I will lift up My hand to the nations,And set up Mine ensign to the peoples,And they shall bring thy sons in their bosom,And thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.23And kings shall be thy foster-fathers,And their queens thy nursing mothers;They shall bow down to thee with their face to the earth,And lick the dust of thy feet;And thou shalt know that I am the Lord,For they shall not be ashamed that wait for Me. 24Shall the prey be taken from the mighty,Or the captives of the victorious be delivered?25But thus saith the Lord:Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,And the prey of the terrible shall be delivered;And I will contend with him that contendeth with thee,And I will save thy children.26And 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. 50Thus saith the Lord:Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement,Wherewith I have put her away?Or which of My creditors is itTo whom I have sold you?Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold,And for your transgressions was your mother put away.2Wherefore, 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 become foul, because there is no water,And die for thirst.3I clothe the heavens with blackness,And I make sackcloth their covering. 4The Lord God hath given meThe tongue of them that are taught,That I should know how to sustain with words him that is weary;He wakeneth morning by morning,He wakeneth mine earTo hear as they that are taught.5The Lord God hath opened mine ear,And I was not rebellious,Neither turned away backward.6I 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.7For the Lord God will help me;Therefore have I not been confounded;Therefore have I set my face like a flint,And I know that I shall not be ashamed.8He is near that justifieth me;Who will contend with me? let us stand up together;Who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.9Behold, the Lord God will help me;Who is he that shall condemn me?Behold, they all shall wax old as a garment,The moth shall eat them up. 10Who is among you that feareth the Lord,That obeyeth the voice of His servant?Though he walketh in darkness,And hath no light,Let him trust in the name of the Lord,And stay upon his God.11Behold, all ye that kindle a fire,That gird yourselves with firebrands,Begone in the flame of your fire,And among the brands that ye have kindled.This shall ye have of My hand;Ye shall lie down in sorrow. 51Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness,Ye that seek the Lord;Look unto the rock whence ye were hewn,And to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.2Look unto Abraham your father,And unto Sarah that bore you;For when he was but one I called him,And I blessed him, and made him many.3For the Lord hath comforted Zion;He hath comforted all her waste places,And hath made 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. 4Attend unto Me, O My people,And give ear unto Me, O My nation;For instruction shall go forth from Me,And My right on a sudden for a light of the peoples.5My favour is near,My salvation is gone forth,And Mine arms shall judge the peoples;The isles shall wait for Me,And on Mine arm shall they trust.6Lift 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 favour shall not be abolished. 7Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness,The people in whose heart is My law;Fear ye not the taunt of men,Neither be ye dismayed at their revilings.8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment,And the worm shall eat them like wool;But My favour shall be for ever,And My salvation unto all generations. 9Awake, awake, put on strength,O arm of the Lord;Awake, as in the days of old,The generations of ancient times.Art thou not it that hewed Rahab in pieces,That pierced the dragon?10Art thou not it that dried up the sea,The waters of the great deep;That made the depths of the sea a wayFor the redeemed to pass over?11And the ransomed of the Lord shall return,And come with singing unto Zion,And everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;They shall obtain gladness and joy,And sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 12I, even I, am He that comforteth you:Who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that shall die,And of the son of man that shall be made as grass;13And hast forgotten the Lord thy Maker,That stretched forth the heavens,And laid the foundations of the earth;And fearest continually all the dayBecause of the fury of the oppressor,As he maketh ready to destroy?And where is the fury of the oppressor?14He that is bent down shall speedily be loosed;And he shall not go down dying into the pit,Neither shall his bread fail.15For I am the Lord thy God,Who stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar;The Lord of hosts is His name.16And I have put My words in thy mouth,And have covered thee in the shadow of My hand,That I may plant the heavens,And lay the foundations of the earth,And say unto Zion: 'Thou art My people.' 17Awake, awake,Stand up, O Jerusalem,That hast drunk at the hand of the LordThe cup of His fury;Thou hast drunken the beaker, even the cup of staggering,And drained it.18There is none to guide herAmong all the sons whom she hath brought forth;Neither is there any that taketh her by the handOf all the sons that she hath brought up.19These two things are befallen thee;Who shall bemoan thee?Desolation and destruction,And the famine and the sword;How shall I comfort thee?20Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets,As an antelope in a net;They are full of the fury of the Lord,The rebuke of thy God.21Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted,And drunken, but not with wine;22Thus saith thy Lord the Lord,And thy God that pleadeth the cause of His people:Behold, I have taken out of thy handThe cup of staggering;The beaker, even the cup of My fury,Thou shalt no more drink it again;23And I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;That have said to thy soul:'Bow down, that we may go over';And thou hast laid thy back as the ground,And as the street, to them that go over. 52Awake, 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 theeThe uncircumcised and the unclean.2Shake thyself from the dust;Arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem;Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck,O captive daughter of Zion. 3For thus saith the Lord:Ye were sold for nought;And ye shall be redeemed without money.4For thus saith the Lord God:My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there;And the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.5Now therefore, what do I here, saith the Lord,Seeing that My people is taken away for nought?They that rule over them do howl, saith the Lord,And My name continually all the day is blasphemed.6Therefore My people shall know My name;Therefore they shall know in that dayThat I, even He that spoke, behold, here I am. 7How beautiful upon the mountainsAre the feet of the messenger of good tidings,That announceth peace, the harbinger of good tidings,That announceth salvation;That saith unto Zion:'Thy God reigneth! '8Hark, thy watchmen! they lift up the voice,Together do they sing;For they shall see, eye to eye,The Lord returning to Zion.9Break forth into joy, sing together,Ye waste places of Jerusalem;For the Lord hath comforted His people,He hath redeemed Jerusalem.10The Lord hath made bare His holy armIn the eyes of all the nations;And all the ends of the earth shall seeThe salvation of our God.11Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence,Touch no unclean thing;Go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean,Ye that bear the vessels of the Lord.12For ye shall not go out in haste,Neither shall ye go by flight;For the Lord will go before you,And the God of Israel will be your rearward. 13Behold, My servant shall prosper,He shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.14According as many were appalled at thee—So marred was his visage unlike that of a man,And his form unlike that of the sons of men—15So shall he startle many nations,Kings shall shut their mouths because of him;For that which had not been told them shall they see,And that which they had not heard shall they perceive.53'Who would have believed our report?And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?2For he shot up right forth as a sapling,And as a root out of a dry ground;He had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him,Nor beauty that we should delight in him.3He was despised, and forsaken of men,A man of pains, and acquainted with disease,And as one from whom men hide their face:He was despised, and we esteemed him not.4Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried;Whereas we did esteem him stricken,Smitten of God, and afflicted.5But he was wounded because
