He shall cry aloud; he shall shout amain; He shall exert his strength against his enemies. 14 I have long holden my peace; shall I keep silence for ever? Shall I still contain myself? I will cry out like a woman in travail; Breathing short, and drawing in my breath with violence. 15 I will make barren the mountains and hills; And burn up all the grass that is upon them : I will make the rivers dry deserts; And scorch up the pools of water. 16 I will lead the blind in a way, which they have not known; 17 18 And through paths, which they have not known, will I make them go: I will turn darkness into light before them; And the rugged ways into a smooth plain. These things will I do for them, and will not forsake them. They are turned backward, they are utterly confounded, who trust in the graven image; Who say unto the molten image, Ye are our gods! Hear, O ye deaf; And, ye blind, look attentively, that ye may see! 19 Who is blind, but my servant; And deaf, as he to whom I have sent my messengers? 20 Thou hast seen indeed, yet thou dost not regard; 21 Yet JEHOVAH was gracious unto him, for his truth's sake; He hath exalted his own praise, and made it glorious. 22 But this is a people spoiled and plundered; All their chosen youths are taken in the toils, And are plunged in the dark dungeons: They are become a spoil, and there was none to rescue them ; A plunder, and no one said, Restore. 23 Who is there among you, that will listen to this; 24 Who hath given Jacob for a spoil; And Israel to the plunderers? Was it not JEHOVAH; He, against whom they have In whose ways they would not walk; 25 Therefore poured he out upon them the heat of his СНАР. 1 And it kindled a flame round about him, yet he did not regard it; And it set him on fire, yet he did not consider it. Yet now, thus saith JEHOVAH; Who created thee, O Jacob; and who formed thee, O Fear thou not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. 2 When thou passest through waters, I am with thee; And through rivers, they shall not overwhelm thee: When thou walkest in the fire, thou shalt not be scorched; And the flame shall not take hold of thee. 3 For I am JEHOVAH, thy God; The Holy One of Israel, thy redeemer : Cush, and Saba, in thy stead. 4 Because thou hast been precious in my sight, And peoples instead of thy soul. 5 Fear thou not, for I am with thee: From the east I will bring thy children, And from the west I will gather thee together: 6 I will say to the north, Give up; Bring my sons from afar; And my daughters from the ends of the earth: 7 Every one that is called by my name, Whom for my glory I have created; Whom I have formed, yea whom I have made. 8 Bring forth the people, blind, although they have eyes; And deaf, although they have ears. 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, 10 And let the peoples be collected. Who among them will declare this; And will tell us, what first shall come to pass ? Let them produce their witnesses, that they may be justified; Or let them hear in their turn, and say, This is true. Ye are my witnesses, saith JEHOVAH ; Even my servant, whom I have chosen: That ye may know, and believe me ; 11 I, even I, am JEHOVAH ; And beside me there is no saviour. 12 I declared my purpose, and I have saved : I made it known; nor was it any strange god among And ye are my witnesses, saith JEHOVAH, that I am 13 Even before time was, I am He; 14 And there is none that can rescue out of my hand: Thus saith JEHOVAH, Your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake have I sent unto Babylon; And I will bring down all her strong bars; And the Chaldeans, exulting in their ships: 15 I am JEHOVAH, your Holy One; 16 The creator of Israel, your king. Thus saith JEHOVAH; Who made a way in the sea, And a path in the mighty waters; 17 Who brought forth the rider and the horse, the army and the warrior; Together they lay down, they rose no more; They were extinguished, they were quenched like tow: 18 Remember not the former things; And the things of ancient times regard not; 19 Behold, I make a new thing; Even now shall it spring forth: will ye not regard it? In the desert, streams of water. 20 The wild beast of the field shall glorify me; To give drink to my people, my chosen : 21 This people, whom I have formed for myself; 22 But thou hast not invoked me, O Jacob; Neither on my account hast thou laboured, O Israel! 23 Thou hast not brought to me the lamb of thy burntoffering; Neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not burthened thee with exacting oblations; Nor wearied thee with demands of frankincense : 24 Thou hast not purchased for me with silver the aromatic seed; Neither hast thou satiated me with the fat of thy sacri- On the contrary, thou hast burthened me with thy sins; 25 I, even I, am He; I blot out thy transgressions for mine own sake; And thy sins I will not remember. 26 Remind me of thy plea; let us be judged on equal terms: Set forth thine own cause, that thou mayest clear thyself. 27 Thy chief leader hath sinned; And thy public teachers have revolted from me; CHAP. 1 XLIV. BUT hear now, O Jacob, my servant; And he that formed thee from the womb, and will help thee: Fear thou not, O my servant Jacob; And, O Jeshurun, whom I have chosen : : 4 And they shall spring up as the grass among the waters; As the willows beside the aqueducts. 5 One shall say, I belong to JEHOVAH; 6 And another shall be called by the name of Jacob: And this shall inscribe his hand to JEHOVAH; And shall be surnamed by the name of Israel. Thus saith JEHOVAH, the king of Israel; I am the first, and I am the last; And beside me there is no God. 7 And who is like me, that he should call forth this event, And make it known beforehand, and dispose it for me, From the time that I appointed the people of the destined age? The things that are now coming, and are to come hereafter, let them declare unto us. 8 Fear ye not, neither be ye afraid : Have I not declared it unto you from the first? Yea, I have foreshewn it: and ye are my witnesses. Yea, there is no other sure protector; I know not any. 9 They that form the graven image are all of them vanity; And their most curious works shall not profit. Yea, their works themselves bear witness to them, That they see not, and that they understand not: 10 That every one may be ashamed that he hath formed a god, And cast a graven image, that profiteth not. 11 Behold, all his associates shall be ashamed; Even the workmen themselves shall blush: They shall assemble all of them; they shall present themselves; They shall fear, and be ashamed together. |