which springeth of the fame : | and returned, and dwelt at and in the third year fow ye, Nineveh. and reap, and plant vine yards, and eat the fruit there of. 38 And it came to pass as he was worshipping in the houfe of Nifroch his god, 31 And the remnant that that Adrammelech and Shais efcaped of the houfe of Ju-rezer his fons fmote him with dah fhall again take root the sword; and they escaped downward, and bear fruit up-into the land of Armenia: ward. and Efar-haddon his fon CHAP. XXXVIII. IN 32 For out of Jerufalem reigned in his ftead. fhall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the N thofe days was HezeLord of hofts fhall do this. kiah fick unto death: and 33 Therefore thus faith Ifaiah the prophet the son of the Lord concerning the king Amoz came unto him, and of Affyria, He shall not come faid unto him, Thus faith into this city, nor fhoot an the Lord, Set thine house in arrow there, nor come be-order: for thou fhalt die, fore it with shields, nor caft and not live. a bank against it. 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, 34 By the way that he came, by the fame fhall he return, and fhall not come into this city, faith the Lord. 35 For I will defend this city to fave it, for mine own fake, and for my servant Da-perfect heart, and have done vid's fake. 36 Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and fmote in the camp of the Affyrians a hundred and fourfcore and five thoufand: and when they arofe early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpfes. 37 So Sennacherib king of Affyria departed, and went, 3 And faid, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a that which is good in thy fight: and Hezekiah wept fore. 4 Then came the word of the Lord to Ifaiah, faying, 5 Go, and fay to Hezekiah, Thus faith the Lord the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years, 6 And I will deliver thee, and this city, out of the hand of the king of Affyria: and I will defend this city. 7 And this fhall be a fign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken: 8 Behold, I will bring again the fhadow of the degrees which is gone down in the fun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward. So the fun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been fick, and was recovered of his fickness: 10 I faid, in the cutting off of my days, I fhall go to the gates of the prived of the refidue of my years. break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 14 Like a crane or a swallow, fo did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am opprefled, undertake for me. 15 What shall I fay? he hath both fpoken unto me, | and himself hath done it: Į fhall go foftly all my years in the bitterness of my foul. 16 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my fpirit: fo wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou haft in love to my foul de grave: I am delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast caft all my fins behind thy back. III faid, I fhall not fee the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I fhall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a fhepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining fickness from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 13 I reckoned till morning, that as a lion, fo will he 18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. 19 The living, the living, he fhall praife thee as I do this day: the father to the children fhall make known thy truth. 20 The Lord was ready to fave me therefore we will fing my fongs to the stringed inftruments, all the days of our life, in the house of the Ff3 Lord, Lord. 21 For Ifaiah had faid, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he fhall recover. 22 Hezekiah also had faid, What is the fign that I fhall go up to the house of the Lord? CHAP. XLI. KED EEP filence before O iflands, and let the people renew their ftrength: let them come near, then let them fpeak: let us come near together to judgment. his neighbour, and every one faid to his brother, Be of good courage. 7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldfmith; and he that smoothed with the hammer, him that fimote the anvil, faying, It is ready for the fodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. 8 But thou, Ifrael, art my fervant, Jacob whom I have chofen, the feed of Abraham my friend. 9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from 2 Who raised up the righ-the chief men thereof, and teous man from the eaft, cal- faid unto thee, Thou art my led him to his foot, gave the fervant, I have chofen thee, nations before him, and made and not caft thee away. him rule over kings? he gave them as the duft to his fword, and as driven ftubble to his bow. 3 He purfued them, and paffed fafely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet. 4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord the firft, and with the laft, I am he 5 The ifles faw it and feared, the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and Came. 6 They helped every one 10 Fear thou not, for I am with thee: be not difmayed, for I am thy God: I will ftrengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. 11 Behold, all they that were incenfed against thee, fhall be ashamed and confounded: they fhall be as nothing, and they that ftrive with thee, fhall perish. 12 Thou fhalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee fhall be as nothing, and as as a thing of nought. 13 For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, faying unto thee, Fear not, I will help thee. 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Ifrael: I will help thee, faith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the holy One of Ifrael. 15 Behold, I will make thee a new fharp threshinginftrument, having teeth: thou fhalt thresh the mountains, and beat them fmall, and fhalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou fhalt fan them, and the wind fhall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou fhalt rejoice in the Lord; and fhalt glory in the holy One of Ifrael. 17 When the poor and needy feek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Ifrael will not forfake them. 18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land fprings of water, 19 I will plant in the wildernefs the cedar, the fhittah-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree: I will fet in the defert the fir-tree, and the pine, and the box-tree together: 20 That they may fee, and know, and confider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done. this, and the holy One of Ifrael hath created it. 21 ¶ Produce your cause, faith the Lord; bring forth your ftrong reafons, faith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth, and fhew us what fhall happen: let them shew the former things what they be, that we may confider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be difmayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. 25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the fun fhall he call upon my name, and he shall come up-on princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. 26 Who hath declared Ff4 from from the beginning, that we | God, the holy One of Ifrael, may know? and before time, thy faviour: I gave Egypt that we may fay, He is righ-for thy ranfom, Ethiopia and teous? yea, there is none that Seba for thee. fheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. 27 The first ball fay to Zion, Behold, behold them, and I will give to Jerufalem one that bringeth good tidings. 28 For I beheld, and there was no man, even amongst them, and there was no counfeller, that when, I afked of them, could answer a word. 4 Since thou waft precious in my fight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life, 5 Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy feed from the eaft, and gather thee from the weft. 6 I will fay to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my fons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the 29 Behold, they are all vanity, their works are no-earth; thing their molten images are wind and confufion. B CHAP. XLIII. UT now thus faith the Lord that created thee, Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Ifrael, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine. 2 When thou paffeft through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they fhall not overflow thee: when thou walkeft through the fire, thou fhalt not be burnt; neither fhall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy 3 7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him, yea, I have made him. 8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be affembled: who among them can declare this, and fhew us former things? let them bring forth their witnefies, that they may be juftified: or let them hear and fay, It is truth. 10 Ye are my witneffes, faith the Lord, and my fervant whom I have chofen: that |