Isaiah, starting at chapter 58
{58:1} Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and
declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of
Jacob their sins. {58:2} Yet they seek me daily, and delight to
know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't
forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous
judgments; they delight to draw near to God. {58:3} Why have we
fasted, [say they], and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted
our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your
fast you find [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.
{58:4} Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to
strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so
as to make your voice to be heard on high. {58:5} Is such the
fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul?
Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth
and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an
acceptable day to Yahweh? {58:6} Isn't this the fast that I
have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the
bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that
you break every yoke? {58:7} Isn't it to deal your bread to the
hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your
house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you
not hide yourself from your own flesh? {58:8} Then shall your
light break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring
forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the
glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard. {58:9} Then shall you
call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say,
Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the
putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly; {58:10} and
if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the
afflicted soul: then shall your light rise in darkness, and
your obscurity be as the noonday; {58:11} and Yahweh will guide
you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make
strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and
like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail. {58:12} Those
who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall
raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be
called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to
dwell in. {58:13} If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a
delight, [and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor
it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor
speaking [your own] words: {58:14} then shall you delight
yourself in Yahweh; and I will make you to ride on the high
places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of
Jacob your father: for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
{59:1} Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save;
neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear: {59:2} but your
iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your
sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
{59:3} For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers
with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters
wickedness. {59:4} None sues in righteousness, and none pleads
in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive
mischief, and bring forth iniquity. {59:5} They hatch adders'
eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs
dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper. {59:6}
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover
themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity,
and the act of violence is in their hands. {59:7} Their feet
run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their
thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction
are in their paths. {59:8} The way of peace they don't know;
and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them
crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace. {59:9}
Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness
overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for
brightness, but we walk in obscurity. {59:10} We grope for the
wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes:
we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are
lusty we are as dead men. {59:11} We roar all like bears, and
moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far off from us. {59:12} For our
transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify
against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our
iniquities, we know them: {59:13} transgressing and denying
Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking
oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart
words of falsehood. {59:14} Justice is turned away backward,
and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the
street, and uprightness can't enter. {59:15} Yes, truth is
lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice.
{59:16} He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there
was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to
him; and his righteousness, it upheld him. {59:17} He put on
righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on
his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and
was clad with zeal as a mantle. {59:18} According to their
deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries,
recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay
recompense. {59:19} So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from
the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will
come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.
{59:20} A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn
from disobedience in Jacob, says Yahweh. {59:21} As for me,
this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: my Spirit who is on
you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not
depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed,
nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, says Yahweh, from
henceforth and forever.
{60:1} Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh
is risen on you. {60:2} For, behold, darkness shall cover the
earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on
you, and his glory shall be seen on you. {60:3} Nations shall
come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
{60:4} Lift up your eyes round about, and see: they all gather
themselves together, they come to you; your sons shall come
from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the arms.
{60:5} Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall
thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall
be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
{60:6} The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries
of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall
bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of
Yahweh. {60:7} All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered
together to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you;
they shall come up with acceptance on my altar; and I will
glorify the house of my glory. {60:8} Who are these who fly as
a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? {60:9} Surely the
islands shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to
bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with
them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of
Israel, because he has glorified you. {60:10} Foreigners shall
build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you: for
in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor have I had mercy on
you. {60:11} Your gates also shall be open continually; they
shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the
wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive. {60:12} For
that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish;
yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted. {60:13} The glory
of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree, the pine, and the
box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I
will make the place of my feet glorious. {60:14} The sons of
those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all
those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles
of your feet; and they shall call you The city of Yahweh, The
Zion of the Holy One of Israel. {60:15} Whereas you have been
forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I will
make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
{60:16} You shall also suck the milk of the nations, and shall
suck the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, am
your Savior, and your 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. I will also
make your officers peace, and righteousness your ruler. {60:18}
Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor
destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls
Salvation, and your gates Praise. {60:19} The sun shall be no
more your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon
give light to you: but Yahweh will be to you an everlasting
light, and your God your glory. {60:20} Your sun shall no more
go down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh
will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning
shall be ended. {60:21} Your people also shall be all
righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of
my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
{60:22} The little one shall become a thousand, and the small
one a strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time.
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