lesserot - Isaiah:49-52

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.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:2 @ Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bore you; for he was one when I called him, and I blessed him, and I increased him.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:3 @ Yea, the Lord hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her ruins; and he hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord: gladness and joy shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:4 @ Listen unto me, my people; and O my nation, give ear unto me; for a law shall proceed from me, and my justice will I establish as a light of the people.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:5 @ My righteousness is near; my salvation goeth forth, and my arms shall judge the people: on me the isles shall wait, and for my arm shall they hope.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:6 @ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wear out like a garment, and they that dwell thereon shall die in like manner; but my salvation shall exist for ever, and my righteousness shall not be delayed.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:7 @ Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, O people in whose heart my law is: ye must not fear the reproach of men, and of their revilings shall ye not be in dread.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:8 @ For like a garment shall the moth eat them up, and like wool shall the worm eat them; but my righteousness shall exist for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:9 @ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord: awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of olden times. Art thou not it that struck down Rahab, that pierced the crocodile?

lesserot@Isaiah:51:10 @ Art thou not it that dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that rendered the depths of the sea a road for the redeemed to pass through?

lesserot@Isaiah:51:11 @ And shall the ransomed of the Lord return, and come to Zion with song, with everlasting joy upon their head; gladness and joy shall they obtain, while sorrow and sighing shall have fled away.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:12 @ I, I am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal that must die, and of a son of man who will wither as the grass?

lesserot@Isaiah:51:13 @ And thou forgettest the Lord, thy Maker, who hath spread out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and thou dreadest continually, all the day, because of the fury of the oppressor, whenever he aimeth to destroy: and where is the fury of the oppressor?

lesserot@Isaiah:51:14 @ The exile will be speedily set free; and he shall not die in the dungeon, and his bread shall not fail.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:15 @ For I am the Lord thy God, who stirreth up the sea that its waves roar: the Lord of hosts is his name.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:16 @ And I have placed my words in thy mouth, and with the shadow of my hand have I covered thee: to plant the heavens, and to lay the foundations of the earth, and to say to Zion, Thou art my people.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:17 @ Rouse up, rouse up, arise, O Jerusalem, thou who hast drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: the deep cup of confusion hast thou drunk, hast thou drained.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:18 @ There is none to lead her, from all the children whom she hath born; and there is none that taketh her by the hand, from all the children whom she hath brought up.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:19 @ Two things are these which have befallen thee: who will have compassion for thee? desolation and destruction, and famine and swordwith whom shall I comfort thee?

lesserot@Isaiah:51:20 @ Thy children have fainted, they lie at the entrance of all streets, as a wild bull caught in a net, who are full of the fury of the Lord, the threatening of thy God.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:21 @ Therefore hear now this, O thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:22 @ Thus hath said thy Lord, the Eternal, and thy God, who will ever plead for his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of confusion, the deep cup of my fury: thou shalt never more drink it again.

lesserot@Isaiah:51:23 @ And I will place it in the hand of those who have tortured thee, that have said to thy soul, Bend thee down, that we may pass over; and thou madest like the earth thy back, and like the street for those that passed over.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:1 @ Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, thou holy city; for no more shall enter into thee henceforth the uncircumcised and the unclean.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:2 @ Shake thyself free from the dust, arise, sit down, O Jerusalem: loosen thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive, daughter of Zion.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:3 @ For thus hath said the Lord, For naught were you sold, and without silver shall ye be redeemed.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:4 @ For thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Into Egypt went my people down aforetimes, to sojourn there, and Asshur hath oppressed it without cause.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:5 @ And now what have I here, saith the Lord, since my people hath been taken away for naught? its rulers vaunt aloud, saith the Lord, and continually, all the day, is my name blasphemed.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:6 @ Therefore shall my people know my name, therefore on that day, that I am he that speaketh it: here am I.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:7 @ How beautiful are upon the mountains the feet of the messenger of good tidings, that publisheth peace, that announceth tidings of happiness, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:8 @ The voice of thy watchmen,they raise their voice, together shall they shout; for eye to eye shall they see, when the Lord returneth unto Zion.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:9 @ Break forth, shout together, ye ruins of Jerusalem; the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:10 @ The Lord hath made bare his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:11 @ Depart ye, depart ye, go out from there, touch no unclean thing; go ye out from the midst of it; cleanse yourselves, ye bearers of the vessels of the Lord.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:12 @ Not in haste shall ye go out, and not in flight shall ye go; for before you goeth the Lord, and your rereward is the God of Israel.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:13 @ Behold, my servant shall be prosperous, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be placed very high.

lesserot@Isaiah:52:14 @ Just as many were astonished at thee, so greatly was his countenance marred more than any mans, and his form more than the sons of men,

lesserot@Isaiah:52:15 @ Thus will he cause many nations to jump up in; at him will kings shut their mouth; for what had not been told unto them shall they see, and what they had never heard shall they understand.

lesserot@Isaiah:53:1 @ Who would have believed our report? and the arm of the Lordover whom hath it been revealed?