ISAIAH CHAPTER 23

Isaiah 23:1 The Burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For it hath been destroyed, Without house, without entrance, From the land of Chittim it was revealed to them.
23:2 Be silent, ye inhabitants of the isle, Trader of Zidon, passing the sea, they filled thee.
23:3 And in many waters [is] the seed of Sihor, The harvest of the brook [is] her increase, And she is a mart of nations.
23:4 Be ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea spake, The strength of the sea, saying: `I have not been pained, nor have I brought forth, Nor have I nourished young men, [nor] brought up virgins.'
23:5 As [at] the report of Egypt they are pained, So [at] the report of Tyre.
23:6 Pass over to Tarshish, howl, ye inhabitants of the isle,
23:7 Is this your exulting one? From the days of old [is] her antiquity, Carry her do her own feet afar off to sojourn.
23:8 Who hath counselled this against Tyre, The crowning one, whose traders [are] princes, Her merchants the honoured of earth?'
23:9 YHWH of Hosts hath counselled it, To pollute the excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of earth.
Isaiah 23:10 Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, there is no more a girdle.
23:11 His hand He hath stretched out over the sea, He hath caused kingdoms to tremble, YHWH hath charged concerning the merchant one, To destroy her strong places.
23:12 And He saith, `Thou dost not add any more to exult, O oppressed one, virgin daughter of Zidon, To Chittim arise, pass over, Even there -- there is no rest for thee.'
23:13 Lo, the land of the Chaldeans -- this people was not, Asshur founded it for the Ziim, They raised its watch-towers, They lifted up her palaces, -- He hath appointed her for a ruin!
23:14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For your strength hath been destroyed.
23:15 And it hath come to pass, in that day, That forgotten is Tyre seventy years, According to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years there is to Tyre as the song of the harlot.
23:16 Take a harp, go round the city, O forgotten harlot, play well, Multiply song that thou mayest be remembered.
23:17 And it hath come to pass, At the end of seventy years YHWH inspecteth Tyre, And she hath repented of her gift, That she committed fornication With all kingdoms of the earth on the face of the ground.
23:18 And her merchandise and her gift have been holy to YHWH, Not treasured up nor stored, For to those sitting before YHWH is her merchandise, To eat to satiety, and for a lasting covering!

ISAIAH CHAPTER 24

Isaiah 24:1 Lo, YHWH is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned [it on] its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.
24:2 And it hath been -- as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting [it] on himself.
24:3 Utterly emptied is the land, and utterly spoiled, For YHWH hath spoken this word:
24:4 Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they -- the high place of the people of the land.
24:5 And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.
24:6 Therefore a curse hath consumed the land, And the inhabitants in it are become desolate, Therefore consumed have been inhabitants of the land, And few men have been left.
24:7 Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart.
24:8 Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp.
24:9 With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.
Isaiah 24:10 It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.
24:11 A cry over the wine [is] in out-places, Darkened hath been all joy, Removed hath been the joy of the land.
24:12 Left in the city [is] desolation, And [with] wasting is the gate smitten.
24:13 When thus it is in the heart of the land, In the midst of the peoples, As the compassing of the olive, As gleanings when harvest hath been finished,
24:14 They -- they lift up their voice, They sing of the excellency of YHWH, They have cried aloud from the sea.
24:15 Therefore in prosperity honour ye YHWH, In isles of the sea, the name of YHWH, God of Israel.
24:16 From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of the righteous. And I say, `Leanness [is] to me, Leanness [is] to me, wo [is] to me.' Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, Yea, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.
24:17 Fear, and a snare, and a gin, [Are] on thee, O inhabitant of the land.
24:18 And it hath come to pass, He who is fleeing from the noise of the fear Doth fall into the snare, And he who is coming up from the midst of the snare, Is captured by the gin, For windows on high have been opened, And shaken are foundations of the land.
24:19 Utterly broken down hath been the land, Utterly broken hath been the land, Utterly moved hath been the land.
Isaiah 24:20 Stagger greatly doth the land as a drunkard, And it hath been moved as a lodge, And heavy on it hath been its transgression, And it hath fallen, and addeth not to rise.
24:21 And it hath come to pass, in that day, YHWH layeth a charge on the host of the high place in the high place, And on the kings of the land on the land.
24:22 And they have been gathered -- A gathering of bound ones in a pit, And shut up they have been in a prison, And after a multitude of days are inspected.
24:23 And confounded hath been the moon, And ashamed hath been the sun, For reigned hath YHWH of Hosts In mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, And over-against His elders -- honour!

ISAIAH CHAPTER 25

Isaiah 25:1 O YHWH, my God [art] Thou, I exalt Thee, I confess Thy name, For Thou hast done a wonderful thing, Counsels of old, stedfastness, O stedfast One.
25:2 For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from [being] a city, To the age it is not built.
25:3 Therefore honour Thee do a strong people, A city of the terrible nations feareth Thee.
25:4 For Thou hast been a stronghold for the poor, A stronghold for the needy in his distress, A refuge from storm, a shadow from heat, When the spirit of the terrible [is] as a storm -- a wall.
25:5 As heat in a dry place, The noise of strangers Thou humblest, Heat with the shadow of a thick cloud, The singing of the terrible is humbled.
25:6 And made hath YHWH of Hosts, For all the peoples in this mount, A banquet of fat things, a banquet of preserved things, Fat things full of marrow, preserved things refined.
25:7 And swallowed up hath He in this mountain The face of the wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples, And of the covering that is spread over all the nations.
25:8 He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord YHWH, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For YHWH hath spoken.
25:9 And [one] hath said in that day, `Lo, this [is] our God, We waited for Him, and He saveth us, This [is] YHWH, we have waited for Him, We joy and rejoice in His salvation.'
Isaiah 25:10 For rest doth the hand of YHWH on this mountain, And trodden down is Moab under Him, As trodden down is straw on a dunghill.
25:11 And he spread out his hands in its midst, As spread out doth the swimmer to swim; And He hath humbled his excellency With the machinations of his hands.
25:12 And the fortress of the high place of thy walls He hath bowed down -- He hath made low, He hath caused [it] to come to the earth, -- unto dust.

ISAIAH CHAPTER 26

Isaiah 26:1 In that day sung is this song in the land of Judah: `We have a strong city, Salvation He doth make walls and bulwark.
26:2 Open ye the gates, that enter may a righteous nation, Preserving stedfastness.
26:3 An imagination supported Thou fortifiest peace -- peace! For in Thee it is confident.
26:4 Trust ye in YHWH for ever, For in Jah YHWH [is] a rock of ages,
26:5 For He bowed down the dwellers on high, A city set on high He maketh low, He maketh it low unto the earth, He causeth it to come unto the dust,
26:6 Tread it down doth a foot, Feet of the poor -- steps of the weak.
26:7 The path for the righteous [is] uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.
26:8 Also, [in] the path of Thy judgments, O YHWH, we have waited [for] Thee, To Thy name and to Thy remembrance [Is] the desire of the soul.
26:9 [With] my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, [with] my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments [are] on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.
Isaiah 26:10 The wicked findeth favour, He hath not learned righteousness, In a land of straightforwardness he dealeth perversely, And seeth not the excellency of YHWH.
26:11 O YHWH, high [is] Thy hand -- they see not, They see the zeal of the people, and are ashamed, Also, the fire -- Thine adversaries, consumeth them.
26:12 O YHWH, Thou appointest peace to us, For, all our works also Thou hast wrought for us.
26:13 O YHWH our God, lords have ruled us besides Thee, Only, by Thee we make mention of Thy name.
26:14 Dead -- they live not, Rephaim, they rise not, Therefore Thou hast inspected and dost destroy them, Yea, thou destroyest all their memory.
26:15 Thou hast added to the nation, O YHWH, Thou hast added to the nation, Thou hast been honoured, Thou hast put far off all the ends of earth.
26:16 O YHWH, in distress they missed Thee, They have poured out a whisper, Thy chastisement [is] on them.
26:17 When a pregnant woman cometh near to the birth, She is pained -- she crieth in her pangs, So we have been from Thy face, O YHWH.
26:18 We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth as it were wind, Salvation we do not work in the earth, Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall.
26:19 `Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs [is] thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.
Isaiah 26:20 Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over.
26:21 For, lo, YHWH is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!'

ISAIAH CHAPTER 27

Isaiah 27:1 In that day lay a charge doth YHWH, With his sword -- the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that [is] in the sea.
27:2 In that day, `A desirable vineyard,' respond ye to her,
27:3 I, YHWH, am its keeper, every moment I water it, Lest any lay a charge against it, Night and day I keep it!
27:4 Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier -- a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.
27:5 Or -- he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace with Me, Peace he doth make with Me.
27:6 Those coming in He causeth to take root, Jacob doth blossom, and flourished hath Israel, And they have filled the face of the world [with] increase.
27:7 As the smiting of his smiter hath He smitten him? As the slaying of his slain doth He slay?
27:8 In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,
27:9 Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this [is] all the fruit -- To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not -- shrines and images.
Isaiah 27:10 For the fenced city [is] alone, A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches.
27:11 In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it [is] not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.
27:12 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Beat out doth YHWH from the branch of the river, Unto the stream of Egypt, And ye are gathered one by one, O sons of Israel.
27:13 And it hath come to pass, in that day, It is blown with a great trumpet, And come in have those perishing in the land of Asshur, And those cast out in the land of Egypt, And have bowed themselves to YHWH, In the holy mount -- in Jerusalem!

ISAIAH CHAPTER 28

Isaiah 28:1 Wo [to] the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim. And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory, That [is] on the head of the fat valley of the broken down of wine.
28:2 Lo, a mighty and strong one [is] to the Lord, As a storm of hail -- a destructive shower, As an inundation of mighty waters overflowing, He cast down to the earth with the hand.
28:3 By feet trodden down is the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,
28:4 And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory That [is] on the head of the fat valley, Hath been as its first-fruit before summer, That its beholder seeth, While it [is] yet in his hand he swalloweth it.
28:5 In that day is YHWH of Hosts For a crown of beauty, and for a diadem of glory, To the remnant of His people.
28:6 And for a spirit of judgment To him who is sitting in the judgment, And for might [to] those turning back the battle to the gate.
28:7 And even these through wine have erred, And through strong drink have wandered, Priest and prophet erred through strong drink, They have been swallowed up of the wine, They wandered because of the strong drink, They have erred in seeing, They have stumbled judicially.
28:8 For all tables have been full of vomit, Filth -- without place!
28:9 By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,
Isaiah 28:10 For rule [is] on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,
28:11 For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.
28:12 Unto whom He hath said, `This [is] the rest, give ye rest to the weary, And this -- the refreshing:' And they have not been willing to hear,
28:13 And to whom a word of YHWH hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, So that they go and have stumbled backward, And been broken, and snared, and captured.
28:14 Therefore, hear a word of YHWH, ye men of scorning, Ruling this people that [is] in Jerusalem.
28:15 Because ye have said: `We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.'
28:16 Therefore, thus said the Lord YHWH: `Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone -- a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste.
28:17 And I have put judgment for a line, And righteousness for a plummet, And sweep away doth hail the refuge of lies, And the secret hiding-place do waters overflow.
28:18 And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.
28:19 From the fulness of its passing over it taketh you, For morning by morning it passeth over, By day and by night, And it hath been only a trembling to consider the report.
Isaiah 28:20 For shorter hath been the bed Than to stretch one's self out in, And the covering hath been narrower Than to wrap one's self up in.
28:21 For as [at] mount Perazim rise doth YHWH, As [at] the valley in Gibeon He is troubled, To do His work -- strange [is] His work, And to do His deed -- strange [is] His deed.'
28:22 And now, show not yourselves scorners, Lest strong be your bands, For a consumption, that is determined, I have heard, by the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, [Is] for all the land.
28:23 Give ear, and hear my voice, Attend, and hear my saying:
28:24 The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!
28:25 Hath he not, if he have made level its face, Then scattered fitches, and cummin sprinkle, And hath placed the principal wheat, And the appointed barley, And the rie [in] its own border?
28:26 And instruct him for judgment doth his God, He doth direct him.
28:27 For not with a sharp-pointed thing threshed are fitches, And the wheel of a cart on cummin turned round, For with a staff beaten out are fitches, And cummin with a rod.
28:28 Bread-[corn] is beaten small, For not for ever doth he sorely thresh it, Nor crushed [it] hath a wheel of his cart, Nor do his hoofs beat it small.
28:29 Even this from YHWH of Hosts hath gone out, He hath made counsel wonderful, He hath made wisdom great!

ISAIAH CHAPTER 29

Isaiah 29:1 Wo [to] Ariel, Ariel, The city of the encampment of David! Add year to year, let festivals go round.
29:2 And I have sent distress to Ariel, And it hath been lamentation and mourning, And it hath been to me as Ariel.
29:3 And I encamped, O babbler, against thee, And I laid siege against thee -- a camp. And I raised up against thee bulwarks.
29:4 And thou hast been low, From the earth thou speakest, And from the dust makest thy saying low, And thy voice hath been from the earth, As one having a familiar spirit, And from the dust thy saying whisperest,
29:5 And as small dust hath been The multitude of those scattering thee, And as chaff passing on the multitude of the terrible, And it hath been at an instant -- suddenly.
29:6 By YHWH of Hosts thou art inspected, With thunder, and with an earthquake, And great noise, hurricane, and whirlwind, And flame of devouring fire.
29:7 And as a dream, a vision of night, hath been The multitude of all the nations Who are warring against Ariel, And all its warriors, and its bulwark, Even of those distressing her.
29:8 And it hath been, as when the hungry dreameth, And lo, he is eating, And he hath waked, and empty [is] his soul, And as when the thirsty dreameth, And lo, he is drinking, and he hath waked, And lo, he is weary, and his soul is longing, So is the multitude of all the nations Who are warring against mount Zion.
29:9 Tarry and wonder, look ye, yea, look, Be drunk, and not with wine, Stagger, and not with strong drink.
Isaiah 29:10 For poured out on you hath YHWH a spirit of deep sleep, And He closeth your eyes -- the prophets, And your heads -- the seers -- He covered.
29:11 And the vision of the whole is to you, As words of the sealed book, That they give unto one knowing books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I am not able, for it [is] sealed;'
29:12 And the book is given to him who hath not known books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I have not known books.'
29:13 And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!
29:14 Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones hideth itself.'
29:15 Wo [to] those going deep from YHWH to hide counsel, And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?'
29:16 Your perversion! as clay is the potter esteemed? That the work saith of its maker, `He hath not made me?' And the framed thing said of its framer, `He did not understand?'
29:17 Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned?
29:18 And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.
29:19 And the humble have added joy in YHWH, And the poor among men In the Holy One of Israel rejoice.
Isaiah 29:20 For ceased hath the terrible one, And consumed hath been the scorner, And cut off have been all watching for iniquity,
29:21 Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.
29:22 Therefore, thus said YHWH, Who ransomed Abraham, Concerning the house of Jacob: `Not now ashamed is Jacob, Nor now doth his face become pale,
29:23 For in his seeing his children, The work of My hand, in his midst, They sanctify My name, And have sanctified the Holy One of Jacob, And the God of Israel they declare fearful.
29:24 And the erring in spirit have known understanding, And murmurers learn doctrine!'

ISAIAH CHAPTER 30

Isaiah 30:1 Wo [to] apostate sons, The affirmation of YHWH! To do counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.
30:2 Who are walking to go down to Egypt, And My mouth have not asked, To be strong in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt.
30:3 And the strength of Pharaoh Hath been to you for shame, And the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion,
30:4 For in Zoan were his princes, And his messengers reach Hanes.
30:5 All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!
30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south. Into a land of adversity and distress, Of young lion and of old lion, Whence [are] viper and flying saraph, They carry on the shoulder of asses their wealth, And on the hump of camels their treasures, Unto a people not profitable.
30:7 Yea, Egyptians [are] vanity, and in vain do help, Therefore I have cried concerning this: `Their strength [is] to sit still.'
30:8 No, go in, write it on a tablet with them, And on a book engrave it, And it is for a latter day, for a witness unto the age,
30:9 That a rebellious people [is] this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of YHWH.
Isaiah 30:10 Who have said to seers, `Ye do not see,' And to prophets, `Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,
30:11 Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'
30:12 Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it,
30:13 Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.
30:14 And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down -- He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.
30:15 For thus said the Lord YHWH, The Holy One of Israel: `In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.
30:16 And ye say, No, for on a horse we flee? Therefore ye flee, And on the swift we ride! Therefore swift are your pursuers.
30:17 One thousand because of the rebuke of one, Because of the rebuke of five ye flee, Till ye have been surely left as a pole On the top of the mountain, And as an ensign on the height.
30:18 And therefore doth wait YHWH to favour you, And therefore He is exalted to pity you, For a God of judgment [is] YHWH, O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.
30:19 For the people in Zion dwell in Jerusalem, Weep thou not, weeping, Pitying, He pitieth thee at the voice of thy cry, When He heareth He answereth thee.
Isaiah 30:20 And the Lord hath given to you bread of adversity, And water of oppression. And thy directors remove no more, And thine eyes have seen thy directors,
30:21 And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, `This [is] the way, go ye in it,' When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.
30:22 And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, `Go out,' thou sayest to it.
30:23 And He hath given rain [for] thy seed, With which thou dost sow the ground, And bread, the increase of the ground, And it hath been fat and plenteous, Enjoy do thy cattle in that day an enlarged pasture.
30:24 And the oxen and the young asses serving the ground, Fermented provender do eat, That one is winnowing with shovel and fan.
30:25 And there hath been on every high mount, And on every exalted hill, Rivulets -- streams of waters, In a day of much slaughter, in the falling of towers.
30:26 And the light of the moon hath been as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun is sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day of YHWH's binding up the breach of His people, When the stroke of its wound He healeth.
30:27 Lo, the name of YHWH is coming from far, Burning is His anger, and great the flame, His lips have been full of indignation, And His tongue [is] as a devouring fire.
30:28 And His breath [is] as an overflowing stream, Unto the neck it divideth, To sift nations with a sieve of vanity, And a bridle causing to err, [Is] on the jaws of the peoples.
30:29 Singing is to you as in a night sanctified for a festival, And joy of heart as he who is going with a pipe, To go in to the mountain of YHWH, Unto the rock of Israel.
Isaiah 30:30 And caused to be heard hath YHWH The honour of His voice, And the coming down of His arm He doth shew with the raging of anger, And the flame of a consuming fire, Scattering, and inundation, and hailstone.
30:31 For from the voice of YHWH broken down [is] Asshur, With a rod He smiteth.
30:32 And every passage of the settled staff, That YHWH causeth to rest on him, Hath been with tabrets, and with harps, And in battles of shaking he hath fought with it.
30:33 For, arranged from former time is Tophet, Even it for the king is prepared, He hath made deep, He hath made large, Its pile [is] fire and much wood, The breath of YHWH, As a stream of brim stone, is burning in it!

ISAIAH CHAPTER 31

Isaiah 31:1 Wo [to] those going down to Egypt for help, And on horses lean, And trust on chariots, because many, And on horsemen, because very strong, And have not looked on the Holy One of Israel, And YHWH have not sought.
31:2 And He also [is] wise, and bringeth in evil, And His words He hath not turned aside, And He hath risen against a house of evil doers, And against the help of workers of iniquity.
31:3 And the Egyptians [are men], and not God, And their horses [are] flesh, and not spirit, And YHWH stretcheth out His hand, And stumbled hath the helper, And fallen hath the helped one, And together all of them are consumed.
31:4 For thus said YHWH unto me: `As growl doth the lion and the young lion over his prey, Called against whom is a multitude of shepherds, From their voice he is not affrighted, And from their noise he is not humbled; So come down doth YHWH of Hosts To war on mount Zion, and on her height.
31:5 As birds flying, so doth YHWH of Hosts Cover over Jerusalem, covering and delivering, Passing over, and causing to escape.'
31:6 Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostacy.
31:7 For in that day despise doth each His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, That your hands made to you -- a sin.
31:8 And fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a sword -- not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath fled for himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become tributary.
31:9 And [to] his rock from fear he passeth on, And affrighted by the ensign have been his princes -- an affirmation of YHWH, Who hath a light in Zion, And who hath a furnace in Jerusalem!

ISAIAH CHAPTER 32

Isaiah 32:1 Lo, for righteousness doth a king reign, As to princes, for judgment they rule.
32:2 And each hath been as a hiding-place [from] wind, And as a secret hiding-place [from] inundation, As rivulets of waters in a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.
32:3 And not dazzled are the eyes of beholders, And the ears of hearers do attend.
32:4 And the heart of those hastened Understandeth to know, And the tongue of stammerers hasteth to speak clearly.
32:5 A fool is no more called `noble,' And to a miser it is not said, `rich;'
32:6 For a fool speaketh folly, And his heart doth iniquity, to do profanity, And to speak concerning YHWH error, To empty the soul of the hungry, Yea, drink of the thirsty he causeth to lack.
32:7 And the miser -- his instruments [are] evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.
32:8 And the noble counselled noble things, And he for noble things riseth up.
32:9 Women, easy ones, rise, hear my voice, Daughters, confident ones, give ear [to] my saying,
Isaiah 32:10 Days and a year ye are troubled, O confident ones, For consumed hath been harvest, The gathering cometh not.
32:11 Tremble ye women, ye easy ones, Be troubled, ye confident ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,
32:12 For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.
32:13 Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,
32:14 Surely the palace hath been left, The multitude of the city forsaken, Fort and watch-tower hath been for dens unto the age, A joy of wild asses -- a pasture of herds;
32:15 Till emptied out on us is the Spirit from on high, And a wilderness hath become a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned.
32:16 And dwelt in the wilderness hath judgment, And righteousness in the fruitful field remaineth.
32:17 And a work of the righteousness hath been peace, And a service of the righteousness -- Keeping quiet and confidence unto the age.
32:18 And dwelt hath My people in a peaceful habitation, And in stedfast tabernacles, And in quiet resting-places.
32:19 And it hath hailed in the going down of the forest, And in the valley is the city low.
Isaiah 32:20 Happy [are] ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!

ISAIAH CHAPTER 33

Isaiah 33:1 Wo, spoiler! and thou not spoiled, And treacherous! and they dealt not treacherously with thee, When thou dost finish, O spoiler, thou art spoiled, When thou dost finish dealing treacherously, They deal treacherously with thee.
33:2 O YHWH, favour us, for thee we have waited, Be their arm, in the mornings, Yea, our salvation in time of adversity.
33:3 From the voice of a multitude fled have peoples, From thine exaltation scattered have been nations.
33:4 And gathered hath been your spoil, A gathering of the caterpillar, As a running to and fro of locusts is he running on it.
33:5 Set on high is YHWH, for He is dwelling on high, He filled Zion [with] judgment and righteousness,
33:6 And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of YHWH -- it [is] His treasure.
33:7 Lo, `Their Ariel,' they have cried without, Messengers of peace do weep bitterly.
33:8 Desolated have been highways, Ceased hath he who passeth along the path, He hath broken covenant, He hath despised enemies, He hath not esteemed a man.
33:9 Mourned, languished hath the land, Confounded hath been Lebanon, Withered hath been Sharon as a wilderness, And shaking are Bashan and Carmel.
Isaiah 33:10 Now, do I arise, saith YHWH, Now I am exalted, now I am lifted up.
33:11 Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! -- fire devoureth you.
33:12 And peoples have been [as] burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn.
33:13 Hear, ye far off, that which I have done, And know, ye near ones, My might.
33:14 Afraid in Zion have been sinners, Seized hath trembling the profane: Who doth dwell for us -- consuming fire, Who doth dwell for us -- burnings of the age?
33:15 Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,
33:16 He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock [are] his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.
33:17 A king in his beauty, see do thine eyes, They see a land afar off.
33:18 Thy heart doth meditate terror, Where [is] he who is counting? Where [is] he who is weighing? Where [is] he who is counting the towers?
33:19 The strong people thou seest not, A people deeper of lip than to be understood, Of a scorned tongue, there is no understanding.
Isaiah 33:20 See Zion, the city of our meetings, Thine eyes see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, A tent not taken down, Not removed are its pins for ever, And none of its cords are broken.
33:21 But there mighty [is] YHWH for us, A place of rivers -- streams broad of sides, No ship with oars doth go into it, And a mighty ship doth not pass over it.
33:22 For YHWH our judge, YHWH our lawgiver, YHWH our king -- He doth save us.
33:23 Left have been thy ropes, They strengthen not rightly their mast, They have not spread out a sail, Then apportioned hath been a prey of much spoil, The lame have taken spoil.
33:24 Nor doth an inhabitant say, `I was sick,' The people that is dwelling in it, is forgiven of iniquity!

ISAIAH CHAPTER 34

Isaiah 34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear, And ye peoples, give attention, Hear doth the earth and its fulness, The world, and all its productions.
34:2 For wrath [is] to YHWH against all the nations, And fury against all their host, He hath devoted them to destruction, He hath given them to slaughter.
34:3 And their wounded are cast out, And their carcases cause their stench to ascend, And melted have been mountains from their blood.
34:4 And consumed have been all the host of the heavens, And rolled together as a book have been the heavens, And all their hosts do fade, As the fading of a leaf of a vine, And as the fading one of a fig-tree.
34:5 For soaked in the heavens was My sword, Lo, on Edom it cometh down, On the people of My curse for judgment.
34:6 A sword [is] to YHWH -- it hath been full of blood, It hath been made fat with fatness, With blood of lambs and he-goats. With fat of kidneys of rams, For a sacrifice [is] to YHWH in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
34:7 And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their dust from fatness is made fat.
34:8 (For a day of vengeance [is] to YHWH, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)
34:9 And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.
Isaiah 34:10 By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her.
34:11 And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.
34:12 [To] the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.
34:13 And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble [are] in her fortresses, And it hath been a habitation of dragons, A court for daughters of an ostrich.
34:14 And met have Ziim with Aiim, And the goat for its companion calleth, Only there rested hath the night-owl, And hath found for herself a place of rest.
34:15 There made her nest hath the bittern, Yea, she layeth, and hath hatched, And hath gathered under her shadow, Only there gathered have been vultures, Each with its companion.
34:16 Seek out of the book of YHWH, and read, One of these hath not been lacking, None hath missed its companion, For My mouth -- it hath commanded, And His spirit -- He hath gathered them.
34:17 And He hath cast for them a lot, And His hand hath apportioned [it] to them by line, Unto the age they possess it, To all generations they dwell in it!

ISAIAH CHAPTER 35

Isaiah 35:1 They joy from the wilderness and dry place, And rejoice doth the desert, and flourish as the rose,
35:2 Flourishing it doth flourish, and rejoice, Yea, [with] joy and singing, The honour of Lebanon hath been given to it, The beauty of Carmel and Sharon, They -- they see the honour of YHWH, The majesty of our God.
35:3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.
35:4 Say to the hastened of heart, `Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'
35:5 Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped,
35:6 Then leap as a hart doth the lame, And sing doth the tongue of the dumb, For broken up in a wilderness have been waters, And streams in a desert.
35:7 And the mirage hath become a pond, And the thirsty land fountains of waters, In the habitation of dragons, Its place of couching down, a court for reed and rush.
35:8 And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself [is] by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.
35:9 No lion is there, yea, a destructive beast Ascendeth it not, it is not found there, And walked have the redeemed,
Isaiah 35:10 And the ransomed of YHWH return, And have entered Zion with singing. And joy age-during on their head, Joy and gladness they attain, And fled away have sorrow and sighing!

ISAIAH CHAPTER 36

Isaiah 36:1 And it cometh to pass, in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, come up hath Sennacherib king of Asshur against all the fenced cities of Judah, and seizeth them.
36:2 And the king of Asshur sendeth Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, unto the king Hezekiah, with a heavy force, and he standeth by the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field,
36:3 and go forth unto him doth Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer.
36:4 And Rabshakeh saith unto them, `Say ye, I pray you, unto Hezekiah, `Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur, What [is] this confidence in which thou hast confided?
36:5 I have said: Only, a word of the lips! counsel and might [are] for battle: now, on whom hast thou trusted, that thou hast rebelled against me?
36:6 `Lo, thou hast trusted on the staff of this broken reed -- on Egypt -- which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it -- so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.
36:7 `And dost thou say unto me, Unto YHWH our God we have trusted? is it not He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath turned aside, and saith to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar ye do bow yourselves?
36:8 `And now, negotiate, I pray thee, with my lord the king of Asshur, and I give to thee two thousand horses, if thou art able to put for thee riders on them.
36:9 And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and dost trust for thee on Egypt, for chariot and for horsemen?
Isaiah 36:10 And now, without YHWH have I come up against this land to destroy it? YHWH said unto me, Go up unto this land, and thou hast destroyed it.'
36:11 And Eliakim saith -- and Shebna and Joah -- unto Rabshakeh, `Speak, we pray thee, unto thy servants [in] Aramaean, for we are understanding; and do not speak unto us [in] Jewish, in the ears of the people who [are] on the wall.'
36:12 And Rabshakeh saith, `Unto thy lord, and unto thee, hath my lord sent me to speak these words? is it not for the men -- those sitting on the wall to eat their own dung and to drink their own water with you?'
36:13 And Rabshakeh standeth and calleth with a great voice [in] Jewish, and saith, `Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Asshur:
36:14 Thus said the king, Let not Hezekiah lift you up, for he is not able to deliver you;
36:15 and let not Hezekiah make you trust unto YHWH, saying, YHWH doth certainly deliver us, this city is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
36:16 `Do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for thus said the king of Asshur, Make ye with me a blessing, and come out unto me, and eat ye each of his vine, and each of his fig-tree, and drink ye each the waters of his own well,
36:17 till my coming in, and I have taken you unto a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards;
36:18 lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, YHWH doth deliver us. `Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?
36:19 Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where the gods of Sepharvaim, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?
36:20 Who among all the gods of these lands [are] they who have delivered their land out of my hand, that YHWH doth deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'
36:21 And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'
36:22 And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house, cometh in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer, unto Hezekiah with rent garments, and they declare to him the words of Rabshakeh.

ISAIAH CHAPTER 37

Isaiah 37:1 And it cometh to pass, at the king Hezekiah's hearing, that he rendeth his garments, and covereth himself with sackcloth, and entereth the house of YHWH,
37:2 and sendeth Eliakim, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, unto Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet,
37:3 and they say unto him, `Thus said Hezekiah, A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising, [is] this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bear.
37:4 `It may be YHWH thy God doth hear the words of Rabshakeh with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that YHWH thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.'
37:5 And the servants of king Hezekiah come in unto Isaiah,
37:6 and Isaiah saith unto them, `Thus do ye say unto your lord, Thus said YHWH, Be not afraid because of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me.
37:7 Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a report, and hath turned back unto his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.'
37:8 And Rabshakeh turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish.
37:9 And he heareth concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, `He hath come out to fight with thee;' and he heareth, and sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah, saying,
Isaiah 37:10 `Thus do ye speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art trusting, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
37:11 Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands -- to devote them -- and thou art delivered!
37:12 Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed -- Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who [are] in Telassar?
37:13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'
37:14 And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and readeth them, and Hezekiah goeth up to the house of YHWH, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before YHWH.
37:15 And Hezekiah prayeth unto YHWH, saying,
37:16 `YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs, Thou [art] God Himself -- Thyself alone -- to all kingdoms of the earth, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth.
37:17 Incline, O YHWH, Thine ear, and hear; open, O YHWH, Thine eyes and see; and hear Thou all the words of Sennacherib that he hath sent to reproach the living God.
37:18 `Truly, O YHWH, kings of Asshur have laid waste all the lands and their land,
37:19 so as to put their gods into fire -- for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone -- and they destroy them.
Isaiah 37:20 And now, YHWH our God, save us from his hand, and all kingdoms of the earth do know that Thou [art] YHWH, Thyself alone.'
37:21 And Isaiah son of Amoz sendeth unto Hezekiah, saying, `Thus said YHWH, God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed unto me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur --
37:22 this [is] the word that YHWH spake concerning him: Trampled on thee, laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion, Behind thee shaken the head hath the daughter of Jerusalem.
37:23 Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel.
37:24 By the hand of thy servants Thou hast reviled the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of hills, The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the high place of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.
37:25 I -- I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
37:26 Hast thou not heard from afar? -- it I did, From days of old -- that I formed it. Now, I have brought it in, And it is to make desolate, Ruinous heaps -- fenced cities,
37:27 And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up.
37:28 And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.
37:29 Because of thy anger towards Me, And thy noise -- it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And I have caused thee to turn back In the way in which thou camest.
Isaiah 37:30 -- And this to thee [is] the sign, Food of the year [is] self-sown grain, And in the second year the spontaneous growth, And in the third year, sow ye and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
37:31 And it hath continued -- the escaped Of the house of Judah that hath been left -- To take root beneath, And it hath made fruit upward.
37:32 For from Jerusalem goeth forth a remnant, And an escape from mount Zion, The zeal of YHWH of Hosts doth this.
37:33 Therefore, thus said YHWH, Concerning the king of Asshur: He doth not come in unto this city, Nor doth he shoot there an arrow, Nor doth he come before it [with] shield, Nor doth he pour out against it a mount.
37:34 In the way that he came, in it he turneth back, And unto this city he doth not come in, An affirmation of YHWH,
37:35 And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'
37:36 And a messenger of YHWH goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and [men] rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them [are] dead corpses.
37:37 And journey, and go, and turn back doth Sennacherib king of Asshur, and dwelleth in Nineveh.
37:38 And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.

ISAIAH CHAPTER 38

Isaiah 38:1 In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, `Thus said YHWH: Give a charge to thy house, for thou [art] dying, and dost not live.'
38:2 And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto YHWH,
38:3 and saith, `I pray thee, O YHWH, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which [is] good in thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth -- a great weeping.
38:4 And a word of YHWH is unto Isaiah, saying,
38:5 Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said YHWH, God of David thy father, `I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,
38:6 and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city.
38:7 And this [is] to thee the sign from YHWH, that YHWH doth this thing that He hath spoken.
38:8 Lo, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it hath gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, by the sun, backward ten degrees:' and the sun turneth back ten degrees in the degrees that it had gone down.
38:9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick, when he reviveth from his sickness:
Isaiah 38:10 `I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.
38:11 I said, I do not see Jah -- Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.
38:12 My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
38:13 I have set [Him] till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
38:14 As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O YHWH, oppression [is] on me, be my surety.
38:15 -- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.
38:16 Lord, by these do [men] live, And by all in them [is] the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,
38:17 Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.
38:18 For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.
38:19 The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.
Isaiah 38:20 Like myself to-day -- a father to sons Doth make known of Thy faithfulness, O YHWH -- to save me: And my songs we sing all days of our lives In the house of YHWH.'
38:21 And Isaiah saith, `Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.'
38:22 And Hezekiah saith, `What [is] the sign that I go up to the house of YHWH!'

ISAIAH CHAPTER 39

Isaiah 39:1 At that time hath Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah, when he heareth that he hath been sick, and is become strong.
39:2 And Hezekiah rejoiceth over them, and sheweth them the house of his spices, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the good ointment, and all the house of his vessels, and all that hath been found in his treasures; there hath not been a thing in his house, and in all his dominion, that Hezekiah hath not shewed them.
39:3 And Isaiah the prophet cometh in unto king Hezekiah, and saith unto him, `What said these men? and whence come they unto thee?' And Hezekiah saith, `From a land afar off they have come unto me -- from Babylon.'
39:4 And he saith, `What saw they in thy house?' and Hezekiah saith, `All that [is] in my house they saw; there hath not been a thing that I have not shewed them among my treasures.'
39:5 And Isaiah saith unto Hezekiah, `Hear a word of YHWH of Hosts:
39:6 Lo, days are coming, and borne hath been all that [is] in thy house, and that thy fathers have treasured up till this day, to Babylon; there is not left a thing, said YHWH;
39:7 and of thy sons who come forth from thee, whom thou begettest, they take, and they have been eunuchs in a palace of the king of Babylon.'
39:8 And Hezekiah saith unto Isaiah, `Good [is] the word of YHWH that thou hast spoken;' and he saith, `Because there is peace and truth in my days.'

ISAIAH CHAPTER 40

Isaiah 40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye, My people, saith your God.
40:2 Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, That her warfare hath been completed, That accepted hath been her punishment, That she hath received from the hand of YHWH Double for all her sins.
40:3 A voice is crying -- in a wilderness -- Prepare ye the way of YHWH, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.
40:4 Every valley is raised up, And every mountain and hill become low, And the crooked place hath become a plain, And the entangled places a valley.
40:5 And revealed hath been the honour of YHWH, And seen [it] have all flesh together, For the mouth of YHWH hath spoken.
40:6 A voice is saying, `Call,' And he said, `What do I call?' All flesh [is] grass, and all its goodliness [is] As a flower of the field:
40:7 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of YHWH blew upon it, Surely the people [is] grass;
40:8 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.
40:9 On a high mountain get thee up, O Zion, Proclaiming tidings, Lift up with power thy voice, O Jerusalem, proclaiming tidings, Lift up, fear not, say to cities of Judah, `Lo, your God.'
Isaiah 40:10 Lo, the Lord YHWH with strength cometh, And His arm is ruling for Him, Lo, His hire [is] with Him, and His wage before Him.
40:11 As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth [them]: Suckling ones He leadeth.
40:12 Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters? And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the mountains, And the hills in a balance?
40:13 Who hath meted out the Spirit of YHWH, And, [being] His counsellor, doth teach Him!
40:14 With whom consulted He, That he causeth Him to understand? And teacheth Him in the path of judgment, And teacheth Him knowledge? And the way of understanding causeth Him to know?
40:15 Lo, nations as a drop from a bucket, And as small dust of the balance, have been reckoned, Lo, isles as a small thing He taketh up.
40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt-offering.
40:17 All the nations [are] as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.
40:18 And unto whom do ye liken God, And what likeness do ye compare to Him?
40:19 The graven image poured out hath a artizan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.
Isaiah 40:20 He who is poor [by] heave-offerings, A tree not rotten doth choose, A skilful artizan he seeketh for it, To establish a graven image -- not moved.
40:21 Do ye not know -- do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood [From] the foundations of the earth?
40:22 He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants [are] as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.
40:23 He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;
40:24 Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.
40:25 And unto whom do ye liken Me, And [am] I equal? saith the Holy One.
40:26 Lift up on high your eyes, And see -- who hath prepared these? He who is bringing out by number their host, To all of them by name He calleth, By abundance of strength (And [he is] strong in power) not one is lacking.
40:27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob? and speakest thou, O Israel? `My way hath been hid from YHWH, And from my God my judgment passeth over.'
40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The God of the age -- YHWH, Preparer of the ends of the earth, Is not wearied nor fatigued, There is no searching of His understanding.
40:29 He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.
Isaiah 40:30 Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,
40:31 But those expecting YHWH pass [to] power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

ISAIAH CHAPTER 41

Isaiah 41:1 Keep silent towards Me, O isles, And the peoples pass on [to] power, They come nigh, then they speak, `Together -- to judgment we draw near.'
41:2 Who stirred up from the east a righteous one? He calleth him to His foot, He giveth before him nations, And kings He causeth him to rule, He giveth [them] as dust [to] his sword, As driven stubble [to] his bow.
41:3 He pursueth them, he passeth over in safety A path with his feet he entereth not.
41:4 Who hath wrought and done, Calling the generations from the first? I, YHWH, the first, and with the last I [am] He.
41:5 Seen have isles and fear, ends of the earth tremble, They have drawn near, yea, they come.
41:6 Each his neighbour they help, And to his brother he saith, `Be strong.'
41:7 And strengthen doth an artizan the refiner, A smoother [with] a hammer, Him who is beating [on] an anvil, Saying, `For joining it [is] good,' And he strengtheneth it with nails, it is not moved!
41:8 -- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,
41:9 Whom I have taken hold of, from the ends of the earth, And from its near places I have called thee, And I say to thee, My servant Thou [art], I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee.
Isaiah 41:10 Be not afraid, for with thee I [am], Look not around, for I [am] thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.
41:11 Lo, all those displeased with thee, They are ashamed and blush, They are as nothing, yea, perish Do the men who strive with thee.
41:12 Thou seekest them, and findest them not, The men who debate with thee, They are as nothing, yea, as nothing, The men who war with thee.
41:13 For I, YHWH thy God, Am strengthening thy right hand, He who is saying to thee, `Fear not, I have helped thee.'
41:14 Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee, an affirmation of YHWH, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
41:15 Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest.
41:16 Thou winnowest them, and a wind lifteth them up, And a whirlwind scattereth them, And thou -- thou rejoicest in YHWH, In the Holy One of Israel dost boast thyself.
41:17 The poor and the needy are seeking water, And there is none, Their tongue with thirst hath failed, I, YHWH do answer them, The God of Israel -- I forsake them not.
41:18 I open on high places rivers, And in midst of valleys fountains, I make a wilderness become a pond of water, And a dry land become springs of water.
41:19 I give in a wilderness the cedar, Shittah, and myrtle, and oil-tree, I set in a desert the fir-pine and box-wood together.
Isaiah 41:20 So that they see, and know, And regard, and act wisely together, For the hand of YHWH hath done this, And the Holy One of Israel hath prepared it.
41:21 Bring near your cause, saith YHWH, Bring nigh your mighty ones, saith the king of Jacob.
41:22 They bring nigh, and declare to us that which doth happen, The first things -- what they [are] declare ye, And we set our heart, and know their latter end, Or the coming things cause us to hear.
41:23 Declare the things that are coming hereafter, And we know that ye [are] gods, Yea, ye may do good or do evil, And we look around and see [it] together.
41:24 Lo, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination -- it fixeth on you.
41:25 I have stirred up [one] from the north, And he cometh, From the rising of the sun he calleth in My name, And he cometh in [on] prefects as [on] clay, And as a potter treadeth down mire.
41:26 Who hath declared from the first, and we know? And beforetime, and we say, `Righteous?' yea, there is none declaring, Yea, there is none proclaiming, Yea, there is none hearing your sayings.
41:27 First to Zion, Behold, behold them, And to Jerusalem one proclaiming tidings I give,
41:28 And I see that there is no man, Yea, of these that there is no counsellor, And I ask them, and they return word:
41:29 `Lo, all of them [are] vanity, Nought [are] their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'

ISAIAH CHAPTER 42

Isaiah 42:1 Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one -- My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.
42:2 He doth not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard, in the street.
42:3 A bruised reed he breaketh not, And dim flax he quencheth not, To truth he bringeth forth judgment.
42:4 He doth not become weak nor bruised, Till he setteth judgment in the earth, And for his law isles wait with hope.
42:5 Thus said God, YHWH, preparing The heavens, and stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to those walking in it.
42:6 I, YHWH, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations.
42:7 To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.
42:8 I [am] YHWH, this [is] My name, And Mine honour to another I give not, Nor My praise to graven images.
42:9 The former things, lo, have come, And new things I am declaring, Before they spring up I cause you to hear.
Isaiah 42:10 Sing to YHWH a new song, His praise from the end of the earth, Ye who are going down to the sea, and its fulness, Isles, and their inhabitants.
42:11 The wilderness and its cities do lift up [the voice], The villages Kedar doth inhabit, Sing do the inhabitants of Sela, From the top of mountains they cry.
42:12 They ascribe to YHWH honour, And His praise in the isles they declare.
42:13 YHWH as a mighty one goeth forth. As a man of war He stirreth up zeal, He crieth, yea, He shrieketh, Against His enemies He showeth Himself mighty.
42:14 I have kept silent from of old, I keep silent, I refrain myself, As a travailing woman I cry out, I desolate and swallow up together.
42:15 I make waste mountains and hills, And all their herbs I dry up, And I have made rivers become isles, And ponds I dry up.
42:16 And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These [are] the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.
42:17 Removed backward -- utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a graven image, Those saying to a molten image, `Ye [are] our gods.'
42:18 Ye deaf, hear; and ye blind, look to see.
42:19 Who [is] blind but My servant? And deaf as My messenger I send? Who [is] blind as he who is at peace, Yea, blind, as the servant of YHWH?
Isaiah 42:20 Seeing many things, and thou observest not, Opening ears, and he heareth not.
42:21 YHWH hath delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifieth law, and maketh honourable.
42:22 And this [is] a people seized and spoiled, Snared in holes -- all of them, And in houses of restraint they were hidden, They have been for a prey, And there is no deliverer, A spoil, and none is saying, `Restore.'
42:23 Who among you giveth ear [to] this? Attendeth, and heareth afterwards.
42:24 Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, And Israel to the spoilers? Is it not YHWH -- He against whom we sinned? Yea, they have not been willing in His ways to walk, Nor have they hearkened to His law.
42:25 And He poureth on him fury, His anger, and the strength of battle, And it setteth him on fire round about, And he hath not known, And it burneth against him, and he layeth it not to heart!

ISAIAH CHAPTER 43

Isaiah 43:1 And now, thus said YHWH, Thy Creator, O Jacob, and thy Fashioner, O Israel, Be not afraid, for I have redeemed thee, I have called on thy name -- thou [art] Mine.
43:2 When thou passest into waters, I [am] with thee, And into floods, they do not overflow thee, When thou goest into fire, thou art not burnt, And a flame doth not burn against thee.
43:3 For I -- YHWH thy God, The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour, I have appointed Egypt thine atonement, Cush and Seba in thy stead.
43:4 Since thou wast precious in Mine eyes, Thou wast honoured, and I have loved thee, And I appoint men in thy stead, And peoples instead of thy life.
43:5 Be not afraid, for I [am] with thee, From the east I bring in thy seed, And from the west I gather thee.
43:6 I am saying to the north, `Give up,' And to the south, `Restrain not.' Bring in My sons from afar, And My daughters from the end of the earth.
43:7 Every one who is called by My name, Even for My honour I have created him, I have formed him, yea, I have made him.
43:8 He brought out a blind people who have eyes, And deaf ones who have ears.
43:9 All the nations have been gathered together, And the peoples are assembled, Who among them declareth this, And former things causeth us to hear? They give their witnesses, And they are declared righteous, And they hear and say, `Truth.'
Isaiah 43:10 Ye [are] My witnesses, an affirmation of YHWH, And My servant whom I have chosen, So that ye know and give credence to Me, And understand that I [am] He, Before Me there was no God formed, And after Me there is none.
43:11 I -- I [am] YHWH, And besides Me there is no saviour.
43:12 I -- I declared, and saved, and proclaimed, And there is no stranger with you, And ye [are] My witnesses, an affirmation of YHWH, And I [am] God.
43:13 Even from the day I [am] He, And there is no deliverer from My hand, I work, and who doth turn it back?
43:14 Thus said YHWH, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: `For your sake I have sent to Babylon, And caused bars to descend -- all of them, And the Chaldeans, whose song [is] in the ships.
43:15 I [am] YHWH, your Holy One, Creator of Israel, your King.'
43:16 Thus said YHWH, Who is giving in the sea a way, And in the strong waters a path.
43:17 Who is bringing forth chariot and horse, A force, even a strong one: `Together they lie down -- they rise not, They have been extinguished, As flax they have been quenched.'
43:18 Remember not former things, And ancient things consider not.
43:19 Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place -- floods.
Isaiah 43:20 Honour me doth the beast of the field, Dragons and daughters of an ostrich, For I have given in a wilderness waters, Floods in a desolate place, To give drink to My people -- My chosen.
43:21 This people I have formed for Myself, My praise they recount.
43:22 And Me thou hast not called, O Jacob, For thou hast been wearied of me, O Israel,
43:23 Thou hast not brought in to Me, The lamb of thy burnt-offerings, And [with] thy sacrifices thou hast not honoured Me, I have not caused thee to serve with a present, Nor wearied thee with frankincense.
43:24 Thou hast not bought for Me with money sweet cane, And [with] the fat of thy sacrifices hast not filled Me, Only -- thou hast caused Me to serve with thy sins, Thou hast wearied Me with thine iniquities.
43:25 I -- I [am] He who is blotting out Thy transgressions for Mine own sake, And thy sins I do not remember.
43:26 Cause me to remember -- we are judged together, Declare thou that thou mayest be justified.
43:27 Thy first father sinned, And thine interpreters transgressed against me,
43:28 And I pollute princes of the sanctuary, And I give Jacob to destruction, and Israel to revilings!

ISAIAH CHAPTER 44

Isaiah 44:1 And now, hear, O Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have fixed on:
44:2 Thus said YHWH, thy Maker, and thy Former, From the womb He doth help thee; Fear not, my servant Jacob, And Jeshurun, whom I have fixed on.
44:3 For I pour waters on a thirsty one, And floods on a dry land, I pour My Spirit on thy seed, And My blessing on thine offspring.
44:4 And they have sprung up as among grass, As willows by streams of water.
44:5 This [one] saith, For YHWH I [am], And this calleth [himself] by the name of Jacob, And this [one] writeth [with] his hand, `For YHWH,' and by the name of Israel surnameth himself.
44:6 Thus said YHWH, king of Israel, And his Redeemer, YHWH of Hosts: `I [am] the first, and I the last, And besides Me there is no God.
44:7 And who as I, doth call and declare it, And arrange it for Me, Since My placing the people of antiquity, And things that are coming, And those that do come, declare they to them?
44:8 Fear not, nor be afraid, Have I not from that time caused thee to hear, and declared? And ye [are] My witnesses, Is there a God besides Me? yea, there is none, A Rock I have not known.
44:9 Framers of a graven image [are] all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they [are], They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 44:10 Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?
44:11 Lo, all his companions are ashamed, As to artizans -- they [are] of men, All of them gather together, they stand up, They fear, they are ashamed together.
44:12 He hath wrought iron [with] an axe, And hath wrought with coals, And with hammers doth form it, And doth work it by his powerful arm, Yea, he is hungry, and there is no power, He doth not drink water, and he is wearied.
44:13 He hath wrought [with] wood, He hath stretched out a rule, He doth mark it out with a line, He maketh it with carving tools, And with a compass he marketh it out, And maketh it according to the form of a man, According to the beauty of a man, To remain in the house.
44:14 Cutting down to himself cedars, He taketh also a cypress, and an oak, And he strengtheneth [it] for himself Among the trees of a forest, He hath planted an ash, and the shower doth nourish [it].
44:15 And it hath been for man to burn, And he taketh of them, and becometh warm, Yea, he kindleth [it], and hath baked bread, Yea, he maketh a god, and boweth himself, He hath made it a graven image, And he falleth down to it.
44:16 Half of it he hath burnt in the fire, By [this] half of it he eateth flesh, He roasteth a roasting, and is satisfied, Yea, he is warm, and saith: `Aha, I have become warm, I have enjoyed the light.
44:17 And its remnant for a god he hath made -- For his graven image, He falleth down to it, and worshippeth, And prayeth unto it, and he saith, `Deliver me, for my god thou [art].'
44:18 They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.
44:19 And none doth turn [it] back unto his heart, Nor hath knowledge nor understanding to say, `Half of it I have burned in the fire, Yea, also, I have baked bread over its coals, I roast flesh and I eat, And its remnant for an abomination I make, To the stock of a tree I fall down.'
Isaiah 44:20 Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: `Is there not a lie in my right hand?'
44:21 Remember these, O Jacob, and Israel, For My servant thou [art], I formed thee, a servant to Me thou [art], O Israel, thou dost not forget Me.
44:22 I have blotted out, as [by] a thick cloud, Thy transgressions, And as [by] a cloud thy sins, Return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee.
44:23 Sing, O heavens, for YHWH hath wrought, Shout, O lower parts of earth, Break forth, O mountains, with singing, Forest, and every tree in it, For YHWH hath redeemed Jacob, And in Israel He doth beautify Himself.
44:24 Thus said YHWH, thy redeemer, And thy framer from the womb: `I [am] YHWH, doing all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself, Spreading out the earth -- who [is] with Me?
44:25 Making void the tokens of devisers, And diviners it maketh mad, Turning the wise backward, And their knowledge it maketh foolish.
44:26 Confirming the word of His servant, The counsel of His messengers it perfecteth, Who is saying of Jerusalem, She is inhabited, And of cities of Judah, They shall be built, and her wastes I raise up,
44:27 Who is saying to the deep, Be dry, and thy rivers I cause to dry up,
44:28 Who is saying of Cyrus, My shepherd, And all my delight He doth perfect, So as to say of Jerusalem, Thou art built, And of the temple, Thou art founded.

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