Isaiah 41 - 56 — Legacy Standard Bible

Do Not Fear, for I Am with You

41“^aCoastlands, listen to Me ^bin silence,And let the peoples ^cgain new power;^dLet them come forward, then let them speak;^eLet us draw near together for judgment.²“^aWho has awakened one from the eastWhom He ^bcalls in righteousness to His ¹feet?He ^cgives up nations before himAnd ²has dominion over kings.He makes them like ^ddust with his sword,As the wind-driven ^echaff with his bow.³“He pursues them, passing on in peace,By a way he had not ¹come with his feet.⁴“^aWho has worked and done it,Calling forth the generations from the beginning?‘^bI, Yahweh, am the first; and with the last, ^cI am He.’”⁵The ^acoastlands have seen and are afraid;The ^bends of the earth tremble;They have drawn near and have come.⁶Each one helps his neighborAnd says to his brother, “Be strong!”⁷So the ^acraftsman strengthens the ^bsmelter,And he who smooths metal with the hammer strengthens him who beats the anvil,Saying of the soldering, “It is good”;And he strengthens it with nails,^cSo that it will not be shaken.⁸“But you, Israel, ^aMy servant,Jacob whom I have chosen,Seed of ^bAbraham My ^cfriend,⁹You whom I have ¹^,^astrongly taken hold of from the ends of the earth,And called from its ^bremotest partsAnd said to you, ‘You are ^cMy servant,I have ^dchosen you and not rejected you.¹⁰‘Do not ^afear, for I am with you;Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.I will make you mighty, surely ^bI will help you;Surely I will uphold you with My righteous ^cright hand.’¹¹“Behold, ^aall those who are angered at you will be shamed and dishonored;^bThose who contend with you will be as nothing and will perish.¹²“^aYou will seek those who quarrel with you, but will not find them,Those who war with you will be as nothing and non-existent.¹³“For I am Yahweh your God, ^awho ¹strongly takes hold of your right hand,Who says to you, ‘^bDo not fear, I will help you.’¹⁴“Do not fear, you ^aworm Jacob, you men of Israel;I will help you,” declares Yahweh, “¹and ^byour Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.¹⁵“Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges;^aYou will thresh the ^bmountains and pulverize them,And will make the hills like chaff.¹⁶“You will ^awinnow them, and the wind will carry them away,And the storm will scatter them;But you will ^brejoice in Yahweh;You will boast in the Holy One of Israel.¹⁷“The ¹afflicted and needy are seeking ^awater, but there is none,And their tongue is parched with thirst;I, Yahweh, ^bwill answer them Myself,As the God of Israel I ^cwill not forsake them.¹⁸“I will open ^arivers on the bare heightsAnd springs in the midst of the valleys;I will make ^bthe wilderness a pool of waterAnd the dry land fountains of water.¹⁹“I will put the cedar in the wilderness,The acacia and the ^amyrtle and the ¹olive tree;I will place the ^bjuniper in the desertTogether with the box tree and the cypress,²⁰That ^athey may see and know,And establish and gain insight as well,That the ^bhand of Yahweh has done this,And the Holy One of Israel has created it.²¹“Bring near your case,” Yahweh says.“Bring forward your mighty arguments,”The ^aKing of Jacob says.²²^aLet them bring it forth and declare to us what is going to take place;As for the ^bformer events, declare what they were,That we may establish our heart on them and know their outcome.Or cause us to hear of what is coming;²³^aDeclare the things that are to come afterward,That we may know that you are gods;Indeed, ^bdo good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.²⁴Behold, ^ayou are nothing,And ^byour work is non-existent;He who chooses you is an ^cabomination.²⁵“I have awakened ^aone from the north, and he has come;From the rising of the sun he will call on My name;And he will come upon officials as upon ^bmortar,Even as the potter treads clay.”²⁶Who has ^adeclared this from the beginning, that we might know?Or from former times, that we may say, “He is right!”?Surely there was ^bno one who declared;Surely there was no one who caused those words to be heard;Surely there was no one who heard your words.²⁷“^aFormerly I said to Zion, ‘Behold, here they are.’And to Jerusalem, ‘I will give a ^bmessenger of good news.’²⁸“But ^aI look, and there is no one,And there is no ^bcounselor ¹among themWho, if I ask, can ^crespond with a word.²⁹“Behold, all of them are ¹false;Their ^aworks are ^bnon-existent;Their molten images are ^cwind and utter formlessness.

Yahweh’s Chosen Servant

42“^aBehold, My ^bServant, whom I ¹uphold;My ^cchosen one in whom My ^dsoul is well-pleased.I have put My ^eSpirit upon Him;He will bring forth ^fjustice to the ²nations.²“He will not cry out or raise His voice,Nor make His voice heard in the street.³“A crushed reed He will not breakAnd a faintly burning wick He will not extinguish;He will bring forth ^ajustice in truth.⁴“He will not be ^afaint or crushedUntil He has established justice in the earth;And the ^bcoastlands will wait expectantly for His ¹law.”

⁵Thus says the God, Yahweh, Who ^acreated the heavens and ^bstretched them out,Who spread out the ^cearth and its ¹offspring,Who ^dgives breath to the people on itAnd spirit to those who walk in it,

⁶“I am Yahweh, I have ^acalled You in righteousness;I will also ^btake hold of You by the hand and ^cguard You,And I will give You as a ^dcovenant to the people,As a ^elight to the nations,⁷To ^aopen blind eyes,To ^bbring out prisoners from the dungeonAnd those who inhabit darkness from the prison.⁸“^aI am Yahweh, that is ^bMy name;I will not give My ^cglory to another,Nor My praise to ¹graven images.⁹“Behold, the ^aformer things have come to pass;Now I declare ^bnew things;Before they spring forth I cause you to hear them.”¹⁰Sing to Yahweh a ^anew song,Sing His praise from the ^bend of the earth!^cYou who go down to the sea, ^das well as its fullness.You ^ecoastlands, and those who inhabit them.¹¹Let the ^awilderness and its cities lift up their voices,The villages where ^bKedar inhabits.Let the inhabitants of ^cSela sing aloud,Let them shout for joy from the tops of the ^dmountains.¹²Let them ^agive glory to YahwehAnd declare His praise in the ^bcoastlands.¹³^aYahweh will go forth like a warrior;He will awaken His ^bzeal like a man of war.He will make a loud shout, indeed, He will raise a war cry.He will ^cprevail against His enemies.

Israel’s Blindness and Deafness

¹⁴“^aI have kept silent for a long time;I have kept still and restrained Myself.Now like a woman in labor I will groan;I will both gasp and pant.¹⁵“I will ^alay waste the mountains and hillsAnd dry up all their vegetation;I will ^bmake the rivers into coastlandsAnd dry up the pools of waters.¹⁶“I will ^alead the blind by a way they do not know,In paths they do not know I will guide them.I will ^bmake darkness into light before themAnd ^crugged places into plains.These are the things I will do,And I will ^dnot forsake them.”¹⁷They will be turned back and be ^autterly put to shame,Who trust in graven images,Who say to molten images,“You are our gods.”¹⁸^aHear, you deaf!And look, you blind, that you may see.¹⁹Who is blind but My ^aservant,Or so deaf as My ^bmessenger whom I send?Who is so blind as he that is ¹^,^cat peace with Me,Or so blind as the servant of Yahweh?²⁰^aYou have seen many things, but you do not keep them;Your ears are open, but none hears.²¹Yahweh was pleased for His righteousness’ sakeThat He make the law ^agreat and majestic.²²But this is a people plundered and pillaged as spoil;All of them are ^atrapped in ¹caves,Or are ^bhidden away in prisons;They have become a plunder with none to deliver them,And a spoil, with none to say, “Have them return!”²³Who among you will give ear to this?Who will give heed and hear hereafter?²⁴Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers?Was it not Yahweh, against whom we have sinned,And in whose ways they ^awere not willing to walk,And whose law they did not ^bobey?²⁵So He poured out on him the heat of His angerAnd the ^afierceness of battle;And it set him aflame all around,Yet he did not know it;And it burned him, but he did not ^bset it upon his heart.

The Redemption of Israel

43But now, thus says Yahweh, your ^aCreator, O Jacob,And He who ^bformed you, O Israel,“Do not ^cfear, for I have ^dredeemed you;I have ^ecalled you by name; you are ^fMine!²“When you ^apass through the waters, ^bI will be with you;And through the rivers, they will not overflow you.When you ^cwalk through the fire, you will not be scorched,Nor will the flame burn you.³“For ^aI am Yahweh your God,The Holy One of Israel, your ^bSavior;I have given Egypt as your ransom,¹^,^cEthiopia and Seba in your place.⁴“Since you are ^aprecious in My sight,Since you are ^bhonored and I ^clove you,I will give other men in your place and other peoples in exchange for your life.⁵“Do not fear, for ^aI am with you;I will bring ^byour seed from the east,And ^cgather you from the west.⁶“I will say to the ^anorth, ‘Give them up!’And to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’Bring My ^bsons from afarAnd My daughters from the ^cends of the earth,⁷Everyone who is ^acalled by My name,And whom I have ^bcreated for My ^cglory,^dWhom I have formed, even whom I have made.”

Israel Is Yahweh’s Witness

⁸Bring out the people who are ^ablind, even though they have eyes,And the deaf, even though they have ears.⁹All the nations have ^agathered togetherSo that the peoples may be assembled.Who among them can ^bdeclare thisAnd make us hear the former things?Let them present ^ctheir witnesses ^dthat they may be justified,Or let them hear and say, “It is true.”¹⁰“You are ^aMy witnesses,” declares Yahweh,“And ^bMy servant whom I have chosen,So that you may know and believe MeAnd understand that ^cI am He.^dBefore Me there was no god formed,And there will be none after Me.¹¹“I, even I, am Yahweh,And there is no ^asavior ^bbesides Me.¹²“It is I who have declared and saved and caused it to be heard,And there was no ^astrange god among you;So you are My witnesses,” declares Yahweh,“And I am God.¹³“Even ¹^,^afrom eternity ^bI am He,And there is ^cnone who can deliver out of My hand;^dI act and who can reverse it?”

Rivers in the Wasteland

¹⁴Thus says Yahweh your ^aRedeemer, the Holy One of Israel, “For your sake I have sent to Babylon,And will bring down those who fled—all of them,¹Even the ^bChaldeans—into the ^cships ²in which they shouted for joy.

¹⁵“I am Yahweh, your Holy One,^aThe Creator of Israel, your ^bKing.”

¹⁶Thus says Yahweh, Who ^amakes a way through the seaAnd a path through the mighty waters,

¹⁷Who brings forth the ^achariot and the horse,The military force and the mighty man;They will lie down together and not rise again;They have been ^bextinguished and quenched like a wick:¹⁸“^aDo not remember the former things,Nor carefully consider things of the past.¹⁹“Behold, I will do something ^anew;Now it will spring forth;Will you not know it?I will even ^bmake a roadway in the wilderness,Rivers in the wasteland.²⁰“The beasts of the field will glorify Me,The ^ajackals and the ostriches,Because I have ^bgiven waters in the wildernessAnd rivers in the wasteland,To give drink to My chosen people.²¹“The people whom ^aI formed for Myself^bWill recount My praise.²²“Yet you have not called on Me, O Jacob;But you have become ^aweary of Me, O Israel.²³“You have ^anot brought to Me the sheep of your burnt offerings,Nor have you ^bglorified Me with your sacrifices.I have not ^cburdened you with ¹offerings,Nor wearied you with ^dfrankincense.²⁴“You have not bought Me ¹^,^asweet cane with money,Nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices;Rather you have burdened Me with your sins;You have ^bwearied Me with your iniquities.²⁵“I, even I, am the one who ^awipes out your transgressions ^bfor My own sake,And I will ^cnot remember your sins.²⁶“¹Bring Me to remembrance, ^alet us enter into judgment together;Recount your cause, ^bthat you may be proved right.²⁷“Your ^afirst father sinned,And your ¹^,^bspokesmen have ²transgressed against Me.²⁸“So I will ¹profane the ²princes of the sanctuary,And I will give Jacob to be ^adevoted to destruction and Israel to ^brevilement.

No God Besides Yahweh

44“But now hear, O Jacob, My ^aservant,And Israel, whom I have chosen:²Thus says Yahweh who made youAnd ^aformed you from the womb, who ^bwill help you,‘^cDo not fear, O Jacob My servant,And you ^dJeshurun whom I have chosen.³‘For ^aI will pour out water on ¹the thirsty groundAnd streams on the dry land;I will ^bpour out My Spirit on your ^cseedAnd My blessing on your offspring;⁴And they will spring up ¹among the grassLike ^apoplars by streams of water.’⁵“This one will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s’;And this one ¹will call on the name of Jacob;And this one will ^awrite ²on his hand, ‘Belonging to Yahweh,’And will name Israel’s name with honor.

⁶“Thus says Yahweh, the ^aKing of Israel and his ^bRedeemer, Yahweh of hosts: ‘I am the ^cfirst, and I am the last,And there is no God ^dbesides Me.

⁷‘Who is like Me? ^aLet him call out and declare it;And let him tell it to Me in order,¹From the time that I established the ancient ²people.And let them declare to them the things that are to comeAnd the events that are going to take place.⁸‘Do not be in dread and do not be afraid;^aHave I not long since caused it to be heard to you and declared it?And ^byou are My witnesses.Is there any God ^cbesides Me,Or is there any other ^dRock?I know of none.’”

The Futility of Idolatry

⁹Those who form ¹a graven image are all of them ²futile, and their desirable things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be ^aput to shame. ¹⁰Who has formed a god or cast a graven image to ^ano profit? ¹¹Behold, all his companions will be ^aput to shame. The craftsmen themselves are mere men. Let them all assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them be in dread, let them together be put to shame.

¹²The ^aman crafts iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, ¹forming it with hammers and working it with his powerful arm. He also gets hungry and has no power; he drinks no water and becomes weary. ¹³^aAnother crafts wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with ¹a stylus. He makes it with planes and outlines it with a compass and makes it like the form of a man, like the glory of ^bman, so that it may sit in a ^chouse. ¹⁴In order to cut cedars for himself, he takes a ¹cypress or an oak and ²raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow. ¹⁵Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also kindles a fire to bake bread. He also ^aworks to produce a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and ^bfalls down before it. ¹⁶Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm; I have seen the fire.” ¹⁷But the rest of it he ^amakes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also ^bprays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

¹⁸They do not ^aknow, nor do they understand, for He has ^bsmeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they will have no insight. ¹⁹No one causes this to return to his heart, nor is there ^aknowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then ¹I make the rest of it into an ^babomination; ²I fall down before a block of wood!” ²⁰He ¹^,^afeeds on ashes; a ^bdeceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, and he cannot say, “^cIs there not a lie in my right hand?”

Yahweh Forgives and Redeems

²¹“^aRemember these things, O Jacob,And Israel, for you are ^bMy servant;I have formed you, you are My servant;O Israel, you will ^cnot be forgotten by Me.²²“I have ^awiped out your transgressions like a thick cloudAnd your sins like a cloud.^bReturn to Me, for I have ^credeemed you.”²³^aShout for joy, O heavens, for Yahweh has done it!Make a loud shout, you lower parts of the earth;^bBreak forth into a shout of joy, you mountains,O forest, and every tree in it;For ^cYahweh has redeemed JacobAnd in Israel He ^dshows forth His beautiful glory.

²⁴Thus says Yahweh, your ^aRedeemer, and the one who ^bformed you from the womb, “I, Yahweh, am the maker of all things,^cStretching out the heavens by MyselfAnd spreading out the earth ¹all alone,

²⁵^aCausing the ¹omens of boasters to be annulled,And ²making fools out of diviners,^bCausing wise men to turn back,And ³making foolishness out of their knowledge,²⁶^aConfirming the word of His servant—And the counsel of His messengers He will complete—And being the One who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited!’And of the ^bcities of Judah, ‘^cThey shall be built.’And I will raise up her waste places again.²⁷“It is I who says to the depth of the sea, ‘Be dried up!’And I will make your rivers ^adry.²⁸“It is I who says of ^aCyrus, ‘He is My shepherd!And all My good pleasure he will complete.’And saying of Jerusalem, ‘^bShe will be built,’And of the temple, ‘¹Your foundation will be laid.’”

Cyrus, Yahweh’s Anointed

45Thus says Yahweh to ^aCyrus His anointed,Whom I have taken hold of by his right ^bhand,To ^csubdue nations before himAnd ¹to ^dloose the loins of kings,To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:²“I will go before you and ^amake the ¹rough places smooth;I will ^bshatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron ^cbars.³“I will give you the ¹^,^atreasures of darknessAnd hidden wealth of secret places,So that you may know that it is I,Yahweh, the God of Israel, who ^bcalls you by your name.⁴“For the sake of ^aJacob My servant,And Israel My chosen one,I have also ^bcalled you by your name;I have given you a title of honorThough you have ^cnot known Me.⁵“I am Yahweh, and ^athere is no other;^bBesides Me there is no God.I will ¹^,^cgird you, though you have not known Me,⁶That ^athey may know from the rising to the setting of the sunThat there is ^bno one besides Me.I am Yahweh, and there is no other,⁷The One ^aforming light and ^bcreating darkness,Producing peace and ^ccreating calamity;I am Yahweh who does all these.

Yahweh the Maker

⁸“^aDrip down, O heavens, from above,And let the skies pour down righteousness;Let the ^bearth open up and salvation bear fruit,^cAnd righteousness ¹spring up with it.I, Yahweh, have created it.⁹“Woe to the one who ^acontends with his ¹Maker—An earthenware vessel ²among the vessels of earth!Will the ^bclay say to the ³potter, ‘What are you doing?’Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?¹⁰“Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’Or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor pains?’”

¹¹Thus says ^aYahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his ¹^,^bMaker: “²^,^cAsk Me about the things that are to come ³concerning My ^dsons,And you shall ⁴commit to Me ^ethe work of My hands.

¹²“It is I who ^amade the earth and created man upon it.I ^bstretched out the heavens with My hands,And I commanded ^call their host.¹³“I have awakened him in ^arighteousness,And I will ^bmake all his ways smooth;He will ^cbuild My city and will ^dlet My exiles go,Without any payment or reward,” says Yahweh of hosts.

¹⁴Thus says Yahweh, “The fruit of the labor of ^aEgypt and the profit of ¹^,^bEthiopiaAnd the Sabeans, men of stature,Will ^ccome over to you and will be yours;They will walk behind you; they will come over in ^dchainsAnd will ^ebow down to you;They will make supplication to you:‘²Surely, ^fGod is ³with you, and there is none else,No other God.’”

¹⁵Truly, You are a God who ^ahides Himself,O God of Israel, ^bSavior!¹⁶They will be ^aput to shame and even dishonored, all of them;The ^bcraftsmen of idols will go away together in dishonor.¹⁷Israel has been saved by YahwehWith an ^aeverlasting salvation;You ^bwill not be put to shame or dishonoredTo all eternity.

¹⁸For thus says Yahweh, who ^acreated the heavens (He is the God who ^bformed the earth and made it; He established it and did not create it ¹a ^cformless place, but formed it to be ^dinhabited), “I am Yahweh, and ^ethere is none else.

¹⁹“^aI have not spoken in secret,In ¹some dark land;I did not say to the ^bseed of Jacob,‘^cSeek Me in ²a formless place’;I, Yahweh, ^dspeak righteousness,^eDeclaring things that are upright.²⁰“^aGather yourselves and come;Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations;^bThey do not know,Who ^ccarry about their graven image of woodAnd ^dpray to a god who cannot save.²¹“^aDeclare and draw near with your case;Indeed, let them consult together.^bWho has made this heard from of old?Who has long since declared it?Is it not I, Yahweh?And there is ^cno other God besides Me,A righteous God and a ^dSavior;There is none except Me.²²“^aTurn to Me and ^bbe saved, all the ends of the earth;For I am God, and there is no other.²³“^aI have sworn by Myself,The ^bword has gone forth from My mouth in righteousnessAnd will not turn back,That to Me ^cevery knee will bow, every tongue will ^dswear allegiance.²⁴“They will say of Me, ‘Only ^ain Yahweh are righteousness and strength.’Men will come to Him,And ^ball who were angry at Him will be put to shame.²⁵“In Yahweh all the seed of IsraelWill be ^ajustified and will ^bboast.”

Babylon’s Idols and the True God

46^aBel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;Their images are on the beasts and the cattle.The things ¹that you carry are burdensome,A load for the weary beast.²They stooped over, they have bowed down together;They could not rescue the load,But ¹have themselves ^agone into captivity.³“^aHear Me, O house of Jacob,And all ^bthe remnant of the house of Israel,You who have been ^cburdening Me from ¹birthAnd have been carried from the womb;⁴Even to your old age ¹^,^aI will be the same,And even to your ²^,^bgraying years I will bear you!I have ³done it, and I will carry you;And I will bear you, and I will rescue you.⁵“^aTo whom would you liken MeAnd make Me equal and compare Me,That we would be alike?⁶“Those who ^alavish gold from the purseAnd weigh silver on the scale,They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;They ^bfall down, indeed they worship it.⁷“They ^acarry it upon the shoulder and bear it;They set it in its place, and it stands there.^bIt does not move from its place.Though one may cry to it, it ^ccannot answer;It ^dcannot save him from his distress.⁸“^aRemember this, and be ¹assured;^bCause it to return to your heart, you ^ctransgressors.⁹“Remember the ^aformer things long past,For I am God, and there is ^bno other;I am God, and there is ^cno one like Me,¹⁰Declaring the end from the beginning,And from ancient times things which have not been done,Saying, ‘^aMy counsel will be established,And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’,¹¹Calling a ^abird of prey from the ^beast,The man of ¹My counsel from a far country.Truly I have ^cspoken; truly I will bring it to pass.I have formed it, surely I will do it.¹²“^aHear Me, you ^bstubborn of heart,Who are ^cfar from righteousness.¹³“I ^abring near My righteousness, it is not far off;And My salvation will not delay.And I will grant ^bsalvation in Zion,And My ^cglory for Israel.

Lament for Babylon

47“^aCome down and sit in the dust,O ^bvirgin ^cdaughter of Babylon;Sit on the ground without a throne,O daughter of the Chaldeans!For you shall no longer be called ^dtender and delicate.²“Take the ^amillstones and ^bgrind flour.Uncover your ^cveil, ^dstrip off the skirt,Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.³“Your ^anakedness will be uncovered;Your reproach also will be seen;I will ^btake vengeance and will not ¹spare a man.”⁴Our ^aRedeemer, Yahweh of hosts is His name,The Holy One of Israel.⁵“^aSit silently, and go into ^bdarkness,O daughter of the Chaldeans,For you will no longer be calledThe ^cqueen of ^dkingdoms.⁶“I was furious with My people;I profaned My inheritanceAnd gave them into your hand.You did not show compassion to them,On the ^aaged you made your yoke very heavy.⁷“Yet you said, ‘I will be a ^aqueen forever.’These things you did not ^bput on your heartNor remember the ^coutcome of ¹them.⁸“So now, hear this, you ^asensual one,Who ^bsits securely,Who says in ¹your heart,‘^cI am, and there is no one besides me.I will ^dnot sit as a widow,Nor know loss of children.’⁹“But these ^atwo things will come on you ^bsuddenly in one day:Loss of children and widowhood.They will come on you in full measureIn spite of your many ^csorceries,In spite of the great might of your spells.¹⁰“You felt ^asecure in your evil and said,‘^bNo one sees me,’Your ^cwisdom and your knowledge ¹have turned you astray;So you have said in your heart,‘^dI am, and there is no one besides me.’¹¹“But ^aevil will come on youWhich you will not know how to charm away;And disaster will fall on youFor which you cannot atone;And ^bdestruction about which you do not knowWill come on you ^csuddenly.¹²“Stand fast now in your ^aspellsAnd in your many sorceriesWith which you have labored from your youth;Perhaps you will be able to profit;Perhaps you may cause trembling.¹³“You are ^awearied with your many counsels;Let now the ^bastrologers,Those who behold visions by the stars,Those who predict by the new moons,Stand up and ^csave you from what will come upon you.¹⁴“Behold, they have become ^alike stubble,^bFire burns them;They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame;There will be ^cno coal to warm byNor a fire to sit before!¹⁵“Thus they have become for you, those among whom you have labored,Who have ^atraded with you from your youth;Each has wandered in his own ¹way;There is ^bnone to save you.

My Glory I Will Not Give to Another

48“^aHear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name IsraelAnd who came forth from the ¹^,^bloins of Judah,Who ^cswear by the name of YahwehAnd bring to remembrance the God of Israel,But not in truth or in ^drighteousness.²“For they call themselves after the ^aholy cityAnd ^bare supported by the God of Israel;Yahweh of hosts is His name.³“I ^adeclared the former things long ago,And they went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to be heard.^bSuddenly I acted, and they ^ccame to pass.⁴“Because I know that you are ¹^,^astiff,And your ^bneck is an iron sinewAnd your ^cforehead bronze,⁵Therefore I declared them to you long ago,Before ¹they happened I caused them to be heard by you,Lest you say, ‘My ^aidol has done them,And my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.’⁶“You have heard; look at all this.And you, will you not declare it?I caused you to hear ^anew things from this time,Even hidden things which you have not known.⁷“They are created now and not long ago;And before today you have not heard them,Lest you say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’⁸“Indeed, you have not ^aheard; indeed, you have not known.Indeed, even from long ago your ear has not been openBecause I knew that you would deal very treacherously;And you have been called a ¹^,^btransgressor from the ²womb.⁹“^aFor the sake of My name I ^bdelay My anger,And for My praise I restrain it for you,In order not to cut you off.¹⁰“Behold, I have refined you, but ^anot as silver;I have tested you in the ^bfurnace of affliction.¹¹“^aFor My own sake, for My own sake, I will act;For how can My name be profaned?And My ^bglory I will not give to another.

Yahweh Redeems Jacob

¹²“Hear Me, O Jacob, even Israel ¹whom I called;^aI am He, ^bI am the first, I am also the last.¹³“Also, My hand ^afounded the earth,And My right hand spread out the heavens;When I ^bcall to them, they stand together.¹⁴“^aAssemble, all of you, and hear!^bWho among them has declared these things?Yahweh loves him; he will ^ccarry out His good pleasure on ^dBabylon,And His arm will be against the Chaldeans.¹⁵“I, even I, have spoken; indeed I have ^acalled him,I have brought him, and He will make his ways successful.¹⁶“^aDraw near to Me, hear this:From the first I have ^bnot spoken in secret,^cFrom the time it took place, I was there.So now ^dLord Yahweh has sent Me, and His Spirit.”

¹⁷Thus says Yahweh, your ^aRedeemer, the Holy One of Israel, “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit,Who ^bleads you in the way you should go.

¹⁸“If only you had ^apaid attention to My commandments!Then your ^bpeace would have been like a river,And your ^crighteousness like the waves of the sea.¹⁹“Your ^aseed would have been like the sand,And the offspring from your loins like its grains;^bTheir name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”²⁰^aGo forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!Declare with the sound of ^bjoyful shouting, cause this to be heard,^cBring it forth to the end of the earth;Say, “^dYahweh has redeemed His servant Jacob.”²¹And they did not ^athirst when He led them through the waste places.He ^bmade the water flow out of the rock for them;He split the rock, and ^cthe water gushed forth.²²“^aThere is no peace for the wicked,” says Yahweh.

I Will Give You as a Light of the Nations

49Listen to Me, O ^acoastlands,And pay attention, you peoples from afar.^bYahweh called Me from the womb;From the ¹body of My mother He made My name to be remembered.²He has set My ^amouth like a sharp sword;In the ^bshadow of His hand He has concealed Me;And He has also set Me as a ¹select ^carrow;He has hidden Me in His quiver.³He said to Me, “^aYou are My Servant, Israel,^bIn Whom I will ¹show forth My beautiful glory.”⁴But I said, “I have ^atoiled in vain;I have spent My might for ¹nothing and vanity;Yet surely the justice due to Me is with Yahweh,And My ^breward with My God.”⁵So now says ^aYahweh, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,To return Jacob back to Him, so that ^bIsrael might be gathered to Him(For I am ^cglorified in the sight of Yahweh,And My God is My ^dstrength),⁶He says, “It is too ¹small a thing that You should be My ServantTo raise up the tribes of Jacob and to cause the ^apreserved ones of Israel to return;I will also give You as a ^blight ²of the nationsSo that My salvation may ³reach to the ^cend of the earth.”⁷Thus says Yahweh, the ^aRedeemer of Israel and its Holy One,To the ^bdespised One,To the One abhorred by the nation,To the Servant of rulers,“^cKings will see and arise,Princes will also ^dbow down,Because of Yahweh who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”

⁸Thus says Yahweh, “In an ^aacceptable time I have answered You,And in a day of salvation I have helped You;And I will ^bguard You and ^cgive You for a covenant of the people,To ^destablish the land, to make them inherit the desolate ¹inheritance;

⁹Saying to those who are ^abound, ‘Go forth,’To those who are in darkness, ‘¹Show yourselves.’Along the roads they will ²feed,And their pasture will be on all ^bbare heights.¹⁰“They will ^anot hunger or thirst,Nor will the scorching ^bheat or sun strike them down;For ^cHe who has compassion on them will ^dguide themAnd will lead them to ^esprings of water.¹¹“I will set all ^aMy mountains as a road,And My ^bhighways will be raised up.¹²“Behold, these will come ^afrom afar;And behold, these will come from the ^bnorth and from the west,And these from the land of Sinim.”¹³^aShout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth!Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains!For ^bYahweh has comforted His peopleAnd will ^chave compassion on His afflicted.

Promise to Zion

¹⁴But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me,And the Lord has forgotten me.”¹⁵“Can a woman forget her infantAnd have no compassion on the son of her womb?Even these may forget, but ^aI will not forget you.¹⁶“Behold, I have ^ainscribed you on the palms of My hands;Your ^bwalls are continually before Me.¹⁷“Your ¹builders hurry;Your ^adestroyers and devastatorsWill depart from you.¹⁸“^aLift up your eyes and look around;^bAll of them gather together; ^cthey come to you.^dAs I live,” declares Yahweh,“You will surely ^eput on all of them as ¹jewels and bind them on as a bride.¹⁹“For ^ayour ¹devastated and desolate places and your destroyed land—Surely now you will be ^btoo cramped for the inhabitants,And those who ^cswallowed you will be far away.²⁰“The ^achildren of ¹whom you were bereaved will yet say in your ears,‘The place is too cramped for me;Make room for me that I may live here.’²¹“Then you will ^asay in your heart,‘Who has borne these for me?Indeed, I have been bereaved of my childrenAnd am ^bbarren, an ^cexile and a wanderer.And who has reared these?Behold, I ^dremained alone;¹^,^eFrom where did these come?’”

²²Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nationsAnd make high My ^astandard to the peoples;And they will ^bbring your sons in their bosom,And your daughters will be lifted up on their shoulders.

²³“^aKings will be your guardians,And their princesses your nurses.They will ^bbow down to you with their ¹faces to the earthAnd ^click the dust of your feet;And you will ^dknow that I am Yahweh;Those who ^ehope in Me will ^fnot be put to shame.²⁴“^aCan the prey be taken from the mighty man,Or the captives of the ¹righteous be granted escape?”

²⁵Surely, thus says Yahweh, “Even the ^acaptives of the mighty man will be taken away,And the prey of the tyrant will be granted escape;For I will contend with the one who contends with you,And I will ^bsave your sons.

²⁶“I will feed ^athose who mistreat you with their ^bown flesh,And they will become drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine;And ^call flesh will know that I, Yahweh, am your ^dSaviorAnd your ^eRedeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Yahweh Helps His Servant

50Thus says Yahweh, “Where is the ^acertificate of divorceBy which I have ^bsent your mother away?Or to which of My creditors did I ^csell you?Behold, you were sold for your ^diniquities,And for your ^etransgressions your mother ^fwas sent away.

²“Why was there ^ano man when I came?When I called, why was there none to answer?Is My ^bhand so short that it cannot ransom?Or have I no power to deliver?Behold, I ^cdry up the sea with My rebuke;I ^dmake the rivers a wilderness;Their fish stink for lack of waterAnd die of thirst.³“I ^aclothe the heavens with blacknessAnd make sackcloth their covering.”⁴Lord Yahweh has given Me the tongue of ^adisciples,That I may know how to ^bsustain the weary one with a word.He awakens Me ^cmorning by morning;He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.⁵Lord Yahweh has ^aopened My ear;And I did ^bnot rebelNor did I turn back.⁶I ^agave My back to those who strike Me,And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard;I did not hide My face from dishonor and spitting.⁷Even now Lord Yahweh ^ahelps Me,Therefore, I am ^bnot dishonored;Therefore, I have set My face like ^cflint,And I know that I will not be ashamed.⁸He who ¹^,^avindicates Me is near;Who will contend with Me?Let us ^bstand up to each other;Who has a judgment against Me?Let him approach Me.⁹Behold, ^aLord Yahweh helps Me;^bWho is he who condemns Me?Behold, ^cthey will all wear out like a garment;The moth will eat them.¹⁰Who is among you that fears Yahweh,That listens to the voice of His ^aServant,That ^bwalks in darkness and has no light?Let him ^ctrust in the name of Yahweh and rely on his God.¹¹Behold, all you who ^akindle a fire,Who gird yourselves with firebrands,Walk in the light of your fireAnd among the brands you have set ablaze.This you will have from My hand:You will ^blie down in torment.

Yahweh’s Righteousness Is Forever

51“^aListen to Me, you who ^bpursue righteousness,Who seek Yahweh:Look to the ^crock from which you were hewnAnd to the ¹quarry from which you were dug.²“Look to ^aAbraham your fatherAnd to Sarah who brought you forth through labor pains;When he ^bwas but one I called him,Then I blessed him and multiplied him.”³Indeed, ^aYahweh will comfort Zion;He will comfort all her ^bwaste places.And her ^cwilderness He will make like ^dEden,And her desert like the ^egarden of Yahweh;^fJoy and gladness will be found in her,Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.⁴“^aPay attention to Me, O My people,And give ear to Me, O My ¹nation;For a ^blaw will go forth from Me,And I will ²set My ^cjustice for a ^dlight of the peoples.⁵“My ^arighteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth,And My ^barms will judge the peoples;The ^ccoastlands will hope in Me,And for My ^darm they will wait expectantly.⁶“^aLift up your eyes to the sky,Then look to the earth beneath;For the ^bsky will vanish like smoke,And the ^cearth will wear out like a garment,And its inhabitants will die ¹in like manner;But My ^dsalvation will be forever,And My righteousness will not be dismayed.⁷“^aListen to Me, you who know righteousness,A people in whose ^bheart is My law;Do not fear the ^creproach of man,Nor be dismayed at their revilings.⁸“For the ^amoth will eat them like a garment,And the ^bgrub will eat them like wool.But My ^crighteousness will be forever,And My salvation to all generations.”⁹^aAwake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Yahweh;Awake as in the ^bdays of old, the generations of long ago.^cWas it not You who chopped Rahab in pieces,Who pierced the ^ddragon?¹⁰Was it not You who ^adried up the sea,The waters of the great deep,Who made the depths of the sea a pathwayFor the ^bredeemed to cross over?¹¹So the ^aransomed of Yahweh will returnAnd come with joyful shouting to Zion,And ^beverlasting gladness will be on their heads.They will obtain joy and gladness,And ^csorrow and sighing will flee away.¹²“I, even I, am He who ^acomforts you.Who are you that you are afraid of ^bman who diesAnd of the son of man who is made ^clike grass,¹³That you have ^aforgotten Yahweh your Maker,Who ^bstretched out the heavensAnd laid the foundations of the earth,That you ^ctremble in dread continually all day long because of the wrath of the one who brings distress,As he makes ready to bring ruin?But where is the wrath of the ^done who brings distress?

¹⁴“The ^aone in chains will soon be set free and will not die in the pit, ^bnor will his bread be lacking. ¹⁵“For I am Yahweh your God, who ^astirs up the sea, and its waves roar—Yahweh of hosts is His name. ¹⁶“I have ^aput My words in your mouth and have ^bcovered you with the shadow of My hand, to ¹^,^cestablish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”

¹⁷^aAwaken yourself! Awaken yourself! Arise, O Jerusalem,You who have ^bdrunk from the hand of Yahweh the cup of His wrath;The ¹chalice of reeling you have ²drained to the dregs.¹⁸There is ^anone to guide her among all the sons she has borne,Nor is there one to take hold of her by the hand among all the sons she has reared.¹⁹These two things have befallen you;Who will console you?The ^adevastation and destruction, famine and sword;How shall I comfort you?²⁰Your sons have fainted;They ^alie helpless at the head of every street,Like an ^bantelope in a net,Full of the wrath of Yahweh,The ^crebuke of your God.²¹Therefore, now, listen to this, you ^aafflicted,Who are ^bdrunk, but not with wine:²²Thus says your Lord, Yahweh, even your GodWho ^acontends for His people,“Behold, I have taken out of your hand the ^bcup of reeling,The ¹chalice of My wrath;You will never drink it again.²³“I will ^aset it into the hand of those who cause you grief,Who have said to ¹you, ‘^bLie down that we may walk over you.’You have even set your back down like the groundAnd like the street for those who walk over it.”

Hope for Captive Zion

52^aAwake, awake,Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion;Clothe yourself in your ^bglorious garments,O Jerusalem, the ^choly city;For the uncircumcised and the ^duncleanWill no longer come into you.²Shake yourself ^afrom the dust, ^brise up,O captive Jerusalem;^cLoose yourself from the chains around your neck,O captive daughter of Zion.

³For thus says Yahweh, “You were ^asold for nothing, and you will be ^bredeemed ^cwithout money.” ⁴For thus says Lord Yahweh, “My people ^awent down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. ⁵“So now, what do I have here,” declares Yahweh, “since My people have been taken away for nothing?” Yahweh declares, “Those who rule over them howl, and My ^aname is continually blasphemed all day long. ⁶“Therefore My people shall ^aknow My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, ‘Here I am.’”

⁷How lovely on the mountainsAre the feet of him who proclaims ^agood news,Who ¹announces ²peaceAnd proclaims good news of good things,Who ³announces salvation,And says to Zion, “Your ^bGod ⁴reigns!”⁸The voice of Your watchmen! They lift up their ^avoices;They shout joyfully together;For they will see ¹with their own eyesWhen Yahweh returns to Zion.⁹^aBreak forth, shout joyfully together,You ^bwaste places of Jerusalem;For Yahweh has comforted His people;He has ^credeemed Jerusalem.¹⁰Yahweh has bared His holy ^aarmIn the sight of all the nations,¹That ^ball the ends of the earth may seeThe salvation of our God.¹¹^aDepart, depart, go out from there,^bTouch nothing unclean;Go out of the midst of her, ^cpurify yourselves,You who carry the vessels of Yahweh.¹²But you will not go out in ^ahaste,Nor will you go as those who flee;For ^bYahweh will go before you,And ^cthe God of Israel will be your rear guard.

The Exalted Servant

¹³Behold, My ^aServant will prosper;He will be high and lifted up and ¹greatly ^bexalted.¹⁴Just as many were appalled at you, My people,So His ^aappearance was marred more than any manAnd His form more than the sons of men.¹⁵Thus He will ^asprinkle many nations,Kings will ^bshut their mouths on account of Him;For ^cwhat had not been told them they will see,And what they had not heard they will understand.

The Suffering Servant

53^aWho has believed our report?And to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?²For He grew up before Him like a ^atender ¹shoot,And like a root out of parched ground;He has ^bno stately form or majestyThat we should look upon Him,Nor appearance that we should desire Him.³He was ^adespised and forsaken of men,A man of ¹sorrows and ^bacquainted with ²grief;And like one from whom men hide their faceHe was ^cdespised, and we did not ^desteem Him.⁴Surely our ¹griefs He Himself ²^,^abore,And our ³sorrows He ⁴carried;Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,⁵Smitten of ^bGod, and afflicted.⁵But He was ¹pierced through for ^aour transgressions,He was crushed for ^bour iniquities;The ^cchastening for our peace fell upon Him,And by ^dHis ²wounds we are healed.⁶All of us like sheep have gone astray,Each of us has turned to his own way;But Yahweh has caused the iniquity of us allTo ¹fall on Him.⁷He was oppressed and He was afflicted,Yet He did not ^aopen His mouth;^bLike a lamb that is led to slaughter,And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,So He did not open His mouth.⁸By oppression and judgment He was taken away;And as for His generation, who consideredThat He was cut off out of the land of ¹the living,^aThat for the transgression of my people, striking was due to Him?⁹So His grave was assigned with wicked men,Yet He was with a ^arich man in His death,^bBecause He had ^cdone no violence,Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.¹⁰But ¹Yahweh was pleasedTo ^acrush Him, ²^,^bputting Him to grief;If You would place His soul as a guilt ^coffering,He will see ^dHis seed,He will prolong His days,And the ³good ^epleasure of Yahweh will succeed in His hand.¹¹As a result of the ¹anguish of His soul,He will ^asee ²it and be satisfied;By His ^bknowledge the Righteous One,My Servant, will ³justify the many,As He will ^cbear their iniquities.¹²Therefore, I will divide for Him a ^aportion with the many,And He will divide the spoil with the strong;Because He poured out ^bHis soul to death,And was ^cnumbered with the transgressors;Yet He Himself ¹^,^dbore the sin of many,And interceded for the transgressors.

The Inheritance of the Slaves of Yahweh

54“^aShout for joy, O barren woman, who has not given birth;Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not been in ¹labor;For ^bmore numerous are the sons of the ^cdesolate oneThan the sons of the married woman,” says Yahweh.²“^aEnlarge the place of your tent;¹Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back;Lengthen your ^bcordsAnd strengthen your ^cpegs.³“For you will ^aspread abroad to the right and to the left.And your seed will ^bpossess nationsAnd will ^cresettle the desolate cities.⁴“Do not be afraid, for you will ^anot be put to shame;And do not feel dishonored, for you will not be humiliated;But you will forget the ^bshame of your virginity,And the ^creproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.⁵“For your ^ahusband is your Maker,Whose name is Yahweh of hosts;And your ^bRedeemer is the Holy One of Israel,Who is called the ^cGod of all the earth.⁶“For Yahweh has called you,Like a wife ^aforsaken and grieved in spirit,Even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”Says your God.⁷“¹For a ^abrief moment I forsook you,But with great compassion I will ^bgather you.⁸“In ¹a ^aflood of furyI hid My face from you for a moment,But with everlasting ^blovingkindness I will ^chave compassion on you,”Says Yahweh your ^dRedeemer.⁹“For ¹this is like the days of Noah to Me,When I swore that the waters of NoahWould ^anot ²overflow the earth again;So I have sworn that I will ^bnot be furious with youNor will I rebuke you.¹⁰“For the ^amountains may be removed and the hills may shake,But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you,And My ^bcovenant of peace will not be shaken,”Says ^cYahweh who has compassion on you.¹¹“O ^aafflicted one, storm-tossed, and ^bnot comforted,Behold, I will lay your stones in antimony,And your foundations I will ^cset in ¹^,^dsapphires.¹²“Moreover, I will make your battlements of ¹rubies,And your gates of ²crystal,And your entire ³wall of ⁴precious stones.¹³“^aAll your sons will be ¹taught of Yahweh;And the peace of your sons will be ^bgreat.¹⁴“In ^arighteousness you will be established;You will be far from ^boppression, for you will ^cnot fear,And from ^dterror, for it will not come near you.¹⁵“If anyone fiercely attacks you it will not be from Me.^aWhoever attacks you will fall because of you.¹⁶“Behold, I Myself have created the craftsman who blows the fire of coalsAnd brings out a weapon for its work;And I have created the bringer of ruin to wreak destruction.¹⁷“^aNo weapon that is formed against you will succeed;And ^bevery tongue that ¹accuses you in judgment you will condemn.This is the inheritance of the ²slaves of Yahweh,And their ^crighteousness is from Me,” declares Yahweh.

Seek Yahweh While He May Be Found

55“Ho! Every one who ^athirsts, come to the waters;And you who have ^bno ¹money come, buy and eat.Come, buy ^cwine and milk^dWithout money and without cost.²“Why do you ¹spend money for what is ^anot bread,And your wages for what does not satisfy?Listen carefully to Me, and ^beat what is good,And ^cdelight your soul in richness.³“^aIncline your ear and come to Me.Listen, that your soul may ^blive;And I will cut ^can everlasting covenant with you,According to the ^dfaithful lovingkindnesses of David.⁴“Behold, I have given ^ahim as a witness to the peoples,A ^bruler and commander for the peoples.⁵“Behold, you will call a ^anation you do not know,And a nation which knows you not will ^brun to you,Because of Yahweh your God, even the Holy One of Israel;For He has ^cadorned you with beautiful glory.”⁶^aSeek Yahweh while He may be found;^bCall upon Him while He is near.⁷^aLet the wicked forsake his wayAnd the unrighteous man his ^bthoughts;And let him ^creturn to Yahweh,And He will have ^dcompassion on him,And to our God,For He will ^eabundantly pardon.⁸“For My thoughts are not ^ayour thoughts,Nor are ^byour ways My ways,” declares Yahweh.⁹“For ^aas the heavens are higher than the earth,So are My ways higher than your waysAnd My thoughts than your thoughts.¹⁰“For as the ^arain and the snow come down from heaven,And do not return there without watering the earthAnd making it bear and sprout,And giving ^bseed to the sower and bread to the eater,¹¹So will My ^aword be which goes forth from My mouth;It will ^bnot return to Me empty,Without ^caccomplishing what pleases Me,And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.¹²“For you will go out with ^agladnessAnd be led forth with ^bpeace;The ^cmountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you,And all the ^dtrees of the field will clap their hands.¹³“Instead of the ^athorn bush the ^bcypress will come up,And instead of the ^cnettle the myrtle will come up,And ¹it will be to Yahweh for His ²^,^drenown,For an everlasting ^esign which ^fwill not be cut off.”

Salvation for the Foreigner

56Thus says Yahweh, “^aKeep justice and do righteousness,For My ^bsalvation is about to comeAnd My righteousness to be revealed.

²“How ^ablessed is the man who does this,And the son of man who ^btakes hold of it,Who ^ckeeps from profaning the sabbath,And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”³Let not the ^aforeigner who has joined himself to Yahweh say,“Yahweh will surely separate me from His people.”Nor let the ^beunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”⁴For thus says Yahweh,“To the eunuchs who ^akeep My sabbaths,And choose what pleases Me,And ^bhold fast My covenant,⁵To them I will give in My ^ahouse and within My ^bwalls a ¹memorial,And a name better than that of sons and daughters;I will give ²them an everlasting ^cname which ^dwill not be cut off.⁶“Also the ^aforeigners who join themselves to Yahweh,To minister to Him, and to love the name of Yahweh,To be His ¹slaves, every one who ^bkeeps from profaning the sabbathAnd takes hold of My covenant,⁷Even ^athose I will bring to My ^bholy mountainAnd ^cmake them glad in My house of prayer.Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on ^dMy altar;For ^eMy house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.”⁸Lord Yahweh, who ^agathers the banished of Israel, declares,“Yet ^bothers I will gather to ¹them, to those already gathered.”⁹All you ^abeasts of the field,All you beasts in the forest,Come to eat.¹⁰His ^awatchmen are ^bblind;All of them know nothing.All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,¹Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;¹¹And the dogs have a ^astrong ¹appetite; they do not know satisfaction.And they are shepherds who ^bdo not know understanding;They have all ^cturned to their own way,Each one to his greedy gain, to the last one.¹²“Come,” they say, “let ¹us take ^awine, and let us drink heavily of strong drink;And ^btomorrow will be like today—²beyond exceedingly great.”