Isaiah 58–66
Lift up thy voice clike a trumpet,
And dshew my people their transgression,
And the house of Jacob their sins.
And edelight to know my ways,
As a nation that did righteousness,
And forsook not the ordinance of their God:
They ask of me the ordinances of justice;
fThey take delight in approaching to God.
3 gWherefore have we fasted, hsay they, and thou seest not?
Wherefore have we iafflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?
Behold, kin the day of your fast ye find pleasure,
And lexact all your ||†mlabours.
4 Behold, nye fast for strife and debate,
And to smite with the fist of wickedness:
||Ye shall not fast as ye do this day,
oTo make your voice to be heard on high.
5 pIs it such a fast that I have chosen?
||A day for a man to iafflict his soul?
Is it to bow down his head as qa bulrush,
And rto spread ssackcloth and ashes under him?
Wilt thou call this a fast,
And an acceptable day to the Lord?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen?
To loose tthe bands of wickedness,
And xto let the †oppressed go free,
And that ye break every yoke?
7 Is it not yzto deal thy bread to the hungry,
And ythat thou bring the poor that are ||cast out ato thy house?
zbWhen thou seest the naked, that thou cover him;
And that thou hide not thyself from cthine own flesh?
8 dThen shall thy light break forth as the morning,
And thine ehealth shall spring forth speedily:
And thy righteousness shall go before thee;
The glory of the Lord †shall be thy rereward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer;
Thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am.
If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke,
fThe putting forth of the finger, and gspeaking vanity;
10 And if thou hdraw out thy soul ito the hungry,
And ksatisfy the afflicted soul;
dThen shall thy light rise in obscurity,
And thy darkness be as the noonday:
11 And the Lord shall guide thee lcontinually,
And ksatisfy thy soul in †drought,
And make fat thy bones:
And thou shalt be mlike a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters †fail not.
12 And they that shall be of thee nshall build the old owaste places:
Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations;
And thou shalt be called, pThe repairer of the breach,
The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If qthou turn away thy foot from the sabbath,
From doing thy pleasure on my holy day;
And call the sabbath ra delight,
The holy of the Lord, honourable;
And shalt honour him, not doing rrthine own ways,
Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
14 Then sshalt thou delight thyself in the Lord;
And I will tcause thee to ride tuupon the high places of the earth,
And feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father:
vFor the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
59 Behold, athe Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;
Neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But byour iniquities have separated between you and your God,
And your sins ||have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
3 For cyour hands dare defiled with blood,
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips ehave spoken lies,
Your tongue hath mmuttered perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any fpleadeth for truth:
They trust gin vanity, and espeak lies;
hiThey conceive mischief, and ibring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch ||cockatrice’ eggs,
And weave kthe spider’s web:
He that eateth of their eggs dieth,
And ||lthat which is crushed breaketh out into ma viper.
6 kTheir webs shall not become garments,
Neither shall they cover themselves with their works:
Their works are works of iniquity,
And the act of violence is in their hands.
nAnd they make haste to shed innocent blood:
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
opWasting and †destruction are in their paths.
8 oThe way of peace they know not;
And there is no ||judgment in their qgoings:
rThey have made them crooked paths:
Whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us,
Neither doth justice overtake us:
sWe wait for light, but behold obscurity;
For brightness, but twe walk in darkness.
10 uWe grope for the wall like the blind,
And we grope as if we had no eyes:
We stumble uat noonday as in the night;
We are in desolate places as dead men.
And vmourn sore like doves:
sWe look for judgment, but there is none;
For salvation, but it is far off from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee,
And our sins testify against us:
For our transgressions are with us;
And as for our iniquities, wwe know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord,
And xdeparting away from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and yuttering zfrom the heart ewords of falsehood.
14 And judgment is xturned away backward,
And justice standeth afar off:
For truth is fallen in the street,
And aequity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth bfaileth;
And he that departeth from evil ||cmaketh himself a prey:
And the Lord saw it, and †it displeased him
That there was no judgment.
16 And dhe saw that there was no man,
And ewondered that there was no fintercessor:
gTherefore hhis arm brought salvation unto him;
And his righteousness, dit sustained him.
17 For ihe put on righteousness as a breastplate,
And an helmet of salvation upon his head;
And he put on the garments of kvengeance for clothing,
And was clad with zeal ias a cloke.
18 lAccording to their †deeds, accordingly mhe will repay,
nFury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies;
To othe islands he will repay recompence.
19 pSo shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west,
And his glory from the rising of the sun.
When the enemy shall come in qlike a flood,
The Spirit of the Lord shall ||rlift up a standard against him.
20 And sthe Redeemer shall come to Zion,
And unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
21 As for me, tthis is my covenant with them, saith the Lord;
My spirit that is upon thee,
And umy words which I have put in thy mouth,
Shall not depart out of thy mouth,
Nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
Nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord,
From henceforth and for ever.
60 Arise, a||shine; for thy light is come,
And bthe glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
2 For, behold, cdthe darkness shall cover the earth,
And dgross darkness the people:
But the Lord shall arise upon thee,
And behis glory shall be seen upon thee.
3 And fthe Gentiles shall come to thy light,
And gkings to the brightness of thy rising.
4 hLift up thine eyes round about, and see:
hAll they gather themselves together, ithey come to thee:
jThy sons shall come from far,
And thy daughters shall be nursed kat thy side.
5 Then thou shalt see, and lflow together,
And thine heart shall fear, and mbe enlarged;
Because nthe ||oabundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee,
The ||fmforces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee,
pThe dromedaries of qMidian and rEphah;
All they from sSheba shall come:
They shall bring tgold and incense;
And they shall ushew forth the praises of the Lord.
7 All the flocks of vKedar shall be gathered together unto thee,
The rams of wNebaioth shall minister unto thee:
xThey shall come up with acceptance on mine altar,
And I will yglorify yythe house of bmy glory.
8 zWho are these that fly as a cloud,
And aas the doves to their windows?
9 Surely bcthe isles shall wait for me,
And dthe ships of cTarshish first,
gTheir silver and their gold with them,
hUnto the name of the Lord thy God,
And ito the Holy One of Israel, ibecause he hath glorified thee.
10 And kthe sons of strangers shall build up thy walls,
And ltheir kings shall minister unto thee:
For min my wrath I smote thee,
But nin my favour have I had mercy on thee.
11 Therefore othy gates shall be open continually;
They shall not be shut day nor night;
That men may bring unto thee the ||forces of the Gentiles,
And that lptheir kings may be brought.
12 For qthe nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish;
Yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
13 rThe glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee,
sThe fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together,
To tbeautify the place of my sanctuary;
And I will make uthe place of my feet glorious.
14 vThe sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee;
And all they that despised thee shall wbow themselves down at the soles of thy feet;
And they shall call thee, xThe city of the Lord,
yThe Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 Whereas thou hast been zforsaken and ahated,
So that no man went through thee,
I will make thee an eternal bexcellency,
A joy of many generations.
16 cThou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles,
And cshalt suck the breast of kings:
And cthou shalt know that dI the Lord am thy Saviour
cAnd thy Redeemer, ddthe mighty One of Jacob.
17 eFor brass I will bring gold,
And for iron I will bring silver,
And for wood brass,
And for stones iron:
I will also make thy officers fpeace,
And thine gexactors righteousness.
18 hViolence shall no more be heard in thy land,
iWasting nor destruction within thy borders;
But thou shalt call jthy walls Salvation,
And thy gates kPraise.
19 lThe sun shall be no more thy light by day;
lNeither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee:
But the Lord shall be unto thee man everlasting light,
20 pThy sun shall no more go down;
Neither shall thy moon withdraw itself:
For the Lord shall be thine everlasting light,
And qthe days of thy mourning shall be ended.
21 rThy people also shall be all righteous:
sThey shall inherit the land for ever,
tThe branch of my planting, uthe work of my hands, tvthat I may be glorified.
22 xA little one shall become a thousand,
And a small one a ystrong nation:
I the Lord will zhasten it in his time.
61 aThe Spirit of the Lord God is upon me;
Because the Lord bhath anointed me cto preach good tidings unto dthe meek;
He hath sent me eto bind up fthe brokenhearted,
gTo proclaim liberty to the captives,
And hthe opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2 iTo proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And kthe day of vengeance of our God;
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