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3 Incline your ear, and ⚫ome unto me: hear, and your foul fhall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the fure mercies of David.

4. Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give feed to the fower, and bread to the eater:

11 So fhall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it fhall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it fhall profper in the thing whereto I sent it.

5 Behold, thou fhalt call a nation that thou knoweft not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of If-with peace: the mountains rael; for he hath glorified

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12 For ye fhall go out with joy, and be led forth

and the hills fhall break forth before you into finging, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

13 Inftead of the thorn fhall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree : and it fhall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting fign that shall not be cut off.

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hand from doing any evil. 3¶ Neither let the fon of the ftranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, fpeak, faying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people neither let the eunuch fay, Behold, I am a dry

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4 For thus faith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my fabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant:

5 Even unto them will I give in mine houfe, and within my walls, a place and a name better than of fons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that fhall not be cut off.

gathereth the outcafts of Ifrael, faith, Yet will I gather others to him, befides thofe that are gathered unto him.

9 All ye beafts of the ¶ field, come to devour, yea, all ye beafts in the forest.

10 His watchmen are blind, they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; fleeping, lying down, loving to flumber.

II Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are fhepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain from his quarter.

12 Come ye, fay they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink, and to-morrow shall be as this day, and much

6. Alfo the fons of the franger that join themselves to the Lord, to ferve him, and to love the name of the more abundant. Lord, to be his fervants, every one that keepeth the fabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant :

7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my houfe of prayer: their burntofferings and their facrifices fhall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine houfe fall be called an houfe of prayer for all people.

8 The Lord God, which

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HE righteous perifheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none confidering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

2 He fhall enter into peace: they fhall reft in their beds, each one walking in his uprightnefs.

3 But draw near hither, ye ions of the forcerefs, the

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feed of the adulterer, and the whore.

4 Against whom do ye fport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of tranfgreffion, a feed of falfhood?

5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, flaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

6 Among the fmooth ftones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them haft thou poured a drink-offering, thou haft offered a meat-offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

7 Upon a lofty and high mountain haft thou fet thy bed even thither wenteft thou up to offer facrifice.

8 Behind the doors alfo and the posts haft thou fet up thy remembrance for thou haft discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou faweft it.

9 And thou wenteft to the king with ointment, and didft increase thy perfumes, and

[didft fend thy meffengers far off, and didit debase thyself even unto hell.

10 Thou art wearied in

the greatness of thy way; yet faidft thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou waft not grieved.

II And of whom haft thou been afraid or feared, that thou haft lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou feareft me not?

12 I will declare thy righteoufnefs, and thy works, for they fhall not profit thee.

13 When thou cryeft, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind fhall carry them all away; vanity fhall take them: but he that putteth his truft in me, shall poffefs the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain:

14 And' fhail fay, Caft ye up, caft ye up, prepare the way, take up the ftumblingblock out of the way of my people.

15 For thus faith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whofe name is Holy, I dwell in the high and holy place; with him alfo that is of a contrite and humble fpirit, to revive the

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fpirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the fpirit fhould fail before me, and the fouls which I have made. 17 For the iniquity of his covetoufnefs was I wroth, and fmote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

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

19 I create the fruit of the lips: peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, faith the Lord, and I will heal him.

20 But the wicked are like the troubled fea, when it cannot reft, whofe waters caft up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, faith my God, to the wicked.

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ways, as a nation that did righteoufnefs, and forfook not the ordinance of their God: they afk of me the ordinances of juftice: they take delight in approaching to God.

3 Wherefore have we fafted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our foul, and thou takeft no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your faft you find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

4 Behold, ye faft for ftrife and debate, and to smite with the fift of wickedness; ye fhall not faft as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

5 Is it fuch a fast that I have chofen? a day for a man to afflict his foul? is it to bow down his head as a bul❤ rufh, and to spread fackcloth and afhes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?

6 Is not this the fast that I have chofen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to lift up thy voice like a let the oppreffed go free, and trumpet, and fhew my peo-that ye break every yoke? ple their tranfgreffion, and the house of Jacob their fins.

2 Yet they feek me daily, and delight to know my

7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are caft out, to thy houfe? when thou feeft the naked, that

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thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

8 Then fhall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health fhall fpring forth speedily and thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of the Lord fhall be thy rere-ward.

9 Then fhalt thou call, and the Lord fhall anfwer; thou fhalt cry, and he fhall fay, Here I am: if thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and fpeaking vanity:

10 And if thou draw out thy foul to the hungry, and fatisfy the afflicted foul; then fhall thy light rise in obfcurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day.

II And the Lord fhall guide thee continually, and fatisfy thy foul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

12 And they that fhall be of thee, fhall build the old waste places: thou fhalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou fhalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The reftorer of paths to dwell in.

13¶If thou turn away

thy foot from the fabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the fabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and fhalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor fpeaking thine own words:

14 Then fhalt thou delight thyfelf in the Lord, and I will caufe thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

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2 But your iniquities have feparated between you and your God, and your fins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverfeness.

4 None calleth for juftice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they truft in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, Gg 4

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