
AGAINST AN UNTHINKING 
PEOPLE{/}

{1}1{/}

{I}1_{/}This is what 
Isaiah son of Amoz 
foretold concerning Judah 
and Jerusalem in the days 
of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, 
and Hezekiah, kings of 
Judah.
{I}2_{/}Listen, O 
heavens!
Give heed, O earth! for 
the Lord speaks:
"I raised children, I 
brought them up,
but they have risen 
against me.
{I}3_{/}The ox knows its 
master
and the ass its owner's 
manger,
but Israel does not know 
me,
my people do not 
understand.
{I}4_{/}A sinful nation,
a people weighed down 
with iniquity,
a wicked race, perverted 
children!
They have turned away 
from Yahweh
and despised the Holy One 
of Israel.
{I}5_{/}Shall I strike 
you again and again;
people always rebelling,
Your whole head is 
diseased
and your heart also 
afflicted.
{I}6_{/}From the soles of 
your feet
to the top of your head -
all is wounds and 
bruises,
sores uncleaned and 
unbound,
not eased with soothing 
ointment.
{I}7_{/}Your country lies 
desolate,
your cities razed by 
fire.
Aliens have devoured the 
harvest
before your very eyes,
and you were left in 
ruins.
{I}8_{/}The Daughter of 
Zion is left
like a shanty in a 
vineyard,
like a hut in a melon 
field,
like a hamleted town.
{I}9_{/}Had not Yahweh of 
hosts
left us a small remnant,
we would resemble Sodom,
we would be like 
Gomorrah.
{I}10_{/}Hear the warning 
of Yahweh,
rulers of Sodom.
Listen to the word of 
God,
people of Gomorrah.
{I}11_{/}"What do I 
care," says Yahweh
"for your endless 
sacrifices?
I am fed up with your 
burnt offerings,
and the fat of your 
bulls.
The blood of fatlings, 
and lambs and he-goats
I abhor.
{I}12_{/}When you come 
before me and trample on 
my courts,
who asked you to visit 
me?
{I}13_{/}I am fed up with 
your oblations.
I grow sick with your 
incense.
Your New Moons, Sabbaths 
and meetings,
evil with holy 
assemblies,
I can no longer bear.
{I}14_{/}I hate your New 
Moons and appointed 
feasts
they burden me.
{I}15_{/}When you stretch 
out your hands
I will close my eyes;
the more you pray,
the more I refuse to 
listen,
for your hands are 
bloody.
{I}16_{/}Wash and make 
yourselves clean.
Remove from my sight
the evil of your deeds.
Put an end to your 
wickedness
{I}17_{/}and learn to do 
good.
Seek justice and keep in 
line the abusers;
give the fatherless their 
rights
and defend the widow."
{I}18_{/}"Come," says the 
Lord,
"let us reason together.
Though your sins be like 
scarlet,
they will be white as 
snow;
though they be as crimson 
red,

they will be white as 
wool.
{I}19_{/}If you will obey 
me,
you will eat the goods of 
the earth;
{I}20_{/}but if you 
resist and rebel,
the sword will eat you 
instead."
Truly the Lord has 
spoken.
YOU BECAME A HARLOT{/}

{I}21_{/}Zion, the 
faithful city,
has become a harlot!
She who abounded in 
justice,
in whom righteousness 
lodged,
has become a hideout of 
murderers!
{I}22_{/}Your silver has 
turned to dross,
your best wine thinned 
with water.
{I}23_{/}Your rulers are 
tyrants,
partners of thieves.
They love a bribe
and look around for 
gifts.
No one protects the 
orphan,
or listens to the claim 
of the widow.
{I}24_{/}This is why the 
Lord speaks,
Yahweh Sabaoth,
the Mighty One of Israel:
"I will subdue my foes
and exact payment from my 
enemies.
{I}25_{/}I will turn my 
hand against you,
I will smelt away your 
dross and remove your 
impurities.
{I}26_{/}I will restore 
your judges,
I will give back your 
counselors,
as it was in the 
beginning.
Then you will be called
the City of 
Righteousness, 
the Faithful City."
{I}27_{/}The deliverance 
of Zion will be like a 
judgment
there will be a remnant: 
the just ones.
{I}28_{/}But rebels and 
sinners
alike will be destroyed,
and those who desert the 
Lord
will likewise perish.
{I}29_{/}Yes, you will be 
ashamed of your sacred 
oaks which have
given you delight;
you will blush for your 
gardens
which you have chosen.
{I}30_{/}You will be like 
an oak,
the leaves of which 
wither,
and like a garden
which runs out of water.
{I}31_{/}The strongman 
will be as tinder
and all his work a spark:
both will burn together
and no one will quench 
the fire.
GOD PROMISES LASTING 
PEACE{/}

{1}2{/}

{I}1_{/}The vision of 
Isaiah, son of Amoz, 
concerning Judah and 
Jerusalem.
{I}2_{/}In the last days, 
the mountain of Yahweh's 
house shall be set over 
the highest mountains and 
shall tower over the 
hills.
{I}3_{/}All the nations 
shall stream to it, 
saying, "Come, let us go 
to the mountain of the 
Lord, to the house of the 
God of Jacob, that he may 
teach us his ways and we 
may walk in his paths. 
For the Teaching comes 
from Zion, and from 
Jerusalem the word of 
Yahweh.
{I}4_{/}He will rule over 
the nations and settle 
disputes for many 
peoples. They will beat 
their swords into 
plowshares and their 
spears into pruning 
hooks. Nation will not 
raise sword against 
nation; they will train 
for war no more.
{I}5_{/}O nation of 
Jacob, come, let us walk 
in the light of the Lord!
HIDE IN THE DUST{/}

{I}6_{/}You have forsaken 
your people,
the land of Jacob,
for it was full of 
diviners.
They turned into 
soothsayers like the 
Philistines,
and clasped hands with 
pagans.
{I}7_{/}Their land is 
full of silver and gold,
there is no end to their 
treasures.
Their land is full of 
horses,
there is no end to their 
chariots.
{I}8_{/}Their land is 
full of idols,
and they bow down
before the work of their 
hands,
before the things their 
fingers have made.
{I}9_{/}Man will be 
humbled
and the mortal fallen,
forgive them not!
{I}10_{/}Get behind the 
rocks,
hide in the dust,
for fear of the Lord
and the splendor of his 
majesty!
{I}11_{/}The haughty 
looks of man will be 
humbled; the pride of 
mortal will be brought 
low. Yahweh alone will be 
exalted on that day.
{I}12_{/}Yahweh will 
stand up on that day
against all the proud and 
arrogant,
against all that is high 
or great,
{I}13_{/}against all the 
cedars of Lebanon
and all the oaks of 
Bashan,
{I}14_{/}against all the 
lofty mountains,
and all the soaring 
hills,
{I}15_{/}against every 
high tower
and fortified walls,
{I}16_{/}against all the 
ships of Tarshish
and their luxurious load.
{I}17_{/}The arrogance of 
man will be humbled; the 
pride of mortal will be 
brought low. Yahweh alone 
will be exalted on that 
day, {I}18_{/}and all the 
idols will pass away.
{I}19_{/}People will flee
into the hollows of the 
rocks,
into the caverns of the 
earth,
from the terror of 
Yahweh,
from the splendor of his 
majesty,
when he arises to terrify 
the earth.
{I}20_{/}On that day,
they will throw to the 
moles and to the bats
their idols of silver and 
gold,
which they made for 
themselves to worship.
{I}21_{/}They will flee
into the caverns of the 
rocks,
into the crevices of the 
crags,
from the terror of the 
Lord,
from the splendor of his 
Majesty,
when he arises to terrify 
the earth.
{I}22_{/}Rely not on man,
who has but a breath in 
his nostrils.
What is he worth?
{1}3{/}

{I}1_{/}See how the Lord,
Yahweh Sabaoth,
takes away provisions and 
supplies
from Judah and Jerusalem 
-
{I}2_{/}the hero and the 
soldier,
the judge and the 
prophet,
the diviner and the 
elder,
{I}3_{/}the captain and 
the man of rank,
the counselor, the wise 
man, the
craftsman, and the 
enchanter.
{I}4_{/}I will make 
striplings their princes
and raw lads their 
rulers.
{I}5_{/}People will 
oppress each other -
every neighbor his 
neighbor;
the young will bully the 
old
and the base will insult 
the honorable.
{I}6_{/}When that day 
comes,
a man will take hold of 
his brother
in the house of his 
father
and say, "You have 
clothes,
so be our leader
and rule over this heap 
of ruins."
{I}7_{/}But he will cry 
out in protest:
"I cannot undertake to 
remedy all this,
when in my own house
there is neither food nor 
clothing;
do not make me leader of 
the people."
{I}8_{/}See how Jerusalem 
crumbles
and Judah falls,
for in word and deed
they have defied the 
Lord,
and insulted his glorious 
presence.
ALAS FOR THE WICKED!{/}

{I}9_{/}The look on their 
faces denounces them: 
they do not hide their 
sin; instead, they parade 
it, like Sodom: Woe to 
them! They bring about 
their own downfall!
{I}10_{/}Say, "Fortunate 
are the righteous, they 
will eat of the fruit of 
their deeds."
{I}11_{/}But woe to the 
wicked: the evil that 
their hands have done 
shall be done to them!
{I}12_{/}O my people, 
plundered by your rulers, 
enslaved by your 
creditors! O my people, 
your leaders deceive you 
and lead you astray.
{I}13_{/}Yahweh takes his 
place in court and stands 
to try his people. 
{I}14_{/}Yahweh calls to 
judgment the elders and 
the princes:
"You have devoured my 
vineyard. The spoil of 
the poor is in your 
houses. {I}15_{/}What 
right have you to crush 
the people and to grind 
down the poor?" declares 
Yahweh Sabaoth.
HOW HAUGHTY ARE THESE 
WOMEN!{/}

{I}16_{/}Yahweh says, 
"Haughty are the women of 
Zion, walking with their 
heads held high, with 
mincing steps, flirting 
with their eyes, 
ornaments tinkling on 
their ankles." 
{I}17_{/}But Yahweh will 
cover with scabs the 
heads of Zion's women and 
make their scalps bald.
{I}18_{/}On that day the 
Lord will take away the 
ankle ornaments, the 
headbands and the 
crescents, {I}19_{/}the 
pendants, the bracelets, 
and the scarves, 
{I}20_{/}the headdresses, 
the armlets, the sashes, 
the perfume bottles and 
the amulets, {I}21_{/}the 
signet rings and nose 
rings, {I}22_{/}the 
festal robes, the 
mantles, the cloaks, and 
the handbags, 
{I}23_{/}the garments, 
the turbans, and the 
veils.
{I}24_{/}Instead of 
fragrance, there will be 
stench; instead of 
girdle, rope; instead of 
well-set hair, baldness; 
instead of jeweled gown, 
sackcloth; and instead of 
beauty, shame. 
{I}25_{/}Your men will 
fall by the sword;

your heroes, in battle.
{I}26_{/}The city gates 
will lament and mourn
as Zion, ravaged, sits on 
the ground.
{1}4{/}

{I}1_{/}On that day, 
seven women will fight 
over one man.
"We will eat our own 
food," they will say, "we 
will wear our own 
clothing, only let us be 
called by your name and 
take away our disgrace."
A REMNANT SAVED ON MOUNT 
ZION{/}

{I}2_{/}On that day the 
Shoot of Yahweh will be 
beautiful and glorious; 
and the Fruit of the 
earth will be honor and 
splendor for the 
survivors of Israel.
{I}3_{/}Those who are 
left in Zion and remain 
in Jerusalem will be 
called holy all who are 
recorded among the living 
in Jerusalem,
{I}4_{/}when Yahweh 
washes away the filth of 
the women of Zion and 
purges Jerusalem of the 
bloodstains in its midst 
with the blast of searing 
judgment, the blast of 
fire.
{I}5_{/}Then will Yahweh 
create over the whole 
site of Mount Zion and 
over its assemblies a 
cloud of smoke by day and 
a glow of fire by night.
For the Glory of the Lord 
will be a canopy and a 
pavilion for all, 
{I}6_{/}a shade from the 
scorching heat by day, a 
refuge from the storm and 
rain. 
THE SONG OF THE 
VINEYARD{/}

{1}5{/}

{I}1_{/}Let me sing for 
my beloved
the love song of my 
beloved
about his vineyard.
My beloved had a vineyard
on a fertile hillside.
{I}2_{/}He dug it up, 
cleared the stones,
and planted the choicest 
vines.
He built there a 
watchtower
and hewed out a winepress 
as well.
Then he looked
for a crop of good 
grapes,
but it yielded only wild 
grapes.
{I}3_{/}Now, inhabitants 
of Jerusalem and men of 
Judah,
judge between me and my 
vineyard.
{I}4_{/}What more was 
there to do
that I have not done for 
my vineyard?
Good grapes was the yield 
I expected,
why did it yield only 
sour grapes?
{I}5_{/}Now I will let 
you know
what I am going to do
with my vineyard:
I will remove its hedge
and it will be burned;
I will break down its 
wall
and it will be trampled 
on.
{I}6_{/}I will make it a 
wasteland,
I will neither prune nor 
hoe it, 
and briers and thorns 
will grow there.
I command the clouds, as 
well,
not to send rain on it.
{I}7_{/}The vineyard of 
Yahweh Sabaoth
is the people of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant vine.
He looked for justice,
but found bloodshed;
He looked for 
righteousness
but heard cries of 
distress.
WOE TO YOU RICH!{/}

{I}8_{/}Woe to you who 
join house to house,
who add field to field!
So no room will remain,
with you alone in the 
land?
{I}9_{/}Yahweh Sabaoth 
has sworn in my hearing:
"Many houses will remain 
in ruins,
beautiful mansions 
without occupants.
{I}10_{/}Ten acres of 
vineyard
will yield only a barrel 
of wine;
ten bushels of seed,
only a bushel of grain."
{I}11_{/}Woe to those who 
rise early in the morning
to run after strong 
drink,
and tarry late in the 
evening
till they are inflamed 
with wine.
{I}12_{/}They have lyres 
and harps,
timbrels and flutes,
and wine at their 
banquets;
but they have no thought 
for the deeds of the 
Lord,
nor do they see his 
plans.
{I}13_{/}Thus my people 
will go into exile
for want of 
understanding,
their dignitaries dying 
of hunger,
their masses parched with 
thirst.
{I}14_{/}Therefore the 
grave has enlarged its 
throat
and opened its mouth to 
the full;
it swallows the upper 
crust of Zion,
their throngs and their 
revelry.
{I}15_{/}Man shall be 
humbled
and the mortal fallen,
and the eyes of the 
haughty cast down.
{I}16_{/}But Yahweh 
Sabaoth will be exalted
when he comes in 
judgment;
the sentences of the holy 
God
will reveal his holiness.
({I}17_{/}Then will the 
lambs graze as at 
pasture,
fatlings and kids will 
browse among the ruins.)
{I}18_{/}Woe to those who 
haul their wrongs with 
cords of deceit,
to those who pull a cart 
of sins,

{I}19_{/}to those who 
say, "Let God hurry,
let him speed up his work
so that we may see it.
Let the plans of the Holy 
One of Israel
draw near and come true,
which we are eager to 
learn about!"
{I}20_{/}Woe to those who 
call evil good, and good 
evil,
who change darkness for 
light
and light for darkness,
who give bitter for sweet
and sweet for bittter.
{I}21_{/}Woe to those who 
are wise in their own 
eyes
and take themselves for 
sages.
{I}22_{/}Woe to those who 
are champions in mixing 
drinks
and valiant at drinking 
bouts,
{I}23_{/}but acquit the 
guilty for a bribe
and deprive the innocent 
of his right.
{I}24_{/}Therefore, as 
the tongues of fire lick 
up stubble,
as dry grass sinks down 
in the flames,
so their roots will rot,
and their flowers be 
blown away like dust,
for they have rejected 
the law of Yahweh Sabaoth
and scorned the word of 
the Holy One of Israel.
{I}25_{/}Therefore the 
Lord,
his wrath burning against 
his people,
raises his hand against 
them
and strikes them down.
The mountains quake:
the corpses litter the 
streets.
Yet for all this his 
anger does not subside,
his hand is still raised, 
poised to strike.
{I}26_{/}He gives a 
signal to nations afar,
he whistles to them from 
the ends of the earth;
speedily and swiftly they 
come.
{I}27_{/}None of them is 
weary, none stumbles
none slumbers or sleeps;
not a waist belt is 
loosened,
not a sandal-thong 
broken.
{I}28_{/}Their arrows are 
sharp,
all their bows are 
strong:
their horses' hoofs seem 
like flint,
their chariot wheels like 
the whirlwind.
{I}29_{/}They roar like 
young lions;
they growl as they seize 
their prey,
no one to rescue it as 
they carry it off.
{I}30_{/}On that day they 
will roar over these 
people
like the roaring of the 
sea.
Just look at the land -
darkness and distress,
the light flickering out 
in shadows,
darkened finally by the 
clouds.
THE CALL OF ISAIAH{/}

{1}6{/}

{I}1_{/}In the year that 
King Uzziah died I saw 
the Lord seated on a 
throne, high and exalted; 
the train of his robe 
filled the Temple. 
{I}2_{/}Above him were 
seraphs, each with six 
wings: two to cover the 
face, two to cover the 
feet, and two to fly 
with.
{I}3_{/}They were calling 
to one another:
"Holy, holy, holy is 
Yahweh Sabaoth.
All the earth is filled 
with his Glory!"
{I}4_{/}At the sound of 
their voices the 
foundations of the 
threshold shook and the 
Temple was filled with 
smoke. {I}5_{/}I said, 
"Poor me! I am doomed! 
For I am a man of unclean 
lips living among a 
people of unclean lips, 
and yet I have seen the 
King, Yahweh Sabaoth."
{I}6_{/}Then one of the 
seraphs flew to me; in 
his hands was a live coal 
which he had taken with 
tongs from the altar. 
{I}7_{/}He touched my 
mouth with it and said,

"See, this has touched 
your lips; your guilt is 
taken away and your sin 
is forgiven."
{I}8_{/}Then I heard the 
voice of the Lord, "Whom 
shall I send? And who 
will go for us?" I 
answered, "Here I am. 
Send me!" {I}9_{/}He 
said, "Go and tell this 
people: 'Much as you 
hear, you will not 
understand; much as you 
see, you do not 
perceive.'
{I}10_{/}Let their hearts 
be hardened, make their 
ears deaf and their eyes 
blind; what a misfortune 
for them, should they 
hear and see! Yet if they 
understood and came back 
to me I would heal them."
{I}11_{/}Then I said, 
"For how long, O Lord?" 
And he answered,
"Until towns have been 
laid waste and left 
without inhabitant; until 
the houses are deserted 
and the fields ruined and 
ravaged, {I}12_{/}until 
Yahweh has sent away the 
people and the fields are 
left deserted.
{I}13_{/}Even though a 
tenth remain in it, it 
will be burned. Yet there 
a stump will remain like 
that of a fallen oak; 
this stump is a holy 
seed."
FIRST WARNING TO AHAZ{/}

{1}7{/}

{I}1_{/}When Ahaz son of 
Jotham, the son of 
Uzziah, was king of 
Judah, King Rezin of Aram 
and Pekah son of 
Remaliah, king of Israel, 
laid siege to Jerusalem 
but they were unable to 
capture it.
{I}2_{/}When the news 
reached the house of 
David, "Aram's troops are 
encamped in Ephraim," the 
heart of the king and the 
hearts of the people 
trembled as the trees of 
the forest tremble before 
the wind.
{I}3_{/}Yahweh then said 
to Isaiah: "Go with your 
son A-remnant-will-
return, and meet Ahaz at 
the end of the aqueduct 
of the Upper Pool, on the 
road to the Washerman's 
Field.
{I}4_{/}Say to him,
Stay calm and fear not; 
do not lose courage 
before these two stumps 
of smoldering firebrands 
- the fierce anger of 
Rezin the Aramean and the 
blazing fury of the son 
of Remaliah. You know 
that {I}5_{/}Aram, 
Ephraim and Remaliah's 
son have plotted against 
Judah, saying: 
{I}6_{/}Let us invade and 
scare it, let us seize it 
and put the son of Tabeel 
king over it.
{I}7_{/}But the Lord 
Yahweh says:
It shall not be so,
it shall not come to 
pass.
{I}8a_{/}For Damascus is 
only the head of Aram
and Rezin the lord of 
Damascus.
{I}9a_{/}Samaria is only 
the head of Ephraim
and Remaliah's son is 
only the lord of Samaria.
{I}8b_{/}Within fifty-six 
years,
Ephraim will be shattered
and will no longer be a 
people.
{I}9b_{/}But if you do 
not stand firm in faith,
you, too, will not stand 
at all."
THE VIRGIN IS WITH 
CHILD{/}

{I}10_{/}Once again 
Yahweh addressed Ahaz, 
{I}11_{/}"Ask for a sign 
from Yahweh your God, let 
it come either from the 
deepest depths or from 
the heights of heaven."
{I}12_{/}But Ahaz 
answered, "I will not 
ask, I will not put 
Yahweh to the test."
{I}13_{/}Then Isaiah 
said, "Now listen, 
descendants of David. 
Have you not been 
satisfied trying the 
patience of people, that 
you also try the patience 
of my God? 
{I}14_{/}Therefore the 
Lord himself will give 
you a sign:
The Virgin is with child 
and bears a son and calls 
his name Immanuel. 
{I}15_{/}He will live on 
curds and honey by the 
time he learns to refuse 
evil and choose good. 
{I}16_{/}For before the 
child knows how to reject 
evil and cherish virtue, 
the land of the two kings 
that you abhor will be 
deserted. {I}17_{/}Yahweh 
will bring a time much 
worse than any since 
Ephraim broke away from 
Judah.
{I}18_{/}On that day 
Yahweh will whistle
for flies from the 
farthest streams of Egypt
and for bees from the 
land of Assyria.
{I}19_{/}They will come 
and settle
in the steep ravines,
in the clefts of the 
rocks,
on all the bushes,
and on every pasture.
{I}20_{/}On that day,
with a razor hired from 
beyond the river
(with the king of 
Assyria),
Yahweh will shave the 
head
and the hair of the legs
and the beard as well.
{I}21_{/}On that day a 
man will raise
a heifer and a couple of 
sheep,
{I}22_{/}and from the 
abundance of milk
those who survive in the 
land
will feed on curds and 
honey.
{I}23_{/}On that day 
every place
planted with a thousand 
vines
worth a thousand silver 
shekels
will be covered with 
briers and thorns.
{I}24_{/}Men will go 
there
armed with bows and 
arrows,
for the whole country
will be covered with 
briers and thorns.
{I}25_{/}No one will dare 
come
to all the hills which 
used to be cultivated 
with hoe,
for fear of briers and 
thorns.
There, cattle will be let 
loose
and sheep left to graze.
THE WATERS OF SHILOAH 
GENTLY FLOWING{/}

{1}8{/}

{I}1_{/}The Lord said to 
me, "Take a large 
cylindrical seal and 
write on it in ordinary 
characters: Quick to 
plunder-Booty is Close. 
{I}2_{/}Do this before 
Uriah the priest and 
Zechariah the son of 
Jeberechiah my reliable 
witness."
{I}3_{/}I went to my 
wife; she conceived and 
gave birth to a son. Then 
Yahweh said to me, "Call 
him Quick to plunder-
Booty is Close, for this 
is Yahweh's word:
{I}4_{/}Before the child 
knows how to say "father" 
or "mother", the wealth 
of Damascus and the booty 
of Samaria will be 
carried off by the king 
of Assyria."
{I}5_{/}Again Yahweh 
spoke to me: 
{I}6_{/}"Because this 
people refuses the gently 
flowing waters of 
Shiloah, and cowers in 
fear before Rezin and the 
son of Remaliah, 
{I}7_{/}therefore the 
Lord will bring against 
them the waters of the 
River, deep and mighty - 
the king of Assyria with 
all his pomp.
It will rise over all its 
channels
and overflow all its 
banks;
{I}8_{/}it will sweep on 
to Judah,
it will overflow and pass 
on,
reaching up to the neck.
It will spread its wings 
over the whole breadth of 
your land, O Immanuel!
{I}9_{/}Know it, O you 
nations.
Hear, O you distant 
lands;
gird yourselves for war 
and be dismayed!
{I}10_{/}Devise a plan 
and it will be thwarted,
make a resolve and it 
will not stand,
for God-is-with-us.
YAHWEH, A HIDDEN GOD{/}

{I}11_{/}Thus Yahweh 
spoke to me when his hand 
grasped me and he warned 
me not to walk in the way 
of these people:
{I}12_{/}"Do not speak of 
conspiracy whenever these 
people dread conspiracy; 
do not fear what they 
fear nor be in dread. 
{I}13_{/}Only Yahweh 
Sabaoth must you hold in 
veneration, only him must 
you fear, only him must 
you dread.
{I}14_{/}He will be a 
sanctuary and at the same 
time a stumbling-stone, 
the rock that brings 
down, for both houses of 
Israel. He will be like 
trap and snare for the 
people of Jerusalem. 
{I}15_{/}Many of them 
will stumble, many will 
fall and be broken, be 
trapped and captured."
{I}16_{/}Yahweh added: 
"Bind this testimony and 
seal it in the midst of 
my disciples."
{I}17_{/}So I will wait 
for Yahweh who hides his 
face from the people of 
Jacob. I will hope in 
him. {I}18_{/}Here am I 
and the children he has 
given me. We are signs 
and portents in Israel 
from Yahweh Sabaoth, who 
dwells on Mount Zion.
{I}19_{/}Should people 
tell you to consult 
mediums and spiritists 
who whisper and mutter, 
you must say to them: "A 
people, of course, must 
consult its gods! On 
behalf of the living, 
will you consult the 
dead?"
{I}20_{/}This is what is 
said through the law and 
revelations: this word 
will not fade away.
{I}21_{/}Distressed and 
famished,
they will roam the land.
In their hunger they will 
fume
and curse their God and 
their king.
They will look upward,
{I}22_{/}and then look 
towards the earth,
but they will only find 
distress and darkness,
and frightening gloom.
{I}23_{/}Yet, where there 
was but anguish, darkness 
will disappear.
He has just afflicted the 
land of Zebulun and the 
land of Naphtali; but in 
the future he will confer 
glory on the way of the 
sea, on the land beyond 
the Jordan - the pagans' 
Galilee.
TO US A CHILD IS BORN{/}

{1}9{/}

{I}1_{/}The people who 
walk in darkness
have seen a great light.
A light has dawned
on those who live in the 
land of the shadow of 
death.
{I}2_{/}You have enlarged 
the nation;
you have increased their 
joy.
They rejoice before you,
as people rejoice at 
harvest time
as they rejoice in 
dividing the spoil.
{I}3_{/}For the yoke of 
their burden,
the bar across their 
shoulders,
the rod of their 
oppressors,
you have broken it as on 
the day of Midian.
{I}4_{/}Every warrior's 
boot that tramped in war,
every  cloak rolled in 
blood,
will be thrown out for 
burning,
will serve as fuel for 
the fire.
{I}5_{/}For a child is 
born to us,
a son is given us;
the royal ornament is 
laid upon his shoulder,
and his name is 
proclaimed:
"Wonderful Counselor, 
Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, 
Prince of Peace."
{I}6_{/}To the increase 
of his powerful rule
in peace, there will be 
no end.
Vast will be his 
dominion,
he will reign on David's 
throne
and over all his kingdom,
to establish and uphold 
it
with justice and 
righteousness
from this time onward and 
forever.
The zealous love of 
Yahweh Sabaoth will do 
this.
THREATS AGAINST ISRAEL{/}

{I}7_{/}The Lord has sent 
a word against Jacob: the 
sentence fell upon 
Israel.
{I}8_{/}The people of 
Samaria and Ephraim saw 
it, but they said in 
pride and arrogance of 
heart: {I}9_{/}"The 
bricks have fallen down, 
but we will rebuild with 
hewn stones; the 
sycamores have been cut 
down, but in their place 
we will plant cedars."
{I}10_{/}Therefore Yahweh 
raises foes against them 
and stirs up their 
adversaries: 
{I}11_{/}from the east, 
Arameans, from the west, 
Philistines - with open 
mouth they devour Israel.
Yet for all this his 
anger does not subside, 
his hand is poised to 
strike.
{I}12_{/}For the people 
have not come back to him 
who has smitten them; 
they have not sought 
Yahweh Sabaoth.
{I}13_{/}Therefore Yahweh 
has cut off from Israel 
both head and tail, palm 
branch and reed in a 
single day. {I}14_{/}The 
elders and prominent men 
are the head, the tail is 
the prophet of lies. 
{I}15_{/}The guides of 
these people mislead 
them, the leaders have 
lost their way. 
{I}16_{/}The Lord, 
therefore, does not spare 
their young men nor have 
compassion on their 
orphans and widows. For 
everyone has become evil 
and ungodly; every mouth 
speaks folly.
Yet for all this his 
anger does not subside, 
his hand is poised to 
strike.
{I}17_{/}Their wickedness 
has become like a fire
which consumes both thorn 
and brier; it rages, sets 
thickets ablaze, and all 
of them vanish like 
smoke.
{I}18_{/}By the wrath of 
Yahweh Sabaoth the land 
is set aflame, and
the people are burned 
like fuel for fire 
because no one spares his 
brother.
{I}19_{/}Snatching left 
and right, they still go 
hungry and they remain 
unfilled: each one 
devours his neighbor's 
flesh.
{I}20_{/}Manasseh devours 
Ephraim, Ephraim devours 
Manasseh; and against 
Judah together they 
march.
Yet for all this his 
anger does not subside, 
his hand is poised to 
strike.
LEGAL INJUSTICE{/}

{1}10{/}

{I}1_{/}Woe to those who 
enact unjust laws
and issue oppressive 
decrees!
{I}2_{/}Woe to those who 
rob the poor of their 
rights
and deprive the helpless 
of justice!
They prey on widows and 
plunder the orphans.
{I}3_{/}What will you do 
on the day of punishment?
Where will you flee for 
help
when disaster suddenly 
comes?
Where will you save your 
wealth?
{I}4_{/}You can do 
nothing but cringe
among the captives and 
exiles
or fall down among the 
slain.
Yet for all this Yahweh's 
anger does not subside,
his hand is poised to 
strike.
ASSYRIA: INSTRUMENT OF 
GOD{/}

{I}5_{/}Woe to Assyria, 
the rod of my anger, the 
staff of my fury!
{I}6_{/}Against a godless 
nation I send him,
against a people who 
provoke my wrath I 
dispatch him,
to plunder and pillage,
to tread them down like 
mud in the streets.
{I}7_{/}But the mind of 
his king is far from 
this,
his heart harbors other 
thoughts;
what he wants is to 
destroy,
to make an end of all 
nations.
{I}8_{/}For he says:
"Are not my commanders 
like kings?
{I}9_{/}Was it not the 
same for Calno as for 
Carchemish,
for Hamath as for Arpad,
and for Samaria as for 
Damascus?
{I}10_{/}Just as my hands 
have seized idolatrous 
kingdoms, whose graven 
images excelled those of 
Samaria and Jerusalem,
{I}11_{/}just as I have 
dealt with Samaria and 
her idols, shall I not do 
to Jerusalem and her 
idols?"
{I}12_{/}When Yahweh has 
finished all his work on 
Mount Zion and in 
Jerusalem, he will punish 
the king of Assyria for 
his willful pride and 
arrogant insolence. 
{I}13_{/}For the king 
says;
"By my own strength I 
have done this
and by my own wisdom, for 
I am clever.
I have moved the 
frontiers of peoples,
I have plundered 
treasures,
I have brought 
inhabitants down to the 
dust,
I have toppled kings from 
their thrones.
{I}14_{/}As one reaches 
into a nest,
so my hands have reached 
into nations' wealth.
As one gathers deserted 
eggs,
so have I gathered the 
riches of the earth.
No one flapped a wing
or opened its mouth to 
chirp a protest."
{I}15_{/}Does the axe 
claim more credit
than the man who wields 
it?
Does the saw magnify 
itself
more than the one who 
uses it?
This would be like a rod 
wielding the man who 
lifts it up;
will those not made of 
wood, be controlled by 
the cudgel?
{I}16_{/}Therefore the 
Lord, Yahweh Sabaoth,
is ready to send a 
wasting sickness
upon the king's sturdy 
warriors.
Beneath his plenty, a 
flame will burn
like a consuming fire.
{I}17_{/}The Light of 
Israel will be a fire
and his Holy One a flame 
-
to burn and devour his 
thorns and briers
all in a single day.
{I}18_{/}The splendor of 
his forest and fruitful 
land
comes undone and raves,
body and soul disappears 
and passes away.
{I}19_{/}The remnant of 
the trees in his forest
will be so few, so easy 
to count,
that a child could make a 
list of them.
A REMNANT WILL RETURN{/}

{I}20_{/}On that day, the 
remnant of Israel and the 
survivors of the people 
of Jacob will no longer 
rely upon the tyrant who 
struck them down, but 
instead will truly rely 
upon the Holy One of 
Israel. {I}21_{/}A 
remnant will return - a 
remnant of Jacob - to the 
mighty God.
{I}22_{/}Yes, Israel! 
Though your people be as 
the sand of the sea, only 
a remnant of them will 
return; their end has 
been ordered, justice 
shall be fully done. 
{I}23_{/}The Lord will 
make a full end, as 
decreed by Him, all over 
the land.

{I}24_{/}Thus says the 
Lord, Yahweh Sabaoth,
"O my people, who dwell 
in Zion, do not be afraid 
of the Assyrians who 
strike you with the rod 
and lift up their staff 
against you as did the 
Egyptians. {I}25_{/}In a 
little while my anger 
against you will be over 
and will be directed to 
their destruction.
{I}26_{/}Yahweh Sabaoth 
will lash at them with a 
scourge, as he did with 
the Midianites at the 
rock of Oreb, as he did 
in Egypt when he raised 
his rod over the sea.
{I}27_{/}On that day, 
their burden will be 
lifted off your 
shoulders, their yoke 
lifted off your neck. The 
yoke will be destroyed.
{I}28_{/}They have gone 
up from Rimmon
and have come to Aiath;
they have passed through 
Migron
and stored supplies at 
Michmash.
{I}29_{/}They have 
crossed over the pass
and now camp at Geba for 
the night.
Ramah is in terror;
Gibeah of Saul has fled.
{I}30_{/}Lift up your 
voice, O daughter of 
Gallim,
let it be heard at 
Laishah
and answered at Anathoth.
{I}31_{/}Madmenah is in 
flight;
the people of Gebim flee 
for their lives.
{I}32_{/}This day the 
invaders will halt at 
Nob;
they will shake their 
fists
at the mount of the 
Daughter of Zion,
at the hill of Jerusalem.
{I}33_{/}Suddenly, the 
Lord, Yahweh Sabaoth
lops off the boughs with 
terrifying violence.
The tall trees are hewn 
down,
the lofty ones are 
brought low.
{I}34_{/}With an axe he 
cuts down the thickets;
and Lebanon, the 
majestic, falls.
THE PRINCE OF PEACE{/}

{1}11{/}

{I}1_{/}From the stump of 
Jesse a  shoot will come 
forth;
from his roots a branch 
will grow and bear fruit.
{I}2_{/}The Spirit of the 
Lord will rest upon him -
a Spirit of wisdom and 
understanding,
a Spirit of counsel and 
power,
a Spirit of knowledge and 
fear of the Lord.
{I}3_{/}Not by 
appearances will he 
judge,
nor by what is said must 
he decide,
{I}4_{/}but with justice 
he will judge the poor
and with righteousness 
decide for the meek.
Like a rod, his word will 
strike the oppressor,
and the breath of his 
lips slay the wicked.
{I}5_{/}Justice will be 
the girdle of his waist,
truth the girdle of his 
loins.
{I}6_{/}The wolf will 
dwell with the lamb,
the leopard will rest 
beside the kid,
the calf and the lion cub 
will feed together
and a little child will 
lead them.
{I}7_{/}Befriending each 
other, the cow and the 
bear
will see their young ones 
lie down together.
Like cattle, the lion 
will eat hay.
{I}8_{/}By the cobra's 
den the infant will play.
The child will put his 
hand into the viper's 
lair.
{I}9_{/}No one will harm 
or destroy over my holy 
mountain,
for as water fills the 
sea
the earth will be filled 
with the knowledge of the 
Lord.
{I}10_{/}On that day the 
"Root of Jesse" will be 
raised as a signal for 
the nations. The people 
will come in search of 
him, thus making his 
dwelling place glorious.
{I}11_{/}On that day 
Yahweh will again raise 
his hand to reclaim the 
remnant of his people  
from Assyria; from Egypt, 
Pathros and Ethiopia; 
from Elam, Shinar, Hamath 
and from the coastlands 
of the sea.
{I}12_{/}He will set up a 
signal that can be seen 
from all the countries 
and assemble the exiles 
of Israel; he will gather 
the scattered people of 
Judah from all the 
corners of the earth.
{I}13_{/}Then Ephraim 
will cast off its 
jealousy and Judah will 
be rid of its enemies. 
Ephraim will not envy 
Judah nor Judah be 
hostile to Ephraim. 
{I}14_{/}But the two will 
sweep down together upon 
the shoulder of Philistia 
to the west and plunder 
the nations to the east. 
They will lay their hands 
upon Edom and Moab and 
make the Ammonites their 
subjects.
{I}15_{/}Yahweh will dry 
up the tongue of the 
Egyptian sea; he will 
sweep his hand over the 
Euphrates in scorching 
fury, and break it into 
seven streams that men 
can cross dry-shod. 
{I}16_{/}Then there will 
be a highway for the 
remnant of his people 
coming back from Assyria, 
as there was when Israel 
came out of Egypt.
SONG OF THE SAVED{/}

{1}12{/}

{I}1_{/}On that day you 
will say:
"I give praise to you, O 
Lord.
Although you have been 
angry with me
your anger has been 
appeased
and you have consoled me.
{I}2_{/}He is the God of 
my salvation;
in him I trust and am not 
afraid,
Yahweh is my strength: 
him I will praise,
the one who saved me."
{I}3_{/}You will draw 
water with joy
from the very fountain of 
salvation.
{I}4_{/}Then you will 
say: "Praise to the Lord,
break into songs of joy 
for him,
proclaim his marvellous 
deeds among the nations
and exalt his Name.
{I}5_{/}Sing to the Lord: 
wonders he has done
let these be known all 
over the earth.
{I}6_{/}Sing for joy, O 
people of Zion,
for great in your midst 
is the Holy One of 
Israel."
AGAINST BABYLON{/}

{1}13{/}

{I}1_{/}An oracle 
concerning Babylon,
seen by Isaiah, son of 
Amoz:
{I}2_{/}On a bare hilltop 
raise a banner;
cry aloud to them,
wave a hand for them
to enter the Gates of the 
Nobles.
{I}3_{/}I have ordered my 
sacred knights,
I have summoned my mighty 
warriors -
all those who rejoice in 
my triumph -
I have commanded them to 
carry out my wrath.
{I}4_{/}Listen, a 
rumbling on the mountains
as of a great multitude!
Listen, a tumultuous 
uproar
as of kingdoms massing 
together!
Yes, Yahweh Sabaoth is 
mustering his army.
{I}5_{/}From faraway 
lands,
from the ends of the 
heavens
they come - Yahweh
and the instruments of 
his wrath -
to destroy the whole 
earth.
{I}6_{/}Wail, for the day 
of Yahweh is near;
it will come as 
destruction from the 
Almighty.
{I}7_{/}Every man's arm 
will go limp,
every man's heart will 
fail him,
{I}8_{/}Everyone will be 
gripped with terror.
Pain and sorrow taking 
hold of them,
men will be in anguish
like women in travail.
They will look aghast at 
each other,
their faces aflame as 
with fever.
{I}9_{/}See how the day 
of Yahweh comes:
it is a cruel day
coming with wrath and 
fierce anger.
It will make the earth 
desolate;
it will destroy sinners 
within it.
{I}10_{/}The stars and 
constellations at night
will send forth no light, 
the moon
will not shine; in the 
morning the sun
will be dark as it rises.
{I}11_{/}I punish the 
world for the evil it 
does,
and the wicked for their 
sins.
I make the arrogance of 
the proud cease
I end the haughtiness of 
the ruthless.
{I}12_{/}I will make men 
scarcer than gold
and mankind more rare 
than the gold of Ophir.
{I}13_{/}This is why the 
heavens tremble
and the earth shakes its 
foundation,
at the wrath of Yahweh 
Sabaoth
on the day of his burning 
anger.
{I}14_{/}Like a hunted 
gazelle,
or like a flock without a 
shepherd
everyone returns to his 
own people,
each one flees to his 
native land.
{I}15_{/}Whoever is 
captured will be 
butchered,
whoever is caught will be 
slaughtered.
{I}16_{/}Their babies 
will be dashed to pieces 
before their eyes,
their houses will be 
looted,
their wives raped.
{I}17_{/}Against them I 
will stir up the Medes,
who don't crave for money
and are not interested in 
gold.
{I}18_{/}Their bows and 
arrows will strike down 
young men
without mercy or 
compassion.
They do not spare infants 
and children.
{I}19_{/}Babylon, the 
jewel of kingdoms,
pride and glory of the 
Chaldeans,
will be like Sodom and 
Gomorrah
when overthrown by God.
{I}20_{/}She will never 
be inhabited,
nor dwelt in from age to 
age.
There no Arab will pitch 
his tent,
no shepherd will tend his 
flock.
{I}21_{/}There wild 
beasts of the desert will 
lie,
howling creatures will 
fill the houses,
owls and ostriches will 
dwell there
and wild goats will leap 
about.
{I}22_{/}There mad dogs 
will cry out in her 
strongholds,
and jackals in her 
palaces.
Her time is close at 
hand;
her days are now 
numbered.
{1}14{/}

{I}1_{/}The Lord will 
take pity on Jacob, he 
will choose Israel again 
and settle them in their 
own land. Then foreigners 
will join them and be 
counted with the people 
of Jacob. 
{I}2_{/}Nations will take 
them and bring them to 
their own place. But as 
soon as they are back 
home, the people of 
Israel will subdue them 
and make them servants 
and maids. Thus the 
people of Israel will 
make captives of their 
captors and rule over 
their oppressors.
HOW YOU HAVE FALLEN, 
SHINING STAR!{/}

{I}3_{/}On the day Yahweh 
gives you rest from your 
suffering and turmoil, 
from your fear and your 
cruel bondage, 
{I}4_{/}you will take up 
this taunt against the 
king of Babylon:
How has the oppression 
ceased?
How has the strongman 
ended?
{I}5_{/}Yahweh has broken 
the staff of the wicked,
the scepter of the tyrant
{I}6_{/}who struck down 
the people
with blow after blow,
who ruled the nations in 
anger,
with unrelenting 
persecution.
{I}7_{/}The whole earth 
is at rest and at peace,
breaking forth into song.
{I}8_{/}Even the 
cypresses exult
and the cedars of Lebanon 
say:
"Now that you have 
fallen,
no loggers come to cut us 
down."
{I}9_{/}The netherworld 
is all astir
to meet you when you 
come.
It stirs up the dead to 
greet you -
all who were leaders of 
theworld.
It raises from their 
thrones -
all who were kings of the 
nations.
{I}10_{/}They all speak 
and say to you:
"You have also been 
thrown to the ground and 
have become like us!
{I}11_{/}All your pomp 
has been brought down to 
the Kingdom of death,
along with the sound of 
your harps;
maggots are the bed 
beneath you
and worms are your 
blanket.
{I}12_{/}How you are 
fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the 
morning!
How you are cast down to 
the ground,
you who mowed down the 
nations!
{I}13_{/}You said in your 
heart,
"I will ascend to heaven,
I will raise my throne
higher than the stars of 
God;
I will sit on the Mount 
of Assembly,
in the far recesses of 
the North.
{I}14_{/}I will climb up 
above the clouds;
I will be like the Most 
High!"
{I}15_{/}But down to the 
netherworld you go,
to the deep recesses of 
the Pit.
{I}16_{/}All who see you 
stare at you
and ponder over your 
fate:
"Is this the man who 
shook the earth,
who made kingdoms quake,
{I}17_{/}who made the 
world a waste,
who overthrew its cities
and would not give its 
captives release?"
{I}18_{/}All kings of 
nations lie in state,
each in his own tomb.
{I}19_{/}You are 
nevertheless cast out of 
the tomb,
like a rejected untimely 
birth,
like a trampled corpse 
buried
under the slaughtered,
under those cut down by 
the sword,
thrown into the common 
grave.
{I}20_{/}You were not 
given a monument
for you have brought your 
land to ruin,
and caused your people to 
be slain.
May the descendants of 
evildoers never be 
mentioned again!
{I}21_{/}Go up, slaughter 
the sons for the sins of 
their fathers,
lest they rise and 
possess the land
and cover the earth with 
their cities.
{I}22_{/}"I will rise up 
against them," says 
Yahweh Sabaoth. "I will 
cut off from Babylon her 
name, her remnant, 
offspring and posterity," 
says Yahweh.
{I}23_{/}"I will turn her 
into a swampland, a 
habitation of reptiles 
and crocodiles; I will 
sweep her with the broom 
of destruction," says 
Yahweh Sabaoth.
{I}24_{/}Yahweh Sabaoth 
has sworn:
"As I have planned, so 
will it be!
As I have decided, so 
will I do;
{I}25_{/}I will destroy 
the Assyrian in my land,
trample him down on my 
mountains;
take his yoke off my 
people's neck,
and remove his burden 
from their shoulders.
{I}26_{/}This is the 
sentence he pronounced 
for the whole earth; with 
his hand stretched out 
over all nations. 
{I}27_{/}Yahweh has made 
a decision, and who will 
annul it? His hand is 
stretched out, and who 
can turn it back?
WARNING TO THE 
PHILISTINES{/}

{I}28_{/}In the year King 
Ahaz died this oracle was 
proclaimed:
{I}29_{/}"Rejoice not, 
all you Philistines, that 
the rod which smote you 
is broken; for from the 
root of the snake will 
come forth a viper, and 
its offspring will be a 
flying dragon.
{I}30_{/}On that day my 
poor will have their fill 
with the fruits of my 
fields and the helpless 
will rest secure. But 
through famine I will 
kill your children and 
slay even your remnant.
{I}31_{/}Wail, O gate! 
Cry, O city!
tremble in fear, all you 
Philistines!
For smoke comes from the 
north -
a great army sweeps down 
on you.
{I}32_{/}What answer will 
then be given to the 
messengers of that 
nation? "Yahweh has laid 
the foundation of Zion, 
and there his afflicted 
people will take refuge."
LAMENT FOR MOAB{/}

{1}15{/}

{I}1_{/}An oracle 
concerning Moab:
Laid waste in  a night,
Ar of Moab is silent!
Laid waste in a night,
Kir of Moab is ruined!
{I}2_{/}The people of 
Diman have gone
to the high places to 
weep.
Over Nebo and Medeba Moab 
wails.
Every head is shaved,
every beard is shorn.
{I}3_{/}In the streets 
they wear sackcloth,
on the rooftops and in 
the squares;
everyone wails,
every heart melts in 
tears.
{I}4_{/}Heshbon and 
Elealeh cry out;
their howling is heard as 
far as Jahaz;
the armed men of Moab cry 
aloud
and their hearts are 
faint.
{I}5_{/}My heart cries 
out for Moab;
her fugitives flee as far 
as Zoar,
as far as Eglath-
shelishiyah.
At the ascent of Luhith
they go up weeping;
on the way to Horonaim
their cries are heart-
rending.
{I}6_{/}The watered 
fields of Nimrim
have become a wasteland;
the turf is dried up,
the grass is withered,
the verdure is gone.
{I}7_{/}Now they carry 
away their possessions,
the wealth they have 
stored up,
to the Brook of the 
Willows.
{I}8_{/}Their cry rings 
round the border of Moab,
resounds as far as 
Eglaim,
reaches as far as Beer 
Elim.
{I}9_{/}The waters of 
Dimon flow with blood,
but worse is yet in 
store,
for I will bring lions 
upon Dimon,
upon those who escape 
from Moab,
and upon those who 
survive in the land.
{1}16{/}

{I}1_{/}Like bewildered 
birds
cast out of their nests,
the daughters of Moab
stay at the fords of 
Arnon.
{I}2_{/}From Sela, across 
the wilderness,
they send lambs to the 
mount of Zion:
are they not the rulers 
of the land?
{I}3_{/}They say: "Take 
counsel,
render decision with 
justice.
Even at high noon
let your shade be like 
the night
to hide the fugitives.
Do not betray the 
refugees.
{I}4_{/}Let the outcasts 
from Moab
sojourn among you;
be a refuge to them
against the destroyer."
(When the oppressor is no 
more
and the destruction is 
over
and those who trample the 
land
underfoot have gone,
{I}5_{/}a throne will be 
established
steadfast in love.
One from the House of 
David,
for the sake of truth 
will sit on it;
he will administer 
justice swiftly
and judge the people 
righteously.)
{I}6_{/}We have heard of 
the pride of Moab,
of her arrogance and 
insolence,
of her empty pretensions.
{I}7_{/}Let her wail 
then,
and let everyone wail for 
her.
Mourn for the raisin-
cakes of Kirhareseth.
{I}8_{/}The fields of 
Heshbon languish,
the vines of Sibmah 
wither.
The tyrants of the 
nations
have trampled down the 
choicest vines,
those that once reached 
Jazer,
spreading towards the 
desert,
stretching out as far as 
the sea.
{I}9_{/}Therefore I weep 
as Jazer weeps
for the vines of Sibmah.
I drench you, O Heshbon,
O Elealeh, with my tears!
For over your fruit and 
your vintage
have been heard loud 
battle cheers.
{I}10_{/}But they are 
gone: joy and gladness
have now vanished from 
your orchards.
In the vineyards
no more singing is heard,
no more shout of joy is 
raised.
In the winepresses
no foot treads out wine,
no voice shouts in 
exultation,
no heart sings a vintage 
song.
{I}11_{/}Like a lyre, 
therefore,
my soul moans for Moab;
my heart pines for Kir-
areseth.
{I}12_{/}When Moab 
appears on the high 
places,
she will only grow weary;
when she goes to pray at 
the sanctuary,
it will be to no avail.
{I}13_{/}This is the word 
which Yahweh spoke 
against Moab in the past. 
But {I}14_{/}now Yahweh 
says, "Within three 
years, like the years of 
a servant bound by 
contract, the glorious 
power of Moab will have 
ceased to command 
respect, her survivors 
will be very few  and 
feeble."
AGAINST DAMASCUS{/}

{1}17{/}

{I}1_{/}An oracle 
concerning Damascus:

"Damascus will cease to 
be a city
and will become a heap of 
ruins.
{I}2_{/}Her towns will be 
abandoned
and left as pasture for 
flocks;
there they will lie down 
afraid of no one.
Damascus will no longer 
be a kingdom,
{I}3_{/}so Ephraim will 
be left undefended.
From now on the remnant 
of Aram will have no more 
power than the children 
of Israel."
This is Yahweh Sabaoth 
speaking.
{I}4_{/}On that day
the glory of Jacob will 
fade;
the fat of his flesh will 
waste away.
{I}5_{/}It will be as 
when a reaper
gathers the standing 
grain
and lops off the stalks,
or as when they gather 
the gleanings
in the Valley of Rephaim.
{I}6_{/}Yet some 
gleanings remain,
as when an olive tree is 
beaten -
two or three olives are 
left on the topmost 
bough,
four or five on the 
fruitful branches,
says Yahweh, the God of 
Israel.
{I}7_{/}On that day 
people will look to their 
Creator, their eyes 
turned to the Holy One of 
Israel.
{I}8_{/}They will no 
longer look to the 
altars, to the work of 
their hand,
the sacred pole or the 
incense stand
which their fingers have 
made.
{I}9_{/}On that day your 
cities will be like the 
cities of the Hivites and 
the Amorites which they 
abandoned to the 
Israelites. All will be 
desolation.
{I}10_{/}For you have 
forgotten the God of your 
salvation,
you have failed to 
remember the Rock of your 
refuge.
You may plant the finest 
plants,
you may plant out 
imported shoots,
{I}11_{/}you may make 
them grow
on the day you plant 
them,
you may make them blossom
on the day you sow,
yet they dwindle and the 
harvest is gone:
then you may cry!
THE UPSURGE OF NATIONS{/}

{I}12_{/}Oh, the rage of 
many peoples -
they rage like the raging 
sea!
Oh, the thunder of many 
nations -
they thunder like the 
thundering of mighty 
waves!
{I}13_{/}But God rebukes 
them,
and they flee far away,
swept away like chaff
on the hills before the 
wind,
whirled away like eddying 
dust
before the thunderstorm.
{I}14_{/}At eventide they 
sow terror;
before morning they are 
no more.
Such is the portion of 
our despoilers,
such is the lot of our 
plunderers.
AGAINST ETHIOPIA{/}

{1}18{/}

{I}1_{/}Woe to the land 
of whirring wings
beyond the rivers of 
Cush,
{I}2_{/}which sends 
ambassadors by sea
in papyrus boats over the 
waters!
Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and 
bronzed,
to a nation feared far 
and wide,
a nation conquering and 
strong,
whose land the rivers 
divide.
{I}3_{/}All you 
inhabitants of the world,
all you who dwell on 
earth,
when a banner on the 
mountain is raised, look!
When a horn on the hill 
is sounded, listen!
{I}4_{/}For thus Yahweh 
spoke to me:
"From where I dwell, I 
gaze untroubled,
like heat shimmering in 
the sunshine,
like a dewy mist in the 
heat of harvest."
{I}5_{/}For before the 
vintage,
when the flowers fall,
and the blooms become 
ripened grapes,
I will cut shoots and 
prune
and hew away spreading 
branches.
{I}6_{/}They will be left 
to the birds of prey
and to the beasts of the 
earth.
The birds will feed on 
them all summer,
and the beasts all 
winter.
{I}7_{/}At that time the 
tall, bronzed people from 
a country traversed by 
rivers - a conquering and 
strong nation feared far 
and wide - will bring 
offerings to Yahweh 
Sabaoth, to Mount Zion. 
For this is the place 
where the name of Yahweh 
dwells.
AGAINST EGYPT{/}

{1}19{/}

{I}1_{/}An oracle 
concerning Egypt:
Yahweh rides on a swift 
cloud and comes to Egypt.
The idols of Egypt 
tremble before him;
the heart of Egypt melts 
within it.
{I}2_{/}I will stir 
Egyptians against each 
other:
brother will fight 
against brother,
friend against friend,
city against city,
kingdom against kingdom.
{I}3_{/}The Egyptians 
will lose heart for I 
will confound their 
plans;
they will consult idols 
and sorcerers,
ghosts and necromancers.
{I}4_{/}I will deliver 
the Egyptians
into the hands of a cruel 
master,
and a tyrant will be 
their ruler.
It is Yahweh Sabaoth who 
speaks.
{I}5_{/}The waters of the 
river will dry up;
the river bed will be 
parched.
{I}6_{/}The canals will 
become foul dry,
the tributaries of 
Egypt's Nile will dwindle 
and cease to flow.
The reeds and rushes will 
wither.
{I}7_{/}The plants on the 
banks
and at the mouth of the 
river,
and all the crops along 
the Nile will dry up, 
blow away and be no more.
{I}8_{/}The fishermen 
will mourn,
all who cast hook in the 
Nile will groan,
and those who throw nets 
upon the waters will 
lament.
{I}9_{/}The flax worker 
will despair,
the carders, too, and 
white cloth weavers;
{I}10_{/}the spinners 
will be crushed;
the hired laborers 
despondent.
{I}11_{/}The princes of 
Zoan are utter fools,
and brutish is the 
counsel
of the wisest of 
Pharaoh's counselors.
How can you say to 
Pharaoh,
"I am one of the wise 
men,
a disciple of ancient 
kings?"
{I}12_{/}Where are your 
wise men?
Let them come forward 
now,
let them explain to you 
what Yahweh will do 
against Egypt.
{I}13_{/}The princes of 
Zoan have become fools;
the princes of Memphis 
have been deceived;
Egypt is led astray by 
the chiefs of her tribes.
{I}14_{/}Yahweh has 
poured into them a spirit
which makes Egypt err in 
all her ventures,
as a vomiting drunkard 
errs.
{I}15_{/}And Egypt will 
never succeed
in anything it attempts
by head or by tail, by 
palm or by reed.
EGYPT WILL BE 
CONVERTED{/}

{I}16_{/}On that day the 
Egyptians will be like a 
woman trembling in fear 
whenever they see the 
hand of Yahweh Sabaoth 
raised against them. 
{I}17_{/}Judah will be a 
terror to Egypt. Whenever 
they think of Judah, the 
Egyptians will be 
terrified because of the 
terrible fate Yahweh 
Sabaoth has in store for 
them.
{I}18_{/}On that day 
there will be five cities 
in the land of Egypt 
speaking the language of 
Canaan, in which people 
will call upon Yahweh 
Sabaoth. One of them is 
called the City of the 
Sun.
{I}19_{/}On that day 
there will be an altar to 
Yahweh in the center of 
the land of Egypt and a 
sacred pillar to Yahweh 
at its border. 
{I}20_{/}It will be a 
sign and a remembrance of 
Yahweh Sabaoth in the 
land of Egypt, so that 
they may call to him when 
they are oppressed, and 
he will send a savior to 
defend and deliver them. 
{I}21_{/}Yahweh will 
reveal himself to the 
Egyptians. They will 
acknowledge him on that 
day and worship him with 
sacrifice and burnt 
offerings. They will make 
vows to Yahweh and 
perform them. 
{I}22_{/}Yahweh will 
strike Egypt and then 
cure it. When they turn 
to him, he will heal them 
and heed their 
supplications.
{I}23_{/}On that day 
there will be a highway 
from Egypt to Assyria. 
Assyrians will come to 
Egypt, and Egyptians to 
Assyria. Egyptians and 
Assyrians will worship 
together.
{I}24_{/}On that day, 
Israel will be a third 
party with Egypt and 
Assyria - a blessing on 
earth. {I}25_{/}And 
Yahweh will bless them 
saying, "Blessed be Egypt 
my people, Assyria my 
creation, and Israel my 
heritage."
ISAIAH GOES AS A 
PRISONER{/}

{1}20{/}

{I}1_{/}In the year that 
the general sent by 
Sargon, king of Assyria, 
made an assault upon 
Ashdod, capturing it, 
{I}2_{/}Yahweh gave a 
warning through Isaiah, 
the son of Amoz, saying, 
"Hang the sackcloth from 
your hips, take off your 
sandals and go." He did 
so, and walked naked and 
barefoot.
{I}3_{/}Then Yahweh said: 
Just as my servant Isaiah 
has walked naked and 
barefoot for three years 
as a sign and portent for 
Egypt and Ethiopia, 
{I}4_{/}so will the king 
of Assyria lead away 
captives from Egypt and 
exiles from Ethiopia, 
both the young and the 
old, naked and barefoot, 
their buttocks uncovered, 
to the disgrace of Egypt. 
{I}5_{/}Those who pinned 
their hope upon Ethiopia 
and made a boast of Egypt 
will be frightened and 
put to shame.
{I}6_{/}On that day the 
inhabitants of this 
coastland will say, "Look 
at what happened to those 
we trusted and fled to 
for help and deliverance 
from the king of Assyria! 
What are we going to do 
now to save ourselves?"
FALL OF BABYLON{/}

{1}21{/}

{I}1_{/}An oracle 
concerning the Desert by 
the Sea:
A fearful vision is shown 
to me:
As whirlwinds sweep over 
the Negeb,
coming in waves from the 
desert,
from the fearful land,
{I}2_{/}the traitor 
betrays,
the plunderer plunders.
"Go up, O Elam!
Lay siege, O Media!"
"I have silenced all the 
groanings."
{I}3_{/}Therefore I am in 
anguish;
my body is wracked with 
pain
as a woman in travail.
I am so bewildered that I 
cannot hear,
I am so dismayed that I 
cannot see.
{I}4_{/}My mind reels,
my heart falters in fear;
the twilight I longed for
has become a horror.
{I}5_{/}They set the 
tables,
they spread the rugs,
they eat and drink.
Arise, O princes,
oil the shield!
{I}6_{/}For this is what 
Yahweh said to me,
"Go, post a watchman
and make him report what 
he sees.
{I}7_{/}If he sees 
riders:
horsemen in pairs,
men mounted on camels,
men mounted on donkeys;
let him observe 
diligently,
let him listen 
attentively."
{I}8_{/}Then the watchman 
shouted,
"On a watchtower, O Lord, 
I stand
through all the watches 
of the day,
and at my post I stay
through all the watches 
of the night.
{I}9_{/}And look, here 
come riders,
horsemen in pairs."
And he spoke up again:
'Fallen is Babylon, 
fallen,
and all the graven images 
of her gods
lie shattered on the 
ground !'"
{I}10_{/}O my people, 
threshed and winnowed,
I announce to you what I 
have heard
from Yahweh Sabaoth, the 
God of Israel.
AGAINST EDOM AND 
ARABIA{/}

{I}11_{/}An oracle 
concerning Dumah:
Someone calls to me out 
of Seir,
"Watchman, what of the 
night?
Watchman, what of the 
night?"
{I}12_{/}The watchman 
answers,
"Morning comes, but soon
it will be night again.
Come back and ask,
if you want to ask 
again."
{I}13_{/}An oracle 
concerning Arabia:
In the forest of Arabia 
lodge
the Dedanites' traveling 
companies.
{I}14_{/}Those who dwell 
in the land of Tema
went to meet the 
fugitives:

bring bread for the 
hungry
and water for the 
thirsty.
{I}15_{/}These people 
have fled from the sword,
from the whetted swords,
from the bent bows,
from the fury of battle.
{I}16_{/}For thus Yahweh 
says to me, "In a year's 
time, as a worker bound 
by contract would reckon 
it, all the glory of 
Kedar will come to an 
end. {I}17_{/}Few of 
Kedar's archers and 
warriors will remain." 
Yahweh God of Israel has 
spoken.
{1}22{/}

{I}1_{/}An oracle 
concerning the Valley of 
Vision.
What ails you now,
that you have all gone up 
to the housetops,
{I}2_{/}you with your 
hustle and bustle
a tumultuous city, a 
wanton town?
Your slain men
have not been killed by 
the sword,
nor have they died in 
battle.
{I}3_{/}Together your 
leaders have fled;
they were captured under 
the threat of the bow.
Your valiant were caught 
together,
they had fled far away.
{I}4_{/}That is why I 
say,
"Look away from me.
I will weep bitterly.
Do not try to comfort me
over the ruin of the 
daughter of my people."
{I}5_{/}There comes from 
the Lord Yahweh Sabaoth a 
day of trampling and 
rout.
In the Valley of Vision 
they undermine the walls
and the cries for help 
ascend to the mountains.
{I}6_{/}Elam bears the 
quiver
with charioteers and 
horsemen;
Kir uncovers the shield.
{I}7_{/}Chariots are all 
over your choicest 
valleys;
horsemen are stationed at 
the gates.
{I}8_{/}Judah is stripped 
of her defenses.
LET US EAT AND DRINK!{/}

{I}{/}On that day you 
turned your eyes to the 
arsenal at the Palace of 
the Forest. {I}9_{/}You 
saw the many breaches in 
the defenses of the city 
of David. You gathered 
together the waters of 
the lower pool. 
{I}10_{/}You counted the 
houses of Jerusalem and 
tore down some of them to 
strengthen the wall. 
{I}11_{/}You built a 
reservoir between the two 
walls for the water of 
the old Pool.
But you gave no thought 
to its Maker. You had no 
regard for him who had 
planned it long ago. 
{I}12_{/}On that day the 
Lord Yahweh Sabaoth 
called you to weep and 
mourn, to shave your head 
and put on sackcloth.
{I}13_{/}But look, 
instead of that, there is 
wanton revelry: oxen are 
butchered and sheep are 
slaughtered. You eat meat 
and get drunk, saying, 
"Let us eat and drink for 
tomorrow we die."
{I}14_{/}A word from 
Yahweh Sabaoth has 
reached my ears: "This 
sin will not be forgiven 
until they die."
AGAINST A MINISTER{/}

{I}15_{/}Thus says the 
Lord Yahweh Sabaoth: Go 
and talk to this man 
Shebna, who is the palace 
steward. Ask him:
{I}16_{/}Who are you and 
what right have you
to carve a resting place 
on the heights,
to cut out a burial place
for yourself here in the 
rock?
{I}17_{/}Look here, O you 
strongman,
Yahweh will seize you;
he will take you captive
and take firm hold of 
you.
{I}18_{/}He will roll you 
up,
toss you like a ball,
then violently hurl you 
down
into a large open land.
There you will perish
with the chariots of your 
glory,
O you, the shame of your 
master's house!
{I}19_{/}You will be 
deposed, strongman.
I will hurl you down from 
where you are.
{I}20_{/}On that day I 
will summon
my servant Eliakim, son 
of Hilkiah.
{I}21_{/}I will clothe 
him with your robe,
I will strengthen him 
with your girdle,
I will give him your 
authority,
and he will be a father
to the inhabitants of 
Jerusalem
and to the people of 
Judah.
{I}22_{/}Upon his 
shoulder I will place
the key of the House of 
David:
what he opens, no one 
shall shut;
what he shuts, no one 
shall open.
{I}23_{/}I will fasten 
him like a peg
in a sure spot,
and he will be a seat of 
honor
in the house of his 
father.
{I}24_{/}(Upon him will 
hang all the load of his 
father's house - 
offspring and 
descendants, all the 
little vessels from bowls 
to jars. {I}25_{/}On that 
day, says Yahweh Sabaoth, 
the peg fastened in a 
sure spot will give way; 
it will be cut down and 
the load hanging on it 
will fall. Thus Yahweh 
has spoken.)
AGAINST TYRE{/}

{1}23{/}

{I}1_{/}An oracle 
concerning Tyre:
Wail, O ships of 
Tarshish,
for Tyre is destroyed!
When you return from 
Kittim
you will hear the news 
and wonder.
{I}2_{/}Keep silent, 
merchants of Sidon,
all you inhabitants of 
the coast.
Your messengers passed 
over the sea,
{I}3_{/}across the wide 
oceans;
the grain of Shihor,
the harvest of the Nile,
was your income
and you were the fair of 
the nations.
{I}4_{/}Be ashamed, O 
Sidon, refuge on the sea!
The queen of the sea 
wonders:
"Have I not had labor 
pains
and brought forth 
children?
Have I not nourished 
young men
and brought up 
daughters?"
{I}5_{/}Those in Egypt 
will be in anguish
when they learn the fate 
of Tyre.
{I}6_{/}You who dwell on 
the coastlands,
wail as you pass over to 
Tarshish.
{I}7_{/}Is this the 
ancient city, your pride,
whose feet had carried 
her afar
to found colonies in 
distant lands?
{I}8_{/}Who has planned 
this against Tyre,
the imperial city whose 
merchants
are princes,
whose traders are among 
the great ones of the 
world?
{I}9_{/}It is Yahweh 
Sabaoth who has planned 
it,
to bring down her proud 
majesty,
to humble the great ones 
of the world.
{I}10_{/}Till your land 
like the valley of the 
Nile
O Daughter of Tarshish,
you have no more 
shipbuilding yard.
{I}11_{/}Yahweh has 
stretched out his hand
over the sea to make 
kingdoms tremble.
He has ordered the 
destruction

of the fortresses of 
Phoenicia.
{I}12_{/}He has said, 
"Rejoice no longer,
ravished virgin daughter 
of Sidon.
Arise, pass over to 
Cyprus;
even there you will find 
no rest."
{I}13_{/}Look at the land 
of the Chaldeans,
a people now of no 
account.
The Assyrians have 
destined the land
to be a place for wild 
beasts.
They have erected siege 
towers
and demolished her 
bastions,
razed her palaces, 
completely
reducing her to ruins.
{I}14_{/}Wail, O ships of 
Tarshish,
for your haven is 
destroyed.
{I}15_{/}On that day, 
Tyre will be forgotten 
for seventy years, about 
the span of a king's 
life. Then at the end of 
seventy years, it will 
happen to Tyre as in a 
harlot's song:
{I}16_{/}Take a harp, go 
about the city, forgotten 
harlot, sing your 
sweetest song, play your 
best melody, that they 
may remember you.
{I}17_{/}At the end of 
seventy years, Yahweh 
will visit Tyre. She will 
return to her hire and 
once again play whore 
with all the kingdoms of 
the world on the face of 
the earth. {I}18_{/}But 
her wages and activities 
as harlot will be 
dedicated to Yahweh, 
instead of being stored 
or hoarded. Her profits 
will go to those who live 
in the presence of 
Yahweh, that they may 
have abundant food and 
beautiful clothes. 
THE SENTENCE{/}

{1}24{/}

{I}1_{/}See how Yahweh 
breaks
the land and makes it 
crack,
how he turns it upside 
down
and scatters its 
inhabitants,
{I}2_{/}priest and people 
alike,
servant and master, maid 
and mistress;
buyer and seller, lender 
and borrower.
As it will be with the 
creditor,
so will it be with the 
debtor.
{I}3_{/}Cracked is the 
earth,
worn out is the world,
for Yahweh has spoken.
{I}4_{/}The earth mourns 
and withers,
the world pines and 
fades,
both heaven and earth 
languish.
{I}5_{/}The land lies 
polluted,
defiled by its 
inhabitants
who have transgressed the 
laws,
violated the ordinances,
and broken the covenant.
{I}6_{/}Therefore a curse 
consumes the land
and its people burn for 
their guilt.
Few of its inhabitants 
are left.
({I}7_{/}The new wine 
mourns,
the vine pines away,
all the revelers groan.
{I}8_{/}The merry 
timbrels are stilled,
the noise of the revelers 
is over,
the harps and lyres are 
silenced.
{I}9_{/}No more will they 
drink wine with a song;
strong drink tastes 
bitter to the drinker.
{I}10_{/}The city of 
confusion is broken down,
every door is closed; you 
cannot enter.
{I}11_{/}In the streets 
they cry for wine:
all joy is gone,
all cheer has left the 
land.
{I}12_{/}The city is left 
in distress,
its ruined market is 
deserted.)
{I}13_{/}Some remain 
where nations have been
as olives after the 
beating of the trees,
as grapes after the 
vintage.
{I}14_{/}They lift up 
their voices and shout 
for joy,
from the vast lands they 
acclaim Yahweh.

{I}15_{/}People give him 
glory from the western 
islands:
"Islands, sing to Yahweh, 
the God of Israel!"
{I}16_{/}From the 
remotest part of the 
earth
we hear songs of praise:
"Glory to the Righteous 
One."
Yet I said: "Woe is me! 
Woe is me!  there is but 
treachery and traitors!"
{I}17_{/}Not at all!
Terror, pit and snare
await you, inhabitants of 
the earth.
{I}18_{/}He who flees at 
the cry of terror
falls into the pit,
and he who climbs out of 
the pit
gets caught in the snare.
For the floodgates of 
heaven are opened
and the earth shakes to 
its foundation.
{I}19_{/}The earth is 
broken into fragments,
the earth is in 
convulsion.
{I}20_{/}The earth reels 
like a drunkard,
it sways like a hut in 
the storm,
weighed down by its 
transgression,
and it falls, never to 
rise again.
{I}21_{/}On that day 
Yahweh will punish
the host of the heavens 
above,
and the kings of the 
earth below.
{I}22_{/}They will be 
gathered together
as prisoners are gathered 
in the pit;
they will be shut up in a 
dungeon
and after a time, 
punished.
{I}23_{/}Then the moon 
will be confounded
and the sun ashamed,
when Yahweh Sabaoth 
reigns
on Mount Zion and in 
Jerusalem,
and lets his Glory be 
shown to his elders.
THANKSGIVING{/}

{1}25{/}

{I}1_{/}Yahweh, you are 
my God; I  exalt you and 
praise your name, for you 
have done wonderful 
things, faithful and 
true, planned long ago. 
{I}2_{/}You have made the 
city a heap, the 
massively defended city a 
ruin. The bastion of 
foreign domination is a 
city no more, nor will it 
ever be rebuilt.
{I}3_{/}Therefore a 
strong people glorifies 
you; the head of a great 
nation holds you in awe.
{I}4_{/}For you have been 
a refuge to the poor, a 
haven to the needy in 
time of distress, a 
harbor in the storm, a 
shade from the heat.
For the blast from the 
ruthless is like an icy 
storm, {I}5_{/}like heat 
in a dry place. You 
silence the noise of 
foreigners; you subdue 
the singing of the despot 
and the proud.
{I}6_{/}On this mountain 
Yahweh Sabaoth will 
prepare for all peoples a 
feast of rich food and 
choice wines, meat full 
of marrow, fine wine 
strained.
{I}7_{/}On this mountain 
he will destroy the pall 
cast over all peoples, 
this very shroud spread 
over all nations, 
{I}8_{/}and death will be 
no more. The Lord Yahweh 
will wipe away the tears 
from all cheeks and eyes; 
he will take away the 
humiliation of his people 
all over the world:
for Yahweh has spoken.
{I}9_{/}On that day you 
will say: This is our 
God. We have waited for 
him to save us, let us be 
glad and rejoice in his 
salvation. {I}10_{/}For 
on this mountain the hand 
of Yahweh rests.
Moab instead will be 
trodden down, as straw 
trodden down on a 
dunghill. {I}11_{/}He 
will stretch forth his 
hands there, as a swimmer 
spreads out his hands to 
swim. But Yahweh will 
strike down their pride 
together with their 
falsehood. {I}12_{/}He 
will raze the high-walled 
fortress; he will level 
it to the ground, as 
dust.
SONG OF VICTORY{/}

{1}26{/}

{I}1_{/}On that day this 
song will be sung in the 
land of Judah:
We have a strong city,
he himself has set up
walls and fortifications 
to protect us.
{I}2_{/}Open the gates!
Let the righteous nation 
enter,
she who is firm in 
faithfulness.
{I}3_{/}You keep in 
perfect peace
the one of steadfast 
mind,
the one who trusts in 
you.
{I}4_{/}Trust in Yahweh 
forever,
for Yahweh is an 
everlasting Rock.
{I}5_{/}He brought down 
those who dwell on high,
he laid low the lofty 
city,
he razed it to the 
ground,
leveled it to the dust,
{I}6_{/}Now it is 
trampled
the poor and the lowly 
tread upon it.
PSALM OF HOPE{/}

{I}7_{/}Let the righteous 
walk in righteousness. 
You make smooth the path 
of the just, {I}8_{/}and 
we only seek the way of 
your laws, O Yahweh.
Your name and your memory 
are the desire of our 
hearts. {I}9_{/}My soul 
yearns for you in the 
night; for you my spirit 
keeps vigil.
When your judgments come 
to earth, the world's 
inhabitants learn to be 
upright. {I}10_{/}But 
when favor is shown to 
the wicked, he does not 
learn to be just. He does 
evil in a land of 
righteousness and fails 
to see Yahweh's majesty.
{I}11_{/}Yahweh, your 
hand is lifted up, but 
they fail to see that. 
Let them see your zeal 
for your people, that 
they may be put to shame. 
Let your enemies be 
burned in the fire of 
your anger.
{I}12_{/}Yahweh, please 
give us peace; for all 
that we accomplish is 
your work.
{I}13_{/}O Yahweh, our 
God, other lords besides 
you have ruled us, but it 
is your name alone that 
we honor.
{I}14_{/}They are now 
dead, never to rise 
again, for you have 
passed sentence on them. 
You have wiped out all 
remembrance of them.
{I}15_{/}You have 
enlarged the nation, O 
Yahweh; you have given 
glory to your name; you 
have widened the borders 
of the country. 
{I}16_{/}For they sought 
you in distress, they 
cried out to you in the 
time of their punishment.
{I}17_{/}As a woman in 
travail moans and writhes 
in pain, so are we now in 
your presence.
{I}18_{/}We conceived, we 
had labor pains, but we 
gave birth to the wind. 
We have not brought 
salvation to the land; 
the inhabitants of a new 
world have not been born.
{I}19_{/}Your dead will 
live! Their corpses will 
rise! Awake and sing, you 
who lie in the dust!
Let your dew fall, O 
Lord, like a dew of 
light, and the earth will 
throw out her dead.
{I}20_{/}Come, my people, 
enter your rooms and shut 
the doors behind you; 
hide yourselves for a 
moment until his wrath is 
over.
{I}21_{/}For look, Yahweh 
is coming out of his 
dwelling; he will punish 
the inhabitants of the 
earth for their sins. The 
earth will reveal the 
blood shed upon her and 
will not conceal her 
slain any longer.
THE VINEYARD OF YAHWEH{/}

{1}27{/}

{I}1_{/}On that day, with 
his fierce, strong, and 
powerful sword, Yahweh 
will punish Leviathan, 
the twisting serpent 
always fleeing; he will 
slay the dragon of the 
sea.
{I}2_{/}On that day, he 
will say, "Praise my 
fruitful vineyard! 
{I}3_{/}I, Yahweh, am its 
keeper; I water it every 
moment. So that no one 
will harm it, day and 
night I guard it."
{I}4_{/}"I have no wall, 
who will cleanse me from 
thorns?"
"I myself will march 
against them, I will burn 
them altogether. 
{I}5_{/}Or if they come 
to me for refuge, let 
them make peace with me, 
yes, let them make peace 
with me."
{I}6_{/}In days to come 
Jacob will take root,
Israel will blossom and 
bear many a shoot
and fill the face of the 
earth with fruit.
{I}7_{/}Has Yahweh beaten 
them as he beat those who 
beat them?
Has he slain them as he 
slew those who slew them?
{I}8_{/}With expulsion 
and exile
the city has been 
punished;
with a blast as fierce as 
a storm from the east,
she has been pursued and 
carried off.
{I}9_{/}By this, 
therefore, the guilt
of Jacob will be expiated
and he will atone for his 
sins
when he pulverizes all 
the altar stones
like chalkstones crushed 
to pieces.
No more Asherah poles or 
incense altars!
{I}10_{/}For the 
fortified city is 
abandoned:
it lies deserted now,
a forsaken habitation
left like a wilderness.
There the calves graze,
there they lie down, and 
there
they strip bare its 
branches.
{I}11_{/}Its dry boughs 
are broken;
women come and make fire 
with them.
This is a people without 
understanding;
therefore their Maker 
will not spare them;
he will not show 
compassion on them.
{I}12_{/}On that day,
between the Euphrates and 
the Wadi of Egypt,
Yahweh will thresh out 
the grain.
One by one you will be 
gleaned,
O people of Israel.
{I}13_{/}On that day
a great trumpet will 
blow,
and those who were 
perishing
in the land of Assyria
and those who were driven 
out
to the land of Egypt
will return to worship 
the Lord
on the mountain in 
Jerusalem.
THE IRRESPONSIBLE 
RULERS{/}

{1}28{/}

{I}1_{/}Woe to the 
drunkards of Ephraim 
proudly adorned,
to that fading flower of 
luxurious beauty
on the head of a rich 
valley -
all are dizzy with wine.
{I}2_{/}Look, the Lord is 
sending
a powerful and strong 
one.
Like a downpour of hail,
like a destructive 
tempest,
like flooding water
in torrential rain,
he will cast it down to 
the ground -
{I}3_{/}that proud 
ornament
of the drunkards of 
Ephraim.
He will trample it 
underfoot -
{I}4_{/}that fading 
flower of glorious beauty
on the head of a rich 
valley.
It will be like an early 
fruit
which ripened before 
summer:
as soon as someone sees 
it
he picks it, and while it 
is yet
in his hand he eats it.
{I}5_{/}On that day, 
Yahweh Sabaoth
will be a glorious 
ornament,
a diadem of beauty,
to the remnant of his 
people.
{I}6_{/}He will be a 
spirit of justice
to him who sits in 
judgment,
a source of strength
to those who turn back 
the enemies at the gate.
SCOFFERS BEWARE{/}

{I}7_{/}But they also 
have erred through wine,
reeling and stumbling 
from strong drink.
Priests and prophets 
stagger,
befuddled with wine,
reeling when seeing 
visions,
stumbling when rendering 
decisions.
{I}8_{/}All the tables 
are full of vomit;
there is not a spot 
without filth.
{I}9_{/}"Who does he 
think he is teaching?
Who does he think listens 
to him?
Babies just weaned from 
their mother's milk?
Babies just taken from 
their mother's breast?
{I}10_{/}Who cares to 
hear his
'Keep quiet, keep quiet!
Wait a little, wait a 
little!'
{I}11_{/}Yes, surely with 
stammering lips
and in a strange tongue,
he will talk to this 
nation,
{I}12_{/}he who once said 
to them,
"This is rest, give rest 
to the weary";
and, "This is repose."
But they would not 
listen.
{I}13_{/}That is why 
Yahweh now says:
Keep quiet, keep quiet!
Wait a little, wait a 
little!
So that when they have to 
go forward,
they will instead fall 
backward;
they will be injured and 
snared
and taken captive.
{I}14_{/}Therefore, 
listen to the word  of 
Yahweh,
you scoffers who rule 
these people of 
Jerusalem.
{I}15_{/}Because you make 
a boast,
"We have made a covenant 
with death,
we have made a pact with 
the netherworld.
When the flood passes by
it cannot harm us,
for we have made lies our 
refuge
and falsehood our hiding 
place."
THE CORNERSTONE{/}

{I}16_{/}Therefore the 
Lord Yahweh says this:
See, I lay in Zion a 
granite stone,
a precious stone,
a sure foundation;
he who relies on it shall 
not be put to shame.
{I}17_{/}I will make 
justice the measure
and righteousness the 
plumb line.
Violent hail will sweep 
away your refuge of lies 
and raging waters will 
overflow your hiding 
place.
{I}18_{/}Your covenant 
with death will not 
stand,
your pact with the 
netherworld will be 
annulled.
When the overwhelming 
flood passes,
you will be crushed by 
it.
{I}19_{/}Morning after 
morning,
by day and by night,
the scourge will seize 
and crush you.
If you understood this 
message,
you would be terrified.
{I}20_{/}"The bed will be 
too short to stretch out 
on, the blanket too 
narrow to wrap around 
you."
{I}21_{/}Yahweh will 
arise as on Mount 
Perazim,
he will rouse himself as 
in the Valley of Gibeon,
to work his work - his 
singular work;
to do his deed - his 
strange deed.
{I}22_{/}Put an end to 
your mocking,
or your bonds will be 
tightened,
for I have heard the 
destruction decreed
against the whole earth
by the Lord Yahweh 
Sabaoth.
PARABLE OF THE FARMER{/}

{I}23_{/}Listen to my 
words, pay attention and 
understand what I say.
{I}24_{/}Does the plowman 
do nothing but plow, 
loosen the earth, 
pulverize the clods with 
a harrow?
{I}25_{/}After leveling 
the soil, does he not 
begin to sow caraway and 
scatter cumin, wheat and 
barley and put spelt as 
the border? {I}26_{/}For 
his God instructs him on 
what to do, he gives him 
guidance and discretion, 
too.
{I}27_{/}For caraway is 
not threshed nor cumin 
crushed, but caraway is 
beaten with a stick and 
cumin  with a rod.
{I}28_{/}Is the wheat 
milled on the threshing 
floor? Is it threshed 
without end? They put in 
movement chariot and 
horses but do not grind 
it.
{I}29_{/}All comes from 
Yahweh Sabaoth whose 
advice is excellent, 
whose wisdom is 
wonderful.
HURRICANE IN JERUSALEM{/}

{1}29{/}

{I}1_{/}Woe to Ariel - 
Ariel,
the city against which 
David encamped!

After a year or two,
after the feasts have 
made their full round,
{I}2_{/}I will lay siege 
on Ariel
and there will be grief 
and mourning.
To me she will be like an 
Ariel.
{I}3_{/}I will send 
warriors against you;
they will encircle you 
with outposts
and raise siegeworks 
against you.
{I}4_{/}Thrown down, you 
will speak from the 
ground:
from the dust your words 
will come muffled,
your voice will rise as a 
ghost's,
your speech will be a 
whisper in the dust.
But in a flash,
{I}5_{/}the horde of your 
enemies will be like 
dust,
the horde of tyrants, 
flying chaff.
{I}6_{/}For suddenly, 
Yahweh Sabaoth will come
with thunder, earthquake 
and great noise,
with whirlwind and 
thunderstorm
and flames of consuming 
fire.
{I}7_{/}The hordes of all 
nations
that fight against Ariel,
that attack and besiege 
her fortress,
will vanish like a dream,
like a vision in the 
night.
{I}8_{/}As when a hungry 
man dreams he is eating
and awakens with an empty 
stomach,
or when a thirsty man 
dreams he is drinking
and awakens with a 
parched throat,
so will the horde of 
nations be
that make war against 
Zion.
{I}9_{/}Be irresolute, be 
stupefied,
lose your sight and 
remain blind!
Be drunk but not from 
wine,
stagger but not from 
beer.
{I}10_{/}For Yahweh has 
poured out on you
a spirit of deep sleep;
he has shut your eyes - 
the prophets;
he has covered your heads 
- the seers.
{I}11_{/}The revelation 
of all this has become 
for you like the words of 
a sealed scroll. When 
someone gives it to 
another who knows how to 
read and says, "Read 
this," the other one 
answers, "I cannot; it is 
sealed." {I}12_{/}When 
the scroll is given to 
one who doesn't know how 
to read," he answers, "I 
do not know."
THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME 
WITH WORDS{/}

{I}13_{/}Yahweh has said; 
"These people approach me 
in words; they honor me 
with lip-service, while 
their hearts stay afar. 
The worship they offer me 
is useless, these are no 
more than traditions and 
human rules.
{I}14_{/}Because of this 
I will surprise them once 
more; the wisdom of the 
wise will be useless and 
the understanding of 
their prudent men will be 
at a loss.
{I}15_{/}Woe to those
who hide deep from Yahweh 
their plans,
who work in the dark and 
say,
"Who will know, and who 
will see us?"
{I}16_{/}You turn things 
upside down,
as though the potter were 
the clay,
and of him it could say,
"He did not make me; he 
knows nothing."
{I}17_{/}In a very short 
time,
Lebanon will become a 
fruitful field
and the fruitful field 
will be as a forest.
{I}18_{/}On that day
the deaf will hear the 
words of the book,
and out of the dark and 
obscurity
the eyes of the blind 
will see.
{I}19_{/}The meek will 
find joy
and the poor among men 
will rejoice
in the Holy One of 
Israel.
{I}20_{/}For the tyrant 
will be no more
and the scoffers gone 
forever,
and all who plan
to do evil will be cut 
down -
{I}21_{/}those who by a 
word make a man guilty,
those who for a bribe can 
lay a snare
and send home the just 
empty-handed.
{I}22_{/}Therefore 
Yahweh, Abraham's 
redeemer,
speaks concerning the 
people of Jacob:
No longer will Jacob be 
ashamed;
no longer will his face 
grow pale.
{I}23_{/}When he sees the 
work of my hands,
his children again in his 
midst,
they will sanctify my 
name,
they will sanctify the 
Holy One of Jacob,
and stand in awe of the 
God of Israel.
{I}24_{/}Those who err in 
spirit will understand;
those who murmur will 
learn.
DO NOT RELY ON THE GREAT 
POWERS{/}

{1}30{/}

{I}1_{/}"Woe to the 
rebellious children," 
says the Lord; "they make 
plans which are not mine, 
they form alliances I did 
not inspire, and thus add 
sin upon sin.
{I}2_{/}They go down to 
Egypt without my  advice 
to take refuge in 
Pharaoh's protection and 
seek shelter in the 
shadow of Egypt.
{I}3_{/}Therefore 
Pharaoh's protection will 
be your shame and Egypt's 
shadow your confusion.
{I}4_{/}When your 
officials reach Zoan and 
your ambassadors come to 
Hanes, {I}5_{/}they will 
all be put to shame by a 
people who can do nothing 
for them, who can give 
neither help nor benefit 
but only disgrace and 
reproach."
{I}6_{/}An oracle 
concerning the beasts of 
the Negeb:
Through a distressed and 
troubled land
of lions and lionesses,
of vipers and darting 
snakes,
the envoys carry their 
riches upon the shoulders 
of young asses,
their treasures upon the 
humps of camels,
to a people that is of no 
use to them.
{I}7_{/}Egypt! An 
illusory and useless 
help. Because of that I 
call it: Scarecrow, the 
Do-Nothing.
JUST TELL US PLEASANT 
THINGS{/}

{I}8_{/}Now go, write it 
down as a record for 
them, inscribe it on a 
scroll, so it will be an 
everlasting accusation 
against them.
{I}9_{/}These are a 
rebellious people, their 
children deceitful. They 
do not listen to Yahweh's 
advice.
{I}10_{/}To the seers 
they say, "See not," and 
to the prophets, "Do not 
prophesy the truth. Just 
tell us pleasant things; 
see illusions and 
prophesy deceits. 
{I}11_{/}Stray from the 
path, turn from the way! 
Take away from us the 
Holy One of Israel!"
{I}12_{/}Therefore the 
Holy One of Israel says, 
"Because you despised 
this message and resorted 
instead to lies and 
abusive taxes, choosing 
to stay with it, 
{I}13_{/}therefore this 
guilt of yours will be 
like a breach on a high 
wall, cracked and 
bulging, ready to fall; 
the crash will come 
suddenly and instantly.
{I}14_{/}It will be like 
the breaking of a 
potter's vessel, smashed 
so ruthlessly that among 
its fragments not one 
shard remains big enough 
to scoop cinder out of 
the hearth or ladle water 
out of the cistern."
{I}15_{/}For thus said 
the Lord Yahweh, the Holy 
One of Israel: 
"Conversion and calmness 
would have been your 
salvation, quietness and 
trust your strength."
{I}16_{/}But instead you 
said, "No, we will flee 
on horses!" Very well 
then, flee! And you 
added, "We will ride on 
swift steeds." Your 
pursuer will be swifter.
{I}17_{/}At the threat of 
one, a thousand will 
flee, at the threat of 
five all will flee, till 
what is left of you will 
be like a staff on a 
mountaintop, like a 
banner on a hill.
THE COMING PROSPERITY{/}

{I}18_{/}Yet Yahweh waits 
to give you grace; he 
rises to show you 
compassion. For Yahweh is 
a God of justice. Blessed 
are all who wait for him.
{I}19_{/}O people of 
Zion, who dwell in 
Jerusalem, you will weep 
no more. When you cry, he 
will listen; when he 
hears, he will answer.
{I}20_{/}When the  Lord  
has  given  you the bread 
of anguish and the water 
of distress, he, your 
teacher will hide no 
longer. {I}21_{/}Your own 
eyes will see him, and 
your ear will listen to 
his words behind you: 
"This is the way, walk in 
it."
{I}22_{/}You will  see  
the uncleanliness of your 
idols and images overlaid 
with silver and gold. You 
will throw them out like 
a menstrual cloth."Away 
with you then!" you will 
say to them.
{I}23_{/}He will then 
give rain for the seed 
you sow and make the 
harvest abundant from the 
crops you grow. On that 
day your cattle will 
graze in wide pastures. 
{I}24_{/}Your beasts of 
burden will eat silage 
tossed to them with 
pitchfork and shovel.
{I}25_{/}For on the day 
of the great slaughter, 
when fortresses fall, 
streams of water will 
flow on every mountain 
and lofty hill.
{I}26_{/}The light of the 
moon will be as the light 
of the sun, and the light 
of the sun seven times 
greater, like the light 
of seven days, when 
Yahweh binds up the 
wounds of his people and 
heals the bruises 
inflicted by his blows.
ASSYRIA WILL BE 
SACRIFICED{/}

{I}27_{/}Look, from afar
the Name of Yahweh is 
coming,
burning in anger,
with a heavy hand.
Filled with fury are his 
lips,
like a consuming fire is 
his tongue.
{I}28_{/}Like a rushing 
torrent is his breath,
rising up to the neck,
shaking the nations
as in a sieve of 
destruction,
putting the bit of his 
bridle
between the jaws of the 
peoples
causing them to err and 
stray.
{I}29_{/}You will sing,
as on the night of a holy 
solemnity;
your hearts will rejoice
as when people go up with 
flutes,
with timbrels and lyres.
to the mountain of the 
Lord,
to the mighty One of 
Israel.
{I}30_{/}Yahweh will make 
his majestic voice heard
and show his arm 
descending
in devastating fury and 
consuming fire,
with sweeping wind and 
crashing thunder.
{I}31_{/}At the voice of 
Yahweh,
Assyria will be battered;
at the blows of his rod,
it will be shattered.
{I}32_{/}At every beat of 
the punishing rod
the plagues will fall on 
him.
For Yahweh will fight him
with outstretched hand.
{I}33_{/}The pyre has 
long been ready,
prepared for the king.
Broad and deep is its 
fire pit,
piled up with dry grass 
and wood.
The breath of the Lord,
like a stream of 
brimstone,
will set it ablaze.
LOOK TO THE HOLY ONE OF 
ISRAEL{/}

{1}31{/}

{I}1_{/}Woe to those who 
go down to Egypt for 
help, who pin their hopes 
on cavalry, putting their 
trust in chariots because 
they are many, relying on 
horsemen because they are 
strong.
Why did they not look to 
the Holy One of Israel or 
consult Yahweh? 
{I}2_{/}And yet he is 
very wise, and from him 
disaster will come.
He does not go back on 
his word; he will rise 
against the evildoers, 
and cut off the help the 
wicked waited for.
{I}3_{/}The Egyptians are 
men, not God; their 
horses are flesh, not 
spirit. When Yahweh 
stretches forth his hand, 
the helper and the one he 
helped will fall and 
perish together.
{I}4_{/}For thus the Lord 
has spoken: Just as a 
lion or a lion cub growls 
over its prey and is 
neither frightened nor 
disturbed by the shouts 
of the shepherd, so will 
Yahweh Sabaoth descend to 
fight on Mount Zion.
{I}5_{/}Like birds that 
hover, so will Yahweh 
Sabaoth shield Jerusalem: 
he will protect and 
deliver, rescue  and 
save.
{I}6_{/}Return, O 
children of Israel, to 
him you have so wickedly 
betrayed. {I}7_{/}On that 
day each one of you will 
throw away the idols of 
silver and gold that his 
sinful hands have made.
{I}8_{/}Assyria will fall 
by a sword not wielded by 
a man. They will be 
devoured by a sword not 
held by a mortal. They 
will flee before the 
sword, their young men 
will be captured and put 
to forced labor. 
{I}9_{/}They will desert 
their post and the 
officers, in terror, will 
abandon the standard."
It is Yahweh who speaks, 
whose fire is in Zion and 
whose furnace is in 
Jerusalem.
A KING WILL REIGN WITH 
JUSTICE{/}

{1}32{/}

{I}1_{/}A king will reign 
with justice
and princes reign in 
righteousness.
{I}2_{/}Each will be like 
a shield from the wind
and a shelter from the 
rain,
like streams of water in 
a dry, parched land,
like the shade of a rock 
in a weary land.
{I}3_{/}The eyes that see 
will not be shut;
the ears that hear will 
not be stopped.
{I}4_{/}The mind of the 
rash will not judge 
hastily;
the tongue that stammers 
will speak clearly.
{I}5_{/}No more will the 
fool be taken as noble,
nor the scoundrel 
considered honorable.
{I}6_{/}For the fool 
speaks folly and his mind 
thinks sinfully: he 
practices wickedness and 
takes pride in 
godlessness; he lets the 
hungry go without food, 
and the thirsty without 
drink.
{I}7_{/}The ways of the 
scoundrel are also evil, 
scheming wickedly against 
the poor, destroying the 
needy with lies even when 
their plea is just.
{I}8_{/}But the noble 
man's plans are noble, 
and so are his deeds.
TREMBLE, YOU IDLE 
WOMEN{/}

{I}9_{/}Rise up, women 
who are at ease; hear my 
voice, carefree 
daughters; give heed to 
my words.
{I}10_{/}In a little over 
a year, you who feel 
complacent will be 
shaken, for harvest will 
not come and the vintage 
will fail.
{I}11_{/}Tremble, you 
women who are at ease; be 
troubled, you carefree 
ones. Strip yourselves 
bare, with only a 
sackcloth to cover your 
loins.
{I}12_{/}Beat your 
breasts for the pleasant 
fields, for the fruitful 
vine, {I}13_{/}for the 
soil of my people 
overgrown with briers and 
thorns, for all the 
houses of joy, for the 
city of the wanton.
{I}14_{/}For the palace 
will be abandoned, and 
the noisy city deserted; 
the fort and the tower 
will become dens forever, 
the delight of wild 
asses, a pasture for 
flocks.
MY PEOPLE WILL LIVE IN 
PEACE{/}

{I}15_{/}When at last the 
spirit is poured on us 
from on high, then will 
the desert become a 
garden, and this garden 
will be free as a fallow 
land.
{I}16_{/}Justice will 
dwell in the wilderness; 
and in the fertile land, 
righteousness. 
{I}17_{/}Justice will 
bring about peace; 
justice will produce calm 
and security forever.
{I}18_{/}My people will 
live in comfort and bliss 
in a land of secure 
dwellings and undisturbed 
resting places. 
{I}19_{/}While the forest 
will be beaten down and 
the fortress laid waste.
{I}20_{/}How blessed you 
will be, sowing by every 
stream, letting your work 
animals roam contented 
and free.
PSALM OF HOPE{/}

{1}33{/}

{I}1_{/}Woe to you, O 
ravager
who never have been 
ravaged,
you O treacherous one
who have not been 
betrayed!
When your ravaging is 
over,
you yourself will be 
ravaged;
when your treacherous 
deals are ended,
you yourself will be 
betrayed.
{I}2_{/}O Yahweh, have 
mercy on us
who put all our hope in 
you.
Be our strength every 
morning,
our salvation when 
trouble comes.
{I}3_{/}Peoples flee when 
you thunder and threaten,
nations scatter when you 
rise majestically.
{I}4_{/}Your spoil, O 
nations, will be gathered
like grasshoppers or 
locusts
leaping and pouncing at 
grain in the fields.
{I}5_{/}Great is Yahweh 
who dwells in the height
who fills Zion with 
justice and right,
{I}6_{/}at any time he 
makes you secure.
Wisdom and knowledge are 
the helpful riches,
the fear of Yahweh will 
be your treasure.
THE INTERVENTION OF 
YAHWEH{/}

{I}7_{/}The people of 
Ariel lament in the 
street,
their envoys of peace 
bitterly weep.
{I}8_{/}The highways lie 
waste with no traveler in 
sight.
For the covenants were 
broken,
the promises trampled 
down;
no one has been 
respected.
{I}9_{/}The earth mourns 
and languishes,
Lebanon withers away with 
shame,
Sharon has become a 
wilderness,
and Bashan and Carmel are 
stripped bare.
{I}10_{/}Yahweh says: now 
I will rise up,
now I will be exalted,
now I will lift myself 
up.
{I}11_{/}You conceived 
chaff,
you will deliver stubble,
my breath like fire will 
devour you.
{I}12_{/}The nations will 
be burned to lime,
like thorns cut down and 
burned in the fire.
{I}13_{/}You who are 
afar,
hear what I have done;
and you who are near,
acknowledge my might.
{I}14_{/}The sinners of 
Zion shake,
trembling in fear are the 
hypocrites.
"Who among us will dwell 
with flames?
Who can subsist in the 
midst of fire?
{I}15_{/}He who walks 
uprightly
and speaks righteously,
spurns profit from 
oppression,
shakes his fists at graft 
and corruption,
stops his ears against 
suggestions of bloodshed
and averts his eyes from 
evil plans.
{I}16_{/}This is the man
who will dwell on the 
heights,
his stronghold a fortress 
of rocks;
bread is given to him,
his water will not fail.
AFTER THE OPPRESSION{/}

{I}17_{/}Your eyes will 
behold a king in his 
splendor and a land that 
stretches afar.
{I}18_{/}Yet your mind 
may still dwell on its 
old fears: Where is the 
oppressor who counted and 
weighed the taxes and 
enrolled our sons?
{I}19_{/}But you will see 
no more of those fierce 
people with obscure 
speech you cannot 
comprehend, with 
stammering tongue you 
cannot understand.
{I}20_{/}Look to Zion, 
the city of our 
festivals; see Jerusalem, 
a peaceful abode, a 
tabernacle never to be 
destroyed. Not one of its 
stakes will ever be 
removed nor any of its 
ropes severed.
{I}21_{/}But there is 
Yahweh mighty for our 
sake, in place of broad 
rivers and streams. Here 
you see no galley with 
oars; no stately sailing 
ship. {I}22_{/}But Yahweh 
is our judge, Yahweh is 
our king: he will save 
us.
THE OPPRESSOR PILLAGED{/}

{I}23_{/}Your rigging 
hangs loose: it cannot 
hold the mast firm, it 
cannot keep the sail 
spread out.
Such have been the prey 
and spoil that even the 
lame pounced on it. 
{I}24_{/}On that day no 
one apologized, "I am 
sickly." The people who 
dwell there have been 
forgiven their sins.
THE END OF EDOM{/}

{1}34{/}

{I}1_{/}Come, O nations, 
hear
and take heed, O peoples!
Listen, O earth and all 
that is in you;
listen, O world and all 
that comes from you.
{I}2_{/}The wrath of 
Yahweh is upon all 
nations.
His fury is upon all 
their armies.
He has doomed them,
he has given them over 
for slaughter.
{I}3_{/}Their slain will 
be thrown away,
stench coming from the 
carcasses,
mountains will flow with 
blood.
{I}4_{/}The heavens will 
dissolve
and the skies roll up 
like a scroll,
all their hosts shall 
fall,
as the leaf falls from 
its vine,
as the fruit falls from 
its tree.
{I}5_{/}My sword waited 
in the heavens;
and look, it descends 
upon Edom,
to judge the people I 
have doomed.
{I}6_{/}The sword of 
Yahweh is bathed in blood
and covered with fat -
the blood of goats and 
lambs,
the fat of the saddle of 
rams.
For Yahweh has a 
sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the 
land of Edom.
{I}7_{/}Wild oxen will 
fall
and young steers with the 
bulls.
Their land will be 
drenched with blood;
their soil enriched with 
fat.
{I}8_{/}For Yahweh has a 
day of vengeance,
Zion's defender has a 
year of recompense.
{I}9_{/}The streams of 
Edom will become pitch,
her soil will be turned 
into brimstone,
her land will be burning 
pitch.
{I}10_{/}Never will its 
fire be quenched, night 
or day,
forever will its smoke go 
up.
From generation to 
generation the land will 
lie desolate
and none will ever pass 
through it.
{I}11_{/}It will be the 
haunt of pelican and wild 
hog,
the dwelling place of the 
owl and the hawk.
God has decided to make 
it empty,
he has destined it to be 
desolate.
{I}12_{/}There will be no 
more kings to be 
proclaimed,
no princes to be 
acclaimed,
for the nobility will 
vanish
in a kingdom doomed to 
perish.
{I}13_{/}Thorns will grow 
over the castles,
nettles and brambles over 
the citadels;
the place will be a haunt 
of reptiles,
an abode of owls and 
ostriches.
{I}14_{/}Wild beasts will 
meet there,
wild goats will call to 
one another;
there will the night 
creatures alight
to find for themselves a 
resting place.
{I}15_{/}There will the 
great owl make her nest
to lay and hatch and also 
find rest.
There will the vultures 
gather,
each with its mate.
{I}16_{/}Seek and read 
from the book of Yahweh:
not one of them will be 
missing,
for his mouth has given 
the order
and his spirit has 
brought them together.
{I}17_{/}He has cast the 
lot for them.
His hand has divided it 
among them.
They will possess the 
land forever,
and from generation to 
generation they shall 
dwell there.
THE RETURN OF THE 
EXILES{/}

{1}35{/}

{I}1_{/}Let the 
wilderness and the arid 
land rejoice,
the desert be glad and 
blossom.
{I}2_{/}Covered with 
flowers, it sings and 
shouts with joy,
adorned with the splendor 
of Lebanon,
the magnificence of 
Carmel and Sharon.
They, my people, see the 
glory of Yahweh,
the majesty of our God.
{I}3_{/}Give vigor to 
weary hands
and strength to enfeebled 
knees.
{I}4_{/}Say to those who 
are afraid:
"Have courage, do not 
fear.
See, your God comes, 
demanding justice.
He is the God who 
rewards,
the God who comes to save 
you."
{I}5_{/}Then will the 
eyes of the blind be 
opened
and the ears of the deaf 
unsealed.
{I}6_{/}Then will the 
lame leap as a hart
and the tongue of the 
dumb sing and shout.
For water will break out 
in the wilderness
and streams gush forth 
from the desert.
{I}7_{/}The thirsty 
ground will become a 
pool,
the arid land springs of 
water.
In the haunts where once 
reptiles lay,
grass will grow with 
reeds and rushes.
{I}8_{/}There will be a 
highway
which will be called The 
Way of Holiness;
no one unclean will pass 
over it
nor any wicked fool stray 
there.
{I}9_{/}No lion will be 
found there
nor any beast of prey.
Only the redeemed will 
walk there.
{I}10_{/}For the ransomed 
of Yahweh will return:
with everlasting joy upon 
their heads,
they will come to Zion 
singing,
gladness and joy marching 
with them,
while sorrow and sighing 
flee away.
SENNACHERIB'S INVASION{/}

{1}36{/}

{I}1_{/}In the fourteenth 
year of King Hezekiah's 
reign, Sennacherib, king 
of Assyria, attacked all 
the fortified cities of 
Judah and captured them. 
{I}2_{/}From Lakish the 
king of Assyria sent his 
field commander with a 
large army to King 
Hezekiah in Jerusalem. 
They halted at the 
channel of the Upper Pool 
on the highway of the 
Fuller's Field. 
{I}3_{/}So Eliakim son of 
Hilkiah, the palace 
administrator, went out 
to him together with 
Shebna the secretary and 
Joah son of Asaph the 
recorder.
{I}4_{/}The field 
commander said to them, 
"Give Hezekiah this 
message of the great king 
of Assyria: How can you 
be so confident? 
{I}5_{/}Do you think 
words can replace 
strategy and military 
strength? On whom are you 
relying to rebel against 
me?
{I}6_{/}You rely on 
Egypt, a broken staff 
which pierces the palm of 
him who leans on it. Such 
is Pharaoh, king of 
Egypt, for all who rely 
on him. {I}7_{/}Yes, you 
may say to me: 'We rely 
on Yahweh our God.' But 
isn't he the one whose 
altars and high places 
Hezekiah removed when he 
commanded Judah and 
Jerusalem: You shall 
worship before this 
altar?
{I}8_{/}Come now, make a 
bargain with my master, 
the king. I will give you 
two thousand horses if 
you are able to supply 
riders. {I}9_{/}How could 
you ever repulse one of 
the least of my master's 
generals? And you rely on 
Egypt for chariots and 
horsemen! {I}10_{/}Do you 
think that I have come to 
attack and destroy this 
land without consulting 
Yahweh? He himself said 
to me: Go up to this land 
and conquer it!"
{I}11_{/}Then Eliakim and 
Shebna and Joah said to 
the field commander, 
"Speak to your servants 
in Aramaic, we understand 
it. Do not speak to us in 
Hebrew in the hearing of 
these people on the 
walls."
{I}12_{/}But the field 
commander said, "Do you 
think that my master sent 
me to speak these words 
only to your master and 
you? Isn't it also to the 
men on the walls who with 
you will have to eat 
their own dung and drink 
their urine?"
{I}13_{/}Then the field 
commander stood and cried 
out with a loud voice in 
Hebrew, "Hear the words 
of the great king of 
Assyria: {I}14_{/}Do not 
let Hezekiah deceive you! 
No, he will not be able 
to help you! {I}15_{/}Do 
not listen to him when he 
tells you to trust in 
Yahweh, saying, 'Yahweh 
will save us; this city 
will not be given over to 
the king of Assyria.' 
{I}16_{/}Do not listen to 
Hezekiah but to what the 
king of Assyria says, 
'Make your peace with me 
{I}17_{/}and surrender. 
So I will let each of you 
eat of your vine and of 
your fig tree and drink 
the water of your cistern 
until I come again. Then 
I will take you to a land 
like your own land, a 
land of grain and new 
wine, of bread and 
vineyards.
{I}18_{/}Hezekiah is 
misleading you when he 
says that Yahweh will 
save you. Have the gods 
of the nations rescued 
their lands from the 
hands of the king of 
Assyria? {I}19_{/}Where 
are the gods of Hamath 
and Arpad? Where are the 
gods of Shepharvaim? And 
have the gods delivered 
Samaria from my hand? 
{I}20_{/}Who among all 
the gods of these nations 
has been able to save his 
country from me? Do you 
think that Yahweh could 
deliver Jerusalem from my 
hand?"
{I}21_{/}The people were 
like deaf men and 
remained silent, for the 
king had commanded them 
not to answer him.
{I}22_{/}Then Eliakim 
with Shebna and Joah came 
to Hezekiah with their 
clothes torn and told him 
what the field commander 
had said.
KING HEZEKIAH CONSULTS 
ISAIAH{/}

{1}37{/}

{I}1_{/}When King 
Hezekiah heard this he 
tore his clothes, covered 
himself with sackcloth 
and went to the house of 
Yahweh. {I}2_{/}He sent 
Eliakim, Shebna and the 
elders among the priests, 
all wearing sackcloth, to 
the prophet Isaiah, son 
of Amoz.
{I}3_{/}And they said to 
Isaiah, "This is what 
Hezekiah says: 'Today is 
a day of distress, rebuke 
and disgrace, as when 
children come to birth 
and there is no strength 
to deliver. {I}4_{/}May 
your God hear the words 
of the field commander, 
whom his master the king 
of Assyria has sent. May 
Yahweh your God rebuke 
him for the words he 
said, insulting the 
living God. Therefore 
offer a prayer for the 
few of us that are left."
{I}5_{/}When King 
Hezekiah's officials came 
to Isaiah, {I}6_{/}he 
said to them: "Tell your 
master this word of 
Yahweh: Do not fear 
because of what you heard 
when the servants of the 
king of Assyria insulted 
me. Listen! {I}7_{/}I 
will let him be disturbed 
by certain news, so he 
will return to his 
country and there I will 
have him slain by the 
sword."
{I}8_{/}The field 
commander returned and 
found the king of Assyria 
fighting against Libnah, 
for he had heard that the 
king had left Lachish. 
{I}9_{/}This was because 
King Sennacherib had 
heard that Tirhakah, the 
Cushite king of Egypt, 
was going out to fight 
him.
Again Sennacherib sent 
messengers to Hezekiah 
with these words, 
{I}10_{/}"Say to Hezekiah 
king of Judah that his 
God in whom he trusts 
might deceive him in 
saying that Jerusalem 
will not be given into 
the hands of the king of 
Assyria. {I}11_{/}Surely 
you have heard what the 
kings of Assyria have 
done to all the lands 
they have destroyed! And 
will you be spared? 
{I}12_{/}Have the gods 
saved the nations that my 
fathers destroyed? Gozan 
and Haran, Rezeph and the 
sons of Eden who were in 
Telassar? {I}13_{/}Where 
is the king of Hamath, 
the king of Arpad, the 
kings of the cities of 
Sepharvaim, of Hena and 
of Ivvah?"
{I}14_{/}Hezekiah took 
the letter from the 
messengers and when he 
had read it he went to 
the house of Yahweh where 
he unrolled the letter 
{I}15_{/}and prayed 
saying, {I}16_{/}"O 
Yahweh, God of hosts and 
God of Israel, enthroned 
above the cherubim! You 
alone are God over all 
the kingdoms of the 
earth, give ear Yahweh 
and hear! {I}17_{/}Open 
your eyes and see! Listen 
to all the words of 
Sennacherib who has sent 
men to insult the living 
God!
{I}18_{/}It is true, 
Yahweh, that the kings of 
Assyria have laid waste 
all the countries of the 
earth. {I}19_{/}They have 
thrown their gods into 
the fire and destroyed 
them, for they were not 
true gods but made of 
wood and stone by human 
hands. {I}20{/}Now, O 
Yahweh our God, save us 
from his hand and let all 
the kingdoms of the earth 
know that you alone, 
Yahweh, are God."
{I}21_{/}Then Isaiah, son 
of Amoz, sent word to 
Hezekiah: "You have 
called upon Yahweh and he 
has heard your prayer 
regarding Sennacherib, 
king of Assyria. This is 
what Yahweh has spoken 
against him:
{I}22_{/}The Virgin 
Daughter of Zion
despises and scorns you;
the Daughter of Jerusalem
shakes her head behind 
you.
{I}23_{/}Whom have you 
insulted and blasphemed?
Against whom have you 
raised your voice
and lifted up your brow?
Against the Holy One of 
Israel!
{I}24_{/}Through your 
servants
you have insulted Yahweh.
For you have said:
With my numerous 
chariots,
I have climbed the 
heights of the mountains,
the topmost recesses of 
Lebanon.
I have felled its tallest 
cedars and its choicest 
fir trees.
I have reached the 
remotest heights of its 
border,
the best of its forests.
{I}25_{/}I have dug wells 
and drunk waters;
I dried up with the sole 
of my foot all the 
streams of Egypt.
{I}26_{/}But have you not 
heard how I decreed it 
long ago?
I have just brought to 
pass what I planned from 
days of old:
to lay waste fortified 
cities,
to turn them into heaps 
of ruins.
{I}27_{/}Shorn of power, 
their inhabitants
have been dismayed and 
confounded;

they have been as the 
grass
and green plants in the 
field,
as the grass on the 
housetops,
as corn scorched before 
it blooms.
{I}28_{/}I know whenever 
you rise or sit,
whenever you come or go.
{I}29_{/}Because of your 
rage against me
and of your arrogance 
that has
reached my ears,
I will put my hook in 
your nose
and my bridle in your 
mouth,
and I will turn you back
on the way by which you 
came.
{I}30_{/}This will be a 
sign for you, O Hezekiah: 
This year you will eat 
the gleaning of the 
fields and next year the 
self-sown grain, but in 
the third year sow and 
reap, plant vines and eat 
the fruit.
{I}31_{/}A remnant of the 
people of Judah shall 
take root below and 
produce fruit above. 
{I}32_{/}For a remnant 
will come from Jerusalem 
and survivors from Mount 
Zion. The zeal of Yahweh 
of hosts will accomplish 
this. That is why Yahweh 
has spoken concerning the 
king of Assyria. 
{I}33_{/}He shall not 
enter this city nor shoot 
his arrows. {I}34_{/}He 
shall not raise a shield 
to oppose it nor build a 
siege ramp against it. He 
shall leave by the way he 
came and he shall not 
enter the city, word of 
Yahweh.
{I}35_{/}I will protect 
this city and so save it 
for my own sake and for 
the sake of David, my 
servant."
{I}36_{/}That night the 
angel of Yahweh went and 
struck one hundred and 
eighty-five thousand men 
in the Assyrian camp. 
When the people rose 
early next morning there 
lay all the corpses.
{I}37_{/}So Sennacherib, 
king of Assyria departed, 
returned home and lived 
in Nineveh. 
{I}38_{/}While he was 
worshiping in the temple 
of his god, Nisroch, his 
sons Adrammelech and 
Sharezer slew him with 
the sword and then 
escaped to the land of 
Ararat. And Esarhaddon, 
his son, succeeded him as 
king.
ILLNESS AND CURE OF 
HEZEKIAH{/}

{1}38{/}

{I}1_{/}In those days 
Hezekiah fell mortally 
ill and the prophet 
Isaiah, son of Amoz, went 
to him with a message 
from Yahweh, "Put your 
house in order for you 
shall die; you shall not 
live."
{I}2_{/}Hezekiah turned 
his face to the wall and 
prayed to Yahweh, 
{I}3_{/}"Ah Yahweh! 
Remember how I have 
walked before you in 
truth and wholeheartedly, 
and done what is good in 
your sight." And Hezekiah 
wept bitterly.
{I}4_{/}Then the word of 
Yahweh came to Isaiah, 
{I}5_{/}"Go and tell 
Hezekiah what Yahweh, the 
God of his father David, 
says: I have heard your 
prayer and I have seen 
your tears. See! I am 
adding fifteen years to 
your life {I}6_{/}and I 
will save you and this 
city from the power of 
the king of Assyria. I 
will defend it for my 
sake and for the sake of 
David my servant. 
{I}7_{/}And this shall be 
for you a sign from 
Yahweh, that he will do 
what he has promised. 
{I}8_{/}See! I shall make 
the shadow descending on 
the stairway of Ahaz go 
back ten steps." So the 
sunlight went back the 
ten steps it had covered 
on the stairway.
CANTICLE OF HEZEKIAH{/}

{I}9_{/}Canticle of 
Hezekiah king of Judah
after his illness and 
recovery:
{I}10_{/}Once I said: In 
the noontime of my life I 
go;
I am sent to the land of 
the dead,
for the rest of my years.
{I}11_{/}I said: Never 
again shall I see Yahweh
in the land of the 
living;
never again shall I see 
the inhabitants of the 
earth.
{I}12_{/}Like a 
shepherd's tent, my 
dwelling
has been pulled down and 
thrown away;
like a weaver, you rolled 
up my life
and cut it from the loom:
from day to night you 
made me waste away.
{I}13_{/}I have cried for 
help until morning.
Like a lion, he has 
broken all my bones.
{I}14_{/}I have uttered 
shrill cries
like a swallow or a 
crane,
I have moaned like a 
dove.
My eyes all the while are 
growing weary
as I look up to the 
heavens:
Come and help me, O Lord!
For I am troubled.
{I}15_{/}But how can I 
speak
and what shall I say to 
him,
if he himself is doing 
this to me?
I will have to walk all 
my years
bearing this anguish of 
my soul.
{I}16_{/}O Lord, give me 
back my health
and give me back my life!
{I}17_{/}My anguish has 
turned to peace;
you have retrieved my 
life
from the pit of 
corruption;
you have cast all my sins 
behind you.
{I}18_{/}For the dead 
cannot give you thanks,
death cannot give you 
praise;
those who go down to the 
pit
cannot hope for your 
kindness.
{I}19_{/}The living, the 
living alone
can give you thanks and 
praise, as I do; fathers 
will tell their sons of 
your fidelity.
{I}20_{/}O Yahweh, come 
and save me!
We will sing, accompanied 
by harps,
in the Temple of Yahweh
all the days of our life.
{I}21_{/}Isaiah then 
said, "Bring a fig cake 
to rub on the ulcer and 
let Hezekiah be cured!"
Ver [Is_38,9-20]{/}

BABYLONIAN EMBASSY{/}

{1}39{/}

{I}1_{/}At that time 
MerodachBaladan, son of 
Baladan, king of Babylon, 
sent letters and a gift 
to Hezekiah after hearing 
that he was recovering 
from an illness. 
{I}2_{/}Hezekiah was 
pleased and showed the 
envoys all that was in 
his treasure house, the 
silver, gold, spices and 
fine oil, his entire 
armory and all that was 
in his treasury. In fact 
there was nothing in his 
palace or in his kingdom 
that Hezekiah did not 
show them.
{I}3_{/}Isaiah the 
prophet came to Hezekiah 
and asked him, "What did 
these men say and from 
where did they come?" 
Hezekiah answered, "They 
came to me from a distant 
country - from Babylon."
{I}4_{/}And Isaiah said, 
"What have they seen in 
your palace?" Hezekiah 
replied, "They have seen 
everything in my palace; 
there is nothing among my 
treasures that I did not 
show them."
{I}5_{/}Isaiah then said, 
"Hear this word of 
Yahweh, the God of hosts: 
{I}6_{/}Behold the days 
are coming when all that 
is in your palace, and 
which your fathers have 
treasured to this day, 
will be carried off to 
Babylon. Nothing will be 
left. {I}7_{/}And some of 
your descendants, born of 
you, will be taken and 
will become eunuchs in 
the palace of the king of 
Babylon."
{I}8_{/}Hezekiah then 
said to Isaiah, "The word 
of Yahweh which you have 
spoken to me is good!" 
For he thought: there 
will be peace and truth 
in my lifetime.
BE COMFORTED, MY 
PEOPLE{/}

{1}40{/}

{I}1_{/}Be comforted, my 
people,
be strengthened, says 
your God.
{I}2_{/}Speak to the 
heart of Jerusalem, 
proclaim to her
that her time of bondage 
is at an end,
that her guilt has been 
paid for,
that from the hand of 
Yahweh
she has received double 
punishment
for all her iniquity.
{I}3_{/}A voice cries,
"In the wilderness 
prepare the way for 
Yahweh.
Make straight in the 
desert a highway for our 
God.
{I}4_{/}Every valley will 
be raised up;
every mountain and hill 
will be laid low.
The stumbling blocks 
shall become level
and the rugged places 
smooth.
{I}5_{/}The glory of 
Yahweh will be revealed,
and all mortals together 
will see it;
for the mouth of Yahweh 
has spoken."
{I}6_{/}A voice says, 
"Cry."
and I say, "What shall I 
cry?"
"All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty as the 
flower of the field.
{I}7_{/}The grass 
withers, the flower 
wilts,
when the breath of Yahweh 
blows upon it.
{I}8_{/}The grass 
withers, the flower 
fades,
but the word of our God 
will forever stand."
{I}9_{/}Go up onto the 
high mountain, messenger 
of Zion,
lift up your voice with 
strength,
fear not to cry aloud 
when you tell Jerusalem
and announce to the 
cities of Judah:
Here is your God!
{I}10_{/}Here comes your 
God with might;
his strong arm rules for 
him;
his reward is with him,
and here before him is 
his booty.
{I}11_{/}Like a shepherd 
he tends his flock:
he gathers the lambs in 
his arms,
he carries them in his 
bosom,
gently leading those that 
are with young.
THE GREAT GOD{/}

{I}12_{/}Who has measured 
the waters of the sea in 
a cupped hand,
or the breadth of the sky 
in the span of a hand?
Who has collected the 
sands of the earth?
Who has weighed the 
mountains in scales
and the hills in a 
balance?
{I}13_{/}Who has probed 
the spirit of Yahweh
or as a counselor advised 
him?
{I}14_{/}Whom has he 
consulted to enlighten 
him,
and help him to decide?
Who gave him knowledge
and taught him the ways 
of success?
{I}15_{/}The nations 
before him are like a 
drop on the brim of the 
bucket,
or like dust on the 
scales.
The islands weigh no more 
than powder.
{I}16_{/}Lebanon is not 
enough to burn as altar 
fire,
nor will its animals 
provide a holocaust.
{I}17_{/}All nations 
before him are as 
nothing,
all emptiness, all vanity 
in his eyes.
{I}18_{/}To whom, then, 
will you liken God?
With whose image will you 
compare him?
{I}19_{/}To an idol cast 
by a craftsman,
covered with gold by a 
goldsmith
and adorned with silver 
chains?
{I}20_{/}Or to wood that 
will not rot, chosen and 
fashioned by a skilled 
craftsman into an image 
that cannot move?
{I}21_{/}Have you not 
known?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you 
from the beginning,
that you may understand 
how the earth was 
founded?
{I}22_{/}He sits far 
above the vault of the 
earth,
with its inhabitants like 
grasshoppers;
he stretches out the 
heavens as a curtain
and spreads them out like 
a tent where he dwells.
{I}23_{/}He reduces the 
princes to naught,
and the rulers of the 
earth to nothingness.
{I}24_{/}No sooner are 
they planted or sown,
no sooner do they take 
root in the ground,
than he blows on them, 
and they wither,
a storm sweeps them away 
like stubble.
{I}25_{/}To whom, then, 
will you liken me

or make me equal? says 
the Holy One.
{I}26_{/}Lift up your 
eyes and see:
who has created all this?
He has ordered them as a 
starry host
and called them each by 
name.
So mighty is his power,
so great his strength,
that not one of them is 
missing.
{I}27_{/}How can you say, 
O Jacob,
how can you complain, O 
Israel,
that your destiny is 
hidden from me,
that your rights are 
ignored by Yahweh?
{I}28_{/}Have you not 
known, have you not heard
that Yahweh is an 
everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends 
of the earth?
He does not grow tired or 
weary,
his knowledge is without 
limit.
{I}29_{/}He gives 
strength to the 
enfeebled,
he gives vigor to the 
wearied.
{I}30_{/}Youth may grow 
tired and faint,
young men will stumble 
and fall,
{I}31_{/}but those who 
hope in Yahweh
will renew their 
strength.
They will soar as with 
eagle's wings;
they will run and not 
grow weary;
they will walk and never 
tire.
CYRUS, LIBERATOR OF 
ISRAEL{/}

{1}41{/}

{I}1_{/}Keep silent 
before me, O islands,
or be prepared to contend 
with me;
O nations, draw near and 
speak.
Let us meet together for 
judgment.
{I}2_{/}Who has called 
from the east
one that victory hails at 
every step?
Who has given him the 
nations to rule
and their kings to 
subdue?
His sword makes dust of 
them
and his arrows scatter 
them like chaff.
{I}3_{/}Unharmed he 
pursues them through 
paths
that his feet have 
scarcely touched.
{I}4_{/}Who really has 
done all this?
I, who call the 
generations from the 
beginning,
I, Yahweh, who am the 
first
and will be with the 
last.
{I}5_{/}The islands have 
seen it and feared,
the ends of the earth 
were scared.
{I}6_{/}(Each helps the 
other and says to his 
companion, "Take heart!" 
{I}7_{/}So the craftsman 
encourages the goldsmith, 
and he who beats out with 
the hammer assures the 
other who strikes the 
anvil, saying, "It is 
ready for soldering"; and 
he fastens the idol with 
nails to hold it in 
place.)
HOPE FOR A NEW EXODUS{/}

{I}8_{/}But you, Israel, 
my servant, Jacob, whom I 
have chosen, seed of 
Abraham my friend, 
{I}9_{/}I have taken you 
from the ends of the 
earth. I have called you 
from the remotest 
corners, and I said,
"You are my servant, I 
have chosen you and will 
not cast you away."
{I}10_{/}Fear not, for I 
am with you; be not 
dismayed, for I am your 
God. I will give you 
strength, I will bring 
you help, I will uphold 
you with the right hand 
of my justice.
{I}11_{/}All who rage 
against you will be put 
to shame and disgrace; 
all who fight against you 
will perish and come to 
nothing.
{I}12_{/}You will seek, 
but will not find them; 
those enemies of yours, 
those who took up arms 
against you will be 
destroyed, brought to 
nothing.
{I}13_{/}For I, Yahweh, 
your God, take hold of 
your right hand and say 
to you: "Fear not, I am 
your assistance."
{I}14_{/}Fear not, Jacob, 
poor worm, and you, 
people of Israel, so 
frail.
I am your redeemer, says 
Yahweh,
the Holy One of Israel, 
your helper.
{I}15_{/}I will make you 
a thresher, new and with 
sharp double teeth: you 
will thresh hills and 
mountains, crushing them 
and reducing them to 
chaff.
{I}16_{/}You will winnow 
them, the wind will carry 
them off and the storm 
will scatter them. But 
you will rejoice in 
Yahweh and glory in the 
Holy One of Israel.
{I}17_{/}The poor and the 
afflicted seek water, and 
find none.
Their tongues are parched 
with thirst.
But I, Yahweh, will hear 
them;
I, the God of Israel, 
will not forsake them.
{I}18_{/}I will open up 
streams over the barren 
heights
and let the rivers flow 
through all the valleys;
I will turn the desert 
into lakes and brooks
and the thirsty earth
into a land of springs.
{I}19_{/}I will plant in 
the wilderness the cedar,
the acacia, the myrtle 
and the olive;
I will plant in the 
wasteland fir, cypress 
and pine -
{I}20_{/}that all may see 
and know,
consider and understand,
that the hand of Yahweh 
has done this,
that the Holy One of 
Israel has created it.
{I}21_{/}Present your 
case, says Yahweh.
Produce your evidence, 
says the King of Jacob.
{I}22_{/}Bring your idols 
and let them tell us what 
is going to happen. What 
have they foretold, so 
that we may consider them 
and reflect on the final 
outcome?
{I}23_{/}Let them 
foretell what is to come, 
that we may know that 
they are gods. Let them 
do good or do evil, that 
we may be dismayed and 
terrified.
{I}24_{/}See, they are 
nothing,
their work is nothing,
and to choose them is 
foolishness.
{I}25_{/}From the north I 
have called him, and he 
comes;

from the east I have 
called him by his name.
He tramples kings and 
princes down
as if they were mortar,
as if he were a potter 
working the clay.
{I}26_{/}Has anyone 
announced this from the 
beginning, so we might 
know,
or foretold it long ago, 
so we might say, "It is 
true"?
No one among you foretold 
it,
no one proclaimed it.
No one heard a word from 
you.
{I}27_{/}I was the first 
to announce to Zion:
"Look, here they come!"
and I sent a messenger to 
Jerusalem.
{I}28_{/}But when I 
looked, there was no one, 
there was not a single 
counselor among them who, 
if asked, could give an 
answer.
{I}29_{/}All of them are 
nothing,
emptiness are their 
works;
their images are wind and 
nothingness.
HERE IS MY SERVANT{/}

{1}42{/}

{I}1_{/}Here is my 
servant whom I uphold,
my chosen one in whom I 
delight.
I have put my spirit upon 
him,
and he will bring justice 
to the nations.
{I}2_{/}He does not shout 
or raise his voice
proclamations are not 
heard in the streets.
{I}3_{/}A broken reed he 
will not crush,
nor will he snuff out the 
light
of the wavering wick.
He will make justice 
appear in truth.
{I}4_{/}He will not waver 
or be broken
until he has established 
justice on earth;
the islands are waiting 
for his law.
{I}5_{/}Thus says God, 
Yahweh,
who created the heavens 
and stretched them out,
who spread the earth and 
all that comes from it,
who gives life and breath 
to those who walk on it:
{I}6_{/}I, Yahweh, have 
called you for the sake 
of justice;
I will hold your hand to 
make you firm;
I will make you as a 
covenant to the people,
and as a light to the 
nations,
{I}7_{/}to open eyes that 
do not see,
to free captives from 
prison,
to bring out to light 
those who sit in 
darkness.
{I}8_{/}I am Yahweh, that 
is my name,
I will not give my glory 
to another;
or my praise to graven 
images.
{I}9_{/}See, the former 
things have come to pass,
and new things do I 
declare:
before they spring forth 
I tell you of them.
SONG OF VICTORY{/}

{I}10_{/}Sing a new song 
to Yahweh;
let his praise reach the 
ends of the earth.
Let the sea and all that 
it holds,
let the coastlands and 
their inhabitants
resound with song and 
praise of him.
{I}11_{/}Let the 
wilderness and the cities
lift up their voice,
together with the 
villages of Kedar.
Let the inhabitants of 
Sela sing,
and shout from the top of 
the mountain.
{I}12_{/}Let them give 
glory to Yahweh
and praise him in the far 
islands.
{I}13_{/}Yahweh comes 
like a mighty warrior,
he stirs up his fury 
before the fight.
He threatens, he raises 
the battlecry,
and he triumphs over his 
enemies.
{I}14_{/}For a long time 
I have been silent;
I have kept still and 
restrained myself,
I moaned like a woman in 
labor,
breathing and panting:
{I}15_{/}I will lay waste 
mountains and hills
and wither all their 
vegetation;
I will turn rivers into 
wasteland
and dry up the pools.
{I}16_{/}I will lead the 
blind by ways
which they do not know;
along unseen paths I will 
guide them.
I will turn darkness into 
light before them
and make the rough ground 
smooth.
These are the things that 
I will do,
and I will not forsake 
them.
{I}17_{/}But those who 
trust in graven images 
and say to idols, "You 
are our gods" will be 
turned back in shame.
{I}18_{/}Listen, O deaf,
look, O blind, that you 
may see!
{I}19_{/}Who is blind, 
but my servant,
or deaf as the messenger 
I send?
Who is blind but the one 
I am lifting up? Who is 
deaf but the servant of 
Yahweh?
{I}20_{/}You have seen 
many things without 
observing; your ears were 
open but without hearing.
{I}21_{/}It pleased 
Yahweh, the Just One,
that his Law receive 
glory and fame.
{I}22_{/}But this is a 
people robbed and 
plundered,
all of them ensnared in 
pits or languishing in 
prison.
They have become a prey,
with no one to rescue 
them;
they have become a spoil,
with no one to order, 
"Send them back!"
{I}23_{/}Who among you 
will give ear to this?
Who will listen and hear 
for the time to come?
{I}24_{/}Who handed Jacob 
to the spoilers
and Israel to the 
plunderers?
Was it not Yahweh,
against whom we have 
sinned,
in whose ways they would 
not walk,
and whose law they would 
not obey?
{I}25_{/}Therefore he 
poured out on them
the fury of his anger -
the violence of war.
It blazed round about 
them,
and they failed to know 
what it meant;
it burned and consumed 
them,
and they remained in 
bewilderment.
IN THE MIDST OF THE 
FLAMES, YOU SHALL NOT BE 
BURNED{/}

{1}43{/}

{I}1_{/}But now, thus 
says Yahweh,
who created you, Jacob,
who formed you, Israel:
Fear not, for I have 
redeemed you;
I have called you by your 
name;
you are mine.
{I}2_{/}When you pass 
through the waters,
I will be with you.
When you pass through the 
rivers,
they will not sweep over 
you.
When you walk through 
fire,
you will not be burned;
neither will the flames 
consume you.
{I}3_{/}For I am your 
savior,
I, Yahweh, your God,
the Holy One of Israel.
I give Egypt for your 
ransom,
Ethiopia and Seba in 
exchange for you.
{I}4_{/}Since you are 
precious in my sight,
and important - for I 
have loved you,
I give men in exchange 
for you
and people in return for 
your life.
{I}5_{/}Fear not, for I 
am with you:
I will bring your 
children from the east
and gather you from the 
west.
{I}6_{/}I will say to the 
north, "Give them up!"
and to the south, "Do not 
hold them!"
Bring back my sons from 
afar,
my daughters from the 
ends of the earth,
{I}7_{/}all those called 
by my name
all I have created for my 
glory.
{I}8_{/}Lead out my 
people -
who have eyes but are 
blind,
who have ears but are 
deaf.
{I}9_{/}Let the nations 
gather together,
let the people assemble.
Who among them can 
foretell this
or declare to us the 
things to come?
Let them bring their 
witnesses to prove them 
right;
let others hear so that 
they may say, "It is 
true."
{I}10_{/}You are my 
witnesses, says Yahweh,
you are my servant whom I 
have chosen,
that you may know and 
believe me
and understand that I am 
He.
Before me no God was 
formed,
neither will there be one 
after me.
{I}11_{/}I, I am Yahweh,
there is no savior but 
me.
{I}12_{/}It is I who have 
foretold;
I have spoken and made it 
known,
I, not any of your 
foreign gods.
Therefore you are my 
witnesses
- it is Yahweh who 
speaks,
I am God.
{I}13_{/}From ever I am 
God
there is no one who can 
deliver from my hand.
I act, and what I do no 
one undoes.
{I}14_{/}Thus says 
Yahweh,
your redeemer, the Holy 
One of Israel:
For your sake I send an 
army to Babylon
to bring down all their 
bars.
The Chaldeans' shout of 
joy
will turn into 
lamentation.
{I}15_{/}I am Yahweh, 
your Holy One,
the Creator of Israel, 
your King.
{I}16_{/}Thus says 
Yahweh,
who opened a way through 
the sea
and a path in the mighty 
waters,
{I}17_{/}who brought down 
chariots and horses,
a whole army of them,
and there they lay, never 
to rise again,
snuffed out like a wick.
{I}18_{/}But do not dwell 
on the past,
or remember the things of 
old.
{I}19_{/}Look, I am doing 
a new thing:
now it springs forth.
Do you not see?
I am opening up a way in 
the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.
{I}20_{/}The beasts of 
the land will honor me,
jackals and ostriches,
because I give water in 
the wilderness
and rivers in the desert
that my chosen people may 
drink.
{I}21_{/}I have formed 
this people for myself;
they will proclaim my 
praise.
{I}22_{/}You have not 
called upon me, O Jacob,
indeed you were tired of 
me, O Israel;
{I}23_{/}neither have you 
brought me sheep for 
burnt offerings,
nor honored me with your 
sacrifices.
I have not burdened you 
with offerings,
nor wearied you asking 
for incense.
{I}24_{/}You have not 
spent money on sweet 
frankincense for me,
neither have you 
satisfied me with the fat 
of your sacrifices.
Instead you have burdened 
me with your sins
and wearied me with your 
offenses.
{I}25_{/}I it is, I am He
who blots out your 
offenses for my own sake,
and remembers your sins 
no more.
{I}26_{/}Remind me about 
the past;
let us argue together.
Speak up and prove your 
innocence.
{I}27_{/}Your first 
father sinned, and your 
mediators have rebelled 
against me. 
{I}28_{/}Therefore I have 
disgraced the dignitaries 
of your temple, I have 
consigned Jacob to 
destruction, Israel to 
scorn.
{1}44{/}

{I}1_{/}But now listen, 
Jacob my servant,
Israel whom I have 
chosen.
{I}2_{/}This is what 
Yahweh says -
he who made you and will 
help you,
he who formed you from 
the womb:
Fear not, O Jacob my 
servant,
Jeshurun, whom I have 
chosen.
{I}3_{/}For I will pour 
water upon the thirsty 
land
and streams on the dry 
ground.
I will pour my spirit 
upon your race
and my blessing upon your 
offspring.
{I}4_{/}They will spring 
up like grass,
like poplars beside the 
flowing streams.
{I}5_{/}One will say, "I 
belong to Yahweh";
another will call himself 
by Jacob's name.
On his hand another will 
write "Yahweh"
and take the name of 
Israel.
{I}6_{/}This is what the 
Lord says -
Israel's King and 
Redeemer, Yahweh Sabaoth:
I am the first and the 
last,
there is no other God 
besides me.
{I}7_{/}Who then is like 
me?
Let him stand up and 
speak,
let him argue this out 
with me.
Who from the beginning 
has foretold the future,
and revealed to us what 
was to come?
{I}8_{/}Do not be afraid 
or troubled.
Have I not proclaimed
and foretold this long 
ago?
You are my witnesses;
is there a God besides me
or another Rock? I know 
of none.
MOCKERY AGAINST THOSE WHO 
WORSHIP IDOLS{/}

{I}9_{/}Good-for-nothing 
are all idol makers, and 
useless are the works 
they prize so much. Their 
witnesses, blind and 
ignorant, will be put to 
shame. {I}10_{/}Who ever 
fashioned a god or cast 
an idol without hope of 
gain? See how its 
devotees will be 
ridiculed, for its 
craftsmen are but men. 
{I}11_{/}Let them all 
assemble, let them come 
to court; they will be 
both terrified and 
scorned.
{I}12_{/}The blacksmith 
works on an iron image 
over the fire and beats 
it into shape with a 
hammer. He gets hungry 
and tired; if there is no 
water to drink, he gets 
exhausted.
{I}13_{/}In like manner, 
the wood carver takes the 
measurement and marks the 
outline of an idol, 
carves it with chisels, 
giving it a bodily form 
and a human face that it 
may live in a shrine. 
{I}14_{/}He cut down 
cedars or perhaps took an 
oak or cypress from the 
forest or maybe he 
planted a cedar which the 
rain caused to grow. 
{I}15_{/}For the common 
people, that means fuel 
which they use to warm 
themselves and to cook 
their food. But the 
craftsman carves out of 
the tree trunk an idol 
which he worships and 
before which he bows 
down. {I}16_{/}The 
remaining portion he 
burns to warm himself; 
over its live embers he 
roasts meat and is 
satisfied. He says, "Well 
and good, I feel warm and 
enjoy the light." 
{I}17_{/}The other 
portion which he has made 
into an idol he worships 
and bows before it, 
praying "Rescue me, for 
you are my god."
{I}18_{/}They have no 
knowledge, no 
discernment. For they 
have shut their mind to 
un-derstanding, their 
heart to all reason. 
{I}19_{/}Not one of them 
has the intelligence to 
reflect and the sense to 
say, "Half of the log I 
burned, and on its embers 
I baked bread and roasted 
meat. Shall I then make a 
dirty idol of what 
remains? Am I to worship 
a block of wood?"
{I}20_{/}Only one of 
deluded mind can hold on 
to ashes. Will he not 
save himself at least and 
confess, "What I hold is 
only a lie?"
{I}21_{/}Remember this, 
Jacob,
for you are my servant, O 
Israel,
I have formed you to be 
my servant; Israel, do 
not forget me.
{I}22_{/}I have blotted 
out your offenses as a 
thick cloud,
your sins as a mist.
Return to me for I am 
redeeming you.
{I}23_{/}Sing gladly, O 
heavens,
for Yahweh has done this.
Shout aloud, O earth 
below!
Burst into song, you 
mountains,
you forests with all your 
trees!
For Yahweh has redeemed 
Jacob
and shown his glory to 
Israel.
{I}24_{/}Thus says 
Yahweh, your redeemer,
who formed you from the 
womb:
I am Yahweh who made all 
things,
I alone stretched out the 
heavens,
and spread out the earth. 
Who helped me?
{I}25_{/}I am he who 
thwarts the omens of 
false prophets,
who makes fools of 
diviners,
who turns wise men back
and makes nonsense of 
their knowledge.
{I}26_{/}I confirm the 
word of my servant
and carry out the plan 
announced by my 
messengers.
I am he who says of 
Jerusalem,
"It shall be inhabited,"
and of the towns of 
Judah,
"They shall be rebuilt; I 
will restore their 
ruins."
{I}27_{/}I am he who says 
to the ocean, "Be dry,
I will dry up your 
wellsprings!"
{I}28_{/}I call on Cyrus, 
"My shepherd!"
and he goes to fulfill my 
will.
I say to Jerusalem, "Be 
rebuilt!"
and see: the cornerstone 
is laid.
{1}45{/}

{I}1_{/}Thus says Yahweh 
to his anointed, to 
Cyrus:
"I have taken you by the 
right hand
to subdue nations before 
you
and strip kings of their 
armor,
to open the gateways 
before you
so that they will be 
closed no more.
{I}2_{/}I will go before 
you to level the slopes,
I will break the gates of 
brass
and destroy the iron 
bars;
{I}3_{/}I will give you 
treasures hidden in 
darkness
and riches stored in 
secret places,
so that you may know that 
I am Yahweh,
the God of Israel who 
calls you by your name.
{I}4_{/}For the sake of 
Jacob my servant,
of Israel my chosen one,
I have called you by your 
name
and given you your 
mission
although you do not know 
me.
{I}5_{/}I am Yahweh, and 
there is no other;
there is no God besides 
me.
I armed you when you did 
not know me,
{I}6_{/}so that, from the 
rising
to the setting of the 
sun,
all may know
that there is no one 
besides me;
I am Yahweh, and there is 
no other.
{I}7_{/}I form the light 
and create the dark;
I usher in prosperity and 
bring calamity.
I, Yahweh, do all this.
{I}8_{/}Let the heavens 
send righteousness like 
dew
and the clouds rain it 
down.
Let the earth open and 
salvation blossom,
so that justice also may 
sprout;
I, Yahweh, have created 
it.
{I}9_{/}Woe to him who 
argues with his Maker 
being but a pot among 
pots. Will the clay say 
to him who fashions it, 
"What are you making? You 
have no skill." 
{I}10_{/}Woe to him who 
asks a father, "What have 
you begotten!" or a 
mother, "To what have you 
given birth?"
{I}11_{/}Thus says 
Yahweh, the Holy One, he 
who fashions Israel: Is 
it for you to question me 
about my children, or 
decide the work of my 
hands for me?
{I}12_{/}I am He who made 
the earth and created man 
upon it.
I am He who stretched out 
the heavens with my own 
hands and gave order to 
their whole array.
{I}13_{/}I have raised 
Cyrus for the sake of 
justice. I will direct 
his ways and make him 
rebuild my city. He will 
send my exiles home 
without ransom or 
indemnity. It is Yahweh 
Sabaoth who speaks.
{I}14_{/}Thus says 
Yahweh:
The peasants of Egypt, 
the traders of Ethiopia 
and the tall men of Seba 
will pass near you in 
chains, and bow down 
facing you. In worship 
they will say,
"Surely God is with you. 
There is no one else, 
there is no other god."
{I}15_{/}Truly you are 
the God who remains 
hidden, the God of 
Israel, the Savior.
{I}16_{/}All idol makers 
will be put to shame, 
they will go away 
humiliated. {I}17_{/}But 
Israel will be saved by 
Yahweh - delivered with 
an everlasting salvation. 
You will never be put to 
disgrace for everlasting 
ages.
{I}18_{/}Yes, this is 
what Yahweh says,
he who created the 
heavens,
- for he is God,
who formed and shaped the 
earth,
- for he himself set it:
"I did not let confusion 
in it,
I wanted people to live 
there instead"
- for I am Yahweh and 
there is no other.
{I}19_{/}I have not 
spoken in secret,
from a dark place of the 
earth;
I have not said to the 
race of Jacob:
"Seek me, but all will be 
confused",
- for I Yahweh tell the 
truth and I speak openly 
-
Every knee will bend
{I}20_{/}Come, gather 
together, and try to 
understand,
survivors from among the 
nations:
They are but fools they 
who follow idols of wood
and pray to gods that 
cannot move -
{I}21_{/}Let them present 
their arguments
take counsel together and 
tell me:
Who announced this from 
the beginning,
who foretold it in the 
distant past?
Is it not me Yahweh?
There is no other God 
besides me,
a Savior, a God of 
justice, there is no 
other one but me.
{I}22_{/}Turn to me and 
be saved,
all you from the ends of 
the earth,
for I am God and there is 
no other.
{I}23_{/}By my own self I 
swear it,
and what comes from my 
mouth is truth,
a word I say will not be 
revoked.
Before me every knee will 
bend,
by me every tongue will 
swear, {I}24_{/}saying,
"In Yahweh alone are 
righteousness and 
strength."
All who have raged 
against him will come to 
him in shame.
{I}25_{/}But through 
Yahweh there will be 
victory and glory
to the people of Israel.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOD 
AND THE FALSE GODS{/}

{1}46{/}

{I}1_{/}Bel bows down, 
Nebo collapses, the 
carriages are weighed 
down with their idols. 
Their sacred objects have 
become a burden for the 
weary feasts.
{I}2_{/}They cringe and 
crouch together, 
powerless to save those 
who carry them, as they 
themselves are taken 
captive.
{I}3_{/}Hear me, O people 
of Jacob,
and all who remain of 
Israel,
whom I have cared for 
since you were conceived,
and carried since you 
were born.
{I}4_{/}Even to your old 
age, I am he
and I will sustain you
even when your hair turns 
gray.
It is I who have done 
this,
and who bear the burdens,
I will sustain and save 
you.
{I}5_{/}To whom will you 
compare me or consider me 
equal?
Against whom will you 
match me,
as though we were alike?
{I}6_{/}Some pour out 
gold from their purses,
and with silver weighed 
on the scales
they hire a goldsmith to 
make an image
before which they bow and 
worship.
{I}7_{/}They carry it 
upon their shoulders
and set it up in its 
place;
and there it stands, 
unmoving and silent.
They cry out to it, but 
it does not answer,
it delivers no one from 
distress and disaster.
{I}8_{/}Bear it well in 
mind, you rebels,
{I}9_{/}recall those 
things of long ago.
I am God, and there is no 
other;
I am God, and there is 
none like me.
{I}10_{/}From the 
beginning I foretold the 
outcome,
from ancient times, what 
was yet to come.
I say, and my plan will 
be fulfilled;
and what I wish, I will 
accomplish.
{I}11_{/}From the east I 
call forth a bird of 
prey,
from a distant land, a 
man to carry out my plan.
Yes, I have spoken, it 
will be done;
I have planned, it will 
be executed.
{I}12_{/}Listen to me, 
you without hope,
you who are deprived of 
any right.
{I}13_{/}I am bringing my 
justice, it is not far 
away;
my salvation will not 
delay.
I will make salvation 
appear in Zion,
upon Israel I will bestow 
my glory.
{1}47{/}

{I}1_{/}Come down and sit 
in the dust,
O virgin daughter of 
Babylon!
No more throne! Sit on 
the ground,
O daughter of the 
Chaldeans.
No longer will you be 
called
dainty and delicate.
{I}2_{/}Take the 
millstone and grind meal;
uncover your hair, bare 
your legs;
strip to the thighs and 
pass over the rivers.
{I}3_{/}Your nakedness 
will be exposed,
your shame will be 
uncovered.
I will take revenge on 
you
and no one will save you,
{I}4_{/}says our 
Redeemer, Yahweh Sabaoth.
His name is the Holy One 
of Israel.
{I}5_{/}Go creep into the 
shadows and sit in
silence,
O daughter of the 
Chaldeans,
for no more will you be 
called
sovereign lady of the 
kingdoms.
{I}6_{/}Angry with my 
people, I had left my
inheritance;
I gave them into your 
hands,
but you showed them no 
mercy.
You laid a heavy yoke on 
the aged.
{I}7_{/}You said, "I will 
reign forever";
but you did not take this 
to heart
or ponder on what would 
ensue.
{I}8_{/}Listen, 
therefore, you wanton 
woman, lounging in 
security and deluding 
yourself, "I am, and 
there is none besides me. 
I will never be a widow 
or suffer the loss of 
children."
{I}9_{/}But these two 
things will come to you
in a moment, on a single 
day -
loss of children and 
widowhood.
They will come upon you 
in full measure,
in spite of  all your 
witchcraft,
in spite of the power of 
your spells.
{I}10_{/}You have trusted 
in your wickedness,
saying, "Nobody sees me."
Your intelligence and 
knowledge
have perverted you, for 
you have said:
"I am, and there is none 
besides me."
{I}11_{/}Evil, suddenly, 
will come your way
though you do not know 
it.
Disaster will fall upon 
you,
and no ransom will ward 
it off;
a catastrophe you cannot 
foresee
will come upon you 
suddenly.
{I}12_{/}Keep on, then, 
with your magic spells 
and with the multitude of 
your sorceries, which you 
have labored at since 
your youth.
Do you think they will 
help you now? Do you 
think they will cause 
terror around you?
{I}13_{/}Yet you are 
wearied with so many 
advisers. Let your 
astrologers stand up, 
your stargazers who 
foretell what will happen 
each month; let them save 
you from what is to come 
upon you.
{I}14_{/}Look, they will 
be like stubble
and the fire will burn 
them.
They cannot even save 
themselves
from the power of 
consuming flames.
These are no embers to 
warm anyone,
no fireside to sit by.
{I}15_{/}This is your lot 
and of your wizards
with whom you have 
labored from your youth.
Now each will go his own 
way - powerless to save 
you.
{1}48{/}

{I}1_{/}Listen to this, 
House of Jacob,
called by the name of 
Israel
and born out of Judah's 
womb,
you who swear by the name 
of Yahweh
and invoke the God of 
Israel,
though not in truth or 
righteousness -
{I}2_{/}calling 
yourselves after the holy 
city,
and relying on the God of 
Israel
whose name is Yahweh 
Sabaoth.
{I}3_{/}From long ago I 
revealed things past:
they went forth from my 
mouth;
I declared them. Then 
suddenly I acted
and the word came to be.
{I}4_{/}Because I know 
that you are stubborn,
your head as hard as 
iron,
your forehead as bronze,
{I}5_{/}So I told you 
about them;
before they took place
I let you hear of them,
lest you should say: "My 
idols did these, my 
graven image, my molten 
image commanded them."
{I}6_{/}Now that you have 
heard and seen, will you 
not admit it?
From now on I will tell 
you new things,
even hidden things you 
have not known before.
{I}7_{/}They are created 
now and not long ago;
up to this day you have 
not heard of them
lest you should say, "I 
already knew."
{I}8_{/}You have not 
heard, you didn't know
nor were your ears opened 
before,
for I knew how 
treacherous you were -
you who from birth have 
been called a  rebel.
{I}9_{/}For my name's 
sake I delayed my anger,
for my honor's sake I 
restrained it,
lest I destroy you.
{I}10_{/}See: I have 
refined you as silver;
I have tested you in the 
furnace of affliction.
{I}11_{/}But now for my 
own sake I will act, yes, 
for my own sake.
For how could I let my 
Name be defiled?
Never will I yield my 
glory to another.
{I}12_{/}Listen to me, O 
Jacob,
Israel whom I have 
called,
I am the same, I am the 
first,
and I am also the last.
{I}13_{/}My hand laid the 
foundation of the earth,
my right hand spread out 
the heavens.
When I call on the stars
they all stand forth 
together.
{I}14_{/}Assemble, all of 
you, and listen.
Who among them has 
foretold these things?
The beloved of Yahweh 
will do what  pleases him
with Babylon and the 
people of Chaldea.
{I}15_{/}I, yes I myself, 
have spoken;
I myself called him and 
made him prosper in his 
way.
IF YOU HAD OBEYED MY 
LAW{/}

{I}16_{/}Come near me and 
listen to this: From the 
beginning I have not 
spoken in secret; from 
the time that it happened 
I have been there. Know 
then, that Yahweh the 
Lord, with his Spirit has 
sent me!
{I}17{/}Thus says Yahweh, 
your Re-deemer, the Holy 
One of Israel: I, Yahweh, 
your God, teach you what 
is best for you; I lead 
you in the way that you 
must go.
{I}18{/}Had you paid 
attention to my 
commandments, your peace 
would have been like a 
river, your righteousness 
like the waves of the 
sea.
{I}19{/}Your descendants 
would have been like the 
sand, and those born of 
your stock like its 
grains, their names never 
cut off nor blotted out 
from my presence.
{I}20{/}"Go forth from 
Babylon, flee from 
Chaldea!" Declare this 
with shouts of joy, make 
this known to the ends of 
the earth. Proclaim: 
Yahweh has redeemed his 
servant Jacob!
{I}21{/}Those he led 
through the desert were 
never thirsty. He made 
water flow for them from 
the rock; he split the 
rock and water gushed 
out.
{I}22{/}There is no peace 
for the wicked, Yahweh 
says.
YAHWEH CALLED ME FROM MY 
MOTHER'S WOMB{/}

{1}49{/}

{I}1_{/}Listen to me, O 
islands,
pay attention, peoples 
from distant lands.
Yahweh called me from my 
mother's womb;
he pronounced my name 
before I was born.
{I}2_{/}He made my mouth 
like a sharpened sword.
He hid me in the shadow 
of his hand.
He made me into a 
polished arrow
set apart in his quiver.
{I}3_{/}He said to me, 
"You are Israel, my 
servant,
Through you I will be 
known."
{I}4_{/}"I have labored 
in vain," I thought
and spent my strength for 
nothing."
Yet what is due me was in 
the hand of Yahweh,
and my reward was with my 
God.
I am important in the 
sight of Yahweh,
and my God is my 
strength.
{I}5_{/}And now Yahweh 
has spoken,
he who formed me in the 
womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob back to 
him,
to gather Israel to him.
{I}6_{/}He said: " 'Tis 
not enough
that you be my servant,
to restore the tribes of 
Jacob,
to bring back the remnant 
of Israel.
I will make you the light 
of the nations,
that my salvation will 
reach to the ends of the 
earth."
{I}7_{/}Thus says Yahweh,
the Redeemer and Holy One 
of Israel,
to him whom people 
despise,
to him whom nations 
abhor,
to the servant of 
tyrants:
"Kings will see you and 
stand up,
and princes will bow down
for the sake of Yahweh, 
the faithful one,
the Holy One of Israel 
who has chosen you."
{I}8_{/}This is what 
Yahweh says:
"At a favorable time I 
have answered you, on the 
day of salvation I have 
been your help; I have 
formed you and made you 
to be my covenant with 
the people.
You will restore the 
land, and allot its 
abandoned farms. 
{I}9_{/}You will say to 
the captives: Come out; 
and to those in darkness: 
Show yourselves.
They will feed along the 
road; they will find 
pasture on barren hills. 
{I}10_{/}They will 
neither hunger nor 
thirst, nor will the 
scorching wind or the sun 
beat upon them; for he 
who has mercy on them 
will guide them and lead 
them to springs of water.
{I}11_{/}I will turn all 
my mountains into roads 
and raise up my highways.
{I}12_{/}See, they come 
from afar, some from the 
north and west, others 
from the land of Sinim.
THOUGH YOUR MOTHER FORGET 
YOU{/}

{I}13_{/}Sing, O heavens, 
and rejoice, O earth;
break forth into song, O 
mountains:
for Yahweh has comforted 
his people
and taken pity on those 
who are afflicted.
{I}14_{/}But Zion said: 
"Yahweh has forsaken me,
my Lord has forgotten 
me."
{I}15_{/}Can a woman 
forget the baby at her 
breast 
and have no compassion on 
the child of her womb?
Yet though she forget, I 
will never forget you.
{I}16_{/}See, I have 
written your name upon 
the palm of my hands; 
your walls are ever 
before me. {I}17_{/}Your 
sons hurry back, and 
those who laid you waste 
hasten to depart from 
you.
{I}18_{/}Lift up your 
eyes, look around and 
see: your sons are all 
assembling and coming to 
you. As I live, says 
Yahweh, you will wear 
them all as your jewels; 
they will adorn you as 
brides are adorned.
{I}19_{/}Your lonely 
places and your ruins, 
your wastelands and 
devastated country, will 
now be too small for your 
people, while those who 
destroy you will be 
driven off.
{I}20_{/}The children you 
will have, after those 
you lost, will also say 
in your hearing, "This 
place is too small for 
us. Give us more space to 
live in."
{I}21_{/}You will then 
say in your heart, "Who 
has borne me these? I was 
bereaved and barren, and 
who has brought these up? 
I was left alone; but 
these - where have they 
come from?"
{I}22_{/}Thus speaks the 
Lord Yahweh: See, I am to 
make signs to the 
nations; and to raise my 
banner to the peoples, 
that they will bring your 
sons in their arms, your 
daughters upon their 
shoulders.
{I}23_{/}Kings will be 
your foster fathers, 
their queens your nursing 
mothers. They will bow 
down before you with 
their faces to the 
ground; they will lick 
the dust of your feet. 
Then you will know that I 
am Yahweh and that those 
who hope in me will not 
be put to shame.
{I}24_{/}Can booty be 
taken from a warrior, or 
captives be rescued from 
a tyrant? But thus says 
Yahweh: {I}25_{/}Yes, 
captives will be taken 
from warriors and booty 
rescued from a tyrant: 
for I will fight whoever 
fight you and I will save 
your children.
{I}26_{/}I will make your 
oppressors eat their own 
flesh and be drunk with 
their own blood, as with 
wine. All mankind will 
know that I, Yahweh, am 
your savior, your 
redeemer, the Mighty One 
of Jacob.
{1}50{/}

{I}1_{/}Thus says Yahweh: 
Where is the writ of 
divorce with which I 
dismissed your mother? Or 
to which of my creditors 
have I sold you? It was 
for your sins that you 
were sold, for your 
crimes that your mother 
was dismissed.
{I}2_{/}Why was there no 
one when I came?
Why did no one answer 
when I called?
Is my hand too short to 
reach out and save?
Have I not the power to 
deliver?
See how, at my threat, 
the sea dries up,

the rivers turn into 
desert,
their fish dying, for 
lack of water.
{I}3_{/}I clothe the 
heavens in mourning:
I make sackcloth their 
covering.
YAHWEH HAS OPENED MY 
EAR{/}

{I}4_{/}The Lord Yahweh 
has taught me
so I speak as his 
disciple
and I know how to sustain 
the weary.
Morning after morning he 
wakes me up
to hear, to listen like a 
disciple.
{I}5_{/}The Lord Yahweh 
has opened my ear.
I have not rebelled,
nor have I withdrawn.
{I}6_{/}I offered my back 
to those who strike me,
my cheeks to those who 
pulled my beard;
neither did I shield my 
face
from blows, spittle and 
disgrace.
{I}7_{/}I have not 
despaired,
for the Lord Yahweh comes 
to my help.
So, like a flint I set my 
face,
knowing that I will not 
be disgraced.
{I}8_{/}He who avenges me 
is near.
Who then will accuse me?
Let us confront each 
other.
Who is now my accuser?
Let him approach.
{I}9_{/}If the Lord 
Yahweh is my help.
who will condemn me?
All of them will wear out 
like cloth;
the moth will devour 
them.
{I}10_{/}Let anyone among 
you who fears Yahweh 
listen to the voice of 
his servant. Whoever 
walks in darkness and has 
no light to shine for 
him, let him trust in the 
name of Yahweh, let him 
rely upon his God.
{I}11_{/}Yet all of you 
who kindle flames and 
carry about burning 
torches, go into the 
flames of your own fire, 
into the sparks you have 
kindled. This will befall 
you from my hand, you 
will lie down in torment.
GOD WILL SAVE THE 
CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM{/}

{1}51{/}

{I}1_{/}Listen to me, you 
who pursue justice,
you who go in search of 
Yahweh. Look to the rock 
from which you were hewn, 
to the pit from which you 
were quarried.
{I}2_{/}Look to Abraham, 
your father, and to 
Sarah, who gave you 
birth. He was alone when 
I called him; but I 
blessed and increased 
him.
{I}3_{/}Truly Yahweh's 
compassion is for Zion, 
his mercy is upon all her 
ruins. He will make her 
deserts like Eden, her 
wastelands like Yahweh's 
garden. In her will be 
found joy and rejoicing, 
melody and song of praise 
and thanks-giving.
{I}4_{/}Listen to me, you 
peoples,
hear me, O nations.
I am to give you my law,
my justice will be a 
light to the nations.
{I}5_{/}Suddenly my 
justice will appear,
my salvation is on the 
way,
and my arm will impose my 
rule.
The islands also wait in 
hope for me,
trusting in my arm.
{I}6_{/}Lift up your eyes 
to the heavens
and look upon the earth 
beneath.
Like smoke, the heavens 
will vanish,
and the earth wear out 
like a garment;
its inhabitants will fall 
like flies.
But my salvation will 
last forever,
my justice will never 
fail.
{I}7_{/}Hear me, you who 
know righteousness,
you who have my law in 
your hearts:
do not fear the reproach 
of men
or be terrified by their 
mocking.
{I}8_{/}For they will be 
like garments eaten by 
moths,
like wool consumed by 
grubs.
But my justice will last 
forever
and my salvation for all 
generations.
AWAKE, YAHWEH{/}

{I}9_{/}Awake, awake, put 
on strength, O arm of 
Yahweh!
Awake as in ancient days,
in times of generations 
long ago.
Was it not you who split 
Rahab in two
and pierced the dragon 
through?
{I}10_{/}Was it not you 
who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great 
deep,
to make a way on the 
seabed
for the redeemed to pass 
over?
{I}11_{/}The redeemed of 
Yahweh will return
and come to Zion singing 
with joy,
crowned with everlasting 
gladness,
while sorrow and mourning 
flee away.
{I}12_{/}I, yes I, am 
your comforter.
How then can you be 
afraid of man who dies,
of the son of man who 
fades like grass?
{I}13_{/}Are you 
forgetting Yahweh who 
made you,
who stretched forth the 
heavens
and laid the foundations 
of the earth?
Why live every day in 
constant fear
of the fury of the 
oppressor,
when he sets out to 
destroy you?
And where is the fury of 
the oppressor?
{I}14_{/}The captive 
exiles will soon be free;
they will not die in a 
deep prison,
nor will they want for 
food.
{I}15_{/}I am Yahweh, 
your God,
the one who stirs the 
sea,
making its waves roar.
My name is Yahweh 
Sabaoth.
{I}16_{/}I have put my 
words in your mouth as I 
stretched out the 
heavens; When I laid the 
foundations of the earth, 
I said to Zion: "You are 
my people, and I have 
shielded you in the 
shadow of my hand."
{I}17_{/}Awake, awake!
Arise, O Jerusalem, you 
who drank at the hand of 
Yahweh the cup of his 
fury, the cup which made 
you tremble, that you 
drank to the last drop!
{I}18_{/}Among all the 
sons she bore, she has no 
one to guide her; among 
all the sons she reared, 
she has no one to take 
her by the hand.
{I}19_{/}These double 
calamities have befallen 
you - ruin and 
destruction, famine and 
sword.
Who is there to console 
you?
{I}20_{/}Your sons were 
found helpless at the 
corner of every street, 
like wild bulls in a net. 
They had drunk to the 
full the fury of Yahweh, 
the wrath of your God.
{I}21_{/}Therefore hear 
this now, you afflicted 
one, you who are drunk 
but not with wine. 
{I}22_{/}Thus says your 
Lord Yahweh, your God, 
defender of your people's 
cause:
See, I am taking out of 
your hand the cup of 
trembling; the cup of my 
anger - you will drink of 
it no more. {I}23_{/}But 
I will put it into the 
hands of your tormentors, 
those who ordered you to 
bow down, that they might 
trample on you, while you 
laid your body as a 
pavement, as a street for 
them to walk on.
{1}52{/}

{I}1_{/}Awake, awake!
Put on your strength, O 
Zion;
put on your glorious 
garments, O Jerusalem, 
holy city.
For never will the 
uncircumcised
or the unclean enter you 
again.
{I}2_{/}Shake the dust 
off yourself
and rise up, O Jerusalem.
Loose the bonds from your 
neck,
O captive Daughter of 
Zion.
{I}3_{/}For thus says 
Yahweh:
You were sold for no 
amount,
you will be redeemed 
without money.
{I}4_{/}Thus says the 
Lord God:
In the beginning
my people lived as aliens 
in Egypt;
then Assyria oppressed 
them without reason.
{I}5_{/}But now, what am 
I doing here? says 
Yahweh. My people have 
been carried off for no 
money and their masters 
make a boast of it; all 
day long my name is 
scorned.
{I}6_{/}Therefore my 
people will know my name;
therefore they will know 
on that day
that it is I who say: 
"Here I am!"
{I}7_{/}How beautiful on 
the mountains are the 
feet of those
who bring good news,
who herald peace and 
happiness,
who proclaim salvation
and announce to Zion: 
"Your God is king!"
{I}8_{/}Together your 
watchmen
raise their voices in 
praise and song;
they see Yahweh face to 
face returning to Zion.
{I}9_{/}Break into shouts 
of joy,
O ruins of Jerusalem,

for Yahweh consoles his 
people
and redeems Jerusalem.
{I}10_{/}Yahweh has bared 
his holy arm
in the eyes of the 
nations;
all the ends of the 
earth, in alarm,
will witness God's 
salvation.
{I}11_{/}Depart, depart 
from that nation, come 
out!
Touch nothing unclean.
Purify yourselves, you 
who bear
all Yahweh's holy 
vessels.
{I}12_{/}Yet not in 
escape, or in fright, 
will you come out,
you will not leave in 
headlong flight;
for ahead is Yahweh, your 
vanguard,
and behind, the God of 
Israel, your rearguard.
THROUGH HIS PUNISHMENT, 
WE ARE MADE WHOLE{/}

{I}13_{/}It is now when 
my servant will succeed;
he will be exalted and 
highly praised.
{I}14_{/}Just as many 
have been horrified
at his disfigured 
appearance:
"Is this a man? He does 
not look like one,"
{I}15_{/}so will nations 
be astounded,
kings will stand 
speechless,
for they will see 
something never told,
they will witness 
something never heard of.
{1}53{/}

{I}1_{/}Who could believe 
what we have heard,
and to whom has Yahweh 
revealed his feat?
{I}2_{/}Like a root out 
of dry ground,
like a sapling he grew up 
before us,
with nothing attractive 
in his appearance,
no beauty, no majesty.
{I}3_{/}He was despised 
and rejected,
a man of sorrows familiar 
with grief,
a man from whom people 
hide their face,
spurned and considered of 
no account.
{I}4_{/}Yet ours were the 
sorrows he bore,
ours were the sufferings 
he endured,
although we considered 
him as one
punished by God, stricken 
and brought low.
{I}5_{/}Destroyed because 
of our sins,
he was crushed for our 
wickedness.
Through his punishment we 
are made whole;
by his wounds we are 
healed.
{I}6_{/}Like sheep we had 
all gone astray,
each following his own 
way;
but Yahweh laid upon him 
all our guilt.
{I}7_{/}He was harshly 
treated,
but unresisting and 
silent, he humbly 
submitted.
Like a lamb led to the 
slaughter
or a sheep before the 
shearer
he did not open his 
mouth.
{I}8_{/}He was taken away 
to detention and judgment 
-
what an unthinkable fate!
He was cut off from the 
land of the living,
stricken for his people's 
sin.
{I}9_{/}They made his 
tomb with the wicked,
they put him in the 
graveyard of the 
oppressors,
though he had done no 
violence nor spoken in 
deceit.
{I}10_{/}Yet it was the 
will of Yahweh to crush 
him with grief.
When he makes himself an 
offering for sin,
he will have a long life 
and see his descendants.
Through him the will of 
Yahweh is done.
{I}11_{/}For the anguish 
he suffered,
he will see the light and 
obtain perfect knowledge.
My just servant will 
justify the multitude;
he will bear and take 
away their guilt.
{I}12_{/}Therefore I will 
give him his portion 
among the great,
and he will divide the 
spoils with the strong.
For he surrendered 
himself to death
and was even counted 
among the wicked,
bearing the sins of the 
multitude
and interceding for 
sinners.
REJOICE, O BARREN 
WOMAN{/}

{1}54{/}

{I}1_{/}Rejoice, O barren 
woman who has not given 
birth; sing and shout for 
joy, you who never had 
children, for more are 
the children of the 
rejected woman than the 
children of the married 
wife, says Yahweh.
{I}2_{/}Enlarge the space 
for your tent, stretch 
out your hangings, 
lengthen your ropes and 
strengthen your stakes, 
{I}3_{/}for you will 
spread out to the right 
and to the left; your 
descendants will take 
possession of the nations 
and inhabit cities that 
have been abandoned.
{I}4_{/}Do not be afraid 
for you will not be 
deceived, do not be 
ashamed for you will not 
be disgraced. You will 
forget the shame of your 
youth; no longer will you 
remember the disgrace of 
your widowhood.
{I}5_{/}For your Maker is 
to marry you: Yahweh 
Sabaoth is his name. Your 
Redeemer is the Holy One 
of Israel: He is called 
God of all the earth.
{I}6_{/}For Yahweh has 
called you back as one 
forsaken and grieved in 
spirit. Who could abandon 
his first beloved? says 
your God.
{I}7_{/}For a brief 
moment I have abandoned 
you, but with great 
tenderness I will gather 
my people. {I}8_{/}For a 
moment, in an outburst of 
anger, I hid my face from 
you, but with everlasting 
love I have had mercy on 
you, says Yahweh, your 
Redeemer.
{I}9_{/}This is for me 
like Noah's waters, when 
I swore that they would 
no more flood the earth; 
so now I swear not to be 
angry with you and never 
again to rebuke you. 
{I}10_{/}The mountains 
may depart and the hills 
be moved, but never will 
my love depart from you 
nor my covenant of peace 
be removed, says Yahweh 
whose compassion is for 
you.
{I}11_{/}O afflicted 
city, lashed by storm and 
unconsoled, I will set 
your stones with 
turquoise, your 
foundations with 
sapphires. {I}12_{/}I 
will crown your wall with 
agate, make your gates  
crystal, and your 
ramparts of precious 
stones.
{I}13_{/}All your 
children will be taught 
by Yahweh, and they will 
prosper greatly. 
{I}14_{/}Justice will be 
your foundation; tyranny 
and the fear of 
oppression will never 
come near you.
{I}15_{/}If ever you are 
attacked, it will not be 
of my doing; and your 
attacker will surely 
fail.
{I}16_{/}Look, it is I 
who created the 
blacksmith, who fans the 
burning coals and forges 
his weapons. But I have 
also prepared the one who 
makes them useless.
{I}17_{/}No weapon forged 
against you will succeed, 
and all who speak against 
you will be silenced. 
Such is the lot of the 
servants of Yahweh, and 
such is the right I grant 
them - says Yahweh.
COME TO THE WATER{/}

{1}55{/}

{I}1_{/}Come here, all 
you who are thirsty, come 
to the water!
All who have no money, 
come!
Yes, without money and at 
no cost, buy and drink 
wine and milk.
{I}2_{/}Why spend money 
on what is not food and 
labor for what does not 
satisfy? Listen to me, 
and you will eat well; 
you will enjoy the 
richest of fare.
{I}3_{/}Incline your ear 
and come to me; listen, 
that your soul may live. 
I will make with you an 
everlasting covenant, I 
will fulfill in you my 
promises to David.
{I}4_{/}See, I have given 
him for a witness to the 
nations, a leader and 
commander of the people. 
{I}5_{/}Likewise you will 
summon a nation unknown 
to you, and nations that 
do not know you will come 
hurrying to you for the 
sake of Yahweh your God, 
the Holy One of Israel, 
for he has promoted you.
{I}6_{/}Seek Yahweh while 
he may be found;
call to him while he is 
near.
{I}7_{/}Let the wicked 
abandon his way,
let him forsake his 
thoughts,
let him turn to Yahweh 
for he will have mercy,
for our God is generous 
in forgiving.
{I}8_{/}For my thoughts 
are not your thoughts,
my ways are not your 
ways, says Yahweh.
{I}9_{/}For as the 
heavens are above the 
earth,
so are my ways higher 
than your ways,
and my thoughts above 
your thoughts.
{I}10_{/}As the rain and 
the snow come down
from the heavens and do 
not return
till they have watered 
the earth,
making it yield seed for 
the sower
and food for others to 
eat,
{I}11_{/}so is my word 
that goes forth out of my 
mouth:
it will not return to me 
idle,
but it shall accomplish 
my will,
the purpose for which it 
has been sent.
{I}12_{/}Yes, in joy you 
will depart, in peace you 
will be led forth: 
mountains and hills will 
break into song before 
you, trees of the 
countryside will clap 
their hands.
{I}13_{/}Instead of the 
thornbush, the cypress 
will thrive; instead of 
briers, the myrtle. This 
will make Yahweh famous 
and remain as an 
everlasting witness to 
him.
GOD CALLS EVERYONE{/}

{1}56{/}

{I}1_{/}This is what 
Yahweh says:
Maintain what is right
and do what is just,
for my salvation is close 
at hand,
my justice is soon to 
come.
{I}2_{/}Blessed is the 
mortal who does these 
things, and perseveres in 
them, who does not defile 
the sabbath and who 
refrains from evil.
{I}3_{/}Let no foreigner 
say, "Surely Yahweh will 
exclude me from his 
people." Neither let the 
castrated man say, "I 
have become a mere dry 
tree."
{I}4_{/}For this is what 
Yahweh says: To the 
castrated men who keep my 
sabbaths, who choose to 
do what pleases me and 
remain faithful to my 
covenant:
{I}5_{/}I will give them 
in my house and within 
its walls, a memorial and 
a name that are worth 
more than sons and 
daughters; I will give 
them a name that will 
never die away or be 
forgotten.
{I}6_{/}Yahweh says to 
the foreigners who join 
him, serving him and 
loving his name, keeping 
his sabbath unprofaned 
and remaining faithful to 
his covenant:
{I}7_{/}I will bring them 
to my holy mountain and 
give them joy in my house 
of prayer. I will accept 
on my altar their burnt 
offerings and sacrifices, 
for my house will be 
called a house of prayer 
for all the nations.
{I}8_{/}Thus says the 
Lord God, Yahweh, who 
gathers the exiles of 
Israel: There are others 
I will gather besides 
those already gathered.
REPROACHES{/}

{I}9_{/}All you wild 
beasts, come and devour, 
all you beasts of the 
forests!
{I}10_{/}Blind are 
Israel's watchmen: they 
all see nothing. They are 
dumb watchdogs they are 
unable to bark. Lying 
down and dreaming, they 
love to slumber.
{I}11_{/}Greedy dogs that 
are never satisfied; 
shepherds of no 
discretion, they all turn 
their own way, everyone 
of them to his own gain.
{I}12_{/}"Come, bring 
wine," they say, "and let 
us all get drunk, and 
tomorrow will be as 
today, or perhaps even a 
happier day."
{1}57{/}

{I}1_{/}Righteous people 
perish,
and no one cares about 
it.
The just one is taken 
off, and no one 
understands that he is 
taken away from the 
calamity that comes, 
{I}2_{/}he enters into 
peace.
{I}3_{/}But all you sons 
of a witch, come here, 
you offspring of the 
whore and the adulterer.
{I}4_{/}Who are you 
mocking?
At whom are you making 
faces, opening wide your 
mouth and sticking out 
your tongue?
You are children of sin, 
offspring of deceit and 
falsehood,
{I}5_{/}burning with lust 
among the bushes,
under spreading branches,
sacrificing your children 
by the streams,
in the clefts of rocks.
{I}6_{/}Your heart is 
with your idols,
the smooth stones of the 
wadis to which you have 
poured out drink 
offerings
and brought oblations of 
grain.
Can I tolerate this?
{I}7_{/}You have made 
your bed upon a high and 
lofty mountain.
You went up there to 
offer your sacrifice.
{I}8_{/}You have set up 
your domestic idols
behind your doorposts and 
your doors.
Deserting me, you have 
uncovered your bed, 
climbed into it and 
spread it wide.
You made a bargain with 
those
whose bed you enjoy,
and you had intercourse 
with them.
{I}9_{/}With perfumed 
oil, you made yourself
look your best for 
Molech;
you sent envoys far 
afield -
the children you sent to 
your pagan god through a 
sacrificial death.
{I}10_{/}Although wearied 
with your misdeeds,
you have never given up;
you have never tired or 
weakened,
but instead found your 
strength revived.
{I}11_{/}Where had gone 
your fear of me
that you should lie and 
disown me,
refuse me a place in your 
heart
and not remember me?
Have I held my peace so 
long
that you do not fear me 
any more?
{I}12_{/}But now I will 
tell your merits and your 
deeds, it will not be for 
your advantage. 
{I}13_{/}When you cry out 
in distress, let your 
idols save you! The wind 
will blow them all away; 
a whiff of a breeze will 
carry them off.
But he who takes refuge 
in me will take 
possession of the land, 
my holy mountain his 
inheritance.
THERE IS NO PEACE WITHOUT 
JUSTICE{/}

{I}14_{/}Then it shall be 
said:
"Prepare, prepare, open 
up a way,
remove all obstructions 
from my people's way."
{I}15_{/}For thus says 
the Most High,
he who is enthroned 
forever,
he whose name is holy:
"I reign exalted and holy 
but I am also with him 
who is contrite and 
humble in spirit,
to give the contrite a 
heart revived
and the humble in spirit 
a new life.
{I}16_{/}For I will not 
contend forever,
nor will I always be 
angry,
lest the spirit of man 
faint before me,
the very breath that I 
have created.
{I}17_{/}His wickedness 
enraged me for a time,
I smote him and hid my 
face,
for he, a rebel, wanted 
to go his own drive.
And I have seen his ways.
{I}18_{/}But from now on 
I will console,
I will heal and fully 
comfort him,
- all those of his people 
who mourn.
{I}19_{/}I will bring 
smiles to their lips. 
Peace!
Peace to him who is far 
and to him who is near.
I will indeed heal you," 
Yahweh says.
{I}20_{/}But the wicked 
are like a turbulent sea
that finds no rest
and whose waters cast up 
mire and slime.
{I}21_{/}"There is no 
peace," says my God,
"for the wicked."
THE KIND OF FAST THAT 
PLEASES ME{/}

{1}58{/}

{I}1_{/}Cry out aloud for 
all you are worth;
raise your voice like a 
trumpet blast;
tell my people of their 
offenses,
Jacob's family of their 
sins.
{I}2_{/}Is it true that 
they seek me
day after day, longing to 
know my ways,
as a people that does 
what is right
and has not forsaken the 
word of its God?
They want to know the 
just laws
and not to drift away 
from their God.
{I}3_{/}"Why are we 
fasting," they complain,
"and you do not even see 
it?
We are doing penance and 
you never notice it."
Look, on your fast days 
you push your trade
and you oppress your 
laborers.
{I}4_{/}Yes, you fast but 
end up quarreling,
striking each other with 
wicked blows.
Fasting as you do
will not make your voice 
heard on high.
{I}5_{/}Is that the kind 
of fast that pleases me,
just a day for a man to 
humble himself?
Is fasting merely bowing 
down one's head,
and making use of 
sackcloth and ashes?
Would you call that 
fasting,
a day acceptable to 
Yahweh?
{I}6_{/}See the fast that 
pleases me:
breaking the fetters of 
injustice
and unfastening the 
thongs of the yoke,
setting the oppressed 
free
and breaking every yoke.
{I}7_{/}Fast by sharing 
your food with the 
hungry,
bring to your house the 
homeless,
clothe the man you see 
naked
and do not turn away from 
your own kin.
{I}8_{/}Then will your 
light break forth as the 
dawn

and your healing come in 
a flash.
Your righteousness will 
be your vanguard,
the Glory of Yahweh your 
rearguard.
{I}9_{/}Then you will 
call and Yahweh will 
answer,
you will cry and he will 
say, I am here.
If you remove from your 
midst the yoke,
the clenched fist and the 
wicked word,
{I}10_{/}if you share 
your food with the hungry
and give relief to the 
oppressed,
then your light will rise 
in the dark,
your night will be like 
noon.
{I}11_{/}Yahweh will 
guide you always
and give you relief in 
desert places.
He will strengthen your 
bones;
he will make you as a 
watered garden,
like a spring of water
whose waters never fail.
{I}12_{/}Your ancient 
ruins will be rebuilt,
the age-old foundations 
will be raised.
You will be called the 
Breach-mender,
and the Restorer of 
ruined houses.
{I}13_{/}If you stop 
profaning the sabbath
and doing as you please 
on the holy day,
if you call the sabbath a 
day of delight
and keep sacred Yahweh's 
holy day,
if you honor it by not 
going your own way,
not doing as you please
and not speaking with 
malice,
{I}14_{/}then you will 
find happiness in Yahweh,
over the heights you will 
ride triumphantly,
on the inheritance of 
your father Jacob you
will feast joyfully.
The mouth of Yahweh has 
spoken.
PENITENTIAL PSALM{/}

{1}59{/}

{I}1_{/}Yahweh's arm is 
not too short to save nor 
his ear too dull to hear.
{I}2_{/}It is your sins, 
rather,
that separate you from 
God.
It is your iniquities 
that veil his face,
so that he does not hear 
you.
{I}3_{/}For your hands 
are blood-stained,
your fingers blotted with 
crimes;
your lips have spoken 
lies,
your tongues have uttered 
deceit.
{I}4_{/}No one fights for 
a right cause;
no one makes a truthful 
plea.
They all tell lies and 
rely on vanity;
they conceive mischief 
and bring forth iniquity.
{I}5_{/}They hatch 
vipers' eggs
and weave spiders' webs.
Whoever eats their eggs 
dies;
and from an egg that is 
crushed
a venomous snake is 
hatched.
{I}6_{/}Their thread 
gives useless cloth;
their works are of help 
to no one.
Their plans are evil 
plots
executed in deeds of 
violence.
{I}7_{/}Their feet rush 
to do evil;
they are quick to shed 
innocent blood.
Their minds are full of 
wicked thoughts,
leaving in their wake 
ruin and havoc.
{I}8_{/}They do not know 
the way of peace;
from them no one can 
expect justice.
They have made their 
roads tricky and crooked
so that he who follows 
them is lost or waylaid.
{I}9_{/}So, far away from 
us lies justice,
and beyond reach is 
righteousness.
We look for light but 
behold darkness;
we long for brightness 
but walk in gloom.
{I}10_{/}Like the blind 
we grope for the wall,
like those without eyes 
we feel our way.
We stumble at noon as at 
twilight;
we are dead in the midst 
of our sins.
{I}11_{/}We are like 
bears that growl;
we are like doves that 
moan.
We look for justice and 
find none;
we wait for salvation 
that never comes.
{I}12_{/}For our offenses 
before you are many,
and our sins bear witness 
against us.
We acknowledge our 
offenses;
we know all our 
iniquities.
{I}13_{/}Yes, we have 
betrayed and deceived 
Yahweh,
turning away from 
following our God.
We have planned violence 
and rebellion;
we have thought and 
murmured lies.
{I}14_{/}Justice has been 
withheld,
righteousness stands 
aloof,
for truth has fallen in 
the public square
and integrity is not 
allowed to enter.
{I}15_{/}There is no 
sincerity nor honesty.
The man who turns from 
evil is despoiled.
{I}{/}Yahweh has seen 
this and is aggrieved
that justice does not 
exist.
{I}16_{/}Appalled at 
seeing none would 
intervene,
his own arm brought about 
the victory,
his justice giving him 
its support.
{I}17_{/}He put on 
righteousness as a 
breastplate,
and salvation as a helmet 
upon his head.
He wrapped himself in 
garments of vengeance
and put on a mantle of 
fury.
{I}18_{/}To each he will 
pay his due -
wrath to his enemy, 
reprisal to his foe.
{I}19_{/}Those in the 
west will hear the name 
of Yahweh;
those in the east will 
see his glory.
For it will come like a 
pent-up stream
driven by the breath of 
Yahweh.
{I}20_{/}But to Zion he 
will come as redeemer,
and to those of Jacob who 
turn from sin.
This is Yahweh speaking.
{I}21_{/}For my part, 
this is my covenant with 
them, says Yahweh. My 
spirit which I have 
poured out on you, and my 
words which I have put in 
your mouth, will never 
leave you, nor your 
children, nor your 
children's children 
forever and ever.
THE GLORY OF YAHWEH RISES 
UPON YOU{/}

{1}60{/}

{I}1_{/}Arise, shine, for 
your light has come.
The Glory of Yahweh rises 
upon you.
{I}2_{/}Night still 
covers the earth
and gloomy clouds veil 
the peoples,
but Yahweh now rises
and over you his glory 
appears.
{I}3_{/}Nations will come 
to your light
and kings to the 
brightness of your dawn.
{I}4_{/}Lift up your eyes 
round about and see:
they are all gathered and 
come to you,
your sons from afar,
your daughters tenderly 
carried.
{I}5_{/}This sight will 
make your face radiant,
your heart throbbing and 
full;
the riches of the sea 
will be turned to you,
the wealth of the nations 
will come to you.
{I}6_{/}A flood of camels 
will cover you,
caravans from Midian and 
Ephah.
Those from Sheba will 
come,
bringing with them gold 
and incense,
all singing in praise of 
Yahweh.
{I}7_{/}The flocks of 
Kedar will be gathered 
for you,
the rams of Nebaioth put 
at your service:
they are acceptable 
offerings on my altar
and will enhance the 
glory of my house.
{I}8_{/}Who are these as 
thick as clouds,
flying like doves to 
their cote?
{I}9_{/}Ah, they are 
ships, with those of 
Tarshish in the front,
for the islands now trust 
in me.
They bear your sons from 
far away
bringing their gold and 
silver with them,
for the name of Yahweh 
your God,
for the Holy One of 
Israel,
for he has glorified you.
{I}10_{/}Foreigners will 
rebuild your walls,
and their kings will 
attend to you.
For though in anger I 
have struck you,
in love I will have mercy 
on you.
{I}11_{/}Your gates will 
forever be open
and never be shut by 
night or day,
that you may receive the 
wealth of the nations, 
their kings leading them 
in procession;
{I}12_{/}for the nations 
and kingdoms that refuse 
to serve you will perish; 
they will be destroyed.)
{I}13_{/}The glory of 
Lebanon will come to you,
the pine, the fir and the 
cypress, too,
to adorn the place of my 
sanctuary,
to give glory to the 
resting place of my feet.
{I}14_{/}The sons of 
those who oppressed you 
will come bending low;
all who despised you will 
fall before your feet.
They will call you the 
City of Yahweh,
Zion of the Holy One of 
Israel.
{I}15_{/}Though you have 
been forsaken, hated and 
avoided,
I will make of you an 
everlasting pride,
a joy for all 
generations.
{I}16_{/}You will suck 
the milk of nations
and be nursed at royal 
breasts.
You will know that I, 
Yahweh, am your savior,
your redeemer, the Mighty 
One of Jacob.
{I}17_{/}Instead of 
bronze I will bring you 
gold;
instead of iron I will 
bring silver;
instead of wood, bronze;
instead of stones, iron.
Peace will be overseers,
justice your taskmasters.
{I}18_{/}Violence will no 
more be heard in your 
land,
nor ruin and destruction 
within your borders.
You will call your walls 
Salvation,
and your gates Praise.
{I}19{/}No more will the 
sun give you light by 
day,
nor the moon shine on you 
by night.
For Yahweh will be your 
everlasting light
and your God will be your 
glory.
{I}20{/}No more will your 
sun go down,
never will your moon 
wane.
For Yahweh will be your 
everlasting light,
and your days of mourning 
will come to an end.
{I}21{/}Your people will 
be upright;
forever they will possess 
the land -
they the shoot of my 
planting,
the work of my hand -
in them I shall be 
glorified.
{I}22_{/}The least of 
them will become a clan,
the smallest a mighty 
nation.
I, Yahweh, will do this,
swiftly, in due time.
THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS 
UPON ME{/}

{1}61{/}

{I}1_{/}The Spirit of the 
Lord Yahweh is upon me,
because Yahweh has 
anointed me
to bring good news to the 
poor.
He has sent me to bind up 
broken hearts,
to proclaim liberty to 
the captives,
freedom to those 
languishing in prison;
{I}2_{/}to announce the 
year of Yahweh's favor
and the day of vengeance 
of our God;
to give comfort to all 
who grieve;
{I}3_{/}(to comfort those 
who mourn in Zion)
and give them a garland 
instead of ashes,
oil of gladness instead 
of mourning,
and festal clothes 
instead of despair.
They will be called oaks 
of integrity
planted by Yahweh to show 
his glory.
{I}4_{/}They will rebuild 
the ancient ruins
and repair cities laid 
waste,
left desolate for many 
generations.
{I}5_{/}Strangers will 
stand to feed your 
flocks,
foreigners to be your 
plowmen and vinedressers.
{I}6_{/}But you will be 
named priests of Yahweh,
you will be called 
ministers of our God.
You will feed on the 
wealth of nations
and bathe in the splendor 
of their riches.
{I}7_{/}Since my people's 
shame has been twofold
and disgrace has been 
their lot,
they will possess a 
double portion
of inheritance in their 
land.
I will give them 
everlasting joy.
{I}8_{/}For I, Yahweh, 
love justice,
I hate robbery and 
oppression;
I will give them their 
due reward
and make an everlasting 
covenant with them.
{I}9_{/}Their descendants 
shall be known among the 
nations
and their offspring among 
the peoples.
All who see them will 
acknowledge
that they are a race 
Yahweh has blessed.
{I}10_{/}I rejoice 
greatly in Yahweh,
my soul exults for joy in 
my God,
for he has clothed me in 
the garments of his 
salvation,
he has covered me with 
the robe of his 
righteousness,
like a bridegroom wearing 
a garland,
like a bride adorned with 
jewels.
{I}11_{/}For as the earth 
brings forth its growth,
and as a garden makes 
seeds spring up,
so will the Lord Yahweh 
make justice and praise
spring up in the sight of 
all nations.
YOUR GOD WILL REJOICE IN 
YOU{/}

{1}62{/}

{I}1_{/}For Zion's sake I 
will not hold my peace,
for Jerusalem I will not 
keep silent,
until her holiness shines 
like the dawn
and her salvation flames 
like a burning torch.
{I}2_{/}The nations will 
see your holiness
and all the kings your 
glory.
You will be called by a 
new name
which the mouth of Yahweh 
will reveal.
{I}3_{/}You will be a 
crown of glory
in the hand of Yahweh,
a royal diadem in the 
hand of your God.
{I}4_{/}No longer will 
you be named Forsaken;
no longer will your land 
be called
Abandoned;
but you will be called My 
Delight
and your land Espoused.
For Yahweh delights in 
you
and will make your land 
his spouse.
{I}5_{/}As a young man 
marries a virgin,
so will your builder 
marry you;
and as a bridegroom 
rejoices in his bride,
so will your God rejoice 
in you.
HE WHO SOWS WILL REAP{/}

{I}6_{/}Upon your walls, 
O Jerusalem, I have 
stationed watchmen; all 
the day and throughout 
the night they will not 
be silent.
You who call on Yahweh, 
give yourselves no rest; 
{I}7_{/}and give him no 
rest either till he 
restores Jerusalem and 
makes of it the pride of 
the earth.
{I}8_{/}Yahweh swears by 
his right hand and by his 
mighty arm: Never again 
will I give your grain as 
food for your enemies, 
nor will foreigners drink 
the wine for which you 
have labored. {I}9_{/}But 
those who toil will eat 
the harvest, and praise 
Yahweh; and those working 
for the vintage shall 
drink of the wine in the 
courts of my sanctuary.
{I}10_{/}"Pass through, 
pass through the gates, 
prepare the way for the 
people. Build it up, bank 
up the highway, clear it 
of stones; raise up a 
standard for the 
peoples."
{I}11_{/}For Yahweh 
proclaims to the ends of 
the earth:
Say to the daughter of 
Zion, here comes your 
salvation! Yahweh brings 
the reward of his 
victory, his booty is 
carried before him.
{I}12_{/}They shall be 
called the holy people, 
the redeemed of Yahweh; 
and you shall be called 
The Sought After, a city 
no longer abandoned.
WHY ARE YOUR CLOTHES 
RED?{/}

{1}63{/}

{I}1_{/}Who is this 
coming from Edom,
majestically arrayed
in crimson garments from 
Bozrah,
marching in great 
strength?
"It is I, proclaiming 
justice,
I who am powerful to 
save."
{I}2_{/}Why are your 
clothes red,
and your garments like 
those
of men who tread the 
winepress?
{I}3_{/}"Alone I have 
trod the grapes;
not one of my people was 
with me.
I trampled them in my 
anger,
I trod them down in my 
wrath,
their lifeblood 
spattering my garments,
staining with crimson all 
my raiment.
{I}4_{/}For I had set a 
day of vengeance
and my year of redemption 
had come.
{I}5_{/}I looked about: 
there was no one to help.
I was appalled: there was 
no one to give support.
My own arm, then, brought 
about the victory,
and I was supported by my 
own fury.
{I}6_{/}I crushed the 
peoples in my anger,
I trampled them down in 
my wrath,
and on the earth I poured 
their lifeblood."
REND THE HEAVENS AND COME 
DOWN{/}

{I}7_{/}I will sing in 
praise of Yahweh and 
recall his kindness, 
according to all that he 
has done for us, his 
great goodness to the 
family of Israel. He has 
granted us mercy in the 
abundance of his 
blessings.
{I}8_{/}For he said: 
"Surely they are my 
people, sons who will not 
be disloyal." So he 
proved himself their 
Savior  {I}9_{/}in all 
their trials.
It was not a messenger or 
an angel but he himself 
who delivered them. Out 
of his love and mercy, he 
redeemed them, lifting 
them up and carrying them 
throughout the days of 
old.
{I}10_{/}Yet they 
rebelled, giving grief to 
his holy Spirit. So he 
turned and became their 
enemy, fighting against 
them.
{I}11_{/}His people then 
remembered the days of 
old, the days of Moses. 
Where is he who brought 
them out of the sea, the 
shepherd of his flock?
Where is he who in the 
midst of them poured out 
his holy Spirit, 
{I}12_{/}who sent his own 
power to accompany Moses, 
who divided the waters 
before them, winning for 
himself eternal renown, 
{I}13_{/}who made them go 
through the depths as 
easily as a horse in the 
wilderness? {I}14_{/}Like 
cattle going down into 
the valley, they did not 
stumble.
The spirit of Yahweh led 
them to their rest; you 
guided your people, 
winning for yourself 
glorious renown.
{I}15_{/}Look down from 
heaven, look down from 
your holy and glorious 
throne. Where is your 
zeal and your strength, 
the yearning of your 
heart and your 
compassion? How long will 
you ignore our pain? 
{I}16_{/}For you are our 
Father, whereas Abraham 
does not know us nor has 
Israel any knowledge of 
us. But you, O Yahweh, 
are our Father, from the 
beginning, you are our 
redeemer: this is your 
name.
{I}17_{/}Why have you 
made us stray from your 
ways? Why have you let 
our heart become hard so 
that we do not fear you? 
Return for the sake of 
your servants, the tribes 
of your inheritance.
{I}18_{/}Why have 
irreligious people 
invaded your sanctuary? 
Why have our enemies 
trampled it down?
{I}19_{/}For too long we 
have become like those 
you do not rule, like 
those who do not bear 
your name.
Oh, that you would rend 
the heavens and come 
down! The mountains would 
quake at your presence.
{1}64{/}

{I}1_{/}As when fire sets 
brushwood ablaze and 
causes water to boil, 
make the nations know 
your name, and your 
enemies tremble. 
{I}2_{/}Let them witness 
your stunning deeds.
{I}3_{/}No one has ever 
heard or perceived, no 
eye has ever seen a God 
besides you who works for 
those who trust in him.
{I}4_{/}You have 
confounded those who 
acted righteously and who 
joyfully kept your ways 
in mind. You are angry 
with our sins, yet 
conceal them and we shall 
be saved.
{I}5_{/}All of us have 
become like the unclean; 
all our good deeds are 
like polluted garments; 
we have all withered like 
leaves, blown away by our 
iniquities.
{I}6_{/}There is no one 
who calls upon your name, 
no one who rouses himself 
to lay hold of you. For 
you have hidden your 
face, you have given us 
up to the power of our 
evil acts.
{I}7_{/}And yet, Yahweh, 
you are our Father; we 
are the clay and you are 
our potter; we are the 
work of your hand.
{I}8_{/}Do not let your 
anger go too far, O 
Yahweh, or think of our 
sins forever. See, we all 
are your people!
{I}9_{/}Your holy cities 
have become a wilderness, 
Zion has become a 
wasteland, Jerusalem a 
desolation.
{I}10_{/}Our holy and 
glorious house, where our 
fathers used to pray to 
you, has been razed to 
the ground, and all that 
we treasure lies in 
ruins.
{I}11_{/}Can you still 
remain unmoved, O Yahweh, 
before all this? Will you 
punish us further with 
your silence?
GOD'S RESPONSE{/}

{1}65{/}

{I}1_{/}I let myself be 
found by those who did 
not ask for me; I have 
been met by those who did 
not seek me.
I said, "Here I am, here 
I am," to a nation who 
did not call on my name. 
{I}2_{/}I have stretched 
out my hands all day to a 
rebellious people who 
chose the evil way, 
following their own 
wishes.
{I}3_{/}These people 
provoked me to my face, 
continually, sacrificing 
in gardens, burning 
incense on bricks, 
{I}4_{/}living in tombs 
and spending nights in 
dark places; a people who 
eat the flesh of swine 
and broth of abominable 
meat.
{I}5_{/}They cry out, 
"Stay away, do not come 
near, for I am too sacred 
to be touched." Such men 
and their acts arouse my 
anger like fire that 
burns all day.
{I}6_{/}Look, all this is 
written in my book, I 
will not keep silent till 
I have settled my account 
with them {I}7_{/}for 
their crimes and the 
crimes of their fathers 
as well, Yahweh says. 
Because they burned 
incense on the mountains 
and blasphemed against me 
on the hills, I will pay 
them back in full.
GOD SAVES AND BLESSES THE 
JUST{/}

{I}8_{/}Yahweh says, 
"When people find juice 
in a grape, they say: 'Do 
not destroy it, there is 
a blessing here.' So will 
I do with my servants; I 
will not destroy all of 
them.
{I}9_{/}I will create a 
new race from Jacob and 
they will own the hills 
of Judah. My chosen 
people will inherit them, 
and my servants will 
dwell there.
{I}10_{/}Sharon will be a 
pasture for flocks, the 
Valley of Achor a resting 
place for herds; they 
will be for my people who 
have sought me.
{I}11_{/}But as for you 
who have forsaken Yahweh, 
you who have forgotten my 
holy mountain, you who 
spread a table for 
Fortune and fill cups of 
mixed wine for Destiny, 
{I}12_{/}I have destined 
you to the sword. All of 
you will kneel for the 
slaughter.
For I called and you did 
not answer;
I spoke and you did not 
listen.
Instead you did what was 
evil in my sight
and chose that in which I 
had no delight.
{I}13_{/}Therefore thus 
says the Lord Yahweh:
Look, my servants will 
eat
but you will go hungry;
my servants will drink
but you will be thirsty;
my servants will rejoice
but you will be 
disgraced;
{I}14_{/}my servants will 
sing with gladness of 
heart,
but you will cry with 
grief in your heart
and wail in anguish of 
spirit.
{I}15_{/}My chosen ones 
will use as a curse the 
name you will leave 
behind, as I strike you 
dead and give my servants 
a new name.
{I}16_{/}Whoever invokes 
a blessing in the land 
will receive the blessing 
from the God of truth; 
whoever takes an oath in 
the land will swear by 
the God of truth. For 
past troubles will be 
forgotten, and I will see 
them no more.
A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW 
EARTH{/}

{I}17_{/}I now create new 
heavens and a new earth, 
and the former things 
will not be remembered, 
nor will they come to 
mind again.
{I}18_{/}Be glad forever 
and rejoice in what I 
create; for I create 
Jerusalem to be a joy and 
its people to be a 
delight. {I}19_{/}I will 
rejoice over Jerusalem 
and take delight in my 
people.
The sound of distress and 
the voice of weeping will 
not be heard in it any 
more.
{I}20_{/}It will no 
longer know of dead 
children or of a grown 
man not completing his 
days. He who reaches a 
hundred years will have 
died a mere youth, but he 
who fails to reach a 
hundred will be 
considered accursed.
{I}21_{/}They will build 
houses and dwell in them; 
they will plant crops and 
eat their fruit. 
{I}22_{/}No longer will 
they build houses for 
others to dwell in; no 
longer will they plant 
for others to eat the 
harvest.
For as the days of a tree 
will the days of my 
people be; my chosen ones 
will long enjoy the work 
of their hands.
{I}23_{/}Their labor will 
not be in vain, nor will 
they bear children 
destined for misfortune, 
for they will be a people 
blessed by Yahweh, and 
their descendants with 
them.
{I}24_{/}Before they 
call, I will have 
answered; while they are 
yet speaking, I will have 
heard.
{I}25_{/}The wolf and the 
lamb will feed together,
the lion will eat straw 
like the ox,
(but the serpent will 
feed on dust).
They will not destroy nor 
do any harm
over all my holy 
mountain, says Yahweh.
TRUE WORSHIP OF YAHWEH{/}

{1}66{/}

{I}1_{/}Thus says Yahweh:
Heaven is my throne and 
earth my footstool. What 
house, then, could you 
build for me, and what 
could you offer as my 
resting place?
{I}2_{/}My hands have 
made all this and it is 
all mine, but what I am 
looking for is the one 
who is meek and contrite 
of heart, who trembles at 
my word.
{I}3_{/}They sacrifice an 
ox, then they murder a 
man. They sacrifice a 
lamb, then they break a 
dog's neck; they bring a 
cereal offering, then 
they offer swine's blood. 
They burn incense, but 
they burn it for idols.
Since they have chosen 
their own ways  and taken 
delight in their dirty 
idols, {I}4_{/}I will 
likewise choose 
afflictions for them that 
they fear and abhor.
For when I called no one 
answered,
when I spoke no one 
listened.
Instead they did what was 
evil in my sight
and chose that in which I 
had no delight.
{I}5_{/}Hear the word of 
Yahweh, you who tremble 
at his word: Because of 
my name your brothers 
hate and reject you, 
saying, "Let Yahweh show 
his glory, that we may 
see your joy."
These mockers will be put 
to shame. {I}6_{/}Listen, 
an uproar from the city, 
a voice from the temple! 
It is the voice of Yahweh 
avenging and paying back 
his enemies.
BIRTH OF THE NEW 
JERUSALEM{/}

{I}7_{/}Long before being 
in labor,
she has given birth;
before having birth pangs
she has been delivered of 
a son.
{I}8_{/}Has anyone ever 
heard of such a thing? 
Has anyone seen the like 
of it? How could a land 
spring forth in one day? 
How could a nation be 
formed in a moment?
Yet Zion had scarcely 
been in travail when she 
gave birth to her 
children.
{I}9_{/}Yahweh says: Do I 
allow to conceive and yet 
not to give birth? For I 
am the one who opens the 
womb and who closes it.
{I}10_{/}"Rejoice for 
Jerusalem and be glad for  
her, all you who love 
her. Be glad with her, 
rejoice with her, all you 
who were in grief over 
her, {I}11_{/}that you 
may suck of the milk from 
her comforting breasts, 
that you may drink deeply 
from the abundance of her 
glory."
{I}12_{/}For this is what 
Yahweh says: I will send 
her peace, overflowing 
like a river; and the 
nations' wealth, rushing 
like a torrent towards 
her.
And you will be nursed 
and carried in her arms 
and fondled upon her lap.
{I}13_{/}As a son 
comforted by his mother, 
so will I comfort you. 
{I}14_{/}At the sight of 
this, your heart will 
rejoice; like grass, your 
bones will flourish. For 
it shall be known that 
Yahweh's hand is with his 
servant, but his fury is 
upon his enemy.
{I}15_{/}Look, Yahweh 
will come in fire,
his chariots like the 
whirlwind,
to release his anger with 
fury
and his threat with 
flames of fire.
{I}16_{/}For by fire will 
Yahweh execute  judgment,
and by his sword, against 
all mankind.

Those slain by yahweh 
will be many.
{I}17_{/}As for those who 
sanctify and purify 
themselves by going to 
the gardens and following 
the priestess in the 
midst - those who eat the 
flesh of pigs, reptiles 
and rats - their deeds 
and thoughts will 
suddenly come to an end, 
says Yahweh.
THE PAGANS ENTER THE 
KINGDOM OF GOD{/}

{I}18_{/}Now I am going 
to gather the nations of 
every tongue, and they 
will witness my glory, 
{I}19_{/}for I will 
perform a wonderful thing 
among them.  Then I will 
send some of their 
survivors to the nations 
- Tarshish, Put, Lud, 
Moscheck, Rosh, Tubal, 
and Javan - to the 
distant islands where no 
one has ever heard of me 
or seen my glory. They 
will proclaim my glory 
among the nations. 
{I}20_{/}They will bring 
your brothers from all 
the nations as an 
offering to Yahweh on 
horses, in chariots, in 
litters, on mules, on 
camels to my holy 
mountain in Jerusalem, 
says Yahweh, just as the 
Israelites bring 
oblations in clean 
vessels to the house of 
Yahweh. {I}21_{/}Then I 
will choose priests and 
Levites even from them, 
says Yahweh.
{I}22_{/}Yahweh says, "As 
the new heavens and the 
new earth that I will 
make shall endure before 
me, so will your name and 
your descendants also 
endure."
{I}23_{/}From new moon to 
new moon, from sabbath to 
sabbath, every mortal 
will come to worship me, 
says Yahweh. {I}24_{/}And 
on their way out they 
will see the corpses of 
those who rebelled 
against me. Their worms 
shall not die, nor their 
fire be quenched, and 
they will be abhorrent to 
all.

