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## Yeshayahu

### Chapter 1

1The vision of Yeshayahu the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Yehudah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uziyahu, Yotam, Achaz, and Chizkiyahu, kings of Yehudah. 2Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for YHWH has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me. 3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Yisrael doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.” 4Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken YHWH. They have despised the Kodesh One of Yisrael. They are estranged and backward. 5Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil. 7Your country is desolate. Your cities are burnt with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8The daughter of Tzion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city. 9Unless YHWH Tzeva'ot had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Amorah. 10Hear YHWH’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our Elohim, you people of Amorah! 11“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says YHWH. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. 12When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Shabbats, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies. 14My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. 15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. 16Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. 17Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.” 18“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says YHWH: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land; 20but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for YHWH’s mouth has spoken it.” 21How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers. 22Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. 23Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them. 24Therefore Adonai, YHWH Tzeva'ot, the Mighty One of Yisrael, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies. 25I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin. 26I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’ 27Tzion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness. 28But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake YHWH shall be consumed. 29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen. 30For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. 31The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”

### Chapter 2

1This is what Yeshayahu the son of Amoz saw concerning Yehudah and Jerusalem. 2It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of YHWH’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. 3Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of YHWH, to the house of the Elohim of Yaakov; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Tzion, and YHWH’s word from Jerusalem. 4He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5House of Yaakov, come, and let’s walk in the light of YHWH. 6For you have forsaken your people, the house of Yaakov, because they are filled from the east, with those who practise divination like the Pelishtim, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners. 7Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots. 8Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. 9Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them. 10Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of YHWH, and from the glory of his majesty. 11The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and YHWH alone will be exalted in that day. 12For there will be a day of YHWH Tzeva'ot for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low— 13for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan, 14for all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up, 15for every lofty tower, for every fortified wall, 16for all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery. 17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and YHWH alone shall be exalted in that day. 18The idols shall utterly pass away. 19Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of YHWH, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. 20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, 21to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of YHWH, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily. 22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

### Chapter 3

1For, behold, Adonai, YHWH Tzeva'ot, takes away from Jerusalem and from Yehudah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; 2the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder, 3the captain of fifty, the honourable man, the counsellor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter. 4I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them. 5The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbour. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honourable. 6Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, “You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand.” 7In that day he will cry out, saying, “I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people.” 8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Yehudah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against YHWH, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 9The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves. 10Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds. 11Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them. 12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths. 13YHWH stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples. 14YHWH will enter into judgement with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses. 15What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says Adonai, YHWH Tzeva'ot. 16Moreover YHWH said, “Because the daughters of Tzion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking daintily as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet; 17therefore Adonai brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Tzion, and YHWH will make their scalps bald.” 18In that day Adonai will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces, 19the earrings, the bracelets, the veils, 20the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume containers, the charms, 21the signet rings, the nose rings, 22the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses, 23the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls. 24It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty. 25Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war. 26Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

### Chapter 4

1Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.” 2In that day, YHWH’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Yisrael. 3It will happen that he who is left in Tzion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called kodesh, even everyone who is written amongst the living in Jerusalem, 4when Adonai shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Tzion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning. 5YHWH will create over the whole habitation of Har Tzion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy. 6There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

### Chapter 5

1Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. 2He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. 3“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Yehudah, please judge between me and my vineyard. 4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes? 5Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down. 6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.” 7For the vineyard of YHWH Tzeva'ot is the house of Yisrael, and the men of Yehudah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress. 8Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land! 9In my ears, YHWH Tzeva'ot says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied. 10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.” 11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them! 12The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of YHWH, neither have they considered the operation of his hands. 13Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honourable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst. 14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices amongst them, descend into it. 15So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled; 16but YHWH Tzeva'ot is exalted in justice, and Elohim the Kodesh One is sanctified in righteousness. 17Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich. 18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope, 19who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Kodesh One of Yisrael draw near and come, that we may know it!” 20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink; 23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent! 24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of YHWH Tzeva'ot, and despised the word of the Kodesh One of Yisrael. 25Therefore YHWH’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out. 26He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly. 27No one shall be weary nor stumble amongst them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken, 28whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. 29Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver. 30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

### Chapter 6

1In the year that King Uziyahu died, I saw Adonai sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the Beit HaMikdash. 2Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew. 3One called to another, and said, “Kodesh, kodesh, kodesh, is YHWH Tzeva'ot! The whole earth is full of his glory!” 4The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live amongst a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, YHWH Tzeva'ot!” 6Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. 7He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.” 8I heard adonai’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!” 9He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’ 10Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.” 11Then I said, “Adonai, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste, 12and YHWH has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land. 13If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak whose stump remains when they are cut down, so the kodesh seed is its stump.”

### Chapter 7

1In the days of Achaz the son of Yotam, the son of Uziyahu, king of Yehudah, Rezin the king of Aram and Pekach the son of Remalyahu, king of Yisrael, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. 2David’s house was told, “Aram is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind. 3Then YHWH said to Yeshayahu, “Go out now to meet Achaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field. 4Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remalyahu. 5Because Aram, Ephraim, and the son of Remalyahu, have plotted evil against you, saying, 6“Let’s go up against Yehudah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it amongst ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.” 7This is what Adonai YHWH says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.” 8For the head of Aram is Dameshek, and the head of Dameshek is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people. 9The head of Ephraim is Shomron, and the head of Shomron is Remalyahu’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’” 10YHWH spoke again to Achaz, saying, 11“Ask a sign of YHWH your Elohim; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.” 12But Achaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt YHWH.” 13He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my Elohim also? 14Therefore Adonai himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanu'el. 15He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. 17YHWH will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Yehudah, even the king of Assyria. 18It will happen in that day that YHWH will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Mitzrayim, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures. 20In that day Adonai will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard. 21It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep. 22It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter, for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land. 23It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will be for briers and thorns. 24People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns. 25All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”

### Chapter 8

1YHWH said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’; 2and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriyah the priest, and Zecharyah the son of Yeverekhyah.” 3I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then YHWH said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’ 4For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the riches of Dameshek and the plunder of Shomron will be carried away by the king of Assyria.” 5YHWH spoke to me yet again, saying, 6“Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remalyahu’s son; 7now therefore, behold, Adonai brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks. 8It will sweep onward into Yehudah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, O Immanu'el. 9Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered! 10Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for Elohim is with us.” 11For YHWH spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, 12“Don’t call a conspiracy all that this people call a conspiracy. Don’t fear their threats or be terrorised. 13YHWH Tzeva'ot is who you must respect as kodesh. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread. 14He will be a Beit HaMikdash, but for both houses of Yisrael, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare. 15Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.” 16Wrap up the Brit. Seal the law amongst my talmidim. 17I will wait for YHWH, who hides his face from the house of Yaakov, and I will look for him. 18Behold, I and the children whom YHWH has given me are for signs and for wonders in Yisrael from YHWH Tzeva'ot, who dwells in Har Tzion. 19When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their Elohim? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? 20Turn to the law and to the Brit! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. 21They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse their king and their Elohim. They will turn their faces upward, 22then look to the earth and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

### Chapter 9

1But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zevulun and the land of Naftali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galil of the nations. 2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death. 3You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder. 4For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midyan. 5For all the armour of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire. 6For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty Elohim, Everlasting Father, Sar Shalom. 7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of YHWH Tzeva'ot will perform this. 8Adonai sent a word into Yaakov, and it falls on Yisrael. 9All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Shomron, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart, 10“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.” 11Therefore YHWH will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, 12The Aramim in front, and the Pelishtim behind; and they will devour Yisrael with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 13Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought YHWH Tzeva'ot. 14Therefore YHWH will cut off from Yisrael head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day. 15The elder and the honourable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail. 16For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed. 17Therefore Adonai will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 18For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. 19Through YHWH Tzeva'ot’ wrath, the land is burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother. 20One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm: 21Menashe eating Ephraim and Ephraim eating Menashe, and they together will be against Yehudah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

### Chapter 10

1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees 2to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor amongst my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! 3What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth? 4They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 5Alas Ashuri, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation! 6I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7However, he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations. 8For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings? 9Isn’t Calno like Karkemish? Isn’t Chamat like Arpad? Isn’t Shomron like Dameshek?” 10As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Shomron, 11shall I not, as I have done to Shomron and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12Therefore it will happen that when Adonai has performed his whole work on Har Tzion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the wilful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks. 13For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers. 14My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.” 15Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood. 16Therefore Adonai, YHWH Tzeva'ot, will send amongst his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire. 17The light of Yisrael will be for a fire, and his Kodesh One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. 18He will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints. 19The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number. 20It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Yisrael, and those who have escaped from the house of Yaakov will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on YHWH, the Kodesh One of Yisrael, in truth. 21A remnant will return, even the remnant of Yaakov, to the mighty Elohim. 22For though your people, Yisrael, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. 23For Adonai, YHWH Tzeva'ot, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth. 24Therefore Adonai, YHWH Tzeva'ot, says, “My people who dwell in Tzion, don’t be afraid of the Ashuri, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Mitzrayim did. 25For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.” 26YHWH Tzeva'ot will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midyan at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Mitzrayim. 27It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil. 28He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage. 29They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geva. Ramah trembles. Giv'ah of Sha'ul has fled. 30Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anatot! 31Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. 32This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Tzion, the hill of Jerusalem. 33Behold, Adonai, YHWH Tzeva'ot, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low. 34He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

### Chapter 11

1A shoot will come out of the stock of Yishai, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit. 2YHWH’s Ruach will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of YHWH. 3His delight will be in the fear of YHWH. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears; 4but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked. 5Righteousness will be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his waist. 6The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. 7The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. 8The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den. 9They will not hurt nor destroy in all my kodesh mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of YHWH, as the waters cover the sea. 10It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Yishai, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious. 11It will happen in that day that Adonai will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Mitzrayim, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shin'ar, from Chamat, and from the islands of the sea. 12He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Yisrael, and gather together the dispersed of Yehudah from the four corners of the earth. 13The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Yehudah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Yehudah, and Yehudah won’t persecute Ephraim. 14They will fly down on the shoulders of the Pelishtim on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them. 15YHWH will utterly destroy the tongue of the Mitzri sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals. 16There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Yisrael in the day that he came up out of the land of Mitzrayim.

### Chapter 12

1In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, YHWH; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me. 2Behold, Elohim is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for YHWH, YHWH, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.” 3Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation. 4In that day you will say, “Give thanks to YHWH! Call on his name! Declare his doings amongst the peoples! Proclaim that his name is exalted! 5Sing to YHWH, for he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth! 6Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Tzion, for the Kodesh One of Yisrael is great amongst you!”

### Chapter 13

1The burden of Babylon, which Yeshayahu the son of Amoz saw. 2Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 3I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones. 4The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! YHWH Tzeva'ot is mustering the army for the battle. 5They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even YHWH, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 6Wail, for YHWH’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the El Shaddai. 7Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt. 8They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labour. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame. 9Behold, the day of YHWH comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it. 10For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine. 11I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible. 12I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ofir. 13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in YHWH Tzeva'ot’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger. 14It will happen that like a hunted gazelle and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land. 15Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword. 16Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped. 17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it. 18Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children. 19Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Kasdim’ pride, will be like when Elohim overthrew Sodom and Amorah. 20It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there. 21But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there. 22Hyenas will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.

### Chapter 14

1For YHWH will have compassion on Yaakov, and will yet choose Yisrael, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Yaakov. 2The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Yisrael will possess them in YHWH’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. 3It will happen in the day that YHWH will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve, 4that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!” 5YHWH has broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers, 6who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained. 7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song. 8Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.” 9Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?” 11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you. 12How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! 13You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of Elohim! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north! 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Elyon!” 15Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. 16Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms, 17who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?” 18All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, everyone in his own house. 19But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot. 20You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever. 21Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities. 22“I will rise up against them,” says YHWH Tzeva'ot, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says YHWH. 23“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says YHWH Tzeva'ot. 24YHWH Tzeva'ot has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 25that I will break the Ashuri in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders. 26This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. 27For YHWH Tzeva'ot has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?” 28This burden was in the year that King Achaz died. 29Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. 30The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed. 31Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. 32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That YHWH has founded Tzion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

### Chapter 15

1The burden of Moab. For in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. 2They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nevo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off. 3In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly. 4Cheshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Yahatz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them. 5My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for on the way to Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction. 6For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing. 7Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows. 8For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab, its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim. 9For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land.

### Chapter 16

1Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Tzion. 2For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. 3Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive! 4Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land. 5A throne will be established in chesed. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness. 6We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing. 7Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken. 8For the fields of Cheshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Yazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea. 9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Yazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Cheshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen. 10Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop. 11Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Cheres. 12It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his Beit HaMikdash to pray, that he will not prevail. 13This is the word that YHWH spoke concerning Moab in time past. 14But now YHWH has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”

### Chapter 17

1The burden of Dameshek. “Behold, Dameshek is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. 2The cities of Aro'er are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid. 3The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Dameshek, and the remnant of Aram. They will be as the glory of the children of Yisrael,” says YHWH Tzeva'ot. 4“It will happen in that day that the glory of Yaakov will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean. 5It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim. 6Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says YHWH, the Elohim of Yisrael. 7In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Kodesh One of Yisrael. 8They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles or the incense altars. 9In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Yisrael; and it will be a desolation. 10For you have forgotten the Elohim of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings. 11In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. 12Ah, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! 13The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm. 14At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

### Chapter 18

1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Kush; 2that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!” 3All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen! 4For YHWH said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” 5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches. 6They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter. 7In that time, a present will be brought to YHWH Tzeva'ot from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of YHWH Tzeva'ot, Har Tzion.

### Chapter 19

1The burden of Mitzrayim. “Behold, YHWH rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Mitzrayim. The idols of Mitzrayim will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Mitzrayim will melt within it. 2I will stir up the Mitzrim against the Mitzrim, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3The spirit of the Mitzrim will fail within them. I will destroy their counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards. 4I will give over the Mitzrim into the hand of a cruel Adonai. A fierce king will rule over them,” says Adonai, YHWH Tzeva'ot. 5The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry. 6The rivers will become foul. The streams of Mitzrayim will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away. 7The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more. 8The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish. 9Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded. 10The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul. 11The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings”? 12Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what YHWH Tzeva'ot has purposed concerning Mitzrayim. 13The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Mitzrayim to go astray, those who are the cornerstone of her tribes. 14YHWH has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Mitzrayim to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit. 15Neither shall there be any work for Mitzrayim, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do. 16In that day the Mitzrim will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of YHWH Tzeva'ot’s hand, which he shakes over them. 17The land of Yehudah will become a terror to Mitzrayim. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of YHWH Tzeva'ot, which he determines against it. 18In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Mitzrayim that speak the language of Kna'an, and swear to YHWH Tzeva'ot. One will be called “The city of destruction.” 19In that day, there will be an altar to YHWH in the middle of the land of Mitzrayim, and a pillar to YHWH at its border. 20It will be for a sign and for a witness to YHWH Tzeva'ot in the land of Mitzrayim; for they will cry to YHWH because of oppressors, and he will send them a Saviour and a defender, and he will deliver them. 21YHWH will be known to Mitzrayim, and the Mitzrim will know YHWH in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to YHWH, and will perform it. 22YHWH will strike Mitzrayim, striking and healing. They will return to YHWH, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them. 23In that day there will be a highway out of Mitzrayim to Assyria, and the Ashuri shall come into Mitzrayim, and the Mitzri into Assyria; and the Mitzrim will worship with the Ashurim. 24In that day, Yisrael will be the third with Mitzrayim and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth; 25because YHWH Tzeva'ot has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Mitzrayim my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Yisrael my inheritance.”

### Chapter 20

1In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; 2at that time YHWH spoke by Yeshayahu the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot. 3YHWH said, “As my servant Yeshayahu has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Mitzrayim and concerning Kush, 4so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Mitzrayim and the exiles of Kush, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Mitzrayim. 5They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Kush their expectation, and of Mitzrayim their glory. 6The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’”

### Chapter 21

1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land. 2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing. 3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labour. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see. 4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me. 5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield! 6For Adonai said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. 7When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.” 8He cried like a lion: “Adonai, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post. 9Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground. 10You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from YHWH Tzeva'ot, the Elohim of Yisrael, I have declared to you. 11The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?” 12The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will enquire, enquire. Come back again.” 13The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites. 14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread. 15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle. 16For Adonai said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail, 17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for YHWH, the Elohim of Yisrael, has spoken it.”

### Chapter 22

1The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops? 2You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town, your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. 3All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away. 4Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labour to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 5For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity from Adonai, YHWH Tzeva'ot, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.” 6Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield. 7Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. 8He took away the covering of Yehudah; and you looked in that day to the armour in the house of the forest. 9You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. 11You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planned it long ago. 12In that day, Adonai, YHWH Tzeva'ot, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth; 13and behold, there is joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.” 14YHWH Tzeva'ot revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says Adonai, YHWH Tzeva'ot. 15Adonai, YHWH Tzeva'ot says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say, 16‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiselling a habitation for himself in the rock!” 17Behold, YHWH will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly. 18He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you disgrace of your adonai’s house. 19I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station. 20It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Elyakim the son of Chilkiyahu, 21and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Yehudah. 22I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open. 23I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house. 24They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers. 25“In that day,” says YHWH Tzeva'ot, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for YHWH has spoken it.”

### Chapter 23

1The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. 2Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Tzidon that pass over the sea have replenished. 3On great waters, the seed of the Shichor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations. 4Be ashamed, Tzidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.” 5When the report comes to Mitzrayim, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre. 6Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast! 7Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel? 8Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honourable of the earth? 9YHWH Tzeva'ot has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. 10Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more. 11He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. YHWH has ordered the destruction of Kna'an’s strongholds. 12He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Tzidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.” 13Behold, the land of the Kasdim. This people didn’t exist. The Ashurim founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin. 14Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste! 15It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute. 16Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered. 17It will happen after the end of seventy years that YHWH will visit Tyre. She will return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth. 18Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to YHWH. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before YHWH, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

### Chapter 24

1Behold, YHWH makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. 2It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest. 3The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for YHWH has spoken this word. 4The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. 5The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting Brit. 6Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burnt, and few men are left. 7The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. 8The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. 9They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it. 10The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. 12The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction. 13For it will be so within the earth amongst the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done. 14These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of YHWH. They cry aloud from the sea. 15Therefore glorify YHWH in the east, even the name of YHWH, the Elohim of Yisrael, in the islands of the sea! 16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously. 17Fear, the pit, and the snare are on you who inhabit the earth. 18It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. 19The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently. 20The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again. 21It will happen in that day that YHWH will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. 22They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited. 23Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for YHWH Tzeva'ot will reign on Har Tzion and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.

### Chapter 25

1YHWH, you are my Elohim. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth. 2For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built. 3Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you. 4For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall. 5As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low. 6In this mountain, YHWH Tzeva'ot will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines. 7He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. 8He has swallowed up death forever! Adonai YHWH will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for YHWH has spoken it. 9It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our Elohim! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is YHWH! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!” 10For YHWH’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill. 11He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands. 12He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

### Chapter 26

1In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Yehudah: “We have a strong city. Elohim appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks. 2Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith. 3You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you. 4Trust in YHWH forever; for in YHWH, YHWH, is an everlasting Rock. 5For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust. 6The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.” 7The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level. 8Yes, in the way of your judgements, YHWH, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul. 9With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. 10Let favour be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see YHWH’s majesty. 11YHWH, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries. 12YHWH, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us. 13YHWH our Elohim, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but we will only acknowledge your name. 14The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish. 15You have increased the nation, O YHWH. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land. 16YHWH, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them. 17Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, YHWH. 18We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. 19Your dead shall live. Their dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits. 20Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past. 21For, behold, YHWH comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

### Chapter 27

1In that day, YHWH with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan, the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea. 2In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard! 3I, YHWH, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day. 4Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together. 5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.” 6In days to come, Yaakov will take root. Yisrael will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit. 7Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed? 8In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind. 9Therefore by this the iniquity of Yaakov will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more. 10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches. 11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favour. 12It will happen in that day that YHWH will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Mitzrayim; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Yisrael. 13It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Mitzrayim, shall come; and they will worship YHWH in the kodesh mountain at Jerusalem.

### Chapter 28

1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine! 2Behold, Adonai has one who is mighty and strong. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand. 3The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot. 4The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer, which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it. 5In that day, YHWH Tzeva'ot will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the residue of his people, 6and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgement, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. 7They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgement. 8For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness. 9Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? 10For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little. 11But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language, 12to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to the weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear. 13Therefore YHWH’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken. 14Therefore hear YHWH’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem: 15“Because you have said, ‘We have made a Brit with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’” 16Therefore Adonai YHWH says, “Behold, I lay in Tzion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily. 17I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place. 18Your Brit with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it. 19As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.” 20For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in. 21For YHWH will rise up as on Har Peratzim. He will be angry as in the valley of Giv'on; that he may do his work, his unusual work, and bring to pass his act, his extraordinary act. 22Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from Adonai, YHWH Tzeva'ot, on the whole earth. 23Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech! 24Does he who ploughs to sow plough continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods? 25When he has levelled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place? 26For his Elohim instructs him in right judgement and teaches him. 27For the dill isn’t threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod. 28Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it. 29This also comes out from YHWH Tzeva'ot, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

### Chapter 29

1Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around; 2then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth. 3I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you. 4You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust. 5But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly. 6She will be visited by YHWH Tzeva'ot with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire. 7The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night. 8It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Har Tzion will be like that. 9Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10For YHWH has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers. 11All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;” 12and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t read.” 13Adonai said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honours me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a mitzvah of men which has been taught; 14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work amongst this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.” 15Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from YHWH, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?” 16You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? 17Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest? 18In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness. 19The humble also will increase their joy in YHWH, and the poor amongst men will rejoice in the Kodesh One of Yisrael. 20For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off— 21who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony. 22Therefore YHWH, who redeemed Avraham, says concerning the house of Yaakov: “Yaakov shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale. 23But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Kodesh One of Yaakov, and will stand in awe of the Elohim of Yisrael. 24They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”

### Chapter 30

1“Woe to the rebellious children”, says YHWH, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Ruach, that they may add sin to sin; 2who set out to go down into Mitzrayim without asking for my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Mitzrayim! 3Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Mitzrayim your confusion. 4For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes. 5They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.” 6The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people. 7For Mitzrayim helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rachav who sits still. 8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever. 9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear YHWH’s law; 10who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. 11Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Kodesh One of Yisrael to cease from before us.” 12Therefore the Kodesh One of Yisrael says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it, 13therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant. 14He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found amongst the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.” 15For thus said Adonai YHWH, the Kodesh One of Yisrael, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused, 16but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses;” therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift;” therefore those who pursue you will be swift. 17One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill. 18Therefore YHWH will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have chesed on you, for YHWH is a Elohim of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him. 19For the people will dwell in Tzion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you. 20Though Adonai may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers; 21and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.” 22You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!” 23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures. 24The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savoury feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork. 25There will be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that YHWH binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with. 27Behold, YHWH’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire. 28His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples. 29You will have a song, as in the night when a kodesh feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to YHWH’s mountain, to Yisrael’s Rock. 30YHWH will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones. 31For through YHWH’s voice the Ashuri will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod. 32Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which YHWH will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons. 33For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, it is prepared for the king. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. YHWH’s breath, like a stream of sulphur, kindles it.

### Chapter 31

1Woe to those who go down to Mitzrayim for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Kodesh One of Yisrael, and they don’t seek YHWH! 2Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity. 3Now the Mitzrim are men, and not Elohim; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When YHWH stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together. 4For YHWH says to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so YHWH Tzeva'ot will come down to fight on Har Tzion and on its heights. 5As birds hovering, so YHWH Tzeva'ot will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.” 6Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Yisrael. 7For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you. 8“The Ashuri will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labour. 9His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner,” says YHWH, whose fire is in Tzion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

### Chapter 32

1Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice. 2A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land. 3The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen. 4The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly. 5The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected. 6For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profanity, and to utter error against YHWH, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right. 8But the noble devises noble things, and he will continue in noble things. 9Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech! 10For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage will fail. The harvest won’t come. 11Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist. 12Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. 14For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks, 15until the Ruach is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest. 16Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field. 17The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. 18My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places, 19though hail flattens the forest, and the city is levelled completely. 20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

### Chapter 33

1Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed. 2YHWH, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. 3At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered. 4Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap. 5YHWH is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Tzion with justice and righteousness. 6There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of YHWH is your treasure. 7Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. 8The highways are desolate. The travelling man ceases. The Brit is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man. 9The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Karmel are stripped bare. 10“Now I will arise,” says YHWH. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted. 11You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you. 12The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burnt in the fire. 13Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.” 14The sinners in Tzion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who amongst us can live with the devouring fire? Who amongst us can live with everlasting burning? 15He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil— 16he will dwell on high. His place of defence will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure. 17Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land. 18Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers? 19You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand. 20Look at Tzion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken. 21But there YHWH will be with us in majesty, a place of wide rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there. 22For YHWH is our judge. YHWH is our lawgiver. YHWH is our king. He will save us. 23Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey. 24The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.

### Chapter 34

1Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear, the world, and everything that comes from it. 2For YHWH is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter. 3Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up. The mountains will melt in their blood. 4All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree. 5For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgement. 6YHWH’s sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for YHWH has a sacrifice in Botzra, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat. 8For YHWH has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Tzion. 9Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulphur, and its land will become burning pitch. 10It won’t be quenched night or day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever. 11But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. 12They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. 13Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. 14The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest. 15The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate. 16Search in the book of YHWH, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Ruach has gathered them. 17He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

### Chapter 35

1The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. 2It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Karmel and Sharon. They will see YHWH’s kavod, the excellence of our Elohim. 3Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm. 4Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your Elohim will come with vengeance, Elohim’s retribution. He will come and save you. 5Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped. 6Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. 7The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay. 8A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Kodesh Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there. 9No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there. 10Then YHWH’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Tzion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

### Chapter 36

1Now in the fourteenth year of King Chizkiyahu, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Yehudah and captured them. 2The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lakhish to Jerusalem to King Chizkiyahu with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway. 3Then Elyakim the son of Chilkiyahu, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Yo'ach, the son of Asaf the recorder came out to him. 4Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Chizkiyahu, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust? 5I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? 6Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Mitzrayim, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Mitzrayim to all who trust in him. 7But if you tell me, ‘We trust in YHWH our Elohim,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Chizkiyahu has taken away, and has said to Yehudah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?” 8Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 9How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Mitzrayim for chariots and for horsemen? 10Have I come up now without YHWH against this land to destroy it? YHWH said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’” 11Then Elyakim, Shebna and Yo'ach said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Yehudim’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” 12But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?” 13Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Yehudim’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14The king says, ‘Don’t let Chizkiyahu deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you. 15Don’t let Chizkiyahu make you trust in YHWH, saying, “YHWH will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’ 16Don’t listen to Chizkiyahu, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; 17until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18Beware lest Chizkiyahu persuade you, saying, “YHWH will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? 19Where are the gods of Chamat and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sefarvayim? Have they delivered Shomron from my hand? 20Who are they amongst all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that YHWH should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’” 21But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s mitzvah was, “Don’t answer him.” 22Then Elyakim the son of Chilkiyahu, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Yo'ach, the son of Asaf the recorder, came to Chizkiyahu with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

### Chapter 37

1When King Chizkiyahu heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into YHWH’s house. 2He sent Elyakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Yeshayahu the prophet, the son of Amoz. 3They said to him, “Chizkiyahu says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth. 4It may be YHWH your Elohim will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living Elohim, and will rebuke the words which YHWH your Elohim has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’” 5So the servants of King Chizkiyahu came to Yeshayahu. 6Yeshayahu said to them, “Tell your master, ‘YHWH says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’” 8So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Livnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lakhish. 9He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Kush, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Chizkiyahu, saying, 10“Thus you shall speak to Chizkiyahu king of Yehudah, saying, ‘Don’t let your Elohim in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” 11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered? 12Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Charan, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? 13Where is the king of Chamat, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sefarvayim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’” 14Chizkiyahu received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Chizkiyahu went up to YHWH’s house, and spread it before YHWH. 15Chizkiyahu prayed to YHWH, saying, 16“YHWH Tzeva'ot, the Elohim of Yisrael, who is enthroned amongst the cherubim, you are the Elohim, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 17Turn your ear, YHWH, and hear. Open your eyes, YHWH, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living Elohim. 18Truly, YHWH, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land, 19and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them. 20Now therefore, YHWH our Elohim, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are YHWH, even you only.” 21Then Yeshayahu the son of Amoz sent to Chizkiyahu, saying, “YHWH, the Elohim of Yisrael says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22this is the word which YHWH has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Tzion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. 23Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Kodesh One of Yisrael. 24By your servants, you have defied Adonai, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field. 25I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Mitzrayim.” 26“‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps. 27Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown. 28But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. 29Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came. 30“‘This shall be the sign to you: You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31The remnant that is escaped of the house of Yehudah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 32For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Har Tzion. The zeal of YHWH Tzeva'ot will perform this.’ 33“Therefore YHWH says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. 34He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says YHWH. 35‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’” 36Then YHWH’s malak went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Ashurim. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 37So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Ninveh, and stayed there. 38As he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adramelekh and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

### Chapter 38

1In those days Chizkiyahu was sick and near death. Yeshayahu the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “YHWH says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’” 2Then Chizkiyahu turned his face to the wall and prayed to YHWH, 3and said, “Remember now, YHWH, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Chizkiyahu wept bitterly. 4Then YHWH’s word came to Yeshayahu, saying, 5“Go, and tell Chizkiyahu, ‘YHWH, the Elohim of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. 6I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city. 7This shall be the sign to you from YHWH, that YHWH will do this thing that he has spoken. 8Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Achaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.”’” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down. 9The writing of Chizkiyahu king of Yehudah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness: 10I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.” 11I said, “I won’t see YHWH, YHWH in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me. 13I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me. 14I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Adonai, I am oppressed. Be my security.” 15What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul. 16Adonai, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them. You restore me, and cause me to live. 17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back. 18For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth. 19The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children. 20YHWH will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in YHWH’s house. 21Now Yeshayahu had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.” 22Chizkiyahu also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to YHWH’s house?”

### Chapter 39

1At that time, Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Chizkiyahu, for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered. 2Chizkiyahu was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Chizkiyahu didn’t show them. 3Then Yeshayahu the prophet came to King Chizkiyahu, and asked him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?” Chizkiyahu said, “They have come from a country far from me, even from Babylon.” 4Then he asked, “What have they seen in your house?” Chizkiyahu answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing amongst my treasures that I have not shown them.” 5Then Yeshayahu said to Chizkiyahu, “Hear the word of YHWH Tzeva'ot: 6‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until today, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says YHWH. 7‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’” 8Then Chizkiyahu said to Yeshayahu, “YHWH’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

### Chapter 40

1“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your Elohim. 2“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of YHWH’s hand double for all her sins.” 3The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of YHWH in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our Elohim. 4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain. 5YHWH’s kavod shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of YHWH has spoken it.” 6The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. 7The grass withers, the flower fades, because YHWH’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. 8The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our Elohim stands forever.” 9You who tell good news to Tzion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Don’t be afraid! Say to the cities of Yehudah, “Behold, your Elohim!” 10Behold, Adonai YHWH will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. 11He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young. 12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 13Who has directed YHWH’s Ruach, or has taught him as his counsellor? 14Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? 15Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing. 16Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering. 17All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity. 18To whom then will you liken Elohim? Or what likeness will you compare to him? 19A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it. 20He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skilful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved. 21Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth? 22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in, 23who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless. 24They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble. 25“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Kodesh One. 26Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. By the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking. 27Why do you say, Yaakov, and speak, Yisrael, “My way is hidden from YHWH, and the justice due me is disregarded by my Elohim”? 28Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting Elohim, YHWH, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable. 29He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might. 30Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall; 31but those who wait for YHWH will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

### Chapter 41

1“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgement. 2Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow. 3He pursues them and passes by safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet. 4Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, YHWH, the first, and with the last, I am he.” 5The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come. 6Everyone helps his neighbour. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!” 7So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter. 8“But you, Yisrael, my servant, Yaakov whom I have chosen, the offspring of Avraham my friend, 9you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant. I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’ 10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your Elohim. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. 11Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish. 12You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a nonexistent thing. 13For I, YHWH your Elohim, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’ 14Don’t be afraid, you worm Yaakov, and you men of Yisrael. I will help you,” says YHWH. “Your Go'el is the Kodesh One of Yisrael. 15Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff. 16You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in YHWH. You will glory in the Kodesh One of Yisrael. 17The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, YHWH, will answer them. I, the Elohim of Yisrael, will not forsake them. 18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. 19I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert; 20that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that YHWH’s hand has done this, and the Kodesh One of Yisrael has created it. 21Produce your cause,” says YHWH. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Yaakov. 22“Let them announce and declare to us what will happen! Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come. 23Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together. 24Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination. 25“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name, and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay. 26Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, ‘He is right’? Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words. 27I am the first to say to Tzion, ‘Behold, look at them;’ and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem. 28When I look, there is no man, even amongst them there is no counsellor who, when I ask, can answer a word. 29Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

### Chapter 42

1“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Ruach on him. He will bring justice to the nations. 2He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. 3He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice. 4He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.” 5Elohim YHWH, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says: 6“I, YHWH, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a Brit for the people, as a light for the nations, 7to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison. 8“I am YHWH. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images. 9Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.” 10Sing to YHWH a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants. 11Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains! 12Let them give glory to YHWH, and declare his praise in the islands. 13YHWH will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies. 14“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant. 15I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools. 16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them. 17“Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed. 18“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see. 19Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as YHWH’s servant? 20You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen. 21It pleased YHWH, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honourable. 22But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’ 23Who is there amongst you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come? 24Who gave Yaakov as plunder, and Yisrael to the robbers? Didn’t YHWH, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law. 25Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burnt him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”

### Chapter 43

1But now YHWH who created you, Yaakov, and he who formed you, Yisrael, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. 2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burnt, and flame will not scorch you. 3For I am YHWH your Elohim, the Kodesh One of Yisrael, your Moshia. I have given Mitzrayim as your ransom, Kush and Seba in your place. 4Since you have been precious and honoured in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life. 5Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west. 6I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth— 7everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’” 8Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. 9Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who amongst them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, “That is true.” 10“You are my witnesses,” says YHWH, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no Elohim formed, neither will there be after me. 11I myself am YHWH. Besides me, there is no Saviour. 12I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown, and there was no strange god amongst you. Therefore you are my witnesses”, says YHWH, “and I am Elohim. 13Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?” 14YHWH, your Go'el, the Kodesh One of Yisrael says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Kasdim, in the ships of their rejoicing. 15I am YHWH, your Kodesh One, the Creator of Yisrael, your King.” 16YHWH, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters, 17who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says: 18“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. 19Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. 20The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honour me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen, 21the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise. 22Yet you have not called on me, Yaakov; but you have been weary of me, Yisrael. 23You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings, neither have you honoured me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense. 24You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities. 25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins. 26Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified. 27Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me. 28Therefore I will profane the princes of the Beit HaMikdash; and I will make Yaakov a curse, and Yisrael an insult.”

### Chapter 44

1Yet listen now, Yaakov my servant, and Yisrael, whom I have chosen. 2This is what YHWH who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Yaakov my servant; and you, Yeshurun, whom I have chosen. 3For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Ruach on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring; 4and they will spring up amongst the grass, as willows by the watercourses. 5One will say, ‘I am YHWH’s.’ Another will be called by the name of Yaakov; and another will write with his hand ‘to YHWH,’ and honour the name of Yisrael.” 6This is what YHWH, the King of Yisrael, and his Go'el, YHWH Tzeva'ot, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no Elohim. 7Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen. 8Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a Elohim besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.” 9Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed. 10Who has fashioned a god, or moulds an image that is profitable for nothing? 11Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together. 12The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint. 13The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house. 14He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one amongst the trees of the forest. He plants a cypress tree, and the rain nourishes it. 15Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it and warms himself. Yes, he burns it and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it. 16He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire.” 17The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!” 18They don’t know, neither do they consider, for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see, and their hearts, that they can’t understand. 19No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burnt part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?” 20He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?” 21Remember these things, Yaakov and Yisrael, for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Yisrael, you will not be forgotten by me. 22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. 23Sing, you heavens, for YHWH has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for YHWH has redeemed Yaakov, and will glorify himself in Yisrael. 24YHWH, your Go'el, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am YHWH, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself; 25who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; 26who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’ and of the cities of Yehudah, ‘They will be built,’ and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’ 27who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers,’ 28who says of Koresh, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’ and of the Beit HaMikdash, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”

### Chapter 45

1YHWH says to his anointed, to Koresh, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their armour, to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: 2“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart the bars of iron. 3I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, YHWH, who calls you by your name, even the Elohim of Yisrael. 4For Yaakov my servant’s sake, and Yisrael my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me. 5I am YHWH, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no Elohim. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me, 6that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am YHWH, and there is no one else. 7I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am YHWH, who does all these things. 8Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, YHWH, have created it. 9Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot amongst the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’? 10Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’” 11YHWH, the Kodesh One of Yisrael and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands! 12I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army. 13I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says YHWH Tzeva'ot. 14YHWH says: “The labour of Mitzrayim, and the merchandise of Kush, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely Elohim is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god. 15Most certainly you are a Elohim who has hidden yourself, Elohim of Yisrael, the Moshia.’” 16They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together. 17Yisrael will be saved by YHWH with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting. 18For YHWH who created the heavens, the Elohim who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am YHWH. There is no other. 19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Yaakov, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, YHWH, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right. 20“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save. 21Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, YHWH? There is no other Elohim besides me, a just Elohim and a Moshia. There is no one besides me. 22“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am Elohim, and there is no other. 23I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath. 24They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in YHWH.’” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed. 25All the offspring of Yisrael will be justified in YHWH, and will rejoice!

### Chapter 46

1Bel bows down. Nevo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary. 2They stoop and they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden, but they have gone into captivity. 3“Listen to me, house of Yaakov, and all the remnant of the house of Yisrael, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb. 4Even to old age I am he, and even to grey hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver. 5“To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal, and compare me, as if we were the same? 6Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship. 7They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble. 8“Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors. 9Remember the former things of old; for I am Elohim, and there is no other. I am Elohim, and there is none like me. 10I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please. 11I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it. 12Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness! 13I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Tzion, my glory to Yisrael.

### Chapter 47

1“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Kasdim. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate. 2Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers. 3Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one.” 4Our Go'el, YHWH Tzeva'ot is his name, is the Kodesh One of Yisrael. 5“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Kasdim. For you shall no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms. 6I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no chesed. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged. 7You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results. 8“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’ 9But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day: the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments. 10For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’ 11Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand. 12“Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have laboured from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail. 13You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you. 14Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by. 15The things that you laboured in will be like this: those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way. There will be no one to save you.

### Chapter 48

1“Hear this, house of Yaakov, you who are called by the name of Yisrael, and have come out of the waters of Yehudah. You swear by YHWH’s name, and make mention of the Elohim of Yisrael, but not in truth, nor in righteousness— 2for they call themselves citizens of the kodesh city, and rely on the Elohim of Yisrael; YHWH Tzeva'ot is his name. 3I have declared the former things from of old. Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened. 4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze; 5therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them. My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’ 6You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known. 7They are created now, and not from of old. Before today, you didn’t hear them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’ 8Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb. 9For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off. 10Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. 11For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another. 12“Listen to me, O Yaakov, and Yisrael my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last. 13Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together. 14“Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who amongst them has declared these things? He whom YHWH loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Kasdim. 15I, even I, have spoken. Yes, I have called him. I have brought him and he shall make his way prosperous. 16“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now Adonai YHWH has sent me with his Ruach. 17YHWH, your Go'el, the Kodesh One of Yisrael, says: “I am YHWH your Elohim, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go. 18Oh that you had listened to my mitzvot! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. 19Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.” 20Leave Babylon! Flee from the Kasdim! With the sound of joyful shouting announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth; say, “YHWH has redeemed his servant Yaakov!” 21They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out. 22“There is no peace”, says YHWH, “for the wicked.”

### Chapter 49

1Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: YHWH has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name. 2He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver. 3He said to me, “You are my servant, Yisrael, in whom I will be glorified.” 4But I said, “I have laboured in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with YHWH, and my reward with my Elohim.” 5Now YHWH, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Yaakov again to him, and to gather Yisrael to him, for I am honourable in YHWH’s eyes, and my Elohim has become my strength. 6Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Yaakov, and to restore the preserved of Yisrael. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.” 7YHWH, the Go'el of Yisrael, and his Kodesh One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of YHWH who is faithful, even the Kodesh One of Yisrael, who has chosen you.” 8YHWH says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a Brit of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage, 9saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights. 10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them, for he who has chesed on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water. 11I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be exalted. 12Behold, these shall come from afar, and behold, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim.” 13Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains! For YHWH has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted. 14But Tzion said, “YHWH has forsaken me, and Adonai has forgotten me.” 15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! 16Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me. 17Your children hurry. Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you. 18Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says YHWH, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride. 19“For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away. 20The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’ 21Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’” 22Adonai YHWH says, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and lift up my banner to the peoples. They shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. 23Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am YHWH; and those who wait for me won’t be disappointed.” 24Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? 25But YHWH says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children. 26I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, YHWH, am your Moshia and your Go'el, the Mighty One of Yaakov.”

### Chapter 50

1YHWH says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions. 2Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst. 3I clothe the heavens with blackness. I make sackcloth their covering.” 4Adonai YHWH has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. 5Adonai YHWH has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back. 6I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting. 7For Adonai YHWH will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed. 8He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. 9Behold, Adonai YHWH will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up. 10Who amongst you fears YHWH and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in YHWH’s name, and rely on his Elohim. 11Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and amongst the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.

### Chapter 51

1“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek YHWH. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from. 2Look to Avraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many. 3For YHWH has comforted Tzion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of YHWH. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. 4“Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples. 5My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm. 6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished. 7“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults. 8For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.” 9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of YHWH! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rachav in pieces, who pierced the monster? 10Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? 11Those ransomed by YHWH will return, and come with singing to Tzion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 12“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass? 13Have you forgotten YHWH your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor? 14The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail. 15For I am YHWH your Elohim, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. YHWH Tzeva'ot is his name. 16I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Tzion, ‘You are my people.’” 17Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from YHWH’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it. 18There is no one to guide her amongst all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand amongst all the sons whom she has brought up. 19These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you? 20Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of YHWH’s wrath, the rebuke of your Elohim. 21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: 22Your Adonai YHWH, your Elohim who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more. 23I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”

### Chapter 52

1Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Tzion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the kodesh city, for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you. 2Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Tzion! 3For YHWH says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.” 4For Adonai YHWH says: “My people went down at the first into Mitzrayim to live there; and the Ashuri has oppressed them without cause. 5“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says YHWH, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says YHWH, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long. 6Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I.” 7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Tzion, “Your Elohim reigns!” 8Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when YHWH returns to Tzion. 9Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for YHWH has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem. 10YHWH has made his kodesh arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our Elohim. 11Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from amongst her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry YHWH’s vessels. 12For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight; for YHWH will go before you, and the Elohim of Yisrael will be your rear guard. 13Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high. 14Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men— 15so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.

### Chapter 53

1Who has believed our message? To whom has YHWH’s arm been revealed? 2For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him. 4Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by Elohim, and afflicted. 5But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. 6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and YHWH has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth. 8He was taken away by oppression and judgement. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people? 9They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. 10Yet it pleased YHWH to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and YHWH’s pleasure will prosper in his hand. 11After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities. 12Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

### Chapter 54

1“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth! Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says YHWH. 2“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. 3For you will spread out on the right hand and on the left; and your offspring will possess the nations and settle in desolate cities. 4“Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more. 5For your Maker is your husband; YHWH Tzeva'ot is his name. The Kodesh One of Yisrael is your Go'el. He will be called the Elohim of the whole earth. 6For YHWH has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your Elohim. 7“For a small moment I have forsaken you, but I will gather you with great mercies. 8In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting chesed I will have chesed on you,” says YHWH your Go'el. 9“For this is like the waters of Noach to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noach will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. 10For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my chesed will not depart from you, and my Brit of peace will not be removed,” says YHWH who has chesed on you. 11“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colours, and lay your foundations with sapphires. 12I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones. 13All your children will be taught by YHWH, and your children’s peace will be great. 14You will be established in righteousness. You will be far from oppression, for you will not be afraid, and far from terror, for it shall not come near you. 15Behold, they may gather together, but not by me. Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you. 16“Behold, I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame, and forges a weapon for his work; and I have created the destroyer to destroy. 17No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgement. This is the heritage of YHWH’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says YHWH.

### Chapter 55

1“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness. 3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting Brit with you, even the sure mercies of David. 4Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples. 5Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of YHWH your Elohim, and for the Kodesh One of Yisrael; for he has glorified you.” 6Seek YHWH while he may be found. Call on him while he is near. 7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to YHWH, and he will have chesed on him, to our Elohim, for he will freely pardon. 8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says YHWH. 9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; 11so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do. 12For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands. 13Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up. It will make a name for YHWH, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”

### Chapter 56

1YHWH says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed. 2Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Shabbat without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.” 3Let no foreigner who has joined himself to YHWH speak, saying, “YHWH will surely separate me from his people.” Do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” 4For YHWH says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Shabbats, choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my Brit, 5I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off. 6Also the foreigners who join themselves to YHWH to serve him, and to love YHWH’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Shabbat from profaning it, and holds fast my Brit, 7I will bring these to my kodesh mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.” 8Adonai YHWH, who gathers the outcasts of Yisrael, says, “I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.” 9All you animals of the field, come to devour, all you animals in the forest. 10His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. 11Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. 12“Come,” they say, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

### Chapter 57

1The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil. 2He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness. 3“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes. 4Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood, 5you who inflame yourselves amongst the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? 6Amongst the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things? 7On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice. 8You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged your bed and made a Brit for yourself with them. You loved what you saw on their bed. 9You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol. 10You were wearied with the length of your ways; yet you didn’t say, ‘It is in vain.’ You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren’t faint. 11“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me? 12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you. 13When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you, but the wind will take them. A breath will carry them all away, but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my kodesh mountain.” 14He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.” 15For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Kodesh, says: “I dwell in the high and kodesh place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. 16For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made. 17I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. 18I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. 19I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says YHWH; “and I will heal them.” 20But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud. 21“There is no peace”, says my Elohim, “for the wicked.”

### Chapter 58

1“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Yaakov their sins. 2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their Elohim, they ask of me righteous judgements. They delight to draw near to Elohim. 3‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your labourers. 4Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high. 5Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to YHWH? 6“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? 7Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh? 8Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and YHWH’s kavod will be your rear guard. 9Then you will call, and YHWH will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from amongst you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly; 10and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday; 11and YHWH will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail. 12Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings. 13“If you turn away your foot from the Shabbat, from doing your pleasure on my kodesh day, and call the Shabbat a delight, and the kodesh of YHWH honourable, and honour it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, 14then you will delight yourself in YHWH, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Yaakov your father;” for YHWH’s mouth has spoken it.

### Chapter 59

1Behold, YHWH’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear. 2But your iniquities have separated you and your Elohim, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. 3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness. 4No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. 5They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper. 6Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands. 7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths. 8They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace. 9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. 10We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Amongst those who are strong, we are like dead men. 11We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us. 12For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them: 13transgressing and denying YHWH, and turning away from following our Elohim, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter. 15Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. YHWH saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice. 16He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness sustained him. 17He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle. 18According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate: wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies. He will repay the islands their due. 19So they will fear YHWH’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which YHWH’s breath drives. 20“A Go'el will come to Tzion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Yaakov,” says YHWH. 21“As for me, this is my Brit with them,” says YHWH. “My Ruach who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says YHWH, “from now on and forever.”

### Chapter 60

1“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and YHWH’s kavod has risen on you! 2For behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but YHWH will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you. 3Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. 4“Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather themselves together. They come to you. Your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried in arms. 5Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you. 6A multitude of camels will cover you, the dromedaries of Midyan and Ephah. All from Sheva will come. They will bring gold and frankincense, and will proclaim the praises of YHWH. 7All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nevayot will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house. 8“Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? 9Surely the islands will wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far away, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of YHWH your Elohim, and for the Kodesh One of Yisrael, because he has glorified you. 10“Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you; for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favour I have had chesed on you. 11Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive. 12For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted. 13“The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my Beit HaMikdash; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. 14The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you YHWH’s City, the Tzion of the Kodesh One of Yisrael. 15“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. 16You will also drink the milk of the nations, and will nurse from royal breasts. Then you will know that I, YHWH, am your Moshia, your Go'el, the Mighty One of Yaakov. 17For bronze I will bring gold; for iron I will bring silver; for wood, bronze, and for stones, iron. I will also make peace your governor, and righteousness your ruler. 18Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. 19The sun will be no more your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but YHWH will be your everlasting light, and your Elohim will be your glory. 20Your sun will not go down any more, nor will your moon withdraw itself; for YHWH will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will end. 21Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. 22The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, YHWH, will do this quickly in its time.”

### Chapter 61

1Adonai YHWH’s Ruach is on me, because YHWH has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound, 2to proclaim the year of YHWH’s favour and the day of vengeance of our Elohim, to comfort all who mourn, 3to provide for those who mourn in Tzion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of YHWH, that he may be glorified. 4They will rebuild the old ruins. They will raise up the former devastated places. They will repair the ruined cities that have been devastated for many generations. 5Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards. 6But you will be called YHWH’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our Elohim. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory. 7Instead of your shame you will have double. Instead of dishonour, they will rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they will possess double. Everlasting joy will be to them. 8“For I, YHWH, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting Brit with them. 9Their offspring will be known amongst the nations, and their offspring amongst the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the offspring which YHWH has blessed.” 10I will greatly rejoice in YHWH! My soul will be joyful in my Elohim, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. 11For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so Adonai YHWH will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

### Chapter 62

1For Tzion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp. 2The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which YHWH’s mouth will name. 3You will also be a crown of beauty in YHWH’s hand, and a royal diadem in your Elohim’s hand. 4You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Cheftziva, and your land Beulah; for YHWH delights in you, and your land will be married. 5For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your Elohim will rejoice over you. 6I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on YHWH, take no rest, 7and give him no rest until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 8YHWH has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have laboured, 9but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise YHWH. Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my Beit HaMikdash.” 10Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples. 11Behold, YHWH has proclaimed to the end of the earth: “Say to the daughter of Tzion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’” 12They will call them “The Kodesh People, YHWH’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

### Chapter 63

1Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Botzra? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.” 2Why is your clothing red, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat? 3“I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing. 4For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. 5I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. My own wrath upheld me. 6I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath. I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.” 7I will tell of the chasadim of YHWH and the praises of YHWH, according to all that YHWH has given to us, and the great goodness towards the house of Yisrael, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his chasadim. 8For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Moshia. 9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the malak of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old. 10But they rebelled and grieved his Ruach HaKodesh. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them. 11Then he remembered the days of old, Moshe and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Ruach HaKodesh amongst them?” 12Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moshe’s right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 13Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble? 14As the livestock that go down into the valley, YHWH’s Ruach caused them to rest. So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name. 15Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained towards me. 16For you are our Father, though Avraham doesn’t know us, and Yisrael does not acknowledge us. You, YHWH, are our Father. Our Go'el from everlasting is your name. 17O YHWH, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance. 18Your kodesh people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your Beit HaMikdash. 19We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.

### Chapter 64

1Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence— 2as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the water to boil. Make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! 3When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence. 4For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a Elohim besides you, who works for him who waits for him. 5You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved? 6For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. 7There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. 8But now, YHWH, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand. 9Don’t be furious, YHWH. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people. 10Your kodesh cities have become a wilderness. Tzion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11Our kodesh and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burnt with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste. 12Will you hold yourself back for these things, YHWH? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?

### Chapter 65

1“I am enquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name. 2I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts; 3a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks; 4who sit amongst the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; 5who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day. 6“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom 7your own iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says YHWH, “who have burnt incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.” 8YHWH says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all. 9I will bring offspring out of Yaakov, and out of Yehudah an inheritor of my mountains. My chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there. 10Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me. 11“But you who forsake YHWH, who forget my kodesh mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny; 12I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.” 13Therefore Adonai YHWH says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed. 14Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit. 15You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen, and Adonai YHWH will kill you. He will call his servants by another name, 16so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the Elohim of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the Elohim of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes. 17“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind. 18But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy. 19I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying will be heard in her no more. 20“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed. 21They will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat; for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands. 23They will not labour in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of YHWH’s blessed and their descendants with them. 24It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. 25The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my kodesh mountain,” says YHWH.

### Chapter 66

1YHWH says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest? 2For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says YHWH: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word. 3He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations. 4I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them, because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen, but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.” 5Hear YHWH’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let YHWH be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed. 6A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the Beit HaMikdash, a voice of YHWH that repays his enemies what they deserve. 7“Before she travailed, she gave birth. Before her pain came, she delivered a son. 8Who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Tzion travailed, she gave birth to her children. 9Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says YHWH. “Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your Elohim. 10“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her; 11that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.” 12For YHWH says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees. 13As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.” 14You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. YHWH’s hand will be known amongst his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies. 15For, behold, YHWH will come with fire, and his chariots will be like the whirlwind; to give his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16For YHWH will execute judgement by fire and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by YHWH will be many. 17“Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, following one in the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says YHWH. 18“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory. 19“I will set a sign amongst them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tuval and Yavan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory amongst the nations. 20They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to YHWH, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my kodesh mountain Jerusalem, says YHWH, as the children of Yisrael bring their offering in a clean vessel into YHWH’s house. 21Of them I will also select priests and Levi'im,” says YHWH. 22“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says YHWH, “so your offspring and your name shall remain. 23It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Shabbat to another, all flesh will come to worship before me,” says YHWH. 24“They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

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