23:1: The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
23:2: Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
23:3: On great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the market of nations.
23:4: Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.
23:5: When the report comes to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
23:6: Pass over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coast.
23:7: Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?
23:8: Who has purposed this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
23:9: Yahweh of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
23:10: Pass through your land as the Nile, daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.
23:11: He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he has shaken the kingdoms: Yahweh has given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds of it.
23:12: He said, You shall no more rejoice, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shall you have no rest.
23:13: Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces of it; they made it a ruin.
23:14: Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.
23:15: It shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it shall be to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute.
23:16: Take a harp, go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.
23:17: It shall happen after the end of seventy years, that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.
23:18: Her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to Yahweh: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

24:1: Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.
24:2: It shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
24:3: The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
24:4: The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.
24:5: The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants of it; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
24:6: Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
24:7: The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
24:8: The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.
24:9: They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.
24:10: The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
24:11: There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
24:12: In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
24:13: For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
24:14: These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Yahweh they cry aloud from the sea.
24:15: Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea!
24:16: From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
24:17: Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, O inhabitant of the earth.
24:18: It shall happen, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
24:19: The earth is utterly broken, the earth is torn apart, the earth is shaken violently.
24:20: The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.
24:21: It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
24:22: They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
24:23: Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.

25:1: Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.
25:2: For you have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
25:3: Therefore shall a strong people glorify you; a city of awesome nations shall fear you.
25:4: For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the awesome ones is as a storm against the wall.
25:5: As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the awesome ones shall be brought low.
25:6: In this mountain will Yahweh of Hosts make to all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
25:7: He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
25:8: He has swallowed up death forever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it.
25:9: It shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Yahweh; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
25:10: For in this mountain will the hand of Yahweh rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill.
25:11: He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of it, as he who swims spreads forth [his hands] to swim; but [Yahweh] will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.
25:12: The high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

26:1: In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
26:2: Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.
26:3: You will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on you]; because he trusts in you.
26:4: Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.
26:5: For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city: he lays it low, he lays it low even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.
26:6: The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
26:7: The way of the just is uprightness: you that are upright do direct the path of the just.
26:8: Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.
26:9: With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
26:10: Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not see the majesty of Yahweh.
26:11: Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see: but they shall see [your] zeal for the people, and be disappointed; yes, fire shall devour your adversaries.
26:12: Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us; for you have also worked all our works for us.
26:13: Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only will we make mention of your name.
26:14: [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.
26:15: You have increased the nation, O Yahweh, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
26:16: Yahweh, in trouble have they visited you; they poured out a prayer [when] your chastening was on them.
26:17: Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.
26:18: We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
26:19: Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
26:20: Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation be past.
26:21: For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

27:1: In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.
27:2: In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing you to it.
27:3: I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
27:4: Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march on them, I would burn them together.
27:5: Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; [yes], let him make peace with me.
27:6: In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the surface of the world with fruit.
27:7: Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by them?
27:8: In measure, when you send them away, you do contend with them; he has removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
27:9: Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
27:10: For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches of it.
27:11: When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
27:12: It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of the River to the brook of Egypt; and you shall be gathered one by one, you children of Israel.
27:13: It shall happen in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

28:1: Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine!
28:2: Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.
28:3: The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot:
28:4: and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he who looks on it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
28:5: In that day will Yahweh of Hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people;
28:6: and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
28:7: Even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
28:8: For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].
28:9: Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
28:10: For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
28:11: No, but by [men of] strange lips and with another language will he speak to this people;
28:12: to whom he said, This is the rest, give you rest to him who is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
28:13: Therefore shall the word of Yahweh be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
28:14: Why hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem:
28:15: Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
28:16: therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -[stone] of sure foundation: he who believes shall not be in haste.
28:17: I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
28:18: Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
28:19: As often as it passes though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nothing but terror to understand the message.
28:20: For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
28:21: For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim, he will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
28:22: Now therefore don't you be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, on the whole earth.
28:23: Give you ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.
28:24: Does he who plows to sow plow continually? does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?
28:25: When he has leveled the surface of it, doesn't he cast abroad the dill, and scatter the cumin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border of it?
28:26: For his God does instruct him aright, [and] does teach him.
28:27: For the dill are not threshed with a sharp [threshing] instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about on the cumin; but the dill are beaten out with a staff, and the cumin with a rod.
28:28: Bread [grain] is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he does not grind it.
28:29: This also comes forth from Yahweh of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

29:1: Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add you year to year; let the feasts come round:
29:2: then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be to me as Ariel.
29:3: I will encamp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against you.
29:4: You shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust; and your voice shall be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
29:5: But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the awesome ones as chaff that passes away: yes, it shall be in an instant suddenly.
29:6: She shall be visited of Yahweh of Hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
29:7: The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.
29:8: It shall be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against Mount Zion.
29:9: Stay you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
29:10: For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, has he covered.
29:11: All vision is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I can't, for it is sealed:
29:12: and the book is delivered to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I am not learned.
29:13: The Lord said, Because this people draw near [to me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught [them];
29:14: therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
29:15: Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
29:16: You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him who made it, He didn't make me; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?
29:17: Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
29:18: In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
29:19: The humble also shall increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
29:20: For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who watch for iniquity are cut off;
29:21: that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.
29:22: Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
29:23: But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name; yes, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel.
29:24: They also who err in spirit shall come to understanding, and those who murmur shall receive instruction.

30:1: Woe to the rebellious children, says Yahweh, who take counsel, but not of me; and who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
30:2: that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
30:3: Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
30:4: For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
30:5: They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
30:6: The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them].
30:7: For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.
30:8: Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
30:9: For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;
30:10: who tell the seers, "Don't see;" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,
30:11: get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."
30:12: Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon;
30:13: therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
30:14: He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a broken piece with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
30:15: For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. You would not:
30:16: but you said, No, for we will flee on horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride on the swift; therefore shall those who pursue you be swift.
30:17: One thousand [shall flee] at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall you flee: until you be left as a beacon on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.
30:18: Therefore will Yahweh wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy on you: for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
30:19: For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more; he will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear, he will answer you.
30:20: Though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be hidden anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers;
30:21: and your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it; when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.
30:22: You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as an unclean thing; you shall tell it, Get you hence.
30:23: He will give the rain for your seed, with which you shall sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures;
30:24: the oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
30:25: There shall be on every lofty mountain, and on every high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
30:26: Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
30:27: Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire;
30:28: and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causes to err [shall be] in the jaws of the peoples.
30:29: You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come to the mountain of Yahweh, to the Rock of Israel.
30:30: Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.
30:31: For through the voice of Yahweh shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his rod will he strike [him].
30:32: Every stroke of the appointed staff, which Yahweh shall lay on him, shall be with [the sound of] tambourines and harps; and in battles with the brandishing [of his arm] will he fight with them.
30:33: For a Topheth is prepared of old; yes, for the king it is made ready; he has made it deep and large; the pile of it is fire and much wood; the breath of Yahweh, like a stream of sulfur, does kindle it.

31:1: Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Yahweh!
31:2: Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.
31:3: Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Yahweh shall stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
31:4: For thus says Yahweh to me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds are called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Yahweh of Hosts come down to fight on Mount Zion, and on the hill of it.
31:5: As birds hovering, so will Yahweh of Hosts protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver [it], he will pass over and preserve [it].
31:6: Turn you to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
31:7: For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.
31:8: The Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to forced labor.
31:9: His rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

32:1: Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.
32:2: A man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
32:3: The eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.
32:4: The heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
32:5: The fool shall be no more called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
32:6: For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
32:7: The instruments of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
32:8: But the noble devises noble things; and in noble things shall he continue.
32:9: Rise up, you women who are at ease, [and] hear my voice; you careless daughters, give ear to my speech.
32:10: For days beyond a year shall you be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the harvest shall not come.
32:11: Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves, and make yourselves naked, and gird [sackcloth] on your loins.
32:12: They shall strike on the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
32:13: On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
32:14: For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
32:15: until the Spirit be poured on us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.
32:16: Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.
32:17: The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
32:18: My people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
32:19: But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.
32:20: Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey.

33:1: Woe to you who destroy, and you weren't destroyed; and deal treacherously, and they didn't deal treacherously with you! When you have ceased to destroy, you shall be destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with you.
33:2: Yahweh, be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
33:3: At the noise of the thunder the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of yourself the nations are scattered.
33:4: Your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers: as locusts leap shall men leap on it.
33:5: Yahweh is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
33:6: There shall be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
33:7: Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
33:8: The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: [the enemy] has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he doesn't regard man.
33:9: The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves].
33:10: Now will I arise, says Yahweh; now will I lift up myself; now will I be exalted.
33:11: You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.
33:12: The peoples shall be as the burning of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.
33:13: Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.
33:14: The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burning?
33:15: He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil:
33:16: He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.
33:17: Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall see a land that reaches afar.
33:18: Your heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed [the tribute]? where is he who counted the towers?
33:19: You shall not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can not comprehend, of a strange language that you can not understand.
33:20: Look on Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the cords of it be broken.
33:21: But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
33:22: For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will save us.
33:23: Your rigging is untied; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.
33:24: The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people who dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

34:1: Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you peoples: let the earth hear, and the fullness of it; the world, and all things that come forth from it.
34:2: For Yahweh has indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.
34:3: Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
34:4: All the host of the sky shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fades from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the fig tree.
34:5: For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky: behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, to judgment.
34:6: The sword of Yahweh 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 Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
34:7: The wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bulls with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
34:8: For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
34:9: The streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust of it into sulfur, and the land of it shall become burning pitch.
34:10: It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
34:11: But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
34:12: They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
34:13: Thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
34:14: The wild animals of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yes, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
34:15: There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yes, there shall the kites be gathered, everyone with her mate.
34:16: Seek you out of the book of Yahweh, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it has commanded, and his Spirit, it has gathered them.
34:17: He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line: they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

35:1: The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
35:2: It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of Yahweh, the excellency of our God.
35:3: Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
35:4: Tell those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, don't be afraid: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God; he will come and save you.
35:5: Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
35:6: Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the mute shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
35:7: The glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
35:8: A highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but is shall be for for him who walks in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
35:9: No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous animal go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]:
35:10: and the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

36:1: Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
36:2: The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a great army. He stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
36:3: Then came forth to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.
36:4: Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which you trust?
36:5: I say, [your] counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
36:6: Behold, you trust on the staff of this bruised reed, even on Egypt, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.
36:7: But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God: isn't that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?
36:8: Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
36:9: How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
36:10: Am I now come up without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
36:11: Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Please speak, to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and don't speak to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people who are on the wall.
36:12: But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? [has he] not [sent me] to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?
36:13: Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear you the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
36:14: Thus says the king, Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you:
36:15: neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
36:16: Don't listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and drink you everyone the waters of his own cistern;
36:17: until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
36:18: Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
36:19: Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
36:20: Who are they among all the gods of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
36:21: But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Don't answer him.
36:22: Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

37:1: It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh.
37:2: He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
37:3: They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.
37:4: It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.
37:5: So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
37:6: Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you tell your master, Thus says Yahweh, Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
37:7: Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear news, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
37:8: So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
37:9: He heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come out to fight against you. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
37:10: Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
37:11: Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered?
37:12: Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
37:13: Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
37:14: Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh.
37:15: Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,
37:16: Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, who sits [above] the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
37:17: Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.
37:18: Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,
37:19: and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
37:20: Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.
37:21: Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
37:22: this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
37:23: Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
37:24: By your servants have you defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;
37:25: I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
37:26: Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be your to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
37:27: Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it is grown up.
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 because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
37:30: This shall be the sign to you: you shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of it.
37:31: The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
37:32: For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts will perform this.
37:33: Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
37:34: By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh.
37:35: For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
37:36: The angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
37:37: So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
37:38: It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

38:1: In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.
38:2: Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh,
38:3: and said, Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.
38:4: Then came the word of Yahweh to Isaiah, saying,
38:5: Go, and tell Hezekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.
38:6: I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.
38:7: This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken:
38:8: behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.
38:9: The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
38:10: I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
38:11: I said, I shall not see Yah, Yah in the land of the living: I shall see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
38:12: My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night will you make an end of me.
38:13: I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me.
38:14: Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.
38:15: What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
38:16: Lord, by these things men live; Wholly therein is the life of my spirit: You restore me, and cause me to live.
38:17: Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness: But you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For you have cast all my sins behind your back.
38:18: For Sheol can't praise you, death can't celebrate you: Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.
38:19: The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known your truth.
38:20: Yahweh is [ready] to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.
38:21: Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster on the boil, and he shall recover.
38:22: Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh?

39:1: At that time Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
39:2: Hezekiah was glad of them, and shown them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.
39:3: Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to you? Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country to me, even from Babylon.
39:4: Then said he, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.
39:5: Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh of Hosts:
39:6: Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh.
39:7: Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
39:8: Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which you have spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

40:1: Comfort you, comfort you my people, says your God.
40:2: Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry to her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh's hand double for all her sins.
40:3: The voice of one who cries, Prepare you in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make level in the desert a highway for our God.
40:4: Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:
40:5: and the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
40:6: The voice of one saying, Cry. One said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of it is as the flower of the field.
40:7: The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass.
40:8: The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever.
40:9: You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain; you who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, don't be afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!
40:10: Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
40:11: He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those who have their young.
40:12: Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the sky with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
40:13: Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or being his counselor has taught him?
40:14: With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shown to him the way of understanding?
40:15: Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.
40:16: Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the animals of it sufficient for a burnt offering.
40:17: All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
40:18: To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him?
40:19: The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
40:20: He who is too impoverished for [such] an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved image, that shall not be moved.
40:21: Have you not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
40:22: [It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;
40:23: who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
40:24: Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
40:25: To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One.
40:26: Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
40:27: Why say you, Jacob, and speak, Israel, My way is hid from Yahweh, and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?
40:28: Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.
40:29: He gives power to the faint; and to him who has no might he increases strength.
40:30: Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
40:31: but those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

41:1: Keep silence before me, islands; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment.
41:2: Who has raised up one from the east, whom he calls in righteousness to his foot? he gives nations before him, and makes him rule over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.
41:3: He pursues them, and passes on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.
41:4: Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.
41:5: The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they draw near, and come.
41:6: They help everyone his neighbor; and [every one] says to his brother, Be of good courage.
41:7: So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, [and] he who smoothes with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fastens it with nails, that is should not be moved.
41:8: But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,
41:9: you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from the corners of it, and said to you, You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;
41:10: Don't you be afraid, for I am with you; don't be dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
41:11: Behold, all those who are incensed against you shall be disappointed and confounded: those who strive with you shall be as nothing, and shall perish.
41:12: You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even those who contend with you: those who war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nothing.
41:13: For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, Don't be afraid; I will help you.
41:14: Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says Yahweh, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
41:15: Behold, I have made you [to be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.
41:16: You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and you shall rejoice in Yahweh, you shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
41:17: The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst; I, Yahweh, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
41:18: I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
41:19: I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together:
41:20: that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
41:21: Produce your cause, says Yahweh; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.
41:22: Let them bring forth, and declare to us what shall happen: declare you the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
41:23: Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.
41:24: Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.
41:25: I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun one who calls on my name: and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
41:26: Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, [He is] right? yes, there is none who declares, yes, there is none who shows, yes, there is none who hears your words.
41:27: [I am the] first [who says] to Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good news.
41:28: When I look, there is no man: even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
41:29: Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nothing; their molten images are wind and confusion.

42:1: Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
42:2: He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.
42:3: A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth.
42:4: He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.
42:5: Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk therein:
42:6: I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
42:7: to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison-house.
42:8: I am Yahweh, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to engraved images.
42:9: Behold, the former things have happened, and new things do I declare. Before they spring forth I tell you of them.
42:10: Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants of it.
42:11: Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar does inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
42:12: Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.
42:13: Yahweh will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up [his] zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yes, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies.
42:14: I have long time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: [now] will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.
42:15: I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
42:16: I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know; in paths that they don't know will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
42:17: They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly disappointed, who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods.
42:18: Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may 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 peace, and blind as Yahweh's servant?
42:20: You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't hear.
42:21: It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
42:22: But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.
42:23: Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will listen and hear for the time to come?
42:24: Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Didn't Yahweh? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient to his law.
42:25: Therefore he poured on him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he didn't know; and it burned him, yet he didn't lay it to heart.