55 Ho, aevery one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters,

And he that hath no money;

bCome ye, cbuy, and eat;

Yea, come, buy bwine and milk dwithout money and without price.

2  eWherefore do ye †spend money for that which is not bread?

And your labour ffor that which satisfieth not?

Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good,

And let your soul gdelight itself in fatness.

3  Incline your ear, and hcome unto me:

Hear, and iyour soul shall live;

And kI will make an everlasting covenant with you,

Even lthe sure mercies of mDavid.

4  Behold, I have given mhim for na witness to the people,

A oleader and commander to the people.

5  Behold, pthou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not,

And qnations that knew not thee shall run unto thee

Because of the Lord thy God,

And for rthe Holy One of Israel; rfor she hath glorified thee.

6  tSeek ye the Lord while he may be found,

Call ye upon him while he is near:

7  Let the wicked forsake his way,

And †the unrighteous man uhis thoughts:

And vlet him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him;

And to our God, for †he will abundantly wpardon.

8  For xmy thoughts are not your thoughts,

Neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

9  For yas the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are my ways higher than your ways,

And my thoughts than your thoughts.

10  For zas the rain cometh down,

And the snow from heaven,

And returneth not thither,

But watereth the earth,

And maketh it bring forth and bud,

aThat it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

11  bSo shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth:

It shall not return unto me void,

But it shall accomplish that which I please,

And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

12  cFor ye shall go out with joy,

And be led forth with peace:

The mountains and the hills shall dbreak forth before you into singing,

And all ethe trees of the field shall clap their hands.

13  fInstead of gthe thorn shall come up the fir tree,

And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree:

And it shall be to the Lord hfor a name,

For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

17 *The aburden of bDamascus.

Behold, Damascus is taken away cfrom being a city,

And it shall be a ruinous heap.

2  dThe cities of Aroer are forsaken:

They shall be for flocks,

Which eshall lie down, and efnone shall make them afraid.

3  gThe fortress also shall hcease from Ephraim,

And gthe kingdom from bDamascus, and the remnant of Syria:

They shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.

4  And in that day it shall come to pass,

That gthe glory of Jacob shall be made thin,

And ithe fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

5  And it shall be jas when the harvestman gathereth the corn,

And reapeth the ears with his arm;

And it shall be as he that gathereth ears in kthe valley of Rephaim.

6  lYet mngleaning grapes shall be left in it, mas the shaking of an olive tree,

oTwo or three berries in the top of pthe uppermost bough,

qFour or five in rthe outmost fruitful branches thereof,

Saith the Lord God of Israel.

7  At that day shall a man look to shis Maker,

And his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

8  And he shall not look to the altars, tthe work of his hands,

Neither shall respect that which his fingers have made,

Either uvthe groves, or the ||vimages.

9  In that day shall his strong cities be

As a forsaken wbough, and pan uppermost branch,

xWhich they left because of the children of Israel:

And there shall be desolation.

10  Because thou hast forgotten ythe God of thy salvation,

And hast not been mindful of zthe rock of thy strength,

Therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants,

And shalt set it with strange slips:

11  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow,

And in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish:

But the harvest shall be ||a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

12  Woe to the ||multitude of many people,

Which bmake a noise like athe noise of the seas;

And to athe rushing of nations,

That make a rushing like athe rushing of ||cmighty waters!

13  aThe nations shall rush like athe rushing of many waters:

But God shall drebuke them, and they shall flee far off,

And shall be chased eas the chaff of the mountains before the wind,

And like ||fa rolling thing before gthe whirlwind.

14  And behold at eveningtide trouble;

And before the morning he is not.

hThis is the portion of them that spoil us,

And the lot of them that rob us.

18 *aWoe to the land shadowing bwith wings,

Which is beyond the rivers of cEthiopia:

2  dThat sendeth ambassadors by ethe sea,

Even in vessels of fbulrushes upon the waters, saying,

Go, ye gswift messengers,

To ha nation ||scattered and jpeeled,

hTo a people terrible kfrom their beginning hitherto;

||†hA nation meted out and trodden down,

||hWhose land the rivers have spoiled!

3  All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,

See ye, when he nlifteth up an ensign on the mountains;

And when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

4  For so the Lord said unto me,

I will take my rest, and I will ||consider in omy dwelling place

Like a clear heat ||upon pherbs,

And like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

5  For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect,

And qthe sour grape is ripening in qthe flower,

He shall both cut off the sprigs with rpruning hooks,

And take away and cut down sthe branches.

6  tThey shall be left together unto uthe fowls of the mountains,

And to the beasts of the earth:

And uthe fowls shall summer upon them,

And all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

7  In that time vshall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts

Of ha people ||scattered and peeled,

And from ha people terrible from their beginning hitherto;

hA nation meted out and trodden under foot,

hWhose land the rivers have spoiled,

To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.

19The aburden of bEgypt.

Behold, cthe Lord rideth upon a dswift cloud, and shall come into Egypt:

And dthe idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence,

And ethe heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

2  And I will †set the Egyptians against the Egyptians:

And they shall fight every one against his brother, and fevery one against his neighbour;

City against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

3  And the spirit of Egypt †shall fail in the midst thereof;

And I will †destroy the counsel thereof:

And they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers,

And to gthem that have familiar spirits, and to gthe wizards.

4  And the Egyptians will I ||give over into the hand of ha cruel lord;

And ha fierce king shall rule over them,

Saith ithe Lord, the Lord of hosts.

5  And the waters shall jfail from kthe sea,

And lthe river mshall be wasted and dried up.

6  And they shall turn the rivers far away;

And nthe brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up:

The reeds and oflags shall pwither.

7  The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks,

And every thing sown by the brooks,

Shall wither, ppbe driven away, †and be no more.

8  qThe fishers also shall mourn,

And all they that cast rangle into the brooks shall lament,

And they that spread nets upon the waters sshall languish.

9  Moreover they that work in tfine flax,

And they that weave ||networks, …