Your eyes shall see the King in his beauty;
They shall look upon a far-stretching land.

Your mind shall muse on the terror of the past: !
'Where is he who kept the records,

Where is he who weighed the spoil?
Where is he who counted the towers?'

You shall see no more the insolent people,
The people of obscure, unintelligible speech,
Who speak a barbarous, meaningless tongue.

Look at Zion, the city

Where we gather for the feasts,

Your eyes shall see Jerusalem.

A quiet habitation,

A tent immovable,

Whose pegs shall never be drawn,

Nor its cords ever be broken.

But there we have a Glorious One, Jehovah,

Instead of broad, encircling streams,

No fleet with oars can enter it,
Nor can stately ships pass by it.

For Jehovah is our Judge!
Jehovah is our Commander!
Jehovah is our King!

He it is who will save us.

215. THE RESTORATION OF JEHOVAH'S EXILED
PEOPLE

'Comfort, oh comfort my people,' says your God,
'Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her,
That her service is ended, her guilt expiated,

That she has received from Jehovah double for all her sins.'

Hark! one calls: 'In the wilderness clear the way of Jehovah,

Make straight in the very desert a highway for our God!

Let every mountain and hill sink down, every valley be uplifted,

Let the steep places be made level and the rough ridges a plain.

The glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all men shall see it,

For the mouth of Jehovah has spoken it.'

Hark! one says, 'Proclaim!' and I said, 'What shall I proclaim?'

'All flesh is grass and all its beauty like a flower of the field.

Grass withers, the flower fades, when Jehovah's breath blows upon it,

Grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.'

Ascend a high mountain, Zion's herald of good news, Lift aloud your voice, Jerusalem's herald of good news, Lift it up fearlessly, say to Judah's cities: 'Behold your

God!'

Behold Jehovah comes with power and maintaining his rule;

Behold, his reward is with him and his recompense before him;

As a shepherd he will tend his flock, with his arm he will gather it,

The lambs in his bosom he will bear, the mothers he will lead.

216.

JEHOVAH'S INFINITE POWER TO SAVE

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
And ruled off the heavens with a span,

Or enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure,
And weighed the mountains in scales,

And the hills in a balance?

Who has directed the spirit of Jehovah,
And as his counsellor advised him?

With whom has he consulted for enlightenment,
To be instructed in the right,

And be shown the way of true insight?

Lo the nations! as a drop from the bucket,
And as dust on a balance are they reckoned.
Lo the isles! as a mote he uplifts,

And Lebanon is not enough for fuel, ⠀
Nor its wild beasts for a burnt-offering.
All the nations are as nothing before him,
They are reckoned as nought and nothingness.

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To whom then will you liken God,
With what likeness represent him?
An image! a craftsman casts it,
A goldsmith overlays it with gold,
And a silversmith moulds silver chains.
The one too poor to do this
Chooses an undecayed tree, ⇓

Seeks for himself a skilled craftsman
To set up an image that will not totter!

Do you not know? Do you not hear?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not known from the founding of earth?``

It is he enthroned above the circle of the earth,
So that its inhabitants are as locusts,

Who stretches out the heavens as a thin veil,
And spreads them out like a habitable tent.

It is he who brings princes to nought,
The rulers of the earth he makes as nothing.
Scarcely have they been planted or sown,
Scarcely has their stock taken root,

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A whirlwind scatters them like chaff.

He who brings out their host by number,
And calls each by its name;

Of the many mighty and strong,

Not one is missing.

Why do you say, O Jacob:

And declare, O Israel:

'My life is hid from Jehovah,

And my right ignored by my God?'
Have you not known or heard?
Jehovah the everlasting God,

The creator of the ends of the earth,
Faints not, neither is weary,
His insight no one can fathom;
To the fainting he imparts vigor,
To the powerless he gives strength.
Young men may faint and grow weary,
And the strongest youths may stumble,
But they who trust in Jehovah

Ever renew their vigor;

They mount up on pinions like eagles,

They run but never grow weary,

Go forward but never grow faint.

217. THE WORK AND METHODS OF JEHOVAH'S TRUE

O Israel, my servant

SERVANT

Jacob, whom I have chosen,

Offspring of Abraham, my friend,

Whom I brought from the ends of the earth,

And called from its most distant parts;
To whom I said, "You are my servant,

I have chosen and have not rejected you,'

Fear not, for I am your God.

I will strengthen, yes, I will help you,
And uphold you with my trusty hand.

Behold my servant, whom I uphold,
My chosen, in whom I take delight;
I indeed have put my spirit upon him,
That to the nations he may dispense justice.

He will not shout nor cry aloud,

Nor let his voice be heard in the street.
A broken reed he will not crush,

And a flickering wick he will not quench.

Faithfully will he dispense justice;
He will not falter nor will he run,
Until he establishes justice on earth,

And for his teaching the coastlands wait.

This is the message of the one God, Jehovah, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and all its products, Who gives breath to its inhabitants,

And spirit to those who walk upon it:

'I, Jehovah, have called you in righteousness,
Taken you by the hand and kept you,
Given you as a pledge to the people,
As a light to the heathen nations,
To open eyes that are blind,

To bring captives out of confinement,

And the dwellers in darkness from prison.'

218. JEHOVAH'S CARE FOR HIS PEOPLE

You who are deaf hear,

You blind look that you may see;

Who is blind but my servant,

And who as deaf as my messenger?