Yesha`yahu, starting at chapter 61
{61:1} The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me; because the LORD 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 the LORD's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to
comfort all who mourn; {61:3} to appoint to those who mourn in Tziyon,
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 the LORD, 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
vine-dressers. {61:6} But you shall be named the [1>]Kohanim[<1] of
the LORD; 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, the LORD, 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 the
LORD has blessed. {61:10} I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, 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 [2>]eretz[<2] brings forth its
bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring
forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring
forth before all the nations.
{62:1} For Tziyon's sake will I not hold my shalom, and for
Yerushalayim's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth
as brightness, and her [1>]yeshu`ah[<1] 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 the LORD
shall name. {62:3} You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of
the LORD, 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 Heftzi-Bah, and your land Beulah;
for the LORD 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, Yerushalayim; they
shall never hold their shalom day nor night: you who call on the LORD,
take no rest, {62:7} and give him no rest, until he establish, and
until he make Yerushalayim a praise in the [2>]eretz[<2]. {62:8} The
LORD 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 the
LORD; 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 an ensign for the peoples. {62:11} Behold, the LORD
has proclaimed to the end of the [3>]eretz[<3], Say you to the
daughter of Tziyon, 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 the LORD: and you shall be
called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
{63:1} Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from
Botzrah? 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 [1>]eretz[<1]. {63:7} I will make mention of the
lovingkindnesses of the LORD, [and] the praises of the LORD, according
to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward
the house of Yisra'el, which he has bestowed on them according to his
mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
{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, Moshe
[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 Moshe? 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 cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the
LORD 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
Avraham doesn't know us, and Yisra'el does not acknowledge us: you,
LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
{63:17} O LORD, 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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Footnotes:
[1] {61:6} priests
[2] {61:11} earth
[1] {62:1} salvation
[2] {62:7} earth
[3] {62:11} earth
[1] {63:6} earth
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