thine house, and which thy
fathers haue layed vp in store vntill this day, shall be caried to Babel:
nothing shall be left, sayeth the Lord.
7 And of thy sonnes, that shall proceede out of thee, and which thou shalt
beget, shall they take away, and they shall be eunuches in the palace of the
King of Babel.
8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, The worde of the Lord is good, which thou hast
spoken: and he saide, Yet let there be peace, and trueth in my dayes.
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40
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, will your God say.
2 Speake comfortably to Ierusalem, and crye vnto her, that her warrefare is
accomplished, that her iniquitie is pardoned: for she hath receiued of the Lords
hand double for all her sinnes.
3 A voyce cryeth in the wildernesse, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make
streight in the desert a path for our God.
4 Euery valley shall be exalted, and euery mountaine and hill shall be made lowe:
and the crooked shalbe streight, & the rough places plaine.
5 And the glory of the Lord shalbe reueiled, and all flesh shall see it
together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
6 A voyce saide, Crie; he saide, What shall I crie? All flesh is
grasse
, and all the grace thereof is as the floure of the fielde.
7 The
grasse
withereth, the floure fadeth, because the Spirite of the Lorde bloweth vpon it:
surely the people is
grasse
.
8 The
grasse
withereth, the floure fadeth: but the worde of our God shall stand for euer.
9 O
Zion
, that bringest good tidings, get thee vp into the hie mountaine: O Ierusalem,
that bringest good tidings, lift vp thy voyce with strength: lift it vp, be not
afraide: say vnto the cities of Iudah, Beholde your God.
10 Beholde, the Lorde God will come with power, and his arme shall rule for him:
beholde, his rewarde is with him, and his worke before him,
11 He shall feede his flocke like a shepheard: he shall gather the lambes with
his arme, &
cary
them in his bosome, and shal guide them with young.
12 Who hath measured the waters in his fist? and counted heauen with the spanne,
and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure? and weighed ye mountaines
in a weight, and the hilles in a balance?
13 Who hath instructed ye Spirit of the Lord? or was his counseler or taught
him?
14 Of whom tooke he counsell, and who instructed him and taught him in the way
of iudgement? or taught him knowledge, and shewed vnto him the way of
vnderstanding?
15 Beholde, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the dust
of the balance: beholde, he taketh away the yles as a litle dust.
16 And
Lebanon
is not sufficient for fire, nor the beastes thereof sufficient for a burnt
offering.
17 All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him, lesse
then nothing, and vanitie.
18 To whom then wil ye liken God? or what similitude will ye set vp vnto him?
19 The workeman melteth an image, or the goldsmith beateth it out in golde, or
the goldesmith maketh siluer plates.
20 Doeth not the poore chuse out a tree that will not rot, for an oblation? he
seeketh also vnto him a cunning workeman, to prepare an image, that shall not be
moued.
21 Know ye nothing? haue ye not heard it? hath it not bene tolde you from the
beginning? haue ye not vnderstand it by the foundation of the earth?
22 He sitteth vpon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as
grashoppers, hee stretcheth out ye heauens, as a curtaine, and spreadeth them
out, as a tent to dwell in.
23 He bringeth the princes to nothing, and maketh the iudges of the earth, as
vanitie,
24 As though they were not plated, as though they were not sowen, as though
their stocke tooke no roote in the earth: for he did euen blow vpon them, and
they withered, and the whirlewinde will take them away as stubble.
25 To whom nowe will ye liken me, that I should be like him, saith the Holy one?
26 Lift vp your eyes on hie, and beholde who hath created these things, and
bringeth out their armies by nomber, and calleth them all by names? by the
greatnesse of his power & mightie strength nothing faileth.
27 Why sayest thou, O Iaakob, and speakest O Israel, My way is hid from the
Lorde, and my iudgement is passed ouer of my God?
28 Knowest thou not? or hast thou not heard, that the euerlasting God, the Lorde
hath created the endes of the earth? he neither fainteth, nor is wearie: there
is no searching of his vnderstanding.
29 But he giueth strength vnto him that fainteth, and vnto him that hath no
strength, he encreaseth power.
30 Euen the yong men shall faint, and be wearie, and the yong men shall stumble
and fall.
31 But they that waite vpon the Lord, shall renue their strength: they shall
lift vp the wings as the eagles: they shall runne, and not be wearie, and they
shall walke and not faint.
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1 Keepe silence before mee, O ylands, and let the people renue their strength:
let the come neere, and let them speake: let vs come together into iudgement.
2 Who raised vp iustice from the East, and called him to his foote? and gaue the
nations before him, and subdued the Kings? he gaue them as dust to his sword,
and as scattered stubble vnto his bowe.
3 He pursued them, and passed safely by the way that he had not gone with his
feete.
4 Who hath wrought and done it? he that calleth the generations from the
beginning. I the Lord am the first, and with the last I am ye same.
5 The yles sawe it, and did feare, & the ends of the earth were abashed,
drew neere, and came.
6 Euery man helped his neighbour, and saide to his brother, Be strong.
7 So the workeman comforted the founder, and he that smote with ye hammer, him
that smote by course, saying, It is ready for the sodering, and he fastened it
with nayles that it shoulde not be mooued.
8 But thou,
Israel
, art my seruant, and thou Iaakob, whom I haue chosen, the seede of Abraham my
friend.
9 For I haue taken thee from the endes of the earth, and called thee before the
chiefe thereof, and saide vnto thee, Thou art my seruant: I haue chosen thee,
and not cast thee away.
10 Feare thou not, for I am with thee: be not afraide, for I am thy God: I will
strengthen thee, and helpe thee, and will susteine thee with the right hand of
my iustice.
11 Beholde, all they that prouoke thee, shalbe ashamed, and confounded: they
shalbe as nothing, and they that striue with thee, shall perish.
12 Thou shalt seeke them and shalt not finde them: to wit, the men of thy
strife, for they shall be as nothing, and the men that warre against thee, as a
thing of nought.
13 For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying vnto thee, Feare not,
I wil helpe thee.
14 Feare not, thou worme, Iaakob, and ye men of
Israel
: I wil helpe thee, sayth the Lord and thy redeemer the holy one of
Israel
.
15 Behold, I wil make thee a roller, & a newe threshing instrument hauing
teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountaines, and bring them to pouder, and shalt
make the hilles as chaffe.
16 Thou shalt fanne them, and the winde shal carie them away, and the
whirlewinde shal scatter them: and thou shalt reioyce in the Lord, & shalt
glory in the holy one of
Israel
.
17 When the poore and the needy seeke water, & there is none (their tongue
faileth for thirst: I the Lorde will heare them: I the God of Israel will not
forsake them)
18 I will open riuers in the toppes of the hils, and fountaines in the middes of
the valleis: I will make the wildernesse as a poole of water, and the waste land
as springs of water.
19 I will set in the wildernesse the cedar, the shittah tree, and the mirre
tree, and the pine tree, and I will set in the wildernesse the firre tree, the
elme and the boxe tree together.
20 Therefore let them see and knowe, and let them consider and vnderstande
together that the hand of the Lord hath done this, & the holy one of
Israel
hath created it.
21 Stand to your cause, saith the Lord: bring forth your strong reasons, saith
ye King of Iaakob.
22 Let them bring foorth, and let them tell vs what shall come: let them shew
the former things what they be, that wee may consider them, and knowe the latter
ende of them: either declare vs things for to come.
23 Shewe the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are
gods: yea, doe good or doe euill, that we may declare it, and beholde it
together.
24 Beholde, ye are of no value, and your making is of naught: man hath chosen an
abomination by them.
25 I haue raised vp from the North, and he shal come: from the East sunne shall
he cal vpon my Name, & shal come vpon princes as vpo clay, and as the potter
treadeth myre vnder the foote.
26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may knowe? or before time, that
we may say, He is righteous? Surely there is none that sheweth: surely there is
none that declareth: surely there is none that heareth your wordes.
27 I am the first, that saieth to
Zion
, Beholde, beholde them: and I will giue to Ierusalem one that shall bring good
tidings.
28 But when I behelde, there was none, and when I inquired of them, there was no
counsellor, and when I demaunded of them, they answered not a woorde.
29 Beholde, they are all vanitie: their worke is of nothing, their images are
wind and confusion.
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1 Beholde, my seruaunt: I will stay vpon him: mine elect, in whom my soule
deliteth: I haue put my Spirit vpo him: he shal bring forth iudgement to the
Gentiles.
2 He shall not crie, nor lift vp, nor cause his voice to be heard in the streete.
3 A bruised reede shall hee not breake, and the smoking flaxe shall he not
quench: he shall bring foorth iudgement in trueth.
4 He shall not faile nor be discouraged till he haue set iudgement in the earth:
and the yles shall waite for his lawe.
5 Thus sayeth God the Lord (he that created the heauens and spred them abroad:
he that stretched foorth the earth, and the buddes thereof: he that giueth
breath vnto the people vpon it, and spirit to them that walke therein)
6 I the Lorde haue called thee in righteousnesse, and will hold thine hand, and
I will keepe thee, and giue thee for a couenant of the people, and for a light
of the Gentiles,
7 That thou maist open the eyes of the blind, and bring out the prisoners from
the prison: and them that sitte in darkenesse, out of the prison house.
8 I am the Lorde, this is my Name, and my glory wil I not giue to another,
neither my praise to grauen images.
9 Beholde, the former thinges are come to passe, and newe things doe I declare:
before they come foorth, I tell you of them.
10 Sing vnto the Lorde a newe song, and his praise from the ende of the earth:
yee that goe downe to the sea, and all that is therein: the yles and the
inhabitants thereof.
11 Let the wildernesse and the cities thereof lift vp their voyce, the townes
that Kedar doeth inhabite: let the inhabitants of the rocks sing: let them
shoute from the toppe of the mountaines.
12 Let them giue glorie vnto the Lorde, and declare his praise in the ylands.
13 The Lord shal go forth as a gyant: he shal stirre vp his courage like a man
of warre: he shall shout and crie, and shall preuaile against his enemies.
14 I haue a long time holden my peace: I haue beene still and refrained my selfe:
nowe will I crie like a trauailing woman: I will destroy and deuoure at once.
15 I will make waste mountaines, and hilles, and drie vp all their herbes, and I
will make the floods ylands, and I will drie vp the pooles.
16 And I will bring the blinde by a way, that they knewe not, and lead them by
paths that they haue not knowen: I will make darkenesse light before them, and
crooked thinges straight. These thinges will I doe vnto them, and not forsake
them.
17 They shall be turned backe: they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in
grauen images, and say to the molten images, Yee are our gods.
18 Heare, ye deafe: and ye blinde, regarde, that ye may see.
19 Who is blinde but my seruaunt? or deafe as my messenger, that I sent? who is
blind as the perfit, and blinde as the Lordes seruant?
20 Seeing many things, but thou keepest them not? opening the eares, but he
heareth not?
21 The Lorde is willing for his righteousnesse sake that he may magnifie the
Lawe, and exalt it.
22 But this people is robbed & spoiled, and shalbe all snared in dungeons,
and they shalbe hid in prison houses: they shall be for a pray, and none shall
deliuer: a spoile, and none shall say, Restore.
23 Who among you shall hearken to this, and take heede, and heare for
afterwardes?
24 Who gaue Iaakob for a spoyle, and
Israel
to the robbers? Did not ye Lorde, because we haue sinned against him? for they
woulde not walke in his waies, neither be obedient vnto his Lawe.
25 Therefore hee hath powred vpon him his fierce wrath, and the strength of
battell: and it set him on fire round about, and he knewe not, and it burned him
vp, yet he considered not.
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43
1 Bvt nowe thus sayeth the Lorde, that created thee, O Iaakob: and hee that
formed thee, O Israel, Feare not: for I haue redeemed thee: I haue called thee
by thy name, thou art mine.
2 When thou passest through the waters, I wil be with thee, & through the
floods, that they doe not ouerflowe thee. When thou walkest through the very
fire, thou shalt not be burnt, neither shall the flame kindle vpon thee.
3 For I am the Lorde thy God, the holy one of
Israel
, thy Sauiour: I gaue
Egypt
for thy ransome,
Ethiopia
, and Seba for thee.
4 Because thou wast precious in my sight, and thou wast honourable, and I loued
thee, therefore will I giue man for thee, and people for thy sake.
5 Feare not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seede from the East, and
gather thee from the West.
6 I will say to the North, Giue: and to the South, Keepe not backe: bring my
sonnes from farre, & my daughters from the ends of the earth.
7 Euery one shall be called by my Name: for I created him for my glorie, formed
him and made him.
8 I will bring foorth the blinde people, and they shall haue eyes, and the deafe,
and they shall haue eares.
9 Let all the nations be gathered together, & let the people be assembled:
who among them can declare this and shewe vs former things? let them bring
foorth their witnesses, that they may be iustified: but let them heare, &
say, It is truth.
10 You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my seruant, whom I haue chosen:
therefore yee shall knowe and beleeue me and yee shall vnderstand that I am:
before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11 I, euen I am the Lorde, and beside me there is no Sauiour.
12 I haue declared, and I haue saued, and I haue shewed, when there was no
strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, sayeth the Lord, that I
am God.
13 Yea, before the day was, I am, and there is none that can deliuer out of mine
hand: I will doe it, and who shall let it?
14 Thus sayeth the Lorde your redeemer, the holy one of
Israel
, For your sake I haue sent to
Babel
, and brought it downe: they are all fugitiues, and the Chaldeans crie in the
shippes.
15 I am the Lorde your holy one, the creator of
Israel
, your King.
16 Thus sayeth the Lord which maketh a way in the Sea, and a path in the mighty
waters.
17 When hee bringeth out the charet and horse, the armie and the power lie
together, and shal not rise: they are extinct, & quenched as towe.
18 Remember yee not the former things, neither regard the things of olde.
19 Behold, I do a new thing: now shal it come foorth: shall you not knowe it? I
wil euen make a way in the desert, and floods in the wildernesse.
20 The wilde beastes shall honour mee, the dragons and the ostriches, because I
gaue water in the desert, and floods in the wildernesse to giue drinke to my
people, euen to mine elect.
21 This people haue I formed for my selfe: they shall shewe foorth my praise.
22 And thou hast not called vpon mee, O Iaakob, but thou hast wearied me, O
Israel.
23 Thou hast not brought me the sheepe of thy burnt offrings, neither hast thou
honoured me with thy sacrifices. I haue not caused thee to serue with an offring,
nor wearied thee with incense.
24 Thou boughtest mee no sweete sauour with money, neither hast thou made mee
drunke with the fatte of thy sacrifices, but thou hast made mee to serue with
thy sinnes, and wearied mee with thine iniquities.
25 I, euen I am he that putteth away thine iniquities for mine owne sake, and
will not remember thy sinnes.
26 Put me in remembrance: let vs be iudged together: count thou that thou maist
be iustified.
27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers haue transgressed against me.
28 Therefore I haue prophaned the rulers of the Sanctuarie, and haue made Iaakob
a curse, and
Israel
a reproche.
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44
1 Yet nowe heare, O Iaakob my seruant, and
Israel
, whom I haue chosen.
2 Thus sayeth the Lorde, that made thee, and formed thee from the wombe: he wil
helpe thee. Feare not, O Iaakob, my seruaunt, and thou righteous, whome I haue
chosen.
3 For I will powre water vpon the thirstie, and floods vpon the drie grounde: I
will powre my Spirit vpon thy seede, and my blessing vpon thy buddes.
4 And they shal grow as among the
grasse
, and as the willowes by the riuers of waters.
5 One shall say, I am the Lordes: another shalbe called by the name of Iaakob:
and another shall subscribe with his hand vnto the Lord, and name himselfe by
the name of
Israel
.
6 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel and his redeemer, the Lord of hostes, I
am the first, and I am the last, and without me is there no God.
7 And who is like me, that shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order
before me, since I appointed the ancient people? And what is at hand, and what
things are to come? Let them shewe vnto them.
8 Feare ye not, neither be afraide: haue not I tolde thee of olde, and haue
declared it? you are euen my witnesses, whether there be a God beside me, and
that there is no God that I knowe not.
9 All they that make an image, are vanitie, and their delectable things shall
nothing profite: & they are their owne witnesses, that they see not nor
know: therefore they shalbe confounded.
10 Who hath made a god, or molten an image, that is profitable for nothing?
11 Beholde, all that are of the felowship thereof, shall be confounded: for the
workemen themselues are men: let them all be gathered together, and stand vp,
yet they shall feare, and be confounded together.
12 The smith taketh an instrument, and worketh in the coles, and facioneth it
with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his armes: yea, he is an
hungred, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
13 The carpenter stretcheth out a line: he facioneth it with a red thread, he
planeth it, and he purtreyeth it with the compasse, and maketh it after the
figure of a man, and according to the beautie of a man that it may remaine in an
house.
14 He will hewe him downe cedars, and take the pine tree and the oke, and taketh
courage among the trees of the forest: he planteth a firre tree, and the raine
doeth nourish it.
15 And man burneth thereof: for he will take thereof and warme himselfe: he also
kindleth it & baketh bread, yet he maketh a god, & worshippeth it: he
maketh it an idole and boweth vnto it.
16 He burneth the halfe thereof euen in the fire, and vpon the halfe thereof he
eateth flesh: he rosteth the roste and is satisfied: also he warmeth himselfe
and sayth, Aha, I am warme, I haue bene at the fire.
17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, euen his idole: he boweth vnto it,
and worshippeth and prayeth vnto it, and sayeth, Deliuer me: for thou art my
god.
18 They haue not knowen, nor vnderstand: for God hath shut their eyes that they
cannot see, and their heartes, that they cannot vnderstand.
19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor
vnderstanding to say, I haue burnt halfe of it, euen in the fire, and haue baked
bread also vpon the coles thereof: I haue rosted flesh, and eaten it, and shall
I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I bowe to the stocke of a tree?
20 He feedeth of ashes: a seduced heart hath deceiued him, that he cannot
deliuer his soule, nor say, Is there not a lye in my right hand?
21 Remember these (O Iaakob and
Israel
) for thou art my seruant: I haue formed thee: thou art my seruant: O Israel
forget me not.
22 I haue put away thy transgressions like a cloude, and thy sinnes, as a mist:
turne vnto me, for I haue redeemed thee.
23 Reioyce, ye heauens: for the Lorde hath done it: shoute, ye lower partes of
the earth: brast foorth into prayses, ye mountaines, O forest and euery tree
therein: for the Lorde hath redeemed Iaakob and will be glorified in
Israel
.
24 Thus sayeth the Lord thy redeemer and he that formed thee from the wombe, I
am the Lord, that made all things, that spred out the heauens alone, and
stretched out the earth by my selfe.
25 I destroy the tokens of ye southsayers, and make them that coniecture, fooles,
and turne the wise men backwarde, and make their knowledge foolishnesse.
26 He confirmeth the worde of his seruant and performeth the counsell of his
messengers, saying to Ierusalem, Thou shalt bee inhabited: and to the cities of
Iudah, Yee shall be built vp, and I will repayre the decayed places thereof.
27 He saith to the deepe, Be drye and I will drye vp thy floods.
28 He saith to Cyrus, Thou art my shepheard: and he shall performe all my
desire: saying also to Ierusalem, Thou shalt be built: and to the
Temple
, Thy foundation shall be surely layed.
CHAPTER
45
1 Thus sayeth the Lord vnto Cyrus his anointed, whose right hand I haue holden
to subdue nations before him: therefore will I weaken the loynes of Kings and
open the doores before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
2 I will goe before thee and make the crooked streight: I will breake the brasen
doores, and burst the yron barres.
3 And I will giue thee the treasures of darkenesse, and the things hid in secret
places, that thou maist know that I am the Lord which call thee by thy name,
euen the God of Israel.
4 For Iaakob my seruants sake, and
Israel
mine elect, I will euen call thee by thy name and name thee, though thou hast
not knowen me.
5 I am the Lorde and there is none other: there is no God besides me: I girded
thee though thou hast not knowen me,
6 That they may knowe from the rising of the sunne and from the West, that there
is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none other.
7 I forme the light and create darkenes: I make peace and create euill: I the
Lorde doe all these things.
8 Ye heauens, send the dewe from aboue, and let the cloudes droppe downe
righteousnesse: let the earth open, and let saluation and iustice growe foorth:
let it bring them foorth together: I the Lord haue created him.
9 Woe be vnto him that striueth with his maker, the potsherd with the potsherds
of the earth: shall the clay say to him that facioneth it, What makest thou? or
thy worke, It hath none hands?
10 Woe vnto him that sayeth to his father, What hast thou begotten? or to his
mother, What hast thou brought foorth?
11 Thus saith the Lord, the holy one of
Israel
, and his maker, Aske me of things to come concerning my sonnes, and concerning
the workes of mine hands: commande you me.
12 I haue made the earth, and created man vpon it: I, whose hands haue spred out
the heauens, I haue euen commanded all their armie.
13 I haue raised him vp in righteousnesse, and I will direct all his wayes: he
shall build my citie, and he shall let goe my captiues, not for price nor
rewarde, saith the Lord of hostes.
14 Thus sayth the Lorde, The labour of Egypt, and the marchandise of Ethiopia,
and of the Sabeans, men of stature shall come vnto thee, and they shall be
thine: they shall followe thee, and shall goe in chaines: they shall fall downe
before thee, and make supplication vnto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee, and
there is none other God besides.
15 Verely thou, O God, hidest thy selfe, O God, the Sauiour of Israel.
16 All they shalbe ashamed and also confounded: they shall goe to confusion
together, that are the makers of images.
17 But
Israel
shall be saued in the Lorde, with an euerlasting saluation: ye shall not be
ashamed nor confounded worlde without ende.
18 For thus saith the Lorde (that created heauen, God himselfe, that formed the
earth, & made it: he that prepared it, he created it not in vaine: he formed
it to be inhabited) I am the Lord, and there is none other.
19 I haue not spoken in secrete, neither in a place of darkenes in the earth: I
saide not in vaine vnto the seede of Iaakob, Seeke you me: I the Lord doe speake
righteousnesse, and declare righteous things.
20 Assemble your selues, & come: drawe neere together, ye abiect of the
Gentiles: they haue no knowledge, that set vp the wood of their idole, and pray
vnto a god, that cannot saue them.
21 Tell ye and bring them, and let them take counsell together, who hath
declared this from the beginning? or hath tolde it of olde? Haue not I the Lord?
and there is none other God beside me, a iust God, and a Sauiour: there is none
beside me.
22 Looke vnto me, and ye shall be saued: all the endes of the earth shall be
saued: for I am God, and there is none other.
23 I haue sworne by my selfe: the worde is gone out of my mouth in
righteousnesse, and shall not returne, That euery knee shall bowe vnto me, and
euery tongue shall sweare by me.
24 Surely he shall say, In the Lorde haue I righteousnesse and strength: he
shall come vnto him, and all that prouoke him, shall be ashamed.
25 The whole seede of
Israel
shall be iustified, and glorie in the Lord.
CHAPTER
46
1 Bel is bowed downe: Nebo is fallen: their idoles were vpon the beastes, and
vpon the cattell: they which did beare you, were laden with a wearie burden.
2 They are bowed downe, and fallen together: for they coulde not rid them of the
burden, and their soule is gone into captiuitie.
3 Heare ye me, O house of Iaakob, & all that remaine of the house of
Israel
, which are borne of me from the wombe, and brought vp of me from the birth.
4 Therefore vnto olde age, I the same, euen I will beare you vntill the hoare
heares: I haue made you: I will also beare you, and I will
cary
you and I will deliuer you.
5 To whom will ye make me like or make me equall, or copare me, that I should be
like him?
6 They draw gold out of the bagge & weigh siluer in the balance, and hire a
goldsmith to make a god of it, and they bowe downe, and worship it.
7 They beare it vpon the shoulders: they carie him and set him in his place: so
doeth he stand, and cannot remoue from his place. Though one crie vnto him, yet
can he not answere, nor deliuer him out of his tribulation.
8 Remember this, and be ashamed: bring it againe to minde, O you transgressers.
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none other God,
and there is nothing like me,
10 Which declare the last thing from the beginning: and from of olde, the things
that were not done, saying, My counsell shall stand, and I will doe whatsoeuer I
will.
11 I call a birde from the East, and the man of my counsell from farre: as I
haue spoken, so will I bring it to passe: I haue purposed it, and I will doe it.
12 Heare me, ye stubburne hearted, that are farre from iustice.
13 I bring neere my iustice: it shall not be farre off, and my saluation shall
not tarie: for I wil giue saluation in
Zion
, and my glory vnto
Israel
.
CHAPTER
47
1 Come downe and sit in the dust: O virgine, daughter
Babel
, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou
shalt no more be called, Tender and delicate.
2 Take the mill stones, and grinde meale: loose thy lockes: make bare the feete:
vncouer the legge, and passe through the floods.
3 Thy filthinesse shall be discouered, and thy shame shall be seene: I will take
vengeance, and I will not meete thee as a man.
4 Our redeemer, the Lorde of hostes is his Name, the holy one of
Israel
.
5 Sit still, and get thee into darkenesse, O daughter of the Chaldeas: for thou
shalt no more be called, The ladie of kingdomes.
6 I was wroth with my people: I haue polluted mine inheritance, and giuen them
into thine had: thou diddest shew them no mercy, but thou didest lay thy very
heauy yoke vpon the ancient.
7 And thou saidest, I shal be a ladie for euer, so that thou diddest not set thy
mind to these things, neither diddest thou remeber ye latter end therof.
8 Therefore nowe heare, thou that art giuen to pleasures, and dwellest carelesse,
Shee sayeth in her heart, I am and none els: I shall not sit as a widowe,
neither shall knowe the losse of children.
9 But these two thinges shall come to thee suddenly on one day, the losse of
children and widowhoode: they shall come vpon thee in their perfection, for the
multitude of thy diuinations, and for the great abundance of thine inchanters.
10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickednesse: thou hast sayd, None seeth me. Thy
wisdom and thy knowledge, they haue caused thee to rebel, & thou hast saide
in thine heart, I am, and none els.
11 Therefore shall euill come vpon thee, and thou shalt not knowe the morning
thereof: destruction shall fal vpon thee, which thou shalt not be able to put
away: destruction shall come vpon thee suddenly, or thou beware.
12 Stand now among thine inchanters, and in the multitude of thy southsaiers
(with whome thou hast wearied thy selfe from thy youth) if so be thou maist haue
profit, or if so be thou maist haue strength.
13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers,
the starre gasers, and prognosticatours stand vp, & saue thee from these
things, that shall come vpon thee.
14 Beholde, they shall be as stubble: the fire shall burne them: they shal not
deliuer their owne liues from the power of the flame: there shalbe no coles to
warme at, nor light to sit by.
15 Thus shal they serue thee, with whom thou hast wearied thee, euen thy
marchants from thy youth: euery one shall wander to his owne quarter: none shall
saue thee.
CHAPTER
48
1 Heare yee this, O house of Iaakob, which are called by the name of Israel, and
are come out of the waters of Iudah: which sweare by the Name of the Lord, and
make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousnesse.
2 For they are called of the holy citie, & staie themselues vpon the God of
Israel, whose Name is the Lord of hostes.
3 I haue declared ye former things of old, and they went out of my mouth, &
I shewed them: I did them suddenly, and they came to passe.
4 Because I knewe, that thou art obstinate, & thy necke is an yron sinew,
& thy brow brasse,
5 Therefore I haue declared it to thee of old: before it came to passe, I shewed
it thee, lest thou shouldest say, Mine idole hath done them, and my carued
image, and my molten image hath commanded them.
6 Thou hast heard, behold all this, & wil not yee declare it? I haue shewed
thee newe things, euen now, & hid things, which thou knewest not.
7 They are created now, and not of olde, and euen before this thou heardest them
not, lest thou shouldest say, Beholde, I knewe them.
8 Yet thou heardest them not, neither diddest know them, neither yet was thine
eare opened of olde: for I knewe that thou wouldest grieuously transgresse:
therefore haue I called thee a transgressour from the wombe.
9 For my Names sake will I defer my wrath, and for my praise will I refraine it
from thee, that I cut thee not off.
10 Behold, I haue fined thee, but not as siluer: I haue chosen thee in the
fornace of affliction.
11 For mine owne sake, for mine owne sake wil I doe it: for how should my Name
be polluted? surely I wil not giue my glory vnto another.
12 Heare me, O Iaakob and
Israel
, my called, I am, I am the first, and I am the last.
13 Surely mine hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand
hath spanned the heaues: when I cal them, they stand vp together.
14 All you, assemble your selues, and heare: which among them hath declared
these thinges? The Lorde hath loued him: he wil doe his will in
Babel
, and his arme shalbe against the Chaldeans.
15 I, euen I haue spoken it, and I haue called him: I haue brought him, and his
way shal prosper.
16 Come neere vnto me: heare ye this: I haue not spoken it in secret from the
beginning: from the time that the thing was, I was there, and now the Lord God
and his Spirit hath sent me.
17 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy one of
Israel
, I am the Lorde thy God, which teach thee to profite, and lead thee by the way,
that thou shouldest goe.
18 Oh that thou haddest hearkened to my commaundements! then had thy prosperitie
bene as the floude, and thy righteousnesse as the waues of the sea.
19 Thy seede also had beene as the sande, and the fruite of thy body like the
grauell thereof: his name should not haue bene cut off nor destroied before me.
20 Goe yee out of
Babel
: flee yee from the Chaldeans, with a voice of ioy: tel and declare this: shewe
it foorth to the ende of the earth: say yee, The Lord hath redeemed his seruant
Iaakob.
21 And they were not thirstie: hee led them through the wildernesse: hee caused
the waters to flowe out of the rocke for them: for he claue the rocke, and the
water gushed out.
22 There is no peace, sayeth the Lorde, vnto the wicked.
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49
1 Heare yee me, O yles, and hearken, yee people from farre. The Lorde hath
called me from the wombe, and made mention of my name from my mothers bellie.
2 And hee hath made my mouth like a sharpe sworde: vnder the shadowe of his
hande hath he hid mee, and made me a chosen shafte, and hid me in his quiuer,
3 And sayd vnto me, Thou art my seruaunt, Israel, for I will be glorious in
thee.
4 And I said, I haue labored in vaine: I haue spent my strength in vaine and for
nothing: but my iudgement is with the Lorde, and my woorke with my God.
5 And now sayeth the Lord, that formed me from the wombe to be his seruaunt,
that I may bring Iaakob againe to him (though Israel be not gathered, yet shall
I bee glorious in the eyes of the Lord: and my God shall be my strength)
6 And hee sayde, It is a small thing that thou shouldest be my seruaunt, to
raise vp the tribes of Iaakob, and to restore the desolations of Israel: I will
also giue thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou maiest bee my saluation
vnto the ende of the worlde.
7 Thus sayeth the Lorde the redeemer of Israel, and his Holie one, to him that
is despised in soule, to a nation that is abhorred, to a seruaunt of rulers,
Kinges shall see, and arise, and princes shall worship, because of the Lord,
that is faithfull: and ye Holy one of Israel, which hath chosen thee.
8 Thus sayeth the Lorde, In an acceptable time haue I heard thee, and in a day
of saluation haue I helped thee: and I will preserue thee, & wil giue thee
for a couenant of ye people, that thou maiest raise vp the earth, and obtaine
the inheritance of the desolate heritages:
9 That thou maiest say to the prisoners, Goe foorth: and to them that are in
darkenesse, Shewe your selues: they shall feede in the waies, and their pastures
shall bee in all the toppes of the hilles.
10 They shal not be hungrie, neither shal they be thirstie, neither shall the
heat smite them, nor the sunne: for he that hath compassion on them, shall leade
them: euen to the springs of waters shal he driue them.
11 And I will make all my mountaines, as a way, and my paths shalbe exalted.
12 Beholde, these shall come from farre: and loe, these from the North and from
the West, and these from the
land
of
Sinim
.
13 Reioyce, O heauens: and bee ioyfull, O earth: brast foorth into praise, O
mountaines: for God hath comforted his people, and will haue mercie vpon his
afflicted.
14 But
Zion
saide, The Lorde hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her childe, & not haue compassion on the sonne of her
wombe? Though they should forget, yet wil I not forget thee.
16 Behold, I haue grauen thee vpon the palme of mine hands: thy walles are euer
in my sight.
17 Thy builders make haste: thy destroiers and they that made thee waste, are
departed from thee.
18 Lift vp thine eies round about and behold: all these gather themselues
together and come to thee: as I liue, sayeth the Lorde, thou shalt surely put
them all vpon thee as a garment, and girde thy selfe with them like a bride.
19 For thy desolations, and thy waste places, and thy land destroied, shall
surely be now narow for them that shall dwell in it, and they that did deuoure
thee, shalbe farre away.
20 The children of thy barennesse shall say againe in thine eares, The place is
straict for mee: giue place to me that I may dwell.
21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten mee these, seeing I am
baren and desolate, a captiue and a wanderer to and fro? And who hath nourished
them? Beholde, I was left alone: whence are these?
22 Thus sayeth the Lord God, Beholde, I will lift vp mine hande to the Gentiles
and set vp my stadart to the people, and they shall bring thy sonnes in their
armes: and thy daughters shall be caried vpon their shoulders.
23 And Kings shalbe thy nourcing fathers, and Queenes shalbe thy nources: they
shall worship thee with their faces towarde the earth, and licke vp the dust of
thy feete: and thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord: for they shall not be
ashamed that waite for me.
24 Shall the pray be taken from the mightie? Or the iust captiuitie deliuered?
25 But thus sayeth the Lord, euen the captiuitie of the mightie shall be taken
away: and the pray of the tyrant shal be deliuered: for I wil contend with him
that contendeth with thee, and I will saue thy children,
26 And will feede them that spoile thee, with their owne flesh, and they shall
be drunken with their owne bloode, as with sweete wine: and all flesh shall know
that I the Lorde am thy sauiour and thy redeemer, the mighty one of Iaakob.
CHAPTER
50
1 Thus sayeth the Lorde, Where is that bill of your mothers diuorcement, whome I
haue cast off? or who is the creditour to whome I solde you? Beholde, for your
iniquities are yee solde, and because of your transgressions is your mother
forsaken.
2 Wherefore came I, & there was no man? I called, & none answered: is
mine hand so shortened, that it cannot helpe? or haue I no power to deliuer?
Beholde, at my rebuke I drie vp the Sea: I make the floods desert: their fish
rotteth for wat of water, and dieth for thirst.
3 I clothe the heauens with darkenesse, and make a sacke their couering.
4 The Lorde God hath giuen me a tongue of the learned, that I shoulde knowe to
minister a woord in time to him that is weary: he will raise me vp in the
morning: in the morning hee will waken mine eare to heare, as the learned.
5 The Lord God hath opened mine eare and I was not rebellious, neither turned I
backe.
6 I gaue my backe vnto the smiters, and my cheekes to the nippers: I hidde not
my face from shame and spitting.
7 For the Lord God will helpe me, therefore shall I not bee confounded:
therefore haue I set my face like a flint, and I knowe that I shall not be
ashamed.
8 Hee is neere that iustifieth mee: who will contend with me? Let vs stande
together: who is mine aduersarie? let him come neere to me.
9 Beholde, the Lord God will helpe me: who is he that can condemne me? loe, they
shall waxe olde as a garment: the mothe shall eate them vp.
10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord? let him heare the voyce of his
seruant: hee that walketh in darkenesse, and hath no light, let him trust in the
Name of the Lorde, and staye vpon his God.
11 Beholde, all you kindle a fire, and are compassed about with sparkes: walke
in the light of your fire, and in the sparkes that ye haue kindled. This shall
ye haue of mine hand: ye shall lye downe in sorowe.
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51
1 Heare me, ye that followe after righteousnes, and ye that seeke the Lorde:
looke vnto the rocke, whence ye are hewen, and to the hole of the pit, whence ye
are digged.
2 Consider Abraham your father, and Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone,
and blessed him, and increased him.
3 Surely the Lord shall comfort
Zion
: he shal comfort all her desolations, and he shall make her desert like
Eden
, and her wildernes like the garden of the Lord: ioy and gladnesse shalbe founde
therein: praise, and the voyce of singing.
4 Hearken ye vnto me, my people, and giue eare vnto me, O my people: for a Law
shall proceede from me, and I will bring foorth my iudgement for the light of
the people.
5 My righteousnes is neere: my saluation goeth foorth, and mine armes shall
iudge the people: the yles shall waite for me, and shall trust vnto mine arme.
6 Lift vp your eyes to the heauens, and looke vpon the earth beneath: for the
heauens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall waxe olde like a
garment, and they that dwell therein, shall perish in like maner: but my
saluation shall be for euer, and my righteousnesse shall not bee abolished.
7 Hearken vnto me, ye that know righteousnesse, the people in whose heart is my
Lawe. Feare ye not the reproche of men, neither be ye afraide of their rebukes.
8 For the mothe shall eate them vp like a garment, & the worme shall eate
them like wool: but my righteousnesse shalbe for euer, and my saluation from
generation to generation.
9 Rise vp, rise vp, and put on strength, O arme of the Lorde: rise vp as in the
olde time in the generations of the worlde. Art not thou the same, that hath
cutte Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
10 Art not thou the same, which hath dried the Sea, euen the waters of the great
deepe, making the depth of the Sea a way for the redeemed to passe ouer?
11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall returne, and come with ioy vnto
Zion
, and euerlasting ioy shalbe vpon their head: they shall obtaine ioy, and
gladnesse: and sorow and mourning shall flee away.
12 I, euen I am he, that comfort you. Who art thou, that thou shouldest feare a
mortall man, and the sonne of man, which shalbe made as
grasse
?
13 And forgettest the Lorde thy maker, that hath spred out the heauens, and
layde the foundations of the earth? and hast feared continually all the day,
because of the rage of the oppressour, which is readie to destroy? Where is now
the rage of the oppressour?
14 The captiue hasteneth to be loosed, and that hee should not die in the pitte,
nor that his bread should faile.
15 And I am the Lorde thy God that deuided the Sea, when his waues roared: the
Lord of hostes is his Name.
16 And I haue put my wordes in thy mouth, and haue defended thee in the shadowe
of mine hand, that I may plant the heauens, and lay the foundation of the earth,
and say vnto Zion, Thou art my people.
17 Awake, awake, and stande vp, O Ierusalem, which hast drunke at the hande of
the Lorde the cup of his wrath: thou hast drunken the dregges of the cup of
trembling, and wrung them out.
18 There is none to guide her among all the sonnes, whome she hath brought
foorth: there is none that taketh her by the hand of all the sonnes that she
hath brought vp.
19 These two thinges are come vnto thee: who will lament thee? desolation and
destruction and famine, and the sworde: by whome shall I comfort thee?
20 Thy sonnes haue fainted, and lye at the head of all the streetes as a wilde
bull in a nette, and are full of the wrath of the Lorde, and rebuke of thy God.
21 Therefore heare nowe this, thou miserable and drunken, but not with wine.
22 Thus saith thy Lorde God, euen God that pleadeth the cause of his people,
Beholde, I haue taken out of thine hande the cuppe of trembling, euen the
dregges of the cuppe of my wrath: thou shalt drinke it no more.
23 But I will put it into their hande that spoile thee: which haue said to thy
soule, Bowe downe, that wee may goe ouer, and thou hast layde thy bodie as the
grounde, and as the streete to them that went ouer.
CHAPTER
52
1 Arise, arise: put on thy strength, O Zion: put on thy garments of thy beautie,
O Ierusalem, the holy citie: for hencefoorth there shall no more come into thee
the vncircumcised and the vncleane.
2 Shake thy selfe from the dust: arise, and sit downe, O Ierusalem: loose the
bandes of thy necke, O thou captiue daughter,
Zion
.
3 For thus sayeth the Lorde, Yee were solde for naught: therefore shall ye be
redeemed without money.
4 For thus saith the Lorde God, My people went downe afore time into
Egypt
to soiourne there, and Asshur oppressed them without cause.
5 Nowe therefore what haue I here, saith the Lorde, that my people is taken away
for naught, & they that rule ouer them, make them to howle, saith the Lorde?
And my Name all the day continually is blasphemed?
6 Therefore my people shal know my Name: therefore they shall know in that day,
that I am he that doe speake: beholde, it is I.
7 How beautifull vpon the mountaines are the feete of him, that declareth and
publisheth peace? That declareth good tidings, and publisheth saluation, saying
vnto
Zion
, Thy God reigneth?
8 The voyce of thy watchmen shalbe heard: they shall lift vp their voyce, and
shoute together: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring againe
Zion
.
9 O ye desolate places of Ierusalem, bee glad and reioyce together: for the
Lorde hath comforted his people: he hath redeemed Ierusalem.
10 The Lorde hath made bare his holy arme in the sight of all the Gentiles, and
all the endes of the earth shall see the saluation of our God.
11 Depart, depart ye: goe out from thence and touche no vncleane thing: goe out
of the middes of her: be ye cleane, that beare the vessels of the Lord.
12 For ye shall not goe out with haste, nor depart by fleeing away: but the
Lorde will goe before you, and the God of Israel will gather you together.
13 Beholde, my seruant shall prosper: he shall be exalted and extolled, and be
very hie.
14 As many were astonied at thee (his visage was so deformed of men, and his
forme of the sonnes of men)
15 so shall hee sprinkle many nations: the Kings shall shut their mouthes at
him: for that which had not bene tolde them, shall they see, and that which they
had not heard, shall they vnderstande.
CHAPTER
53
1 Who will beleeue our report? And to whom is the arme of the Lord reueiled?
2 But hee shall growe vp before him as a branche, and as a roote out of a dry
grounde: he hath neither forme nor beautie: when we shall see him, there shall
be no forme that wee should desire him.
3 He is despised and reiected of men: he is a man full of sorowes and hath
experience of infirmities: we hidde as it were our faces from him: he was
despised and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely hee hath borne our infirmities, and caried our sorowes: yet wee did
iudge him, as plagued, and smitten of God, and humbled.
5 But hee was wounded for our transgressions, hee was broken for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was vpon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheepe haue gone astraye: wee haue turned euery one to his owne
way, and the Lord hath layed vpon him the iniquitie of vs all.
7 Hee was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet did he not open his mouth: hee is
brought as a sheepe to the slaughter, and as a sheepe before her shearer is
dumme, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 Hee was taken out from prison, and from iudgement: and who shall declare his
age? For he was cut out of the lande of the liuing: for the transgression of my
people was he plagued.
9 And he made his graue with the wicked, and with the riche in his death, though
hee had done no wickednesse, neither was any deceite in his mouth.
10 Yet the Lord would breake him, and make him subiect to infirmities: when hee
shall make his soule an offring for sinne, he shall see his seede and shall
prolong his dayes, and the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Hee shall see of the trauaile of his soule, and shall be satisfied: by his
knowledge shall my righteous seruant iustifie many: for hee shall beare their
iniquities.
12 Therefore will I giue him a portion with the great, and he shall deuide the
spoyle with the strong, because hee hath powred out his soule vnto death: and he
was counted with the transgressers, & he bare the sinne of many, and prayed
for the trespassers.
CHAPTER
54
1 Reioyce, O barren that diddest not beare: breake forth into ioy and reioyce,
thou that diddest not trauaile with childe: for the desolate hath moe children
then the married wife, sayeth the Lorde.
2 Enlarge the place of thy tents, & let them spread out the curtains of
thine habitations: spare not, stretch out thy cords & make fast thy stakes.
3 For thou shalt increase on the right hande and on the left, and thy seede
shall possesse the Gentiles, and dwell in the desolate cities.
4 Feare not: for thou shalt not be ashamed, neither shalt thou be confounded:
for thou shalt not bee put to shame: yea, thou shalt forget the shame of thy
youth, and shalt not remember the reproch of thy widdowhoode any more.
5 For hee that made thee, is thine husband (whose Name is the Lorde of hostes)
and thy redeemer the Holy one of
Israel
, shall be called the God of the whole world.
6 For the Lord hath called thee, being as a woman forsaken, and afflicted in
spirite, and as a yong wife when thou wast refused, sayth thy God.
7 For a litle while haue I forsaken thee, but with great compassion will I
gather thee.
8 For a moment, in mine anger, I hid my face from thee for a litle season, but
with euerlasting mercy haue I had compassion on thee, sayth the Lord thy
redeemer.
9 For this is vnto me as the waters of Noah: for as I haue sworne that the
waters of Noah should no more goe ouer the earth, so haue I sworne that I would
not be angrie with thee, nor rebuke thee.
10 For the mountaines shall remoue and the hilles shall fall downe: but my mercy
shall not depart from thee, neither shall the couenant of my peace fall away,
saith the Lord, that hath compassion on thee.
11 O thou afflicted and tossed with tempest, that hast no comfort, beholde, I
wil lay thy stones with the carbuncle, and lay thy foundation with saphirs,
12 And I will make thy windowes of emeraudes, and thy gates shining stones, and
all thy borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all thy children shalbe taught of the Lord, and much peace shalbe to thy
children.
14 In righteousnes shalt thou be established, and be farre from oppression: for
thou shalt not feare it: and from feare, for it shall not come neere thee.
15 Beholde, the enemie shall gather himselfe, but without me: whosoeuer shall
gather himselfe in thee, against thee, shall fall.
16 Beholde, I haue created the smith that bloweth the coales in the fire, and
him that bringeth forth an instrument for his worke, & I haue created the
destroyer to destroy.
17 But all the weapons that are made against thee, shall not prosper: and euery
tongue that shall rise against thee in iudgement, thou shalt condemne. This is
the heritage of the Lords seruants, and their righteousnesse is of me, sayth the
Lorde.
CHAPTER
55
1 Ho, euery one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and ye that haue no
siluer, come, bye and eate: come, I say, bye wine and milke without siluer and
without money.
2 Wherefore doe ye lay out siluer and not for bread? and your labour without
being satisfied? hearken diligently vnto me, and eate that which is good, and
let your soule delite in fatnes.
3 Encline your eares, and come vnto me: heare, and your soule shal liue, and I
will make an euerlasting couenant with you, euen the sure mercies of Dauid.
4 Beholde, I gaue him for a witnes to the people, for a prince and a master vnto
the people.
5 Beholde, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and a nation that
knew not thee, shall runne vnto thee, because of the Lorde thy God, and the holy
one of
Israel
: for hee hath glorified thee.
6 Seeke ye the Lord while he may be found: call ye vpon him while he is neere.
7 Let the wicked forsake his wayes, and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations,
and returne vnto the Lord, and he wil haue mercy vpon him: and to our God, for
hee is very ready to forgiue.
8 For my thoughtes are not your thoughts, neither are your wayes my wayes, sayth
the Lord.
9 For as ye heauens are higher then the earth, so are my wayes higher then your
wayes, and my thoughtes aboue your thoughts.
10 Surely as the raine commeth downe and the snow from heauen, and returneth not
thither, but watereth the earth and maketh it to bring forth and bud, that it
may giue seede to the sower, and bread vnto him that eateth,
11 So shall my worde be, that goeth out of my mouth: it shall not returne vnto
me voyde, but it shall accomplish that which I will, and it shall prosper in the
thing whereto I sent it.
12 Therefore ye shall go out with ioy, and be led forth with peace: the
mountaines and the hilles shall breake foorth before you into ioye, and all the
trees of the fielde shall clap their handes.
13 For thornes there shall grow firre trees: for nettles shall growe the myrrhe
tree, and it shalbe to the Lord for a name, and for an euerlasting signe that
shall not be taken away.
CHAPTER
56
1 Thus saith the Lorde, Keepe iudgement and doe iustice: for my saluation is at
hand to come, and my righteousnes to be reueiled.
2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the sonne of man which layeth holde on
it: hee that keepeth the Sabbath and polluteth it not, and keepeth his hand from
doing any euill.
3 And let not the sonne of the stranger, which is ioyned to the Lord, speake and
say, The Lord hath surely separate me from his people: neither let the Eunuch
say, Beholde, I am a drye tree.
4 For thus saith the Lord vnto the Eunuches, that keepe my Sabbaths, and chuse
the thing that pleaseth me, and take holde of my couenant,
5 Euen vnto them wil I giue in mine House and within my walles, a place and a
name better then of the sonnes and of the daughters: I will giue them an
euerlasting name, that shall not be put out.
6 Also the strangers that cleaue vnto the Lord, to serue him, and to loue the
Name of the Lord, and to be his seruants: euery one that keepeth the Sabbath,
and polluteth it not and imbraceth my couenant,
7 Them wil I bring also to mine holy mountaine, and make them ioyfull in mine
House of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted
vpon mine altar: for mine House shall be called an house of prayer for all
people.
8 The Lord God sayth, which gathereth the scattered of
Israel
, Yet wil I gather to them those that are to be gathered to them.
9 All ye beastes of the fielde, come to deuoure, euen all ye beastes of the
forest.
10 Their watchmen are all blinde: they haue no knowledge: they are all dumme
dogs: they can not barke: they lie and sleepe and delite in sleeping.
11 And these griedy dogs can neuer haue ynough: and these shepheards cannot
vnderstand: for they all looke to their owne way, euery one for his aduantage,
and for his owne purpose.
12 Come, I wil bring wine, and we wil fill our selues with strong drinke, and to
morowe shalbe as this day, and much more abundant.
CHAPTER
57
1 The righteous perisheth, and no man considereth it in heart: and mercifull men
are taken away, and no man vnderstandeth that the righteous is taken away from
the euill to come.
2 Peace shall come: they shall rest in their beds, euery one that walketh before
him.
3 But you witches children, come hither, the seede of the adulterer and of the
whore.
4 On whome haue ye iested? vpon whome haue ye gaped and thrust out your tongue?
are not ye rebellious children, and a false seede?
5 Inflamed with idoles vnder euery greene tree? and sacrificing the children in
the valleys vnder the tops of the rocks?
6 Thy portion is in the smooth stones of the riuer: they, they are thy lot: euen
to them hast thou powred a drinke offering: thou hast offered a sacrifice.
Should I delite in these?
7 Thou hast made thy bed vpon a very hie mountaine: thou wentest vp thither,
euen thither wentest thou to offer sacrifice.
8 Behinde the doores also and postes hast thou set vp thy remembrance: for thou
hast discouered thy selfe to another then me, and wentest vp, and diddest
enlarge thy bed, and make a couenant betweene thee & them, and louedst their
bed in euery place where thou sawest it.
9 Thou wentest to the Kings with oyle, and diddest increase thine oyntments and
sende thy messengers farre off, and diddest humble thy selfe vnto hell.
10 Thou weariedst thy selfe in thy manifolde iourneys, yet saydest thou not,
There is no hope: thou hast found life by thine hand, therefore thou wast not
grieued.
11 And whome diddest thou reuerence or feare, seeing thou hast lyed vnto me, and
hast not remembred me, neither set thy minde thereon? is it not because I holde
my peace, & that of long time? therefore thou fearest not me.
12 I will declare thy righteousnes and thy workes, and they shall not profite
thee.
13 When thou cryest, let them that thou hast gathered together deliuer thee: but
the winde shal take them all away: vanitie shal pull them away: but he that
trusteth in me, shall inherite the lande, and shall possesse mine holy Mountaine.
14 And he shall say, Cast vp, cast vp: prepare the way: take vp the stumbling
blocks out of the way of my people.
15 For thus sayth he that is hie and excellent, he that inhabiteth the eternitie,
whose Name is the Holy one, I dwell in the high and holy place: with him also
that is of a contrite and humble spirite to reuiue the spirite of the humble,
and to giue life to them that are of a contrite heart.
16 For I will not contende for euer, neither will I be alwayes wroth, for the
spirite should fayle before me: and I haue made the breath.
17 For his wicked couetousnesse I am angry with him, and haue smitten him: I hid
mee and was angry, yet he went away, and turned after the way of his owne heart.
18 I haue seene his wayes, and wil heale him: I wil leade him also, &
restore comfort vnto him, and to those that lament him.
19 I create the fruite of the lips, to be peace: peace vnto them that are farre
off, and to them that are neere, sayth the Lorde: for I will heale him.
20 But the wicked are like the raging sea, that can not rest, whose waters cast
vp myre and dirt.
21 There is no peace, sayth my God, to the wicked.
CHAPTER
58
1 Crye aloude, spare not: lift vp thy voyce like a trumpet, and shewe my people
their transgression, and to the house of Iaakob, their sinnes.
2 Yet they seeke me dayly, and will knowe my wayes, euen as a nation that did
righteously, and had not forsaken the statutes of their God: they aske of me the
ordinances of iustice: they wil drawe neere vnto God, saying,
3 Wherefore haue we fasted, and thou seest it not? we haue punished our selues,
and thou regardest it not. Beholde, in the day of your fast you will seeke your
will, and require all your dettes.
4 Beholde, ye fast to strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of
wickednesse: ye shall not fast as ye doe to day, to make your voyce to be heard
aboue.
5 Is it such a fast that I haue chosen, that a man should afflict his soule for
a day, and to bowe downe his head, as a bull rush, and to lie downe in
sackecloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fasting, or an acceptable day to the
Lord?
6 Is not this the fasting, that I haue chosen, to loose the bandes of wickednes,
to take off the heauie burdens, and to let the oppressed goe free, and that ye
breake euery yoke?
7 Is it not to deale thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poore that
wander, vnto thine house? when thou seest the naked, that thou couer him, and
hide not thy selfe from thine owne flesh?
8 Then shall thy light breake foorth as the morning, and thine health shal grow
speedily: thy righteousnes shall goe before thee, and the glorie of the Lord
shall embrace thee.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lorde shall answere: thou shalt cry and hee
shall say, Here I am: if thou take away from the mids of thee the yoke, the
putting foorth of the finger, and wicked speaking:
10 If thou powre out thy soule to the hungrie, and refresh the troubled soule:
then shall thy light spring out in the darkenes, and thy darkenes shalbe as the
noone day.
11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfie thy soule in drought,
and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watred garden, and like a
spring of water, whose waters faile not.
12 And they shalbe of thee, that shall builde the olde waste places: thou shalt
rayse vp the foundations for many generations, and thou shalt be called the
repairer of the breach and the restorer of the pathes to dwell in.
13 If thou turne away thy foote from the Sabbath, from doing thy will on mine
holy day, and call the Sabbath a delite, to consecrate it, as glorious to the
Lorde, and shalt honour him, not doing thine owne wayes, nor seeking thine owne
will, nor speaking a vaine word,
14 Then shalt thou delite in the Lord, & I wil cause thee to mount vpon the
hie places of the earth, and feede thee with the heritage of Iaakob thy father:
for the mouth of ye Lord hath spoken it.
CHAPTER
59
1 Beholde, the Lordes hande is not shortened, that it can not saue: neither is
his eare heauie, that it cannot heare.
2 But your iniquities haue separated betweene you and your God, and your sinnes
haue hidde his face from you, that he will not heare.
3 For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquitie: your
lips haue spoken lies & your tongue hath murmured iniquitie.
4 No man calleth for iustice: no man contendeth for trueth: they trust in
vanitie, & speake vaine things: they conceiue mischiefe, and bring foorth
iniquitie.
5 They hatch cockatrice egges, and weaue the spiders webbe: he that eateth of
their egges, dieth, and that which is trode vpon, breaketh out into a serpent.
6 Their webbes shall be no garment, neither shall they couer themselues with
their labours: for their workes are workes of iniquitie, & the worke of
crueltie is in their handes.
7 Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their
thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths.
8 The way of peace they knowe not, & there is none equitie in their goings:
they haue made them crooked paths: whosoeuer goeth therein, shall not knowe
peace.
9 Therefore is iudgement farre from vs, neither doeth iustice come neere vnto vs:
we waite for light, but loe, it is darkenesse: for brightnesse, but we walke in
darkenesse.
10 Wee grope for the wall like the blinde, and we grope as one without eyes: we
stumble at the noone day as in the twilight: we are in solitarie places, as dead
men.
11 We roare all like beares, and mourne like dooues: wee looke for equitie, but
there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs.
12 For our trespasses are many before thee, and our sinnes testifie against vs:
for our trespasses are with vs, and we knowe our iniquities
13 In trespassing and lying against the Lorde, and wee haue departed away from
our God, and haue spoken of crueltie and rebellion, conceiuing and vttering out
of the heart false matters.
14 Therefore iudgement is turned backewarde, and iustice standeth farre off: for
trueth is fallen in the streete, and equitie cannot enter.
15 Yea, trueth faileth, and hee that refraineth from euill, maketh himselfe a
praye: and when the Lorde sawe it, it displeased him, that there was no
iudgement.
16 And when he sawe that there was no man, hee wondered that none woulde offer
him selfe. Therefore his arme did saue it, and his righteousnes it selfe did
sustaine it.
17 For he put on righteousnes, as an habergeon, and an helmet of saluation vpon
his head, and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad
with zeale as a cloke.
18 As to make recompence, as to requite the furie of the aduersaries with a
recompence to his enemies: he will fully repaire the ylands.
19 So shall they feare the Name of the Lorde from the West, and his glory from
the rising of the sunne: for the enemie shall come like a flood: but the Spirit
of the Lord shall chase him away.
20 And the Redeemer shall come vnto
Zion
, and vnto them that turne from iniquitie in Iaakob, saith the Lord.
21 And I will make this my couenant with them, saith the Lorde. My Spirit that
is vpon thee, and my wordes, which I haue put in thy mouth, shall not depart out
of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seede, nor out of the mouth of the
seede of thy seede, saith the Lord, from hencefoorth euen for euer.
CHAPTER
60
1 Arise, O Ierusalem: be bright, for thy light is come, and the glorie of the
Lorde is risen vpon thee.
2 For beholde, darkenesse shall couer the earth, and grosse darkenesse the
people: but the Lord shall arise vpon thee, and his glory shall be seene vpon
thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall walke in thy light, and Kings at the brightnesse of thy
rising vp.
4 Lift vp thine eyes round about, & beholde: all these are gathered, and
come to thee: thy sonnes shall come from farre, and thy daughters shalbe
nourished at thy side.
5 Then thou shalt see and shine: thine heart shall be astonied and enlarged,
because the multitude of the sea shalbe conuerted vnto thee, and the riches of
the Gentiles shall come vnto thee.
6 The multitude of camels shall couer thee: and the dromedaries of Midian and of
Ephah: all they of
Sheba
shall come: they shall bring golde and incense, and shewe foorth the prayses of
the Lorde.
7 All the sheepe of Kedar shall be gathered vnto thee: the rammes of Nebaioth
shall serue thee: they shall come vp to bee accepted vpon mine altar: and I will
beautifie the house of my glorie.
8 Who are these that flee like a cloude, and as the doues to their windowes?
9 Surely the yles shall waite for mee, and the shippes of Tarshish, as at the
beginning, that they may bring thy sonnes from farre, and their siluer, and
their golde with them, vnto the Name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy one of
Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sonnes of strangers shall builde vp thy walles, and their Kings shall
minister vnto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my mercie I had
compassion on thee.
11 Therefore thy gates shalbe open cotinually: neither day nor night shall they
be shutte, that men may bring vnto thee the riches of the Gentiles, and that
their Kings may be brought.
12 For the nation and the kingdome, that will not serue thee, shall perish: and
those nations shalbe vtterly destroyed.
13 The glory of Lebanon shall come vnto thee, the firre tree, the elme and the
boxe tree together, to beautifie the place of my Sanctuarie: for I will glorifie
the place of my feete.
14 The sonnes also of them that afflicted thee, shall come and bowe vnto thee:
and all they that despised thee, shall fall downe at the soles of thy feete: and
they shall call thee, The citie of the Lord,
Zion
of the Holy one of
Israel
.
15 Where as thou hast bene forsaken and hated: so that no man went by thee, I
will make thee an eternall glorie, and a ioye from generation to generation.
16 Thou shalt also sucke ye milke of the Gentiles, and shalt sucke the breastes
of Kings: and thou shalt know, that I the Lord am thy Sauiour, and thy Redeemer,
the mightie one of Iaakob.
17 For brasse will I bring golde, and for yron will I bring siluer, and for wood
brasse, and for stones yron. I will also make thy gouernement peace, and thine
exactours righteousnesse.
18 Violence shall no more be heard of in thy land, neither desolation, nor
destructio within thy borders: but thou shalt call saluation, thy walles, and
praise, thy gates.
19 Thou shalt haue no more sunne to shine by day, neither shall the brightnesse
of the moone shine vnto thee: for the Lord shall be thine euerlasting light, and
thy God, thy glorie.
20 Thy sunne shall neuer goe downe, neither shall thy moone be hid: for the Lord
shalbe thine euerlasting light, and the dayes of thy sorowe shalbe ended.
21 Thy people also shalbe all righteous: they shall possesse the land for euer,
the
grasse
of my planting shalbe the worke of mine handes, that I may be glorified.
22 A litle one shall become as a thousande, and a small one as a strong nation:
I the Lord wil hasten it in due time.
CHAPTER
61
1 The Spirit of the Lorde God is vpon mee, therefore hath the Lorde anoynted mee:
hee hath sent mee to preache good tidings vnto the poore, to binde vp the broken
hearted, to preach libertie to the captiues, and to them that are bound, the
opening of the prison,
2 To preache the acceptable yeere of the Lorde, and the day of vengeance of our
God, to comfort all that mourne,
3 To appoint vnto them that mourne in Zion, and to giue vnto them beautie for
ashes, the oyle of ioye for mourning, the garment of gladnesse for the spirit of
heauinesse, that they might be called trees of righteousnesse, the planting of
the Lord, that he might be glorified.
4 And they shall builde the olde waste places, and raise vp the former
desolations, and they shal repaire the cities that were desolate and waste
through many generations.
5 And the strangers shall stande and feede your sheepe, and the sonnes of the
strangers shall be your plowmen and dressers of your vines.
6 But ye shall be named the Priestes of the Lord, and men shall say vnto you,
The ministers of our God, Ye shall eate the riches of the Gentiles, and shalbe
exalted with their glorie.
7 For your shame you shall receiue double, and for confusion they shall reioyce
in their portion: for in their lande they shall possesse the double: euerlasting
ioy shall be vnto them.
8 For I the Lorde loue iudgement and hate robberie for burnt offering, and I wil
direct their worke in trueth, and will make an euerlasting couenant with them.
9 And their seede shall be knowen among the Gentiles, and their buddes among the
people. All that see them, shall know them, that they are the seede which the
Lord hath blessed.
10 I will greatly reioyce in the Lord, and my soule shall be ioyfull in my God:
for he hath clothed mee with the garments of saluation, and couered me with the
robe of righteousnes: hee hath decked me like a bridegrome, and as a bride
tireth herselfe with her iewels.
11 For as the earth bringeth foorth her bud, and as the garden causeth to growe
that which is sowen in it: so the Lord God will cause righteousnesse to grow and
praise before all the heathen.
CHAPTER
62
1 For Zions sake I will not holde my tongue, and for Ierusalems sake I wil not
rest, vntil the righteousnes thereof breake foorth as the light, and saluation
thereof as a burning lampe.
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousnesse, and all Kings thy glory: and
thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shal name.
3 Thou shalt also be a crowne of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royall
diademe in the hand of thy God.
4 It shall no more be sayd vnto thee, Forsaken, neither shal it be said any more
to thy land, Desolate, but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah:
for the Lorde deliteth in thee, and thy land shall haue an husband.
5 For as a yong man marieth a virgine, so shall thy sonnes marry thee: and as a
bridegrome is glad of the bride, so shall thy God reioyce ouer thee.
6 I haue set watchmen vpon thy walles, O Ierusalem, which all the day & all
the night continually shal not cease: ye that are mindfull of the Lord, keepe
not silence,
7 And giue him no rest, till hee repaire and vntill hee set vp Ierusalem the
prayse of the worlde.
8 The Lorde hath sworne by his right hand and by his strong arme, Surely I wil
no more giue thy corne to be meate for thine enemies, & surely the sonnes of
the strangers shall not drinke thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured.
9 But they that haue gathered it, shall eate it, and prayse the Lorde, and the
gatherers thereof shal drinke it in the courtes of my Sanctuarie.
10 Go through, go through the gates: prepare you the way for the people: cast vp,
cast vp the way, and gather out the stones and set vp a standart for the people.
11 Beholde, the Lorde hath proclaimed vnto the endes of the world: tell the
daughter
Zion
, Beholde, thy Sauiour commeth: beholde, his wages is with him, and his worke is
before him.
12 And they shal call them, The holy people, the redeemed of the Lord, and thou
shalt be named, A citie sought out and not forsaken.
CHAPTER
63
1 Who is this that commeth from
Edom
, with red garments from Bozrah? hee is glorious in his apparel and walketh in
his great strength: I speake in righteousnesse, and am mightie to saue.
2 Wherefore is thine apparel red, and thy garments like him that treadeth in ye
wine presse?
3 I haue troden the wine presse alone, and of all people there was none with mee:
for I will treade them in mine anger, and tread them vnder foote in my wrath,
and their blood shalbe sprinkled vpon my garments, and I will staine all my
raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the yeere of my redeemed is
come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to helpe, and I wondered that there was none
to vpholde: therefore mine owne arme helped me, and my wrath it selfe sustained
me.
6 Therefore I wil tread downe the people in my wrath, and make them drunken in
mine indignation, and wil bring downe their strength to the earth.
7 I wil remember the mercies of the Lord and the prayses of the Lorde according
vnto all that the Lord hath giuen vs, and for the great goodnesse toward the
house of Israel, which hee hath giuen them according to his tender loue, and
according to his great mercies.
8 For he saide, Surely they are my people, children that wil not lie: so he was
their Sauiour.
9 In all their troubles he was troubled, and the Angel of his presence saued
them: in his loue and in his mercie he redeemed them, and he bare them and
caried them alwayes continually.
10 But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore was hee turned to be
their enemie and he fought against them.
11 Then he remembred the olde time of Moses and his people, saying, Where is hee
that brought them vp out of the Sea with the shepheard of his sheepe? where is
he that put his holy Spirit within him?
12 He led them by the right hand of Moses with his owne glorious arme, deuiding
the water before them, to make himselfe an euerlasting Name.
13 Hee led them through the deepe, as an horse in the wildernesse, that they
should not stumble,
14 As the beast goeth downe into the valley, the Spirite of the Lorde gaue them
rest: so diddest thou leade thy people, to make thy selfe a glorious Name.
15 Looke downe from heauen, and beholde from the dwelling place of thine holines,
and of thy glory. Where is thy zeale and thy strength, the multitude of thy
mercies, and of thy compassions? they are restrained from me.
16 Doutles thou art our Father: though Abraham be ignorant of vs, and
Israel
knowe vs not, yet thou, O Lord, art our Father, and our redeemer: thy Name is
for euer.
17 O Lorde, why hast thou made vs to erre from thy wayes? and hardened our heart
from thy feare? Returne for thy seruants sake, and for the tribes of thine
inheritance.
18 The people of thine holinesse haue possessed it, but a litle while: for our
aduersaries haue troden downe thy Sanctuarie.
19 We haue bene as they, ouer whome thou neuer barest rule, and vpon whom thy
Name was not called.
CHAPTER
64
1 Oh, that thou wouldest breake the heauens, and come downe, and that the
mountaines might melt at thy presence!
2 As the melting fire burned, as the fire caused the waters to boyle, (that thou
mightest declare thy Name to thy aduersaries) the people did tremble at thy
presence.
3 When thou diddest terrible things, which we looked not for, thou camest downe,
and the mountaines melted at thy presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world they haue not heard nor vnderstande with
the eare, neither hath ye eye seene another God beside thee, which doeth so to
him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou diddest meete him, that reioyced in thee, and did iustly: they remembred
thee in thy wayes: beholde, thou art angrie, for we haue sinned: yet in them is
continuance, and we shal be saued.
6 But we haue all bene as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnes is as
filthie cloutes, and we all doe fade like a leafe, and our iniquities like the
winde haue taken vs away.
7 And there is none that calleth vpon thy Name, neither that stirreth vp
himselfe to take holde of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from vs, and hast
consumed vs because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O Lord, thou art our Father: we are the clay, and thou art our
potter, and we all are the worke of thine hands.
9 Be not angry, O Lorde, aboue measure, neither remember iniquitie for euer: lo,
we beseech thee beholde, we are all thy people.
10 Thine holy cities lye waste:
Zion
is a wildernes, and Ierusalem a desart.
11 The House of our Sanctuarie & of our glorie, where our fathers praysed
thee, is burnt vp with fire and all our pleasant things are wasted.
12 Wilt thou holde thy selfe still at these things, O Lorde? wilt thou holde thy
peace and afflict vs aboue measure?
CHAPTER
65
1 I haue bene sought of them that asked not: I was found of them that sought me
not: I sayd, Beholde me, beholde me, vnto a nation that called not vpon my Name.
2 I haue spred out mine handes all the day vnto a rebellious people, which
walked in a way that was not good, euen after their owne imaginations:
3 A people that prouoked me euer vnto my face: that sacrificeth in gardens, and
burneth incense vpon brickes.
4 Which remaine among the graues, and lodge in the desarts, which eate swines
flesh, and the broth of things polluted are in their vessels.
5 Which say, Stand apart, come not nere to me: for I am holier then thou: these
are a smoke in my wrath & a fire that burneth all the day.
6 Beholde, it is written before me: I wil not keepe silence, but will render it
and recompense it into their bosome.
7 Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers shalbe together (sayth the
Lorde) which haue burnt incense vpon the mountaines, & blasphemed me vpon
the hilles: therefore wil I measure their olde worke into their bosome.
8 Thus sayth the Lord, As the wine is found in the cluster, and one sayth,
Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it, so will I doe for my seruants sakes,
that I may not destroy them whole.
9 But I will bring a seede out of Iaakob, and out of Iudah, that shal inherit my
mountaine: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my seruants shall dwell there.
10 And
Sharon
shalbe a sheepefolde, and the
valley
of
Achor
shalbe a resting place for the cattell of my people, that haue sought me.
11 But ye are they that haue forsaken the Lord and forgotten mine holy Mountaine,
and haue prepared a table for the multitude, and furnish the drinke offerings
vnto the number.
12 Therefore wil I number you to the sword, and all you shal bowe downe to the
slaughter, because I called, and ye did not answere: I spake, and ye heard not,
but did euil in my sight, and did chuse that thing which I would not.
13 Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, my seruants shal eate, and ye
shalbe hungrie: beholde, my seruants shal drinke, and ye shal be thirstie:
beholde, my seruants shal reioyce, and ye shalbe ashamed.
14 Beholde, my seruants shal sing for ioye of heart, and ye shal crye for sorow
of heart, and shal howle for vexation of minde.
15 And ye shal leaue your name as a curse vnto my chosen: for the Lord God shall
slay you and call his seruants by another name.
16 He that shal blesse in the earth, shal blesse himselfe in the true God, and
he that sweareth in the earth, shall sweare by the true God: for the former
troubles are forgotten, and shall surely hide themselues from mine eyes.
17 For lo, I will create newe heauens and a new earth: and the former shall not
be remembred nor come into minde.
18 But be you glad and reioyce for euer in the things that I shall create: for
beholde, I will create Ierusalem, as a reioycing and her people as a ioye,
19 And I wil reioyce in Ierusalem, and ioye in my people, and the voyce of
weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voyce of crying.
20 There shall be no more there a childe of yeeres, nor an olde man that hath
not filled his dayes: for he that shall be an hundreth yeeres old, shall dye as
a yong man: but the sinner being an hundreth yeeres olde shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses and inhabite them, and they shall plant
vineyards, and eate the fruite of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabite: they shall not plant, and another
eate: for as the dayes of the tree are the dayes of my people, and mine elect
shall inioye in olde age the worke of their handes.
23 They shall not labour in vaine, nor bring forth in feare: for they are the
seede of the blessed of the Lord, and their buds with them.
24 Yea, before they call, I will answere, and whiles they speake, I will heare.
25 The wolfe and the lambe shall feede together, and the
lyon
shall eate strawe like the bullocke: and to the serpent dust shall be his meate.
They shall no more hurt nor destroy in all mine holy Mountaine, saith the Lord.
CHAPTER
66
1 Thus saith the Lorde, The heauen is my throne, and the earth is my footestoole:
where is that house that ye will builde vnto me? and where is that place of my
rest?
2 For all these things hath mine hand made, and all these things haue bene,
sayth the Lorde: and to him will I looke, euen to him, that is poore, and of a
contrite spirite and trembleth at my wordes.
3 He that killeth a bullocke, is as if he slewe a man: he that sacrificeth a
sheepe, as if he cut off a dogges necke: he that offereth an oblation, as if he
offered swines blood: he that remembreth incense, as if he blessed an idole:
yea, they haue chosen their owne wayes, and their soule deliteth in their
abominations.
4 Therefore will I chuse out their delusions, and I will bring their feare vpon
them, because I called, and none woulde answere: I spake and they woulde not
heare: but they did euill in my sight, and chose the things which I would not.
5 Heare the worde of the Lorde, all ye that tremble at his worde, Your brethren
that hated you, and cast you out for my Names sake, said, Let the Lord be
glorified: but he shall appeare to your ioy, and they shall be ashamed.
6 A voyce soundeth from the citie, euen a voyce from the
Temple
, the voyce of the Lorde, that recompenseth his enemies fully.
7 Before she trauailed, she brought foorth: and before her paine came, she was
deliuered of a man childe.
8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seene such things? shall ye earth be
brought forth in one day? or shall a nation be borne at once? for assoone as
Zion
trauailed, she brought foorth her children.
9 Shall I cause to trauaile, and not bring forth? shall I cause to bring forth,
and shall be baren, saith thy God?
10 Reioyce ye with Ierusalem, and be gladde with her, all ye that loue her:
reioyce for ioy with her, all ye that mourne for her,
11 That ye may sucke and be satisfied with the brestes of her consolation: that
ye may milke out and be delited with ye brightnes of her glorie.
12 For thus saith the Lord, Beholde, I will extend peace ouer her like a flood,
and the glorie of the Gentiles like a flowing streame: then shall ye sucke, ye
shall be borne vpon her sides, and be ioyfull vpon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, and ye shall be
comforted in Ierusalem.
14 And when ye see this, your hearts shall reioyce, and your bones shall
flourish like an herbe: and the hand of the Lord shall be knowen among his
seruants, and his indignation against his enemies.
15 For beholde, the Lord will come with fire, and his charets like a whirlewinde,
that he may recompence his anger with wrath, & his indignation with the
flame of fire.
16 For the Lord will iudge with fire, and with his sworde all flesh, and the
slaine of the Lorde shall be many.
17 They that sanctifie themselues, and purifie themselues in the gardens behinde
one tree in the middes eating swines flesh, and such abomination, euen the
mouse, shall be consumed together, sayeth the Lord.
18 For I will visite their workes, and their imaginations: for it shall come
that I will gather all nations, and tongues, and they shall come, and see my
glorie.
19 And I will set a signe among them, and will send those that escape of them,
vnto the nations of Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, and to them that drawe the bowe, to
Tubal and Tauan, yles afarre off, that haue not heard my fame, neither haue
seene my glorie, and they shall declare my glorie among the Gentiles.
20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering vnto the Lord out of
all nations, vpon horses, and in charets, and in horse litters, and vpon mules,
and swift beastes, to Ierusalem mine holy Mountaine, saith the Lord, as the
children of Israel, offer in a cleane vessell in the House of the Lorde.
21 And I will take of them for Priestes, and for Leuites, saith the Lord.
22 For as the newe heauens, and the newe earth which I will make, shall remaine
before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seede and your name continue.
23 And from moneth to moneth, and from Sabbath to Sabbath shall all flesh come
to worship before me, saith the Lord.
24 And they shall goe forth, and looke vpon the carkases of the men that haue
transgressed against me: for their worme shall not dye, neither shall their fire
be quenched, and they shalbe an abhorring vnto all flesh.
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