Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers,
children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD,
ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with fire:
your land, strangers devour it in your presence,
To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices
unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of
rams, and the fat of fed beasts; I delight not in the blood of bullocks,
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from
you: your hands are full of blood. How is the faithful city become
an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now
murderers. Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the
house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and
we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the
law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall
judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and
they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.
for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is]
in your houses. What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces,
and grind the faces of the poor? saith the LORD GOD of hosts.
Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with
stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing [as]
they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of
the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret
parts. And it shall come to pass, [that] instead of sweet
smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and
instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher
a girding of sackcloth; [and] burning instead of beauty.
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment,
but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Woe unto them that join house to house, [that] lay field to field,
till [there be] no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst
of the earth! Therefore my people are gone into captivity,
because [they have] no knowledge: and their honourable
men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without
measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp,
shall descend into it.
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his
hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched
thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Go, and tell this people, Hear ye
indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive
not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their
ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart,
and convert, and be healed.
But yet in it [shall be] a tenth, and [it] shall return
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall
call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that
he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. And it
shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall hiss for
the horseflies that [is] in the uttermost part of the rivers
of Egypt, and for the bumblebees that [is] in the land of
Assyria. And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in
the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon
all thorns, and upon all bushes. And it shall come to pass in
that day, [that] every place shall be, where there were a thou-
sand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall [even] be for
briers and thorns.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and
the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name
shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God,
The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. The Lord sent
a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. Therefore
the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and
rush, in one day. The ancient and honourable, he [is]
the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he [is] the tail.
the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare
his brother. And he shall snatch on the right hand, and
be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall
not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his
own arm:
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?
[or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it?
as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it up,
[or] as if the staff should lift up [itself, as if it were] no
wood. Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the
bough with terror: and the high ones of stature [shall be]
hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,
and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall
lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the
fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and
the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain:
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as
the waters cover the sea.
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy
coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief
ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the
kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee,
Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of thy
viols: the worms cover thee. How art thou fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning! Is] this the man that made
the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; [That] made
the world as a wilderness,
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, [t]hat sendeth ambassadors
by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, [saying,]
Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to
a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation
meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoil-
ed! For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and
I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon
herbs, [and] like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. And the key
of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall
open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall
open. And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place;
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant
of the earth. And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from
the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up
out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the
windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth
do shake. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed,
And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people
a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things
full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will
destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all
people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. {He will
swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears
from off all faces;
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were
brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the
earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead
body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:
for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast
out the dead. the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no
more cover her slain.
[Live, indeed, shall your dead,
their bodies shall rise;
the dwellers of the dust shall awake [Alternate Translation]
and sing for joy.
For your dew is a dew of light,
and the Land of Shadows shall give birth.]
And thou shalt be brought down, [and] shalt speak out of
the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a
book that is sealed,
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be
esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him
that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say
of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a
covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place,
as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. And the eyes
of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that
hear shall hearken. The heart also of the rash shall understand
knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready
to speak plainly.
Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us
smooth things, prophesy deceits:
this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall,
And he shall break it as the
breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he
shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the
bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take
water [withal] out of the pit.
[though] the Lord give you the bread of
adversity, and the water of affliction,
Who among us shall dwell with the devouring
fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that
shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his
ears from hearing of blood,
his place of defence [shall be] the munitions of rocks:
Thou shalt not see
a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst
perceive; of a stammering tongue, [that thou canst] not
understand. Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities:
thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet
habitation, a tabernacle [that] shall not be taken down;
their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the
mountains shall be melted with their blood. For my sword
shall be bathed in heaven: The sword of the LORD is filled
with blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood
of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams:
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof
shall go up for ever: But the cormorant and the bittern shall
possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and
he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the
stones of emptiness. it shall be an habitation of dragons, [and]
a court for owls. and the satyr shall cry to his fellow;
in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of
the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the
land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the
inhabitants of the world. Mine age is departed, and is
removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like
a weaver my life: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with
looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate
thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, For Isaiah had said,
Let them take a lump of figs, and lay [it] for a plaister upon the
boil, and he shall recover.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the
desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be
exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and
the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places
plain: What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the
goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field: The
grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the breath of
the LORD bloweth upon it:
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of
his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and
comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and
weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, But they that
wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be
weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.
Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done [it:]
shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing,
ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the
LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed
thee from the womb, I [am] the LORD that maketh all
[things;] that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that
spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; That frustrateth
the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that
turneth wise [men] backward, and maketh their knowledge
foolish;
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and
from the west, that [there is] none beside me.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace,
and create evil: Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the
earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and
let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have
created it. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!
Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it,
What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Woe unto him that saith unto [his] father, What
begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou
brought forth?
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of
Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O
daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be
called tender and delicate. Take the millstones, and
grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg,
uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. Thy nakedness
shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen:
But these two [things] shall come to thee in a moment
in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: for
the multitude of thy sorceries, [and] for the great
abundance of thine enchantments.
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered
thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the
heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say
unto Zion, Thou [art] my people. Awake, awake, stand up,
O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD
the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the
cup of trembling, [and] wrung [them] out.But I will put
it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have
said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and
thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street,
to them that went over.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows,
and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were
[our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed
him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows: But he [was] wounded for our transgressions,
[he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement
of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we
are healed. yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought
as a lamb to the slaughter, for he was cut off out of
the land of the living:
Sing, O barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break forth
into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail
with child: for more [are] the children of the desolate
than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the
curtains of thine habitations: spare not, and thy seed shall
inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be in-
habited. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not
comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and
lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to
afflict his soul? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes [?] [Is it] not to deal thy
bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are
cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou
cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own
flesh? thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the
breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring sil-
ver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also
make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor
destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy
walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. The sun shall be
no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the
moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee
an everlasting light, Thy people also [shall be] all right-
eous: the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a
strong nation:
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest
come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy pre-
sence, [that] the nations may tremble at thy presence! When
thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou
camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
For since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard,
nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God,
beside thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth
for him.
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the
former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be
ye glad and rejoice for ever [in that] which I create: for,
behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the
voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice
of crying. There shall be no more thence an infant of days,
nor an old man that hath not filled his days: The wolf and the
lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the
bullock: and dust [shall be] the serpent’s meat. They shall
not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
