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His very name is not without mystery; for +Isaias in Hebrew signifies the salvation of the Lord, or Jesus is the +Lord. He was, according to the tradition of the Hebrews, of the blood +royal of the kings of Juda: and after a most holy life, ended his days +by a glorious martyrdom; being sawed in two, at the command of his +wicked son in law, King Manasses, for reproving his evil ways. + + +Isaias Chapter 1 + +The prophet complains of the sins of Juda and Jerusalem, and exhorts +them to a sincere conversion. + +1:1. The vision of Isaias the Son of Amos, which he saw concerning Juda +and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings +of Juda. + +1:2. Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath +spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have +despised me. + +1:3. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel +hath not known me, and my people hath not understood. + +1:4. Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked +seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have +blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards. + +1:5. For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase +transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad. + +1:6. From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no +soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not +bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil. + +1:7. Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your +country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as +when wasted by enemies. + +1:8. And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, +and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid +waste. + +1:9. Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, +and we should have been like to Gomorrha. + +1:10. Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law +of our God, ye people of Gomorrha. + +1:11. To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, +saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of +fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. + +1:12. When you came to appear before me, who required these things at +your hands, that you should walk in my courts? + +1:13. Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. +The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, +your assemblies are wicked. + +1:14. My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are +become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them. + +1:15. And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes +from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands +are full of blood. + +1:16. Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from +my eyes, cease to do perversely, + +1:17. Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for +the fatherless, defend the widow. + +1:18. And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as +scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as +crimson, they shall be white as wool. + +1:19. If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good +things of the land. + +1:20. But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall +devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. + +1:21. How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a +harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers. + +1:22. Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water. + +1:23. Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love +bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and +the widow's cause cometh not in to them. + +1:24. Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of +Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be +revenged of my enemies. + +1:25. And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy +dross, and I will take away all thy tin. + +1:26. And I will restore thy judges as they were before, and thy +counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the +just, a faithful city. + +1:27. Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back +in justice. + +1:28. And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and +they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed. + +1:29. For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have +sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have +chosen. + +1:30. When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a +garden without water. + +1:31. And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a +spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench +it. + +Isaias Chapter 2 + +All nations shall flow to the church of Christ. The Jews shall be +rejected for their sins. Idolatry shall be destroyed. + +2:1. The word that Isaias the son of Amos saw, concerning Juda and +Jerusalem. + +2:2. And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be +prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the +hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. + +The last days... The whole time of the new law, from the coming of +Christ till the end of the world, is called in the scripture the last +days; because no other age or time shall come after it, but only +eternity.-Ibid. On the top of mountains, etc... This shews the perpetual +visibility of the church of Christ: for a mountain upon the top of +mountains cannot be hid. + +2:3. And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the +mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will +teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come +forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. + +2:4. And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they +shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into +sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall +they be exercised any more to war. + +2:5. O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the +Lord. + +2:6. For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they +are filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the +Philistines, and have adhered to strange children. + +2:7. Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no end of +their treasures. + +2:8. And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are +innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work +of their own hands, which their own fingers have made. + +2:9. And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: +therefore forgive them not. + +2:10. Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face +of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty. + +2:11. The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men +shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. + +2:12. Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that +is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he +shall be humbled. + +2:13. And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all +the oaks of Basan. + +2:14. And upon all the high mountains and upon all the elevated hills. + +2:15. And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall. + +2:16. And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is fair to +behold. + +2:17. And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness +of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that +day. + +2:18. And idols shall be utterly destroyed. + +Idols shall be utterly destroyed... or utterly pass away. This was +verified by the establishment of Christianity. And by this and other +texts of the like nature, the wild system of some modern sectaries is +abundantly confuted, who charge the whole Christian church with +worshipping idols, for many ages. + +2:19. And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of +the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of +his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth. + +2:20. In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his +idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats. + +2:21. And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the holes of +stones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his +majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth. + +2:22. Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, +for he is reputed high. + +Isaias Chapter 3 + +The confusion and other evils that shall come upon the Jews for their +sins. The pride of their women shall be punished. + +3:1. For behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall take away from +Jerusalem, and from Juda the valiant and the strong, the whole strength +of bread, and the whole strength of water. + +3:2. The strong man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet and +the cunning man, and the ancient. + +3:3. The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance, and the +counsellor, and the architect, and the skilful in eloquent speech. + +3:4. And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate +shall rule over them. + +3:5. And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against +his neighbour: the child shall make a tumult against the ancient, and +the base against the honourable. + +3:6. For a man shall take hold of his brother, one of the house of his +father, saying: Thou hast a garment, be thou our ruler, and let this +ruin be under thy hand. + +3:7. In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no healer, and in my +house there is no bread, nor clothing: make me not ruler of the people. + +3:8. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue, +and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his +majesty. + +3:9. The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have +proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to +their souls, for evils are rendered to them. + +3:10. Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of +his doings. + +3:11. Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be +given him. + +3:12. As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women +have ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same +deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps. + +3:13. The Lord standeth up to judge, and he standeth to judge the +people. + +3:14. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, +and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of +the poor is in your house. + +3:15. Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? +saith the Lord the God of hosts. + +3:16. And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and +have walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes, +and made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace: + +3:17. The Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of +Sion, and the Lord will discover their hair. + +3:18. In that day the Lord will take away the ornaments of shoes, and +little moons, + +3:19. And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets, + +3:20. And bodkins, and ornaments of the legs, and tablets, and sweet +balls, and earrings, + +3:21. And rings, and jewels hanging on the forehead, + +3:22. And changes of apparel, and short cloaks, and fine linen, and +crisping pins, + +3:23. And lookingglasses, and lawns, and headbands, and fine veils. + +3:24. And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and instead of +a girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair, baldness, and instead of a +stomacher, haircloth. + +3:25. Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones +in battle. + +3:26. And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate +on the ground. + +Isaias Chapter 4 + +After an extremity of evils that shall fall upon the Jews, a remnant +shall be comforted by Christ. + +4:1. And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We +will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called +by thy name, take away our reproach. + +4:2. In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, +and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that +shall have escaped of Israel. + +The bud of the Lord... That is, Christ. + +4:3. And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall be left in +Sion, and that shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every +one that is written in life in Jerusalem. + +4:4. If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Sion, and +shall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof, by the +spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. + +4:5. And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion, and where +he is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of a +flaming fire in the night: for over all the glory shall be a protection. + +4:6. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime from the +heat, and for a security and covert from the whirlwind, and from rain. + +Isaias Chapter 5 + +The reprobation of the Jews is foreshewn under the parable of a +vineyard. A woe is pronounced against sinners: the army of God shall +send against them. + +5:1. I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his +vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place. + +My cousin... So the prophet calls Christ, as being of his family and +kindred, by descending from the house of David. Ibid. On a hill, etc... +Literally, in the horn, the son of oil. + +5:2. And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted +it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and +set up a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth +grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. + +5:3. And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge +between me and my vineyard. + +5:4. What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have +not done to it? was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes, +and it hath brought forth wild grapes? + +5:5. And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take +away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the +wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down. + +5:6. And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall +not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command +the clouds to rain no rain upon it. + +5:7. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and +the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do +judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry. + +5:8. Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to +the end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth? + +5:9. These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: Unless many +great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant. + +5:10. For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and +thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels. + +5:11. Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow +drunkenness, and to drink in the evening, to be inflamed with wine. + +5:12. The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine +are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you +consider the works of his hands. + +5:13. Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not +knowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine, and their +multitude were dried up with thirst. + +5:14. Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth +without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their +high and glorious ones shall go down into it. + +5:15. And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the +eyes of the lofty shall be brought low. + +5:16. And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy +God shall be sanctified in justice. + +5:17. And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers +shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness. + +5:18. Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the +rope of a cart. + +5:19. That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that +we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that +we may know it. + +5:20. Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness +for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet +for bitter. + +5:21. Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own +conceits. + +5:22. Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at +drunkenness. + +5:23. That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of +the just from him. + +5:24. Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the +heat of the flame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and +their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the +Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel. + +5:25. Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and +he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the +mountains were troubles, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst +of the streets. For after this his anger is not turned away, but his +hand is stretched out still. + +5:26. And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will +whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come +with speed swiftly. + +5:27. There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them: they shall +not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be +loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken. + +5:28. Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of +their horses shall be like the flint, and their wheels like the violence +of a tempest. + +5:29. Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young +lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall +keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it. + +5:30. And they shall make a noise against them that day, like the +roaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land, and behold darkness +of tribulation, and the light is darkened with the mist thereof. + +Isaias Chapter 6 + +A glorious vision, in which the prophet's lips are cleansed: he +foretelleth the obstinacy of the Jews. + +6:1. In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a +throne high and elevated: and his train filled the temple. + +6:2. Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other +had six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered +his feet, and with two they flew. + +6:3. And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the Lord +God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory, + +6:4. And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that +cried, and the house was filled with smoke. + +6:5. And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a +man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath +unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts. + +6:6. And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live +coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar. + +6:7. And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy +lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be +cleansed. + +6:8. And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and +who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me. + +6:9. And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear, +and understand not: and see the vision, and know it not. + +6:10. Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and +shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their +ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them. + +6:11. And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be +wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land +shall be left desolate. + +6:12. And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be +multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth. + +6:13. And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, +and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that +spreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy +seed. + +Isaias Chapter 7 + +The prophet assures king Achaz that the two kings his enemies shall not +take Jerusalem. A virgin shall conceive and bear a son. + +7:1. And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joathan, the +son of Ozias, king of Juda, that Rasin king of Syria and Phacee the son +of Romelia king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem, to fight against it: +but they could not prevail over it. + +7:2. And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath rested upon +Ephraim, and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the +trees of the woods are moved with the wind. + +7:3. And the Lord said to Isaias: Go forth to meet Achaz, thou and Jasub +thy son that is left, to the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the +fuller's field. + +7:4. And thou shalt say to him: See thou be quiet: fear not, and let not +thy heart be afraid of the two tails of these firebrands, smoking with +the wrath of the fury of Rasin king of Syria, and of the son of Romelia. + +7:5. Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of +Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying: + +7:6. Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away to us, and +make the son of Tabeel king in the midst thereof. + +7:7. Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this shall not be. + +7:8. But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is +Rasin: and within threescore and five years, Ephraim shall cease to be a +people: + +7:9. And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the +son of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not continue. + +7:10. And the Lord spoke again to Achaz, saying: + +7:11. Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either unto the depth of +hell, or unto the height above. + +7:12. And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will not tempt the Lord. + +7:13. And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a small +thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God +also? + +7:14. Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin +shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel. + +7:15. He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the +evil, and to choose the good. + +7:16. For before the child know to refuse the evil and to choose the +good, the land which thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of the face of her +two kings. + +7:17. The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the +house of thy father, days that have not come since the time of the +separation of Ephraim from Juda with the king of the Assyrians. + +7:18. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss +for the fly, that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt, and +for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. + +7:19. And they shall come, and shall all of them rest in the torrents of +the valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all places set with +shrubs, and in all hollow places. + +7:20. In that day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is hired by +them that are beyond the river, by the king of the Assyrians, the head +and the hairs of the feet, and the whole beard. + +7:21. And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a +young cow, and two sheep. + +7:22. And for the abundance of milk he shall eat butter: for butter and +honey shall every one eat that shall be left in the midst of the land. + +7:23. And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where +there were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of silver, shall +become thorns and briers. + +7:24. With arrows and with bows they shall go in thither: for briers and +thorns shall be in all the land. + +7:25. And as for the hills that shall be raked with a rake, the fear of +thorns and briers shall not come thither, but they shall be for the ox +to feed on, and the lesser cattle to tread upon. + +Isaias Chapter 8 + +The name of a child that is to be born: many evils shall come upon the +Jews for their sins. + +8:1. And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it +with a man's pen. Take away the spoils with speed, quickly take the +prey. + +8:2. And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest, and +Zacharias the son of Barachias. + +8:3. And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. +And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils: +Make hast to take away the prey. + +8:4. For before the child know to call his father and his mother, the +strength of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria shall be taken away +before the king of the Assyrians. + +8:5. And the Lord spoke to me again, saying: + +8:6. Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of Siloe, that +go with silence, and hath rather taken Rasin, and the son of Romelia: + +8:7. Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters of the +river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory: and +he shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his +banks. + +8:8. And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over shall +reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill +the breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel. + +8:9. Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give +ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome, gird +yourselves, and be overcome. + +8:10. Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and +it shall not be done: because God is with us. + +8:11. For thus saith the Lord to me: As he hath taught me, with a strong +arm, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying: + +8:12. Say ye not: A conspiracy: for all that this people speaketh, is a +conspiracy: neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. + +8:13. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let him be your fear, and +let him be your dread. + +8:14. And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone of +stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a +snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. + +8:15. And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken +in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken. + +8:16. Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. + +8:17. And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from the house +of Jacob, and I will look for him. + +8:18. Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for a sign, +and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in mount +Sion. + +8:19. And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of diviners, +who mutter in their enchantments: should not the people seek of their +God, for the living of the dead? + +Seek of pythons... That is, people pretending to tell future things by a +prophesying spirit.-Ibid. Should not the people seek of their God, for +the living of the dead?... Here is signified, that it is to God we +should pray to be directed, and not to seek of the dead, (that is, of +fortune-tellers dead in sin,) for the health of the living. + +8:20. To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not +according to this word, they shall not have the morning light. + +8:21. And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and +when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and +their God, and look upwards. + +8:22. And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble and darkness, +weakness and distress, and a mist following them, and they cannot fly +away from their distress. + +Isaias Chapter 9 + +What joy shall come after afflictions by the birth and kingdom of +Christ; which shall flourish for ever. Judgments upon Israel for their +sins. + +9:1. At the first time the land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephtali was +lightly touched: and at the last the way of the sea beyond the Jordan of +the Galilee of the Gentiles was heavily loaded. + +9:2. The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light: to +them that dwelt in the region of the shadow of death, light is risen. + +9:3. Thou hast multiplied the nation, and hast not increased the joy. +They shall rejoice before thee, as they that rejoice in the harvest, as +conquerors rejoice after taking a prey, when they divide the spoils. + +9:4. For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their shoulder, and +the sceptre of their oppressor thou hast overcome, as in the day of +Madian. + +9:5. For every violent taking of spoils, with tumult, and garment +mingled with blood, shall be burnt, and be fuel for the fire. + +9:6. For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the +government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, +Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince +of Peace. + +9:7. His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: +he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to +establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from +henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform +this. + +9:8. The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. + +9:9. And all the people of Ephraim shall know, and the inhabitants of +Samaria that say in the pride and haughtiness of their heart: + +9:10. The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones: +they have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars. + +9:11. And the Lord shall set up the enemies of Rasin over him, and shall +bring on his enemies in a crowd: + +9:12. The Syrians from the east, and, the Philistines from the west: and +they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his indignation +is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. + +9:13. And the people are not returned to him who hath struck them, and +have not sought after the Lord of hosts. + +9:14. And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail, +him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day. + +9:15. The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that +teacheth lies, he is the tail. + +9:16. And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err: +and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down, headlong. + +9:17. Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men: neither +shall he have mercy on their fatherless, and widows: for every one is a +hypocrite and wicked, and every mouth hath spoken folly. For all this +his indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. + +9:18. For wickedness is kindled as a fire, it shall devour the brier and +the thorn: and shall kindle in the thicket of the forest, and it shall +be wrapped up in smoke ascending on high. + +9:19. By the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is troubled, and the +people shall be as fuel for the fire: no man shall spare his brother. + +9:20. And he shall turn to the right hand, and shall be hungry: and +shall eat on the left hand, and shall not be filled: every one shall eat +the flesh of his own arm: Manasses Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasses, and +they together shall be against Juda. + +9:21. After all these things his indignation is not turned away, but his +hand is stretched out still. + +Isaias Chapter 10 + +Woe to the makers of wicked laws. The Assyrian shall be a rod for +punishing Israel: but for their pride they shall be destroyed: and a +remnant of Israel saved. + +10:1. Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write +injustice: + +10:2. To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of +the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they +might rob the fatherless. + +10:3. What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity +which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye +leave your glory? + +10:4. That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the +slain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand is +stretched out still. + +10:5. Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and +my indignation is in their hands. + +10:6. I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a +charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to +lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the +streets. + +10:7. But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but +his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. + +10:8. For he shall say: + +10:9. Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis: +and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus? + +10:10. As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idol, so also their +idols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria. + +10:11. Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to +Jerusalem and her idols? + +10:12. And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have +performed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, I will visit +the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of +the haughtiness of his eyes. + +10:13. For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have done it, +and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds of +the people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a mighty +man hath pulled down them that sat on high. + +10:14. And my hand hath found the strength of the people as a nest; and +as eggs are gathered, that are left, so have I gathered all the earth: +and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or made the +least noise. + +10:15. Shall the axe boast itself against him that cutteth with it? or +shall the saw exalt itself against him by whom it is drawn? as if a rod +should lift itself up against him that lifteth it up, and a staff exalt +itself, which is but wood. + +10:16. Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send +leanness among his fat ones: and under his glory shall be kindled a +burning, as it were the burning of a fire. + +10:17. And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One +thereof as a flame: and his thorns and his briers shall be set on fire, +and shall be devoured in one day. + +10:18. And the glory of his forest, and of his beautiful hill, shall be +consumed from the soul even to the flesh, and he shall run away through +fear. + +10:19. And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few, +that they shall easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down. + +10:20. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of +Israel, and they that shall escape of the house of Jacob, shall lean no +more upon him that striketh them: but they shall lean upon the Lord the +Holy One of Israel, in truth. + +10:21. The remnant shall be converted, the remnant, I say, of Jacob, to +the mighty God. + +10:22. For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the sea, a +remnant of them shall be converted, the consumption abridged shall +overflow with justice. + +A remnant of them shall be converted... This was partly verified in the +children of Israel who remained after the devastations of the Assyrians, +in the time of king Ezechias: and partly in the conversion of a remnant +of the Jews to the faithful of Christ.-Ibid. The consumption abridged, +etc... That is, the number of them cut short, and reduced to few, shall +flourish in abundance of justice. + +10:23. For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, and an +abridgment in the midst of all the land. + +10:24. Therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: O my people that +dwellest in Sion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall strike thee +with his rod, and he shall lift up his staff over thee in the way of +Egypt. + +10:25. For yet a little and a very little while, and my indignation +shall cease, and my wrath shall be upon their wickedness. + +10:26. And the Lord of hosts shall raise up a scourge against him, +according to the slaughter of Madian in the rock of Oreb, and his rod +over the sea, and he shall lift it up in the way of Egypt. + +10:27. And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be +taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and +the yoke shall putrefy at the presence of the oil. + +At the presence of the oil... That is, by the sweet unction of divine +mercy. + +10:28. He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at Machmas +he shall lay up his carriages. + +Into Aiath, etc... Here the prophet describes the march of the Assyrians +under Sennacherib; and the terror they should carry with them; and how +they should suddenly be destroyed. + +10:29. They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was +astonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away. + +10:30. Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim, attend, O Laisa, poor +Anathoth. + +10:31. Medemena is removed: ye inhabitants of Gabim, take courage. + +10:32. It is yet day enough, to remain in Nobe: he shall shake his hand +against the mountain of the daughter of Sion, the hill of Jerusalem. + +10:33. Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall break the earthen vessel +with terror, and the tall of stature shall be cut down, and the lofty +shall be humbled. + +10:34. And the thickets of the forest shall be cut down with iron, and +Libanus with its high ones shall fall. + +Isaias Chapter 11 + +Of the spiritual kingdom of Christ, to which all nations shall repair. + +11:1. And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a +flower shall rise up out of his root. + +11:2. And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of +wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, +the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness. + +11:3. And he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord, He +shall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove +according to the hearing of the ears. + +11:4. But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with +equity the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod +of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. + +11:5. And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle +of his reins. + +11:6. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down +with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, +and a little child shall lead them. + +11:7. The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest +together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. + +11:8. And the sucking child shall play on other hole of the asp: and the +weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk. + +11:9. They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain, +for the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering +waters of the sea. + +11:10. In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the +people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be +glorious. + +11:11. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set +his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which +shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and +from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from +the islands of the sea. + +11:12. And he shall set up a standard unto the nations, and shall +assemble the fugitives of Israel, and shall gather together the +dispersed of Juda from the four quarters of the earth. + +11:13. And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of +Juda shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda, and Juda shall not fight +against Ephraim. + +11:14. But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines by the +sea, they together shall spoil the children of the east: Edom, till Moab +shall be under the rule of their hand, and the children of Ammon shall +be obedient. + +11:15. And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and +shall lift up his hand over the river in the strength of his spirit: and +he shall strike it in the seven streams, so that men may pass through it +in their shoes. + +11:16. And there shall be a highway for the remnant of my people, which +shall be left from the Assyrians: as there was for Israel in the day +that he came up out of the land of Egypt. + +Isaias Chapter 12 + +A canticle of thanksgiving for the benefits of Christ. + +12:1. And thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to thee, O +Lord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and thou +hast comforted me. + +12:2. Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not +fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become +my salvation. + +12:3. Thou shall draw waters with joy out of the saviour's fountains: + +12:4. And you shall say in that day: Praise ye the Lord, and call upon +his name: make his works known among the people: remember that his name +is high. + +12:5. Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath done great things: shew this +forth in all the earth. + +12:6. Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great is he +that is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of Israel. + +Isaias Chapter 13 + +The desolation of Babylon. + +13:1. The burden of Babylon which Isaias the son of Amos saw. + +The burden of Babylon... That is, a prophecy against Babylon. + +13:2. Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift +up the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates. + +13:3. I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong +ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory. + +13:4. The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of many +people, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations gathered together: +the Lord of hosts hath given charge to the troops of war. + +13:5. To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of heaven: +the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land. + +13:6. Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a +destruction from the Lord. + +13:7. Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall +melt, + +13:8. And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them, +they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at +his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt. + +13:9. Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of +indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to +destroy the sinners thereof out of it. + +13:10. For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display +their light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall +not shine with her light. + +13:11. And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked +for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and +will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty. + +13:12. A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest +of gold. + +13:13. For this I will trouble the heaven: and the earth shall be moved +out of her place, for the indignation of the Lord of hosts, and for the +day of his fierce wrath. + +13:14. And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, and as a sheep: and +there shall be none to gather them together: every man shall turn to his +own people, and every one shall flee to his own land. + +13:15. Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that +shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword. + +13:16. Their inhabitants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: +their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished. + +13:17. Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek +silver, nor desire gold: + +13:18. But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall +have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not +spare their sons. + +13:19. And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous pride of +the Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha. + +13:20. It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be +founded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch +his tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there. + +13:21. But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be +filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy +ones shall dance there: + +13:22. And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof, +and sirens in the temples of pleasure. + +Isaias Chapter 14 + +The restoration of Israel after their captivity. The parable or song +insulting over the king of Babylon. A prophecy against the Philistines. + +14:1. Her time is near at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged. For +the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose out of Israel, +and will make them rest upon their own ground: and the stranger shall be +joined with them, and shall adhere to the house of Jacob. + +14:2. And the people shall take them, and bring them into their place: +and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for +servants and handmaids: and they shall make them captives that had taken +them, and shall subdue their oppressors. + +14:3. And it shall come to pass in that day, that when God shall give +thee rest from thy labour, and from thy vexation, and from the hard +bondage, wherewith thou didst serve before, + +14:4. Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and +shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath +ceased? + +14:5. The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the +rulers, + +14:6. That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, that +brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner. + +14:7. The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad and hath rejoiced. + +14:8. The fir trees also have rejoiced over thee, and the cedars of +Libanus, saying: Since thou hast slept, there hath none come up to cut +us down. + +14:9. Hell below was in an uproar to meet thee at thy coming, it stirred +up the giants for thee. All the princes of the earth are risen up from +their thrones, all the princes of nations. + +14:10. All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded as well +as we, thou art become like unto us. + +14:11. Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen down: +under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering. + +14:12. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the +morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations? + +O Lucifer... O day star. All this, according to the letter, is spoken of +the king of Babylon. It may also be applied, in a spiritual sense, to +Lucifer the prince of devils, who was created a bright angel, but fell +by pride and rebellion against God. + +14:13. And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will +exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of +the covenant, in the sides of the north. + +14:14. I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the +most High. + +14:15. But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of the +pit. + +14:16. They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee, and behold +thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook kingdoms, + +14:17. That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities +thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners? + +14:18. All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory, +every one in his own house. + +14:19. But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch +defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art +gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass. + +14:20. Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou +hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the +wicked shall not be named for ever. + +14:21. Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of their +fathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor fill the face +of the world with cities. + +14:22. And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts: and I +will destroy the name of Babylon, and the remains, and the bud, and the +offspring, saith the Lord. + +14:23. And I will make it a possession for the ericius and pools of +waters, and I will sweep it and wear it out with a besom, saith the Lord +of hosts. + +14:24. The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, +so shall it be: and as I have purposed, + +14:25. So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in my +land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and his yoke shall be +taken away from them, and his burden shall be taken off their shoulder. + +14:26. This is the counsel, that I have purposed upon all the earth, and +this is the hand that is stretched out upon all nations. + +14:27. For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? and +his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away? + +14:28. In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden: + +14:29. Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of him that +struck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root of the serpent +shall come forth a basilisk, and his seed shall swallow the bird. + +14:30. And the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the poor shall +rest with confidence: and I will make thy root perish with famine, and I +will kill thy remnant. + +14:31. Howl, O gate; cry, O city: all Philistia is thrown down: for a +smoke shall come from the north, and there is none that shall escape his +troop. + +14:32. And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations? That +the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of his people shall hope in +him. + +Isaias Chapter 15 + +A prophecy of the desolation of the Moabites. + +15:1. The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, +it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is +silent. + +15:2. The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to mourn over +Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: on all their heads shall be +baldness, and every beard shall be shaven. + +15:3. In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of +their houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down weeping. + +15:4. Hesebon shall cry, and Eleale, their voice is heard even to Jasa. +For this shall the well appointed men of Moab howl, his soul shall howl +to itself. + +15:5. My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor +a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up +weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of +destruction. + +15:6. For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is +withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished. + +15:7. According to the greatness of their work, is their visitation +also: they shall lead them to the torrent of the willows. + +Torrent of the willows... That is, as some say, the waters of Babylon: +others render it, a valley of the Arabians. + +15:8. For the cry is gone round about the border of Moab: the howling +thereof unto Gallim, and unto the well of Elim the cry thereof. + +15:9. For the waters of Dibon are filled with blood: for I will bring +more upon Dibon: the lion upon them that shall flee of Moab, and upon +the remnant of the land. + +Isaias Chapter 16 + +The prophet prayeth for Christ's coming. The affliction of the Moabites +for their pride. + +16:1. Send forth, O Lord, the lamb, the ruler of the earth, from Petra +of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Sion. + +16:2. And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away, and as +young ones flying out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in +the passage of Arnon. + +16:3. Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the night in +the midday: hide them that flee, and betray not them that wander about. + +16:4. My fugitives shall dwell with thee: O Moab, be thou a covert to +them from the face of the destroyer: for the dust is at an end, the +wretch is consumed: he hath failed, that trod the earth under foot. + +16:5. And a throne shall be prepared in mercy, and one shall sit upon it +in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment and +quickly rendering that which is just. + +16:6. We have heard of the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud: his +pride and his arrogancy, and his indignation is more than his strength. + +16:7. Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every one shall howl: to them +that rejoice upon the brick walls, tell ye their stripes. + +16:8. For the suburbs of Hesebon are desolate, and the lords of the +nations have destroyed the vineyard of Sabama: the branches thereof have +reached even to Jazer: they have wandered in the wilderness, the +branches thereof are left, they are gone over the sea. + +16:9. Therefore I will lament with the weeping of Jazer the vineyard of +Sabama: I will water thee with my tears, O Hesebon, and Eleale: for the +voice of the treaders hath rushed in upon thy vintage, and upon thy +harvest. + +16:10. And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and there +shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards. He shall not tread +out wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the +treaders I have taken away. + +Carmel... This name is often taken to signify a fair and fruitful hill +or field, such as mount Carmel is. + +16:11. Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my +inward parts for the brick wall. + +16:12. And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is wearied +on his high places, that he shall go in to his sanctuaries to pray, and +shall not prevail. + +16:13. This is the word, that the Lord spoke to Moab from that time: + +16:14. And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In three years, as the +years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken away for all the +multitude of the people, and it shall be left small and feeble, not +many. + +Isaias Chapter 17 + +Judgments upon Damascus and Samaria. The overthrow of the Assyrians. + +17:1. The burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus shall cease to be a city, +and shall be as a ruinous heap of stones. + +17:2. The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they shall rest +there, and there shall be none to make them afraid. + +17:3. And aid shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: +and the remnant of Syria shall be as the glory of the children of +Israel: saith the Lord of hosts. + +17:4. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob +shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall grow lean. + +17:5. And it shall be as when one gathereth in the harvest that which +remaineth, and his arm shall gather the ears of corn: and it shall be as +he that seeketh ears in the vale of Raphaim. + +17:6. And the fruit thereof that shall be left upon it, shall be as one +cluster of grapes, and as the shaking of the olive tree, two or three +berries in the top of a bough, or four or five upon the top of the tree, +saith the Lord the God of Israel. + +17:7. In that day man shall bow down himself to his Maker, and his eyes +shall look to the Holy One of Israel. + +17:8. And he shall not look to the altars which his hands made; and he +shall not have respect to the things that his fingers wrought, such as +groves and temples. + +17:9. In that day his strong cities shall be forsaken, as the ploughs, +and the corn that were left before the face of the children of Israel, +and thou shalt be desolate. + +That were left... Viz., by the Chanaanites, when the children of Israel +came into their land. + +17:10. Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast not +remembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou plant good plants, +and shalt sow strange seed. + +17:11. In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in the +morning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken away in the day of +inheritance, and shall grieve thee much. + +17:12. Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude of the +roaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the noise of many waters. + +The multitude, etc... This and all that follows to the end of the +chapter, relates to the Assyrian army under Sennacherib. + +17:13. Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, +but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be +carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a +whirlwind before a tempest. + +17:14. In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble: the +morning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the portion of them +that have wasted us, and the lot of them that spoiled us. + +Isaias Chapter 18 + +A woe to the Ethiopians, who fed Israel with vain hopes, their future +conversion. + +18:1. Woe to the land, the winged cymbal, which is beyond the rivers of +Ethiopia, + +18:2. That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes +upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in +pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation +expecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have spoiled. + +Angels... Or messengers. + +18:3. All ye inhabitants of the world, who dwell on the earth, when the +sign shall be lifted up on the mountains, you shall see, and you shall +hear the sound of the trumpet. + +18:4. For thus saith the Lord to me: I will take my rest, and consider +in my place, as the noon light is clear, and as a cloud of dew in the +day of harvest. + +18:5. For before the harvest it was all flourishing, and it shall bud +without perfect ripeness, and the sprigs thereof shall be cut off with +pruning hooks: and what is left shall be cut away and shaken out. + +18:6. And they shall be left together to the birds of the mountains, and +the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall be upon them all the +summer, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. + +18:7. At that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of hosts, from +a people rent and torn in pieces: from a terrible people, after which +there hath been no other: from a nation expecting, expecting and trodden +under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name +of the Lord of hosts, to mount Sion. + +Isaias Chapter 19 + +The punishment of Egypt: their call to the church. + +19:1. The burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a swift +cloud, and will enter into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved +at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst thereof. + +19:2. And I will set the Egyptians to fight against the Egyptians: and +they shall fight brother against brother, and friend against friend, +city against city, kingdom against kingdom. + +19:3. And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof, and +I will cast down their counsel: and they shall consult their idols, and +their diviners, and their wizards, and soothsayers. + +19:4. And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters, and a +strong king shall rule over them, saith the Lord the God of hosts. + +19:5. And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be +wasted and dry. + +19:6. And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be +diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away. + +19:7. The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its fountain, and +every thing sown by the water shall be dried up, it shall wither away, +and shall be no more. + +19:8. The fishers also shall mourn, and all that cast a hook into the +river shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall +languish away. + +19:9. They shall be confounded that wrought in flax, combing and weaving +fine linen. + +19:10. And its watery places shall be dry, all they shall mourn that +made pools to take fishes. + +19:11. The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of +Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the +son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? + +19:12. Where are now thy wise men? let them tell thee, and shew what the +Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. + +19:13. The princes of Tanis are become fools, the princes of Memphis are +gone astray, they have deceived Egypt, the stay of the people thereof. + +19:14. The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of +giddiness: and they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, as a +drunken man staggereth and vomiteth. + +19:15. And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head or tail, him +that bendeth down, or that holdeth back. + +19:16. In that day Egypt shall be like unto women, and they shall be +amazed, and afraid, because of the moving of the hand of the Lord of +hosts, which he shall move over it. + +19:17. And the land of Juda shall be a terror to Egypt: everyone that +shall remember it shall tremble because of the counsel of the Lord of +hosts, which he hath determined concerning it. + +19:18. In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt, +speaking the language of Chanaan, and swearing by the Lord of hosts: one +shall be called the city of the sun. + +19:19. In that day there shall be an altar of the Lord in the midst of +the land of Egypt, and a monument of the Lord at the borders thereof: + +19:20. It shall be for a sign, and for a testimony to the Lord of hosts +in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the Lord because of the +oppressor, and he shall send them a Saviour and a defender to deliver +them. + +19:21. And the Lord shall be known by Egypt, and the Egyptians shall +know the Lord in that day, and shall worship him with sacrifices and +offerings: and they shall make vows to the Lord, and perform them. + +19:22. And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a scourge, and shall heal +it, and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall be pacified towards +them, and heal them. + +19:23. In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and +the Assyrian shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptian to the Assyrians, +and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrian. + +19:24. In that day shall Israel be the third to the Egyptian and the +Assyrian: a blessing in the midst of the land, + +19:25. Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying: Blessed be my +people of Egypt, and the work of my hands to the Assyrian: but Israel is +my inheritance. + +Isaias Chapter 20 + +The ignominious captivity of the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians. + +20:1. In the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus, when Sargon the +king of the Assyrians had sent him, and he had fought against Azotus, +and had taken it: + +20:2. At that same time the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaias the son of +Amos, saying Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and take +off thy shoes from thy feet. And he did so, and went naked, and +barefoot. + +20:3. And the Lord said: As my servant Isaias hath walked, naked and +barefoot, it shall be a sign and a wonder of three years upon Egypt, and +upon Ethiopia, + +20:4. So shall the king of the Assyrians lead away the prisoners of +Egypt, and the captivity of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, +with their buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt. + +20:5. And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and +of Egypt their glory. + +20:6. And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in that day: Lo this +was our hope, to whom we fled for help, to deliver us from the face of +the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be able to escape? + +Isaias Chapter 21 + +The destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians: a prophecy against +the Edomites and the Arabians. + +21:1. The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the +south, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land. + +The desert of the sea... So Babylon is here called, because from a city +as full of people as the sea is with water, it was become a desert. + +21:2. A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth +unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam, +besiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease. + +O Elam... That is, O Persia. + +21:3. Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold +of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing +of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it. + +21:4. My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become +a wonder to me. + +21:5. Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and +drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield. + +21:6. For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and +whatsoever he shall see, let him tell. + +21:7. And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a +rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed. + +A rider upon an ass, etc... These two riders are the kings of the +Persians and Medes. + +21:8. And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, +standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole +nights. + +And a lion cried out... That is, I Isaias seeing the approaching ruin of +Babylon, have cried out as a lion roaring. + +21:9. Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two +horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, +and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground. + +21:10. O my thrashing, and the children of my floor, that which I have +heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you. + +21:11. The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of +the night? watchman, what of the night? + +Duma... That is, Idumea, or Edom. + +21:12. The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you +seek, seek: return, come. + +21:13. The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, +in the paths of Dedanim. + +21:14. Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of +the south, meet with bread him that fleeth. + +21:15. For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that +hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle. + +21:16. For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the +years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away. + +Cedar... Arabia. + +21:17. And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children +of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken +it. + +Isaias Chapter 22 + +The prophet laments the devastation of Juda. He foretells the +deprivation of Sobna, and the substitution of Eliacim, a figure of +Christ. + +22:1. The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that +thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops? + +The valley of vision... Jerusalem. The temple of Jerusalem was built +upon mount Moria, or the mountain of vision. But the city is here called +the valley of vision; either because it was lower than the temple, or +because of the low condition to which it was to be reduced. + +22:2. Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not +slain by the sword, nor dead in battle. + +22:3. All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that +were found, are bound together, they are fled far off. + +22:4. Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: +labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my +people. + +22:5. For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and of weeping +to the Lord the God of hosts in the valley of vision, searching the +wall, and magnificent upon the mountain. + +22:6. And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman, and the +shield was taken down from the wall. + +22:7. And thy choice valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen +shall place themselves in the gate. + +22:8. And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou shalt see +in that day the armoury of the house of the forest. + +22:9. And you shall see the breaches of the city of David, that they are +many: and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool, + +22:10. And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down houses +to fortify the wall. + +22:11. And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the +old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker thereof, nor regarded +him even at a distance, that wrought it long ago. + +22:12. And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to +weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: + +22:13. And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams, +eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we +shall die. + +22:14. And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my ears: +Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till you die, saith the +Lord God of hosts. + +22:15. Thus saith the Lord God of hosts: Go, get thee in to him that +dwelleth in the tabernacle, to Sobna who is over the temple: and thou +shalt say to him: + +22:16. What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for thou +hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument +carefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock. + +22:17. Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is +carried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment. + +22:18. He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will toss thee +like a ball into a large and spacious country: there shalt thou die, and +there shall the chariot of thy glory be, the shame of the house of thy +Lord. + +22:19. And I will drive thee out from thy station, and depose thee from +thy ministry. + +22:20. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my +servant Eliacim the son of Helcias, + +22:21. And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him with +thy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and he shall be as a +father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda. + +22:22. And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder: +and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none +shall open. + +22:23. And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be +for a throne of glory to the house of his father. + +22:24. And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, +divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from the vessels of cups +even to every instrument of music. + +22:25. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be removed, +that was fastened in the sure place: and it shall be broken and shall +fall: and that which hung thereon, shall perish, because the Lord hath +spoken it. + +Isaias Chapter 23 + +The destruction of Tyre. It shall be repaired again after seventy years. + +23:1. The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is +destroyed, from whence they were wont to come: from the land of Cethim +it is revealed to them. + +23:2. Be silent, you that dwell in the island: the merchants of Sidon +passing over the sea, have filled thee. + +23:3. The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is +her revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations. + +23:4. Be thou ashamed, O Sidon: for the sea speaketh, even the strength +of the sea, saying: I have not been in labour, nor have I brought forth, +nor have I nourished up young men, nor brought up virgins. + +23:5. When it shall be heard in Egypt, they will be sorry when they +shall hear of Tyre: + +23:6. Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants of the island. + +23:7. Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her antiquity? +her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. + +23:8. Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, that was formerly +crowned, whose merchants were princes, and her traders the nobles of the +earth? + +23:9. The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to pull down the pride of all +glory, and bring to disgrace all the glorious ones of the earth. + +23:10. Pass thy land as a river, O daughter of the sea, thou hast a +girdle no more. + +23:11. He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms: the +Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones +thereof. + +23:12. And he said: Thou shalt glory no more, O virgin daughter of +Sidon, who art oppressed: arise and sail over to Cethim, there also thou +shalt have no rest. + +23:13. Behold the land of the Chaldeans, there was not such a people, +the Assyrians founded it: they have led away the strong ones thereof +into captivity, they have destroyed the houses thereof, they have, +brought it to ruin. + +23:14. Howl, O ye ships of the sea, for your strength is laid waste. + +23:15. And it shall come to pass in that day that thou, O Tyre, shalt be +forgotten, seventy years, according to the days of one king: but after +seventy years, there shall be unto Tyre as the song of a harlot. + +23:16. Take a harp, go about the city, harlot that hast been forgotten: +sing well, sing many a song, that thou mayst be remembered. + +23:17. And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that the Lord will +visit Tyre, and will bring her back again to her traffic: and she shall +commit fornication again with all the kingdoms of the world upon the +face of the earth. + +23:18. And her merchandise and her hire shall be sanctified to the Lord: +they shall not be kept in store, nor laid up: for her merchandise shall +be for them that shall dwell before the Lord, that they may eat unto +fulness, and be clothed for a continuance. + +Sanctified to the Lord... This alludes to the conversion of the +Gentiles. + +Isaias Chapter 24 + +The judgments of God upon all the sinners of the world. A remnant shall +joyfully praise him. + +24:1. Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and +shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants +thereof. + +24:2. And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as +with the servant so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her +mistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so +with the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him +that oweth. + +24:3. With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be +utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word. + +24:4. The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world +faded away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened. + +24:5. And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they +have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have +broken the everlasting covenant. + +24:6. Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants +thereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, +and few men shall be left. + +24:7. The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the +merry have sighed. + +24:8. The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice +is ended, the melody of the harp is silent. + +24:9. They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter +to them that drink it. + +24:10. The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man +cometh in. + +24:11. There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is +forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away. + +24:12. Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the +gates. + +24:13. For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the midst of +the people, as if a few olives, that remain, should be shaken out of the +olive tree: or grapes, when the vintage is ended. + +24:14. These shall lift up their voice, and shall give praise: when the +Lord shall be glorified, they shall make a joyful noise from the sea. + +24:15. Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of the +Lord God of Israel in the islands of the sea. + +24:16. From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the glory of +the just one. And I said: My secret to myself, my secret to myself, woe +is me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and with the prevarication +of transgressors they have prevaricated. + +24:17. Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou inhabitant +of the earth. + +24:18. And it shall come to pass, that he that shall flee from the noise +of the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall rid himself out +of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the flood-gates from on +high are opened, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken. + +24:19. With breaking shall the earth be broken, with crushing shall the +earth be crushed, with trembling shall the earth be moved. + +24:20. With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and +shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof +shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again. + +24:21. And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall visit +upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the +earth. + +The host of heaven on high... The stars, which in many places of the +Scripture are so called. Some commentators explain that these words here +signify the demons of the air. + +24:22. And they shall be gathered together as in the gathering of one +bundle into the pit, and they shall be shut up there in prison: and +after many days they shall be visited. + +24:23. And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when the +Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, and shall be +glorified in the sight of his ancients. + +Isaias Chapter 25 + +A canticle of thanksgiving for God's judgments and benefits. + +25:1. O Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt O thee, and give glory to +thy name: for thou hast done wonderful things, thy designs of old +faithful, amen. + +25:2. For thou hast reduced the city to a heap, the strong city to ruin, +the house of strangers, to be no city, and to be no more built up for +ever. + +25:3. Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of mighty +nations shall fear thee. + +25:4. Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the +needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the +heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a +wall. + +25:5. Thou shalt bring down the tumult of strangers, as heat in thirst: +and as with heat under a burning cloud, thou shalt make the branch of +the mighty to wither away. + +25:6. And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this mountain, +a feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of +wine purified from the lees. + +25:7. And he shall destroy in this mountain the face of the bond with +which all people were tied, and the web that he began over all nations. + +25:8. He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall +wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall +take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it. + +25:9. And they shall say in that day: Lo, this is our God, we have +waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord, we have patiently +waited for him, we shall rejoice and be joyful in his salvation. + +25:10. For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and Moab +shall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken in pieces with the +wain. + +Moab... That is, the reprobate, whose eternal punishment, from which +they can no way escape, is described under these figures. + +25:11. And he shall stretch forth his hands under him, as he that +swimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down his +glory with the dashing of his hands. + +25:12. And the bulwarks of thy high walls shall fall, and be brought +low, and shall be pulled down to the ground, even to the dust. + +Isaias Chapter 26 + +A canticle of thanks for the deliverance of God's people. + +26:1. In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion +the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set +therein. + +26:2. Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the +truth, enter in. + +26:3. The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because +we have hoped in thee. + +26:4. You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God mighty +for ever. + +26:5. For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high city he +shall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the ground, he shall pull +it down even to the dust. + +26:6. The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of +the needy. + +26:7. The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to +walk in. + +26:8. And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited +for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul. + +26:9. My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit +within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do +thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn +justice. + +26:10. Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in +the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see +the glory of the Lord. + +26:11. Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the +envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies. + +26:12. Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all our +works for us. + +26:13. O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over +us, only in thee let us remember thy name. + +26:14. Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore +hast visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory. + +26:15. Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast been +favourable to the nation: art thou glorified? thou hast removed all the +ends of the earth far off. + +26:16. Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation +of murmuring thy instruction was with them. + +26:17. As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her +delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become in +thy presence, O Lord. + +26:18. We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have +brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth, +therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen. + +26:19. Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and +give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the +light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin. + +26:20. Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, +hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away. + +26:21. For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the +iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall +disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more. + +Shall cover her slain no more... This is said with relation to the +martyrs, and their happy resurrection. + +Isaias Chapter 27 + +The punishment of the oppressors of God's people. The Lord's favour to +his church. + +27:1. In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword +shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked +serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea. + +Leviathan... That is, the devil, the great enemy of the people of God. +He is called the bar serpent from his strength, and the crooked serpent +from his wiles; and the whale of the sea, from the tyranny he exercises +in the sea of this world. He was spiritually slain by the death of +Christ, when his power was destroyed. + +27:2. In that day there shall be singing to the vineyard of pure wine. + +The vineyard, etc... The church of Christ. + +27:3. I am the Lord that keep it, I will suddenly give it drink: lest +any hurt come to it, I keep it night and day. + +I will suddenly give it drink... Or, as the Hebrew may also be rendered, +I will continually water it. + +27:4. There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a +brier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire +together? + +No indignation in me, etc... Viz., against the church: nor shall I +become as a thorn or brier in its regard; or march against it, or set it +on fire: but it shall always take fast hold of me, and keep an +everlasting peace with me. + +27:5. Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make peace +with me, shall it make peace with me? + +27:6. When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud, +and they shall fill the face of the world with seed. + +When they shall rush in, etc... Some understand this of the enemies of +the true Israel, that shall invade it in vain. Others of the spiritual +invasion made by the apostles of Christ. + + +27:7. Hath he struck him according to the stroke of him that struck him? +or is he slain, as he killed them that were slain by him? + +Hath he struck him, etc... Hath God punished the carnal persecuting +Jews, in proportion to their doings against Christ and his saints? + +27:8. In measure against measure, when it shall be cast off, thou shalt +judge it. He hath meditated with his severe spirit in the day of heat. + +When it shall be cast off, etc... When the synagogue shall be cast off, +thou shalt judge it in measure, and in proportion to its crimes.-Ibid. +He hath meditated, etc... God hath designed severe punishments in the +day of his wrath. + +27:9. Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be +forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be +taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as +burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand. + +Of the house of Jacob... Viz., of such of them as shall be converted. + +27:10. For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall +be forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness: there the calf shall +feed, and there shall he lie down, and shall consume its branches. + +The strong city... Jerusalem. + +27:11. Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and +teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall +not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it. + +27:12. And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will strike +from the channel of the river even to the torrent of Egypt, and you +shall be gathered together one by one, O ye children of Israel. + +27:13. And it shall come to pass, that in that day a noise shall be made +with a great trumpet, and they that were lost, shall come from the land +of the Assyrians, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt, and +they shall adore the Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem. + +A great trumpet... The preaching of the gospel for the conversion of the +Jews. + +Isaias Chapter 28 + +The punishment of the Israelites, for their pride, intemperance, and +contempt of religion. Christ the cornerstone. + +28:1. Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the +fading flower the glory his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, +staggering with wine. + +Ephraim... That is, the kingdom of the ten tribes.-Ibid. The head of the +fat valley... Samaria, situate on a hill, having under it a most fertile +valley. + +28:2. Behold the Lord is mighty and strong, as a storm of hail: a +destroying whirlwind, as the violence of many waters overflowing, and +sent forth upon a spacious land. + +28:3. The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden +under feet. + +28:4. And the fading tower the glory of his joy, who is on the head of +the fat valley, shall be as a hasty fruit before the ripeness of autumn: +which when he that seeth it shall behold, as soon he taketh it in his +hand, he will eat it up. + +28:5. In that day the Lord of hosts shall be a crown of glory, and a +garland of joy to the residue of his people: + +28:6. And a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and +strength to them that return out of the battle to the gate. + +28:7. But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through +drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant +through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone +astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have +been ignorant of judgment. + +These also... The kingdom of Juda. + +28:8. For all the tables were full of vomit and filth, so that there was +no more place. + +28:9. Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to +understand the hearing? them that are weaned from the milk, that are +drawn away from the breasts. + +28:10. For command, command again; command, command again; expect, +expect again; a little there, a little there. + +Command, command again, etc... This is said in the person of the Jews, +resisting the repeated commands of God, and still putting him off. + +28:11. For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will +speak to this people. + +28:12. To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and this is +my refreshing: and they would not hear. + +28:13. And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command +again; command, command again; expect, expect again; a little there, a +little there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and +snared, and taken. + +28:14. Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who rule +over my people that is in Jerusalem. + +28:15. For you have said: We have entered into a league with death, and +we have made a covenant with hell. When the overflowing scourge shall +pass through, it shall not come upon us: for we have placed our hope in +lies, and by falsehood we are protected. + +28:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in +the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious +stone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten. + +A stone in the foundations... Viz., Christ.-Ibid. Let him not hasten, +etc... Let him expect his coming with patience. + +28:17. And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure: and +hail shall overturn the hope of falsehood: and waters shall overflow its +protection. + +28:18. And your league with death shall be abolished, and your covenant +with hell shall not stand: when the overflowing scourge shall pass, you +shall be trodden down by it. + +28:19. Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall take you away: because +in the morning early it shall pass through, in the day and in the night, +and vexation alone shall make you understand what you hear. + +28:20. For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short +covering cannot cover both. + +The bed is straitened, etc... It is too narrow to hold two: God will +have the bed of our heart all to himself. + +28:21. For the Lord shall stand up as in the mountain of divisions: he +shall be angry as in the valley which is in Gabaon: that he may do his +work, his strange work: that he may perform his work, his work is +strange to him. + +As in the mountain, etc... As the Lord fought against the Philistines in +Baal Pharasim, 2 Kings 5., and against the Chanaanites, in the valley of +Gabaon, Jos. 10. + +28:22. And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have +heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short +upon all the earth. + +28:23. Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech. + +28:24. Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and +harrow his ground? + +28:25. Will he not, when he hath made plain the surface thereof, sow +gith, and scatter cummin, and put wheat in order, and barley, and +millet, and vetches in their bounds? + +28:26. For he will instruct him in judgment: his God will teach him. + +28:27. For gith shall not be thrashed with saws, neither shall the cart +wheel turn about upon cummin: but gith shall be beaten out with a rod, +and cumin with a staff. + +28:28. But breadcorn shall be broken small: but the thrasher shall not +thrash it for ever, neither shall the cart wheel hurt it, nor break it +with its teeth. + +28:29. This also is come forth from the Lord God of hosts, to make his +counsel wonderful, and magnify justice. + +This also, etc... Such also is the proceeding of the Lord with his land, +and the divers seeds he throws therein. + +Isaias Chapter 29 + +God's heavy judgments upon Jerusalem, for their obstinacy: with a +prophecy of the conversion of the Gentiles. + +29:1. Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the city which David took: year is added to +year the solemnities are at an end. + +Ariel... This word signifies, the lion of God, and here is taken for the +strong city of Jerusalem. + +29:2. And I will make a trench about Ariel, and it shall be in sorrow +and mourning, and it shall be to me as Ariel. + +29:3. And I will make a circle round about thee, and I will cast up a +rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee. + +29:4. Thou shalt be brought down, thou shall speak out of the earth, and +thy speech shall be heard out of the ground: and thy voice shall be from +the earth like that of the python, and out of the earth thy speech shall +mutter. + +29:5. And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like small dust: +and as ashes passing away, the multitude of them that have prevailed +against thee. + +29:6. And it shall be at an instant suddenly. A visitation shall come +from the Lord of hosts in thunder, and with earthquake, and with a great +noise of whirlwind and tempest; and with the flame of devouring fire. + +29:7. And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, +shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought, +and besieged and prevailed against it. + +29:8. And as he that is hungry dreameth, and eateth, but when he is +awake, his soul is empty: and as he that is thirsty dreameth, and +drinketh and after he is awake, is yet faint with thirst, and his soul +is empty: so shall be the multitude of all the Gentiles, that have +fought against mount Sion. + +29:9. Be astonished, and wonder, waver, and stagger: be drunk, and not +with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness. + +29:10. For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep sleep, he +will shut up your eyes, he will cover your prophets and princes, that +see visions. + +29:11. And the vision of all shall be unto you as the words of a book +that is sealed which when they shall deliver to one that is learned, +they shall say: Read this: and he shall answer: I cannot, for it is +sealed. + +29:12. And the book shall be given to one that knoweth no letters, and +it shall be said to him: Read: and he shall answer: I know no letters. + +29:13. And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with +their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from +me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men: + +29:14. Therefore behold I will proceed to cause an admiration in this +people, by a great and wonderful miracle: for wisdom shall perish from +their wise men, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. + +29:15. Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel from the +Lord: and their works are in the dark, and they say: Who seeth us, and +who knoweth us? + +29:16. This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should think +against the potter, and the work should say to the maker thereof: Thou +madest me not: or the thing framed should say to him that fashioned it: +Thou understandest not. + +29:17. Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be turned +into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest? + +Charmel... This word signifies a fruitful field. + +29:18. And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and +out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind shall see. + +29:19. And the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor +men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. + +29:20. For he that did prevail hath failed, the scorner is consumed, and +they are all cut off that watched for iniquity: + +29:21. That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them +in the gate, and declined in vain from the just. + +29:22. Therefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Jacob, he that +redeemed Abraham: Jacob shall not now be confounded, neither shall his +countenance now be ashamed: + +29:23. But when he shall see his children, the work of my hands in the +midst of him sanctifying my name, and they shall sanctify the Holy One +of Jacob, and shall glorify the God of Israel: + +29:24. And they that erred in spirit, shall know understanding, and they +that murmured, shall learn the law. + +Isaias Chapter 30 + +The people are blamed for their confidence in Egypt. God's mercies +towards his church. The punishment of sinners. + +30:1. Woe to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would take +counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my spirit, +that you might add sin upon sin: + +30:2. Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth, +hoping for help in the strength of Pharao, and trusting in the shadow of +Egypt. + +30:3. And the strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion, and the +confidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame. + +30:4. For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came even to +Hanes. + +30:5. They were all confounded at a people that could not profit them: +they were no help, nor to any profit, but to confusion and to reproach. + +30:6. The burden of the beasts of the south. In a land of trouble and +distress, from whence come the lioness, and the lion, the viper and the +flying basilisk, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of beasts, +and their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall +not be able to profit them. + +30:7. For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I +cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still. + +30:8. Now therefore go in and write for them upon box, and note it +diligently in a book, and it shall be in the latter days for a testimony +for ever. + +30:9. For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children +that will not hear the law of God. + +30:10. Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold: Behold +not for us those things that are right: speak unto us pleasant things, +see errors for us. + +30:11. Take away from me the way, turn away the path from me, let the +Holy One of Israel cease from before us. + +30:12. Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because you have +rejected this word, and have trusted in oppression and tumult, and have +leaned upon it: + +30:13. Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that falleth, +and is found wanting in a high wall, for the destruction thereof shall +come on a sudden, when it is not looked for. + +30:14. And it shall be broken small, as the potter's vessel is broken +all to pieces with mighty breaking, and there shall not a sherd be found +of the pieces thereof, wherein a little fire may be carried from the +hearth, or a little water be drawn out of the pit. + +30:15. For thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel: If you return +and be quiet, you shall be saved: in silence and in hope shall your +strength be. And you would not: + +30:16. But have said: No, but we will flee to horses: therefore shall +you flee. And we will mount upon swift ones: therefore shall they be +swifter that shall pursue after you. + +30:17. A thousand men shall flee for fear of one: and for fear of five +shall you flee, till you be left as the mast of ship on the top of a +mountain, and as an ensign upon a hill. + +30:18. Therefore the Lord waiteth that he may have mercy on you: and +therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God +of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. + +30:19. For the people of Sion shall dwell in Jerusalem: weeping thou +shalt not weep, he will surely have pity on thee: at the voice of thy +cry, as soon as he shall hear, he will answer thee. + +30:20. And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and will +not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy eyes +shall see thy teacher. + +30:21. And thy ears shall hear the word of one admonishing thee behind +thy back: This is the way, walk ye in it: and go not aside neither to +the right hand, nor to the left. + +30:22. And thou shalt defile the plates of thy graven things of silver, +and the garment of thy molten things of gold, and shalt cast them away +as the uncleanness of a menstruous woman. Thou shalt say to it: Get +thee hence. + +30:23. And rain shall be given to thy seed, wheresoever thou shalt sow +in the land: and the bread of the corn of the land shall be most +plentiful, and fat. The lamb in that day shall feed at large in thy +possession: + +30:24. And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till the ground, shall eat +mingled provender as it was winnowed in the floor. + +30:25. And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every +elevated hill rivers of running waters in the day of the slaughter of +many, when the tower shall fall. + +30:26. And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and +the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in +the day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall +heal the stroke of their wound. + +30:27. Behold the name of the Lord cometh from afar, his wrath burneth, +and is heavy to bear: his lips are filled with indignation, and his +tongue as a devouring fire. + +30:28. His breath as a torrent overflowing even to the midst of the +neck, to destroy the nations unto nothing, and the bridle of error that +was in the jaws of the people. + +30:29. You shall have a song as in the night of the sanctified +solemnity, and joy of heart, as where one goeth with a pipe, to come +into the mountain of the Lord, to the Mighty One of Israel. + +30:30. And the Lord shall make the glory of his voice to be heard, and +shall shew the terror of his arm, in the threatening of wrath, and the +flame of devouring fire: he shall crush to pieces with whirlwind, and +hailstones. + +30:31. For at the voice of the Lord the Assyrian shall fear being struck +with the rod. + +30:32. And the passage of the rod shall be strongly grounded, which the +Lord shall make to rest upon him with timbrels and harps, and in great +battles he shall overthrow them. + +30:33. For Topheth is prepared from yesterday, prepared by the king, +deep, and wide. The nourishment thereof is fire and much wood: the +breath of the Lord as a torrent of brimstone kindling it. + +Topheth... It is the same as Gehenna, and is taken for hell. + +Isaias Chapter 31 + +The folly of trusting to Egypt, and forgetting God. He will fight for +his people against the Assyrians. + +31:1. Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, trusting in horses, +and putting their confidence in chariots, because they are many: and in +horsemen, because they are very strong: and have not trusted in the Holy +One of Israel, and have not sought after the Lord. + +31:2. But he that is the wise one hath brought evil, and hath not +removed his words: and he will rise up against the house of the wicked, +and against the aid of them that work iniquity. + +31:3. Egypt is man, and not God: and their horses, flesh, and not +spirit: and the Lord shall put down his hand, and the helper shall fall, +and he that is helped shall fall, and they shall all be confounded +together. + +31:4. For thus saith the Lord to me: Like as the lion roareth, and the +lions whelp upon his prey, and when a multitude of shepherds shall come +against him, he will not fear at their voice, nor be afraid of their +multitude: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight upon mount +Sion, and upon the hill thereof. + +31:5. As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem, +protecting and delivering, passing over and saving. + +31:6. Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel. + +31:7. For in that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his +idols of gold, which your hands have made for you to sin. + +31:8. And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword not of a man, and the +sword not of a man shall devour him, and he shall flee not at the face +of the sword, and his young men shall be tributaries. + +31:9. And his strength shall pass away with dread, and his princes +fleeing shall be afraid: the Lord hath said it, whose fire is in Sion, +and his furnace in Jerusalem. + +Isaias Chapter 32 + +The blessings of the reign of Christ. The desolation of the Jews, and +prosperity of the church of Christ. + +32:1. Behold a king shall reign in justice, and princes shall rule in +judgment. + +32:2. And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth +himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of +a rock that standeth out in a desert land. + +32:3. The eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them +that hear shall hearken diligently. + +32:4. And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge, and the tongue +of stammerers shall speak readily and plain. + +32:5. The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the +deceitful be called great: + +32:6. For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work +iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and +to make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the +thirsty. + +32:7. The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed +devices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man +speaketh judgment. + +32:8. But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince, +and he shall stand above the rulers. + +32:9. Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident daughters, +give ear to my speech. + +32:10. For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be +troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no +more. + +32:11. Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident ones: +strip you, and be confounded, gird your loins. + +32:12. Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the +fruitful vineyard. + +32:13. Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how +much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced? + +32:14. For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, +darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild +asses, the pastures of flocks. + +32:15. Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert +shall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest. + +32:16. An judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and justice shall sit +in charmel. + +32:17. And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of +justice quietness, and security for ever. + +32:18. And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the +tabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest. + +32:19. But hail shall be in the descent of the forest, and the city +shall be made very low. + +32:20. Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot +of the ox and the ass. + +Isaias Chapter 33 + +God's revenge against the enemies of his church. The happiness of the +heavenly Jerusalem. + +33:1. Woe to thee that spoilest, shalt not thou thyself also be spoiled? +and thou that despisest, shalt not thyself also be despised? when thou +shalt have made an end of spoiling, thou shalt be spoiled: when being +wearied thou shalt cease to despise, thou shalt be despised. + +That spoilest, etc... This is particularly directed to Sennacherib. + +33:2. O Lord, have mercy on us: for we have waited for thee: be thou our +arm in the morning, and our salvation in the time of trouble. + +33:3. At the voice of the angel the people fled, and at the lifting up +thyself the nations are scattered. + +33:4. And your spoils shall be gathered together as the locusts are +gathered, as when the ditches are full of them. + +33:5. The Lord is magnified, for he hath dwelt on high: he hath filled +Sion with judgment and justice. + +33:6. And there shall be faith in thy times: riches of salvation, wisdom +and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is his treasure. + +33:7. Behold they that see shall cry without, the angels of peace shall +weep bitterly. + +The angels of peace... The messengers or deputies sent to negotiate a +peace. + +33:8. The ways are made desolate, no one passeth by the road, the +covenant is made void, he hath rejected the cities, he hath not regarded +the men. + +33:9. The land hath mourned, and languished: Libanus is confounded, and +become foul, and Saron is become as a desert: and Basan and Carmel are +shaken. + +33:10. Now will I rise up, saith the Lord: now will I be exalted, now +will I lift up myself. + +33:11. You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your +breath as fire shall devour you. + +33:12. And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle of +thorns they shall be burnt with fire. + +33:13. Hear, you that are far off, what I have done, and you that are +near know my strength. + +33:14. The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon the +hypocrites. Which of you can dwell with devouring fire? which of you +shall dwell with everlasting burnings? + +33:15. He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth +away avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that +stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may +see no evil. + +33:16. He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall be his +highness: bread is given him, his waters are sure. + +33:17. His eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall see the +land far off. + +33:18. Thy heart shall meditate fear: where is the learned? where is he +that pondered the words of the law? where is the teacher of little ones? + +33:19. The shameless people thou shalt not see, the people of profound +speech: so that thou canst not understand the eloquence of his tongue, +in whom there is no wisdom. + +33:20. Look upon Sion the city of our solemnity: thy eyes shall see +Jerusalem, a rich habitation, a tabernacle that cannot be removed: +neither shall the nails thereof be taken away for ever, neither shall +any of the cords thereof be broken. + +33:21. Because only there our Lord is magnificent: a place of rivers, +very broad and spacious streams: no ship with oars shall pass by it, +neither shall the great galley pass through it. + +Of rivers... He speaks of the rivers of endless joys that flow from the +throne of God to water the heavenly Jerusalem, where no enemy's ship can +come, etc. + +33:22. For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is +our king: he will save us. + +33:23. Thy tacklings are loosed, and they shall be of no strength: thy +mast shall be in such condition, that thou shalt not be able to spread +the flag. Then shall the spoils of much prey be divided: the lame shall +take the spoil. + +Thy tacklings... He speaks of the enemies of the church, under the +allegory of a ship that is disabled. + +33:24. Neither shall he that is near, say: I am feeble. The people that +dwell therein, shall have their iniquity taken away from them. + +Isaias Chapter 34 + +The general judgment of the wicked. + +34:1. Come near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people: let the +earth hear, and all that is therein, the world, and every thing that +cometh forth of it. + +34:2. For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury +upon all their armies: he hath killed them, and delivered them to +slaughter. + +34:3. Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall +rise a stink: the mountains shall be melted with their blood. + +34:4. And all the host of the heavens shall pine away, and the heavens +shall be folded together as a book: and all their host shall fall down +as the leaf falleth from the vine, and from the fig tree. + +And all the host of the heavens... That is, the sun, moon, and stars. + +34:5. For my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold it shall come down +upon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter unto judgment. + +Idumea... Under the name of Idumea, or Edom a people that were enemies +of the Jews, are here understood the wicked in general, the enemies of +God and his church. + +34:6. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made thick with +the blood of lambs and buck goats, with the blood of rams full of +marrow: for there is a victim of the Lord in Bosra and a great slaughter +in the land of Edom. + +34:7. And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the +mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with the +fat of fat ones. + +The unicorns... That is, the great and mighty. + +34:8. For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of +recompenses of the judgment of Sion. + +The year of recompenses, etc... When the persecutors of Sion, that is, +of the church, shall receive their reward. + +34:9. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the ground +thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. + +34:10. Night and day it shall not be quenched, 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. + +34:11. The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and the +raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched out upon it, to +bring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation. + +34:12. The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather +upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing. + +34:13. And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and the +thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the habitation of +dragons, and the pasture of ostriches. + +34:14. And demons and monsters shall meet, and the hairy ones shall cry +out one to another, there hath the lamia lain down, and found rest for +herself. + +34:15. There hath the ericius had its hole, and brought up its young +ones, and hath dug round about, and cherished them in the shadow +thereof: thither are the kites gathered together one to another. + +34:16. Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord, and read: not one +of them was wanting, one hath not sought for the other: for that which +proceedeth out of my mouth, he hath commanded, and his spirit it hath +gathered them. + +34:17. And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it +to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to +generation they shall dwell therein. + +Isaias Chapter 35 + +The joyful flourishing of Christ's kingdom: in his church shall be a +holy and secure way. + +35:1. The land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad, and the +wilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like the lily. + +35:2. It shall bud forth and blossom, and shall rejoice with joy and +praise: the glory of Libanus is given to it: the beauty of Carmel, and +Saron, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the beauty of our God. + +35:3. Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees. + +35:4. Say to the fainthearted: Take courage, and fear not: behold your +God will bring the revenge of recompense: God himself will come and will +save you. + +35:5. Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the +deaf shall be unstopped. + +35:6. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb +shall be free: for waters are broken out in the desert, and streams in +the wilderness. + +35:7. And that which was dry land, shall become a pool, and the thirsty +land springs of water. In the dens where dragons dwelt before, shall +rise up the verdure of the reed and the bulrush. + +35:8. And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be called the +holy way: the unclean shall not pass over it, and this shall be unto you +a straight way, so that fools shall not err therein. + +35:9. No lion shall be there, nor shall any mischievous beast go up by +it, nor be found there: but they shall walk there that shall be +delivered. + +35:10. And the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and shall come into +Sion with praise, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they +shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. + +Isaias Chapter 36 + +Sennacherib invades Juda: his blasphemies. + +36:1. And it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, that +Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came up against all the fenced cities +of Juda, and took them. + +36:2. And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces from Lachis to +Jerusalem, to king Ezechias with a great army, and he stood by the +conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller's field. + +36:3. And there went out to him Eliacim the son of Helcias, who was over +the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the +recorder. + +36:4. And Rabsaces said to them: Tell Ezechias: Thus saith the great +king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence wherein thou +trustest? + +36:5. Or with what counsel or strength dost thou prepare for war? on +whom dost thou trust, that thou art revolted from me? + +36:6. Lo thou trustest upon this broken staff of a reed, upon Egypt: +upon which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is +Pharao king of Egypt to all that trust in him. + +36:7. But if thou wilt answer me: We trust in the Lord our God: is it +not he whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away, and hath +said to Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar? + +36:8. And now deliver thyself up to my lord the king of the Assyrians, +and I will give thee two thousand horses, and thou wilt not be able on +thy part to find riders for them. + +36:9. And how wilt thou stand against the face of the judge of one +place, of the least of my master's servants? But if thou trust in Egypt, +in chariots and in horsemen: + +36:10. And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to +destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up against this land, and destroy +it. + +36:11. And Eliacim, and Sobna, and Joahe said to Rabsaces: Speak to thy +servants in the Syrian tongue: for we understand it: speak not to us in +the Jews' language in the hearing of the people, that are upon the wall. + +36:12. And Rabsaces said to them: Hath my master sent me to thy master +and to thee, to speak all these words; and not rather to the men that +sit on the wall; that they may eat their own dung, and drink their urine +with you? + +36:13. Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the Jews' +language, and said: Hear the words of the great king, the king of the +Assyrians. + +36:14. Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you, for he shall +not be able to deliver you. + +36:15. And let not Ezechias make you trust in the Lord, saying: The Lord +will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hands +of the king of the Assyrians. + +36:16. Do not hearken to Ezechias: for thus said the king of the +Assyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, 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 water of his cistern, + +36:17. Till I come and take you away to a land, like to your own, a land +of corn and of wine, a land of bread and vineyards. + +36:18. Neither let Ezechias trouble you, saying: The Lord will deliver +us. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land out of the +hand of the king of the Assyrians? + +36:19. Where is the god of Emath and of Arphad? where is the god of +Sepharvaim? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? + +36:20. Who is there among all the gods of these lands, that hath +delivered his country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver +Jerusalem out of my hand? + +36:21. And they held their peace, and answered him not a word. For the +king had commanded, saying: Answer him not. + +36:22. And Eliacim the son of Helcias, that was over the house, and +Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder, went in to +Ezechias with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces. + +Isaias Chapter 37 + +Ezechias, his mourning and prayer. God's promise of protection. The +Assyrian army is destroyed. Sennacherib is slain. + +37:1. And it came to pass, when king Ezechias had heard it, that he rent +his garments and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house +of the Lord. + +37:2. And he sent Eliacim who was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, +and the ancients of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaias the +son of Amos the prophet. + +37:3. And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of +tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come +to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. + +37:4. It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabsaces, whom +the king of the Assyrians his master hath sent to blaspheme the living +God, and to reproach with words which the Lord thy God hath heard: +wherefore lift up by prayer for the remnant that is left. + +37:5. And the servants of Ezechias came to Isaias. + +37:6. And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say to your master: Thus +saith the Lord: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, with +which the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me. + +37:7. Behold, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a +message, and shall return to his own country, and I will cause him to +fall by the sword in his own country. + +37:8. And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians +besieging Lobna. For he had heard that he was departed from Lachis. + +37:9. And he heard say about Tharaca the king of Ethiopia: He is come +forth to fight against thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to +Ezechias, saying: + +37:10. Thus shall you speak to Ezechias the king of Juda, saying: Let +not thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest, saying: Jerusalem shall +not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians. + +37:11. Behold thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have +done to all countries which they have destroyed, and canst thou be +delivered? + +37:12. Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have +destroyed, Gozam, and Haram, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that +were in Thalassar? + +37:13. Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and the king +of the city of Sepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava? + +37:14. And Ezechias took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and +read it, and went up to the house of the Lord, and Ezechias spread it +before the Lord. + +37:15. And Ezechias prayed to the Lord, saying: + +37:16. Lord of hosts, God of Israel who sitteth upon the cherubims, thou +alone art the God of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou hast made +heaven and earth. + +37:17. Incline, O Lord, thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes, and +see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to +blaspheme the living God. + +37:18. For of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid +waste lands, and their countries. + +37:19. And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not +gods, but the works of men's hands, of wood and stone: and they broke +them in pieces. + +37:20. And now, O Lord our God, save us out of his hand: and let all the +kingdoms of the earth know, that thou only art the Lord. + +37:21. And Isaias the son of Amos sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus saith +the Lord the God of Israel: For the prayer thou hast made to me +concerning Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians: + +37:22. This is the word which the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin +the daughter of Sion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the +daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged the head after thee. + +37:23. Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and +against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on +high? Against the Holy One of Israel. + +37:24. By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord: and +hast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the +height of the mountains, to the top of Libanus: and I will cut down its +tall cedars, and its choice fir trees, and will enter to the top of its +height, to the forest of its Carmel. + +Carmel... See these figurative expressions explained in the annotations +on the nineteenth chapter of the fourth book of Kings. + +37:25. I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole +of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks. + +37:26. Hast thou not heard what I have done to him of old? from the days +of old I have formed it: and now I have brought it to effect: and it +hath come to pass that hills fighting together, and fenced cities should +be destroyed. + +37:27. The inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled, and +were confounded: they became like the grass of the field, and the herb +of the pasture, and like the grass of the housetops, which withered +before it was ripe. + +37:28. I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and +thy rage against me. + +37:29. When thou wast mad against me, thy pride came up to my ears: +therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and +I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. + +37:30. But to thee this shall be a sign: Eat this year the things that +spring of themselves, and in the second year eat fruits: but in the +third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. + +37:31. And that which shall be saved of the house of Juda, and which is +left, shall take root downward, and shall bear fruit upward: + +37:32. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and salvation from +mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this. + +37:33. Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the +Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, +nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it. + +37:34. By the way that he came, he shall return, and into this city he +shall not come, saith the Lord. + +37:35. And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, +and for the sake of David my servant. + +37:36. And the angel of the Lord went out and slew in the camp of the +Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the +morning, and behold they were all dead corpses. + +37:37. And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed, +and returned, and dwelt in Ninive. + +37:38. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the temple of +Nesroch his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the +sword: and they fled into the land of Ararat, and Asarhaddon his son +reigned in his stead. + +Isaias Chapter 38 + +Ezechias being advertised that he shall die, obtains by prayer a +prolongation of his life: in confirmation of which the sun goes back. +The canticle of Ezechias. + +38:1. In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and Isaias the son +of Amos the prophet cane unto him, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord: +Take order with thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live. + +38:2. And Ezechias turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the +Lord, + +38:3. And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked +before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which +is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping. + +38:4. And the word of the Lord came to Isaias, saying: + +38:5. Go and say to Ezechias: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy +father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: behold I +will add to thy days fifteen years: + +38:6. And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king +of the Assyrians, and I will protect it. + +38:7. And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will +do this word which he hath spoken: + +38:8. Behold I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by which it is +now gone down in the sun dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward. +And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by which it was gone down. + +38:9. The writing of Ezechias king of Juda, when he had been sick, and +was recovered of his sickness. + +38:10. I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: +I sought for the residue of my years. + +Hell... Sheol, or Hades, the region of the dead. + +38:11. I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I +shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest. + +38:12. My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a +shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet +but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make +an end of me. + +38:13. I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: +from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me. + +38:14. I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my +eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou +for me. + +38:15. What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he +himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the +bitterness of my soul. + +38:16. O Lord, if man's life be such, and the life of my spirit be in +such things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live. + +38:17. Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast +delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins +behind thy back. + +38:18. For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise +thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth. + +38:19. The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do +this day: the father shall make the truth known to the children. + +38:20. O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our +life in the house of the Lord. + +38:21. Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and +lay it as a plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed. + +38:22. And Ezechias had said: What shall be the sign that I shall go up +to the house of the Lord? + +Isaias Chapter 39 + +Ezechias shews all his treasures to the ambassadors of Babylon: upon +which Isaias foretells the Babylonish captivity. + +39:1. At that time Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan king of Babylon, +sent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard that he had been +sick and was recovered. + +39:2. And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he shewed them the +storehouses of his aromatical spices, and of the silver, and of the +gold, and of the sweet odours, and of the precious ointment, and all the +storehouses of his furniture, and all things that were found in his +treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion that +Ezechias shewed them not. + +39:3. Then Isaias the prophet came to king Ezechias, and said to him: +What said these men, and from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias +said: From a far country they came to me, from Babylon. + +39:4. And he said: What saw they in thy house? And Ezechias said: All +things that are in my house have they seen, there was not any thing +which I have not shewn them in my treasures. + +39:5. And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word of the Lord of hosts. + +39:6. Behold the days shall come that all that is in thy house, and that +thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried away +into Babylon: there shall not any thing be left, saith the Lord. + +39:7. And of thy children, that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt +beget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of +the king of Babylon. + +39:8. And Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which he hath +spoken, is good. And he said: Only let peace and truth be in my days. + +Isaias Chapter 40 + +The prophet comforts the people with the promise of the coming of Christ +to forgive their sins. God's almighty power and majesty. + +40:1. Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God. + +40:2. Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil +is come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the +hand of the Lord double for all her sins. + +40:3. The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the +Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God. + +40:4. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall +be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways +plain. + +40:5. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh +together shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken. + +40:6. The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All +flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. + +40:7. The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the +spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass: + +40:8. The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of +our Lord endureth for ever. + +40:9. Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings +to Sion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good +tidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the cities of Juda: +Behold your God: + +40:10. Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm shall +rule: Behold his reward is with him and his work is before him. + +40:11. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together +the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he +himself shall carry them that are with young. + +40:12. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and +weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers +the bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the +hills in a balance? + +40:13. Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his +counsellor, and hath taught him? + +40:14. With whom hath he consulted, and who hath instructed him, and +taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him +the way of understanding? + +40:15. Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as +the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little +dust. + +40:16. And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts thereof +sufficient for a burnt offering. + +40:17. All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and +are counted to him as nothing, and vanity. + +40:18. To whom then have you likened God? or what image will you make +for him? + +40:19. Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith +formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver? + +40:20. He hath chosen strong wood, and that will not rot: the skilful +workman seeketh how he may set up an idol that may not be moved. + +40:21. Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told +you from the beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the +earth? + +40:22. It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the +inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens +as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. + +40:23. He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath +made the judges of the earth as vanity. + +40:24. And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted +in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, +and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. + +40:25. And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy +One? + +40:26. Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these things: +who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by their +names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one +of them was missing. + +40:27. 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? + +40:28. Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard? the Lord is the +everlasting God, who hath created the ends of the earth: he shall not +faint, nor labour, neither is there any searching out of his wisdom. + +40:29. It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force +and might to them that are not. + +40:30. You shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by +infirmity. + +40:31. But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they +shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall +walk and not faint. + +Isaias Chapter 41 + +The reign of the just one: the vanity of idols. + +41:1. Let the islands keep silence before me, and the nations take new +strength: let them come near, and then speak, let us come near to +judgment together. + +41:2. Who hath raised up the just one from the east, hath called him to +follow him? he shall give the nations in his sight, and he shall rule +over kings: he shall give them as the dust to his sword, as stubble +driven by the wind, to his bow. + +41:3. He shall pursue them, he shall pass in peace, no path shall appear +after his feet. + +41:4. Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations +from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last. + +41:5. The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were +astonished, they drew near, and came. + +41:6. Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: +Be of good courage. + +41:7. The coppersmith striking with the hammer encouraged him that +forged at that time, saying: It is ready for soldering: and he +strengthened it with nails, that it should not be moved. + +41:8. But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the +seed of Abraham my friend: + +41:9. In whom I have taken thee from the ends of the earth, and from the +remote parts thereof have called thee, and said to thee: Thou art my +servant, I have chosen thee, and have not cast thee away. + +41:10. Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I +have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my +just one hath upheld thee. + +41:11. Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and +ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive +against thee. + +41:12. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find the men that resist +thee: they shall be as nothing: and as a thing consumed the men that war +against thee. + +41:13. For I am the Lord thy God, who take thee by the hand, and say to +thee: Fear not, I have helped thee. + +41:14. Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that are dead of Israel: I have +helped thee, saith the Lord: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel. + +41:15. I have made thee as a new thrashing wain, with teeth like a saw: +thou shalt thrash the mountains, and break them in pieces: and shalt +make the hills as chaff. + +41:16. Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the +whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, in the +Holy One of Israel thou shalt be joyful. + +41:17. The needy and the poor seek for waters, and there are none: their +tongue hath been dry with thirst. I the Lord will hear them, I the God +of Israel will not forsake them. + +41:18. I will open rivers in the high hills, and fountains in the midst +of the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the +impassable land into streams of waters. + +41:19. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the +myrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the +elm, and the box tree together: + +The thorn... In Hebrew, the shitta, or setim, a tree resembling the +white thorn. + +41:20. 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. + +41:21. Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have +any thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob. + +41:22. Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us +the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them +and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are +to come. + +41:23. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know +that ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak, +and see together. + +41:24. Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no +being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination. + +41:25. I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the +rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make princes +to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay. + +41:26. Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know: and from +time of old, that we may say: Thou art just. There is none that sheweth, +nor that foretelleth, nor that heareth your words. + +41:27. The first shall say to Sion: Behold they are here, and to +Jerusalem I will give an evangelist. + +41:28. And I saw, and there was no one even among them to consult, or +who, when I asked, could answer a word. + +41:29. Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their +idols are wind and vanity. + +Isaias Chapter 42 + +The office of Christ. The preaching of the gospel to the Gentiles. The +blindness and reprobation of the Jews. + +42:1. Behold my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul delighteth +in him: I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment +to the Gentiles. + +My servant... Christ, who according to his humanity, is the servant of +God. + +42:2. He shall not cry, nor have respect to person, neither shall his +voice be heard abroad. + +42:3. The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not +quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. + +42:4. He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the +earth, and the islands shall wait for his law. + +42:5. Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched +them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of +it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that +tread thereon. + +42:6. I the Lord have called thee in justice, and taken thee by the +hand, and preserved thee. And I have given thee for a covenant of the +people, for a light of the Gentiles: + +42:7. That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the +prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison +house. + +42:8. I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to another, +nor my praise to graven things. + +42:9. The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things +do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you hear them. + +42:10. Sing ye to the Lord a new song, his praise is from the ends of +the earth: you that go down to the sea, and all that are therein: ye +islands, and ye inhabitants of them. + +42:11. Let the desert and the cities thereof be exalted: Cedar shall +dwell in houses: ye inhabitants of Petra, give praise, they shall cry +from the top of the mountains. + +Petra... A city that gives name to Arabia Petraea. + +42:12. They shall give glory to the Lord, and shall declare his praise +in the islands. + +42:13. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war shall he +stir up zeal: he shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his +enemies. + +42:14. I have always held my peace, I have kept silence, I have been +patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and +swallow up at once. + +42:15. I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their +grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up +the standing pools. + +42:16. And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and +in the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will +make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these +things have I done to them, and have not forsaken them. + +42:17. They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust +in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god. + +42:18. Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see. + +42:19. Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent +my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but +the servant of the Lord? + +42:20. Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them? thou +that hast ears open, wilt thou not hear? + +42:21. And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, +and exalt it. + +42:22. But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are all the +snare of young men, and they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are +made a prey, and there is none to deliver them: a spoil, and there is +none that saith: Restore. + +42:23. Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will +attend and hearken for times to come? + +42:24. Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? hath +not the Lord himself, against whom we have sinned? And they would not +walk in his ways, and they have not hearkened to his law. + +42:25. And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and +a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and +set him on fire, and he understood not. + +Isaias Chapter 43 + +God comforts his church, promising to protect her for ever: he +expostulates with the Jews for their ingratitude. + +43:1. And now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and formed +thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, and called thee by +thy name: thou art mine. + +43:2. When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and +the rivers shall not cover thee: when thou shalt walk in the fire, thou +shalt not be burnt, and the flames shall not burn in thee: + +43:3. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I +have given Egypt for thy atonement, Ethiopia and Saba for thee. + +43:4. Since thou becamest honourable in my eyes, thou art glorious: I +have loved thee, and I will give men for thee, and people for thy life. + +43:5. Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, +and gather thee from the west. + +43:6. I will say to the north: Give up: and to the south: Keep not back: +bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth. + +43:7. And every one that calleth upon my name, I have created him for my +glory. I have formed him, and made him. + +43:8. Bring forth the people that are blind, and have eyes: that are +deaf, and have ears. + +43:9. All the nations are assembled together, and the tribes are +gathered: who among you can declare this, and shall make us hear the +former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, let them be +justified, and hear, and say: It is truth. + +43:10. You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have +chosen: that you may know, and believe me, and understand that I myself +am. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there shall be none. + +43:11. I am, I am the Lord: and there is no saviour besides me. + +43:12. I have declared, and have saved. I have made it heard, and there +was no strange one among you. You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and +I am God. + +43:13. And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can +deliver out of my hind: I will work, and who shall turn it away? + +43:14. Thus saith the Lord your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For +your sake I sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their bars, and +the Chaldeans glorying in their ships. + +43:15. I am the Lord your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. + +43:16. Thus saith the Lord, who made a way in the sea, and a path in the +mighty waters. + +43:17. Who brought forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the +strong: they lay down to sleep together, and they shall not rise again: +they are broken as flax, and are extinct. + +43:18. Remember not former things, and look not on things of old. + +43:19. Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth, verily +you shall know them: I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in +the desert. + +43:20. The beast of the field shall glorify me, the dragons and the +ostriches: because I have given waters in the wilderness, rivers in the +desert, to give drink to my people, to my chosen. + +43:21. This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my +praise. + +43:22. But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob, neither hast thou +laboured about me, O Israel. + +43:23. Thou hast not offered me the ram of thy holocaust, nor hast thou +glorified me with thy victims: I have not caused thee to serve with +oblations, nor wearied thee with incense. + +43:24. Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou +filled me with the fat of thy victims. But thou hast made me to serve +with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities. + +43:25. I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I +will not remember thy sins. + +43:26. Put me in remembrance, and let us plead together: tell if thou +hast any thing to justify thyself. + +43:27. Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed +against me. + +43:28. And I have profaned the holy princes, I have given Jacob to +slaughter, and Israel to reproach. + +Isaias Chapter 44 + +God's favour to his church. The folly of idolatry. The people shall be +delivered from captivity. + +44:1. And now hear, O Jacob, my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen. + +44:2. Thus saith the Lord that made and formed thee, thy helper from the +womb: Fear not, O my servant Jacob, and thou most righteous whom I have +chosen. + +44:3. For I will pour out waters upon the thirsty ground, and streams +upon the dry land: I will pour out my spirit upon thy seed, and my +blessing upon thy stock. + +44:4. And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows beside the +running waters. + +44:5. 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, To the +Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel. + +44:6. 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 besides me there is no +God. + +44:7. Who is like to me? let him call and declare: and let him set +before me the order, since I appointed the ancient people: and the +things to come, and that shall be hereafter, let them shew unto them. + +44:8. Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled from that time I have made +thee to hear, and have declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God +besides me, a maker, whom I have not known? + +44:9. The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best +beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that +they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed. + +44:10. Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable +for nothing? + +44:11. Behold, all the partakers thereof shall be confounded: for the +makers are men: they shall all assemble together, they shall stand and +fear, and shall be confounded together. + +44:12. The smith hath wrought with his file, with coals, and with +hammers he hath formed it, and hath wrought with the strength of his +arm: he shall hunger and faint, he shall drink no water, and shall be +weary. + +44:13. The carpenter hath stretched out his rule, he hath formed it with +a plane: he hath made it with corners, and hath fashioned it round with +the compass: and he hath made the image of a man as it were a beautiful +man dwelling in a house. + +44:14. He hath cut down cedars, taken the holm, and the oak that stood +among the trees of the forest: he hath planted the pine tree, which the +rain hath nourished. + +44:15. And it hath served men for fuel: he took thereof, and warmed +himself: and he kindled it, and baked bread: but of the rest he made a +god, and adored it: he made a graven thing, and bowed down before it. + +44:16. Part of it he burnt with fire, and with part of it he dressed his +meat: he boiled pottage, and was filled, and was warmed, and said: Aha, +I am warm, I have seen the fire. + +44:17. But the residue thereof he made a god, and a graven thing for +himself: he boweth down before it, and adoreth it, and prayeth unto it, +saying: Deliver me, for thou art my God. + +44:18. They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered +that they may not see, and that they may not understand with their +heart. + +44:19. They do not consider in their mind, nor know, nor have the +thought to say: I have burnt part of it in the fire, and I have baked +bread upon the coals thereof: I have broiled flesh and have eaten, and +of the residue thereof shall I make an idol? shall I fall down before +the stock of a tree? + +44:20. Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will +not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand. + +44:21. Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art my +servant. I have formed thee, thou art my servant, O Israel, forget me +not. + +44:22. I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins as a +mist: return to me, for I have redeemed thee. + +44:23. Give praise, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath shewn mercy: shout +with joy, ye ends of the earth: ye mountains, resound with praise, thou, +O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and +Israel shall be glorified. + +44:24. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, and thy maker, from the womb: I +am the Lord, that make all things, that alone stretch out the heavens, +that established the earth, and there is none with me. + +44:25. That make void the tokens of diviners, and make the soothsayers +mad. That turn the wise backward, and that make their knowledge foolish. + +44:26. That raise up the word of my servant and perform the counsel of +my messengers, who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be inhabited: and to the +cities of Juda: You shall be built, and I will raise up the wastes +thereof. + +44:27. Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy +rivers. + +44:28. Who say to Cyrus: Thou art my shepherd, and thou shalt perform +all my pleasure. Who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be built: and to the +temple: Thy foundations shall be laid. + +Isaias Chapter 45 + +A prophecy of Cyrus, as a figure of Christ, the great deliverer of God's +people. + +45:1. Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have +taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs +of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be +shut. + +45:2. I will go before thee, and will humble the great ones of the +earth: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and will burst the +bars of iron. + +45:3. And I will give thee hidden treasures, and the concealed riches of +secret places: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord who call thee by +thy name, the God of Israel. + +45:4. For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my elect, I have even +called thee by thy name: I have made a likeness of thee, and thou hast +not known me. + +45:5. I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides me: +I girded thee, and thou hast not known me: + +45:6. That they may know who are from the rising of the sun, and they +who are from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and +there is none else: + +45:7. I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create +evil: I the Lord that do all these things. + +Create evil, etc... The evils of afflictions and punishments, but not +the evil of sin. + +45:8. Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the +just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice +spring up together: I the Lord have created him. + +45:9. Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: +shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and +thy work is without hands? + +45:10. Woe to him that saith to his father: Why begettest thou? and to +the woman: Why dost thou bring forth? + +45:11. Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of Israel, his maker: Ask me of +things to come, concerning my children, and concerning the work of my +hands give ye charge to me. + +45:12. I made the earth: and I created man upon it: my hand stretched +forth the heavens, and I have commanded all their host. + +45:13. I have raised him up to justice, and I will direct all his ways: +he shall build my city, and let go my captives, not for ransom, nor for +presents, saith the Lord the God of hosts. + +45:14. Thus saith the Lord: The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of +Ethiopia, and of Sabaim, men of stature shall come over to thee, and +shall be thine: they shall walk after thee, they shall go bound with +manacles: and they shall worship thee, and shall make supplication to +thee: only in thee is God, and there is no God besides thee. + +45:15. Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel the saviour. + +45:16. They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are +gone together into confusion. + +45:17. Israel is saved in the Lord with an eternal salvation: you shall +not be confounded, and you shall not be ashamed for ever and ever. + +45:18. For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself +that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not +create it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and +there is no other. + +45:19. I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I have +not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak +justice, that declare right things. + +45:20. Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw near together, ye that +are saved of the Gentiles: they have no knowledge that set up the wood +of their graven work, and pray to a god that cannot save. + +45:21. Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this +from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I +the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, +there is none besides me. + +45:22. Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the +earth: for I am God, and there is no other. + +45:23. I have sworn by myself, the word of justice shall go out of my +mouth, and shall not return: + +45:24. For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue shall +swear. + +45:25. Therefore shall he say: In the Lord are my justices and empire: +they shall come to him, and all that resist him shall be confounded. + +45:26. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and +praised. + +Isaias Chapter 46 + +The idols of Babylon shall be destroyed. Salvation is promised through +Christ. + +46:1. Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols are put upon beasts +and cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto weariness. + +46:2. They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save +him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity. + +46:3. Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of +Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb. + +46:4. Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs I will +carry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save. + +46:5. To whom have you likened me, and made me equal, and compared me, +and made me like? + +46:6. You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh out silver in +the scales: and hire a goldsmith to make a god: and they fall down and +worship. + +46:7. They bear him on their shoulders and carry him, and set him in his +place, and he shall stand, and shall not stir out of his place. Yea, +when they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear: he shall not save +them from tribulation. + +46:8. Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors, to the +heart. + +46:9. Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, +neither is there the like to me: + +46:10. Who shew from the beginning the things that shall be at last, and +from ancient times the things that as yet are not done, saying: My +counsel shall stand, and all my will shall be done: + +46:11. Who call a bird from the east, and from a far country the man of +my own will, and I have spoken, and will bring it to pass: I have +created, and I will do it. Hear me, O ye hardhearted, who are far from +justice. + +46:12. I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off: and my +salvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory +in Israel. + +Isaias Chapter 47 + +God's judgment upon Babylon. + +47:1. Come down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on +the ground: there is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for +thou shalt no more be called delicate and tender. + +47:2. Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy +shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers. + +47:3. Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall be seen: I +will take vengeance, and no man shall resist me. + +47:4. Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of +Israel. + +47:5. Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the +Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the lady of kingdoms. + +47:6. I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and +have given them into thy hand: thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon +the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding heavy. + +47:7. And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever: thou hast not laid +these things to thy heart, neither hast thou remembered thy latter end. + +47:8. And now hear these things, thou that art delicate, and dwellest +confidently, that sayest in thy heart: I am, and there is none else +besides me: I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know barrenness. + +47:9. These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, +barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the +multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy +enchanters. + +47:10. And thou hast trusted in thy wickedness, and hast said: There is +none that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and, thy knowledge, this hath deceived +thee. And thou hast said in thy heart: I am, and besides me there is no +other. + +47:11. Evil shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know the rising +thereof: and calamity shall fall violently upon thee, which thou canst +not keep off: misery shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not +know. + +47:12. Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude of thy +sorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth, if so be it may +profit thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger. + +47:13. Thou hast failed in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the +astrologers stand and save thee, they that gazed at the stars, and +counted the months, that from them they might tell the things that shall +come to thee. + +47:14. Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they shall not +deliver themselves from the power of the flames: there are no coals +wherewith they may be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit thereat. + +47:15. Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou hast +laboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one hath erred in his own +way, there is none that can save thee. + +Isaias Chapter 48 + +He reproaches the Jews for their obstinacy: he will deliver them out of +their captivity, for his own name's sake. + +48:1. Hear ye these things, O house of Jacob, you that are called by the +name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Juda, you who +swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, +but not in truth, nor in justice. + +48:2. For they are called of the holy city, and are established upon the +God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name. + +48:3. The former things of old, I have declared, and they went forth out +of my mouth, and I have made them to be heard: I did them suddenly and +they came to pass. + +48:4. For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron +sinew, and thy forehead as brass. + +48:5. I foretold thee of old, before they came to pass I told thee, lest +thou shouldst say: My idols have done these things, and my graven and +molten things have commanded them. + +48:6. See now all the things which thou hast heard: but have you +declared them? I have shewn thee new things from that time, and things +are kept which thou knowest not: + +48:7. They are created now, and not of old: and before the day, when +thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldst say: Behold I knew them. + +48:8. Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of +old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have +called thee a transgressor from the womb. + +48:9. For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my +praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish. + +48:10. Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee +in the furnace of poverty. + +48:11. For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be +blasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another. + +48:12. Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I +am the first, and I am the last. + +48:13. My hand also hath founded the earth, and my right hand hath +measured the heavens: I shall call them, and they shall stand together. + +48:14. Assemble yourselves together, all you, and hear: who among them +hath declared these things? the Lord hath loved him, he will do his +pleasure in Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. + +48:15. I, even I have spoken and called him: I have brought him, and his +way is made prosperous. + +48:16. Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret +from the beginning: from the time before it was done, I was there, and +now the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit. + +48:17. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am +the Lord thy God that teach thee profitable things, that govern thee in +the way that thou walkest. + +48:18. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had +been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea, + +48:19. And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy +bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor +have been destroyed from before my face. + +48:20. Come forth out of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, declare it +with the voice of joy: make this to be heard, and speak it out even to +the ends of the earth. Say: The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob. + +48:21. They thirsted not in the desert, when he led them out: he brought +forth water out of the rock for them, and he clove the rock, and the +waters gushed out. + +48:22. There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord. + +Isaias Chapter 49 + +Christ shall bring the Gentiles to salvation. God's love to his church +is perpetual. + +49:1. Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from afar. The Lord +hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he hath been +mindful of my name. + +49:2. And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword: in the shadow of his +hand he hath protected me, and hath made me as a chosen arrow: in his +quiver he hath hidden me. + +49:3. And he said to me: Thou art my servant Israel, for in thee will I +glory. + +49:4. And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength +without cause and in vain: therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and +my work with my God. + +49:5. And now saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be his +servant, that I may bring back Jacob unto him, and Israel will not be +gathered together: and I am glorified in the eyes of the Lord, and my +God is made my strength. + +49:6. And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant +to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. +Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou +mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth. + +49:7. Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the +soul that is despised, to the nation that is abhorred, to the servant of +rulers: Kings shall see, and princes shall rise up, and adore for the +Lord's sake, because he is faithful, and for the Holy One of Israel, who +hath chosen thee. + +49:8. Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and +in the day of salvation I have helped thee: and I have preserved thee, +and given thee to be a covenant of the people, that thou mightest raise +up the earth, and possess the inheritances that were destroyed: + +49:9. That thou mightest say to them that are bound: Come forth: and to +them that are in darkness: Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, +and their pastures shall be in every plain. + +49:10. They shall not hunger, nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor the +sun strike them: for he that is merciful to them, shall be their +shepherd, and at the fountains of waters he shall give them drink. + +49:11. And I will make all my mountains a way, and my paths shall be +exalted. + +49:12. Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from the +north and from the sea, and these from the south country. + +49:13. Give praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth, ye mountains, +give praise with jubilation: because the Lord hath comforted his people, +and will have mercy on his poor ones. + +49:14. And Sion said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath +forgotten me. + +49:15. Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son +of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee. + +49:16. Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always +before my eyes. + +49:17. Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste +shall go out of thee. + +49:18. Lift up thy eyes round about, and see all these are gathered +together, they are come to thee: I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt be +clothed with all these as with an ornament, and as a bride thou shalt +put them about thee. + +49:19. For thy deserts, and thy desolate places, and the land of thy +destruction shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and +they that swallowed thee up shall be chased far away. + +49:20. The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The +place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in. + +49:21. And thou shalt say in thy heart: Who hath begotten these? I was +barren and brought not forth, led away, and captive: and who hath +brought up these? I was destitute and alone: and these, where were they? + +49:22. Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lift up my hand to the +Gentiles, and will set up my standard to the people. And they shall +bring thy sons in their arms, and carry thy daughters upon their +shoulders. + +49:23. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses: +they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall +lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, +for they shall not be confounded that wait for him. + +49:24. Shall the prey be taken from the strong? or can that which was +taken by the mighty, be delivered? + +49:25. For thus saith the Lord: Yea verily, even the captivity shall be +taken away from the strong: and that which was taken by the mighty, +shall be delivered. But I will judge those that have judged thee, and +thy children I will save. + +49:26. And I will feed thy enemies with their own flesh: and they shall +be made drunk with their own blood, as with new wine: and all flesh +shall know, that I am the Lord that save thee, and thy Redeemer the +Mighty One of Jacob. + +Isaias Chapter 50 + +The synagogue shall be divorced for her iniquities. Christ for her sake +will endure ignominious afflictions. + +50:1. Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your +mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I +sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked +deeds have I put your mother away. + +50:2. Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was +none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I +cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my +rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry +land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst. + +50:3. I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth +their covering. + +50:4. The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to +uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the +morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master. + +50:5. The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not +gone back. + +50:6. I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that +plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, +and spit upon me. + +50:7. The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: +therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I +shall not be confounded. + +50:8. He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us +stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me. + +50:9. Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? +Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them +up. + +50:10. Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, that heareth the +voice of his servant, that hath walked in darkness, and hath no light? +let him hope in the name of the Lord, and lean upon his God. + +50:11. Behold all you that kindle a fire, encompassed with flames, walk +in the light of your fire, and in the flames which you have kindled: +this is done to you by my hand, you shall sleep in sorrows. + +Isaias Chapter 51 + +An exhortation to trust in Christ. He shall protect the children of his +church. + +51:1. Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that +seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole +of the pit from which you are dug out. + +51:2. Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for I +called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him. + +51:3. The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and will comfort all the +ruins thereof: and he will make her desert as a place of pleasure, and +her wilderness as the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be +found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of praise. + +51:4. Hearken unto me, O my people, and give ear to me, O my tribes: for +a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment shall rest to be a light +of the nations. + +51:5. My just one is near at hand, my saviour is gone forth, and my arms +shall judge the people: the islands shall look for me, and shall +patiently wait for my arm. + +51:6. Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth beneath: +for the heavens shall vanish like smoke, and the earth shall be worn +away like a garment, and the inhabitants thereof shall perish in like +manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice shall not +fail. + +51:7. Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my +law in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of +their blasphemies. + +51:8. For the worm shall eat them up as a garment: and the moth shall +consume them as wool: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice +from generation to generation. + +51:9. Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou arm of the Lord, arise as in +the days of old, in the ancient generations. Hast not thou struck the +proud one, and wounded the dragon? + +51:10. Hast not thou dried up the sea, the water of the mighty deep, who +madest the depth of the sea a way, that the delivered might pass over? + +51:11. And now they that are redeemed by the Lord, shall return, and +shall come into Sion singing praises, and joy everlasting shall be upon +their heads, they shall obtain joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning +shall flee away. + +51:12. I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be +afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away +like grass? + +51:13. And thou hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, who stretched out the +heavens, and founded the earth: and thou hast been afraid continually +all the day at the presence of his fury who afflicted thee, and had +prepared himself to destroy thee: where is now the fury of the +oppressor? + +51:14. He shall quickly come that is going to open unto you, and he +shall not kill unto utter destruction, neither shall his bread fail. + +51:15. But I am the Lord thy God, who trouble the sea, and the waves +thereof swell: the Lord of hosts is my name. + +51:16. I have put my words in thy mouth, and have protected thee in the +shadow of my hand, that thou mightest plant the heavens, and found the +earth: and mightest say to Sion: Thou art my people. + +51:17. Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand +of the Lord the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunk even to the bottom of +the cup of dead sleep, and thou hast drunk even to the dregs. + +51:18. There is none that can uphold her among all the children that she +hath brought forth: and there is none that taketh her by the hand among +all the children that she hath brought up. + +51:19. There are two things that have happened to thee: who shall be +sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the +sword, who shall comfort thee? + +51:20. Thy children are cast forth, they have slept at the head of all +the ways, and the wild ox that is snared: full of the indignation of the +Lord, of the rebuke of thy God. + +51:21. Therefore hear this, thou poor little one, and thou that art +drunk but not with wine. + +51:22. Thus saith thy Sovereign the Lord, and thy God, who will fight +for his people: Behold I have taken out of thy hand the cup of dead +sleep, the dregs of the cup of my indignation, thou shalt not drink it +again any more. + +51:23. And I will put it in the hand of them that have oppressed thee, +and have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast +laid thy body as the ground, and as a way to them that went over. + +Isaias Chapter 52 + +Under the figure of the deliverance from the Babylonish captivity, the +church is invited to rejoice for her redemption from sin. Christ's +kingdom shall be exalted. + +52:1. Arise, arise, put on thy strength, O Sion, put on the garments of +thy glory, O Jerusalem, the city of the Holy One: for henceforth the +uncircumcised, and unclean shall no more pass through thee. + +52:2. Shake thyself from the dust, arise, sit up, O Jerusalem: loose the +bonds from off thy neck, O captive daughter of Sion. + +52:3. For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you shall be +redeemed, without money. + +52:4. For thus saith the Lord God: My people went down into Egypt at the +beginning to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without +any cause at all. + +52:5. And now what have I here, saith the Lord: for my people is taken +away gratis. They that rule over them treat them unjustly, saith the +Lord, and my name is continually blasphemed all the day long. + +52:6. Therefore my people shall know my name in that day: for I myself +that spoke, behold I am here. + +52:7. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth +good tidings, and that preacheth peace: of him that sheweth forth good, +that preacheth salvation, that saith to Sion: Thy God shall reign! + +52:8. The voice of thy watchmen: they have lifted up their voice, they +shall praise together: for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall +convert Sion. + +52:9. Rejoice, and give praise together, O ye deserts of Jerusalem: for +the Lord hath comforted his people: he hath redeemed Jerusalem. + +52:10. The Lord hath prepared his holy arm in the sight of all the +Gentiles: and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our +God. + +52:11. Depart, depart, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing: go +out of the midst of her, be ye clean, you that carry the vessels of the +Lord. + +52:12. For you shall not go out in a tumult, neither shall you make +haste by flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel +will gather you together. + +52:13. Behold my servant shall understand, he shall be exalted, and +extolled, and shall be exceeding high. + +52:14. As many have been astonished at thee, so shall his visage be +inglorious among men, and his form among the sons of men. + +52:15. He shall sprinkle many nations, kings shall shut their mouth at +him: for they to whom it was not told of him, have seen: and they that +heard not, have beheld. + +Isaias Chapter 53 + +A prophecy of the passion of Christ. + +53:1. Who a hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord +revealed? + +53:2. And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root +out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and +we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be +desirous of him: + +53:3. Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and +acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and +despised, whereupon we esteemed him not. + +53:4. Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and +we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and +afflicted. + +53:5. But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our +sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we +are healed. + +53:6. All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside +into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. + +53:7. He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his +mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as +a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth. + +53:8. He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall +declare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the +living: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him. + +53:9. And he shall give the ungodly for his burial, and the rich for his +death: because he hath done no iniquity, neither was there deceit in his +mouth. + +53:10. And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall +lay down his life for sin, he shall see a longlived seed, and the will +of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand. + +53:11. Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by +his knowledge shall this my just servant justify many, and he shall bear +their iniquities. + +53:12. Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall divide +the spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered his soul unto death, +and was reputed with the wicked: and he hath borne the sins of many, and +hath prayed for the transgressors. + +Isaias Chapter 54 + +The Gentiles, who were barren before, shall multiply in the church of +Christ: from which God's mercy shall never depart. + +54:1. Give praise, O thou barren, that bearest not: sing forth praise, +and make a joyful noise, thou that didst not travail with child: for +many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a +husband, saith the Lord. + +54:2. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and stretch out the skins of thy +tabernacles, spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes. + +54:3. For thou shalt pass on to the right hand, and to the left: and thy +seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and shall inhabit the desolate cities. + +54:4. Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded, nor blush: for thou +shalt not be put to shame, because thou shalt forget the shame of thy +youth, and shalt remember no more the reproach of thy widowhood. + +54:5. For he that made thee shall rule over thee, the Lord of hosts is +his name: and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, shall be called the +God of all the earth. + +54:6. For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and mourning in +spirit, and as a wife cast off from her youth, said thy God. + +54:7. For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies +will I gather thee. + +54:8. In a moment of indignation have I hid my face a little while from +thee, but with everlasting kindness have I had mercy on thee, said the +Lord thy Redeemer. + +54:9. This thing is to me as in the days of Noe, to whom I swore, that I +would no more bring in the waters of Noe upon the earth: so have I sworn +not to be angry with thee, and not to rebuke thee. + +54:10. For the mountains shall be moved, and the hills shall tremble; +but my mercy shall not depart from thee, and the covenant of my peace +shall not be moved: said the Lord that hath mercy on thee. + +54:11. O poor little one, tossed with tempest, without all comfort, +behold I will lay thy stones in order, and will lay thy foundations with +sapphires, + +54:12. And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven +stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones. + +54:13. All thy children shall be taught of the Lord: and great shall be +the peace of thy children. + +54:14. And thou shalt be founded in justice: depart far from oppression, +for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near +thee. + +54:15. Behold, an inhabitant shall come, who was not with me, he that +was a stranger to thee before, shall be joined to thee. + +54:16. Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the +fire, and bringeth forth an instrument for his work, and I have created +the killer to destroy. + +54:17. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every +tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the +inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me, +saith the Lord. + +Isaias Chapter 55 + +God promises abundance of spiritual graces to the faithful, that shall +believe in Christ out of all nations, and sincerely serve him. + +55:1. All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no +money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without +money, and without any price. + +55:2. Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your +labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, +and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness. + +55:3. Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, +and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies +of David. + +55:4. Behold I have given him for a witness to the people, for a leader +and a master to the Gentiles. + +55:5. Behold thou shalt call a nation, which thou knewest not: and the +nations that knew not thee shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy +God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee. + +55:6. Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he +is near. + +55:7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, +and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to +our God: for he is bountiful to forgive. + +55:8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, +saith the Lord. + +55:9. For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways +exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts. + +55:10. And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return no +more thither, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to spring, +and give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: + +55:11. So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall +not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall +prosper in the things for which I sent it. + +55:12. For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the +mountains and the hills shall sing praise before you, and all the trees +of the country shall clap their hands. + +55:13. Instead of the shrub, shall come up the fir tree, and instead of +the nettle, shall come up the myrtle tree: and the Lord shall be named +for an everlasting sign, that shall not be taken away. + +Isaias Chapter 56 + +God invites all to keep his commandments: the Gentiles that keep them +shall be the people of God: the Jewish pastors are reproved. + +56:1. Thus saith the Lord: Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my +salvation is near to come, and my justice to be revealed. + +56:2. Blessed is the man that doth this, and the son of man that shall +lay hold on this: that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, that +keepeth his hands from doing any evil. + +56:3. And let not the son of the stranger, that adhereth to the Lord, +speak, saying: The Lord will divide and separate me from his people. And +let not the eunuch say: Behold I am a dry tree. + +56:4. For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, They that shall keep my +sabbaths, and shall choose the things that please me, and shall hold +fast my covenant: + +56:5. I will give to them in my house, and within my walls, a place, and +a name better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting +name which shall never perish. + +56:6. And the children of the stranger that adhere to the Lord, to +worship him, and to love his name, to be his servants: every one that +keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and that holdeth fast my +covenant: + +56:7. I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make them joyful in +my house of prayer: their holocausts, and their victims shall please me +upon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer, for all +nations. + +56:8. The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel, saith: I will +still gather unto him his congregation. + +56:9. All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts of the +forest. + +56:10. His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not +able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams. + +56:11. And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds +themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own +way, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last. + +56:12. Come, let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness: and it +shall be as to day, so also to morrow, and much more. + +Isaias Chapter 57 + +The infidelity of the Jews: their idolatry. Promises to humble +penitents. + +57:1. The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of +mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the +just man is taken away from before the face of evil. + +57:2. Let peace come, let him rest in his bed that hath walked in his +uprightness. + +57:3. But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the +adulterer, and of the harlot. + +57:4. Upon whom have you jested? upon whom have you opened your mouth +wide, and put out your tongue? are not you wicked children, a false +seed, + +57:5. Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing +children in the torrents, under the high rocks? + +57:6. In the parts of the torrent is thy portion, this is thy lot: and +thou hast poured out libations to them, thou hast offered sacrifice. +Shall I not be angry at these things? + +57:7. Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast +gone up thither to offer victims. + +57:8. And behind the door, and behind the post thou hast set up thy +remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself near me, and hast received +an adulterer: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a covenant with them: +thou hast loved their bed with open hand. + +57:9. And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment, and hast +multiplied thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and wast +debased even to hell. + +57:10. Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy ways: yet thou +saidst not: I will rest: thou has found life of thy hand, therefore thou +hast not asked. + +57:11. For whom hast thou been solicitous and afraid, that thou hast +lied, and hast not been mindful of me, nor thought on me in thy heart? +for I am silent, and as one that seeth not, and thou hast forgotten me. + +57:12. I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee. + +57:13. When thou shalt cry, let thy companies deliver thee, but the wind +shall carry them all off, a breeze shall take them away, but he that +putteth his trust in me, shall inherit the land, and shall possess my +holy mount. + +57:14. And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of the +path, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people. + +57:15. For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: +and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with +a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to +revive the heart of the contrite. + +57:16. For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the +end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I +will make. + +57:17. For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and I struck +him: I hid my face from thee, and was angry: and he went away wandering +in his own heart. + +57:18. I saw his ways, and I healed him, and brought him back, and +restored comforts to him, and to them that mourn for him. + +57:19. I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far +off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him. + +57:20. But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and +the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire. + +57:21. There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord God. + +Isaias Chapter 58 + +God rejects the hypocritical fasts of the Jews: recommends works of +mercy, and sincere godliness. + +58:1. Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my +people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins. + +58:2. For they seek me from day to day, and desire to know my ways, as a +nation that hath done justice, and hath not forsaken the judgment of +their God: they ask of me the judgments of justice: they are willing to +approach to God. + +58:3. Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled +our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your +fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors. + +58:4. Behold you fast for debates and strife, and strike with the fist +wickedly. Do not fast as you have done until this day, to make your cry +to be heard on high. + +58:5. Is this such a fast as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his +soul for a day? is this it, to wind his head about like a circle, and to +spread sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast, and a day +acceptable to the Lord? + +58:6. Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of +wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go +free, and break asunder every burden. + +58:7. Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the +harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, +and despise not thy own flesh. + +58:8. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health +shall speedily arise, and thy justice shall go before thy face, and the +glory of the Lord shall gather thee up. + +58:9. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and +he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the +midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that +which profiteth not. + +58:10. When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt +satisfy the afflicted soul, then shall thy light rise up in darkness, +and thy darkness shall be as the noonday. + +58:11. And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy +soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a +watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not +fail. + +58:12. And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in +thee: thou shalt raise up the foundation of generation and generation: +and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths +into rest. + +58:13. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own +will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of +the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, +and thy own will is not found, to speak a word: + +58:14. Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up +above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the +inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken +it. + +Isaias Chapter 59 + +The dreadful evil of sin is displayed, as the great obstacle to all good +from God: yet he will send a Redeemer, and make an everlasting covenant +with his church. + +59:1. Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save, +neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear. + +59:2. But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and +your sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear. + +59:3. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with +iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity. + +59:4. There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one +that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak +vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity. + +59:5. They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of +spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is +brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk. + +59:6. Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover +themselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the +work of iniquity is in their hands. + +59:7. Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: +their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in +their ways. + +59:8. They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in +their steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one that +treadeth in them knoweth no peace. + +59:9. Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake +us. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have +walked in the dark. + +59:10. We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have groped as +if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are in +dark places, as dead men. + +59:11. We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful +doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, +and it is far from us. + +59:12. For our iniquities are multiplied before thee, and our sins have +testified against us: for our wicked doings are with us, and have known +our iniquities: + +59:13. In sinning and lying against the Lord: and we have turned away so +that we went not after our God, but spoke calumny and transgression: we +have conceived, and uttered from the heart, words of falsehood. + +59:14. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath stood far +off: because truth hath fallen down in the street, and equity could not +come in. + +59:15. And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed from evil, +lay open to be a prey: and the Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his +eyes, because there is no judgment. + +59:16. And he saw that there is not a man: and he stood astonished, +because there is none to oppose himself: and his own arm brought +salvation to him, and his own justice supported him. + +59:17. He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation +upon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance, and was clad with +zeal as with a cloak. + +59:18. As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath to his adversaries, +and a reward to his enemies: he will repay the like to the islands. + +59:19. And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and they +from the rising of the sun, his glory when he shall come as a violent +stream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on: + +59:20. And there shall come a redeemer to Sion, and to them that return +from iniquity in Jacob, saith the Lord. + +59:21. This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is +in thee, and my words that 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. + +This is my covenant, etc... Note here a clear promise of perpetual +orthodoxy to the church of Christ. + +Isaias Chapter 60 + +The light of true faith shall shine forth in the church of Christ, and +shall be spread through all nations, and continue for all ages. + +60:1. Arise, be enlightened, O Jerusalem: for thy light is come, and the +glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. + +60:2. For behold darkness shall cover the earth, and a mist the people: +but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon +thee. + +60:3. And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and kings in the +brightness of thy rising. + +60:4. Lift up thy eyes round about, and see: all these are gathered +together, they are come to thee: thy sons shall come from afar, and thy +daughters shall rise up at thy side. + +60:5. Then shalt thou see, and abound, and thy heart shall wonder and be +enlarged, when the multitude of the sea shall be converted to thee, the +strength of the Gentiles shall come to thee. + +60:6. The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of +Madian and Epha: all they from Saba shall come, bringing gold and +frankincense: and shewing forth praise to the Lord. + +60:7. All the flocks of Cedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the +rams of Nabaioth shall minister to thee: they shall be offered upon my +acceptable altar, and I will glorify the house of my majesty. + +60:8. Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their windows? + +60:9. For, the islands wait for me, and the ships of the sea in the +beginning: that I may bring thy sons from afar: their silver, and their +gold with them, to the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of +Israel, because he hath glorified thee. + +60:10. And the children of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their +kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath have I struck thee, and in +my reconciliation have I had mercy upon thee. + +60:11. And thy gates shall be open continually: they shall not be shut +day nor night, that the strength of the Gentiles may be brought to thee, +and their kings may be brought. + +60:12. For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee, shall +perish: and the Gentiles shall be wasted with desolation. + +60:13. The glory of Libanus shall come to thee, the fir tree, and the +box tree, and the pine tree together, to beautify the place of my +sanctuary: and I will glorify the place of my feet. + +60:14. And the children of them that afflict thee, shall come bowing +down to thee, and all that slandered thee shall worship the steps of thy +feet, and shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy One +of Israel. + +60:15. Because thou wast forsaken, and hated, and there was none that +passed through thee, I will make thee to be an everlasting glory, a joy +unto generation and generation: + +60:16. And thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles, and thou shalt be +nursed with the breasts of kings: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord +thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. + +60:17. For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver: +and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make thy visitation +peace, and thy overseers justice. + +60:18. Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor +destruction in thy borders, and salvation shall possess thy walls, and +praise thy gates. + +60:19. Thou shalt no more have the sun for thy light by day, neither +shall the brightness of the moon enlighten thee: but the Lord shall be +unto thee for an everlasting light, and thy God for thy glory. + +Thou shalt no more, etc... In this latter part of the chapter, the +prophet passes from the illustrious promises made to the church militant +on earth, to the glory of the church triumphant in heaven. + +60:20. Thy sun shall go down no more, and thy moon shall not decrease: +for the Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting light, and the days +of thy mourning shall be ended. + +60:21. And thy people shall be all just, they shall inherit the land for +ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hand to glorify me. + +60:22. The least shall become a thousand, and a little one a most strong +nation: I the Lord will suddenly do this thing in its time. + +Isaias Chapter 61 + +The office of Christ: the mission of the Apostles; the happiness of +their converts. + +61:1. The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed +me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of +heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them +that are shut up. + +61:2. To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of +vengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn: + +61:3. To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for +ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit +of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the +planting of the Lord to glorify him. + +61:4. And they shall build the places that have been waste from of old, +and shall raise up ancient ruins, and shall repair the desolate cities, +that were destroyed for generation and generation. + +61:5. And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks: and the sons +of strangers shall be your husbandman, and the dressers of your vines. + +61:6. But you shall be called the priests of the Lord: to you it shall +be said: Ye ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the +Gentiles, and you shall pride yourselves in their glory. + +61:7. For your double confusion and shame, they shall praise their part: +therefore shall they receive double in their land, everlasting joy shall +be unto them. + +61:8. For I am the Lord that love judgment, and hate robbery in a +holocaust: and I will make their work in truth, and I will make a +perpetual covenant with them. + +61:9. And they shall know their seed among the Gentiles, and their +offspring in the midst of peoples: all that shall see them, shall know +them, that these are the seed which the Lord hath blessed. + +61:10. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful +in my God: for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation: and +with the robe of justice he hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked with +a crown, and as a bride adorned with her jewels. + +61:11. For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden +causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to +spring forth, and praise before all the nations. + +Isaias Chapter 62 + +The prophet will not cease from preaching Christ: to whom all nations +shall be converted: and whose church shall continue for ever. + +62:1. For Sion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of +Jerusalem, I will not rest till her just one come forth as brightness, +and her saviour be lighted as a lamp. + +62:2. And the Gentiles shall see thy just one, and all kings thy +glorious one: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of +the Lord shall name. + +62:3. And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a +royal diadem in the hand of thy God. + +62:4. Thou shalt no more be called Forsaken: and thy land shall no more +be called Desolate: but thou shalt be called My pleasure in her, and thy +land inhabited. Because the Lord hath been well pleased with thee: and +thy land shall be inhabited. + +62:5. For the young man shall dwell with the virgin, and thy children +shall dwell in thee. And the bridegroom shall rejoice over the bride, +and thy God shall rejoice over thee. + +62:6. Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all the +day, and all the night, they shall never hold their peace. You that are +mindful of the Lord, hold not your peace, + +62:7. And give him no silence till he establish, and till he make +Jerusalem a praise in the earth. + +62:8. 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 thy +enemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for +which thou hast laboured. + +62:9. For they that gather it, shall eat it, and shall praise the Lord: +and they that bring it together, shall drink it in my holy courts. + +62:10. Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people, +make the road plain, pick out the stones, and lift up the standard to +the people. + +62:11. Behold the Lord hath made it to be heard in the ends of the +earth, tell the daughter of Sion: Behold thy Saviour cometh: behold his +reward is with him, and his work before him. + +62:12. And they shall call them, The holy people, the redeemed of the +Lord. But thou shalt be called: A city sought after, and not forsaken. + +Isaias Chapter 63 + +Christ's victory over his enemies: his mercies to his people: their +complaint. + +63:1. Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bosra, +this beautiful one in his robe, walking in the greatness of his +strength. I, that speak justice, and am a defender to save. + +Edom... Edom and Bosra (a strong city of Edom) are here taken in a +mystical sense for the enemies of Christ and his church. + +63:2. Why then is thy apparel red, and thy garments like theirs that +tread in the winepress? + +63:3. I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the Gentiles there is +not a man with me: I have trampled on them in my indignation, and have +trodden them down in my wrath, and their blood is sprinkled upon my +garments, and I have stained all my apparel. + +63:4. For the day of vengeance is in my heart, the year of my redemption +is come. + +63:5. I looked about, and there was none to help: I sought, and there +was none to give aid: and my own arm hath saved for me, and my +indignation itself hath helped me. + +63:6. And I have trodden down the people in my wrath, and have made them +drunk in my indignation, and have brought down their strength to the +earth. + +63:7. I will remember the tender mercies of the Lord, the praise of the +Lord for all the things that the Lord hath bestowed upon us, and for the +multitude of his good things to the house of Israel, which he hath given +them according to his kindness, and according to the multitude of his +mercies. + +63:8. And he said: Surely they are my people, children that will not +deny: so he became their saviour. + +63:9. In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his +presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and +he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old. + +63:10. But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy +One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. + +63:11. And he remembered the days of old of Moses, and of his people: +Where is he that brought them up out of the sea, with the shepherds of +his flock? where is he that put in the midst of them the spirit of his +Holy One? + +63:12. He that brought out Moses by the right hand, by the arm of his +majesty: that divided the waters before them, to make himself an +everlasting name. + +63:13. He that led them out through the deep, as a horse in the +wilderness that stumbleth not. + +63:14. As a beast that goeth down in the field, the spirit of the Lord +was their leader: so didst thou lead thy people to make thyself a +glorious name. + +63:15. Look down from heaven, and behold from thy holy habitation and +the place of thy glory: where is thy zeal, and thy strength, the +multitude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies? they have held back +themselves from me. + +They have held back, etc... This is spoken by the prophet in the person +of the Jews at the time when, for their sins, they were given up to +their enemies. + +63:16. For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and +Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our +redeemer, from everlasting is thy name. + +Abraham hath not know us, etc... That is, Abraham will not now +acknowledge us for his children, by reason of our degeneracy; but thou, +O Lord, art our true father and our redeemer, and no other can be called +our parent in comparison with thee. + +63:17. Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast +thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the +sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance. + +Made us to err, etc. Hardened our heart, etc... The meaning is, that God +in punishment of their great and manifold crimes, and their long abuse +of his mercy and grace, had withdrawn his graces from them, and so given +them up to error and hardness of heart. + +63:18. They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have +trodden down thy sanctuary. + +63:19. We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over +us, and when we were not called by thy name. + +Isaias Chapter 64 + +The prophet prays for the release of his people; and for the remission +of their sins. + +64:1. O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the +mountains would melt away at thy presence. + +64:2. They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn +with fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the +nations might tremble at thy presence. + +64:3. When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou +didst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away. + +64:4. From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived +with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things +thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee. + +64:5. Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways +they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in +them we have been always, and we shall be saved. + +64:6. And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the +rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our +iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. + +Our justices, etc... That is, the works by which we pretended to make +ourselves just. This is spoken particularly of the sacrifices, +sacraments, and ceremonies of the Jews, after the death of Christ, and +the promulgation of the new law. + +64:7. There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and +taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us +in the hand of our iniquity. + +64:8. And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou +art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands. + +64:9. Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: +behold, see we are all thy people. + +64:10. The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a +desert, Jerusalem is desolate. + +64:11. The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our fathers +praised thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned +into ruins. + +64:12. Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon these things, wilt thou +hold thy peace, and afflict us vehemently? + +Isaias Chapter 65 + +The Gentiles shall seek and find Christ, but the Jews will persecute +him, and be rejected, only a remnant shall be reserved. The church shall +multiply, and abound with graces. + +65:1. They have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found +me that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that +did not call upon my name. + +65:2. I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, +who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts. + +65:3. A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that +immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks. + +65:4. That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that +eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels. + +65:5. That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou art +unclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day. + +65:6. Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will +render and repay into their bosom. + +65:7. Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, +saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have +reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work +in their bosom. + +65:8. Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found in a cluster, and it +be said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing: so will I do for the +sake of my servants, that I may not destroy the whole. + +65:9. And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Juda a +possessor of my mountains: and my elect shall inherit it, and my +servants shall dwell there. + +65:10. And the plains shall be turned to folds of flocks, and the valley +of Achor into a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that +have sought me. + +65:11. And you, that have forsaken the Lord, that have forgotten my holy +mount, that set a table for fortune, and offer libations upon it, + +65:12. I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by +slaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I spoke, and you did +not hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have chosen the things +that displease me. + +65:13. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, +and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall +be thirsty. + +65:14. Behold my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be confounded: +behold my servants shall praise for joyfulness of heart, and you shall +cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for grief of spirit. + +65:15. And you shall leave your name for an execration to my elect: and +the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name. + +65:16. In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be blessed in +God, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen: +because the former distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid +from my eyes. + +65:17. For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former +things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the +heart. + +65:18. But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in these things, which +I create: for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and the people +thereof joy. + +65:19. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the +voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying. + +65:20. There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man +that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years +old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. + +65:21. And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall +plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them. + +65:22. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, +and another eat: for as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of my +people, and the works of their hands shall be of long continuance. + +65:23. My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble; +for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity +with them. + +65:24. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will hear; as +they are yet speaking, I will hear. + +65:25. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion and the ox +shall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent's food: they shall not +hurt nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord. + +Isaias Chapter 66 + +More of the reprobation of the Jews, and of the call of the Gentiles. + +66:1. Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my +footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is +this place of my rest? + +What is this house, etc... This is a prophecy that the temple should be +cast off. + +66:2. My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, +saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is +poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my +words? + +66:3. He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew a man: he that killeth +a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an +oblation, as if he should offer swine's blood; he that remembereth +incense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things have they +chosen in their ways, and their soul is delighted in their abominations. + +He that sacrificeth an ox, etc... This is a prophecy that the sacrifices +which were offered in the old law should be abolished in the new; and +that the offering of them should be a crime.-Ibid. Remembereth +incense... Viz., to offer it in the way of a sacrifice. + +66:4. Wherefore I also will choose their mockeries, and will bring upon +them the things they feared: because I called, and there was none that +would answer; I have spoken, and they heard not; and they have done evil +in my eyes, and have chosen the things that displease me. + +I will choose their mockeries... I will turn their mockeries upon +themselves; and will cause them to be mocked by their enemies. + +66:5. Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble at his word: Your +brethren that hate you, and cast you out for my name's sake, have said: +Let the Lord be glorified, and we shall see in your joy: but they shall +be confounded. + +66:6. A voice of the people from the city, a voice from the temple, the +voice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to his enemies. + +66:7. Before she was in labour, she brought forth; before her time came +to be delivered, she brought forth a man child. + +Before she was in labour, etc... This relates to the conversion of the +Gentiles, who were born, as it were, all on a sudden to the church of +God. + +66:8. Who hath ever heard such a thing? and who hath seen the like to +this? shall the earth bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be +brought forth at once, because Sion hath been in labour, and hath +brought forth her children? + +66:9. Shall not I that make others to bring forth children, myself bring +forth, saith the Lord? shall I, that give generation to others, be +barren, saith the Lord thy God? + +66:10. Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love +her: rejoice for joy with her, all you that mourn for her. + +66:11. That you may suck, and be filled with the breasts of her +consolations: that you may milk out, and flow with delights, from the +abundance of her glory. + +66:12. For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring upon her as it were +a river of peace, and as an overflowing torrent the glory of the +Gentiles, which you shall suck; you shall be carried at the breasts, and +upon the knees they shall caress you. + +66:13. As one whom the mother caresseth, so will I comfort you, and you +shall be comforted in Jerusalem. + +66:14. You shall see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall +flourish like an herb, and the hand of the Lord shall be known to his +servants, and he shall be angry with his enemies. + +66:15. For behold the Lord will come with fire, and his chariots are +like a whirlwind, to render his wrath in indignation, and his rebuke +with flames of fire. + +66:16. For the Lord shall judge by fire, and by his sword unto all +flesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many. + +66:17. They that were sanctified, thought themselves clean in the +gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine's flesh, and the +abomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith the +Lord. + +66:18. But I know their works, and their thoughts: I come that I may +gather them together with all nations and tongues: and they shall come +and shall see my glory. + +66:19. And I will set a sign among them, and I will send of them that +shall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia +them that draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the islands afar off, +to them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And they +shall declare my glory to the Gentiles: + +66:20. And they shall bring all your brethren out of all nations for a +gift to the Lord, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on +mules, and in coaches, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as +if the children of Israel should bring an offering in a clean vessel +into the house of the Lord. + +66:21. And I will take of them to be priests, and Levites, saith the +Lord. + +66:22. For as the new heavens, and the new earth, which I will make to +stand before me, saith the Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your +name. + +66:23. And there shall be month after month, and sabbath after sabbath: +and all flesh shall come to adore before my face, saith the Lord. + +66:24. And they shall go out, and see the carcasses of the men that have +transgressed against me: their worm shall not die, and their fire shall +not be quenched: and they shall be a loathsome sight to all flesh. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 27 *** + +*********** This file should be named 8327.txt or 8327.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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