lesserot - Isaiah:56-60

lesserot@Isaiah:56:1 @ Thus hath said the Lord, Keep ye justice, and do equity; for near is my salvation to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

lesserot@Isaiah:56:2 @ Happy is the mortal that ever doth this, and the son of man that ever layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath by not violating it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

lesserot@Isaiah:56:3 @ And let not say the son of the stranger, that joineth himself unto the Lord, saying, Surely the Lord will exclude me from his people; nor let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

lesserot@Isaiah:56:4 @ For thus hath said the Lord concerning the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and make choice of what pleaseth me, and take hold of my covenant.

lesserot@Isaiah:56:5 @ I will indeed give unto them in my house and within my walls a place and a name, better than sons and daughters: an everlasting name will I give them, that shall not be cut off.

lesserot@Isaiah:56:6 @ Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves unto the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be unto him as servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath by not violating it, and those who take hold of my covenant:

lesserot@Isaiah:56:7 @ Even these will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burntofferings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations.

lesserot@Isaiah:56:8 @ Thus saith the Lord Eternal who gathereth the outcasts of Israel, I will yet gather to him, beside his own gathered.

lesserot@Isaiah:56:9 @ All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, all ye beasts in the forest.

lesserot@Isaiah:56:10 @ His watchmen are all of them blind, they know nothing; they all are dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreamers, lying down, loving to slumber.

lesserot@Isaiah:56:11 @ But the dogs are of a greedy disposition, they know not how to be satisfied; and those are shepherds that know how to understand: they all turn to their own way, every one after his gain, from all quarters.

lesserot@Isaiah:56:12 @ Come ye, I will fetch wine, and let us swallow abundantly of strong drink; and like this day shall it be tomorrow, excellent and in very great abundance.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:1 @ The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and pious men are taken away, without one considering that before the evil the righteous is taken away.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:2 @ He shall come in peace: they shall repose in their restingplace, every one that walketh in his uprightness.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:3 @ But ye draw near hither, sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:4 @ Over whom will you make yourselves merry? concerning whom will you open wide your mouth, stretch out your tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

lesserot@Isaiah:57:5 @ That are inflamed after the idols under every green tree; that slaughter the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

lesserot@Isaiah:57:6 @ Of the smooth stones of the valley is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured out a drinkoffering, hast thou offered a meatoffering. Shall I for these things repent me?

lesserot@Isaiah:57:7 @ Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou placed thy couch: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:8 @ And behind the doors and the doorposts hast thou placed thy remembrance; for from me, thou hast laid open, and art gone up,hast enlarged thy couch, and made thee a covenant with some of them; thou hast loved their lying with thee, hast selected a fitting place.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:9 @ And thou didst show thyself unto the king without ointment, and thou didst multiply thy perfumes, and thou didst send out thy messengers even into the faroff distance, and didst debase thyself even down to the nether world.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:10 @ Though thou art wearied by the length of thy way, yet saidst thou not, It is useless: thou hadst found enough for thy hand; therefore didst thou feel no care.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:11 @ And of whom hadst thou dread or fear, that thou becamest false, and didst not remember me, nor lay it to thy heart? is it not so? I kept silence, and this from earliest times, and therefore thou fearest me not!

lesserot@Isaiah:57:12 @ I, I ever tell thee thy righteousness; but thy worksthese indeed will not profit thee.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:13 @ When thou criest, let thy masses of idols deliver thee; but all of them will the wind carry away, a breath will take them off; but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:14 @ And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, clear out the way, lift up every stumbling block out of the way of my people.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:15 @ For thus hath said the high and lofty One, who inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy, In the high and holy place do I dwell, yet also with the contrite and humble of spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:16 @ For not to eternity will I contend, neither will I be for ever wroth: when the spirit from before me is overwhelmed, and the souls which I have made.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:17 @ Because of the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and I smote him, hiding my face, and was wroth: while he went on frowardly in the way of his own heart.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:18 @ I see his ways, and I will heal him; and I will guide him, and bestow full comforts on him and on his mourners;

lesserot@Isaiah:57:19 @ Creating the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him that is afar off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:20 @ But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can never be at rest, but its waters cast up mire and dirt.

lesserot@Isaiah:57:21 @ There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

lesserot@Isaiah:58:1 @ Cry with a full throat, spare not, like the cornet lift up thy voice, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

lesserot@Isaiah:58:2 @ Yet me do they ever seek day by day, and to know my ways do they always desire; as a nation that hath done righteousness, and hath not forsaken the ordinance of their God: continually do they ask of me the ordinances of justicedo they desire to draw nigh unto God.

lesserot@Isaiah:58:3 @ "Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest it not? have we afflicted our soul, and thou regardest it not?" Behold, on the day of your fasting ye follow your business, and all your acquired gains do ye exact.

lesserot@Isaiah:58:4 @ Behold, for contention and strife do ye fast, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not so at this day, to cause your voice to be heard on high.

lesserot@Isaiah:58:5 @ Is such then the fast which I can choose? a day that a man afflicteth his soul? to bend his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes for his couch? wilt thou call this a fast, and a day of acceptability unto the Lord?

lesserot@Isaiah:58:6 @ Is not this the fast that I will choose? to open the snares of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye should break asunder every yoke?

lesserot@Isaiah:58:7 @ Is it not to distribute thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the afflicted poor into thy house! when thou seest the naked, that thou clothe him; and that thou hide not thyself from thy own flesh?

lesserot@Isaiah:58:8 @ Then shall break forth as the morningdawn thy light, and thy healing shall speedily spring forth; and before thee shall go thy righteousness, the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.

lesserot@Isaiah:58:9 @ Then shalt thou call, and the Lord will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here am I. If thou remove from the midst of thee the yoke, the stretching out of the finger, and speaking wickedly;

lesserot@Isaiah:58:10 @ And if thou pour out to the hungry thy soul, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall shine forth in the darkness thy light, and thy obscurity be as the noonday;

lesserot@Isaiah:58:11 @ And the Lord will guide thee continually, and will satisfy thy soul in times of famine, and will strengthen thy bones; and thou shalt be like a wellwatered garden, and like a spring of water, the waters of which will never deceive.

lesserot@Isaiah:58:12 @ And they that spring from thee shall build up the ancient ruins; the foundations of many generations shalt thou raise up again: and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breaches, The restorer of paths to the dwellingplace.

lesserot@Isaiah:58:13 @ If thou restrain thy foot for the sake of the sabbath, not doing thy business on my holy day; and if thou call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord, honorable; and honor it by not doing thy usual pursuits, by not following thy own business, and speaking words:

lesserot@Isaiah:58:14 @ Then shalt thou find delight in the Lord; and I will cause thee to tread upon the high places of the earth, and I will cause thee to enjoy the inheritance of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:1 @ Behold, the Lords hand is not too short to save; neither his ear too heavy for hearing;

lesserot@Isaiah:59:2 @ But your iniquities have ever made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have caused him to hide his face from you, so that he would not hear.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:3 @ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue uttereth deception.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:4 @ No one admonisheth with righteousness, and no one executeth justice in truth; men trust in naught, and speak lies; they have conceived mischief, and bring forth wickedness.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:5 @ Basilisks eggs do they hatch, and spiders webs do they weave: he that eateth of their eggs must die, and if one be crushed, a viper will break forth.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:6 @ Their webs cannot serve for garments, and they cannot clothe themselves with their works: their works are works of wickedness, and the deed of violence is in their hands.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:7 @ Their feet run to what is evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness; wasting and destruction are on their highways.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:8 @ The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice on their tracks: their paths they have made unto themselves crooked; whosoever walketh therein knoweth not peace.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:9 @ Therefore is justice far from us, nor will happiness overtake us: we ever hope for light, but behold there is darkness; for brightness, but in obscurity must we walk.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:10 @ We grope like the blind on the wall, and as if we had no eyes do we grope: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; we are in complete darkness like the dead.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:11 @ We growl all of us like bears, and like doves do we moan sorely; we ever hope for justice, but there is none; for aid, but it is far from us.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:12 @ For our transgressions are numerous in thy presence, and our sins testify against us; for of our transgressions are we aware; and our iniquitieswe know them;

lesserot@Isaiah:59:13 @ We transgressed and denied the Lord, and departed away from our God; we spoke oppression and revolt, conceived and brought forth in our heart words of falsehood.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:14 @ And justice is forced to turn backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth stumbled in the street, and equity is not able to enter.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:15 @ And thus is the truth missing; and he that departeth from evil is regarded as foolish: and the Lord saw it, and it was displeasing in his eyes that there was no justice.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:16 @ And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; therefore his arm brought him aid, and his righteousness,yea, this sustained him.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:17 @ And he put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and the helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance as raiment, and wrapped himself with zeal as with a cloak.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:18 @ According to the demerits, so will he repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands will he repay what they have merited.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:19 @ And they shall fear from the west the name of the Lord, and from the rising of the sun his glory; for there shall come distress like the stream which the Spirit of the Lord urgeth forward.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:20 @ But unto Zion shall come the redeemer, and unto those who return from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.

lesserot@Isaiah:59:21 @ And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord, My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy children, nor out of the mouth of thy childrens children, saith the Lord, from henceforth and unto all eternity.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:1 @ Arise, give light, for thy light is come; and the glory of the Lord is shining forth over thee.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:2 @ For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and a gross darkness the people; but over thee will shine forth the Lord, and his glory will be seen over thee.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:3 @ And nations shall walk by thy light, and kings by the brightness of thy shining.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:4 @ Lift up thy eyes round about and see, they all are assembled, they come to thee, thy sons are coming from afar, and thy daughters are brought along in arms.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:5 @ Then wilt thou see and be filled with light, and thy heart will dread and be enlarged; because unto thee shall be turned the abundance of the sea, the riches of nations shall come unto thee.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:6 @ The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; they all from Sheba shall come: gold and frankincense shall they carry, and the praises of the Lord shall they announce.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:7 @ All the flocks of Kedar shall be assembled unto thee, the rams of Nebayoth shall minister unto thee: they shall come for a favorable acceptance upon my altar, and the house of my glory will I glorify.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:8 @ Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like the doves, to their windows?

lesserot@Isaiah:60:9 @ Yea, unto me the isles shall hasten, and the ships of Tharshish at first, to bring thy sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel; because he hath glorified thee.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:10 @ And the sons of the stranger shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee; for in my wrath did I smite thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:11 @ And thy gates shall stand open continually, day and night shall they not be closed, to bring unto thee the wealth of nations, and their kings led.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:12 @ For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; and the nations shall be utterly destroyed.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:13 @ The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir, the cypress, and the box together, to adorn the place of my sanctuary, and the place of my feet will I glorify.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:14 @ And then shall come unto thee bent down the sons of those who afflicted thee, and there shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet all thy revilers; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:15 @ Instead that thou wast forsaken and hated, without one to pass through, will I render thee an excellency of everlasting, a joy of all generations.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:16 @ And thou shalt suck the milk of nations, and the breast of kings shalt thou suck; and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:17 @ Instead of the copper will I bring gold, and instead of the iron will I bring silver, and instead of wood copper, and instead of the stones iron; and I will set peace as thy authorities, and righteousness as thy taskmasters.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:18 @ There shall not be heard any wore violence in thy land, wasting and destruction within thy boundaries; but thou shalt call, Salvation, thy walls, and thy gates, Praise.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:19 @ The sun shall not be unto thee any more for a light by day, and for brightness shall the moon not give light unto thee; but the Lord will be unto thee for a light of everlasting, and thy God as thy glory.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:20 @ Thy sun shall not go down any more, and thy moon shall not be withdrawn; for the Lord will be unto thee for a light of everlasting, and ended shall be the days of thy mourning,

lesserot@Isaiah:60:21 @ And thy peoplethey all will be righteous, for ever shall they possess the land, the sprout of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may glorify myself.

lesserot@Isaiah:60:22 @ The little one shall become a thousand, and the small, a mighty nation: I the Lord will hasten it in its time.

lesserot@Isaiah:61:1 @ The Spirit of the Lord Eternal is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to announce good tidings unto the meek: he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim to captives Liberty, and to prisoners Release;