lesserot - Isaiah:48-50

lesserot@Isaiah:48:1 @ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the spring of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel,not in truth, nor in righteousness.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:2 @ For of the holy city they call themselves, and upon the God of Israel they stay themselves,The Lord of hosts is his name.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:3 @ The former things have I declared from the beginning; and out of my mouth went they forth, and I announced them: suddenly did I accomplish them, and they came to pass;

lesserot@Isaiah:48:4 @ Because I knew that thou art obstinate, that like an iron sinew is thy neck, and thy brow of copper;

lesserot@Isaiah:48:5 @ And I declared it to thee from the beginning; before yet it came to pass did I let thee hear it: lest thou should say, My idol hath done these things, and my graven image, and my molten image, have ordained them.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:6 @ Thou hast heard it; see it all now; and youwill you not declare it? I caused thee to hear new things, from this time, even hidden things which thou hadst not known.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:7 @ Now are they created, and not from the beginning; and before the day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:8 @ But neither hadst thou heard it; nor didst thou know; nor had in ancient times thy ear been opened; for I knew that thou wouldst deal very treacherously, and a transgressor wast thou called from thy birth.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:9 @ For the sake of my name will I defer my anger, and because of my praise will I restrain it toward thee, so that I may not cut thee off.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:10 @ Behold, I have refined thee, though not into silver: I have approved thee in the crucible of affliction.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:11 @ For my own sake will I do it: for how would be dishonored? and my glory will I not give unto another.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:12 @ Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel, my called one; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:13 @ My hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned out the heavens: I call unto them, they stand forward together.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:14 @ Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear: Who among them hath told these things? He whom the Lord loveth, will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm the Chaldeans.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:15 @ I, even I, have spoken it, I have also called him: I have brought him, and he shall be prosperous on his way.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:16 @ Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; never from the beginning have I spoken in secret; from the time that it occurred, was I there. And now the Lord Eternal hath sent me, and his Spirit.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:17 @ Thus hath said the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am the Lord thy God who teach thee for thy profit, who lead thee by the way thou shouldst go.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:18 @ Oh that thou hadst but listened to my commandments! then would have been as a river thy peace, and thy prosperity as the waves of the sea:

lesserot@Isaiah:48:19 @ And then would have been as the sand thy seed, and the offspring of thy body like the pebbles of the seashore; yet shall his name not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:20 @ Go forth out of Babylon, flee away from the Chaldeans, with the voice of singing declare, announce this, carry it forth as far as the end of the earth; say, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:21 @ And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; waters out of the rock he let drop down for them: and he cleaved the rock, and the waters gushed out.

lesserot@Isaiah:48:22 @ There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:1 @ Hearken, O isles, unto me; and listen, ye people, from afar: The Lord hath called me from my birth; from my mothers womb hath he made mention of my name.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:2 @ And he hath rendered my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hidden me: and he hath rendered me as a polished arrow; in his quiver hath he concealed me;

lesserot@Isaiah:49:3 @ And said unto me, My servant art thou, O Israel, thou on whom I will be glorified.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:4 @ But I had indeed said, For no purpose have I labored, for naught and vanity have I spent my strength; yet surely my cause is with the Lord, and the recompense of my work with my God.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:5 @ And now hath said the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, that Israel may be gathered unto him, that I should be honored in the eyes of the Lord, while my God was my strength,

lesserot@Isaiah:49:6 @ And he said, It is too light a thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to bring back the preserved of Israel! but I will appoint thee for a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach as far as the end of the earth.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:7 @ Thus hath said the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him who is despised by men, to him who is abhorred by nations, to the servant of rulers, Kings shall see it and rise up, princes, and they shall prostrate themselves, for the sake of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who hath made choice of thee.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:8 @ Thus hath said the Lord, In the time of favor have I answered thee, and on the day of salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and I will appoint thee as a people of my covenant to raise up the land, to divide out desolate heritages;

lesserot@Isaiah:49:9 @ When I say to the prisoners, Go forth; to those that are in darkness, Show yourselves. On the roads shall they feed, and on all mountainpeaks shall be their pasture.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:10 @ They shall not be hungry nor thirsty, and neither heat nor sun shall smite them; for he that hath mercy on them will lead them, and by springs of water will he guide them.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:11 @ And I will change all my mountains into a road, and my highways shall be lifted up.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:12 @ Behold, these shall come from afar; and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:13 @ Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth, O mountains, into song; for the Lord hath comforted his people, and upon his oppressed will he have mercy.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:14 @ Yet Zion said, the Eternal hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:15 @ Can a woman forget her sucking child, not to have mercy on the son of her body? yea, should these even forget, yet would I not forget thee.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:16 @ Behold, upon the palms of my hands have I engraved thee; thy walls are continually before me.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:17 @ Thy children come in haste; thy destroyers and they that laid thee waste shall go away from thee.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:18 @ Lift up thy eyes round about, and see; they all are assembled together, they come to thee: as I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thyself with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:19 @ For thy ruins and thy desolate places, and thy wasted land,yea, now shall it be too narrow for thee by reason of the inhabitants, and thy destroyers shall be far away.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:20 @ Yet again will say before thy ears the children of whom thou wast deprived, The place is too narrow for me; make room for me that I may dwell.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:21 @ And thou wilt say in thy heart, Who hath born me these, seeing I was bereft of my children, and was solitary, an exile, and outcast? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left entirely alone; these, where have they been?

lesserot@Isaiah:49:22 @ Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Behold, I will lift up to the nations my hand, and to the people will I raise up high my standard; and they shall bring thy sons in arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon shoulders.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:23 @ And kings shall be thy nursingfathers, and their princesses thy nursingmothers; with the face toward the earth shall they bow down to thee, and the dust of thy feet shall they lick up: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, who will not suffer those who hope in me to be ashamed.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:24 @ Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or shall the captive of the victor escape?

lesserot@Isaiah:49:25 @ For thus hath said the Lord, Also the captive of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the powerful shall escape; and with those who contend against thee will I contend, and thy children will I indeed save.

lesserot@Isaiah:49:26 @ And I will feed thy oppressors with their own flesh; and as with new wine shall they be made drunken with their own blood: and all flesh shall know that I the Eternal am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer the Mighty One of Jacob.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:1 @ Thus hath said the Lord, Where is your mothers bill of divorcement, wherewith I have sent her away? or who of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother sent away.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:2 @ Why did I come and no man was there, did I call, with none to answer? hath my hand become too short for redeeming? or is there no power in me to deliver? behold, through my threatening I can dry up the sea, I can change the rivers into a wilderness: their fish stink for want of water, and die for thirst.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:3 @ I can clothe the heavens with blackness, and I can make sackcloth their garment.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:4 @ The Lord Eternal hath given me a tongue for teaching, that I should know how to strengthen the weary with the word: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth my ear to listen like those who are well taught.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:5 @ The Lord Eternal hath opened me my ear, and I resisted not: I turned not backward.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:6 @ My back I gave up to the smiters, and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: my face I hid not from abuse and spitting.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:7 @ But the Lord Eternal ever helpeth me; therefore was I not confounded; therefore have I rendered my face like a flint, and I knew that I should not be made ashamed.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:8 @ He that justifieth me is near; who will contend with me? let us stand forward together: who hath a dispute with me? let him come near to me.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:9 @ Behold, the Lord Eternal will help me; who is the man that will condemn me? lo, they all shall wear out as a garment: the moth shall eat them up.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:10 @ Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that hearkeneth to the voice of his servant? though he have walked in darkness, and had no light: let him trust in the name of the Lord, and lean for support upon his God.

lesserot@Isaiah:50:11 @ Behold, all ye that kindle fire, that urge on the brands: walk by the blaze of your fire, and by the brands ye have kindled; from my hand hath this been bestowed on you; in pain shall ye lie down.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:1 @ Hearken to me, ye that pursue righteousness, that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were dug up.