King James Version Bible
| 034:001 | Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let
the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all
things that come forth of it. | |
034:002 | For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his
fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he
hath delivered them to the slaughter. |
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034:003 | Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come
up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted
with their blood. |
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034:004 | And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens
shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall
fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a
falling fig from the fig tree. |
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034:005 | For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come
down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to
judgment. |
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034:006 | The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat
with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the
fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in
Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. |
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034:007 | And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks
with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and
their dust made fat with fatness. |
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034:008 | For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of
recompences for the controversy of Zion. |
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034:009 | And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the
dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become
burning pitch. |
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034:010 | It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof
shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall
lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. |
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034:011 | But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl
also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out
upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. |
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034:012 | They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none
shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. |
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034:013 | And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles
in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of
dragons, and a court for owls. |
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034:014 | The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild
beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow;
the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a
place of rest. |
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034:015 | There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch,
and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be
gathered, every one with her mate. |
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034:016 | Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these
shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath
commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. |
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034:017 | And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided
it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from
generation to generation shall they dwell therein. |
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| 035:001 | The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them;
and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. | |
035:002 | It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and
singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the
excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of
the LORD, and the excellency of our God. |
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035:003 | Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. |
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035:004 | Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not:
behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a
recompence; he will come and save you. |
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035:005 | Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of
the deaf shall be unstopped. |
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035:006 | Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the
dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and
streams in the desert. |
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035:007 | And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty
land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where
each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. |
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035:008 | And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be
called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over
it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though
fools, shall not err therein. |
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035:009 | No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up
thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall
walk there: |
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035:010 | And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion
with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall
obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee
away. |
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| 036:001 | Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah,
that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the
defenced cities of Judah, and took them. | |
036:002 | And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to
Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood
by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the
fuller's field. |
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036:003 | Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was
over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son,
the recorder. |
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036:004 | And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus
saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is
this wherein thou trustest? |
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036:005 | I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have
counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust,
that thou rebellest against me? |
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036:006 | Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt;
whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce
it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. |
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036:007 | But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not
he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken
away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship
before this altar? |
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036:008 | Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king
of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou
be able on thy part to set riders upon them. |
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036:009 | How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the
least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for
chariots and for horsemen? |
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036:010 | And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to
destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land,
and destroy it. |
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036:011 | Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I
pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we
understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in
the ears of the people that are on the wall. |
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036:012 | But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and
to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men
that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and
drink their own piss with you? |
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036:013 | Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the
king of Assyria. |
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036:014 | Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he
shall not be able to deliver you. |
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036:015 | Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The
LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered
into the hand of the king of Assyria. |
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036:016 | Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me:
and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig
tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern; |
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036:017 | Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a
land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. |
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036:018 | Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will
deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his
land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? |
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036:019 | Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of
Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? |
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036:020 | Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have
delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should
deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? |
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036:021 | But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for
the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. |
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036:022 | Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph,
the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told
him the words of Rabshakeh. |
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| 037:001 | And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent
his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into
the house of the LORD. | |
037:002 | And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with
sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. |
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037:003 | And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day
of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children
are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring
forth. |
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037:004 | It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the
living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God
hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that
is left. |
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037:005 | So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. |
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037:006 | And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master,
Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast
heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed me. |
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037:007 | Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a
rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to
fall by the sword in his own land. |
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037:008 | So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish. |
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037:009 | And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is
come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he
sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, |
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037:010 | Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not
thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying,
Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of
Assyria. |
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037:011 | Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to
all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be
delivered? |
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037:012 | Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers
have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
children of Eden which were in Telassar? |
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037:013 | Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the
king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? |
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037:014 | And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house
of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. |
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037:015 | And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying, |
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037:016 | O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the
cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the
kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth. |
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037:017 | Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD,
and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath
sent to reproach the living God. |
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037:018 | Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the
nations, and their countries, |
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037:019 | And 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. |
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037:020 | Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all
the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD,
even thou only. |
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037:021 | Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me
against Sennacherib king of Assyria: |
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037:022 | This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him;
The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and
laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken
her head at thee. |
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037:023 | Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom
hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high?
even against the Holy One of Israel. |
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037:024 | By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said,
By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of
the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down
the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and
I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of
his Carmel. |
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037:025 | I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet
have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. |
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037:026 | Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of
ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to
pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into
ruinous heaps. |
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037:027 | Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were
dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field,
and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as
corn blasted before it be grown up. |
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037:028 | But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in,
and thy rage against me. |
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037:029 | Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into
mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my
bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by
which thou camest. |
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037:030 | And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year
such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which
springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap,
and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. |
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037:031 | And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall
again take root downward, and bear fruit upward: |
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037:032 | For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that
escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall
do this. |
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037:033 | Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria,
He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. |
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037:034 | By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and
shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. |
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037:035 | For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and
for my servant David's sake. |
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037:036 | Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp
of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand:
and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were
all dead corpses. |
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037:037 | So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. |
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037:038 | And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote
him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia:
and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. |
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| 038:001 | In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus
saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die,
and not live. | |
038:002 | Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto
the LORD, |
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038:003 | And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have
walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have
done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. |
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038:004 | Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, |
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038:005 | Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David
thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears:
behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. |
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038:006 | And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the
king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. |
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038:007 | And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the
LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; |
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038:008 | Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is
gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So
the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone
down. |
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038:009 | The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick,
and was recovered of his sickness: |
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038:010 | I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates
of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. |
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038:011 | I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land
of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants
of the world. |
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038:012 | Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's
tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off
with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an
end of me. |
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038:013 | I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all
my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. |
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038:014 | Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a
dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am
oppressed; undertake for me. |
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038:015 | What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself
hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness
of my soul. |
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038:016 | O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is
the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to
live. |
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038:017 | Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in
love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for
thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. |
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038:018 | For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate
thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy
truth. |
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038:019 | The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this
day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. |
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038:020 | The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs
to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the
house of the LORD. |
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038:021 | For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it
for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. |
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038:022 | Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to
the house of the LORD? |
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| 039:001 | At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had
heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. | |
039:002 | And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of
his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices,
and the precious ointment, 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 Hezekiah shewed them
not. |
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039:003 | Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto
him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?
And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me,
even from Babylon. |
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039:004 | Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah
answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is
nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them. |
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039:005 | Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of
hosts: |
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039:006 | Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and
that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day,
shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the
LORD. |
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039:007 | And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt
beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the
palace of the king of Babylon. |
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039:008 | Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD
which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be
peace and truth in my days. |
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| 040:001 | Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. | |
040:002 | Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her
warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for
she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins. |
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040:003 | The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the
way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our
God. |
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040:004 | Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill
shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and
the rough places plain: |
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040:005 | And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh
shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken
it. |
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040:006 | The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh
is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of
the field: |
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040:007 | The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of
the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. |
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040:008 | The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our
God shall stand for ever. |
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040:009 | O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high
mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy
voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the
cities of Judah, Behold your God! |
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040:010 | Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm
shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his
work before him. |
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040:011 | He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the
lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall
gently lead those that are with young. |
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040:012 | Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and
meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of
the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales,
and the hills in a balance? |
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040:013 | Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his
counsellor hath taught him? |
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040:014 | With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught
him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and
shewed to him the way of understanding? |
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040:015 | Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted
as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the
isles as a very little thing. |
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040:016 | And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
sufficient for a burnt offering. |
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040:017 | All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to
him less than nothing, and vanity. |
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040:018 | To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye
compare unto him? |
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040:019 | The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith
spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. |
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040:020 | He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a
tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman
to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. |
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040:021 | Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told
you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the
foundations of the earth? |
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040:022 | It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the
inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out
the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to
dwell in: |
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040:023 | That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of
the earth as vanity. |
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040:024 | Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown:
yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he
shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the
whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. |
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040:025 | To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the
Holy One. |
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040:026 | Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these
things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth
them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he
is strong in power; not one faileth. |
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040:027 | Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is
hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? |
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040:028 | Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting
God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth
not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his
understanding. |
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040:029 | He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might
he increaseth strength. |
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040:030 | Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men
shall utterly fall: |
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040:031 | But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and
not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. |
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| 041:001 | Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew
their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let
us come near together to judgment. | |
041:002 | Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to
his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over
kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven
stubble to his bow. |
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041:003 | He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he
had not gone with his feet. |
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041:004 | Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the
beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. |
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041:005 | The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were
afraid, drew near, and came. |
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041:006 | They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his
brother, Be of good courage. |
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041:007 | So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that
smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It
is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that
it should not be moved. |
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041:008 | But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen,
the seed of Abraham my friend. |
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041:009 | Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called
thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art
my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. |
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041:010 | Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am
thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I
will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. |
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041:011 | Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be
ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they
that strive with thee shall perish. |
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041:012 | Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that
contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as
nothing, and as a thing of nought. |
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041:013 | For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto
thee, Fear not; I will help thee. |
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041:014 | Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help
thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel. |
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041:015 | Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument
having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them
small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. |
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041:016 | Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and
the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in
the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. |
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041:017 | When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and
their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I
the God of Israel will not forsake them. |
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041:018 | I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst
of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water. |
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041:019 | I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree,
and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the
fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: |
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041:020 | That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand
together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the
Holy One of Israel hath created it. |
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041:021 | Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong
reasons, saith the King of Jacob. |
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041:022 | Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let
them shew the former things, what they be, that we may
consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us
things for to come. |
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041:023 | Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know
that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be
dismayed, and behold it together. |
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041:024 | Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an
abomination is he that chooseth you. |
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041:025 | I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from
the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall
come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth
clay. |
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041:026 | Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and
beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is
none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea,
there is none that heareth your words. |
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041:027 | The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will
give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. |
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041:028 | For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there
was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a
word. |
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041:029 | Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their
molten images are wind and confusion. |
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| 042:001 | Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul
delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring
forth judgment to the Gentiles. | |
042:002 | He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard
in the street. |
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042:003 | A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall
he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. |
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042:004 | He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set
judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. |
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042:005 | Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and
stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that
which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people
upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: |
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042:006 | I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold
thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant
of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; |
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042:007 | To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the
prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. |
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042:008 | I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give
to another, neither my praise to graven images. |
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042:009 | Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do
I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. |
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042:010 | Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of
the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is
therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. |
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042:011 | Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice,
the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of
the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. |
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042:012 | Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in
the islands. |
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042:013 | The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up
jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall
prevail against his enemies. |
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042:014 | I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and
refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I
will destroy and devour at once. |
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042:015 | I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their
herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up
the pools. |
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042:016 | And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will
lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make
darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These
things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. |
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042:017 | They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that
trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are
our gods. |
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042:018 | Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. |
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042:019 | Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I
sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the
LORD's servant? |
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042:020 | Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears,
but he heareth not. |
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042:021 | The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will
magnify the law, and make it honourable. |
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042:022 | But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them
snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are
for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith,
Restore. |
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042:023 | Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear
for the time to come? |
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042:024 | Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not
the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not
walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. |
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042:025 | Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and
the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round
about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not
to heart. |
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| 043:001 | But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he
that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed
thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. | |
043:002 | When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and
through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou
walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither
shall the flame kindle upon thee. |
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043:003 | For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy
Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for
thee. |
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043:004 | Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been
honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men
for thee, and people for thy life. |
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043:005 | Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the
east, and gather thee from the west; |
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043:006 | I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not
back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends
of the earth; |
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043:007 | Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created
him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. |
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043:008 | Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that
have ears. |
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043:009 | Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people
be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us
former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they
may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth. |
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043:010 | Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I
have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand
that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall
there be after me. |
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043:011 | I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. |
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043:012 | I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there
was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses,
saith the LORD, that I am God. |
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043:013 | Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can
deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? |
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043:014 | Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;
For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down
all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the
ships. |
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043:015 | I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your
King. |
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043:016 | Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path
in the mighty waters; |
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043:017 | Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the
power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they
are extinct, they are quenched as tow. |
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043:018 | Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things
of old. |
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043:019 | Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth;
shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the
wilderness, and rivers in the desert. |
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043:020 | The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the
owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in
the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. |
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043:021 | This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my
praise. |
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043:022 | But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been
weary of me, O Israel. |
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043:023 | Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt
offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices.
I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied
thee with incense. |
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043:024 | Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast
thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast
made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with
thine iniquities. |
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043:025 | I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine
own sake, and will not remember thy sins. |
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043:026 | Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou,
that thou mayest be justified. |
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043:027 | Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have
transgressed against me. |
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043:028 | Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and
have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. |
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| 044:001 | Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have
chosen: | |
044:002 | Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the
womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and
thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. |
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044:003 | For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods
upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and
my blessing upon thine offspring: |
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044:004 | And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the
water courses. |
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044:005 | One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself
by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his
hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel. |
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044:006 | Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the
LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside
me there is no God. |
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044:007 | And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in
order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the
things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto
them. |
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044:008 | Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that
time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there
a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any. |
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044:009 | They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and
their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their
own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be
ashamed. |
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044:010 | Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is
profitable for nothing? |
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044:011 | Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen,
they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them
stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed
together. |
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044:012 | The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and
fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength
of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he
drinketh no water, and is faint. |
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044:013 | The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with
a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with
the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man,
according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the
house. |
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044:014 | He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak,
which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the
forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. |
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044:015 | Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof,
and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea,
he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven
image, and falleth down thereto. |
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044:016 | He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he
eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he
warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the
fire: |
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044:017 | And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven
image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and
prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god. |
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044:018 | They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their
eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot
understand. |
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044:019 | And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge
nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the
fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I
have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue
thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a
tree? |
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044:020 | He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside,
that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie
in my right hand? |
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044:021 | Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I
have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt
not be forgotten of me. |
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044:022 | I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and,
as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed
thee. |
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044:023 | Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower
parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O
forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed
Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel. |
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044:024 | Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee
from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that
stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the
earth by myself; |
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044:025 | That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners
mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their
knowledge foolish; |
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044:026 | That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the
counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt
be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built,
and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: |
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044:027 | That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: |
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044:028 | That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all
my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built;
and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. |
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| 045:001 | Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right
hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will
loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved
gates; and the gates shall not be shut; | |
045:002 | I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I
will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the
bars of iron: |
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045:003 | And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden
riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the
LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. |
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045:004 | For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have
even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though
thou hast not known me. |
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045:005 | I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside
me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: |
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045:006 | That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the
west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there
is none else. |
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045:007 | I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I the LORD do all these things. |
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045:008 | Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down
righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth
salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the
LORD have created it. |
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045:009 | Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd
strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to
him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath
no hands? |
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045:010 | Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou?
or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth? |
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045:011 | Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker,
Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning
the work of my hands command ye me. |
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045:012 | I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my
hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have
I commanded. |
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045:013 | I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all
his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my
captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts. |
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045:014 | Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of
Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over
unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after
thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down
unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying,
Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no
God. |
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045:015 | Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel,
the Saviour. |
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045:016 | They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they
shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. |
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045:017 | But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting
salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world
without end. |
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045:018 | For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself
that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he
created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the
LORD; and there is none else. |
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045:019 | I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I
said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the
LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. |
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045:020 | Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are
escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the
wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot
save. |
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045:021 | Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel
together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath
told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no
God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none
beside me. |
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045:022 | Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for
I am God, and there is none else. |
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045:023 | I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee
shall bow, every tongue shall swear. |
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045:024 | Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and
strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are
incensed against him shall be ashamed. |
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045:025 | In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and
shall glory. |
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| 046:001 | Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the
beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden;
they are a burden to the weary beast. | |
046:002 | They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the
burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. |
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046:003 | Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the
house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which
are carried from the womb: |
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046:004 | And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will
I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry,
and will deliver you. |
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046:005 | To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me,
that we may be like? |
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046:006 | They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the
balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they
fall down, yea, they worship. |
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046:007 | They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him
in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not
remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer,
nor save him out of his trouble. |
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046:008 | Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to
mind, O ye transgressors. |
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046:009 | Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is
none else; I am God, and there is none like me, |
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046:010 | Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times
the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall
stand, and I will do all my pleasure: |
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046:011 | Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth
my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will
also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. |
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046:012 | Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from
righteousness: |
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046:013 | I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my
salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion
for Israel my glory. |
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| 047:001 | Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon,
sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the
Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and
delicate. | |
047:002 | Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make
bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. |
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047:003 | Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be
seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a
man. |
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047:004 | As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy
One of Israel. |
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047:005 | Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the
Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of
kingdoms. |
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047:006 | I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance,
and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy;
upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. |
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047:007 | And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou
didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst
remember the latter end of it. |
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047:008 | Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures,
that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am,
and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither
shall I know the loss of children: |
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047:009 | But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one
day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon
thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries,
and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. |
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047:010 | For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None
seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted
thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else
beside me. |
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047:011 | Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from
whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou
shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come
upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. |
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047:012 | Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of
thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if
so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest
prevail. |
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047:013 | Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the
astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators,
stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon
thee. |
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047:014 | Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them;
they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame:
there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before
it. |
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047:015 | Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured,
even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every
one to his quarter; none shall save thee. |
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| 048:001 | Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name
of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah,
which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the
God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. | |
048:002 | For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves
upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name. |
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048:003 | I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they
went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them
suddenly, and they came to pass. |
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048:004 | Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an
iron sinew, and thy brow brass; |
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048:005 | I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it
came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine
idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image,
hath commanded them. |
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048:006 | Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I
have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden
things, and thou didst not know them. |
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048:007 | They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before
the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say,
Behold, I knew them. |
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048:008 | Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that
time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou
wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a
transgressor from the womb. |
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048:009 | For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise
will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. |
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048:010 | Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have
chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. |
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048:011 | For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for
how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory
unto another. |
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048:012 | Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am
the first, I also am the last. |
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048:013 | Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my
right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them,
they stand up together. |
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048:014 | All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath
declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his
pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. |
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048:015 | I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought
him, and he shall make his way prosperous. |
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048:016 | Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in
secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am
I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. |
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048:017 | Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I
am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which
leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. |
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048:018 | O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy
peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of
the sea: |
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048:019 | Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy
bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been
cut off nor destroyed from before me. |
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048:020 | Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a
voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the
end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant
Jacob. |
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048:021 | And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he
caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave
the rock also, and the waters gushed out. |
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048:022 | There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked. |
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| 049:001 | Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far;
The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my
mother hath he made mention of my name. | |
049:002 | And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of
his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his
quiver hath he hid me; |
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049:003 | And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I
will be glorified. |
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049:004 | Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength
for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the
LORD, and my work with my God. |
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049:005 | And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his
servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not
gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and
my God shall be my strength. |
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049:006 | And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my
servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the
Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the
earth. |
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049:007 | Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,
to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth,
to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes
also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and
the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. |
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049:008 | Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee,
and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will
preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to
establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate
heritages; |
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049:009 | That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that
are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways,
and their pastures shall be in all high places. |
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049:010 | They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor
sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead
them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. |
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049:011 | And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall
be exalted. |
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049:012 | Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the
north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim. |
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049:013 | Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into
singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people,
and will have mercy upon his afflicted. |
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049:014 | But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath
forgotten me. |
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049:015 | Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet
will I not forget thee. |
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049:016 | Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy
walls are continually before me. |
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049:017 | Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that
made thee waste shall go forth of thee. |
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049:018 | Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather
themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the
LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an
ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth. |
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049:019 | For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy
destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the
inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far
away. |
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049:020 | The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the
other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait
for me: give place to me that I may dwell. |
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049:021 | Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me
these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a
captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up
these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been? |
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049:022 | Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to
the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they
shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be
carried upon their shoulders. |
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049:023 | And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy
nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face
toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou
shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed
that wait for me. |
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049:024 | Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive
delivered? |
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049:025 | But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall
be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be
delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with
thee, and I will save thy children. |
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049:026 | And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh;
and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet
wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour
and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. |
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| 050:001 | Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's
divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is
it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have
ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother
put away. | |
050:002 | Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was
there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it
cannot 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 stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for
thirst. |
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050:003 | I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth
their covering. |
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050:004 | The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I
should know how to speak a word in season to him that is
weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to
hear as the learned. |
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050:005 | The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away back. |
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050:006 | I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that
plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and
spitting. |
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050:007 | For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be
confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I
know that I shall not be ashamed. |
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050:008 | He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let
us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to
me. |
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050:009 | Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall
condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth
shall eat them up. |
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050:010 | Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice
of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light?
let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. |
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050:011 | Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves
about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the
sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand;
ye shall lie down in sorrow. |
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| 051:001 | Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that
seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to
the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. | |
051:002 | Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you:
for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. |
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051:003 | For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste
places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her
desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be
found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. |
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051:004 | Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation:
for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment
to rest for a light of the people. |
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051:005 | My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine
arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and
on mine arm shall they trust. |
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051:006 | Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth
beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the
earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell
therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be
for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. |
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051:007 | Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in
whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men,
neither be ye afraid of their revilings. |
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051:008 | For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm
shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for
ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. |
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051:009 | Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in
the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it
that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? |
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051:010 | Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the
great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the
ransomed to pass over? |
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051:011 | Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with
singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their
head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and
mourning shall flee away. |
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051:012 | I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou
shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of
man which shall be made as grass; |
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051:013 | And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth
the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast
feared continually every day because of the fury of the
oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the
fury of the oppressor? |
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051:014 | The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he
should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. |
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051:015 | But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves
roared: The LORD of hosts is his name. |
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051:016 | And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee
in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and
lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art
my people. |
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051:017 | Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the
hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the
dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. |
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051:018 | There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath
brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the
hand of all the sons that she hath brought up. |
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051:019 | These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for
thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the
sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? |
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051:020 | Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the
streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of
the LORD, the rebuke of thy God. |
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051:021 | Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not
with wine: |
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051:022 | Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the
cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand
the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury;
thou shalt no more drink it again: |
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051:023 | But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;
which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over:
and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street,
to them that went over. |
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| 052:001 | Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy
beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth
there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the
unclean. | |
052:002 | Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem:
loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter
of Zion. |
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052:003 | For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought;
and ye shall be redeemed without money. |
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052:004 | For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime
into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them
without cause. |
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052:005 | Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my
people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make
them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every
day is blasphemed. |
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052:006 | Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall
know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is
I. |
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052:007 | How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth
good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith
unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! |
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052:008 | Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together
shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD
shall bring again Zion. |
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052:009 | Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of
Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath
redeemed Jerusalem. |
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052:010 | The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the
nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation
of our God. |
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052:011 | Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean
thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear
the vessels of the LORD. |
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052:012 | For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the
LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your
rereward. |
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052:013 | Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted
and extolled, and be very high. |
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052:014 | As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more
than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: |
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052:015 | So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their
mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall
they see; and that which they had not heard shall they
consider. |
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| 053:001 | Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the
LORD revealed? | |
053:002 | For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a
root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and
when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should
desire him. |
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053:003 | He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from
him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. |
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053:004 | Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet
we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. |
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053:005 | But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for
our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed. |
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053:006 | All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of
us all. |
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053:007 | He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his
mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a
sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his
mouth. |
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053:008 | He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall
declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of
the living: for the transgression of my people was he
stricken. |
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053:009 | And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in
his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any
deceit in his mouth. |
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053:010 | Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to
grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he
shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the
pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. |
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053:011 | He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be
satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify
many; for he shall bear their iniquities. |
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053:012 | Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he
shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured
out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the
transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors. |
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| 054:001 | Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into
singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with
child: for more are the children of the desolate than the
children of the married wife, saith the LORD. | |
054:002 | Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the
curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords,
and strengthen thy stakes; |
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054:003 | For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left;
and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate
cities to be inhabited. |
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054:004 | Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou
confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt
forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the
reproach of thy widowhood any more. |
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054:005 | For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name;
and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole
earth shall he be called. |
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054:006 | For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved
in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith
thy God. |
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054:007 | For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great
mercies will I gather thee. |
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054:008 | In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but
with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the
LORD thy Redeemer. |
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054:009 | For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn
that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so
have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke
thee. |
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054:010 | For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but
my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the
covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath
mercy on thee. |
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054:011 | O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy
foundations with sapphires. |
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054:012 | And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of
carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. |
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054:013 | And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great
shall be the peace of thy children. |
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054:014 | In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far
from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for
it shall not come near thee. |
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054:015 | Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me:
whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for
thy sake. |
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054:016 | Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the
fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and
I have created the waster to destroy. |
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054:017 | No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every
tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt
condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and
their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. |
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| 056:001 | Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my
salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be
revealed. | |
056:002 | Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that
layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it,
and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. |
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056:003 | Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself
to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me
from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a
dry tree. |
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056:004 | For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my
sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold
of my covenant; |
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056:005 | Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a
place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will
give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. |
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056:006 | Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the
LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be
his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from
polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; |
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056:007 | Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them
joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their
sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house
shall be called an house of prayer for all people. |
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056:008 | The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith,
Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are
gathered unto him. |
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056:009 | All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts
in the forest. |
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056:010 | His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all
dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to
slumber. |
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056:011 | Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and
they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to
their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. |
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056:012 | Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill
ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this
day, and much more abundant. |
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| 057:001 | The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and
merciful men are taken away, none considering that the
righteous is taken away from the evil to come. | |
057:002 | He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each
one walking in his uprightness. |
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057:003 | But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of
the adulterer and the whore. |
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057:004 | Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a
wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of
transgression, a seed of falsehood. |
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057:005 | Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree,
slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the
rocks? |
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057:006 | Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they,
they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink
offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive
comfort in these? |
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057:007 | Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even
thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. |
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057:008 | Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy
remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than
me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee
a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest
it. |
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057:009 | And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase
thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst
debase thyself even unto hell. |
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057:010 | Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou
not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand;
therefore thou wast not grieved. |
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057:011 | And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast
lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart?
have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? |
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057:012 | I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they
shall not profit thee. |
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057:013 | When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind
shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that
putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall
inherit my holy mountain; |
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057:014 | And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take
up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. |
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057:015 | For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth
eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy
place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of
the contrite ones. |
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057:016 | For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always
wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls
which I have made. |
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057:017 | For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote
him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the
way of his heart. |
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057:018 | I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also,
and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. |
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057:019 | I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is
far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will
heal him. |
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057:020 | But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest,
whose waters cast up mire and dirt. |
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057:021 | There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. |
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| 058:001 | Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and
shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob
their sins. | |
058:002 | Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a
nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance
of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they
take delight in approaching to God. |
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058:003 | Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?
wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no
knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure,
and exact all your labours. |
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058:004 | Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the
fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to
make your voice to be heard on high. |
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058:005 | Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to
afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and
to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a
fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? |
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058:006 | Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of
wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the
oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? |
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058:007 | Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring
the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the
naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself
from thine own flesh? |
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058:008 | Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine
health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness
shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy
rereward. |
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058:009 | Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt
cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the
midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and
speaking vanity; |
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058:010 | And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the
afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and
thy darkness be as the noon day: |
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058:011 | And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy
soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be
like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose
waters fail not. |
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058:012 | And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste
places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the
breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. |
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058:013 | If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy
pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the
holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing
thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking
thine own words: |
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058:014 | Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause
thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee
with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the
LORD hath spoken it. |
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| 059:001 | Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;
neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: | |
059:002 | But your iniquities have separated between you and your God,
and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not
hear. |
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059:003 | For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with
iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath
muttered perverseness. |
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059:004 | None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they
trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and
bring forth iniquity. |
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059:005 | They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he
that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed
breaketh out into a viper. |
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059:006 | Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
themselves with their works: their works are works of
iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. |
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059:007 | Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent
blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and
destruction are in their paths. |
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059:008 | The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in
their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever
goeth therein shall not know peace. |
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059:009 | Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice
overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for
brightness, but we walk in darkness. |
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059:010 | We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we
had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in
desolate places as dead men. |
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059:011 | We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for
judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off
from us. |
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059:012 | For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our
sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us;
and as for our iniquities, we know them; |
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059:013 | In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing
away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving
and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. |
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059:014 | And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth
afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot
enter. |
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059:015 | Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh
himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him
that there was no judgment. |
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059:016 | And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was
no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him;
and his righteousness, it sustained him. |
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059:017 | For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of
salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of
vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak. |
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059:018 | According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to
his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he
will repay recompence. |
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059:019 | So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his
glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in
like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard
against him. |
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059:020 | And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn
from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. |
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059:021 | As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My
spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy
mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth
of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith
the LORD, from henceforth and for ever. |
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| 060:001 | Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD
is risen upon thee. | |
060:002 | For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross
darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and
his glory shall be seen upon thee. |
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060:003 | And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the
brightness of thy rising. |
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060:004 | Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather
themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come
from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. |
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060:005 | Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall
fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall
be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come
unto thee. |
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060:006 | The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of
Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall
bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises
of the LORD. |
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060:007 | All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee,
the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come
up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house
of my glory. |
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060:008 | Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their
windows? |
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060:009 | Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish
first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold
with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy
One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. |
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060:010 | And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their
kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee,
but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. |
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060:011 | Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not
be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces
of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. |
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060:012 | For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall
perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. |
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060:013 | The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the
pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my
sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. |
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060:014 | The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending
unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow
themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call
thee; The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of
Israel. |
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060:015 | Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated, so that no man went
through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of
many generations. |
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060:016 | Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck
the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am
thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. |
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060:017 | For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver,
and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy
officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. |
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060:018 | Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor
destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls
Salvation, and thy gates Praise. |
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060:019 | The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for
brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD
shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy
glory. |
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060:020 | Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw
itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the
days of thy mourning shall be ended. |
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060:021 | Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the
land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my
hands, that I may be glorified. |
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060:022 | A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong
nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time. |
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| 061:001 | The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath
anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent
me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the
captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are
bound; | |
061:002 | To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of
vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; |
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061:003 | To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called
trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he
might be glorified. |
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061:004 | And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the
former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities,
the desolations of many generations. |
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061:005 | And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons
of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. |
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061:006 | But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call
you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the
Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. |
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061:007 | For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they
shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they
shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. |
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061:008 | For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt
offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will
make an everlasting covenant with them. |
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061:009 | And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their
offspring among the people: all that see them shall
acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath
blessed. |
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061:010 | I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in
my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation,
he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a
bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride
adorneth herself with her jewels. |
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061:011 | For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden
causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the
Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth
before all the nations. |
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| 062:001 | For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's
sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth
as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that
burneth. | |
062:002 | And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings
thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the
mouth of the LORD shall name. |
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062:003 | Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD,
and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. |
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062:004 | Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land
any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called
Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in
thee, and thy land shall be married. |
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062:005 | For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry
thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall
thy God rejoice over thee. |
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062:006 | I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall
never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of
the LORD, keep not silence, |
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062:007 | And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make
Jerusalem a praise in the earth. |
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062:008 | The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his
strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for
thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink
thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: |
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062:009 | But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the
LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in
the courts of my holiness. |
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062:010 | Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the
people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;
lift up a standard for the people. |
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062:011 | Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world,
Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh;
behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. |
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062:012 | And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the
LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not
forsaken. |
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| 063:001 | Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in
the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness,
mighty to save. | |
063:002 | Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like
him that treadeth in the winefat? |
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063:003 | I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there
was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and
trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled
upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. |
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063:004 | For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my
redeemed is come. |
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063:005 | And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that
there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought
salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. |
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063:006 | And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them
drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the
earth. |
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063:007 | I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the
praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath
bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of
Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his
mercies, and according to the multitude of his
lovingkindnesses. |
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063:008 | For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not
lie: so he was their Saviour. |
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063:009 | In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his
presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed
them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. |
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063:010 | But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was
turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. |
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063:011 | Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people,
saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with
the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy
Spirit within him? |
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063:012 | That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious
arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an
everlasting name? |
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063:013 | That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness,
that they should not stumble? |
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063:014 | As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD
caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make
thyself a glorious name. |
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063:015 | Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy
holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength,
the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are
they restrained? |
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063:016 | Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of
us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our
father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. |
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063:017 | O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and
hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants'
sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. |
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063:018 | The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little
while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. |
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063:019 | We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not
called by thy name. |
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| 064:001 | Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest
come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, | |
064:002 | As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters
to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the
nations may tremble at thy presence! |
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064:003 | When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou
camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. |
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064:004 | For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside
thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. |
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064:005 | Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,
those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth;
for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be
saved. |
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064:006 | But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our
righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a
leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. |
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064:007 | And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up
himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from
us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. |
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064:008 | But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and
thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. |
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064:009 | Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for
ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. |
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064:010 | Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation. |
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064:011 | Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised
thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are
laid waste. |
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064:012 | Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou
hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? |
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| 065:001 | I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them
that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a
nation that was not called by my name. | |
065:002 | I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious
people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their
own thoughts; |
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065:003 | A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face;
that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars
of brick; |
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065:004 | Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments,
which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in
their vessels; |
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065:005 | Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am
holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that
burneth all the day. |
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065:006 | Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but
will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, |
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065:007 | Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together,
saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains,
and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure
their former work into their bosom. |
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065:008 | Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster,
and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so
will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them
all. |
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065:009 | And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah
an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it,
and my servants shall dwell there. |
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065:010 | And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor
a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have
sought me. |
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065:011 | But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy
mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that
furnish the drink offering unto that number. |
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065:012 | Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow
down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not
answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before
mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not. |
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065:013 | Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall
eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink,
but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice,
but ye shall be ashamed: |
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065:014 | Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall
cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of
spirit. |
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065:015 | And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for
the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another
name: |
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065:016 | That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself
in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall
swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are
forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes. |
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065:017 | For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the
former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. |
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065:018 | But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create:
for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a
joy. |
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065:019 | And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the
voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice
of crying. |
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065:020 | There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old
man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an
hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old
shall be accursed. |
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065:021 | And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. |
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065:022 | They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not
plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days
of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of
their hands. |
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065:023 | They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble;
for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their
offspring with them. |
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065:024 | And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will
answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. |
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065:025 | The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall
eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's
meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,
saith the LORD. |
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| 066:001 | Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is
my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and
where is the place of my rest? | |
066:002 | For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things
have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even
to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at
my word. |
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066:003 | He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that
sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that
offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that
burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have
chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their
abominations. |
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066:004 | I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears
upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I
spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes,
and chose that in which I delighted not. |
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066:005 | Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your
brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake,
said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your
joy, and they shall be ashamed. |
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066:006 | A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a
voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies. |
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066:007 | Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came,
she was delivered of a man child. |
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066:008 | Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall
the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation
be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought
forth her children. |
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066:009 | Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?
saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the
womb? saith thy God. |
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066:010 | Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that
love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: |
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066:011 | That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her
consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the
abundance of her glory. |
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066:012 | For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her
like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing
stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides,
and be dandled upon her knees. |
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066:013 | As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and
ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. |
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066:014 | And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones
shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be
known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his
enemies. |
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066:015 | For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his
chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and
his rebuke with flames of fire. |
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066:016 | For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all
flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many. |
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066:017 | They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the
gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh,
and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed
together, saith the LORD. |
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066:018 | For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that
I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come,
and see my glory. |
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066:019 | And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that
escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud,
that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off,
that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and
they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. |
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066:020 | And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto
the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and
in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy
mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel
bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the
LORD. |
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066:021 | And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites,
saith the LORD. |
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066:022 | For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make,
shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and
your name remain. |
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066:023 | And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another,
and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to
worship before me, saith the LORD. |
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066:024 | And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men
that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not
die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be
an abhorring unto all flesh.
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