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5

6

And I have stained all mine apparel.

For the day of vengeance was in my heart;
And the year of redeemed was come.

my

And I looked, and there was no one to help;

And I was astonished that there was no one to
uphold:

Therefore mine own arm wrought salvation for me,
And mine indignation itself sustained me.

And I trod down the peoples in mine anger;
And I crushed them in mine indignation;

And I spilled their life-blood on the ground.

7

The mercies of JEHOVAH will I record, the praise of
JEHOVAH;

According to all that JEHOVAH hath bestowed upon us;
And the greatness of his goodness to the house of Israel;
Which he hath bestowed upon them, through his ten-
derness and great kindness.

8 For he said: Surely they are my people, children that' will not prove false:

And he became their saviour in all their distress.

9 It was not an envoy, nor an angel of his presence, that saved them:

Through his love and his indulgence, he himself redeemed them;

And he took them up, and he bare them, all the days of old.

10 But they rebelled, and grieved his his holy spirit;

So that he became their enemy; and he fought against them.

11 And he remembered the days of old, Moses his servant; How he brought them up from the sea, with the shepherd of his flock;

How he placed in his breast his holy spirit:

12 Making his glorious arm to attend Moses on his right hand in his march;

Cleaving the waters before them, to make himself a name everlasting;

13 Leading them through the abyss, like a courser in the plain without obstacle.

14 As the herd descendeth to the valley, the spirit of JEHOVAH conducted them:

15

So didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a name

illustrious.

Look down from heaven, and see, from thy holy and glorious dwelling:

Where is thy zeal, and thy mighty power;

The yearning of thy bowels, and thy tender affections? are they restrained from us?

16. Verily, Thou art our father; for Abraham knoweth us not,

And Israel doth not acknowledge us.

Thou, O JEHOVAH, art our father;

O deliver us for the sake of thy name!

17 Wherefore, O JEHOVAH, dost thou suffer us to err from thy ways?

To harden our hearts from the fear of thee?

Return for the sake of thy servants;

For the sake of the tribes of thine inheritance.

18 It is little, that they have taken possession of thy holy mountain;

That our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary: 19 We have long been as those, whom thou hast not ruled; Who have not been called by thy name.

CHAP. 1
LXIV.

O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that thou wouldst descend;

That the mountains might flow down at thy presence! 2 As the fire kindleth the dry fuel;

As the fire causeth the waters to boil:

To make known thy name to thine enemies;

That the nations might tremble at thy presence.

3 When thou didst wonderful things, which we expected not;

Thou didst descend; at thy presence the mountains
flowed down.

4 For never have men heard, nor perceived by the ear,
Nor hath eye seen, a God beside thee,

Who doeth such things for those that trust in him.
5 Thou meetest with joy those who work righteousness;
Who in thy ways remember thee.

Lo! Thou art angry; for we have sinned:

Because of our deeds for we have been rebellious.

:

6 And we are all of us as a polluted thing;

And like a rejected garment are all our righteous deeds:

And we are withered away, like a leaf, all of us;
And our sins, like the wind, have borne us away.
7 There is no one that invoketh thy name;

That rouseth himself up to lay hold on thee:
Therefore thou hast hidden thy face from us;

And hast delivered us up into the hand of our iniquities. 8 But thou, O JEHOVAH, thou art our father;

We are the clay, and thou hast formed us:
We are all of us the work of thy hands.

9 Be not wroth, O JEHOVAH, to the uttermost ;
Nor for ever remember iniquity.

Behold, look upon us, we beseech thee; we are all thy
people.

10 Thy holy cities are become a wilderness;

Sion is become a wilderness; Jeursalem is desolate.

11 Our holy and glorious temple,

Wherein our fathers praised thee,

Is utterly burnt up with fire;

And all the objects of our desire are become a devastation.

12 Wilt thou contain thyself at these things, O JEHOVAH? Wilt thou keep silence, and still grievously afflict us?

CHAP. ] I AM made known to those, that asked not for me;
LXV.
I am found of those, that sought me not:

I have said: Behold me, here I am,

To the nation which never invoked my name:

2 I have stretched out my hands all the day to a rebellious people,

Who walk in an evil way, after their own devices : 3 A people, who provoke me to my face continually; Sacrificing in the gardens, and burning incense on the tiles:

4 Who dwell in the sepulchres, and lodge in the caverns; Who eat the flesh of the swine;

And the broth of abominable meats is in their vessels : 5 Who say: Keep to thyself; come not near me; for I am holier than thou.

These kindle a smoke in my nostrils, a fire burning all the day long.

6 Behold, this is recorded in writing before me:

I will not keep silence, but will certainly requite;

7 I will requite into their bosom their iniquities;

8

And the iniquities of their fathers together, saith JEHO
VAH;

Who burnt incense on the mountains, and dishonoured
me upon the hills:

Yea I will pour into their bosom the full measure of their former deeds.

Thus saith JEHOVAH:

As when one findeth a good grape in the cluster;

And sayeth, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it:
So will I do for the sake of my servants; I will not de-
stroy the whole.

9 So will I bring forth from Jacob a seed;

And from Judah an inheritor of my mountain :
And my chosen shall inherit the land;

And my servants shall dwell there.

10 And Sharon shall be a fold for the flock,

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And the valley of Achor a resting for the herd;
For my people, who have sought after me.

But ye, who have deserted JEHOVAH; And have forgotten my holy mountain: Who set in order a table for Gad;

And fill out a libation to Meni :

12 You will I number out to the sword;

13

And all of you shall bow down to the slaughter.
Because I called, and ye answered not;

I spake, and ye would not hear:

But ye did that, which is evil in my sight;
And that, in which I delighted not, ye chose.
Wherefore thus saith the Lord JEHOVAH:

Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be famished;
Behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty;
Behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be con-
founded:

14 Behold, my servants shall sing aloud, for gladness of heart;

chosen :

But ye shall cry aloud, for grief of heart; And in the anguish of a broken spirit shall ye howl. 15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my And the Lord JEHOVAH shall slay you ; And his servants shall he call by another name.

16

Whoso blesseth himself upon the earth,
Shall bless himself in the God of truth;
And whoso sweareth upon the earth,
Shall swear by the God of truth.

Because the former provocations are forgotten;
And because they are hidden from mine eyes.
17 For behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth;
And the former ones shall not be remembered,

Neither shall they be brought to mind any more.

18 But ye shall rejoice and exult in the age to come, which I create:

For lo! I create Jerusalem a subject of joy, and her people of gladness;

19 And I will exult in Jerusalem, and rejoice in my people. And there shall not be heard any more therein,

The voice of weeping, and the voice of a distressful cry: 20 No more shall be there an infant short-lived;

Nor an old man who hath not fulfilled his days:

For he, that dieth at an hundred years, shall die a boy; And the sinner that dieth at an hundred years, shall be deemed accursed.

21 And they shall build houses, and shall inhabit them; And they shall plant vineyards, and shall eat the fruit thereof.

22 They shall not build, and another inhabit;

They shall not plant, and another eat:

For as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people; And they shall wear out the works of their own hands. 23 My chosen shall not labour in vain ;

Neither shall they generate a short-lived race :

For they shall be a seed blessed of JEHOVAH;
They, and their offspring with them.

24 And it shall be, that before they call, I will answer; They shall be yet speaking, and I shall have heard.

25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together;

And the lion shall eat straw like the ox:

But as for the serpent, dust shall be his food.
They shall not hurt, neither shall they destroy.
In all my holy mountain, saith JEHOVAH.