Isaiah, starting at chapter 61
{61:1} The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has
anointed me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me
to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the
captives, and the opening [of the prison] to those who are
bound; {61:2} to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, and the
day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; {61:3}
to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a
garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called
trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be
glorified. {61:4} They shall build the old wastes, they shall
raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the
waste cities, the desolations of many generations. {61:5}
Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners
shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. {61:6} But you
shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men shall call you the
ministers of our God: you shall eat the wealth of the nations,
and in their glory shall you boast yourselves. {61:7} Instead
of your shame [you shall have] double; and instead of dishonor
they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land
they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be to them.
{61:8} For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with
iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I
will make an everlasting covenant with them. {61:9} Their seed
shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the
peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are
the seed which Yahweh has blessed. {61:10} I will greatly
rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he
has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered
me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks
himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her
jewels. {61:11} For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as
the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring
forth; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise
to spring forth before all the nations.
{62:1} For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's
sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as
brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns. {62:2} The
nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory,
and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of
Yahweh shall name. {62:3} You shall also be a crown of beauty
in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the hand of your
God. {62:4} You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall
your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called
Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you,
and your land shall be married. {62:5} For as a young man
marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the
bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice
over you. {62:6} I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem;
they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call
on Yahweh, take no rest, {62:7} and give him no rest, until he
establish, and until he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
{62:8} Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of
his strength, Surely I will no more give your grain to be food
for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine,
for which you have labored: {62:9} but those who have garnered
it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered
it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary. {62:10} Go
through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the
people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;
lift up a banner for the peoples. {62:11} Behold, Yahweh has
proclaimed to the end of the earth, Say you to the daughter of
Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with
him, and his recompense before him. {62:12} They shall call
them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be
called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
{63:1} Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the
greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty
to save. {63:2} Why are you red in your clothing, and your
garments like him who treads in the wine vat? {63:3} I have
trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no
man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in
my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and
I have stained all my clothing. {63:4} For the day of vengeance
was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. {63:5} I
looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there
was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to
me; and my wrath, it upheld me. {63:6} I trod down the peoples
in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out
their lifeblood on the earth. {63:7} I will make mention of the
loving kindnesses of Yahweh, [and] the praises of Yahweh,
according to all that Yahweh has bestowed on us, and the great
goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on
them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude
of his loving kindnesses. {63:8} For he said, Surely, they are
my people, children who will not deal falsely: so he was their
Savior. {63:9} In all their affliction he was afflicted, and
the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his
pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all
the days of old. {63:10} But they rebelled, and grieved his
holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and]
himself fought against them. {63:11} Then he remembered the
days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where is he who
brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?
where is he who put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?
{63:12} who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of
Moses? who divided the waters before them, to make himself an
everlasting name? {63:13} who led them through the depths, as a
horse in the wilderness, so that they didn't stumble? {63:14}
As the livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of
Yahweh caused them to rest; so did you lead your people, to
make yourself a glorious name. {63:15} Look down from heaven,
and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory:
where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your
heart and your compassion is restrained toward me. {63:16} For
you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel
does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our
Redeemer from everlasting is your name. {63:17} O Yahweh, why
do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from
your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your
inheritance. {63:18} Your holy people possessed [it] but a
little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
{63:19} We are become as they over whom you never bear rule, as
those who were not called by your name.
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