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The Jews reproved for idolatry. ISAIAH.

Hypocritical fasts reproved. themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, to love the name of the LORD, to be his and didst send thy messengers far off, and servants, every one that keepeth the sab-didst debase thyself even unto hell. bath from polluting it, and taketh hold of 10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is

my covenant;

7 Even them will I bring to my holy no hope: thou hast found the life of thine mountain, and make them joyful in my hand; therefore thou wast not grieved. house of prayer: their burnt-offerings and 11 And of whom hast thou been afraid their sacrifices shall be accepted upon or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not mine altar; for my house shall be called remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? an house of prayer for all people. have not I held my peace even of old,

8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the and thou fearest me not? outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather 12 I will declare thy righteousness, and others to him, besides those that are ga-thy works; for they shall not profit thee. thered unto him. 13 T When thou criest, let thy compa

9 ¶ All ye beasts of the field, come to nies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry devour; yea, all ye beasts in the forest. them all away; vanity shall take them: 10 His watchmen are blind: they are but he that putteth his trust in me shall all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they possess the land, and shall inherit my holy cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving mountain; to slumber.

14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which up, prepare the way, take up the stumcan never have enough, and they are bling-block out of the way of my people. shepherds that cannot understand: they 15 For thus saith the high and lofty One all look to their own way, every one for his that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is gain, from his quarter. Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, 12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, with him also that is of a contrite and humand we will fill ourselves with strong ble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. and much more abundant.

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CHAP. LVII.

HE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to

come.

2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood;

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16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which have made.

17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cas! up mire and dirt.

5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under 21 There is no peace, saith my God, to every green tree, slaying the children in the wicked.

the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks? 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream

is thy portion; they, they are thy lot:

CHAP. LVIII.

atrumpet, and shew my people RY aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice

even to them hast thou poured a drink- their transgression, and the house of Jaoffering, thou hast offered a meat-offering. cob their sins. Should I receive comfort in these?

2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight

7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast to know my ways, as a nation that did thou set thy bed: even thither wentest righteousness, and forsook not the ordithou up to offer sacrifice. nance of their God: they ask of me the 8 Behind the doors also and the posts ordinances of justice; they take delight hast thou set up thy remembrance: for in approaching to God.

thou hast discovered thyself to another than 3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged and thou seest not? wherefore have we thy bed, and made thee a covenant with afflicted our soul, and thou takest no know. them; thou lovedst their bed where thou ledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye sawest it. find pleasure, and exact all your labours. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate,

9 And thou wentest to the king with

The promises to godliness.

CHAP. LIX. The Jews punished for their sins

and to smite with the fist of wickedness and your fingers with iniquity; your lips ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make have spoken lies, your tongue hath mutyour voice to be heard on high. tered perverseness.

5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a 4 None calleth for justice, nor any day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, bow down his head as a bulrush, and to and speak lies; they conceive mischief, spread sackcloth and ashes under him? and bring forth iniquity.

wilt thou call this a fast, and an accepta- 5 They hatch cockatrices' eggs, and ble day to the LORD? weave the spider's web: he that eateth

6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? of their eggs dieth, and that which is to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo crushed breaketh out into a viper. the heavy burdens, and to let the oppress- 6 Their webs shall not. become gared go free, and that ye break every yoke? ments, neither shall they cover themselves

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hun-with their works: their works are works gry, and that thou bring the poor that are of iniquity, and the act of violence is in cast out to thy house? when thou seest the their hands. naked, that thou cover him; and that thou 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make hide not thyself from thine own flesh? haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall 8 The way of peace they know not: and go before thee; the glory of the LORD there is no judgment in their goings: they shall be thy rere-ward. have made them crooked paths: whoso

9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD ever goeth therein shall not know peace. shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall 9 Therefore is judgment far from us, say, Here I am. If thou take away from neither doth justice overtake us: we wait the midst of thee the yoke, the putting for light, but behold obscurity; for brightforth of the finger, and speaking vanity; ness, but we walk in darkness.

10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then and we grope as if we had no eyes: we shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy stumble at noon-day as in the night; we darkness be as the noon-day: are in desolate places as dead men.

11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off

11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring from us. of water, whose waters fail not.

12 For our transgressions are multiplied 12 And they that shall be of thee shall before thee, and our sins testify against build the old waste places: thou shalt us: for our transgressions are with us; and raise up the foundations of many genera- as for our iniquities, we know them; tions; and thou shalt be called, The re- 13 In transgressing and lying against the pairer of the breach, The restorer of paths LORD, and departing away from our God, to dwell in. speaking oppression and revolt, conceiv ing and uttering from the heart words of

13 ¶ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on falsehood. my holy day; and call the sabbath a de- 14 And judgment is turned away backlight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; ward, and justice standeth afar off: for and shalt honour him, not doing thine own truth is fallen in the street, and equity ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor cannot enter. speaking thine own words:

15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob_thy 16 ¶ And he saw that there was no man, father: for the mouth of the LORD hath and wondered that there was no intercesspoken it. sor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sus

CHAP. LIX.

BEHOLD, the LORD's hand is not tained him

shortened, that it cannot save; nei- 17 For he put on righteousness as a ther his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: breast-plate, and a helmet of salvation 2 But your iniquities have separated upon his head; and he put on the garments between you and your God, and your sins of vengeance for clothing, and was clad have hid his face from you, that he will with zeal as a cloak.

not hear.

18 According to their deeds, accordingly 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, he will repay, fury to his adversaries, re

ISAIAH.

The covenant of the Redeemer. compense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.

The office of Christ.

12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from 13 The glory of Lebanon shall come the rising of the sun. When the enemy unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the the box together, to beautify the place of LORD shall lift up a standard against him. my sanctuary; and I will make the place 20 T And the Redeemer shall come to of my feet glorious..

Zion, and unto them that turn from trans- 14 The sons also of them that afflicted gression in Jacob, saith the Lord. thee shall come bending unto thee: and all 21 As for me, this is my covenant with they that despised thee shall bow themthem, saith the LORD; My Spirit that is selves down at the soles of thy feet; and upon thee, and my words which I have put they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 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. CHAP. LX.

ARISE, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, 3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy and for stones iron: I will also make thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy officers peace, and thine exactors rightrising.

eousness.

4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and 18 Violence shall no more be heard in see all they gather themselves together, thy land, wasting nor destruction within they come to thee: thy sons shall come thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed Salvation, and thy gatės Praise. at thy side.

5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.

19 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, and thy God thy glory.

20 Thy sun shall no more go down; 6 The multitude of camels shall cover neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for thee, the dromedaries of Midian and the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: and the days of thy mourning shall be they shall bring gold and incense; and they ended.

shall shew forth the praises of the LORD. 21 Thy people also shall be all right7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be ga-eous: they shall inherit the land for ever, thered together unto thee, the rams of Ne- the branch of my planting, the work of my baioth shall minister unto thee: they shall hands, that I may be glorified. come up with acceptance on mine altar, 22 Á little one shall become a thousand, and I will glorify the house of my glory. and a small one a strong nation: I the 8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and LORD will hasten it in his time. as the doves to their windows?

CHAP. LXI.

9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and Specause the LORD hath anointed the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thyme, HE Spirit of the Lord GoD is upon

sons from far, their silver and their gold me to preach good tidings unto the meek; with them, unto the name of the LORD thy he hath sent me to bind up the brokenGod, and to the Holy One of Israel, be-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the capcause he hath glorified thee. tives, and the opening of the prison to

10 And the sons of strangers shall build them that are bound; up thy walls, and their kings shall minister 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of unto thee for in my wrath I smote thee, the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. God; to comfort all that mourn;

11 Therefore thy gates shall be open 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in continually; they shall not be shut day Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, nor night; that men may bring unto thee the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of the forces of the Gentiles, and that their praise for the spirit of heaviness; that kings may be brought. they might be called Trees of righteous

The blessedness of the church. CHAP. LXII, LXIII.

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The planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

4¶ And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your ploughmen and your vine-dressers.

6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

The office of ministers.

peace day nor night: ye that make men-
tion of the LORD, keep not silence,

7 And give him no rest, till he establish,
and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the
earth.

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8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine; for the which thou hast laboured:

9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

10 ¶ Go through, go through the gates;

7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, shall possess the double: everlasting joy cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. shall be unto them.

8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt-offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.

10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he

hath clothed me with the garments of sal

11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

CHAP. LXIII.

HO is this that cometh from Edom,

with dyed garments from Bozrah? vation, he hath covered me with the robe this that is glorious in his apparel, travelof righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh ling in the greatness of his strength? I that himself with ornaments, and as a bride speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apadorneth herself with her jewels. 11 For as the earth bringeth forth her parel, and thy garments like him that bud, and as the garden causeth the things treadeth in the wine-fat? 3 I have trodden the wine-press alone; that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and and of the people there was none with me: praise to spring forth before all the nations. for I will tread them in mine anger, and CHAP. LXII. trample them in my fury, and their blood FOR NOR Zion's sake will I not hold my shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will will stain all my raiment. not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

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4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the yearof my redeemed is come. 5 And I looked, and there was none to 2 And the Gentiles shall see thy right-help; and I wondered that there was none eousness, and all kings thy glory: and to uphold: therefore mine own thou shalt be called by a new name, which brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. the mouth of the LORD shall name. 6 And I will tread down the people in 3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the band of the LORD, and a royal dia- mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength dem in the hand of thy God.

4 Thou shalt no more be termed For-to the earth. 7 I will mention the loving-kindnesses saken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the according to all that the LORD hath bestowLORD delighteth in thee, and thy landed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowshall be married.

5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, ed on them according to his mercies, and so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the according to the multitude of his lovingbridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so kindnesses. shall thy God rejoice over thee.

8 For he said, Surely they are my peo6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, ple, children that will not lie: so he was O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their their Saviour.

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The loving-kindness of God.

ISAIAH. The complaint of the church.

9¶ In all their affliction he was afflict-wroth; for we have sinned: in those is ed, and the angel of his presence saved continuance, and we shall be saved. them in his love and in his pity he re- 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, deemed them; and he bare them, and and all our righteousnesses are as filthy carried them all the days of old. rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and 10 But they rebelled, and vexed his our iniquities, like the wind, have taken Holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be us away.

their enemy, and he fought against them. 7 And there is none that calleth upon 11 Then he remembered the days of thy name, that stirreth up himself to take old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face is he that brought them up out of the sea from us, and hast consumed us, because of with the shepherd of his flock? where is bur iniquities. be that put his Holy Spirit within him?

12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

8 But now, O LORD, thou art ourFather; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

9 ¶ Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy

13 That led them through the deep as a horse in the wilderness, that they should people. 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, to make thyself a glorious name.

10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned 15 T Look down from heaven, and be- up with fire: and all our pleasant things hold from the habitation of thy holiness are laid waste.

and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and of thy mercies toward me? are they and afflict us very sore?

restrained?

CHAP. LXV.

16 Doubtless thou art our Father, though AM sought of them that asked not for Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel me; I am found of them that sought me acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto our Father, our Redeemer; thy name is a nation that was not called by my name. from everlasting. 2 I have spread out my hands all the 17 TO LORD, why hast thou made us day unto a rebellious people, which walkto err from thy ways, and hardened our eth in a way that was not good, after their heart from thy fear? Return, for thy ser-own thoughts;

vants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. 3 A people that provoketh me to anger 18 The people of thy holiness have pos- continually to my face; that sacrificeth in sessed it but a little while our adversa-gardens, and burneth incense upon altars ries have trodden down thy sanctuary. of brick;

19 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.

CHAP. LXIV.

H that thou wouldest rend the heaOH vens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy

presence,

4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

2 As when the melting fire burneth, the 6 Behold, it is written before me: I will fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy not keep silence, but will recompense, name known to thine adversaries, that the even recompense into their bosom, nations may tremble at thy presence! 7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of 3 When thou didst terrible things which your fathers together, saith the LORD, we looked not for, thou camest down, the which have burned incense upon the mountains flowed down at thy presence. mountains, and blasphemed me upon the 4 For since the beginning of the world hills: therefore will I measure their former men have not heard, nor perceived by the work into their bosom. ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, be- 8 T Thus saith the LORD, As the new sides thee, what he hath prepared for him wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, that waiteth for him. Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.

5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth, and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art

9 And I will bring forth a seed out of

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