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 brokenhearted, 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
will call you the ministers of our God: you will eat the wealth of the
nations, and in their glory you will 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 your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices
over the bride, so your God will 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 establishes, and until he makes 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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