Ye that have been borne by me from the birth;
That have been carried from the womb:

4 And even to your old age, I am the same;
And even to your grey hairs, I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;

5

I will carry, and will deliver you.

To whom will ye liken me, and equal me? And to whom will ye compare me, that we may be like? 6 Ye that lavish gold out of the bag;

And that weigh silver in the balance?

They hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god:

They worship him; yea, they prostrate themselves before him.

7 They bear him on the shoulder; they carry him about; They set him down in his place, and he standeth: From his place he shall not remove;

8

To him that crieth unto him, he will not answer;
Neither will he deliver him from his distress.

Remember this, and shew yourselves men:
Reflect on it deeply, O ye apostates!

9 Remember the former things, of old time:
Verily I am God, and none else;

I am God, nor is there any thing like me: 10 From the beginning making known the end;

And from early times, the things that are not yet done :
Saying, My counsel shall stand;

And whatever I have.willed, I will effect.

11 Calling from the east the eagle;

12

And from a land far distant, the man of my counsel :

As I have spoken, so will I bring it to pass;

I have formed the design, and I will execute it.

Hearken unto me, 0 ye stubborn of heart;

Ye that are far distant from deliverance :

13 I bring my promised deliverance near, it shall not be far

distant;

And my salvation shall not be delayed.

And I will give in Sion salvation;

To Israel I will give my glory.

CHAP. 1
XLVII,

DESCEND, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of
Babylon;

Sit on the bare ground without a throne, O daughter of
the Chaldeans:

For thou shalt no longer be called the tender, and the delicate.

2 Take the mill, and grind the corn:

Uncover thy locks, disclose thy flowing hair;

Make bare thy leg; wade through the rivers.

3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered; even thy shame shall be seen:

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5

I will take full vengeance; neither will I suffer man to intercede with me.

Our avenger, JEHOVAH God of Hosts,

The Holy One of Israel, is his name!

Sit thou in silence, go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans;

For thou shalt no longer be called the lady of the kingdoms.

6 I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; And I gave them up into thy hand:

Thou didst not shew mercy unto them;

Even upon the aged didst thou greatly aggravate the weight of thy yoke.

7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever:

Because thou didst not attentively consider these things; Thou didst not think on what was in the end to befall thee.

8 But hear now this, O thou voluptuous, that sittest in security;

Thou that sayest in thy heart, I am, and there is none else;

I shall not sit a widow; I shall not know the loss of children.

9 Yet shall these two things come upon thee in a moment; In one day, loss of children and widowhood:

On a sudden shall they come upon thee;

Notwithstanding the multitude of thy sorceries, and the great strength of thine enchantments.

10 But thou didst trust in thy wickedness, and saidst, None

seeth me:

Thy wisdom and thy knowledge have preverted thy mind;

So that thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is none besides.

11 Therefore evil shall come upon thee, which thou shalt not know how to deprecate;

And mischief shall fall upon thee, which thou shalt not be able to expiate;

And destruction shall come upon thee suddenly, of which thou shalt have no apprehension.

12 Persist now in thine enchantments;

And in the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth;

If peradventure thou mayest be profited, if thou mayest be strengthened by them.

13 Thou art wearied in the multiplicity of thy counsels :
Let them stand up now, and save thee;

The observers of the heavens, the gazers on the stars;
They that prognosticate, at every new moon,

What are the events that shall happen unto thee.

14 Behold they shall be like stubble; the fire shall burn them up:

They shall not deliver their own souls from the power of the flame;

Not a coal to warm one, not a fire to sit by, shall be left of them.

15 Such shall these be unto thee, with whom thou hast laboured;

CHAP. 1 XLVIII.

Thy negociators, with whom thou hast dealt from thy youth:

Every one shall turn aside to his own business; none shall deliver thee.

Hear this, O house of Jacob;

Ye that are called by the name of Israel :
Ye that flow from the fountain of Judah;
Ye that swear by the name of JEHOVAH,
And publicly acknowledge the God of Israel;
But not in sincerity, nor in truth:

2 Who take their name from the Holy City,

And make the God of Israel their support;
JEHOVAH God of Hosts is his name:

3 The former things I showed unto you from the first; And from my mouth they proceeded, and I declared them :

On a sudden I effected them, and they came to pass. 4 Because I knew that thou wast obstinate,

And that thy neck was a sinew of iron,
And that thy front was brass;

5 Therefore I showed them unto thee from the first; Before they should come to pass, I made thee hear them: Lest thou shouldst say, Mine idol hath caused them; And my graven and my molten image hath directed them. 6 Thou didst hear it beforehand; behold, the whole is accomplished:

And will ye not openly acknowledge this?

From this time I make thee hear new things,

Kept secret hitherto, and of which thou hast no knowledge:

7 They are produced now, and not of old;

And before this day thou hast not heard them :
Lest thou shouldst say, Lo! I knew them.

8 Yea, thou hast not heard, thou hast not known,
Yea, from the first thine ear was not opened to receive
them :

For I knew, that thou wouldst certainly deal falsely, And that Apostate was thy name from thy birth. 9 For the sake of my name I will defer mine anger; And for the sake of my praise I will restrain it from thee, That I may not utterly cut thee off.

10 Behold, I have purified thee in the fire, but not as silver; I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction.

11 For mine own sake will I do it; for how would my name be blasphemed?

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And my glory I will not give to another.

Hearken unto me, O Jacob my servant; And Israel, whom I have called.

I am He; I am the first, and I am the last:

13 Yea my hand hath founded the earth;

And my right hand hath spanned the heavens:

I summon them; they present themselves together.

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14

Gather yourselves together all of you, and hear;
Who among you hath predicted these things?
He, whom JEHOVAH hath loved, will execute
His will on Babylon, and his power on the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken; yea I have called him:
I have brought him, and his way shall prosper.

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17

Draw near unto me, and hear ye this:

From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
Before the time when it began to exist, I had decreed it.
And now the Lord JEHOVAH hath sent me, and his
Spirit.

Thus saith JEHOVAH,

Thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

I am JEHOVAH, thy God;

Who teacheth thee what will tend to thy profit;

Who directeth thee in the way wherein thou shouldst go. 18 O that thou hadst attended to my commands!

Then had thy prosperity been like the river;

And thy blessedness, as the floods of the sea:

19 And thy seed had been as the sand;

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And the issue of thy bowels, like that of the bowels thereof:

Thy name should not be cut off, nor destroyed from before me.

Come ye forth from Babylon; flee ye from the land of the Chaldeans with the voice of joy :

Publish ye this, and make it heard: utter it forth even to the end of the earth :

Say ye, JEHOVAH hath redeemed his servant Jacob; 21 They thirsted not in the deserts, through which he made them go;

22

CHAP. 1
XLIX.

Waters from the rock he caused to flow for them;
Yea he clave the rock, and forth gushed the waters.
There is no peace, saith JEHOVAH, to the wicked.

HEARKEN unto me, O ye distant lands;
And ye peoples, attend from afar.

JEHOVAH from the womb hath called me ;