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 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 distribute 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 your light shall 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 you shall 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
your light shall 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 you shall 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 that 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 all around, 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 nurse from royal breasts; 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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