Isaiah 62–66

62 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace,

And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,

Until athe righteousness thereof go forth as brightness,

And the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

2  And bthe Gentiles shall see thy righteousness,

And call kings thy glory:

And thou shalt be called by da new name,

Which the mouth of the Lord shall name.

3  Thou shalt also be ea crown of glory in the hand of the Lord,

And a royal fdiadem in the hand of thy God.

4  gThou shalt no more be termed hForsaken;

Neither shall thy land any more be termed iDesolate:

But thou shalt be called ||Hephzi-bah,

And thy land ||Beulah:

For the Lord delighteth in thee,

And thy land shall be married.

5  For kas a young man marrieth a virgin,

So shall lthy sons marry thee:

And †as mthe bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride,

So nshall thy God rejoice over thee.

6  I have set owatchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,

Which shall never hold their peace day nor night:

||qYe that make mention of the Lord,

Keep not silence, 7 And give him no †rest,

Till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem ra praise in the earth.

8  The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength,

†Surely sI will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies;

And tthe sons of the stranger ttshall not drink thy uwine, for the which thou hast laboured:

9  But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and vpraise the Lord;

And they that have brought it together shall drink it vin the courts of my holiness.

10  Go through, go through the gates; wxprepare ye the way of the people;

xCast up, cast up the highway; ygather out the stones;

zLift up a standard for the people.

11  Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world,

aSay ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, bthy salvation cometh;

cBehold, his reward is with him,

cAnd his ||work before him.

12  And dthey shall call them, eThe holy people, fThe redeemed of the Lord:

And thou shalt be called, Sought out, gA city not forsaken.

63 Who is this that cometh from Edom,

aWith dyed garments from bBozrah?

This that is †glorious in his apparel,

cTravelling in the greatness of his strength?

I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

2  Wherefore dart thou red in thine apparel,

And thy garments like him that etreadeth in the winefat?

3  I have etrodden the winepress alone;

And of the people there was none with me:

For fI will tread them in mine anger,

And trample them in gmy fury;

And dtheir hblood shall be sprinkled upon my garments,

And I will stain all my raiment.

4  For ithe day of vengeance is in mine heart,

And the year of kmy redeemed is come.

5  lAnd I looked, and mthere was none to help;

And I wondered that there was none to uphold:

nTherefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me;

nAnd gmy fury, it upheld me.

6  And I will tread down the people in mine anger,

And omake them drunk in gmy fury,

And I will bring down their hstrength to the earth.

7  I will pmention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord,

qAccording to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us,

And rthe great goodness toward the house of Israel,

Which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies,

And saccording to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

8  For he said, Surely they are my people,

Children that will not lie:

So he was their Saviour.

9  tIn all their affliction he was afflicted,

And uthe angel of his presence saved them:

vIn his love and in his pity whe redeemed them;

And he bare them, and xcarried them all the days of old.

10  But ythey rebelled, and zvexed his holy Spirit:

Therefore ahe was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

11  Then bhe remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying,

Where is che that brought them up out of the sea with the ||shepherd of dhis flock?

eWhere is he that put his holy Spirit within him?

12  That led them by the right hand of Moses fwith his glorious arm,

gDividing the water before them, hto make himself an everlasting name?

13  iThat led them through the deep,

kAs an horse iin the wilderness, that they should not stumble?

14  As a beast goeth down into the valley,

The Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest:

So didst thou lead thy people,

hTo make thyself a glorious name.

15  lLook down from heaven, and behold

mFrom the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory:

Where is thy zeal and thy strength,

||nThe sounding of thy bowels and of othy mercies toward me? are they prestrained?

16  qDoubtless thou art our father,

Though rAbraham be ignorant of us,

And Israel acknowledge us not:

Thou, O Lord, art our father, ||our sredeemer;

Thy name is from everlasting.

17  O Lord, why hast thou tmade us to err from thy ways,

And uhardened our heart from thy fear?

vReturn for thy servants’ sake,

wThe tribes of thine inheritance.

18  xThe people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while:

yOur adversaries zhave trodden down thy sanctuary.

19  We are thine: thou never barest rule over them;

†They were not called by thy name.

64 Oh that thou wouldest arend the heavens, that thou wouldest acome down,

That bthe mountains might flow down at thy presence,

2  As when †the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil,

To make thy name known to thine adversaries,

That the nations may tremble at thy presence!

3  When cthou didst terrible things which we looked not for,

aThou camest down, bthe mountains flowed down at thy presence.

4  For since the beginning of the world dmen have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,

Neither hath the eye ||seen, O God, beside thee,

eWhat he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

5  Thou fmeetest him that rejoiceth and gworketh righteousness,

hThose that remember thee in ithy ways:

Behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned:

kIn those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

6  But we are all as lan unclean thing,

And mall our righteousnesses are nas filthy rags;

And owe all pdo fade as a leaf;

And our iniquities, like the wind, have qtaken us away.

7  And there is none that rcalleth upon thy name,

That stirreth up himself to take hold of thee:

For sthou hast hid thy face from us,

And hast †consumed us, †because of our iniquities.

8  But now, O Lord, tthou art our father;

uWe are the clay, and vthou our potter;

And wwe all are the work of thy hand.

9  xBe not wroth very sore, O Lord,

yNeither remember iniquity for ever:

Behold, see, we beseech thee, zwe are all thy people.

10  aThy holy cities are a wilderness,

Zion is a wilderness, bJerusalem a desolation.

11  Our holy and our cbeautiful house,

Where our fathers praised thee,

dIs burned up with fire:

And all eour pleasant things are laid waste.

12  Wilt thou frefrain thyself for these things, O Lord?

gWilt thou fhold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

65 aI am sought of them that asked not for me;

I am found of them that sought me not:

I said, Behold me, behold me,

Unto a nation that bwas not called by my name.

2  cI have spread out my hands all the day unto a drebellious people,

Which walketh in ea way that was not good, after ftheir own thoughts;

3  A people gthat provoketh me to anger continually hto my face;

That sacrificeth iin gardens, and burneth incense †upon kaltars of brick;

4  lWhich remain among the graves,

And lodge in the monuments,

mWhich eat swine’s flesh,

And ||nbroth of oabominable things is in their vessels;

5  pWhich say, Stand by thyself,

Come not near to me; for I am holier than thou.

These are a smoke in my ||nose,

qA fire that burneth all the day.

6  Behold, rit is written before me:

sI will not keep silence, but twill recompense,

Even recompense uinto their bosom,

7  vYour iniquities, and xthe iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord,

yWhich have burned incense upon the mountains,

zAnd blasphemed me upon the hills:

Therefore will I measure their former awork uinto their bosom.

8  Thus saith the Lord,

bAs the cnew wine is found in the cluster,

And one saith, Destroy it not; for da blessing is in it:

So will I do efor umy servants’ sakes,

bThat I may not destroy them all.

9  And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob,

And fout of Judah gan inheritor of my mountains:

And mine helect shall ginherit it,

And my servants shall dwell there.

10  And iSharon shall be a fold of kflocks,

And lthe valley of Achor a place for kthe herds to lie down in,

For my people that have sought me.

11  But ye are they that mforsake the Lord,

That forget nmy holy mountain,

That prepare oa table for that ||ptroop,

And that furnish qthe drink offering unto that ||number.

12  Therefore rwill I number you to the sword,

And ye shall all bow down to the slaughter:

stBecause when I called, ye did not answer;

stWhen I spake, ye did not hear;

sBut did evil before mine eyes,

sAnd did choose that wherein I delighted not.

13  Therefore thus saith the Lord God,

Behold, uvmy servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry:

Behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty:

Behold, uwmy servants xshall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

14  Behold, my servants xshall sing yfor joy of heart,

But ye shall cry for sorrow of heart,

And zshall howl for †vexation of spirit.

15  And ye shall leave your name afor a curse unto bmy chosen:

For the Lord God shall slay thee,

And ccall his servants by danother name:

16  That he who blesseth himself in the earth eshall bless himself in fthe God of ftruth;

And he that sweareth in the earth gshall swear hby fthe God of truth;

Because ithe former troubles are forgotten,

And because they are hid from mine eyes.

17  For, behold, kI create enew heavens and a new earth:

And the former shall not be remembered, nor †come into mind.

18  But be ye glad and rejoice lfor ever in that which I create:

For, behold, mI create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

19  And nI will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people:

And othe voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

20  There shall be no more thence an infant of days,

Nor an old man that hath not filled his days:

For pthe child shall die an hundred years old;

But qthe sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

21  And rthey shall build houses, and inhabit them;

And rsthey shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

22  rThey shall not build, and danother inhabit;

rsThey shall not plant, and d…