33:1 Woe to one destroying, and you not being destroyed, betraying and they did not betray you! When you finish destroying, you will be destroyed; when you stop betraying, they will betray you.
33:2 O Yehovah, give us your grace. We have hoped in You; be their arm in the mornings, also, our salvation (Y’shua*) in time of distress.
33:3 At the sound of the tumult, peoples fled; at Your exaltation, nations scattered.
33:4 And Your prey shall be gathered as the stripping locust gathers; as locusts run to and fro, he also runs about on it.
33:5 Yehovah is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
33:6 And He will be the security of your times, strength of salvation (Y’shua*), wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of Yehovah is His treasure.
33:7 Look, their heroes cry outside; the envoys of shalom shall weep bitterly.
33:8 The highways are desolated; the path crosser ceases. He has broken the covenant; he has rejected cities; he has not respected man.
33:9 The land mourns and droops; Lebanon is ashamed; Sharon withers like a wilderness; Bashan is shaken out; also Carmel.
33:10 Now I will rise up, says Yehovah. Now I will be exalted; now I will be lifted up.
33:11 You shall conceive chaff; you shall bear stubble99; your fiery breath shall devour you.
33:12 And peoples shall be as burnings of lime; as thorns cut away, they shall be burned in fire.
33:13 Distant ones, hear what I have done; and you near ones, know My might.
33:14 The sinners of Zion are afraid; terror has seized profane ones100; who of us shall tarry with consuming fire? Who of us shall tarry with everlasting burnings101?
33:15 He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from taking the bribe, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil102.
33:16 He shall live on high; strongholds of rocks will be his retreat; his bread shall be given; his waters are faithful.
33:17 Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall see a land that is very far off.
33:18 Your heart shall ponder terror: Where is he counting? Where is he weighing? Where is he counting the towers?
33:19 You shall not see the fierce people, from hearing a people of a deep lip, of a foreign tongue, that none understands.
33:20 Look, Zion, the city of our set apart Day meetings! Your eyes shall see Yerushalayim, a quiet home, a tent that shall not be moved; its stakes shall not be pulled up forever, nor shall any of its cords be pulled off.
33:21 But majestic Yehovah will place there for us a place of rivers and streams, broad on both hands; a ship with oars shall not go in it, and a majestic boat shall not pass through it.
33:22 For Yehovah is our judge; Yehovah is our lawgiver; Yehovah is our king; He will save us.
33:23 Your ropes are loosened; they do not hold the base of their mast; they could not spread the sail. Then the prey of much plunder shall be divided; the lame shall seize on the spoil.
33:24 And an inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people who live in it; iniquity is taken away.
34:1 Nations, come near to hear; and peoples, listen! Let the earth hear, and its fullness, the world and all its offspring.
34:2 For the wrath of Yehovah is on all the nations, and fury on all their army; He has devoted them; He gave them to slaughter.
34:3 And their slain shall be thrown out; and the stench from their carcasses shall go up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
34:4 And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together like a scroll. Then all their host shall droop, as a leaf drooping from the vine, and as the drooping from a fig tree.
34:5 For My sword is drenched in the heavens. Look, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of My curse, for judgment.
34:6 A sword is to Yehovah; it is filled with blood; it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For Yehovah has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. (Is 63:1-6)
34:7 And wild oxen shall come down with them, and bulls with strong bulls; and their land is drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
34:8 For the day of vengeance is to Yehovah103, the year of repayments for Zion's cause.
34:9 And its torrents shall be turned to pitch, and its dust to brimstone; and its land shall become burning pitch.
34:10 It shall not be put out night or day; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation, it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it forever and forever.
34:11 But the owl and the hedgehog shall possess it; and the eared owl and the raven shall live in it. And He shall stretch out on it the line of shame, and the stones of emptiness.
34:12 They shall call its nobles to a kingdom, but none shall be there; and all her rulers shall be nothing.
34:13 And thorns shall grow in her palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it shall be a home for jackals, a court for daughters of ostriches.
34:14 The desert creatures shall also meet with the howlers; and the shaggy goat shall cry to his fellow. The screech owl shall also settle there, and find a place of rest for herself.
34:15 The snake shall nest there, and shall lay, and hatch, and shall gather in her shadow. Vultures shall also be gathered together, each with its mate.
34:16 Search and read from the Scroll of Yehovah; not one of these misses, each not lacking her mate; for He has commanded my mouth, and by His ruach He has assembled them.
34:17 And He has made fall a lot for them, and His hand divided it to them by line. They shall possess it until forever, from generation to generation they shall live in it.
35:1 The wilderness and dry land shall rejoice for them; and the desert shall exult and bloom like the crocus.
35:2 Surely, it shall bloom and exult, even with joy and singing. Lebanon's glory shall be given to it, the honor of Carmel and Sharon; they shall see the glory of Yehovah, the majesty of our Elohim104.
35:3 Make the weak hands strong, and firm up the stumbling knees.
35:4 Say to those of a hasty heart, Be strong! Do not fear! Look, your Elohim will come with vengeance; with the full dealing of Elohim, He will come (Y’shua*) and save you.
35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf opened.
35:6 Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing105. For waters shall break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert106.
35:7 And the mirage shall become a pool, and the thirsty land shall become springs of waters, in the home of jackals, in its lair, and a place for the reed and rush.
35:8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The Way of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it107. And it is for them, the one going in the way; yea, fools shall not go astray.
35:9 No lion shall be there; and no violent beast shall go up on it; it shall not be found there. But redeemed ones shall walk there.
35:10 And the ransomed of Yehovah shall return and enter Zion, with singing and everlasting joy on their head; gladness and joy shall reach them; and sorrow and sighing shall flee. (Rev 21:4)
36:1 And it happened in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came against all the fortified cities of Yehudah, and took them.
36:2 And the king of Assyria sent the chief of the cupbearers from Lachish to Yerushalayim, to King Hezekiah, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the Fuller's Field.
36:3 And Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was over the house, and Shebna the Sofer, and Asaph's son Joah, the recorder, came out to him.
36:4 And the chief of the cupbearers said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, The great king says this, the king of Assyria, What trust is this in which you trust?
36:5 I say, Are only words of the lips counsel and strength for war? Now, in whom have you trusted that you rebelled against me?
36:6 Look, you trust on the staff of this broken reed, on Mitsrayim, which if a man leans on it, it goes into his hand and pierces it; so is Pharaoh king of Mitsrayim to all who trust in him.
36:7 But if you say to me, We trust in Yehovah our Elohim; is it not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed? And He said to Yehudah and Yerushalayim, You shall worship before this altar. (2Kgs 18:1-5)
36:8 Now, then, please exchange pledges with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to set riders on them for you.
36:9 How then will you turn away the face of one commander of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust in Mitsrayim for chariotry and horsemen?
36:10 And now have I come up against this land to destroy it without Yehovah? Yehovah said to me, Go up to this land and destroy it.
36:11 And Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the chief of the cupbearers, Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we hear. But do not speak to us in Judean, in the ears of the people on the wall.
36:12 But the chief of the cupbearers said, Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words? Is it not on the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink the water of their feet with you?
36:13 And the chief of the cupbearers stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean, and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
36:14 So says the king, Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to save you.
36:15 And let not Hezekiah make you trust in Yehovah, saying, Yehovah saving will save us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
36:16 Do not listen to Hezekiah. For the king of Assyria says this, Make shalom with me and come out to me. Then let each eat of his own vine, and each of his own fig tree, and each drink the waters of his own well,
36:17 until I come and take you to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
36:18 Let not Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Yehovah will deliver us. Have the gods of the nations delivered a man of his land from the king of Assyria's hand?
36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath, and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And when have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
36:20 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered their land out of my hand, that Yehovah should keep Yerushalayim out of my hand?
36:21 But they were silent, and did not answer him a word; for this was the king's order, saying, Do not answer him.
36:22 And Eliakim, Hilkiah's son who was over the house, and Shebna the Sofer, and Asaph's son Joah, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their garments torn. And they reported to him the words of the chief of cupbearers.
37:1 And it happened when King Hezekiah heard, he tore his garments and was covered with sackcloth. And he went into the house of Yehovah.
37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the Sofer, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Yesha'yahu the prophet, the son of Amoz.
37:3 And they said to him, So says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, and reproach, and contempt. For sons have come to the breach and there is no strength to give birth.
37:4 It may be Yehovah your Elohim will hear the words of the chief of the cupbearers whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living Elohim, and rebuke against the words which Yehovah your Elohim has heard. And you shall lift up prayer for the remnant that is found.
37:5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Yesha'yahu.
37:6 And Yesha'yahu said to them, You shall say this to your master, So says Yehovah: Do not fear the words which you have heard, with which the followers of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me
37:7 Look, I am giving into him a ruach, and he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
37:8 So the chief of the cupbearers returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah108; for he had heard that he had pulled up stakes from Lachish.
37:9 And he heard about Tirhakah the king of Ethiopia, saying, He has come out to fight with you. And he heard and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
37:10 So you shall say to Hezekiah, king of Yehudah, saying, Do not let your Elohim in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Yerushalayim shall not be given into the king of Assyria's hand.
37:11 Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, to destroy them utterly. And shall you be delivered?
37:12 Have the gods of the nations saved those whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden in Telassar109?
37:13 Where is Hamath's king, and Arpad's king, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah110?
37:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the couriers, and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of Yehovah and spread it before Yehovah.
37:15 And Hezekiah prayed to Yehovah, saying,
37:16 O Yehovah of Hosts, Elohim of Yisrael, who sits between the messengers111, You are He, Elohim, all the kingdoms of the earth come from you. You have made the heavens and the earth.
37:17 Bow down Your ear, O Yehovah, and hear. Open Your eye, O Yehovah, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib which he has sent, to reproach the living Elohim.
37:18 Truly, O Yehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands, and their land,
37:19 and have given their gods into the fire (for they were not Elohim, only the work of men's hands, wood and stone; so they have destroyed them).
37:20 And now, O Yehovah our Elohim, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are Yehovah, the only Elohim.
37:21 And Yesha'yahu the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, So says Yehovah, Elohim of Yisrael, Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib the king of Assyria,
37:22 this is the Word Yehovah has spoken about him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you, laughing you to scorn; the daughter of Yerushalayim has shaken the head behind you.
37:23 Whom have you mocked and reviled? And against whom have you lifted your voice, and lifted your eyes on high? Against the set apart One of Yisrael!
37:24 By your servants, you have mocked Yehovah, and said, By my many chariots I have come up to the tops of mountains, the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, its choice fir trees; and I will go to its greatest height, the forest of its fruitful field. (2Kgs 19:24)
37:25 I have dug and drunk water; and I have dried up the streams of Mitsrayim with the sole of my feet.
37:26 Have you not heard it from afar? I have made it from days of old, even I formed it. Now I have caused it to come, and you are to cause fortified cities to crash into heaps, ruins.
37:27 And those living in it were short of hand, dismayed and ashamed. They were as the field grass and the green herbs; like the grass of the housetops, even blasted before it has risen.
37:28 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against Me.
37:29 Because of your raging against Me, and your arrogance has come up to My ears, even I will put My hook in your nose112, and My bridle in your lips; and I will turn you back by the way you came in.
37:30 And this shall be the sign to you: You shall eat self-sown grain this year; and the second year, that which springs up; and in the third year you shall sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit113.
37:31 The remnant of the house of Yehudah that has escaped shall again take root downward, and it produces fruit upward.
37:32 For a remnant shall go out of Yerushalayim, and the escaped ones out of Mount Zion; the zeal of Yehovah of Hosts shall do this.
37:33 So Yehovah says this to the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with a shield, nor pour out a siege mound on it.
37:34 He shall return by the same way that he came in, and he shall not come into this city, says Yehovah.
37:35 For I will defend over this city to save it, for My own sake, and for My servant David's sake.
37:36 Then the Messenger of Yehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And they rose early in the morning; and, look! They were all dead corpses.
37:37 And Sennacherib, king of Assyria, set out, and went and returned; and he lived at Nineveh.
37:38 And it happened as he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, even his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword. And they escaped into the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-Haddon reigned in his place.
38:1 In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Yesha'yahu the son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, So says Yehovah, Command your house, for you are dying, and shall not live.
38:2 And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yehovah,
38:3 and said, O Yehovah, I beg You to remember now that I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart; and I have done the good in Your eyes. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.
38:4 Then the Word of Yehovah was to Yesha'yahu, saying,
38:5 Go and say to Hezekiah, So says Yehovah the Elohim of your father David, I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your days.
38:6 And I will deliver you and this city out of the king of Assyria's hand. And I will shield over this city.
38:7 So this shall be the sign to you from Yehovah, that Yehovah shall do this thing that He has spoken:
38:8 Look, I will bring back the shadow of the steps which has gone down in the steps of Ahaz with the sun, backward ten steps. So the sun went back up ten steps, by which steps it had gone down114!
38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Yehudah, when he had been sick, and had recovered from his illness:
38:10 I said in the cessation of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am called to account for the rest of my years.
38:11 I said, I shall not see Yah Yehovah115 in the land of the living; I shall no longer look on man with those dwelling in the death-rest.
38:12 My generation is plucked up and carried away from me, like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like the weaver. He will cut me off from the threads; from day to night You will make an end of me.
38:13 I leveled my soul until morning. Like a lion, so He shatters all my bones. From day until night You make an end of me.
38:14 Like a swift or a crane, so I chatter. I moan as the dove; my eyes look weakly to the heights, O Yehovah; I am oppressed; intervene for me!
38:15 What shall I say? For He speaks to me, and He has acted. I shall go softly all my years over the bitterness of my soul.
38:16 O Yehovah, on them they live, and for all in them is the life of my ruach. And You heal me, and make me live.
38:17 Look, for shalom was bitter to me, most bitter; but You loved my soul from the pit of destruction; You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
38:18 For Sheol cannot thank You; death cannot praise You; the ones going down to the Pit cannot hope for Your truth.
38:19 The living, the living is the one thanking You; as I do today. The father makes known Your truth to his sons.
38:20 For Yehovah will save me; and we will play my songs on stringed instruments all the days of our life, at the house of Yehovah.
38:21 For Yesha'yahu had said, Let them take a cake of figs116 and rub it on the ulcer, and he will live.
38:22 And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I will go up to the house of Yehovah?
39:1 At that time Merodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that he was ill, and was made strong.
39:2 And Hezekiah was glad because of them and let them see the house of his treasure117, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the good oil, and all his weapons, and all that was found in his treasuries; there was nothing in his house or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not let them see.
39:3 And Yesha'yahu the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say? And from where did they come to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a distant land to me, from Babylon.
39:4 Then he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said, They have seen all that is in my house; there is not a thing among my treasures that I have not made them see.
39:5 And Yesha'yahu said to Hezekiah, Hear the Word of Yehovah of Hosts:
39:6 Look, days come when all that is in your house, even what your fathers have treasured up until now, shall be borne away to Babylon118; nothing shall be left, says Yehovah.
39:7 And they shall take of your sons who shall come forth out from you, which you shall father; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
39:8 Then Hezekiah said to Yesha'yahu, The Word of Yehovah that you have said is good. And he said, For there shall be shalom and truth in my days.
40:1 Comfort, O comfort My people, says your Elohim.
40:2 Speak lovingly to the heart of Yerushalayim; yea, cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has taken from the hand of Yehovah double for all her sins.
40:3 The voice of him who cries in the wilderness: Prepare the way of Yehovah; make straight in the desert a highway for our Elohim. (Math 3:3)
40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the knoll shall be a level place, and the rough places a plain.
40:5 And the glory of Yehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see the salvation of Elohim; for Yehovah has spoken.
40:6 The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades because the ruach of Yehovah blows on it. Surely the people is grass.
40:8 The grass withers; the flower fades; but the Word of our Elohim shall rise forever.
40:9 Go up for yourself on the high mountain, one bearing good news to Zion; lift up your voice with strength, one bearing good news to Yerushalayim. Lift up, do not fear. Say to the cities of Yehudah, Look! Your Elohim! (Is 52:7)
40:10 Look, Adonai Yehovah will come with strength, and His arm rules for Him. Look, His reward is with Him, and His wage before Him. (Is 62:11)
40:11 He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather lambs with His arm; and carry them in His bosom; those with young He will lead;
40:12 who has measured in His hand the waters and the heavens by a span meted out; and enclosed in the measure the dust of the earth, and weighed in the balance the mountains, and the hills in the scales,
40:13 Who has known the mind of Yehovah, and who has been His counselor, to instruct Him?
40:14 With whom did He take counsel, and who trained Him and taught Him in the path of justice; and taught Him knowledge, and made known to Him the way of discernment?
40:15 Lo, nations are as a drop from a bucket, and are reckoned as dust of the scales. Lo, He takes up coasts as a little thing.
40:16 And Lebanon is not enough to burn, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.
40:17 All the nations are as nothing before Him; to Him they are reckoned less than nothing and emptiness.
40:18 And to whom will you liken El? Or what likeness will you array to Him?
40:19 The craftsman pours out the casted image, the smelter spreads it with gold; and he casts the chains of silver.
40:20 He too poor for that offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks a skilled artisan for him, to prepare a carved image that will not be shaken.
40:21 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Was it not told to you from the beginning? Did you not discern from the foundations of the earth?
40:22 He who sits on the circle119 of the earth, even those living in it are like grasshoppers; He who stretches the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in;
40:23 who brings princes into nothing. He makes judges of the earth as nothing.
40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they are not sown; yea, their stem is not taking root in the earth. And He shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall lift them up like stubble and take them away.
40:25 To whom then will you compare Me, or am I equaled, says the set apart One?
40:26 Lift up your eyes on high and look: Who has created these? Who brings out their host by number? By greatness of vigor, and might of power, He calls them all by names; not one is lacking.
40:27 Why will you say, O Ya'akov, and speak, O Yisrael; My way is hidden from Yehovah, and my judgment is passed over by my Elohim?
40:28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Yehovah, the everlasting Elohim, the Creator of the ends of the earth; He is not faint, nor does He grow weary; there is no searching to His understanding.
40:29 He gives power to the faint, and to him with no vigor He increases might.
40:30 Even youths are faint and fatigued, and young men stumbling shall stumble;
40:31 but the ones waiting for Yehovah shall renew power; they shall go up with wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not be faint!
41:1 Be quiet before Me, O coasts; and let peoples renew their power. They come near; then they speak: Let us draw near together for judgment.
41:2 Who raised up the righteous one from the east? He called him to His foot; He gives nations before him, and subdues kings; He gives them as dust to his sword, as driven stubble to his bow;
41:3 He pursues them; he passes on in shalom; he does not go by the way with his feet.
41:4 Who has planned and done it, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I Yehovah am the first (Aleph/Tav) and the last; I am He120.
41:5 The coasts have seen and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near; yea, they come.
41:6 Each man helps his neighbor, and says to his brother, Be strong.
41:7 So the carver strengthens the refiner; and he smoothing with the hammer, him who struck the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good. And he made it strong with nails; it will not totter.
41:8 But you Yisrael are My servant, Ya'akov whom I have elected; the seed of My friend Abraham121;
41:9 whom I have made strong from the ends of the earth, and called you from its sides; and I said to you, You are My servant. I chose you, and have not rejected you.
41:10 Do not fear, for I am with you; do not gaze about, for I am your Elohim; I will make you strong; yea, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.
41:11 Look, they all shall be humiliated, all who are provoked with you; they shall be as nothing; men who contend with you shall perish.
41:12 You shall seek them and shall not find them; men of your strife shall be as nothing, even men of your battle as ceasing.
41:13 For I, Yehovah your Elohim am strengthening your right hand, who says to you, Do not fear I will help you.
41:14 Fear not, worm of Ya'akov, men of Yisrael; I will help you, states Yehovah, and your 122Redeemer, the set apart One of Yisrael.
41:15 Look! I have made you a new sharp threshing sledge123, a master of teeth; you shall thresh mountains and beat them small, and shall make hills like the chaff.
41:16 You shall winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the tempest will scatter them. And you shall rejoice in Yehovah; you shall glory in the set apart One of Yisrael.
41:17 The poor and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue is parched for thirst. I, Yehovah will hear them; the Elohim of Yisrael will not leave them.
41:18 I will open rivers in bare places, and fountains in the midst of valleys; I will make the desert for a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
41:19 I will plant cedar in the wilderness, acacia, and myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set fir, pine and boxwood together in the desert;
41:20 so that they may see, and know, and set up, and understand together, that the hand of Yehovah has done this; and the set apart One of Yisrael has created it.
41:21 Bring your cause, says Yehovah; let your strong reasons come near, says the King of Ya'akov.
41:22 Let them draw near and tell us what shall happen; the former things, let them reveal what they are, that we may set our heart and know their end; or declare to us the coming things.
41:23 Reveal the near things hereafter, so that we may know that you are Elohim. Yea, do good, or do evil, that we may gaze and see together.
41:24 Look, you are of nothing; and your work of nothing; he who chooses you is an abomination.
41:25 I have raised up one from the north; and he shall come from the east; he will call on My name. And he shall come upon rulers as on mortar, and as a potter tramples clay.
41:26 Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know; and before, that we may say, He is right? Yea, no one declares; yea, no one proclaims; yea, there is no one who hears your words.
41:27 At first to Zion, I say, Look! Look them! And I will give to Yerushalayim one proclaiming good news.
41:28 But I saw, and there was not a man; and of these, there was not a counselor, that I may ask them, and they could return a word.
41:29 Look, they are all evil; their works are nothing; their images are wind and vanity.
42:1 Look My Servant; I will support Him; My Elect in whom My soul delights124! I have put My ruach on Him; He shall bring forth justice to the nations125.
42:2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street126.
42:3 A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench127; He shall bring forth justice to truth.
42:4 He shall shine out, and shall not be discouraged, until he has set judgment on the earth; and in his name shall the Gentiles trust128.
42:5 So says Yehovah The El, creating the heavens and stretching them out; spreading out the earth and its offspring, giving breath to the people on it, and ruach to those walking in it.
42:6 I, Yehovah, have called You in righteousness129, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations;
42:7 to open blind eyes, to lead out the prisoner from the prison; those who sit in darkness from the prison130.
42:8 I am Yehovah; that is My name; and I will not give My glory to another, nor My praise to engraved images131.
42:9 Look, the former things have come to pass, and I declare new things before they happen, I cause you to hear.
42:10 Sing a new song to Yehovah; His praise from the end of the earth, you who go to sea, and all that is in it; the coasts and their people.
42:11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up, the villages where Kedar lives. Let those dwelling in the rock sing; let them shout from the top of the mountains.
42:12 They give glory to Yehovah and declare His praise in the coastlands.
42:13 Yehovah shall go out as a mighty warrior; and He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war; He shall shout, yea, roar; He shall act mightily on His enemies.
42:14 I have forever kept silence; I have been quiet and refrained Myself; I will groan like a woman in travail; I will pant and gasp at once.
42:15 I will make mountains and hills become a waste, and dry up all their plants. And I will make the rivers coastlands, and I will dry up pools.
42:16 And I will make the blind go by a way that they did not know. I will make them go in paths they never knew. I will make darkness go into light before them, and crooked places a level place. I do these things to them and do not forsake them;
42:17 they are turned back; they are ashamed with shame, those trusting in the carved image, who say to cast images, You are our gods.
42:18 O deaf ones, hear! And O blind ones, look to see!
42:19 Who is blind but My servant? Or deaf, as My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at shalom, and blind as the servant of Yehovah132?
42:20 You see many things, but do not observe; your ears are open, but not any hears133.
42:21 Yehovah is delighted for His righteousness' sake; He will magnify the Torah and make it honorable134.
42:22 But it is a people robbed and spoiled; they shall all be snared in holes; they were hidden in prison houses. They were for spoil, and no one delivers; a prey, and no one says, Return!
42:23 Who among you will give ear to this, will listen and hear for the time to come?
42:24 Who gave Ya'akov to the plunderer, and Yisrael to the robbers? Did not Yehovah, He against whom we have sinned? For they willed not to walk in His ways, and they did not obey His Torah.
42:25 And He poured on him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle; and it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he did not lay it on his heart.
43:1 But now so says Yehovah who formed you, O Ya'akov; and He who made you, O Yisrael135: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I called you by your name; you are Mine.
43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk in the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame kindle on you.
43:3 For I am Yehovah your Elohim, the set apart One of Yisrael, your Savior. I gave Mitsrayim for your atonement; Ethiopia and Seba instead of you.
43:4 Since you were precious in My eyes, you are honored, and I love you; and I give men instead of you; and peoples instead of your soul.
43:5 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your seed from the east, and I will gather you from the west.
43:6 I will say to the north, Give up! And to the south, Do not hold back! Bring My sons from afar, and bring My daughters from the ends of the earth136;
43:7 everyone who is called by My name, and I have created him for My glory; I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
43:8 Bring out the blind people, yet there are eyes; and the deaf, yet there are ears to him.
43:9 Let all the nations be assembled, and let the peoples be gathered. Who among them can declare this and cause us to hear former things? Let them give their witnesses, that they may be justified. Or let them hear and say, It is true.
43:10 You are My witnesses, says Yehovah; and My servant whom I have elected; that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no El formed; nor shall any be after Me137.
43:11 I, I am Yehovah; and there is no Savior without Me138.
43:12 I declared, and I saved, and I proclaimed; and there is not a foreign Elohim among you. And you are My witnesses, says Yehovah, and I am El.
43:13 Yea, from this day I am He, and no one delivers from My hand. I will work, and who will reverse it?
43:14 So says Yehovah, your Redeemer, the set apart One of Yisrael: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought all of them down as ones fleeing, even the Chaldeans, whose shout is in the ships.
43:15 I am Yehovah, your set apart One, the Creator of Yisrael, your King.
43:16 So says Yehovah, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in mighty waters;
43:17 who brings out chariot and horse, force and power. They shall lie down together; they shall not rise; they are put out; they are snuffed out like the wick.
43:18 Do not remember former things, nor consider the things of old.
43:19 Look, I will do a new thing; now it shall sprout. Shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.
43:20 The beast of the field shall honor Me, jackals and daughters of ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen139.
43:21 My people whom I have preserved to tell forth My praises.
43:22 But you have not called on Me, Ya'akov; but you have been weary of Me, Yisrael.
43:23 You have not brought Me the lamb of your burnt offerings; even your sacrifices have not honored Me. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.
43:24 You have not bought calamus for Me with silver, nor have you filled Me with fat of your sacrifices; but you made Me serve by your sins; you wearied Me by your iniquities.
43:25 I, even I, am He who blots out your trespasses for My sake; and I will not remember your sins.
43:26 Remind me; let us enter into judgment together; sum up for yourself, that you may be justified.
43:27 Your first father sinned, and your interpreters transgressed against Me.
43:28 And I will defile the rulers of the sanctuary, and will give Ya'akov to the curse, and Yisrael to blaspheming.
44:1 And now listen, My servant Ya'akov, and Yisrael whom I have chosen.
44:2 So says Yehovah, who made you and formed you from the womb. He helps you. Do not fear, My servant Ya'akov; and you, Jeshurun140 whom I have chosen.
44:3 For I will pour water on a thirsty place, and floods on the dry ground. I will pour My ruach on your seed, and My blessing on your offspring.
44:4 And they shall sprout as among grass, as willows by streams of water.
44:5 This one shall say, I belong to Yehovah; and this one will call himself by the name of Ya'akov; and this one shall write with his hand, For Yehovah, and be surnamed by the name of Yisrael.
44:6 So says Yehovah, the King of Yisrael, and His Redeemer, Yehovah of Hosts: I am the First, and I am the Last; and there is no Elohim except Me141.
44:7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare this, and set it in order before Me, since I placed the people of old? And as to things to come, even which shall come, let them declare concerning them.
44:8 Do not dread, nor be afraid. Have I not declared and made you hear since then? So you are My witnesses: Is there a Eloah besides Me? Yea, there is none142. I have not known a Rock.
44:9 Those who form a carved image are all of them vanity. And their delights do not profit; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see, nor know, that they may be ashamed.
44:10 Who has formed an El, or poured out an image to no profit?
44:11 Look, all his companions shall be ashamed; and the craftsmen, they are from men. They shall assemble, all of them shall stand; they shall dread; they shall be shamed together.
44:12 He carves iron with a tool; he works in the coals and forms it with hammers, and works it with his powerful arm; then he is hungry, and has no strength; he drinks no water and is weary143.
44:13 The carpenter fashions the wood, and stretches a line; he marks it with a chisel; he shapes it with a carving tool, and he marks it with a compass. And he makes it according to the figure of a man, as the beauty of a man, to sit in the house.
44:14 He cuts down cedars and takes cypress and oak, and he makes the trees of the forest strong for him. He plants a tree, and rain makes it grow.
44:15 And it shall be for a man to burn; yea, he takes of them and is warmed; and he kindles it and bakes bread. Yea, he makes a god and worships; he makes a carved image and bows to it.
44:16 He burns half of it in the fire; he eats flesh on half of it; he roasts roast, and is satisfied. Then he warms himself and says, Ah, I am warm; I have seen the fire.
44:17 And he makes a god of the rest, his carved image; he bows to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for you are my El.
44:18 They do not know nor discern; for He has smeared their eyes from seeing, their hearts from understanding.
44:19 And not one turns back to his heart, nor has knowledge nor discernment to say, I have burned half of it in the fire; and I also have baked bread on its coals. I have roasted flesh and have eaten it; and I have made the rest of it into an idol. Shall I bow to a product of a tree144?
44:20 Feeding on ashes, a deceived heart turns him aside, and he does not deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
44:21 Remember these, O Ya'akov, and Yisrael. For you are My servant; I have formed you; you are My servant, O Yisrael; you shall not forget Me.
44:22 I have blotted out your transgressions like a thick cloud; and your sins like a cloud. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
44:23 Sing, O heavens, for Yehovah has done it. Shout, O lower parts of the earth; burst forth into praise, O mountains. O forest and every tree in it, sing praise, because Yehovah has redeemed Ya'akov, and He glorifies Himself in Yisrael.
44:24 So says Yehovah, your Redeemer and your Former from the womb; I am Yehovah who makes all things; stretching out the heavens, Everything comes from me, even spreading out the earth. Who was with Me? (Is 48:16, Pr 30:4)
44:25 Frustrating the signs of liars; yea, He makes divining ones mad, turning wise ones backward, and making their knowledge foolish.
44:26 He confirms the word of His servant, and completes the counsel of His messengers. He says to Yerushalayim, You will be filled; and to the cities of Yehudah, You shall be built; and, I will raise up its ruins.
44:27 He says to the deep, Be a waste! And I will dry up your rivers!
44:28 He says to Cyrus, You are My shepherd; and he shall complete all My pleasure, even for Me to say to Yerushalayim, You are built; and to the temple, your foundation shall be laid145.
45:1 So says Yehovah to His anointed, to Cyrus, whom I have seized by his right hand, to subdue nations before him. Yea, I will open the loins of kings, to open the two leaved doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut146.
45:2 I will go before you and make hills level; I will tear apart the bronze doors, and cut the iron bars in two.
45:3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness, even riches in secret places, that you may know that I am Yehovah, who calls you by your name, the Elohim of Yisrael.
45:4 For My servant Ya'akov's sake, and for Yisrael My elect, I even call you by your name. I name you, but you do not know Me147.
45:5 I am Yehovah, and there is none else; there is no Elohim except Me. I will clothe you, though you do not know Me,
45:6 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and to its going down, that there is none besides Me; I am Yehovah, and there is none else148;
45:7 forming light, and creating darkness; making shalom, and creating evil. I, Yehovah, do all these things149.
45:8 Drop down from above, O heavens; and let the clouds pour down righteousness. Let the earth open and let salvation* bear fruit; and let righteousness spring up together. I, Yehovah have created it.
45:9 Woe to him who fights with the One who formed him! A potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to its former, What are you making? Or does your work say, He has no hands?
45:10 Woe to him who says to a father, What are you fathering? Or to the woman, What are you laboring over?
45:11 So says Yehovah, the set apart One of Yisrael, and the One who formed him, Do you ask Me of the things to come? Do you give command to Me about My sons, and about the work of My hands?
45:12 I have made the earth, and created man on it. I stretched out the heavens with My hands; and I have set all their host in order.
45:13 I raised him up in righteousness, and have made straight all his ways. He shall build My city, and he will release My captives; not for price, nor for reward, says Yehovah of Hosts.
45:14 So says Yehovah, The labor of Mitsrayim, and the goods of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come to you; and they shall be yours. They shall come after you; they shall cross in chains; and they shall bow to you; they shall plead to you. Surely El is in you, and there is none else, no other Elohim.
45:15 Truly, You are a El who hides Himself, O Elohim of Yisrael, the Savior.
45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also are disgraced, all of them. Together they go into disgrace, carvers of images.
45:17 Yisrael is saved in Yehovah with everlasting salvation (Y’shua*). You shall not be ashamed nor disgraced to the forevers of eternity.
45:18 For so says Yehovah, Creator of the heavens; He is The Elohim, forming the earth and making it; He makes it stand, not creating it empty150, but forming it to be lived in. I am Yehovah, and compared to Me there is none else. (Deut 4:35)
45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. I did not say to Ya'akov's seed, Seek Me in vain. I Yehovah speak righteousness, declaring right things.
45:20 Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, escaped ones of the nations; the ones who set up the wood of their carved image, and the ones who pray to an El who is not Y’shua*; they know nothing.
45:21 Declare and bring near; yea, let them consult together. Who has revealed this of old; who has told it from then? Is it not I, Yehovah? And there is no Elohim other than Me; a just El and a Savior; compared to Me they are nothing.
45:22 Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am El, and besides Me there is nothing else151.
45:23 I have sworn by Myself, the Word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear152.
45:24 He shall say, Only in Yehovah do I have righteousness and strength; to Him he comes; and they are ashamed, all who are angry with Him.
45:25 In Yehovah all of the seed of Yisrael shall be justified, and shall glory.
46:1 Bel has bowed; Nebo stoops; their idols are for the beast, and for the cattle; your things carried are loads; a burden for the weary.
46:2 They stoop; they bow together; they are not able to deliver the burden; and their soul has gone into captivity.
46:3 Listen to me, O house of Ya'akov, and all the remnant of the house of Yisrael; who are borne from the belly, who are lifted from the womb:
46:4 Even to old age I am He; and I will bear to gray hair; I made, and I will carry; and I will bear and deliver.
46:5 To whom will you compare and make Me equal; yea, compare Me, that we may be alike?
46:6 Those who lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver on the measuring rod; they hire a refiner and he makes it a El. They fall down; yea, they worship.
46:7 They carry it on the shoulder; they bear it and set it in its place, and it stands; it shall not move from its place. Yes, he cries to it, but it does not answer, it does not save him from his distress.
46:8 Remember this and be a man; return it on your heart, transgressors.
46:9 Remember former things from forever, for I am El, and no other Elohim exist, even none like Me153,
46:10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from the past those things which were not done, saying, My counsel shall rise; and, I will do all My desire;
46:11 calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of My counsel from a far off land154. Yes, I have spoken; yes, I will cause it to come; I have formed; yes, I will do it.
46:12 Listen to Me, mighty ones of heart who are far from righteousness:
46:13 I bring near My righteousness; it shall not be far off, and My salvation shall not wait; I will place salvation (salvation*) in Zion, My glory for Yisrael.
47:1 Go down and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the earth; a throne is not to the daughter of the Chaldeans; for they shall not again call you tender and delicate.
47:2 Take millstones and grind meal; uncover your veil; strip off the skirt; uncover the leg; pass over rivers.
47:3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered; yea, your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance and I will not meet a man.
47:4 Our Redeemer; Yehovah of Hosts is His name, the set apart One of Yisrael.
47:5 Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for they shall no more call you the lady of kingdoms155.
47:6 I was angry with My people; I defiled My inheritance and gave them into your hand. You gave them no mercy; you made your yoke on the aged very heavy.
47:7 And you said, I shall be a mistress forever, until you did not set these things on your heart, and did not remember its end.
47:8 Now, then, hear this, O pleasure seeker, who lives carelessly; who says in her heart, I am, and none else is; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children156.
47:9 But these two things shall suddenly come to you, in one day: loss of children, and widowhood; according to completeness they come on you, for your many sorceries, for the power of your great spells.
47:10 For you trusted in your evil; you said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge; it is turning you back, and you said in your heart, I am and none else is157.
47:11 For this, evil shall come on you; you shall not know its origin. And mischief158 shall fall on you; you shall not be able to cover it. And ruin shall come on you suddenly, you shall not know.
47:12 Stand now among your spells, and with your many sorceries, in which you have wearied yourself since your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit; perhaps you may cause quaking.
47:13 You are exhausted by your many plans; let those dividing the heavens stand up now and save you, the stargazers, making known what is coming on you into the new moons.
47:14 Look, they are as stubble; the fire burns them; they shall not save their soul from the flame's hand; there is no coal to warm them; nor fire, to sit before it.
47:15 So they are to you with whom you have labored, your traders from your youth; each one wanders to his own way; no one saves you.
48:1 Hear this, O house of Ya'akov, who are called by the name of Yisrael, and have been begotten from the waters of Yehudah, who swear by the name of Yehovah and profess by the Elohim of Yisrael, but you mention not in truth or in righteousness.
48:2 For they are called of the set apart city, and rest themselves on the Elohim of Yisrael; Yehovah of Hosts is His name159.
48:3 I have declared the former things from then; and they went out of My mouth; and I made them hear; suddenly I acted, and they came about.
48:4 Because I knew that you are hard, and your neck is a sinew of iron, and your brow bronze.
48:5 And I declared to you from then; before it came I made you hear, lest you should say, My idol did them; and my image and my cast image commanded them.
48:6 You heard; see it all; and will you not declare? I made you hear new things from now, even hidden things, and you did not know them.
48:7 They are created now, and not from then; even before today, but you did not hear them; lest you should say, See, I knew them.
48:8 Yea, you did not hear; yea, you did not know; yea, from then your ear was not opened; for I know that surely you will betray and revolt from the womb; it was called to you.
48:9 For My name's sake I will put off My anger; and for My praise I will hold back for you, so as not to cut you off.
48:10 Look, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
48:11 For My sake, for My sake, I will act; for how is it defiled? And I will not give My glory to another. (Is 42:8)
48:12 Listen to Me, O Ya'akov, and Yisrael My called: I am He; I am the First; surely I am the Last.
48:13 My hand surely founded the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens160; I called to them, they stood up together.
48:14 All of you gather and hear: Who among them has declared these things? Yehovah has loved him161. He will do His pleasure on Babylon; yea, His arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
48:15 I, I have spoken; yea, I have called him, I brought him, and he causes his way to prosper162.
48:16 Come near to Me; hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning. From its existence, I was there; and now Adonai Yehovah, and His ruach, has sent Me163.
48:17 So says Yehovah, your Redeemer, the set apart One of Yisrael, I am Yehovah your Elohim, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
48:18 Oh that you had listened to My commandments! Then your shalom would have been like the river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
48:19 And your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring of your bowels like its grain; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from My presence.
48:20 Go out of Babylon; flee from the Chaldeans. Tell this with the voice of rejoicing; let this be heard, let it go out to the end of the earth; say, Yehovah has redeemed His servant Ya'akov
48:21 And they did not thirst; He led them in the deserts; He made waters flow out of rock for them. And He cut open the rock and the water gushed out.
48:22 There is no shalom, says Yehovah, to the wicked.
49:1 Hear Me, coastlands, and you people from afar, and prick up your ear, Yehovah called Me from the womb; He mentioned My name from My mother's belly164.
49:2 And He made My mouth like a sharp sword; He hid Me in the shadow of His hand, and made Me a polished arrow; He hid Me in His quiver;
49:3 and said to Me, You are My servant to Yisrael, You in whom I shall be glorified.
49:4 Then I said, I have labored in vain; I have spent My strength for nothing, and in vain; yet surely My judgment is with Yehovah, and My work with My Elohim.
49:5 And now, says Yehovah who formed Me from the womb to be His servant, to bring Ya'akov back to Him: Though Yisrael is not gathered, yet I am honored in the eye of Yehovah, and My Elohim is My strength165.
49:6 And He said, It is too little that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Ya'akov, and to restore the preserved ones of Yisrael; I will also give You, my Y’shua*, to be for a light of the nations, to the end of the earth166.
49:7 So says Yehovah, the Redeemer of Yisrael; His set apart One, to the despised of soul, to the hated of the nation167, the servant of rulers, Kings shall see and rise up; and chiefs shall worship; because of Yehovah who is faithful, and the set apart One of Yisrael; and He chose You.
49:8 So says Yehovah: In a favorable time I have heard you, and in a day of salvation I have helped You. And I will preserve You, and give You for a covenant of the people; to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolated inheritances;
49:9 to say to the prisoners, Go out! To those who are in darkness, Reveal yourselves168. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; and the heat and sun shall not strike them. For He who has mercy on them shall lead them; and He shall guide them by the springs of water169.
49:11 And I will make all My mountains a way, and My highways shall be set on high.
49:12 Look, these shall come from afar; and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim170 .
49:13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; break out into singing, O mountains. For Yehovah has comforted His people and will have pity on His afflicted.
49:14 But Zion said, Yehovah has forsaken me, and, My Adonai has forgotten me.
49:15 Can a woman forget her suckling child, from pitying the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will surely not forget you.
49:16 Look, I have carved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are always before Me.
49:17 Your sons hurry; those destroying you and ruining you shall go out from you.
49:18 Lift up your eyes all around and see! They all gather and come to you. As I live, says Yehovah, you shall surely wear all of them as an ornament, and bind them on as a bride.
49:19 For your wastes and your deserted places, and your land of ruins shall even now be too narrow to live there; and they who swallow you shall be far away.
49:20 The sons of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too narrow for me; come near for me so that I may have place to live.
49:21 Then you shall say in your heart, Who has borne these to me, for I am bereaved and desolate, turned aside and an exile; who then has brought up these? Look, I was left alone. From where do these come?
49:22 So says Adonai Yehovah, Look, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and will set up My banner to peoples. And they shall bring your sons in the bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on the shoulder.
49:23 And kings shall be supporting you, and their princesses your nurses. They shall bow to you, faces down to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet. And you shall know that I am Yehovah, by whom they who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.
49:24 Shall the plunder be taken from the warrior, or the righteous captive escape?
49:25 But so says Yehovah, Even the captives of the warrior shall be taken, and the plunder of the terrifying ones shall be delivered. For I will strive with him who contends with you; and I will save your sons.
49:26 And those who oppress you, I will feed with their own flesh: and they shall be drunk by their own blood, as with fresh wine. And all flesh shall know that I am Yehovah, and your Savior (Y’shua*), the Kinsman Redeemer171, the Mighty One of Ya'akov.
50:1 So says Yehovah, Where is the writing of the severing of your mother's matrimonial bond, whom I have put away172? Or who of My creditors that I have sold you to him? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your trespasses.
50:2 Who knows why I have come, and no one is here? I called, and not one answered. Is My hand truly cut short from ransom? Or is there not power in Me to deliver? Look, at My rebuke I dry up the sea; I make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink because of no water, and die in thirst.
50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and sackcloth makes their covering.
50:4 Adonai Yehovah has given to Me the tongue of learned ones, to know to help the weary with a word. He awakens me in the morning; He wakens the ear to Me, to hear as the learned.
50:5 Adonai Yehovah has opened My ear and I did not rebel; I did not turn away backwards.
50:6 I gave My back to strikers, and My cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting173.
50:7 And Adonai Yehovah will help Me. On account of this I was not ashamed. On account of this I set My face like flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
50:8 My Justifier is near. Who will contend with Me? Let us stand up together. Who is master of My judgment? Let him come near to Me.
50:9 Look, Adonai Yehovah will help Me; who is He who will condemn Me? Look, like a garment they shall wear out; the moth shall eat them.
50:10 Who among you fears Yehovah, obeying the voice of His Servant; who walks in darkness, and no light is in him? Let him trust in the name of Yehovah, and lean on his Elohim.
50:11 Look, all of you who kindle fire, who are surrounded by sparks; walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you are burning. This shall be to you from My hand; you shall lie down in pain.
51:1 Hear Me, pursuers of righteousness, seekers of Yehovah: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the hollow of the pit from which you were dug174.
51:2 Look to your father Abraham, and to Sarah who bore you. For he being but one, I called him and blessed him and increased him.
51:3 For Yehovah comforts Zion. He comforts all her desolations, and He makes her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yehovah175; joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of singing praise.
51:4 Hear Me, My people; yea, give ear to Me, My nation. For the Torah shall go out from Me, and My justice I will make rest as light to peoples176.
51:5 My righteousness is near; My salvation (Y’shua*) went out; and My arms shall judge peoples; coastlands shall wait on Me, and they shall hope on My arm.
51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look to the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, and the earth shall wear out like a garment; and those living in it shall die in the same way, but my Y’shua* shall be forever, and My righteousness shall not be broken.
51:7 Hear Me, those knowing righteousness, the people of My Torah in their heart; do not fear the reproach of man, and do not be bowed from their blaspheming.
51:8 For the moth shall eat them like a garment; yea, the moth worm shall eat them177 like wool. But My righteousness shall be forever, and my Y’shua* shall be from generation to generation.
51:9 Awake! Awake! Arm of Yehovah, put on strength. Awake, as in days of old, everlasting generations. Was it not You cutting in pieces Rahab178, and piercing the sea monster?
51:10 Was it not You drying up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who set the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass? (Ex 14:21)
51:11 Yea, the ransomed of Yehovah shall return and come to Zion with singing, and everlasting joy shall be on their head; gladness and joy shall overtake them; sorrow and sighing shall flee179.
51:12 I, I am He comforting you. Who are you, that you should fear from man? He shall die! And from the son of man? He is given as grass.
51:13 And you forget your Maker Yehovah, who has stretched out the heavens and founded the earth. And you dread continually, every day, from the fury of the oppressor, since he was ready to destroy. And where is the fury of the oppressor?
51:14 Bowed down, he hurries to be freed, that he not die in the pit, nor that he lack his bread.
51:15 But I am Yehovah your Elohim, stirring up the sea and making its waves roar; Yehovah of Hosts is His name.
51:16 And I have put My Words in your mouth, and covered you in the shade of My hand, to plant the heavens and found the earth, and to say to Zion, You are My people.
51:17 Awake! Awake! Rise up, O Yerushalayim, who drank the cup of His fury from the hand of Yehovah; you drank the bowl of the cup of reeling; you fully drained it.
51:18 No guide is for her among all the sons she has borne; and of all the sons she made to grow none makes strong her hand.
51:19 Those two things came to you; who shall grieve for you? Ruin and shattering and famine and the sword, who but I shall comfort you?
51:20 Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net, filled with the fury of Yehovah, the rebuke of your Elohim.
51:21 So hear this now, afflicted one, and drunken, but not from wine:
51:22 So says your Master Yehovah and your Elohim, He strives for His people. Look, I have taken the cup of reeling out of your hand, the bowl of the cup of My fury; you shall not yet again drink it. (Is 60:14-21)
51:23 But I will put it into the hand of those oppressing you, who have said to your soul, Bow down that we may cross, and, Put your back to the ground, and as the street to those who cross.
52:1 Awake! Awake! Put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Yerushalayim, the set apart city. For never again shall uncircumcised and unclean ones come to you.
52:2 Shake yourself from the dust; rise up! Sit, Yerushalayim; free yourself from your neck bands, O captive daughter of Zion. (Zech 2:7)
52:3 For so says Yehovah: You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed with silver.
52:4 For so says Adonai Yehovah: My people went down to Mitsrayim at the first, to reside there, and without cause Assyria oppressed him.
52:5 So then what is to Me here, declares Yehovah? For My people are taken for nothing; those ruling howl, declares Yehovah, On account of you my name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles180, every day.
52:6 So My people shall know My name thus in that day181; for I am He speaking. Look, I am Yehovah!
52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him proclaiming good news, making shalom heard, bearing tidings of good, making heard salvation (Y’shua*), saying to Zion, Your Elohim reigns. (Ro 10:15, Nah 1:15)
52:8 The voice of your watchmen, they lift the voice together, they sing aloud. For they shall see eye to eye when Yehovah brings back Zion.
52:9 Break out, sing together, waste places of Yerushalayim; for Yehovah comforts His people; He has redeemed Yerushalayim.
52:10 Yehovah has bared His set apart arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see (Aleph /Tav) Yehoshua* our Elohim182.
52:11 Turn! Turn! Go out from there! Touch not the unclean! Go out of her midst, purify yourselves, bearers of the vessels of Yehovah183.
52:12 For you shall not go out with haste, nor will you go by flight; for Yehovah is going before you, and the Elohim of Yisrael gathers you184.
52:13 Look, My Servant shall rule wisely; He shall be exalted and lifted up and be very high.
52:14 Just as many were astonished over You, so much was the disfigurement from man, His appearance and His form from sons of mankind185.
52:15 Thus shall many nations wonder at Him; and kings shall keep their mouths shut; for they to whom no report was brought concerning Him shall see; and they who have not heard, shall consider.
53:1 Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of Yehovah revealed186?
53:2 For He comes up as a shoot before Him, and as a root out of dry ground187. He has no form nor majesty that we should see Him; nor form that we should desire Him188.
53:3 He is despised and abandoned of men, a Man of pains, and acquainted with sickness189. And as it were hiding our faces from Him, He being despised, and we did not value Him190.
53:4 Surely He has borne our sicknesses, and He carried our pain; yet we esteemed Him plagued, smitten by Elohim, and afflicted.
53:5 But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our shalom was upon Him; and with His wounds we ourselves are healed191.
53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have each one turned to his own way; and Yehovah made meet in Him the iniquity of all of us192.
53:7 He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, but He did not open His mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a ewe before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth. (Math 26:63-64)
53:8 In His humiliation His judgment was taken away; and who shall consider His generation? For He was cut off193 out of the land of the living; for the transgression of My people, the stroke was to Him.
53:9 And I will give the wicked for His burial, and the rich for His death; for He practiced no sin, and deceit was not in His mouth. (Math 27:38, 57-60)
53:10 But Yehovah pleased to crush Him, to make Him sick, so that If He should put His soul as a guilt offering, He shall see His seed194; He shall prolong His days; and the will of Yehovah shall prosper in His hand195.
53:11 He shall see the life of light, the fruit of the travail of His soul; He shall be fully satisfied. By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify for many, and He shall bear their iniquities.
53:12 Because of this I will divide to Him with the great, and with the strong He shall divide the spoil; because He poured out His soul to death; and He was counted with those transgressing; and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for transgressors196.
54:1 Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and shout, you that does not travail. For the sons of the desolate one are more than the sons of the married woman, says Yehovah197.
54:2 Make the place of your tent larger, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings. Do not spare, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes198.
54:3 For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left. And your seed shall possess nations, and people will inhabit ruined cities.
54:4 Do not fear, for you shall not be shamed, nor shall you be disgraced, for you shall not be wounded. For you shall forget the shame of your youth, and you shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more.
54:5 For your Makers199 are your husbands; Yehovah of Hosts is Their name; and your Redeemer is the set apart One of Yisrael; He is called the Elohim of all the earth.
54:6 For Yehovah has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in ruach, even a wife of young men when she is rejected, says your Elohim.
54:7 For a little moment I have left you, but I will gather you with great pitying.
54:8 In a flood of wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; but I will have pity on you with everlasting kindness, says Yehovah your Redeemer.
54:9 For this is the waters of Noah to Me; for as I swore to refrain from passing over the waters of Noah over the earth again, so I have sworn from being angry with you and rebuking you.
54:10 For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but My mercy shall not depart from you; nor shall the covenant of My shalom be removed, says Yehovah who has pity on you.
54:11 Afflicted one, storm tossed and not comforted! Look, I am laying your stones with fair colors, and have founded you with sapphires.
54:12 And I will make your battlements of ruby, and your gates carbuncle stones, and all your borders stones of delight;
54:13 and all your sons will be taught of Yehovah; and the shalom of your sons will be great.
54:14 You shall be established in righteousness; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
54:15 Look, gathering they shall gather, but not from Me. Who has gathered against you? By you he shall fall.
54:16 Look, I have created the smith who blows the coal in the fire, and who brings out a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
54:17 Every weapon formed against you shall not prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment, you shall condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of Yehovah, and their righteousness is from Me, says Yehovah.
55:1 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the water; and he who has no money, come buy grain and eat. Yes, come buy grain, wine and milk without silver and with no price200. (Is 43:18-20,)
55:2 Why do you weigh out silver for that which is not bread, and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me and eat the good; and let your soul delight itself in fatness201.
55:3 Bend your ear and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will cut an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David202.
55:4 Look, I gave Him a Witness to peoples, a Leader and Commander of peoples.
55:5 Look, You shall call a nation You do not know; yea, a nation not knowing You shall run to You, because of Yehovah Your Elohim, and for the set apart One of Yisrael; for He has glorified You.
55:6 Seek Yehovah while He may be found; call on Him while He is near203.
55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the man of vanity his thoughts, and let him return to Yehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our Elohim, for He will abundantly pardon204.
55:8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says Yehovah205.
55:9 For as the heavens are high from the earth, so My ways are high from your ways, and My thoughts from your thoughts.
55:10 For as the rain and the snow comes down from the heavens and do not return there, except it waters the earth and make it bring forth and bud, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
55:11 so shall My Word be, which goes out of My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in what I sent it to do206!
55:12 For you shall go out with joy and be led out with shalom. The mountains and the hills shall break out into song before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap the hand. (Ps 98:8)
55:13 Instead of the thorn bush, the fir tree shall come up; instead of the brier, the myrtle shall come up; and it shall be for a name to Yehovah, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off207.
56:1 So says Yehovah: Keep justice and do righteousness, for my Y’shua* is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.
56:2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it; keeping the Sabbath, from defiling it; and keeping his hand from doing every evil.
56:3 And do not let the son of the foreigner speak, he who joins himself to Yehovah, saying, surely, Yehovah separates me from His people; and do not let the eunuch say, Look, I am a dried tree208.
56:4 For so says Yehovah to the eunuchs who keep (Aleph/Tav) My Sabbaths and choose things I am pleased with, and take hold of My covenant:
56:5 I, even I will give to them in My house and in My walls a hand and a name better than sons and than daughters; I will give them an ever-lasting name which shall not be cut off.
56:6 And the sons of the foreigner, who join themselves to Yehovah to serve Him, and to love the name of Yehovah, to be His servants, everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and takes hold of My covenant:
56:7 even them I will bring to My set apart mount and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on My altar, for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the peoples,
56:8 states Adonai Yehovah, who gathers the outcasts of Yisrael; I will yet gather others beside him to his gathered ones209.
56:9 All beasts of the field come to devour, all beasts in the forest!
56:10 His watchmen are blind; they all do not know; they are all dumb dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber;
56:11 yea, dogs greedy of soul; they do not know satisfaction. And they are shepherds; they do not know to discern; they all look to their own way, each one for his own gain, from his own end, saying:
56:12 Come, and let me bring wine, and let us gulp down fermented drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, great, exceedingly abundant.
57:1 The righteous one perishes, and no one lays it to heart; yea, merciful men are gathered, with no one discerning that the righteous is gathered from the face of evil.
57:2 He shall enter shalom; they shall rest on their couches, walking in his uprightness.
57:3 But you, draw near here, sons of the sorceress, seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.
57:4 On whom are you making sport? On whom do you make a wide mouth and draw out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a lying seed,
57:5 being inflamed with idols under every green tree, slaughtering the children in the torrent beds, under the clefts of the rocks?
57:6 In the torrent's smoothness is your portion; they, they are your lot; even to them you have poured a drink offering; you have offered a food offering. Should I be consoled over these?
57:7 You have set your couch on a lofty and high mountain; yea, you went up there to sacrifice a sacrifice.
57:8 And you have set up your memorial behind the door and post. For you uncovered yourself from Me and went up; you enlarged your couch; and you cut covenant with them; you loved their couch; at a hand you looked.
57:9 And you went to the king with oil and multiplied your perfume. And you sent your messengers far away, and lowered yourself to Sheol.
57:10 You were wearied in the length of your way; you did not say, Despair! You found the life of your hand, so you were not sick.
57:11 And whom have you dreaded and feared? You have lied and have not remembered Me, not laying it on your heart. Have I not been silent, even from forever, and you have not feared Me?
57:12 I will reveal your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you.
57:13 When you cry, let your assembly deliver you; but the wind shall bear away all of them; vanity takes them. But he who takes refuge in Me shall inherit the land and possess My set apart mountain210.
57:14 And he shall say, Raise up! Raise up! Clear the way! Make the stumbling block rise from the way of My people.
57:15 For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, and His name is set apart: I dwell in the high and set apart place, even with the contrite and humble of ruach; to make live the ruach of the humble and to make live the heart of the contrite ones.
57:16 For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry, for the ruach would faint before Me, even the breaths I have made.
57:17 For I was angry and struck him for the iniquity of his gain; I hid Myself and was angry; yet he went, turning in his heart's way.
57:18 His ways I have seen, but I will heal him, and will lead him and complete comforts to him and to his mourners.
57:19 I create the fruit of the lips: shalom, shalom, to the ones far off and near, says Yehovah, and I will heal him.
57:20 But the wicked are like the driven sea, which cannot be quiet, and its waves cast up mire and dirt.
57:21 There is no shalom to the wicked, says my Elohim. (Is 48:22)
58:1 Call out with the throat! Do not spare. Lift up your voice like the ram's horn! And declare to My people their rebellion, and their sins to the house of Ya'akov.
58:2 Yet they seek Me day by day, and desire knowledge of My ways. As a nation that has done right, and not forsaking the judgment of their Elohim, they ask Me about judgments of righteousness; they desire to draw near to Elohim.
58:3 They say, Why have we fasted, and You did not see? We have afflicted our soul, and You did not acknowledge. Look, on the day of your fast you find pleasure; and you drive all your laborers hard.
58:4 Look! You fast for strife, and for debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. Do not fast as today, to sound your voice in the high place.
58:5 Is this like the fast I will choose, a day for a man to afflict his soul? To bow his head down like a bulrush, and he spreads sackcloth and ashes? Will you call to this as a fast and a day of delight to Yehovah211?
58:6 I have not chosen such a fast, says Yehovah; but do you loose every burden of iniquity, do you untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account?212?
58:7 Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, that you should bring the wandering poor home? When will you see the naked and cover him, and you will not hide yourself from your flesh?
58:8 Then your light shall break as the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yehovah shall gather you.
58:9 Then you shall call, and Yehovah will answer; you shall cry, and He shall say, Here I am. If you put the yoke away from among you, the pointing of the finger, and the speaking of vanity213;
58:10 and if you let out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then your light shall rise in the darkness, and your gloom shall be as the noonday214.
58:11 And Yehovah shall always guide you, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. (Ps 1:3)
58:12 And those who come of you shall build the old ruins; you shall rear the foundations of many generations215; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to live in.
58:13 If you turn your foot away because of the Sabbath, from doing what you please on My set apart day, and call the Sabbath a delight, to the set-apartness of Yehovah, glorified; and shall glorify Him, to the set-apartness of not doing your own ways, from finding your own pleasure or speaking your own words216;
58:14 then you shall delight yourself in Yehovah. And I will cause you to ride on the heights of the earth, and make you eat with the inheritance of your father Ya'akov. For the mouth of Yehovah has spoken217.
59:1 Look, the hand of Yehovah is not shortened from saving, nor is His ear heavy from hearing. (Is 50:2)
59:2 But your iniquities are separating between you and your Elohim; and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.
59:3 For your hands are defiled by blood; yea, your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken falsehood; your tongue murmurs perverseness.
59:4 No one calls for righteousness; and no one pleads with truth. Trusting emptiness, and speaking vanity, they conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.
59:5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies; and that which is crushed hatches out a viper.
59:6 Their webs shall not become clothing, nor shall they cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of evil, and the act of violence218 is in their hands.
59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to pour out innocent blood. Thoughts of iniquity are their thoughts; wasting and ruin are in their ways. (Pr 6:17, Rom 3:15-17)
59:8 They do not know the way of shalom; and no justice is in their tracks. They have made crooked paths for themselves; everyone going in them does not know shalom219.
59:9 For this reason justice is far from us; and righteousness does not overtake us. We wait for light, but, look, dimness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as in the twilight, in deserted places like ones dying.
59:11 We all of us roar like bears, and moaning we moan like doves. We wait for justice, but there is none; for Y’shua*, but He is far from us.
59:12 For our rebellions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities; (Is 58:1)
59:13 transgressing and lying against Yehovah, and turning back from our Elohim, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and murmuring words of falsehood from the heart.
59:14 And justice is driven back; and righteousness stands far off; for truth stumbles in the plaza, and right is not able to enter.
59:15 And the truth is lacking; and whoever turns from evil makes himself a prey. And Yehovah saw; and it was evil in His eyes, that there was no justice.
59:16 And He saw that there was no man, and He was astonished that there was no intercessor. And His own arm saved for Him; and His righteousness sustained Him220.
59:17 For He put on righteousness like armor, and a helmet of Y’shua* He put on His head. And He put on robes of vengeance as clothing; and He put on zeal like a mantle221.
59:18 According to works, so He will repay; fury to His foes; recompense to His foes; He will repay recompense to the coasts.
59:19 So they shall fear the name of Yehovah from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the foe comes like a flood, the ruach of Yehovah shall cause him to flee.
59:20 And the Redeemer comes to Zion, and to those in Ya'akov who turn back from their ungodliness, declares Yehovah222.
59:21 As for Me, this is My covenant with them, says Yehovah: My ruach who is on you, and My Words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your seed, or out of the mouth of your seed's seed, from now on and forever, says Yehovah223.
60:1 Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of Yehovah has risen on you224! (Eph 5:14)
60:2 For look, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples. But Yehovah shall rise on you, and His glory shall be seen on you.
60:3 And nations shall walk to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawning. (Is 42:6)
60:4 Lift up your eyes all around and see; they are all assembling; they are coming to you. Your sons shall come from far away, and your daughters shall be supported on the side.
60:5 Then you shall fear and be bright; and your heart shall dread and swell. For the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you; the wealth of nations shall come to you.
60:6 A host of camels shall cover you, young camels of Midian and Ephah. All of them shall come from Sheba, they shall bear gold and incense; and they shall proclaim the praises of Yehovah.
60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you; rams of Nebaioth shall serve you; they shall come up for acceptance on My altar; and the house of My beauty I will glorify225.
60:8 Who are these who fly like a cloud, and with the doves to their windows?
60:9 For the coastlands shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish at the first, to bring your sons from far away, their silver and their gold to them, to the name of Yehovah your Elohim, and to the set apart One of Yisrael, because He has glorified you.
60:10 And the sons of the foreigner shall build your walls; and their kings shall serve you. For I struck you in My wrath, but I pitied you in My favor.
60:11 So your gates shall be always open; they shall not be shut day or night, so that men may bring to you the force of nations, and that their kings may be led. (Is 26:1-3)
60:12 For the nations and the kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yea, the nations shall be utterly destroyed.
60:13 The glory of Lebanon shall come to you: the juniper, the box tree, and the cypress together, to beautify the place of My sanctuary; yea, I will glorify the place of My feet. (Is 35:2-3)
60:14 Also the sons of ones afflicting you shall come bowing to you. And all who despised you shall fall at the soles of your feet. And they shall call you, The City of Yehovah, the Zion of the set apart One of Yisrael.
60:15 Instead of your being forsaken and hated, so that no one passes through, I will make you for everlasting majesty, a joy of many generations.
60:16 You shall also suck the milk of nations, and you shall suck the breast of kings. And you shall know that I, Yehovah, am your Savior and your Kinsman Redeemer, the mighty One of Ya'akov. (Is 54:5, Lev 25:25)
60:17 Instead of bronze, I will bring gold; and instead of iron, I will bring silver. And instead of timber, bronze; and instead of stones, iron. And I will make your governors shalom, and your oppressors righteousness.
60:18 Violence shall not still be heard in your land, or wasting and ruin within your borders; but you shall call out to Y’shua* by name as your wall of protection, and your gates, Praise226.
60:19 The sun shall not still be your light by day, or the brightness of the moon give you light; but Yehovah shall be for everlasting light to you, and your Elohim for your beauty. (Rev 21:23)
60:20 Your sun shall not go in any more, and your moon shall not be removed; for Yehovah will become your everlasting light; and the days of your mourning shall end. (Rev 22:5, Rev 21:4)
60:21 And your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the earth forever, a branch of My planting, a work of My hands, to beautify Myself227.
60:22 A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong nation. I, Yehovah, will hasten it in its time228.
61:1 The ruach of Adonai Yehovah is on Me, because Yehovah has anointed Me to preach the good news to the meek. He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, and complete opening to the bound ones;
61:2 to proclaim a year of Yehovah's229 favour, and the day of vengeance of our Elohim; to comfort all who mourn;
61:3 to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of the ruach of infirmity, so that one calls them trees of righteousness, the planting of Yehovah, in order to beautify Himself.
61:4 And they shall build old ruins; they shall raise up former desolations; and they shall restore the waste cities, ruins of generations and generations.
61:5 And foreigners shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of strangers shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
61:6 But you shall be called, Priests of Yehovah; it will be said of you, Ministers of our Elohim230. You shall eat the wealth of the nations, and you shall revel in their glory.
61:7 Instead of your shame and disgrace, double. They rejoice in their portion; for they shall possess a second time in their land; everlasting joy shall be theirs.
61:8 For I, Yehovah, love judgment, hating plunder in burnt offering. And I will give their work in truth; and I will cut an everlasting covenant to them231.
61:9 And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed that Yehovah has blessed.
61:10 Rejoicing I will rejoice in Yehovah. My soul shall exult in my Elohim. For He clothed me with the wedding garments of Y’shua*; He put on me the robe of righteousness, even as a bridegroom, adorned as a priest with his fancy attire, and as a bride wears her wedding dress. (Ps 132:9,16)
61:11 For as the earth comes out with her buds, and as a garden causes that which is sown to grow, so Adonai Yehovah will make righteousness and praise to grow before all the nations. (Is 45:8, 25)
62:1 For Zion's sake, I will not be silent; and for Yerushalayim's sake, I will not rest; until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and Y’shua* as a burning torch.
62:2 And nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. And you shall be called by a new name which the mouth of Yehovah shall name232.
62:3 You also shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yehovah, and a royal head dress in the hand of your Elohim.
62:4 You no longer shall be called Azubah233; nor shall your land any longer be called Shemamah234. But you shall be called, Hephzibah235; and your land, Beulah236. For Yehovah delights in you, and your land is married237.
62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you. And as a bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your Elohim shall rejoice over you. (Rev 19:7-9)
62:6 I have set watchmen on your walls, O Yerushalayim. All the day and all the night they shall not always be silent; you who remember Yehovah, keep not silent.
62:7 And give no rest to Him until He sets up and makes Yerushalayim a praise in the earth. (Rev 21:2, Mic 4:1-2)
62:8 Yehovah has sworn by His right hand238, and by the might of His arm: Surely I will no longer give your grain as food for your enemies; and the sons of a stranger shall not drink your new wine for which you have labored.
62:9 But those who have gathered it shall eat it, and praise Yehovah. And they who have collected it shall drink it in My set apart courts. (Is 65:13, 21-23)
62:10 Pass! Pass through the gates; prepare the way of the people! Raise up! Raise up the highway; clear it from stones; lift up a banner239 over the peoples.
62:11 Look, Yehovah has made it to be heard to the end of the earth; Tell the daughter of Zion, Look! Yehoshua* comes! Look! His reward240 is with Him, and His work before Him.
62:12 And they shall call them, The set apart People, the Redeemed241 of Yehovah. And to you it shall be called, Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
63:1 Who is this who comes from Edom with crimson242 garments from Bozrah, this One adorned in His clothing, inclining in His great power? It is I, speaking in righteousness the Great Y’shua*!243
63:2 Why is Your clothing red, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? (Rev 19:11-13)
63:3 I have trodden the winepress, I alone, and no man of the peoples was with Me. And I will tread them in My anger, and trample them in My fury; and their juice shall be spattered on My garments; and I will pollute all My clothes. (Rev 14:15-20)
63:4 For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed244 has come.
63:5 And I looked, and no one was helping. And I was astonished that no one was upholding. Then My own arm saved for Me245, and My fury upheld Me.
63:6 And I tread down peoples in My anger, and made them drunk in My fury. And I poured their juice to the earth. (Ps 75:8, Is 51:17, 21-22)
63:7 I will mention the mercies of Yehovah, the praises of Yehovah, according to all that Yehovah has benefited us, and the great good to the house of Yisrael, by which He benefited them according to His mercies, and according to the multitude of His loving-kindness.
63:8 For He said, Surely they are My people, sons that do not lie, and He became to them a Savior.
63:9 In all their affliction, He was not a foe; and the Messenger of his Face saved them246. In His love and in His pity He was their kinsman-redeemer . And He bore them up, and lifted them up all the days of old.
63:10 But they rebelled, and provoked His set apart ruach, so He was turned to be their enemy; He fought against them. (Ps 78:40, Acts 7:51)
63:11 Then His people remembered the days past of Mosheh and His people, saying, Where is He who brought us up from the sea with the shepherd of His flock. Where is He who put His set apart ruach within him;(Ps 106:44-46)
63:12 who led them by Mosheh' right hand, with His glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make for Him an everlasting name? (Ex 14:21-22)
63:13 He led them through the deeps; like the horse in the wilderness, they did not stumble.
63:14 As the cattle go down into the valley, so the ruach of Yehovah caused him to rest; so You led Your people, to make a glorious name for Yourself.
63:15 Look down from Heaven and peer from the place of Your set-apartness and Your glory. Where is Your zeal and Your might? The roaring of Your bowels and Your mercies toward me, are they held back?
63:16 For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Yisrael does not acknowledge us; You, Yehovah, are our Father, our Kinsman-Redeemer247; Your name is from everlasting.
63:17 O Yehovah, why do You make us wander from Your ways? You harden our heart from Your fear. For Your servants' sake, return the tribes of Your inheritance248.
63:18 For a little while Your set apart people possessed it. Our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.
63:19 We are of old; You never ruled over them. Your name was never called on them249.
64:1 Oh that You would tear the heavens and come down, that mountains would quake before You.
64:2 As the brushwood fire burns and fire causes water to boil, make known Your name to Your foes, that nations might tremble before You. ( Yer 5:22)
64:3 When You did terrifying things which we did not look for, You came down; mountains flowed down before You. (Ps 68:8, Ex 34:10)
64:4 And from forever they have not heard; they did not give ear. Eye has not seen a Elohim except You, who works for him who waits for Him.
(1Cor 2:9)
64:5 You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness; they recall You in Your ways. Look, You were angry, for we sinned. In them is eternity, we shall be saved.
64:6 But we are all as the unclean thing, and all our righteousness is as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf, and like the wind our iniquities take us away.
64:7 And there is not one who calls on Your name250, who stirs himself up to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have melted us away into the hand of our iniquities.
64:8 But now, Yehovah, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You are our maker; yea, we all are Your handiwork. (Is 29:16)
64:9 Be not angry, Yehovah, until extreme, and do not remember iniquity forever. Look! look, please; all of us are Your people.
64:10 Your set apart cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness; Yerushalayim is a desolation.
64:11 The house of our set-apartness and our beauty where our fathers praised You has become a burning of fire, and all our pleasant things have become a ruin. (2Chron 36:19)
64:12 Will You restrain Yourself over these things, Yehovah? Will you be silent and vehemently afflict us?
65:1 I became manifest to them that asked not for Me. I have been found, not by those who sought Me. To a nation not calling on My name, I said, Look Me! Look Me!251
65:2 I have spread out My hands all the day long to a disobedient and contrary people who walk in the way not good, after their own thoughts; (Ro 10:21)
65:3 a people who continually provoke Me to My face; who sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense on the bricks;
65:4 who sit among the graves and lodge in the towers; who eat swine's flesh, and broth of unclean things in their pots252;
65:5 who say, Keep to yourself! Do not come near me, for I am holier than you! These are a smoke in My nose, a fire burning all the day.
65:6 Look! It is written before Me: I will not be silent, except I repay; yea, I will repay to their bosom,
65:7 your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, says Yehovah; they that burned incense on the mountains, and have blasphemed Me on the hills. And I will return their former work into their bosom253.
65:8 So says Yehovah: As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it; so I will do for the sake of My servants, not to destroy the whole.
65:9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Ya'akov, and out of Yehudah one to inherit My mountains254. And My elect shall inherit, and My servants shall live there.
65:10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks; and the valley of Achor255 a resting place of herds for My people who have sought Me.
65:11 But you are those who forsake Yehovah, who forget My set apart mountain; who array a table for Gawd256 (The Babylonian Deity of fortune), and who fill mixed wine for Meni (The Deity of fate).
65:12 And I will number you to the sword; and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because I called and you did not answer. I spoke, and you did not hear; and you did the evil in My eyes; and you chose that in which I had no pleasure.257
65:13 So Adonai Yehovah says this: Look, My servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry. Look, My servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty. Look, My servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed.
65:14 Look, My servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry from heartbreak, and howl from breaking of ruach.
65:15 And you shall leave your name for a curse to My elect. And Adonai Yehovah shall kill you; and He shall call His servants by another name.
65:16 He who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the Elohim of truth. And he who swears in the earth shall swear by the Elohim of truth; because the former distresses are forgotten; and because they are hidden from My eyes.
65:17 For, look, I create new heavens and new earth. And the former things shall not be recalled, and they shall not go up on the heart.
65:18 However, be glad and rejoice forever in what I create. For, look, I create in Yerushalayim a rejoicing, and her people a joy. (Zech 8:3-6)
65:19 And I will rejoice in Yerushalayim, and joy in My people. And the voice of weeping and the voice of crying shall no longer be heard in her.
65:20 There shall not still be an infant of days, or an old man that has not filled his days. For the youth shall die the son of a hundred years, but the sinner the son of a hundred years shall be accursed.
65:21 And they shall build houses and live in them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
65:22 They shall not build, and another live in them; they shall not plant, and another eat. For like the days of the tree are the days of My people; and My elect shall grow old to the work of their hands.
65:23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for terror. For they are the seed of the beloved ones of Yehovah, and their offspring with them.
65:24 And it will be, before they call, I will answer. While they are speaking, then I will hear.
65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed as one; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And dust is the food of the snake. They shall not do evil nor destroy in all My set apart mountain, says Yehovah258. (Is 11:6)
66:1 So says Yehovah: Heaven is My throne, and earth the footstool of My feet. Where then is the house that you build for Me? And where then is the place of My rest?
66:2 And My hand has made all these things, even all these things exist, declares Yehovah. But I will look toward this one, to the humbled one, and to the contrite of ruach, even trembling at My Word.
66:3 He who slaughters an ox is as if he struck a man; he who sacrifices a lamb is as if he broke a dog's neck; he who offers a present is as if it were swine's blood; he making mention of incense is as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their way, and their soul delights in their abominations259.
66:4 I also will choose their vexations; and I will bring their fears to them; because I called, and no one answered; I spoke, and they did not hear. But they did the evil in My eyes, and chose that in which I had no pleasure.
66:5 Hear the Word of Yehovah, those who tremble at His Word. Your brothers who hate you, who drive you out for My name's sake, have said, Yehovah is glorified. But He shall appear in your joy, and they shall be ashamed260.
66:6 A roaring sound from the city! A sound from the sanctuary! It is the sound of Yehovah repaying retribution to His enemies.
66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before pain came to her, she delivered a male child.
66:8 Who has heard a thing like this? Who has seen things like these? Shall the earth be brought forth in one day? Shall a nation be born in one step? For Zion travailed and also brought forth her sons.
66:9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says Yehovah. Surely I cause birth, and restrain, says your Elohim.
66:10 Rejoice with Yerushalayim, and be glad with her, all who love her. Rejoice a rejoicing with her, all who mourn for her;
66:11 that you may suck and be satisfied with her comforting breasts; that you may milk out and delight yourselves with the fullness of her glory.
66:12 For so says Yehovah: Look, I stretch out shalom to her like a river, and glory of nations like an overflowing torrent. And you shall suck; you shall be carried on the side and be dandled on knees.
66:13 As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. And you shall be comforted in Yerushalayim.
66:14 And you will see, and your heart shall rejoice; and your bones shall flourish like the grass. And the hand of Yehovah shall be known toward His servants, and He shall be indignant with His enemies.
66:15 For, look, Yehovah will come with fire, and His chariots like the whirl-wind, to return His wrath in fury, and His rebuke in flames of fire.
66:16 For by fire and by His sword Yehovah will execute judgment with all flesh; and the slain of Yehovah shall be many.
66:17 Those who sanctify themselves, and purify themselves to the gardens, each one in the midst, eaters of swine's flesh, and the hateful thing, and the mouse, these are cut off together, says Yehovah.
66:18 For I know their works and their thoughts; it comes to gather all the nations and the tongues; and they shall come and see My glory.
66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape from them to the nations of Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, drawers of the bow; to Tubal and Javan, to the far away coasts that have not heard (Aleph/Tav) My fame nor seen (Aleph/Tav) My glory. And they shall declare (Aleph/Tav) My glory among the nations.
66:20 And they shall bring all your brothers out of all nations, an offering to Yehovah, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on camels, to My set apart mountain Yerushalayim, says Yehovah; as the sons of Yisrael bring the offering in a clean vessel to the house of Yehovah.
66:21 And I will also take some of them for the priests, for the Levites, says Yehovah.
66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth which I make stand before Me, declares Yehovah, so your seed and your name shall stand.
66:23 And it will be, from new moon to its new moon, and from Sabbath to its Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before Me, says Yehovah.
66:24 And they shall go out and see the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be put out; and they shall be an object of disgust to all flesh.