10 They hall not hunger nor thirt neither hall the beat nor fun mire them for he that hath mercy on them fhall lead them, even by the fprings of water fhall he guide them. I The Jews forfaken. CHAP. L. Cbrift fhewiththe cause the Jews daretition. Hus faith the Lord, Where is the bill fyour mothers divorcement whom have put away? or which of my creditors it to whom have fold you? Behold, for your iniquities hare you fold your felves, and for your tranfgreffions is your mother put away. And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highwayes thall be exalted. 12 Behold, thele fhall conie from far: and lo, thefe from the north and from the weft, and thefe from the land of Sinim. 13 Sing,O heavens, and be joyfull,O 2 Wherefore when I came, was there no earth, & break forth into finging,Omoun- man? when I called, was there none to an tains;for God hath comforted his people, fwer? Is my hand fhortened at all that it and will have mercie upon his afflicted. cannot redeem? or have I nopower to de14 But Zion faid, The LORD hath for liver? Behold, at my rebuke i dry up the faken me, & my Lord hath forgotten me. fea: I make the rivers a wilderness: their 15 Can a woman forget her fucking fith (tinketh,because there is no water,and child, that the fhould not have compaflion dieth for thirst. on the fon of her wombe? yea, they may forget, yet will not forget thee. 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands, thy walls are continually before me. 17 Thy children fhall make hafte; thy deltroyers, and they that made thee wafte, hail go forth of thee. Liftup thine eyes roundabout, and behold, all thefe ga her themfelves together, and come to thee: as I live, faith the LORD, thon fhalt furely cloath thee with them all, as with an ornament, and binde them on thee as a bride doth. 19 Forthy waste and thy defolate places, and the land of thy deftruation fhall even now be too narrow by reafon of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up fhall befaraway. 20 The children which thou fhalt have, after thou haft loft other, fhall fay again in thine ears, The place is too ftrait for me: give place to me that I niay dwell. 21 Then fhalt thou fay in thine heart, who hath begotten me thefe feeing I have loft my children and am defolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up thefe? Behold, I was left atone, thefe where bad they been? 3. I cloath the heavens with blackness, and I makefackcloath their covering. 4TheLordGod hath given me the tongue. of the learned, that I fhould know how to fpeak a word in feafon to him that is weary:he wake neth morning by morning: he wakeneth mine ear to hear as learned 5. The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 6 I gave my back to the fmiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked on the hair: I hid not my face from thame and fitting. 7 For the Lord Gon will help me, therefore fhall I not be confounded. therefore have Tier my face like a Bint, and I know that I fhall not be afhamed. 8 He is near thar juftifieth me,who wil contend with me? let us ftand tog, ther: who is mine adverfary? let him come near to m. 9 Behold, the Lord God will help me, who is he that fall condemn me? to, they all fhall wax old as a garment: the moth fhall eat them up. To Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the yoyce of his fervant, that walketh in darknefle, and hath no light? let himi truft in the Name of the LORD, and ftay upon his God. II Behold, all ye that kindle a firesthat conpatle your felves about with parks: wal in the light of your fire, and in the parks that ye have kindled. This fhallye have of mine hand, ye hall lie downin 22 Thus faith the Lord God, Behold, I will they fhall not be ashamed that wait for me CHAP. LI. An exhortation after the pattern of Abraham, to trust in Chrift. righteoufnefs, ye that feek the LORD: Earken to me, ye that follow after look unto the rock whence ye are hewen,& to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. 2 Look unto Abraham your father,and untoSarah that bare you; for I called hi alone, and bleffed him, antincreafed him." 3 For the LORD thall comfort Zion;he will comfort all her wafte places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her defert like the garden of the LORD, joy and gladness fall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voyce of melody. 4 Hearken unteme, my people, ant Haiah. Truß in Chriß. Chrifts redemption. give car unto me, O my nation: for a law who fhall be forry for thee: defolation, and is proceed from me, & I will make my deftruction, and the famine, and the Judgement to relt for a light of the people fword; by whom thall I comfort thee? 20 Thy (ons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets as a wilde bull ina net: they are full of the fury of he LORD, the rebuke of thy God. 5 Myrighteoutyeffe is near: my.falvation is gone forth, and mine arm hall judge the people: the ifles fhall wait upon me, and on mine arm fall they truft. 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and 21 Therefore hear now this, thou afJook upon the earth beneath: for the hea- ficted, and drunken, but not with wine. vens fhall vanish away like fmoke, and 22 Thus faith the Lord, the LORD, the earth that wax old like a garmentsand and thy God, that pleadeth the caule of they that dwell therein hall die in like his people, Behold, I have taken out of anner; but my falvation thall be forhe- thine hand the cup of trembling, even the wer, and my rigteoulnes fhall not be dregs of the cup of my fury, thoufhalt no more drink it again. @bolifhed. 7 Hearken unto me ye that know 23But I will put it into the hand of them righteoutnefs, the people in whofe heart that afflict thee: which have laid to thy My law, fear ye not reproach of men, fout, Bowe down, that we may go over Aither beye afraid of their revilings. and thou haft laid thy body as the ground, For the moth thall eat them up like a and as the street to them that went over. garment, and the worm hall eat them like CHAP. LII. wool: but my righteoufnele fhall be for 1 Chrift perfuadeth the church to beleeve his ever, and my falvation from generation free redemption. quake, awake, put on ftrength, O to generation. Wake, awake, put on thy ftrength,O Azione on thy beautiful garments, arm of the Lord: awake as in the ancient Jerufalem the holy city: forhenceforth layes, in the generation ofold. Art thou there fhall no more conie into thee the notic that hath cut Rahab, and wounded uncircumcifed, and the unclean. the dragon? 2 Shake thy felf from the duft: arife, ou not it which hath dried the and fit down, Jerufalem: loofe thy felf aters of the great deep,that hath from the bands of thy neck, O captive. depths of the fea a way for the daughter of Zion. 10. 1. umed to pafs over? 3 For thus faith the LORD, Ye have fold Therefore the redeemed of the LORD your felves for nought: and ye fhall be refhall return, and come with finging unto deemed without money. Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon 4 For thus faith the Lord GOD, My their head: they fhall obtain gladnefs and people went down a fore time into Egypt joy, and forrow and mourning hall flee to fojourn there, and the Affyrian opprelaway. fed them without caufe. 12 I, even I am he that comforteth you: 5 Now therefore, what have I here,faith who art thou,that thou fhouldeft be afraid the LORD, that my people is taken away of a man that fhall die, and of the fon of for nought? they rule over them, make man, which fhall be made as grafs? them to howl, faith the LORD,& myName 13 And forgetteft the LORD thyMaker, continually every day is blafphemned. that hath itretched forth the heavens, and 6 Therefore my people fhall know my laid the foundations of the earth? and haft Name: therefore they shall know iny day feared continually every day, because of that I am he that doth peak, behold,it is. the fruit of the oppreffour, as if he were 7 How beautiful upon the mountains t ready to destroy, and where is the fury of are the feet of him that bringeth good ti the oppreffour? dings, publifheth peace, bringeth good 14. The captive exile hafteneth that he tidings of good,that publifheth falvation, may be loofed, and that he fhould not die that faith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! in the pit, nor that his bread fhould fail. 8 Thy watchnien fhall lift up,the voice 1 But I am the LORD thy God, that di- with the voice together fhall they fing: vided the fea, whofe waves roared: the for they fhall fee eye to eye, when the LORD ofhofts is his Name. LORD hall bring again Zion. 16And I have put my words in thy mouth, 9 Break forth into joy, fing together and have covered thee in the fhadow of ye wafte places of Jerufalem: for the thine hand, that I may plant the heavens, LORD hath comforted his people, he hath and lay the foundations of the earth, and redeemed Jerufalem. Lay unto Zion, Thou art my people. to The LORD hath made hare his holy 17 Awake, awake, ftand up, Oje- arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all rufalem, which haft drunk at the hand of the ends of the earth fhall fee the falvation the LORD the cup of his fury, thou hast of our God. drunken the dregs of the cup of trem- 11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out bling and wrung them out. 18 There is none to guide her among all y fous whom the hath brought forth: neither is there any taketh her by the hand, fall the fons that he hath brought up. 30 These twothings are come unto thee; from thence, touch no unclean thing, go ye out of the midft ofher; be ye clean, that bear the veffels of the LORD. 12For ye fhall not go out with hafte,nor you, and God of Ifrael will be your reward. go by fight: forthe LORD will go before The churches Safety: Chep. liii.liv. 13. Behold my fervant fhall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. 4 As many were aftonied at thee;(his vifage was to marred more them any man, and his form more then the fons of men.) 15 Sofhalt he fprinkle many nations, the kings thall fhut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them, hall they fees and that which they had not heard, thall they confider. CHAP. LIII. 1 The Prophet excufeth the fcandall of the croffe 4 By the benefit of bis taẞion. What and Ho hath beleeved our report? and revcated? 2 For he fhall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form not comelines and when we fall tee him, there is no beauty that we fhould delire him. 3 He is defpiled and rejected of men, a man of forrows,& acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was defpifed, & we efteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath born our griefs,and carried our forrows: yet we did efteem him ftricken,fmitten of God, and afflicted. Chrifs paffion Sing, O barren, thou thar did it not bear, Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let 3. For thou falt break forth on the right hand, and on the left ; and thy feed fhall inherit the Gentiles, and make the defolate cities to be inhabited. 4 Fear not, for thou shalt not be afha thou shalt not be put to fhame, for thou med, neither be thou confounded, for fhait forget the fhame of thy youth, and halt not remember the reproach ofthy widow-hood anymore. 5 Forthy maker is thine husband;(tho LORD ofholts is his Name;) and thy re deemer the holy One of Ifrael, the God of the whole earth fhall he be called. 6 For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forfaken and grieved in fpirit, and a wife of youth, when thou was refu fed, faith thy God. 7 Fora fmali toment have I forfaken thee,but with great mercies will I gather thee. 5 But he was wounded for our tranfgreffions, he was bruited for our iniqui- 8 In a little wrath I hid my face from ties chaftifenient of our peace was upon thee, for a moment; but with everlasting him, and with his ftripes we are healed. kindneffe will have mercy on thee,laith 6 All we like fheep have gone aitray: the LORD thy Redeemer. we have turned every one to his own way, and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppreffed, and he was aflited, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the flaughter, and as a fheep before her fhearer is dunib, fo he opened not his mouth. 9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have fworn that the waters ofNoah fhould no more go over the earth; fobave i fworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. 10 For the mountains thall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness fhall not depart from thee, neither fhall 8 He was taken from prifon and from the covenant of my peace be removed, judgement: and who fhall declare his ge- faith the LORD, that hath mercy on thee. neration? for he was cut off out of the land of the living for the tranfgreffion of my people was he stricken, 9 And he made his grave with the wicked,and with the rich in his death,becaufe he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yetit pleafed the LORD to bruife him, he hath put bim to grief: when thou fhalt make his foul an offering for fin, he fhall fee bis feed, he fhall prolong bis days, and the pleasure of the LORD ihall profper in his hand. II Hefhall fee of the travel ofhis foul, and fhall be fatisfied: by his knowledge thall my righteous fervant juftifie many; for he fhall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he fhail divide the fpoil with the ftrong, because he hath poured out his foul unto death; and he was numbred with the tranfgreffours, and he bare the fin of many, & made intercefGon for the tranfgreffours. CHAP. LIV. 1 The amplitude of the Gentiles church, 4 The Cafety and deliverance from affi Oh thou afflicted, toffed with tempeft,and not comforted, Behold, I will lay thy ftones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with faphires.. 12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleafant ftones, 13 And all thy children fhall be taught of the LORD, and great shall be the peace of thy children, 14 Inrighteoufnefshalt thou be esba, blifhed: thou thalt be far from oppra fion, for thoufhalt not fear: and from terrour, for it fhall not come near thee. 15Behold, they shall furely gather together, but not by me: whofoever fhall gather together against thee,fhall fall for thy fake. 16 Behold, I have created the fmith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that.. bringeth forth aninftrument for his work and have created the wafter to destroy. 17 No weapon that is farmed again thee, fhall profpers and every tongue that fhall rife against thee in judgement, thott fhalt condemn. This is the heritage of the fervants of the LORD, and their righ teeuefs is ofme, faith the LORD. 1 CHAP. LV. Chrifts wifitation. Ifaiah. Blind Prophen 1 The Propbet with th promises of Cbrift, that hath joyned himself to the LORD, 3 Neither let the fon of the ftranget, calletbto faite, 6 and to repentance. 8 The speak, faying, The LORD hath utterly bappy Success of them that beleve. feparated me from his people: neither let Hevery one that thirfteth, come ye to the eunuch fay, Behold, I am a dry tree. thewaters, and he that hath no money, come ye,buy and eat, yea, come, buy eunchs that keep my fabbaths, and chofe 4 For thus faith the LORD unto the wine and milk without money,and with- the things that pleafe me, and take hold out price. of my covenant: 2 Wherefore do ye fpend money for y, 5 Even unto them will I give in mine which is not bread? and your labour for houfe, and within my walls, a place and which fatisfieth not? bearken diligently a name better then of fons and of daughunto me, and eat ye that which is good, ters: 1 will give them an everlasting and let your foul delight it feifin fatnefs.name, that thall not be cut off. Encline your ear and come unto me: hear and your foul fall live, and I will joyn themselves to the Lord,to ferve him, 6 Alfo the fons of the ftranger that make an everlasting covenant with you, and to love the name of the Lord, to he even the fure mercies of David. his fervants every one that keepeth the 4 Behold, I have given him for a wit- fabbath from polluting it,and taketh hold nels to the people, a leader, and com- of my covenant. mander to the people. 5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that mountain, and make them joyfull in my 7 Even them will I bring to my holy thou knoweft not, and nations that knew houfe of prayer: their burnt-offerings, & not thee fhati run unto thee, becaule of their facrifices ball be accepted upon the LORD thy God, and forthe holy One mine alar, for mine boute flail be called of Ifrael, for he hath glorified thee. au houfe of prayer for all people. 6 Seek yethe LORD while he may be 8The Lord GOD, which gathereth the found, call ye upon him while he is near, out-calts of Ifrael, faith, Yet will I ga 7 Let the wicked forfake his way, and ther others to him, betides thofe that are the unrighteous man his thoughts; and gathered unto him. let him return unto the LORD,and he will 9 ¶ All ye beafts of the field comete have mercie upon him, and to our God, devoure, yea all ye beafts in the forrest. for he will abundantly pardor. 10 His watchmen are blinde, they are 8 For my thoughts are not your all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs,they thoughts, neither are your wayes my cannot bark; fleeping, lying down, lowayes, faith the LORD. ving to lumber For as the heavens are higher then the Yea, they are greedy dogs which earth, foare my wayes higher then your can never have enough, and they are thepwayes,& my thoughts then your thoughts herds that cannot understand: they all to Foras the rain cometh down, and look to their own way, every one for his the fnow from heaven, and returneth not gain, from his quarter. thither, but watereth earth, and maketh it to bring forth and bud, that it may give and we will fill our felves with ftrong 12 Comeye, Jay they, I will fetch wine, feed to the fower, and bread to the eater: drink, and to morrow fhall be as this day, Sofhall my word be that goeth forth and much more abundant. out of my mouth: it fhall not return unto me void,but it thal accomplish that which T-leafe, and it fhail profper in the thing whereuroIfent it. CHAP. LVII. layeth it to heart: and mercifull men 12 Foryefhall go out with joy, and be are taken away, none confidering that the led forth with peace, the mountains and righteous is taken away from the evillto the hills fall break forth before you into come. finging, and all the trees of the field fhall clap their hands. 13 luftead of the thorn fhall come up the fir-tree, and in lead of the briet fhall fhall come up the mirtle tree, and it fhall be to the LORD fora name, foran everlafting Gigne that fhall not be cut off. CHAP. LVI. The Prophet exhorteth to fandlification. T Husfaith the Lord, Keep ye judge ment, and do justice: for my falvation near to come, and my righteoufnes to be revealed. 2 Bleed is the man that doth this, and the fon of man that layeth hold on it: that keepeth the fabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any 2 He fhall enter into peace: they fhall reft in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. forcerers, the feed of the adulterer and the 3But draw near hither, yefons of the whore. 4 Against whom do ye fport your felves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and of tranfgreflion, a feed of falfhood? draw out the tongue? are ye hot children Enfaming your felves with idols under every green treee, flaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? is thy portion, they, they are thy lot: even 6Among the fmooth tones of the stream to them haft thou poured a drink-offering, thou haft offered a meat-offering. Should 1 receive comfort in thefe? 7 Upon a lefty and high mountain Chap. lviii. lix. The Jews retroved. Hypocrifie retrowed. haft thou let thy bed: even thither wen-licted cur foul, and thou takeft no know teit thou up to offer facrifice. ledge? Behold, in the day of your faft you 8 Behind the doors alfo and the pofts haft finde pleature, and exact all your labours. thou fet up thy remembrance, for thou 4 Behold, ye falt for ftrife and debate, halt difcovered thy felf to another then me, and to fmite with the fift of wicknelle; ye and art gone up: thou haft enlarged thy fhall.not faft as ye do this day, to make bed, and made a covenant with them, thou your voyce to be heard on high. lovedit their bed where thou fawelt it. 5 Is it fuch a faft that I have chofen? a 9 And thou wenteft to the king with day for a man to affict his foul is it to ointment, and didit increate thy perfu-bow down his head as a bull-rufh, and to mes,and didit fend thy metfengers far off, fpread fackcloth and afhes under him? and didit debate thy felf even unto hell. wilt thou call this a faft, and an accepta10 Thou art weared in the greatnefsble day to the Lord? of thy way, yet faidit thou not, There is 6 Is not this the fast that I have chofen? no hope: thou haft found the life of thineto loofe the bands of wickedness, to undo aand; therefore thou waft not grieved. the heavy burdens, and to let the oppref And of whom hait thou been afraid fed go free, and that ye break every yoke. or feared, that thou haft lied and halt not 7 Is it no to deal thy bread to the hunremembred me, nor laid it to thine heart?grie, & that thou bring the poore that are have not I held my peace even of old, and caft out,to thy houfe; when thou feeft the thou feareft me not? naked, that thou cover him, and that thou 12 I willdeclare thy righteoufnefs, andhide not thy felf from thine own flesh? thy works, for they thall not profit thee, 8 Then thall thy light break forth as 13When thou crieft, let thy companiesthe morning, and thine health fhall fpring deliver thee: but y winde fhall carry them forth fpeedily and thy righteoufnels all away, vanity fhall take them: but hefhall go before thee, the glory of the that putteth his truft in me,fhall poffeffey LORD fhall be thy rereward. land, &fhall inherit my holy mountain: 9 Thenthalt thou all, and the LORD 14 And fhall fay, Caft ye up, caft ye up, fhallanfwer; thou shall cry, and he fhall drepare the way, take up the ftumbling fay, Here I am: if thou take away from block out of the way of my people. the midst of thee the yoke, the putting 15 For thus faith the high and loftyOneforth of the finger; and fpeaking vanitis: inhabitetheternity, whofe Name is Ho- to And if thou draw out thy foul to the ly, I dwell in the high and holy place, withhungry, and fatisfie the afflicted foul; him alfo that is of a contrite and humble then hall thy light rife in obfcuritie, and fpirit to revive the ipirit of the humble,thy darkness be as the noon-day. & to revive the heart of the contrite ones. And the LORD fhall guide thee con16 For I will not contend for ever,tinually, and (atisfiethy foul in droughts neither will I be alwayes wroth: for the and make fat thy bones; and thou shalt be fpirit fhould fail before me, and the fouls like a watered garden, and like a fpring ebich I have made. of water, whofe waters fail not. 17 For the iniquitie of his covetouf- 12 And thy that shall be of thee, fhall neue was I wroth, and (mote him: I hid build the old wafte places: thoufhalt raffe me, and was wroth, and he went on fro-up the foundations of many generations, wardly in the way of his heart. & thoufhalt be called, The repairer of the 18 I have feen his ways, and will heal breach, the reftorer of paths to dwellin him:I will lead him alfo, & reftore com- 131fthou turn away thy foot from the forts unto him, and to his mourners. fabbath, from doing thy pleafure on my 19 I create the fruit of the lips peace, holy day, and call the fabbath a delight peace to him that is faroff, & to him that the holy ofthe LORD, honourable, and is near, faith the Lord, & 1 will heal him. thalt honour him, not doing thine own 20 But the wicked are like the trou-wayes, nor finding thine own pleafure, bled fea, when it cannot reft, whofe wa-nor fpeaking thine own words: ters caft up mire and dirt. 14 Thenthalt thou delight thy felfin 21 There is no peace, faith my God, to the Lord, and I will caufe thee to ride apthe wicked. on the high places of the earth, and feed. thee with the heritage of Jacob thy fathers for the mouth of the LORD hath fpoken is CHA P. LVITI. 1 Hyprorifie is reproved. 8 The promises due to godlinelle. CRy aloud, (pare not, lift up thy voyce like a trumpet, and fhew my people their tranfgreffion, and the house of Jacob their fin:. CHAP. LIX. The damnable nature of fin. 9 Calemity is for fin. Ehold the LORDS hand is not short. Bed, that it cannot fave: neither his 2 Yet they feel me daily, and delight ear heavie, that it cannot hear. to know my wayes, as a nation that did 2 But your iniquities have feparared righteoufnels, and forfook not the ordi- between you and your God, and your fins nance of their God: they ask of me the have hid bis face from you, that he will Ordinances ofjuftice: they take delight not hear. in approaching to God, 3 Foryour hands are defiled with blood. Where fore have we fafted fay they, and your fingers with iniquitie, your lips and you feeft not? wherifere have we af-have fpoken lies, your tongue rhir tered perverfhefs. |