lesserot - Isaiah:59-60

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;