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Isaiah","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF ISAIAS\n\nThis inspired writer is called by the Holy Ghost, the great prophet,\n(Ecclesiasticus:48.25,) from the greatness of his prophetic spirit, by\nwhich he hath foretold so long before, and in so clear a manner, the\ncoming of Christ, the mysteries of our redemption, the calling of the\nGentiles, and the glorious establishment, and perpetual flourishing of\nthe church of Christ: insomuch that he may seem to have been rather an\nevangelist than a prophet. His very name is not without mystery; for\nIsaias in Hebrew signifies the salvation of the Lord, or Jesus is the\nLord. He was, according to the tradition of the Hebrews, of the blood\nroyal of the kings of Juda: and after a most holy life, ended his days\nby a glorious martyrdom; being sawed in two, at the command of his\nwicked son in law, King Manasses, for reproving his evil ways.\n\n\nIsaias Chapter 1\n\nThe prophet complains of the sins of Juda and Jerusalem, and exhorts\nthem to a sincere conversion.\n\n1:1. The vision of Isaias the Son of Amos, which he saw concerning Juda\nand Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings\nof Juda.\n\n1:2. Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath\nspoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have\ndespised me.\n\n1:3. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel\nhath not known me, and my people hath not understood.\n\n1:4. Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked\nseed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have\nblasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.\n\n1:5. For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase\ntransgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.\n\n1:6. From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no\nsoundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not\nbound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.\n\n1:7. Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your\ncountry strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as\nwhen wasted by enemies.\n\n1:8. And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard,\nand as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid\nwaste.\n\n1:9. Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom,\nand we should have been like to Gomorrha.\n\n1:10. Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law\nof our God, ye people of Gomorrha.\n\n1:11. To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims,\nsaith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of\nfatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.\n\n1:12. When you came to appear before me, who required these things at\nyour hands, that you should walk in my courts?\n\n1:13. Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me.\nThe new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide,\nyour assemblies are wicked.\n\n1:14. My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are\nbecome troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.\n\n1:15. And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes\nfrom you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands\nare full of blood.\n\n1:16. Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from\nmy eyes, cease to do perversely,\n\n1:17. Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for\nthe fatherless, defend the widow.\n\n1:18. And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as\nscarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as\ncrimson, they shall be white as wool.\n\n1:19. If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good\nthings of the land.\n\n1:20. But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall\ndevour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.\n\n1:21. How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a\nharlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.\n\n1:22. Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water.\n\n1:23. Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love\nbribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and\nthe widow's cause cometh not in to them.\n\n1:24. Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of\nIsrael: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be\nrevenged of my enemies.\n\n1:25. And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy\ndross, and I will take away all thy tin.\n\n1:26. And I will restore thy judges as they were before, and thy\ncounsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the\njust, a faithful city.\n\n1:27. Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back\nin justice.\n\n1:28. And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and\nthey that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.\n\n1:29. For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have\nsacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have\nchosen.\n\n1:30. When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a\ngarden without water.\n\n1:31. And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a\nspark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench\nit.\n\nIsaias Chapter 2\n\nAll nations shall flow to the church of Christ. The Jews shall be\nrejected for their sins. Idolatry shall be destroyed.\n\n2:1. The word that Isaias the son of Amos saw, concerning Juda and\nJerusalem.\n\n2:2. And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be\nprepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the\nhills, and all nations shall flow unto it.\n\nThe last days... The whole time of the new law, from the coming of\nChrist till the end of the world, is called in the scripture the last\ndays; because no other age or time shall come after it, but only\neternity.-Ibid. On the top of mountains, etc... This shews the perpetual\nvisibility of the church of Christ: for a mountain  upon the top of\nmountains cannot be hid.\n\n2:3. And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the\nmountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will\nteach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come\nforth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.\n\n2:4. And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they\nshall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into\nsickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall\nthey be exercised any more to war.\n\n2:5. O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the\nLord.\n\n2:6. For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they\nare filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the\nPhilistines, and have adhered to strange children.\n\n2:7. Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no end of\ntheir treasures.\n\n2:8. And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are\ninnumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work\nof their own hands, which their own fingers have made.\n\n2:9. And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased:\ntherefore forgive them not.\n\n2:10. Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face\nof the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.\n\n2:11. The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men\nshall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.\n\n2:12. Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that\nis proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he\nshall be humbled.\n\n2:13. And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all\nthe oaks of Basan.\n\n2:14. And upon all the high mountains and upon all the elevated hills.\n\n2:15. And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall.\n\n2:16. And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is fair to\nbehold.\n\n2:17. And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness\nof men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that\nday.\n\n2:18. And idols shall be utterly destroyed.\n\nIdols shall be utterly destroyed... or utterly pass away. This was\nverified by the establishment of Christianity. And by this and other\ntexts of the like nature, the wild system of some modern sectaries is\nabundantly confuted, who charge the whole Christian church with\nworshipping idols, for many ages.\n\n2:19. And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of\nthe earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of\nhis majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.\n\n2:20. In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his\nidols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.\n\n2:21. And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the holes of\nstones from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his\nmajesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.\n\n2:22. Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils,\nfor he is reputed high.\n\nIsaias Chapter 3\n\nThe confusion and other evils that shall come upon the Jews for their\nsins. The pride of their women shall be punished.\n\n3:1. For behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall take away from\nJerusalem, and from Juda the valiant and the strong, the whole strength\nof bread, and the whole strength of water.\n\n3:2. The strong man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet and\nthe cunning man, and the ancient.\n\n3:3. The captain over fifty, and the honourable in countenance, and the\ncounsellor, and the architect, and the skilful in eloquent speech.\n\n3:4. And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate\nshall rule over them.\n\n3:5. And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against\nhis neighbour: the child shall make a tumult against the ancient, and\nthe base against the honourable.\n\n3:6. For a man shall take hold of his brother, one of the house of his\nfather, saying: Thou hast a garment, be thou our ruler, and let this\nruin be under thy hand.\n\n3:7. In that day he shall answer, saying: I am no healer, and in my\nhouse there is no bread, nor clothing: make me not ruler of the people.\n\n3:8. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue,\nand their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his\nmajesty.\n\n3:9. The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have\nproclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to\ntheir souls, for evils are rendered to them.\n\n3:10. Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of\nhis doings.\n\n3:11. Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be\ngiven him.\n\n3:12. As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women\nhave ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same\ndeceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.\n\n3:13. The Lord standeth up to judge, and he standeth to judge the\npeople.\n\n3:14. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people,\nand its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of\nthe poor is in your house.\n\n3:15. Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor?\nsaith the Lord the God of hosts.\n\n3:16. And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and\nhave walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes,\nand made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace:\n\n3:17. The Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of\nSion, and the Lord will discover their hair.\n\n3:18. In that day the Lord will take away the ornaments of shoes, and\nlittle moons,\n\n3:19. And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets,\n\n3:20. And bodkins, and ornaments of the legs, and tablets, and sweet\nballs, and earrings,\n\n3:21. And rings, and jewels hanging on the forehead,\n\n3:22. And changes of apparel, and short cloaks, and fine linen, and\ncrisping pins,\n\n3:23. And lookingglasses, and lawns, and headbands, and fine veils.\n\n3:24. And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and instead of\na girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair, baldness, and instead of a\nstomacher, haircloth.\n\n3:25. Thy fairest men also shall fall by the sword, and thy valiant ones\nin battle.\n\n3:26. And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate\non the ground.\n\nIsaias Chapter 4\n\nAfter an extremity of evils that shall fall upon the Jews, a remnant\nshall be comforted by Christ.\n\n4:1. And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We\nwill eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called\nby thy name, take away our reproach.\n\n4:2. In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory,\nand the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that\nshall have escaped of Israel.\n\nThe bud of the Lord... That is, Christ.\n\n4:3. And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall be left in\nSion, and that shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every\none that is written in life in Jerusalem.\n\n4:4. If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Sion, and\nshall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof, by the\nspirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.\n\n4:5. And the Lord will create upon every place of mount Sion, and where\nhe is called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke and the brightness of a\nflaming fire in the night: for over all the glory shall be a protection.\n\n4:6. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime from the\nheat, and for a security and covert from the whirlwind, and from rain.\n\nIsaias Chapter 5\n\nThe reprobation of the Jews is foreshewn under the parable of a\nvineyard. A woe is pronounced against sinners: the army of God shall\nsend against them.\n\n5:1. I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his\nvineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place.\n\nMy cousin... So the prophet calls Christ, as being of his family and\nkindred, by descending from the house of David. Ibid. On a hill, etc...\nLiterally, in the horn, the son of oil.\n\n5:2. And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted\nit with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and\nset up a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth\ngrapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.\n\n5:3. And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge\nbetween me and my vineyard.\n\n5:4. What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have\nnot done to it? was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes,\nand it hath brought forth wild grapes?\n\n5:5. And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take\naway the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the\nwall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.\n\n5:6. And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall\nnot be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command\nthe clouds to rain no rain upon it.\n\n5:7. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and\nthe man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do\njudgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.\n\n5:8. Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to\nthe end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth?\n\n5:9. These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: Unless many\ngreat and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant.\n\n5:10. For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and\nthirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.\n\n5:11. Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow\ndrunkenness, and to drink in the evening, to be inflamed with wine.\n\n5:12. The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine\nare in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you\nconsider the works of his hands.\n\n5:13. Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not\nknowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine, and their\nmultitude were dried up with thirst.\n\n5:14. Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth\nwithout any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their\nhigh and glorious ones shall go down into it.\n\n5:15. And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the\neyes of the lofty shall be brought low.\n\n5:16. And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy\nGod shall be sanctified in justice.\n\n5:17. And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers\nshall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.\n\n5:18. Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the\nrope of a cart.\n\n5:19. That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that\nwe may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that\nwe may know it.\n\n5:20. Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness\nfor light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet\nfor bitter.\n\n5:21. Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own\nconceits.\n\n5:22. Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at\ndrunkenness.\n\n5:23. That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of\nthe just from him.\n\n5:24. Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the\nheat of the flame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and\ntheir bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the\nLord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.\n\n5:25. Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and\nhe hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the\nmountains were troubles, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst\nof the streets. For after this his anger is not turned away, but his\nhand is stretched out still.\n\n5:26. And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will\nwhistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come\nwith speed swiftly.\n\n5:27. There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them: they shall\nnot slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be\nloosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken.\n\n5:28. Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of\ntheir horses shall be like the flint, and their wheels like the violence\nof a tempest.\n\n5:29. Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young\nlions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall\nkeep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it.\n\n5:30. And they shall make a noise against them that day, like the\nroaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land, and behold darkness\nof tribulation, and the light is darkened with the mist thereof.\n\nIsaias Chapter 6\n\nA glorious vision, in which the prophet's lips are cleansed: he\nforetelleth the obstinacy of the Jews.\n\n6:1. In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a\nthrone high and elevated: and his train filled the temple.\n\n6:2. Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other\nhad six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered\nhis feet, and with two they flew.\n\n6:3. And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the Lord\nGod of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory,\n\n6:4. And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that\ncried, and the house was filled with smoke.\n\n6:5. And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a\nman of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath\nunclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.\n\n6:6. And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live\ncoal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.\n\n6:7. And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy\nlips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be\ncleansed.\n\n6:8. And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and\nwho shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me.\n\n6:9. And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear,\nand understand not: and see the vision, and know it not.\n\n6:10. Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and\nshut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their\nears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.\n\n6:11. And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be\nwasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land\nshall be left desolate.\n\n6:12. And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be\nmultiplied that was left in the midst of the earth.\n\n6:13. And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn,\nand shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that\nspreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy\nseed.\n\nIsaias Chapter 7\n\nThe prophet assures king Achaz that the two kings his enemies shall not\ntake Jerusalem. A virgin shall conceive and bear a son.\n\n7:1. And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joathan, the\nson of Ozias, king of Juda, that Rasin king of Syria and Phacee the son\nof Romelia king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem, to fight against it:\nbut they could not prevail over it.\n\n7:2. And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath rested upon\nEphraim, and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the\ntrees of the woods are moved with the wind.\n\n7:3. And the Lord said to Isaias: Go forth to meet Achaz, thou and Jasub\nthy son that is left, to the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the\nfuller's field.\n\n7:4. And thou shalt say to him: See thou be quiet: fear not, and let not\nthy heart be afraid of the two tails of these firebrands, smoking with\nthe wrath of the fury of Rasin king of Syria, and of the son of Romelia.\n\n7:5. Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of\nEphraim and the son of Romelia, saying:\n\n7:6. Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away to us, and\nmake the son of Tabeel king in the midst thereof.\n\n7:7. Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this shall not be.\n\n7:8. But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is\nRasin: and within threescore and five years, Ephraim shall cease to be a\npeople:\n\n7:9. And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the\nson of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not continue.\n\n7:10. And the Lord spoke again to Achaz, saying:\n\n7:11. Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either unto the depth of\nhell, or unto the height above.\n\n7:12. And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will not tempt the Lord.\n\n7:13. And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a small\nthing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God\nalso?\n\n7:14. Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin\nshall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.\n\n7:15. He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the\nevil, and to choose the good.\n\n7:16. For before the child know to refuse the evil and to choose the\ngood, the land which thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of the face of her\ntwo kings.\n\n7:17. The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the\nhouse of thy father, days that have not come since the time of the\nseparation of Ephraim from Juda with the king of the Assyrians.\n\n7:18. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss\nfor the fly, that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt, and\nfor the bee that is in the land of Assyria.\n\n7:19. And they shall come, and shall all of them rest in the torrents of\nthe valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all places set with\nshrubs, and in all hollow places.\n\n7:20. In that day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is hired by\nthem that are beyond the river, by the king of the Assyrians, the head\nand the hairs of the feet, and the whole beard.\n\n7:21. And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a\nyoung cow, and two sheep.\n\n7:22. And for the abundance of milk he shall eat butter: for butter and\nhoney shall every one eat that shall be left in the midst of the land.\n\n7:23. And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where\nthere were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of silver, shall\nbecome thorns and briers.\n\n7:24. With arrows and with bows they shall go in thither: for briers and\nthorns shall be in all the land.\n\n7:25. And as for the hills that shall be raked with a rake, the fear of\nthorns and briers shall not come thither, but they shall be for the ox\nto feed on, and the lesser cattle to tread upon.\n\nIsaias Chapter 8\n\nThe name of a child that is to be born: many evils shall come upon the\nJews for their sins.\n\n8:1. And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it\nwith a man's pen. Take away the spoils with speed, quickly take the\nprey.\n\n8:2. And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest, and\nZacharias the son of Barachias.\n\n8:3. And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son.\nAnd the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils:\nMake hast to take away the prey.\n\n8:4. For before the child know to call his father and his mother, the\nstrength of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria shall be taken away\nbefore the king of the Assyrians.\n\n8:5. And the Lord spoke to me again, saying:\n\n8:6. Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of Siloe, that\ngo with silence, and hath rather taken Rasin, and the son of Romelia:\n\n8:7. Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters of the\nriver strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory: and\nhe shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his\nbanks.\n\n8:8. And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over shall\nreach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill\nthe breadth of thy, land, O Emmanuel.\n\n8:9. Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give\near, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome, gird\nyourselves, and be overcome.\n\n8:10. Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and\nit shall not be done: because God is with us.\n\n8:11. For thus saith the Lord to me: As he hath taught me, with a strong\narm, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:\n\n8:12. Say ye not: A conspiracy: for all that this people speaketh, is a\nconspiracy: neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.\n\n8:13. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let him be your fear, and\nlet him be your dread.\n\n8:14. And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone of\nstumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a\nsnare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.\n\n8:15. And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken\nin pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.\n\n8:16. Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.\n\n8:17. And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from the house\nof Jacob, and I will look for him.\n\n8:18. Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for a sign,\nand for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in mount\nSion.\n\n8:19. And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of diviners,\nwho mutter in their enchantments: should not the people seek of their\nGod, for the living of the dead?\n\nSeek of pythons... That is, people pretending to tell future things by a\nprophesying spirit.-Ibid.  Should not the people seek of their God, for\nthe living of the dead?... Here is signified, that it is to God we\nshould pray to be directed, and not to seek of the dead, (that is, of\nfortune-tellers dead in sin,) for the health of the living.\n\n8:20. To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not\naccording to this word, they shall not have the morning light.\n\n8:21. And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and\nwhen they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and\ntheir God, and look upwards.\n\n8:22. And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble and darkness,\nweakness and distress, and a mist following them, and they cannot fly\naway from their distress.\n\nIsaias Chapter 9\n\nWhat joy shall come after afflictions by the birth and kingdom of\nChrist; which shall flourish for ever. Judgments upon Israel for their\nsins.\n\n9:1. At the first time the land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephtali was\nlightly touched: and at the last the way of the sea beyond the Jordan of\nthe Galilee of the Gentiles was heavily loaded.\n\n9:2. The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light: to\nthem that dwelt in the region of the shadow of death, light is risen.\n\n9:3. Thou hast multiplied the nation, and hast not increased the joy.\nThey shall rejoice before thee, as they that rejoice in the harvest, as\nconquerors rejoice after taking a prey, when they divide the spoils.\n\n9:4. For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their shoulder, and\nthe sceptre of their oppressor thou hast overcome, as in the day of\nMadian.\n\n9:5. For every violent taking of spoils, with tumult, and garment\nmingled with blood, shall be burnt, and be fuel for the fire.\n\n9:6. For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the\ngovernment is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,\nCounsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince\nof Peace.\n\n9:7. His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace:\nhe shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to\nestablish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from\nhenceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform\nthis.\n\n9:8. The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.\n\n9:9. And all the people of Ephraim shall know, and the inhabitants of\nSamaria that say in the pride and haughtiness of their heart:\n\n9:10. The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones:\nthey have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars.\n\n9:11. And the Lord shall set up the enemies of Rasin over him, and shall\nbring on his enemies in a crowd:\n\n9:12. The Syrians from the east, and, the Philistines from the west: and\nthey shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his indignation\nis not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.\n\n9:13. And the people are not returned to him who hath struck them, and\nhave not sought after the Lord of hosts.\n\n9:14. And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail,\nhim that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day.\n\n9:15. The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that\nteacheth lies, he is the tail.\n\n9:16. And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err:\nand they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down, headlong.\n\n9:17. Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men: neither\nshall he have mercy on their fatherless, and widows: for every one is a\nhypocrite and wicked, and every mouth hath spoken folly. For all this\nhis indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.\n\n9:18. For wickedness is kindled as a fire, it shall devour the brier and\nthe thorn: and shall kindle in the thicket of the forest, and it shall\nbe wrapped up in smoke ascending on high.\n\n9:19. By the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is troubled, and the\npeople shall be as fuel for the fire: no man shall spare his brother.\n\n9:20. And he shall turn to the right hand, and shall be hungry: and\nshall eat on the left hand, and shall not be filled: every one shall eat\nthe flesh of his own arm: Manasses Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasses, and\nthey together shall be against Juda.\n\n9:21. After all these things his indignation is not turned away, but his\nhand is stretched out still.\n\nIsaias Chapter 10\n\nWoe to the makers of wicked laws. The Assyrian shall be a rod for\npunishing Israel: but for their pride they shall be destroyed: and a\nremnant of Israel saved.\n\n10:1. Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write\ninjustice:\n\n10:2. To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of\nthe humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they\nmight rob the fatherless.\n\n10:3. What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity\nwhich cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye\nleave your glory?\n\n10:4. That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the\nslain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand is\nstretched out still.\n\n10:5. Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and\nmy indignation is in their hands.\n\n10:6. I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a\ncharge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to\nlay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the\nstreets.\n\n10:7. But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but\nhis heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.\n\n10:8. For he shall say:\n\n10:9. Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis:\nand Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus?\n\n10:10. As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idol, so also their\nidols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria.\n\n10:11. Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to\nJerusalem and her idols?\n\n10:12. And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have\nperformed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, I will visit\nthe fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of\nthe haughtiness of his eyes.\n\n10:13. For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have done it,\nand by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds of\nthe people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a mighty\nman hath pulled down them that sat on high.\n\n10:14. And my hand hath found the strength of the people as a nest; and\nas eggs are gathered, that are left, so have I gathered all the earth:\nand there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or made the\nleast noise.\n\n10:15. Shall the axe boast itself against him that cutteth with it?  or\nshall the saw exalt itself against him by whom it is drawn? as if a rod\nshould lift itself up against him that lifteth it up, and a staff exalt\nitself, which is but wood.\n\n10:16. Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send\nleanness among his fat ones: and under his glory shall be kindled a\nburning, as it were the burning of a fire.\n\n10:17. And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One\nthereof as a flame: and his thorns and his briers shall be set on fire,\nand shall be devoured in one day.\n\n10:18. And the glory of his forest, and of his beautiful hill, shall be\nconsumed from the soul even to the flesh, and he shall run away through\nfear.\n\n10:19. And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few,\nthat they shall easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down.\n\n10:20. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of\nIsrael, and they that shall escape of the house of Jacob, shall lean no\nmore upon him that striketh them: but they shall lean upon the Lord the\nHoly One of Israel, in truth.\n\n10:21. The remnant shall be converted, the remnant, I say, of Jacob, to\nthe mighty God.\n\n10:22. For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the sea, a\nremnant of them shall be converted, the consumption abridged shall\noverflow with justice.\n\nA remnant of them shall be converted... This was partly verified in the\nchildren of Israel who remained after the devastations of the Assyrians,\nin the time of king Ezechias: and partly in the conversion of a remnant\nof the Jews to the faithful of Christ.-Ibid. The consumption abridged,\netc... That is, the number of them cut short, and reduced to few, shall\nflourish in abundance of justice.\n\n10:23. For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, and an\nabridgment in the midst of all the land.\n\n10:24. Therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: O my people that\ndwellest in Sion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall strike thee\nwith his rod, and he shall lift up his staff over thee in the way of\nEgypt.\n\n10:25. For yet a little and a very little while, and my indignation\nshall cease, and my wrath shall be upon their wickedness.\n\n10:26. And the Lord of hosts shall raise up a scourge against him,\naccording to the slaughter of Madian in the rock of Oreb, and his rod\nover the sea, and he shall lift it up in the way of Egypt.\n\n10:27. And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be\ntaken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and\nthe yoke shall putrefy at the presence of the oil.\n\nAt the presence of the oil... That is, by the sweet unction of divine\nmercy.\n\n10:28. He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at Machmas\nhe shall lay up his carriages.\n\nInto Aiath, etc... Here the prophet describes the march of the Assyrians\nunder Sennacherib; and the terror they should carry with them; and how\nthey should suddenly be destroyed.\n\n10:29. They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was\nastonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.\n\n10:30. Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim, attend, O Laisa, poor\nAnathoth.\n\n10:31. Medemena is removed: ye inhabitants of Gabim, take courage.\n\n10:32. It is yet day enough, to remain in Nobe: he shall shake his hand\nagainst the mountain of the daughter of Sion, the hill of Jerusalem.\n\n10:33. Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall break the earthen vessel\nwith terror, and the tall of stature shall be cut down, and the lofty\nshall be humbled.\n\n10:34. And the thickets of the forest shall be cut down with iron, and\nLibanus with its high ones shall fall.\n\nIsaias Chapter 11\n\nOf the spiritual kingdom of Christ, to which all nations shall repair.\n\n11:1. And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a\nflower shall rise up out of his root.\n\n11:2. And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of\nwisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude,\nthe spirit of knowledge, and of godliness.\n\n11:3. And he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord, He\nshall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove\naccording to the hearing of the ears.\n\n11:4. But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with\nequity the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod\nof his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.\n\n11:5. And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle\nof his reins.\n\n11:6. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down\nwith the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together,\nand a little child shall lead them.\n\n11:7. The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest\ntogether: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.\n\n11:8. And the sucking child shall play on other hole of the asp: and the\nweaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk.\n\n11:9. They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain,\nfor the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering\nwaters of the sea.\n\n11:10. In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the\npeople, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be\nglorious.\n\n11:11. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set\nhis hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which\nshall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and\nfrom Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from\nthe islands of the sea.\n\n11:12. And he shall set up a standard unto the nations, and shall\nassemble the fugitives of Israel, and shall gather together the\ndispersed of Juda from the four quarters of the earth.\n\n11:13. And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of\nJuda shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda, and Juda shall not fight\nagainst Ephraim.\n\n11:14. But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines by the\nsea, they together shall spoil the children of the east: Edom, till Moab\nshall be under the rule of their hand, and the children of Ammon shall\nbe obedient.\n\n11:15. And the Lord shall lay waste the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and\nshall lift up his hand over the river in the strength of his spirit: and\nhe shall strike it in the seven streams, so that men may pass through it\nin their shoes.\n\n11:16. And there shall be a highway for the remnant of my people, which\nshall be left from the Assyrians: as there was for Israel in the day\nthat he came up out of the land of Egypt.\n\nIsaias Chapter 12\n\nA canticle of thanksgiving for the benefits of Christ.\n\n12:1. And thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to thee, O\nLord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and thou\nhast comforted me.\n\n12:2. Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not\nfear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become\nmy salvation.\n\n12:3. Thou shall draw waters with joy out of the saviour's fountains:\n\n12:4. And you shall say in that day: Praise ye the Lord, and call upon\nhis name: make his works known among the people: remember that his name\nis high.\n\n12:5. Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath done great things: shew this\nforth in all the earth.\n\n12:6. Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great is he\nthat is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of Israel.\n\nIsaias Chapter 13\n\nThe desolation of Babylon.\n\n13:1. The burden of Babylon which Isaias the son of Amos saw.\n\nThe burden of Babylon... That is, a prophecy against Babylon.\n\n13:2. Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift\nup the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates.\n\n13:3. I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong\nones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.\n\n13:4. The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of many\npeople, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations gathered together:\nthe Lord of hosts hath given charge to the troops of war.\n\n13:5. To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of heaven:\nthe Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land.\n\n13:6. Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a\ndestruction from the Lord.\n\n13:7. Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall\nmelt,\n\n13:8. And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them,\nthey shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at\nhis neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt.\n\n13:9. Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of\nindignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to\ndestroy the sinners thereof out of it.\n\n13:10. For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display\ntheir light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall\nnot shine with her light.\n\n13:11. And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked\nfor their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and\nwill bring down the arrogancy of the mighty.\n\n13:12. A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest\nof gold.\n\n13:13. For this I will trouble the heaven: and the earth shall be moved\nout of her place, for the indignation of the Lord of hosts, and for the\nday of his fierce wrath.\n\n13:14. And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, and as a sheep: and\nthere shall be none to gather them together: every man shall turn to his\nown people, and every one shall flee to his own land.\n\n13:15. Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that\nshall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.\n\n13:16. Their inhabitants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes:\ntheir houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.\n\n13:17. Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek\nsilver, nor desire gold:\n\n13:18. But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall\nhave no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not\nspare their sons.\n\n13:19. And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous pride of\nthe Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha.\n\n13:20. It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be\nfounded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch\nhis tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there.\n\n13:21. But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be\nfilled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy\nones shall dance there:\n\n13:22. And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof,\nand sirens in the temples of pleasure.\n\nIsaias Chapter 14\n\nThe restoration of Israel after their captivity. The parable or song\ninsulting over the king of Babylon. A prophecy against the Philistines.\n\n14:1. Her time is near at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged. For\nthe Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose out of Israel,\nand will make them rest upon their own ground: and the stranger shall be\njoined with them, and shall adhere to the house of Jacob.\n\n14:2. And the people shall take them, and bring them into their place:\nand the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for\nservants and handmaids: and they shall make them captives that had taken\nthem, and shall subdue their oppressors.\n\n14:3. And it shall come to pass in that day, that when God shall give\nthee rest from thy labour, and from thy vexation, and from the hard\nbondage, wherewith thou didst serve before,\n\n14:4. Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and\nshalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath\nceased?\n\n14:5. The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the\nrulers,\n\n14:6. That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, that\nbrought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.\n\n14:7. The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad and hath rejoiced.\n\n14:8. The fir trees also have rejoiced over thee, and the cedars of\nLibanus, saying: Since thou hast slept, there hath none come up to cut\nus down.\n\n14:9. Hell below was in an uproar to meet thee at thy coming, it stirred\nup the giants for thee. All the princes of the earth are risen up from\ntheir thrones, all the princes of nations.\n\n14:10. All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded as well\nas we, thou art become like unto us.\n\n14:11. Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen down:\nunder thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering.\n\n14:12. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the\nmorning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations?\n\nO Lucifer... O day star. All this, according to the letter, is spoken of\nthe king of Babylon. It may also be applied, in a spiritual sense, to\nLucifer the prince of devils, who was created a bright angel, but fell\nby pride and rebellion against God.\n\n14:13. And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will\nexalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of\nthe covenant, in the sides of the north.\n\n14:14. I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the\nmost High.\n\n14:15. But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of the\npit.\n\n14:16. They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee, and behold\nthee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook kingdoms,\n\n14:17. That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities\nthereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?\n\n14:18. All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory,\nevery one in his own house.\n\n14:19. But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch\ndefiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art\ngone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.\n\n14:20. Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou\nhast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the\nwicked shall not be named for ever.\n\n14:21. Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of their\nfathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor fill the face\nof the world with cities.\n\n14:22. And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts: and I\nwill destroy the name of Babylon, and the remains, and the bud, and the\noffspring, saith the Lord.\n\n14:23. And I will make it a possession for the ericius and pools of\nwaters, and I will sweep it and wear it out with a besom, saith the Lord\nof hosts.\n\n14:24. The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought,\nso shall it be: and as I have purposed,\n\n14:25. So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in my\nland, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and his yoke shall be\ntaken away from them, and his burden shall be taken off their shoulder.\n\n14:26. This is the counsel, that I have purposed upon all the earth, and\nthis is the hand that is stretched out upon all nations.\n\n14:27. For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? and\nhis hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away?\n\n14:28. In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden:\n\n14:29. Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of him that\nstruck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root of the serpent\nshall come forth a basilisk, and his seed shall swallow the bird.\n\n14:30. And the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the poor shall\nrest with confidence: and I will make thy root perish with famine, and I\nwill kill thy remnant.\n\n14:31. Howl, O gate; cry, O city: all Philistia is thrown down: for a\nsmoke shall come from the north, and there is none that shall escape his\ntroop.\n\n14:32. And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations? That\nthe Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of his people shall hope in\nhim.\n\nIsaias Chapter 15\n\nA prophecy of the desolation of the Moabites.\n\n15:1. The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste,\nit is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is\nsilent.\n\n15:2. The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to mourn over\nNabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: on all their heads shall be\nbaldness, and every beard shall be shaven.\n\n15:3. In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of\ntheir houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down weeping.\n\n15:4. Hesebon shall cry, and Eleale, their voice is heard even to Jasa.\nFor this shall the well appointed men of Moab howl, his soul shall howl\nto itself.\n\n15:5. My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor\na heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up\nweeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of\ndestruction.\n\n15:6. For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is\nwithered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.\n\n15:7. According to the greatness of their work, is their visitation\nalso: they shall lead them to the torrent of the willows.\n\nTorrent of the willows... That is, as some say, the waters of Babylon:\nothers render it, a valley of the Arabians.\n\n15:8. For the cry is gone round about the border of Moab: the howling\nthereof unto Gallim, and unto the well of Elim the cry thereof.\n\n15:9. For the waters of Dibon are filled with blood: for I will bring\nmore upon Dibon: the lion upon them that shall flee of Moab, and upon\nthe remnant of the land.\n\nIsaias Chapter 16\n\nThe prophet prayeth for Christ's coming. The affliction of the Moabites\nfor their pride.\n\n16:1. Send forth, O Lord, the lamb, the ruler of the earth, from Petra\nof the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Sion.\n\n16:2. And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away, and as\nyoung ones flying out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in\nthe passage of Arnon.\n\n16:3. Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the night in\nthe midday: hide them that flee, and betray not them that wander about.\n\n16:4. My fugitives shall dwell with thee: O Moab, be thou a covert to\nthem from the face of the destroyer: for the dust is at an end, the\nwretch is consumed: he hath failed, that trod the earth under foot.\n\n16:5. And a throne shall be prepared in mercy, and one shall sit upon it\nin truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment and\nquickly rendering that which is just.\n\n16:6. We have heard of the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud: his\npride and his arrogancy, and his indignation is more than his strength.\n\n16:7. Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every one shall howl: to them\nthat rejoice upon the brick walls, tell ye their stripes.\n\n16:8. For the suburbs of Hesebon are desolate, and the lords of the\nnations have destroyed the vineyard of Sabama: the branches thereof have\nreached even to Jazer: they have wandered in the wilderness, the\nbranches thereof are left, they are gone over the sea.\n\n16:9. Therefore I will lament with the weeping of Jazer the vineyard of\nSabama: I will water thee with my tears, O Hesebon, and Eleale: for the\nvoice of the treaders hath rushed in upon thy vintage, and upon thy\nharvest.\n\n16:10. And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and there\nshall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards. He shall not tread\nout wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the\ntreaders I have taken away.\n\nCarmel... This name is often taken to signify a fair and fruitful hill\nor field, such as mount Carmel is.\n\n16:11. Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my\ninward parts for the brick wall.\n\n16:12. And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is wearied\non his high places, that he shall go in to his sanctuaries to pray, and\nshall not prevail.\n\n16:13. This is the word, that the Lord spoke to Moab from that time:\n\n16:14. And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In three years, as the\nyears of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken away for all the\nmultitude of the people, and it shall be left small and feeble, not\nmany.\n\nIsaias Chapter 17\n\nJudgments upon Damascus and Samaria. The overthrow of the Assyrians.\n\n17:1. The burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus shall cease to be a city,\nand shall be as a ruinous heap of stones.\n\n17:2. The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they shall rest\nthere, and there shall be none to make them afraid.\n\n17:3. And aid shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus:\nand the remnant of Syria shall be as the glory of the children of\nIsrael: saith the Lord of hosts.\n\n17:4. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob\nshall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall grow lean.\n\n17:5. And it shall be as when one gathereth in the harvest that which\nremaineth, and his arm shall gather the ears of corn: and it shall be as\nhe that seeketh ears in the vale of Raphaim.\n\n17:6. And the fruit thereof that shall be left upon it, shall be as one\ncluster of grapes, and as the shaking of the olive tree, two or three\nberries in the top of a bough, or four or five upon the top of the tree,\nsaith the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n17:7. In that day man shall bow down himself to his Maker, and his eyes\nshall look to the Holy One of Israel.\n\n17:8. And he shall not look to the altars which his hands made; and he\nshall not have respect to the things that his fingers wrought, such as\ngroves and temples.\n\n17:9. In that day his strong cities shall be forsaken, as the ploughs,\nand the corn that were left before the face of the children of Israel,\nand thou shalt be desolate.\n\nThat were left... Viz., by the Chanaanites, when the children of Israel\ncame into their land.\n\n17:10. Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast not\nremembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou plant good plants,\nand shalt sow strange seed.\n\n17:11. In the day of thy planting shall be the wild grape, and in the\nmorning thy seed shall flourish: the harvest is taken away in the day of\ninheritance, and shall grieve thee much.\n\n17:12. Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude of the\nroaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the noise of many waters.\n\nThe multitude, etc... This and all that follows to the end of the\nchapter, relates to the Assyrian army under Sennacherib.\n\n17:13. Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing,\nbut he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be\ncarried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a\nwhirlwind before a tempest.\n\n17:14. In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble: the\nmorning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the portion of them\nthat have wasted us, and the lot of them that spoiled us.\n\nIsaias Chapter 18\n\nA woe to the Ethiopians, who fed Israel with vain hopes, their future\nconversion.\n\n18:1. Woe to the land, the winged cymbal, which is beyond the rivers of\nEthiopia,\n\n18:2. That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes\nupon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in\npieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation\nexpecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.\n\nAngels... Or messengers.\n\n18:3. All ye inhabitants of the world, who dwell on the earth, when the\nsign shall be lifted up on the mountains, you shall see, and you shall\nhear the sound of the trumpet.\n\n18:4. For thus saith the Lord to me: I will take my rest, and consider\nin my place, as the noon light is clear, and as a cloud of dew in the\nday of harvest.\n\n18:5. For before the harvest it was all flourishing, and it shall bud\nwithout perfect ripeness, and the sprigs thereof shall be cut off with\npruning hooks: and what is left shall be cut away and shaken out.\n\n18:6. And they shall be left together to the birds of the mountains, and\nthe beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall be upon them all the\nsummer, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.\n\n18:7. At that time shall a present be brought to the Lord of hosts, from\na people rent and torn in pieces: from a terrible people, after which\nthere hath been no other: from a nation expecting, expecting and trodden\nunder foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name\nof the Lord of hosts, to mount Sion.\n\nIsaias Chapter 19\n\nThe punishment of Egypt: their call to the church.\n\n19:1. The burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a swift\ncloud, and will enter into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved\nat his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst thereof.\n\n19:2. And I will set the Egyptians to fight against the Egyptians: and\nthey shall fight brother against brother, and friend against friend,\ncity against city, kingdom against kingdom.\n\n19:3. And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof, and\nI will cast down their counsel: and they shall consult their idols, and\ntheir diviners, and their wizards, and soothsayers.\n\n19:4. And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters, and a\nstrong king shall rule over them, saith the Lord the God of hosts.\n\n19:5. And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be\nwasted and dry.\n\n19:6. And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be\ndiminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.\n\n19:7. The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its fountain, and\nevery thing sown by the water shall be dried up, it shall wither away,\nand shall be no more.\n\n19:8. The fishers also shall mourn, and all that cast a hook into the\nriver shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall\nlanguish away.\n\n19:9. They shall be confounded that wrought in flax, combing and weaving\nfine linen.\n\n19:10. And its watery places shall be dry, all they shall mourn that\nmade pools to take fishes.\n\n19:11. The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of\nPharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the\nson of the wise, the son of ancient kings?\n\n19:12. Where are now thy wise men? let them tell thee, and shew what the\nLord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.\n\n19:13. The princes of Tanis are become fools, the princes of Memphis are\ngone astray, they have deceived Egypt, the stay of the people thereof.\n\n19:14. The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of\ngiddiness: and they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, as a\ndrunken man staggereth and vomiteth.\n\n19:15. And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head or tail, him\nthat bendeth down, or that holdeth back.\n\n19:16. In that day Egypt shall be like unto women, and they shall be\namazed, and afraid, because of the moving of the hand of the Lord of\nhosts, which he shall move over it.\n\n19:17. And the land of Juda shall be a terror to Egypt: everyone that\nshall remember it shall tremble because of the counsel of the Lord of\nhosts, which he hath determined concerning it.\n\n19:18. In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt,\nspeaking the language of Chanaan, and swearing by the Lord of hosts: one\nshall be called the city of the sun.\n\n19:19. In that day there shall be an altar of the Lord in the midst of\nthe land of Egypt, and a monument of the Lord at the borders thereof:\n\n19:20. It shall be for a sign, and for a testimony to the Lord of hosts\nin the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the Lord because of the\noppressor, and he shall send them a Saviour and a defender to deliver\nthem.\n\n19:21. And the Lord shall be known by Egypt, and the Egyptians shall\nknow the Lord in that day, and shall worship him with sacrifices and\nofferings: and they shall make vows to the Lord, and perform them.\n\n19:22. And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a scourge, and shall heal\nit, and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall be pacified towards\nthem, and heal them.\n\n19:23. In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and\nthe Assyrian shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptian to the Assyrians,\nand the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrian.\n\n19:24. In that day shall Israel be the third to the Egyptian and the\nAssyrian: a blessing in the midst of the land,\n\n19:25. Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying: Blessed be my\npeople of Egypt, and the work of my hands to the Assyrian: but Israel is\nmy inheritance.\n\nIsaias Chapter 20\n\nThe ignominious captivity of the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians.\n\n20:1. In the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus, when Sargon the\nking of the Assyrians had sent him, and he had fought against Azotus,\nand had taken it:\n\n20:2. At that same time the Lord spoke by the hand of Isaias the son of\nAmos, saying Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and take\noff thy shoes from thy feet. And he did so, and went naked, and\nbarefoot.\n\n20:3. And the Lord said: As my servant Isaias hath walked, naked and\nbarefoot, it shall be a sign and a wonder of three years upon Egypt, and\nupon Ethiopia,\n\n20:4. So shall the king of the Assyrians lead away the prisoners of\nEgypt, and the captivity of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot,\nwith their buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt.\n\n20:5. And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and\nof Egypt their glory.\n\n20:6. And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in that day: Lo this\nwas our hope, to whom we fled for help, to deliver us from the face of\nthe king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be able to escape?\n\nIsaias Chapter 21\n\nThe destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians: a prophecy against\nthe Edomites and the Arabians.\n\n21:1. The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds come from the\nsouth, it cometh from the desert from a terrible land.\n\nThe desert of the sea... So Babylon is here called, because from a city\nas full of people as the sea is with water, it was become a desert.\n\n21:2. A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth\nunfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, O Elam,\nbesiege, O Mede: I have made all the mourning thereof to cease.\n\nO Elam... That is, O Persia.\n\n21:3. Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold\nof me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing\nof it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.\n\n21:4. My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become\na wonder to me.\n\n21:5. Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and\ndrink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.\n\n21:6. For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and\nwhatsoever he shall see, let him tell.\n\n21:7. And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a\nrider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.\n\nA rider upon an ass, etc... These two riders are the kings of the\nPersians and Medes.\n\n21:8. And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord,\nstanding continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole\nnights.\n\nAnd a lion cried out... That is, I Isaias seeing the approaching ruin of\nBabylon, have cried out as a lion roaring.\n\n21:9. Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two\nhorsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen,\nand all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.\n\n21:10. O my thrashing, and the children of my floor, that which I have\nheard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.\n\n21:11. The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of\nthe night? watchman, what of the night?\n\nDuma... That is, Idumea, or Edom.\n\n21:12. The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you\nseek, seek: return, come.\n\n21:13. The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep,\nin the paths of Dedanim.\n\n21:14. Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of\nthe south, meet with bread him that fleeth.\n\n21:15. For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that\nhung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.\n\n21:16. For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the\nyears of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.\n\nCedar... Arabia.\n\n21:17. And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children\nof Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken\nit.\n\nIsaias Chapter 22\n\nThe prophet laments the devastation of Juda. He foretells the\ndeprivation of Sobna, and the substitution of Eliacim, a figure of\nChrist.\n\n22:1. The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that\nthou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?\n\nThe valley of vision... Jerusalem. The temple of Jerusalem was built\nupon mount Moria, or the mountain of vision. But the city is here called\nthe valley of vision; either because it was lower than the temple, or\nbecause of the low condition to which it was to be reduced.\n\n22:2. Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not\nslain by the sword, nor dead in battle.\n\n22:3. All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that\nwere found, are bound together, they are fled far off.\n\n22:4. Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly:\nlabour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my\npeople.\n\n22:5. For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and of weeping\nto the Lord the God of hosts in the valley of vision, searching the\nwall, and magnificent upon the mountain.\n\n22:6. And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman, and the\nshield was taken down from the wall.\n\n22:7. And thy choice valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen\nshall place themselves in the gate.\n\n22:8. And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou shalt see\nin that day the armoury of the house of the forest.\n\n22:9. And you shall see the breaches of the city of David, that they are\nmany: and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool,\n\n22:10. And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down houses\nto fortify the wall.\n\n22:11. And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the\nold pool: and you have not looked up to the maker thereof, nor regarded\nhim even at a distance, that wrought it long ago.\n\n22:12. And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to\nweeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:\n\n22:13. And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams,\neating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we\nshall die.\n\n22:14. And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my ears:\nSurely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till you die, saith the\nLord God of hosts.\n\n22:15. Thus saith the Lord God of hosts: Go, get thee in to him that\ndwelleth in the tabernacle, to Sobna who is over the temple: and thou\nshalt say to him:\n\n22:16. What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for thou\nhast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument\ncarefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock.\n\n22:17. Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is\ncarried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment.\n\n22:18. He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will toss thee\nlike a ball into a large and spacious country: there shalt thou die, and\nthere shall the chariot of thy glory be, the shame of the house of thy\nLord.\n\n22:19. And I will drive thee out from thy station, and depose thee from\nthy ministry.\n\n22:20. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my\nservant Eliacim the son of Helcias,\n\n22:21. And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him with\nthy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and he shall be as a\nfather to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda.\n\n22:22. And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder:\nand he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none\nshall open.\n\n22:23. And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be\nfor a throne of glory to the house of his father.\n\n22:24. And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house,\ndivers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from the vessels of cups\neven to every instrument of music.\n\n22:25. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be removed,\nthat was fastened in the sure place: and it shall be broken and shall\nfall: and that which hung thereon, shall perish, because the Lord hath\nspoken it.\n\nIsaias Chapter 23\n\nThe destruction of Tyre. It shall be repaired again after seventy years.\n\n23:1. The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is\ndestroyed, from whence they were wont to come: from the land of Cethim\nit is revealed to them.\n\n23:2. Be silent, you that dwell in the island: the merchants of Sidon\npassing over the sea, have filled thee.\n\n23:3. The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is\nher revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations.\n\n23:4. Be thou ashamed, O Sidon: for the sea speaketh, even the strength\nof the sea, saying: I have not been in labour, nor have I brought forth,\nnor have I nourished up young men, nor brought up virgins.\n\n23:5. When it shall be heard in Egypt, they will be sorry when they\nshall hear of Tyre:\n\n23:6. Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants of the island.\n\n23:7. Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her antiquity?\nher feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.\n\n23:8. Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, that was formerly\ncrowned, whose merchants were princes, and her traders the nobles of the\nearth?\n\n23:9. The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to pull down the pride of all\nglory, and bring to disgrace all the glorious ones of the earth.\n\n23:10. Pass thy land as a river, O daughter of the sea, thou hast a\ngirdle no more.\n\n23:11. He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms: the\nLord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones\nthereof.\n\n23:12. And he said: Thou shalt glory no more, O virgin daughter of\nSidon, who art oppressed: arise and sail over to Cethim, there also thou\nshalt have no rest.\n\n23:13. Behold the land of the Chaldeans, there was not such a people,\nthe Assyrians founded it: they have led away the strong ones thereof\ninto captivity, they have destroyed the houses thereof, they have,\nbrought it to ruin.\n\n23:14. Howl, O ye ships of the sea, for your strength is laid waste.\n\n23:15. And it shall come to pass in that day that thou, O Tyre, shalt be\nforgotten, seventy years, according to the days of one king: but after\nseventy years, there shall be unto Tyre as the song of a harlot.\n\n23:16. Take a harp, go about the city, harlot that hast been forgotten:\nsing well, sing many a song, that thou mayst be remembered.\n\n23:17. And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that the Lord will\nvisit Tyre, and will bring her back again to her traffic: and she shall\ncommit fornication again with all the kingdoms of the world upon the\nface of the earth.\n\n23:18. And her merchandise and her hire shall be sanctified to the Lord:\nthey shall not be kept in store, nor laid up: for her merchandise shall\nbe for them that shall dwell before the Lord, that they may eat unto\nfulness, and be clothed for a continuance.\n\nSanctified to the Lord... This alludes to the conversion of the\nGentiles.\n\nIsaias Chapter 24\n\nThe judgments of God upon all the sinners of the world. A remnant shall\njoyfully praise him.\n\n24:1. Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and\nshall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants\nthereof.\n\n24:2. And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as\nwith the servant so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her\nmistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so\nwith the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him\nthat oweth.\n\n24:3. With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be\nutterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.\n\n24:4. The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world\nfaded away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened.\n\n24:5. And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they\nhave transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have\nbroken the everlasting covenant.\n\n24:6. Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants\nthereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad,\nand few men shall be left.\n\n24:7. The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the\nmerry have sighed.\n\n24:8. The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice\nis ended, the melody of the harp is silent.\n\n24:9. They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter\nto them that drink it.\n\n24:10. The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man\ncometh in.\n\n24:11. There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is\nforsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.\n\n24:12. Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the\ngates.\n\n24:13. For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the midst of\nthe people, as if a few olives, that remain, should be shaken out of the\nolive tree: or grapes, when the vintage is ended.\n\n24:14. These shall lift up their voice, and shall give praise: when the\nLord shall be glorified, they shall make a joyful noise from the sea.\n\n24:15. Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of the\nLord God of Israel in the islands of the sea.\n\n24:16. From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the glory of\nthe just one. And I said: My secret to myself, my secret to myself, woe\nis me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and with the prevarication\nof transgressors they have prevaricated.\n\n24:17. Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou inhabitant\nof the earth.\n\n24:18. And it shall come to pass, that he that shall flee from the noise\nof the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall rid himself out\nof the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the flood-gates from on\nhigh are opened, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.\n\n24:19. With breaking shall the earth be broken, with crushing shall the\nearth be crushed, with trembling shall the earth be moved.\n\n24:20. With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and\nshall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof\nshall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.\n\n24:21. And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall visit\nupon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the\nearth.\n\nThe host of heaven on high... The stars, which in many places of the\nScripture are so called. Some commentators explain that these words here\nsignify the demons of the air.\n\n24:22. And they shall be gathered together as in the gathering of one\nbundle into the pit, and they shall be shut up there in prison: and\nafter many days they shall be visited.\n\n24:23. And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when the\nLord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, and shall be\nglorified in the sight of his ancients.\n\nIsaias Chapter 25\n\nA canticle of thanksgiving for God's judgments and benefits.\n\n25:1. O Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt O thee, and give glory to\nthy name: for thou hast done wonderful things, thy designs of old\nfaithful, amen.\n\n25:2. For thou hast reduced the city to a heap, the strong city to ruin,\nthe house of strangers, to be no city, and to be no more built up for\never.\n\n25:3. Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of mighty\nnations shall fear thee.\n\n25:4. Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the\nneedy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the\nheat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a\nwall.\n\n25:5. Thou shalt bring down the tumult of strangers, as heat in thirst:\nand as with heat under a burning cloud, thou shalt make the branch of\nthe mighty to wither away.\n\n25:6. And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people in this mountain,\na feast of fat things, a feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of\nwine purified from the lees.\n\n25:7. And he shall destroy in this mountain the face of the bond with\nwhich all people were tied, and the web that he began over all nations.\n\n25:8. He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall\nwipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall\ntake away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.\n\n25:9. And they shall say in that day: Lo, this is our God, we have\nwaited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord, we have patiently\nwaited for him, we shall rejoice and be joyful in his salvation.\n\n25:10. For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and Moab\nshall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken in pieces with the\nwain.\n\nMoab... That is, the reprobate, whose eternal punishment, from which\nthey can no way escape, is described under these figures.\n\n25:11. And he shall stretch forth his hands under him, as he that\nswimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down his\nglory with the dashing of his hands.\n\n25:12. And the bulwarks of thy high walls shall fall, and be brought\nlow, and shall be pulled down to the ground, even to the dust.\n\nIsaias Chapter 26\n\nA canticle of thanks for the deliverance of God's people.\n\n26:1. In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda.  Sion\nthe city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set\ntherein.\n\n26:2. Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the\ntruth, enter in.\n\n26:3. The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because\nwe have hoped in thee.\n\n26:4. You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God mighty\nfor ever.\n\n26:5. For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high city he\nshall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the ground, he shall pull\nit down even to the dust.\n\n26:6. The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of\nthe needy.\n\n26:7. The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to\nwalk in.\n\n26:8. And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited\nfor thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.\n\n26:9. My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit\nwithin me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do\nthy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn\njustice.\n\n26:10. Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in\nthe land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see\nthe glory of the Lord.\n\n26:11. Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the\nenvious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.\n\n26:12. Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all our\nworks for us.\n\n26:13. O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over\nus, only in thee let us remember thy name.\n\n26:14. Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore\nhast visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory.\n\n26:15. Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast been\nfavourable to the nation: art thou glorified? thou hast removed all the\nends of the earth far off.\n\n26:16. Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation\nof murmuring thy instruction was with them.\n\n26:17. As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her\ndelivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs: so are we become in\nthy presence, O Lord.\n\n26:18. We have conceived, and been as it were in labour, and have\nbrought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth,\ntherefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.\n\n26:19. Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and\ngive praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the\nlight: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.\n\n26:20. Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee,\nhide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away.\n\n26:21. For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the\niniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall\ndisclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.\n\nShall cover her slain no more... This is said with relation to the\nmartyrs, and their happy resurrection.\n\nIsaias Chapter 27\n\nThe punishment of the oppressors of God's people. The Lord's favour to\nhis church.\n\n27:1. In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword\nshall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked\nserpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.\n\nLeviathan... That is, the devil, the great enemy of the people of God.\nHe is called the bar serpent from his strength, and the crooked serpent\nfrom his wiles; and the whale of the sea, from the tyranny he exercises\nin the sea of this world. He was spiritually slain by the death of\nChrist, when his power was destroyed.\n\n27:2. In that day there shall be singing to the vineyard of pure wine.\n\nThe vineyard, etc... The church of Christ.\n\n27:3. I am the Lord that keep it, I will suddenly give it drink: lest\nany hurt come to it, I keep it night and day.\n\nI will suddenly give it drink... Or, as the Hebrew may also be rendered,\nI will continually water it.\n\n27:4. There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a\nbrier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire\ntogether?\n\nNo indignation in me, etc... Viz., against the church: nor shall I\nbecome as a thorn or brier in its regard; or march against it, or set it\non fire: but it shall always take fast hold of me, and keep an\neverlasting peace with me.\n\n27:5. Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make peace\nwith me, shall it make peace with me?\n\n27:6. When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud,\nand they shall fill the face of the world with seed.\n\nWhen they shall rush in, etc... Some understand this of the enemies of\nthe true Israel, that shall invade it in vain. Others of the spiritual\ninvasion made by the apostles of Christ.\n\n\n27:7. Hath he struck him according to the stroke of him that struck him?\nor is he slain, as he killed them that were slain by him?\n\nHath he struck him, etc... Hath God punished the carnal persecuting\nJews, in proportion to their doings against Christ and his saints?\n\n27:8. In measure against measure, when it shall be cast off, thou shalt\njudge it. He hath meditated with his severe spirit in the day of heat.\n\nWhen it shall be cast off, etc... When the synagogue shall be cast off,\nthou shalt judge it in measure, and in proportion to its crimes.-Ibid.\nHe hath meditated, etc... God hath designed severe punishments in the\nday of his wrath.\n\n27:9. Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be\nforgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be\ntaken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as\nburnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.\n\nOf the house of Jacob... Viz., of such of them as shall be converted.\n\n27:10. For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall\nbe forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness: there the calf shall\nfeed, and there shall he lie down, and shall consume its branches.\n\nThe strong city... Jerusalem.\n\n27:11. Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and\nteach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall\nnot have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.\n\n27:12. And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will strike\nfrom the channel of the river even to the torrent of Egypt, and you\nshall be gathered together one by one, O ye children of Israel.\n\n27:13. And it shall come to pass, that in that day a noise shall be made\nwith a great trumpet, and they that were lost, shall come from the land\nof the Assyrians, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt, and\nthey shall adore the Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem.\n\nA great trumpet... The preaching of the gospel for the conversion of the\nJews.\n\nIsaias Chapter 28\n\nThe punishment of the Israelites, for their pride, intemperance, and\ncontempt of religion. Christ the cornerstone.\n\n28:1. Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the\nfading flower the glory his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley,\nstaggering with wine.\n\nEphraim... That is, the kingdom of the ten tribes.-Ibid. The head of the\nfat valley... Samaria, situate on a hill, having under it a most fertile\nvalley.\n\n28:2. Behold the Lord is mighty and strong, as a storm of hail: a\ndestroying whirlwind, as the violence of many waters overflowing, and\nsent forth upon a spacious land.\n\n28:3. The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden\nunder feet.\n\n28:4. And the fading tower the glory of his joy, who is on the head of\nthe fat valley, shall be as a hasty fruit before the ripeness of autumn:\nwhich when he that seeth it shall behold, as soon he taketh it in his\nhand, he will eat it up.\n\n28:5. In that day the Lord of hosts shall be a crown of glory, and a\ngarland of joy to the residue of his people:\n\n28:6. And a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and\nstrength to them that return out of the battle to the gate.\n\n28:7. But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through\ndrunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant\nthrough drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone\nastray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have\nbeen ignorant of judgment.\n\nThese also... The kingdom of Juda.\n\n28:8. For all the tables were full of vomit and filth, so that there was\nno more place.\n\n28:9. Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to\nunderstand the hearing? them that are weaned from the milk, that are\ndrawn away from the breasts.\n\n28:10. For command, command again; command, command again; expect,\nexpect again; a little there, a little there.\n\nCommand, command again, etc... This is said in the person of the Jews,\nresisting the repeated commands of God, and still putting him off.\n\n28:11. For with the speech of lips, and with another tongue he will\nspeak to this people.\n\n28:12. To whom he said: This is my rest, refresh the weary, and this is\nmy refreshing: and they would not hear.\n\n28:13. And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command\nagain; command, command again; expect, expect again; a little there, a\nlittle there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and\nsnared, and taken.\n\n28:14. Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who rule\nover my people that is in Jerusalem.\n\n28:15. For you have said: We have entered into a league with death, and\nwe have made a covenant with hell. When the overflowing scourge shall\npass through, it shall not come upon us: for we have placed our hope in\nlies, and by falsehood we are protected.\n\n28:16. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in\nthe foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious\nstone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten.\n\nA stone in the foundations... Viz., Christ.-Ibid. Let him not hasten,\netc... Let him expect his coming with patience.\n\n28:17. And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure: and\nhail shall overturn the hope of falsehood: and waters shall overflow its\nprotection.\n\n28:18. And your league with death shall be abolished, and your covenant\nwith hell shall not stand: when the overflowing scourge shall pass, you\nshall be trodden down by it.\n\n28:19. Whensoever it shall pass through, it shall take you away: because\nin the morning early it shall pass through, in the day and in the night,\nand vexation alone shall make you understand what you hear.\n\n28:20. For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short\ncovering cannot cover both.\n\nThe bed is straitened, etc... It is too narrow to hold two: God will\nhave the bed of our heart all to himself.\n\n28:21. For the Lord shall stand up as in the mountain of divisions: he\nshall be angry as in the valley which is in Gabaon: that he may do his\nwork, his strange work: that he may perform his work, his work is\nstrange to him.\n\nAs in the mountain, etc... As the Lord fought against the Philistines in\nBaal Pharasim, 2 Kings 5., and against the Chanaanites, in the valley of\nGabaon, Jos. 10.\n\n28:22. And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have\nheard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short\nupon all the earth.\n\n28:23. Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.\n\n28:24. Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and\nharrow his ground?\n\n28:25. Will he not, when he hath made plain the surface thereof, sow\ngith, and scatter cummin, and put wheat in order, and barley, and\nmillet, and vetches in their bounds?\n\n28:26. For he will instruct him in judgment: his God will teach him.\n\n28:27. For gith shall not be thrashed with saws, neither shall the cart\nwheel turn about upon cummin: but gith shall be beaten out with a rod,\nand cumin with a staff.\n\n28:28. But breadcorn shall be broken small: but the thrasher shall not\nthrash it for ever, neither shall the cart wheel hurt it, nor break it\nwith its teeth.\n\n28:29. This also is come forth from the Lord God of hosts, to make his\ncounsel wonderful, and magnify justice.\n\nThis also, etc... Such also is the proceeding of the Lord with his land,\nand the divers seeds he throws therein.\n\nIsaias Chapter 29\n\nGod's heavy judgments upon Jerusalem, for their obstinacy: with a\nprophecy of the conversion of the Gentiles.\n\n29:1. Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the city which David took: year is added to\nyear the solemnities are at an end.\n\nAriel... This word signifies, the lion of God, and here is taken for the\nstrong city of Jerusalem.\n\n29:2. And I will make a trench about Ariel, and it shall be in sorrow\nand mourning, and it shall be to me as Ariel.\n\n29:3. And I will make a circle round about thee, and I will cast up a\nrampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee.\n\n29:4. Thou shalt be brought down, thou shall speak out of the earth, and\nthy speech shall be heard out of the ground: and thy voice shall be from\nthe earth like that of the python, and out of the earth thy speech shall\nmutter.\n\n29:5. And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like small dust:\nand as ashes passing away, the multitude of them that have prevailed\nagainst thee.\n\n29:6. And it shall be at an instant suddenly. A visitation shall come\nfrom the Lord of hosts in thunder, and with earthquake, and with a great\nnoise of whirlwind and tempest; and with the flame of devouring fire.\n\n29:7. And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel,\nshall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought,\nand besieged and prevailed against it.\n\n29:8. And as he that is hungry dreameth, and eateth, but when he is\nawake, his soul is empty: and as he that is thirsty dreameth, and\ndrinketh and after he is awake, is yet faint with thirst, and his soul\nis empty: so shall be the multitude of all the Gentiles, that have\nfought against mount Sion.\n\n29:9. Be astonished, and wonder, waver, and stagger: be drunk, and not\nwith wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness.\n\n29:10. For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep sleep, he\nwill shut up your eyes, he will cover your prophets and princes, that\nsee visions.\n\n29:11. And the vision of all shall be unto you as the words of a book\nthat is sealed which when they shall deliver to one that is learned,\nthey shall say: Read this: and he shall answer: I cannot, for it is\nsealed.\n\n29:12. And the book shall be given to one that knoweth no letters, and\nit shall be said to him: Read: and he shall answer: I know no letters.\n\n29:13. And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with\ntheir mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from\nme, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men:\n\n29:14. Therefore behold I will proceed to cause an admiration in this\npeople, by a great and wonderful miracle: for wisdom shall perish from\ntheir wise men, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.\n\n29:15. Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel from the\nLord: and their works are in the dark, and they say: Who seeth us, and\nwho knoweth us?\n\n29:16. This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should think\nagainst the potter, and the work should say to the maker thereof: Thou\nmadest me not: or the thing framed should say to him that fashioned it:\nThou understandest not.\n\n29:17. Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be turned\ninto charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest?\n\nCharmel... This word signifies a fruitful field.\n\n29:18. And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and\nout of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind shall see.\n\n29:19. And the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor\nmen shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.\n\n29:20. For he that did prevail hath failed, the scorner is consumed, and\nthey are all cut off that watched for iniquity:\n\n29:21. That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them\nin the gate, and declined in vain from the just.\n\n29:22. Therefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Jacob, he that\nredeemed Abraham: Jacob shall not now be confounded, neither shall his\ncountenance now be ashamed:\n\n29:23. But when he shall see his children, the work of my hands in the\nmidst of him sanctifying my name, and they shall sanctify the Holy One\nof Jacob, and shall glorify the God of Israel:\n\n29:24. And they that erred in spirit, shall know understanding, and they\nthat murmured, shall learn the law.\n\nIsaias Chapter 30\n\nThe people are blamed for their confidence in Egypt. God's mercies\ntowards his church. The punishment of sinners.\n\n30:1. Woe to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would take\ncounsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my spirit,\nthat you might add sin upon sin:\n\n30:2. Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth,\nhoping for help in the strength of Pharao, and trusting in the shadow of\nEgypt.\n\n30:3. And the strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion, and the\nconfidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame.\n\n30:4. For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came even to\nHanes.\n\n30:5. They were all confounded at a people that could not profit them:\nthey were no help, nor to any profit, but to confusion and to reproach.\n\n30:6. The burden of the beasts of the south. In a land of trouble and\ndistress, from whence come the lioness, and the lion, the viper and the\nflying basilisk, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of beasts,\nand their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall\nnot be able to profit them.\n\n30:7. For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I\ncried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still.\n\n30:8. Now therefore go in and write for them upon box, and note it\ndiligently in a book, and it shall be in the latter days for a testimony\nfor ever.\n\n30:9. For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children\nthat will not hear the law of God.\n\n30:10. Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold: Behold\nnot for us those things that are right: speak unto us pleasant things,\nsee errors for us.\n\n30:11. Take away from me the way, turn away the path from me, let the\nHoly One of Israel cease from before us.\n\n30:12. Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because you have\nrejected this word, and have trusted in oppression and tumult, and have\nleaned upon it:\n\n30:13. Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that falleth,\nand is found wanting in a high wall, for the destruction thereof shall\ncome on a sudden, when it is not looked for.\n\n30:14. And it shall be broken small, as the potter's vessel is broken\nall to pieces with mighty breaking, and there shall not a sherd be found\nof the pieces thereof, wherein a little fire may be carried from the\nhearth, or a little water be drawn out of the pit.\n\n30:15. For thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel: If you return\nand be quiet, you shall be saved: in silence and in hope shall your\nstrength be. And you would not:\n\n30:16. But have said: No, but we will flee to horses: therefore shall\nyou flee. And we will mount upon swift ones: therefore shall they be\nswifter that shall pursue after you.\n\n30:17.  A thousand men shall flee for fear of one: and for fear of five\nshall you flee, till you be left as the mast of ship on the top of a\nmountain, and as an ensign upon a hill.\n\n30:18. Therefore the Lord waiteth that he may have mercy on you: and\ntherefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God\nof judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.\n\n30:19. For the people of Sion shall dwell in Jerusalem: weeping thou\nshalt not weep, he will surely have pity on thee: at the voice of thy\ncry, as soon as he shall hear, he will answer thee.\n\n30:20. And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and will\nnot cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy eyes\nshall see thy teacher.\n\n30:21. And thy ears shall hear the word of one admonishing thee behind\nthy back: This is the way, walk ye in it: and go not aside neither to\nthe right hand, nor to the left.\n\n30:22. And thou shalt defile the plates of thy graven things of silver,\nand the garment of thy molten things of gold, and shalt cast them away\nas the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.  Thou shalt say to it: Get\nthee hence.\n\n30:23. And rain shall be given to thy seed, wheresoever thou shalt sow\nin the land: and the bread of the corn of the land shall be most\nplentiful, and fat. The lamb in that day shall feed at large in thy\npossession:\n\n30:24. And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till the ground, shall eat\nmingled provender as it was winnowed in the floor.\n\n30:25. And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every\nelevated hill rivers of running waters in the day of the slaughter of\nmany, when the tower shall fall.\n\n30:26. And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and\nthe light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in\nthe day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall\nheal the stroke of their wound.\n\n30:27. Behold the name of the Lord cometh from afar, his wrath burneth,\nand is heavy to bear: his lips are filled with indignation, and his\ntongue as a devouring fire.\n\n30:28. His breath as a torrent overflowing even to the midst of the\nneck, to destroy the nations unto nothing, and the bridle of error that\nwas in the jaws of the people.\n\n30:29. You shall have a song as in the night of the sanctified\nsolemnity, and joy of heart, as where one goeth with a pipe, to come\ninto the mountain of the Lord, to the Mighty One of Israel.\n\n30:30. And the Lord shall make the glory of his voice to be heard, and\nshall shew the terror of his arm, in the threatening of wrath, and the\nflame of devouring fire: he shall crush to pieces with whirlwind, and\nhailstones.\n\n30:31. For at the voice of the Lord the Assyrian shall fear being struck\nwith the rod.\n\n30:32. And the passage of the rod shall be strongly grounded, which the\nLord shall make to rest upon him with timbrels and harps, and in great\nbattles he shall overthrow them.\n\n30:33. For Topheth is prepared from yesterday, prepared by the king,\ndeep, and wide. The nourishment thereof is fire and much wood: the\nbreath of the Lord as a torrent of brimstone kindling it.\n\nTopheth... It is the same as Gehenna, and is taken for hell.\n\nIsaias Chapter 31\n\nThe folly of trusting to Egypt, and forgetting God. He will fight for\nhis people against the Assyrians.\n\n31:1. Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, trusting in horses,\nand putting their confidence in chariots, because they are many: and in\nhorsemen, because they are very strong: and have not trusted in the Holy\nOne of Israel, and have not sought after the Lord.\n\n31:2. But he that is the wise one hath brought evil, and hath not\nremoved his words: and he will rise up against the house of the wicked,\nand against the aid of them that work iniquity.\n\n31:3. Egypt is man, and not God: and their horses, flesh, and not\nspirit: and the Lord shall put down his hand, and the helper shall fall,\nand he that is helped shall fall, and they shall all be confounded\ntogether.\n\n31:4. For thus saith the Lord to me: Like as the lion roareth, and the\nlions whelp upon his prey, and when a multitude of shepherds shall come\nagainst him, he will not fear at their voice, nor be afraid of their\nmultitude: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight upon mount\nSion, and upon the hill thereof.\n\n31:5. As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem,\nprotecting and delivering, passing over and saving.\n\n31:6. Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel.\n\n31:7. For in that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his\nidols of gold, which your hands have made for you to sin.\n\n31:8. And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword not of a man, and the\nsword not of a man shall devour him, and he shall flee not at the face\nof the sword, and his young men shall be tributaries.\n\n31:9. And his strength shall pass away with dread, and his princes\nfleeing shall be afraid: the Lord hath said it, whose fire is in Sion,\nand his furnace in Jerusalem.\n\nIsaias Chapter 32\n\nThe blessings of the reign of Christ. The desolation of the Jews, and\nprosperity of the church of Christ.\n\n32:1. Behold a king shall reign in justice, and princes shall rule in\njudgment.\n\n32:2. And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth\nhimself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of\na rock that standeth out in a desert land.\n\n32:3. The eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them\nthat hear shall hearken diligently.\n\n32:4. And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge, and the tongue\nof stammerers shall speak readily and plain.\n\n32:5. The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the\ndeceitful be called great:\n\n32:6. For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work\niniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and\nto make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the\nthirsty.\n\n32:7. The vessels of the deceitful are most wicked: for he hath framed\ndevices to destroy the meek, with lying words, when the poor man\nspeaketh judgment.\n\n32:8. But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince,\nand he shall stand above the rulers.\n\n32:9. Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident daughters,\ngive ear to my speech.\n\n32:10. For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be\ntroubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no\nmore.\n\n32:11. Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident ones:\nstrip you, and be confounded, gird your loins.\n\n32:12. Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the\nfruitful vineyard.\n\n32:13. Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how\nmuch more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?\n\n32:14. For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left,\ndarkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild\nasses, the pastures of flocks.\n\n32:15. Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert\nshall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest.\n\n32:16. An judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and justice shall sit\nin charmel.\n\n32:17. And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of\njustice quietness, and security for ever.\n\n32:18. And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the\ntabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest.\n\n32:19. But hail shall be in the descent of the forest, and the city\nshall be made very low.\n\n32:20. Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot\nof the ox and the ass.\n\nIsaias Chapter 33\n\nGod's revenge against the enemies of his church. The happiness of the\nheavenly Jerusalem.\n\n33:1. Woe to thee that spoilest, shalt not thou thyself also be spoiled?\nand thou that despisest, shalt not thyself also be despised? when thou\nshalt have made an end of spoiling, thou shalt be spoiled: when being\nwearied thou shalt cease to despise, thou shalt be despised.\n\nThat spoilest, etc... This is particularly directed to Sennacherib.\n\n33:2. O Lord, have mercy on us: for we have waited for thee: be thou our\narm in the morning, and our salvation in the time of trouble.\n\n33:3. At the voice of the angel the people fled, and at the lifting up\nthyself the nations are scattered.\n\n33:4. And your spoils shall be gathered together as the locusts are\ngathered, as when the ditches are full of them.\n\n33:5. The Lord is magnified, for he hath dwelt on high: he hath filled\nSion with judgment and justice.\n\n33:6. And there shall be faith in thy times: riches of salvation, wisdom\nand knowledge: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.\n\n33:7. Behold they that see shall cry without, the angels of peace shall\nweep bitterly.\n\nThe angels of peace... The messengers or deputies sent to negotiate a\npeace.\n\n33:8. The ways are made desolate, no one passeth by the road, the\ncovenant is made void, he hath rejected the cities, he hath not regarded\nthe men.\n\n33:9. The land hath mourned, and languished: Libanus is confounded, and\nbecome foul, and Saron is become as a desert: and Basan and Carmel are\nshaken.\n\n33:10. Now will I rise up, saith the Lord: now will I be exalted, now\nwill I lift up myself.\n\n33:11. You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your\nbreath as fire shall devour you.\n\n33:12. And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle of\nthorns they shall be burnt with fire.\n\n33:13. Hear, you that are far off, what I have done, and you that are\nnear know my strength.\n\n33:14. The sinners in Sion are afraid, trembling hath seized upon the\nhypocrites. Which of you can dwell with devouring fire?  which of you\nshall dwell with everlasting burnings?\n\n33:15. He that walketh in justices, and speaketh truth, that casteth\naway avarice by oppression, and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that\nstoppeth his ears lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes that he may\nsee no evil.\n\n33:16. He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall be his\nhighness: bread is given him, his waters are sure.\n\n33:17. His eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall see the\nland far off.\n\n33:18. Thy heart shall meditate fear: where is the learned? where is he\nthat pondered the words of the law? where is the teacher of little ones?\n\n33:19. The shameless people thou shalt not see, the people of profound\nspeech: so that thou canst not understand the eloquence of his tongue,\nin whom there is no wisdom.\n\n33:20. Look upon Sion the city of our solemnity: thy eyes shall see\nJerusalem, a rich habitation, a tabernacle that cannot be removed:\nneither shall the nails thereof be taken away for ever, neither shall\nany of the cords thereof be broken.\n\n33:21. Because only there our Lord is magnificent: a place of rivers,\nvery broad and spacious streams: no ship with oars shall pass by it,\nneither shall the great galley pass through it.\n\nOf rivers... He speaks of the rivers of endless joys that flow from the\nthrone of God to water the heavenly Jerusalem, where no enemy's ship can\ncome, etc.\n\n33:22. For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is\nour king: he will save us.\n\n33:23. Thy tacklings are loosed, and they shall be of no strength: thy\nmast shall be in such condition, that thou shalt not be able to spread\nthe flag. Then shall the spoils of much prey be divided: the lame shall\ntake the spoil.\n\nThy tacklings... He speaks of the enemies of the church, under the\nallegory of a ship that is disabled.\n\n33:24. Neither shall he that is near, say: I am feeble. The people that\ndwell therein, shall have their iniquity taken away from them.\n\nIsaias Chapter 34\n\nThe general judgment of the wicked.\n\n34:1. Come near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people: let the\nearth hear, and all that is therein, the world, and every thing that\ncometh forth of it.\n\n34:2. For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury\nupon all their armies: he hath killed them, and delivered them to\nslaughter.\n\n34:3. Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall\nrise a stink: the mountains shall be melted with their blood.\n\n34:4. And all the host of the heavens shall pine away, and the heavens\nshall be folded together as a book: and all their host shall fall down\nas the leaf falleth from the vine, and from the fig tree.\n\nAnd all the host of the heavens... That is, the sun, moon, and stars.\n\n34:5. For my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold it shall come down\nupon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter unto judgment.\n\nIdumea... Under the name of Idumea, or Edom a people that were enemies\nof the Jews, are here understood the wicked in general, the enemies of\nGod and his church.\n\n34:6. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made thick with\nthe blood of lambs and buck goats, with the blood of rams full of\nmarrow: for there is a victim of the Lord in Bosra and a great slaughter\nin the land of Edom.\n\n34:7. And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the\nmighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with the\nfat of fat ones.\n\nThe unicorns... That is, the great and mighty.\n\n34:8. For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of\nrecompenses of the judgment of Sion.\n\nThe year of recompenses, etc... When the persecutors of Sion, that is,\nof the church, shall receive their reward.\n\n34:9. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the ground\nthereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.\n\n34:10. Night and day it shall not be quenched, the smoke thereof shall\ngo up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste, none\nshall pass through it for ever and ever.\n\n34:11. The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and the\nraven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched out upon it, to\nbring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation.\n\n34:12. The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather\nupon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing.\n\n34:13. And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and the\nthistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the habitation of\ndragons, and the pasture of ostriches.\n\n34:14. And demons and monsters shall meet, and the hairy ones shall cry\nout one to another, there hath the lamia lain down, and found rest for\nherself.\n\n34:15. There hath the ericius had its hole, and brought up its young\nones, and hath dug round about, and cherished them in the shadow\nthereof: thither are the kites gathered together one to another.\n\n34:16. Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord, and read: not one\nof them was wanting, one hath not sought for the other: for that which\nproceedeth out of my mouth, he hath commanded, and his spirit it hath\ngathered them.\n\n34:17. And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it\nto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to\ngeneration they shall dwell therein.\n\nIsaias Chapter 35\n\nThe joyful flourishing of Christ's kingdom: in his church shall be a\nholy and secure way.\n\n35:1. The land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad, and the\nwilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like the lily.\n\n35:2. It shall bud forth and blossom, and shall rejoice with joy and\npraise: the glory of Libanus is given to it: the beauty of Carmel, and\nSaron, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the beauty of our God.\n\n35:3. Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees.\n\n35:4. Say to the fainthearted: Take courage, and fear not: behold your\nGod will bring the revenge of recompense: God himself will come and will\nsave you.\n\n35:5. Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the\ndeaf shall be unstopped.\n\n35:6. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb\nshall be free: for waters are broken out in the desert, and streams in\nthe wilderness.\n\n35:7. And that which was dry land, shall become a pool, and the thirsty\nland springs of water. In the dens where dragons dwelt before, shall\nrise up the verdure of the reed and the bulrush.\n\n35:8. And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be called the\nholy way: the unclean shall not pass over it, and this shall be unto you\na straight way, so that fools shall not err therein.\n\n35:9. No lion shall be there, nor shall any mischievous beast go up by\nit, nor be found there: but they shall walk there that shall be\ndelivered.\n\n35:10. And the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and shall come into\nSion with praise, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they\nshall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.\n\nIsaias Chapter 36\n\nSennacherib invades Juda: his blasphemies.\n\n36:1. And it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, that\nSennacherib king of the Assyrians came up against all the fenced cities\nof Juda, and took them.\n\n36:2. And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces from Lachis to\nJerusalem, to king Ezechias with a great army, and he stood by the\nconduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller's field.\n\n36:3. And there went out to him Eliacim the son of Helcias, who was over\nthe house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the\nrecorder.\n\n36:4. And Rabsaces said to them: Tell Ezechias: Thus saith the great\nking, the king of the Assyrians: What is this confidence wherein thou\ntrustest?\n\n36:5. Or with what counsel or strength dost thou prepare for war?  on\nwhom dost thou trust, that thou art revolted from me?\n\n36:6. Lo thou trustest upon this broken staff of a reed, upon Egypt:\nupon which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is\nPharao king of Egypt to all that trust in him.\n\n36:7. But if thou wilt answer me: We trust in the Lord our God: is it\nnot he whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away, and hath\nsaid to Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar?\n\n36:8. And now deliver thyself up to my lord the king of the Assyrians,\nand I will give thee two thousand horses, and thou wilt not be able on\nthy part to find riders for them.\n\n36:9. And how wilt thou stand against the face of the judge of one\nplace, of the least of my master's servants? But if thou trust in Egypt,\nin chariots and in horsemen:\n\n36:10. And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to\ndestroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up against this land, and destroy\nit.\n\n36:11. And Eliacim, and Sobna, and Joahe said to Rabsaces: Speak to thy\nservants in the Syrian tongue: for we understand it: speak not to us in\nthe Jews' language in the hearing of the people, that are upon the wall.\n\n36:12. And Rabsaces said to them: Hath my master sent me to thy master\nand to thee, to speak all these words; and not rather to the men that\nsit on the wall; that they may eat their own dung, and drink their urine\nwith you?\n\n36:13. Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the Jews'\nlanguage, and said: Hear the words of the great king, the king of the\nAssyrians.\n\n36:14. Thus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you, for he shall\nnot be able to deliver you.\n\n36:15. And let not Ezechias make you trust in the Lord, saying: The Lord\nwill surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hands\nof the king of the Assyrians.\n\n36:16. Do not hearken to Ezechias: for thus said the king of the\nAssyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to\nme, and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and\ndrink ye every one the water of his cistern,\n\n36:17. Till I come and take you away to a land, like to your own, a land\nof corn and of wine, a land of bread and vineyards.\n\n36:18.  Neither let Ezechias trouble you, saying: The Lord will deliver\nus. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land out of the\nhand of the king of the Assyrians?\n\n36:19. Where is the god of Emath and of Arphad? where is the god of\nSepharvaim? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?\n\n36:20. Who is there among all the gods of these lands, that hath\ndelivered his country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver\nJerusalem out of my hand?\n\n36:21. And they held their peace, and answered him not a word.  For the\nking had commanded, saying: Answer him not.\n\n36:22. And Eliacim the son of Helcias, that was over the house, and\nSobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder, went in to\nEzechias with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.\n\nIsaias Chapter 37\n\nEzechias, his mourning and prayer. God's promise of protection.  The\nAssyrian army is destroyed. Sennacherib is slain.\n\n37:1. And it came to pass, when king Ezechias had heard it, that he rent\nhis garments and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house\nof the Lord.\n\n37:2. And he sent Eliacim who was over the house, and Sobna the scribe,\nand the ancients of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaias the\nson of Amos the prophet.\n\n37:3. And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of\ntribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come\nto the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.\n\n37:4. It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabsaces, whom\nthe king of the Assyrians his master hath sent to blaspheme the living\nGod, and to reproach with words which the Lord thy God hath heard:\nwherefore lift up by prayer for the remnant that is left.\n\n37:5. And the servants of Ezechias came to Isaias.\n\n37:6. And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say to your master: Thus\nsaith the Lord: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, with\nwhich the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.\n\n37:7. Behold, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a\nmessage, and shall return to his own country, and I will cause him to\nfall by the sword in his own country.\n\n37:8. And Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians\nbesieging Lobna. For he had heard that he was departed from Lachis.\n\n37:9. And he heard say about Tharaca the king of Ethiopia: He is come\nforth to fight against thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to\nEzechias, saying:\n\n37:10. Thus shall you speak to Ezechias the king of Juda, saying: Let\nnot thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest, saying: Jerusalem shall\nnot be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.\n\n37:11. Behold thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have\ndone to all countries which they have destroyed, and canst thou be\ndelivered?\n\n37:12. Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have\ndestroyed, Gozam, and Haram, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that\nwere in Thalassar?\n\n37:13. Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and the king\nof the city of Sepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava?\n\n37:14. And Ezechias took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and\nread it, and went up to the house of the Lord, and Ezechias spread it\nbefore the Lord.\n\n37:15. And Ezechias prayed to the Lord, saying:\n\n37:16. Lord of hosts, God of Israel who sitteth upon the cherubims, thou\nalone art the God of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou hast made\nheaven and earth.\n\n37:17. Incline, O Lord, thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes, and\nsee, and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to\nblaspheme the living God.\n\n37:18. For of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid\nwaste lands, and their countries.\n\n37:19. And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not\ngods, but the works of men's hands, of wood and stone: and they broke\nthem in pieces.\n\n37:20. And now, O Lord our God, save us out of his hand: and let all the\nkingdoms of the earth know, that thou only art the Lord.\n\n37:21. And Isaias the son of Amos sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus saith\nthe Lord the God of Israel: For the prayer thou hast made to me\nconcerning Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians:\n\n37:22. This is the word which the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin\nthe daughter of Sion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the\ndaughter of Jerusalem hath wagged the head after thee.\n\n37:23. Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and\nagainst whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on\nhigh? Against the Holy One of Israel.\n\n37:24. By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord: and\nhast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the\nheight of the mountains, to the top of Libanus: and I will cut down its\ntall cedars, and its choice fir trees, and will enter to the top of its\nheight, to the forest of its Carmel.\n\nCarmel... See these figurative expressions explained in the annotations\non the nineteenth chapter of the fourth book of Kings.\n\n37:25. I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole\nof my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.\n\n37:26. Hast thou not heard what I have done to him of old? from the days\nof old I have formed it: and now I have brought it to effect: and it\nhath come to pass that hills fighting together, and fenced cities should\nbe destroyed.\n\n37:27. The inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled, and\nwere confounded: they became like the grass of the field, and the herb\nof the pasture, and like the grass of the housetops, which withered\nbefore it was ripe.\n\n37:28. I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and\nthy rage against me.\n\n37:29. When thou wast mad against me, thy pride came up to my ears:\ntherefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and\nI will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.\n\n37:30. But to thee this shall be a sign: Eat this year the things that\nspring of themselves, and in the second year eat fruits: but in the\nthird year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.\n\n37:31. And that which shall be saved of the house of Juda, and which is\nleft, shall take root downward, and shall bear fruit upward:\n\n37:32. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and salvation from\nmount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.\n\n37:33. Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the\nAssyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it,\nnor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.\n\n37:34. By the way that he came, he shall return, and into this city he\nshall not come, saith the Lord.\n\n37:35. And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake,\nand for the sake of David my servant.\n\n37:36. And the angel of the Lord went out and slew in the camp of the\nAssyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the\nmorning, and behold they were all dead corpses.\n\n37:37. And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed,\nand returned, and dwelt in Ninive.\n\n37:38. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the temple of\nNesroch his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the\nsword: and they fled into the land of Ararat, and Asarhaddon his son\nreigned in his stead.\n\nIsaias Chapter 38\n\nEzechias being advertised that he shall die, obtains by prayer a\nprolongation of his life: in confirmation of which the sun goes back.\nThe canticle of Ezechias.\n\n38:1. In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and Isaias the son\nof Amos the prophet cane unto him, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord:\nTake order with thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live.\n\n38:2. And Ezechias turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the\nLord,\n\n38:3. And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked\nbefore thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which\nis good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping.\n\n38:4. And the word of the Lord came to Isaias, saying:\n\n38:5. Go and say to Ezechias: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy\nfather: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: behold I\nwill add to thy days fifteen years:\n\n38:6. And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king\nof the Assyrians, and I will protect it.\n\n38:7. And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will\ndo this word which he hath spoken:\n\n38:8. Behold I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by which it is\nnow gone down in the sun dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward.\nAnd the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by which it was gone down.\n\n38:9. The writing of Ezechias king of Juda, when he had been sick, and\nwas recovered of his sickness.\n\n38:10. I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell:\nI sought for the residue of my years.\n\nHell... Sheol, or Hades, the region of the dead.\n\n38:11. I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I\nshall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest.\n\n38:12. My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a\nshepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet\nbut beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make\nan end of me.\n\n38:13. I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones:\nfrom morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.\n\n38:14. I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my\neyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou\nfor me.\n\n38:15. What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he\nhimself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the\nbitterness of my soul.\n\n38:16. O Lord, if man's life be such, and the life of my spirit be in\nsuch things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live.\n\n38:17. Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast\ndelivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins\nbehind thy back.\n\n38:18. For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise\nthee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.\n\n38:19. The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do\nthis day: the father shall make the truth known to the children.\n\n38:20. O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our\nlife in the house of the Lord.\n\n38:21. Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and\nlay it as a plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed.\n\n38:22. And Ezechias had said: What shall be the sign that I shall go up\nto the house of the Lord?\n\nIsaias Chapter 39\n\nEzechias shews all his treasures to the ambassadors of Babylon: upon\nwhich Isaias foretells the Babylonish captivity.\n\n39:1. At that time Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan king of Babylon,\nsent letters and presents to Ezechias: for he had heard that he had been\nsick and was recovered.\n\n39:2. And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and he shewed them the\nstorehouses of his aromatical spices, and of the silver, and of the\ngold, and of the sweet odours, and of the precious ointment, and all the\nstorehouses of his furniture, and all things that were found in his\ntreasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion that\nEzechias shewed them not.\n\n39:3. Then Isaias the prophet came to king Ezechias, and said to him:\nWhat said these men, and from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias\nsaid: From a far country they came to me, from Babylon.\n\n39:4. And he said: What saw they in thy house? And Ezechias said: All\nthings that are in my house have they seen, there was not any thing\nwhich I have not shewn them in my treasures.\n\n39:5. And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word of the Lord of hosts.\n\n39:6. Behold the days shall come that all that is in thy house, and that\nthy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried away\ninto Babylon: there shall not any thing be left, saith the Lord.\n\n39:7. And of thy children, that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt\nbeget, they shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of\nthe king of Babylon.\n\n39:8. And Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of the Lord, which he hath\nspoken, is good. And he said: Only let peace and truth be in my days.\n\nIsaias Chapter 40\n\nThe prophet comforts the people with the promise of the coming of Christ\nto forgive their sins. God's almighty power and majesty.\n\n40:1. Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God.\n\n40:2. Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil\nis come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the\nhand of the Lord double for all her sins.\n\n40:3. The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the\nLord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God.\n\n40:4. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall\nbe made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways\nplain.\n\n40:5. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh\ntogether shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken.\n\n40:6. The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry?  All\nflesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field.\n\n40:7. The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the\nspirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass:\n\n40:8. The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of\nour Lord endureth for ever.\n\n40:9. Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings\nto Sion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good\ntidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the cities of Juda:\nBehold your God:\n\n40:10. Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm shall\nrule: Behold his reward is with him and his work is before him.\n\n40:11. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together\nthe lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he\nhimself shall carry them that are with young.\n\n40:12. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and\nweighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers\nthe bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the\nhills in a balance?\n\n40:13. Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his\ncounsellor, and hath taught him?\n\n40:14. With whom hath he consulted, and who hath instructed him, and\ntaught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him\nthe way of understanding?\n\n40:15. Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as\nthe smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little\ndust.\n\n40:16. And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts thereof\nsufficient for a burnt offering.\n\n40:17. All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and\nare counted to him as nothing, and vanity.\n\n40:18. To whom then have you likened God? or what image will you make\nfor him?\n\n40:19. Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith\nformed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver?\n\n40:20. He hath chosen strong wood, and that will not rot: the skilful\nworkman seeketh how he may set up an idol that may not be moved.\n\n40:21. Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told\nyou from the beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the\nearth?\n\n40:22. It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the\ninhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens\nas nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.\n\n40:23. He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath\nmade the judges of the earth as vanity.\n\n40:24. And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted\nin the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered,\nand a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.\n\n40:25. And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy\nOne?\n\n40:26. Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these things:\nwho bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by their\nnames: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one\nof them was missing.\n\n40:27. Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid\nfrom the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?\n\n40:28. Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard? the Lord is the\neverlasting God, who hath created the ends of the earth: he shall not\nfaint, nor labour, neither is there any searching out of his wisdom.\n\n40:29. It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force\nand might to them that are not.\n\n40:30. You shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by\ninfirmity.\n\n40:31. But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they\nshall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall\nwalk and not faint.\n\nIsaias Chapter 41\n\nThe reign of the just one: the vanity of idols.\n\n41:1. Let the islands keep silence before me, and the nations take new\nstrength: let them come near, and then speak, let us come near to\njudgment together.\n\n41:2. Who hath raised up the just one from the east, hath called him to\nfollow him? he shall give the nations in his sight, and he shall rule\nover kings: he shall give them as the dust to his sword, as stubble\ndriven by the wind, to his bow.\n\n41:3. He shall pursue them, he shall pass in peace, no path shall appear\nafter his feet.\n\n41:4. Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations\nfrom the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last.\n\n41:5. The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were\nastonished, they drew near, and came.\n\n41:6. Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother:\nBe of good courage.\n\n41:7. The coppersmith striking with the hammer encouraged him that\nforged at that time, saying: It is ready for soldering: and he\nstrengthened it with nails, that it should not be moved.\n\n41:8. But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the\nseed of Abraham my friend:\n\n41:9. In whom I have taken thee from the ends of the earth, and from the\nremote parts thereof have called thee, and said to thee: Thou art my\nservant, I have chosen thee, and have not cast thee away.\n\n41:10. Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I\nhave strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my\njust one hath upheld thee.\n\n41:11. Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and\nashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive\nagainst thee.\n\n41:12. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find the men that resist\nthee: they shall be as nothing: and as a thing consumed the men that war\nagainst thee.\n\n41:13. For I am the Lord thy God, who take thee by the hand, and say to\nthee: Fear not, I have helped thee.\n\n41:14. Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you that are dead of Israel: I have\nhelped thee, saith the Lord: and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel.\n\n41:15. I have made thee as a new thrashing wain, with teeth like a saw:\nthou shalt thrash the mountains, and break them in pieces: and shalt\nmake the hills as chaff.\n\n41:16. Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the\nwhirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, in the\nHoly One of Israel thou shalt be joyful.\n\n41:17. The needy and the poor seek for waters, and there are none: their\ntongue hath been dry with thirst. I the Lord will hear them, I the God\nof Israel will not forsake them.\n\n41:18. I will open rivers in the high hills, and fountains in the midst\nof the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the\nimpassable land into streams of waters.\n\n41:19. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the\nmyrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the\nelm, and the box tree together:\n\nThe thorn... In Hebrew, the shitta, or setim, a tree resembling the\nwhite thorn.\n\n41:20. That they may see and know, and consider, and understand together\nthat the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel\nhath created it.\n\n41:21. Bring your cause near, saith the Lord: bring hither, if you have\nany thing to allege, saith the King of Jacob.\n\n41:22. Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us\nthe former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them\nand shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are\nto come.\n\n41:23. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know\nthat ye are gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you can: and let us speak,\nand see together.\n\n41:24. Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no\nbeing: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.\n\n41:25. I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the\nrising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make princes\nto be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay.\n\n41:26. Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know: and from\ntime of old, that we may say: Thou art just. There is none that sheweth,\nnor that foretelleth, nor that heareth your words.\n\n41:27. The first shall say to Sion: Behold they are here, and to\nJerusalem I will give an evangelist.\n\n41:28. And I saw, and there was no one even among them to consult, or\nwho, when I asked, could answer a word.\n\n41:29. Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their\nidols are wind and vanity.\n\nIsaias Chapter 42\n\nThe office of Christ. The preaching of the gospel to the Gentiles.  The\nblindness and reprobation of the Jews.\n\n42:1. Behold my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul delighteth\nin him: I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment\nto the Gentiles.\n\nMy servant... Christ, who according to his humanity, is the servant of\nGod.\n\n42:2. He shall not cry, nor have respect to person, neither shall his\nvoice be heard abroad.\n\n42:3. The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not\nquench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.\n\n42:4. He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the\nearth, and the islands shall wait for his law.\n\n42:5. Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched\nthem out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of\nit: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that\ntread thereon.\n\n42:6. I the Lord have called thee in justice, and taken thee by the\nhand, and preserved thee. And I have given thee for a covenant of the\npeople, for a light of the Gentiles:\n\n42:7. That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the\nprisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison\nhouse.\n\n42:8. I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to another,\nnor my praise to graven things.\n\n42:9. The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things\ndo I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you hear them.\n\n42:10. Sing ye to the Lord a new song, his praise is from the ends of\nthe earth: you that go down to the sea, and all that are therein: ye\nislands, and ye inhabitants of them.\n\n42:11. Let the desert and the cities thereof be exalted: Cedar shall\ndwell in houses: ye inhabitants of Petra, give praise, they shall cry\nfrom the top of the mountains.\n\nPetra... A city that gives name to Arabia Petraea.\n\n42:12. They shall give glory to the Lord, and shall declare his praise\nin the islands.\n\n42:13. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war shall he\nstir up zeal: he shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his\nenemies.\n\n42:14. I have always held my peace, I have kept silence, I have been\npatient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and\nswallow up at once.\n\n42:15. I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their\ngrass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up\nthe standing pools.\n\n42:16. And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and\nin the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will\nmake darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these\nthings have I done to them, and have not forsaken them.\n\n42:17. They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust\nin a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.\n\n42:18. Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see.\n\n42:19. Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent\nmy messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but\nthe servant of the Lord?\n\n42:20.  Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them?  thou\nthat hast ears open, wilt thou not hear?\n\n42:21. And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law,\nand exalt it.\n\n42:22. But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are all the\nsnare of young men, and they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are\nmade a prey, and there is none to deliver them: a spoil, and there is\nnone that saith: Restore.\n\n42:23. Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will\nattend and hearken for times to come?\n\n42:24. Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers?  hath\nnot the Lord himself, against whom we have sinned? And they would not\nwalk in his ways, and they have not hearkened to his law.\n\n42:25. And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and\na strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and\nset him on fire, and he understood not.\n\nIsaias Chapter 43\n\nGod comforts his church, promising to protect her for ever: he\nexpostulates with the Jews for their ingratitude.\n\n43:1. And now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and formed\nthee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, and called thee by\nthy name: thou art mine.\n\n43:2. When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and\nthe rivers shall not cover thee: when thou shalt walk in the fire, thou\nshalt not be burnt, and the flames shall not burn in thee:\n\n43:3. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I\nhave given Egypt for thy atonement, Ethiopia and Saba for thee.\n\n43:4. Since thou becamest honourable in my eyes, thou art glorious: I\nhave loved thee, and I will give men for thee, and people for thy life.\n\n43:5. Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east,\nand gather thee from the west.\n\n43:6. I will say to the north: Give up: and to the south: Keep not back:\nbring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.\n\n43:7. And every one that calleth upon my name, I have created him for my\nglory. I have formed him, and made him.\n\n43:8. Bring forth the people that are blind, and have eyes: that are\ndeaf, and have ears.\n\n43:9. All the nations are assembled together, and the tribes are\ngathered: who among you can declare this, and shall make us hear the\nformer things? let them bring forth their witnesses, let them be\njustified, and hear, and say: It is truth.\n\n43:10. You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have\nchosen: that you may know, and believe me, and understand that I myself\nam. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there shall be none.\n\n43:11. I am, I am the Lord: and there is no saviour besides me.\n\n43:12. I have declared, and have saved. I have made it heard, and there\nwas no strange one among you. You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and\nI am God.\n\n43:13. And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can\ndeliver out of my hind: I will work, and who shall turn it away?\n\n43:14. Thus saith the Lord your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For\nyour sake I sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their bars, and\nthe Chaldeans glorying in their ships.\n\n43:15. I am the Lord your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.\n\n43:16. Thus saith the Lord, who made a way in the sea, and a path in the\nmighty waters.\n\n43:17. Who brought forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the\nstrong: they lay down to sleep together, and they shall not rise again:\nthey are broken as flax, and are extinct.\n\n43:18. Remember not former things, and look not on things of old.\n\n43:19. Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth, verily\nyou shall know them: I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in\nthe desert.\n\n43:20. The beast of the field shall glorify me, the dragons and the\nostriches: because I have given waters in the wilderness, rivers in the\ndesert, to give drink to my people, to my chosen.\n\n43:21.  This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my\npraise.\n\n43:22. But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob, neither hast thou\nlaboured about me, O Israel.\n\n43:23. Thou hast not offered me the ram of thy holocaust, nor hast thou\nglorified me with thy victims: I have not caused thee to serve with\noblations, nor wearied thee with incense.\n\n43:24. Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou\nfilled me with the fat of thy victims. But thou hast made me to serve\nwith thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities.\n\n43:25. I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I\nwill not remember thy sins.\n\n43:26. Put me in remembrance, and let us plead together: tell if thou\nhast any thing to justify thyself.\n\n43:27. Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed\nagainst me.\n\n43:28. And I have profaned the holy princes, I have given Jacob to\nslaughter, and Israel to reproach.\n\nIsaias Chapter 44\n\nGod's favour to his church. The folly of idolatry. The people shall be\ndelivered from captivity.\n\n44:1. And now hear, O Jacob, my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen.\n\n44:2. Thus saith the Lord that made and formed thee, thy helper from the\nwomb: Fear not, O my servant Jacob, and thou most righteous whom I have\nchosen.\n\n44:3. For I will pour out waters upon the thirsty ground, and streams\nupon the dry land: I will pour out my spirit upon thy seed, and my\nblessing upon thy stock.\n\n44:4. And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows beside the\nrunning waters.\n\n44:5. One shall say: I am the Lord's, and another shall call himself by\nthe name of Jacob, and another shall subscribe with his hand, To the\nLord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.\n\n44:6. Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord\nof hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no\nGod.\n\n44:7. Who is like to me? let him call and declare: and let him set\nbefore me the order, since I appointed the ancient people: and the\nthings to come, and that shall be hereafter, let them shew unto them.\n\n44:8. Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled from that time I have made\nthee to hear, and have declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God\nbesides me, a maker, whom I have not known?\n\n44:9. The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best\nbeloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that\nthey do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed.\n\n44:10. Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable\nfor nothing?\n\n44:11. Behold, all the partakers thereof shall be confounded: for the\nmakers are men: they shall all assemble together, they shall stand and\nfear, and shall be confounded together.\n\n44:12. The smith hath wrought with his file, with coals, and with\nhammers he hath formed it, and hath wrought with the strength of his\narm: he shall hunger and faint, he shall drink no water, and shall be\nweary.\n\n44:13. The carpenter hath stretched out his rule, he hath formed it with\na plane: he hath made it with corners, and hath fashioned it round with\nthe compass: and he hath made the image of a man as it were a beautiful\nman dwelling in a house.\n\n44:14. He hath cut down cedars, taken the holm, and the oak that stood\namong the trees of the forest: he hath planted the pine tree, which the\nrain hath nourished.\n\n44:15. And it hath served men for fuel: he took thereof, and warmed\nhimself: and he kindled it, and baked bread: but of the rest he made a\ngod, and adored it: he made a graven thing, and bowed down before it.\n\n44:16. Part of it he burnt with fire, and with part of it he dressed his\nmeat: he boiled pottage, and was filled, and was warmed, and said: Aha,\nI am warm, I have seen the fire.\n\n44:17. But the residue thereof he made a god, and a graven thing for\nhimself: he boweth down before it, and adoreth it, and prayeth unto it,\nsaying: Deliver me, for thou art my God.\n\n44:18. They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered\nthat they may not see, and that they may not understand with their\nheart.\n\n44:19. They do not consider in their mind, nor know, nor have the\nthought to say: I have burnt part of it in the fire, and I have baked\nbread upon the coals thereof: I have broiled flesh and have eaten, and\nof the residue thereof shall I make an idol? shall I fall down before\nthe stock of a tree?\n\n44:20. Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will\nnot save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.\n\n44:21. Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art my\nservant. I have formed thee, thou art my servant, O Israel, forget me\nnot.\n\n44:22. I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins as a\nmist: return to me, for I have redeemed thee.\n\n44:23. Give praise, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath shewn mercy: shout\nwith joy, ye ends of the earth: ye mountains, resound with praise, thou,\nO forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and\nIsrael shall be glorified.\n\n44:24. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, and thy maker, from the womb: I\nam the Lord, that make all things, that alone stretch out the heavens,\nthat established the earth, and there is none with me.\n\n44:25. That make void the tokens of diviners, and make the soothsayers\nmad. That turn the wise backward, and that make their knowledge foolish.\n\n44:26. That raise up the word of my servant and perform the counsel of\nmy messengers, who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be inhabited: and to the\ncities of Juda: You shall be built, and I will raise up the wastes\nthereof.\n\n44:27. Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy\nrivers.\n\n44:28. Who say to Cyrus: Thou art my shepherd, and thou shalt perform\nall my pleasure. Who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be built: and to the\ntemple: Thy foundations shall be laid.\n\nIsaias Chapter 45\n\nA prophecy of Cyrus, as a figure of Christ, the great deliverer of God's\npeople.\n\n45:1. Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have\ntaken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs\nof kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be\nshut.\n\n45:2. I will go before thee, and will humble the great ones of the\nearth: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and will burst the\nbars of iron.\n\n45:3. And I will give thee hidden treasures, and the concealed riches of\nsecret places: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord who call thee by\nthy name, the God of Israel.\n\n45:4. For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my elect, I have even\ncalled thee by thy name: I have made a likeness of thee, and thou hast\nnot known me.\n\n45:5. I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides me:\nI girded thee, and thou hast not known me:\n\n45:6. That they may know who are from the rising of the sun, and they\nwho are from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and\nthere is none else:\n\n45:7. I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create\nevil: I the Lord that do all these things.\n\nCreate evil, etc... The evils of afflictions and punishments, but not\nthe evil of sin.\n\n45:8. Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the\njust: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice\nspring up together: I the Lord have created him.\n\n45:9. Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots:\nshall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and\nthy work is without hands?\n\n45:10. Woe to him that saith to his father: Why begettest thou? and to\nthe woman: Why dost thou bring forth?\n\n45:11. Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of Israel, his maker: Ask me of\nthings to come, concerning my children, and concerning the work of my\nhands give ye charge to me.\n\n45:12. I made the earth: and I created man upon it: my hand stretched\nforth the heavens, and I have commanded all their host.\n\n45:13. I have raised him up to justice, and I will direct all his ways:\nhe shall build my city, and let go my captives, not for ransom, nor for\npresents, saith the Lord the God of hosts.\n\n45:14. Thus saith the Lord: The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of\nEthiopia, and of Sabaim, men of stature shall come over to thee, and\nshall be thine: they shall walk after thee, they shall go bound with\nmanacles: and they shall worship thee, and shall make supplication to\nthee: only in thee is God, and there is no God besides thee.\n\n45:15. Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel the saviour.\n\n45:16. They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are\ngone together into confusion.\n\n45:17. Israel is saved in the Lord with an eternal salvation: you shall\nnot be confounded, and you shall not be ashamed for ever and ever.\n\n45:18. For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself\nthat formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not\ncreate it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and\nthere is no other.\n\n45:19. I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I have\nnot said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak\njustice, that declare right things.\n\n45:20. Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw near together, ye that\nare saved of the Gentiles: they have no knowledge that set up the wood\nof their graven work, and pray to a god that cannot save.\n\n45:21. Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this\nfrom the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time?  Have not I\nthe Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour,\nthere is none besides me.\n\n45:22. Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the\nearth: for I am God, and there is no other.\n\n45:23. I have sworn by myself, the word of justice shall go out of my\nmouth, and shall not return:\n\n45:24. For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue shall\nswear.\n\n45:25. Therefore shall he say: In the Lord are my justices and empire:\nthey shall come to him, and all that resist him shall be confounded.\n\n45:26. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and\npraised.\n\nIsaias Chapter 46\n\nThe idols of Babylon shall be destroyed. Salvation is promised through\nChrist.\n\n46:1. Bel is broken, Nebo is destroyed: their idols are put upon beasts\nand cattle, your burdens of heavy weight even unto weariness.\n\n46:2. They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save\nhim that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity.\n\n46:3. Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of\nIsrael who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.\n\n46:4. Even to your old age I am the same, and to your grey hairs I will\ncarry you: I have made you, and I will bear: I will carry and will save.\n\n46:5. To whom have you likened me, and made me equal, and compared me,\nand made me like?\n\n46:6. You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh out silver in\nthe scales: and hire a goldsmith to make a god: and they fall down and\nworship.\n\n46:7. They bear him on their shoulders and carry him, and set him in his\nplace, and he shall stand, and shall not stir out of his place. Yea,\nwhen they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear: he shall not save\nthem from tribulation.\n\n46:8. Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors, to the\nheart.\n\n46:9. Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside,\nneither is there the like to me:\n\n46:10. Who shew from the beginning the things that shall be at last, and\nfrom ancient times the things that as yet are not done, saying: My\ncounsel shall stand, and all my will shall be done:\n\n46:11. Who call a bird from the east, and from a far country the man of\nmy own will, and I have spoken, and will bring it to pass: I have\ncreated, and I will do it. Hear me, O ye hardhearted, who are far from\njustice.\n\n46:12. I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off: and my\nsalvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory\nin Israel.\n\nIsaias Chapter 47\n\nGod's judgment upon Babylon.\n\n47:1. Come down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on\nthe ground: there is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for\nthou shalt no more be called delicate and tender.\n\n47:2. Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy\nshoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.\n\n47:3. Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall be seen: I\nwill take vengeance, and no man shall resist me.\n\n47:4. Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of\nIsrael.\n\n47:5. Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the\nChaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the lady of kingdoms.\n\n47:6. I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and\nhave given them into thy hand: thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon\nthe ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding heavy.\n\n47:7. And thou hast said: I shall be a lady for ever: thou hast not laid\nthese things to thy heart, neither hast thou remembered thy latter end.\n\n47:8. And now hear these things, thou that art delicate, and dwellest\nconfidently, that sayest in thy heart: I am, and there is none else\nbesides me: I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know barrenness.\n\n47:9. These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day,\nbarrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the\nmultitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy\nenchanters.\n\n47:10. And thou hast trusted in thy wickedness, and hast said: There is\nnone that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and, thy knowledge, this hath deceived\nthee. And thou hast said in thy heart: I am, and besides me there is no\nother.\n\n47:11. Evil shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know the rising\nthereof: and calamity shall fall violently upon thee, which thou canst\nnot keep off: misery shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not\nknow.\n\n47:12. Stand now with thy enchanters, and with the multitude of thy\nsorceries, in which thou hast laboured from thy youth, if so be it may\nprofit thee any thing, or if thou mayst become stronger.\n\n47:13. Thou hast failed in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the\nastrologers stand and save thee, they that gazed at the stars, and\ncounted the months, that from them they might tell the things that shall\ncome to thee.\n\n47:14. Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they shall not\ndeliver themselves from the power of the flames: there are no coals\nwherewith they may be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit thereat.\n\n47:15. Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou hast\nlaboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one hath erred in his own\nway, there is none that can save thee.\n\nIsaias Chapter 48\n\nHe reproaches the Jews for their obstinacy: he will deliver them out of\ntheir captivity, for his own name's sake.\n\n48:1. Hear ye these things, O house of Jacob, you that are called by the\nname of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Juda, you who\nswear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel,\nbut not in truth, nor in justice.\n\n48:2. For they are called of the holy city, and are established upon the\nGod of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name.\n\n48:3. The former things of old, I have declared, and they went forth out\nof my mouth, and I have made them to be heard: I did them suddenly and\nthey came to pass.\n\n48:4. For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron\nsinew, and thy forehead as brass.\n\n48:5. I foretold thee of old, before they came to pass I told thee, lest\nthou shouldst say: My idols have done these things, and my graven and\nmolten things have commanded them.\n\n48:6. See now all the things which thou hast heard: but have you\ndeclared them? I have shewn thee new things from that time, and things\nare kept which thou knowest not:\n\n48:7. They are created now, and not of old: and before the day, when\nthou heardest them not, lest thou shouldst say: Behold I knew them.\n\n48:8. Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of\nold. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have\ncalled thee a transgressor from the womb.\n\n48:9. For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my\npraise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.\n\n48:10. Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee\nin the furnace of poverty.\n\n48:11. For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be\nblasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another.\n\n48:12. Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I\nam the first, and I am the last.\n\n48:13. My hand also hath founded the earth, and my right hand hath\nmeasured the heavens: I shall call them, and they shall stand together.\n\n48:14. Assemble yourselves together, all you, and hear: who among them\nhath declared these things? the Lord hath loved him, he will do his\npleasure in Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.\n\n48:15. I, even I have spoken and called him: I have brought him, and his\nway is made prosperous.\n\n48:16. Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret\nfrom the beginning: from the time before it was done, I was there, and\nnow the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit.\n\n48:17. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am\nthe Lord thy God that teach thee profitable things, that govern thee in\nthe way that thou walkest.\n\n48:18. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had\nbeen as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,\n\n48:19. And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy\nbowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor\nhave been destroyed from before my face.\n\n48:20. Come forth out of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, declare it\nwith the voice of joy: make this to be heard, and speak it out even to\nthe ends of the earth. Say: The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.\n\n48:21. They thirsted not in the desert, when he led them out: he brought\nforth water out of the rock for them, and he clove the rock, and the\nwaters gushed out.\n\n48:22. There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord.\n\nIsaias Chapter 49\n\nChrist shall bring the Gentiles to salvation. God's love to his church\nis perpetual.\n\n49:1. Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from afar. The Lord\nhath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he hath been\nmindful of my name.\n\n49:2. And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword: in the shadow of his\nhand he hath protected me, and hath made me as a chosen arrow: in his\nquiver he hath hidden me.\n\n49:3. And he said to me: Thou art my servant Israel, for in thee will I\nglory.\n\n49:4. And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength\nwithout cause and in vain: therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and\nmy work with my God.\n\n49:5. And now saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be his\nservant, that I may bring back Jacob unto him, and Israel will not be\ngathered together: and I am glorified in the eyes of the Lord, and my\nGod is made my strength.\n\n49:6. And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant\nto raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel.\nBehold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou\nmayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth.\n\n49:7. Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to the\nsoul that is despised, to the nation that is abhorred, to the servant of\nrulers: Kings shall see, and princes shall rise up, and adore for the\nLord's sake, because he is faithful, and for the Holy One of Israel, who\nhath chosen thee.\n\n49:8. Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and\nin the day of salvation I have helped thee: and I have preserved thee,\nand given thee to be a covenant of the people, that thou mightest raise\nup the earth, and possess the inheritances that were destroyed:\n\n49:9. That thou mightest say to them that are bound: Come forth: and to\nthem that are in darkness: Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways,\nand their pastures shall be in every plain.\n\n49:10. They shall not hunger, nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor the\nsun strike them: for he that is merciful to them, shall be their\nshepherd, and at the fountains of waters he shall give them drink.\n\n49:11. And I will make all my mountains a way, and my paths shall be\nexalted.\n\n49:12. Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from the\nnorth and from the sea, and these from the south country.\n\n49:13. Give praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth, ye mountains,\ngive praise with jubilation: because the Lord hath comforted his people,\nand will have mercy on his poor ones.\n\n49:14. And Sion said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath\nforgotten me.\n\n49:15. Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son\nof her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.\n\n49:16. Behold, I have graven thee in my hands: thy walls are always\nbefore my eyes.\n\n49:17. Thy builders are come: they that destroy thee and make thee waste\nshall go out of thee.\n\n49:18.  Lift up thy eyes round about, and see all these are gathered\ntogether, they are come to thee: I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt be\nclothed with all these as with an ornament, and as a bride thou shalt\nput them about thee.\n\n49:19. For thy deserts, and thy desolate places, and the land of thy\ndestruction shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and\nthey that swallowed thee up shall be chased far away.\n\n49:20. The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The\nplace is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.\n\n49:21. And thou shalt say in thy heart: Who hath begotten these?  I was\nbarren and brought not forth, led away, and captive: and who hath\nbrought up these? I was destitute and alone: and these, where were they?\n\n49:22. Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lift up my hand to the\nGentiles, and will set up my standard to the people. And they shall\nbring thy sons in their arms, and carry thy daughters upon their\nshoulders.\n\n49:23. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses:\nthey shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall\nlick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord,\nfor they shall not be confounded that wait for him.\n\n49:24. Shall the prey be taken from the strong? or can that which was\ntaken by the mighty, be delivered?\n\n49:25. For thus saith the Lord: Yea verily, even the captivity shall be\ntaken away from the strong: and that which was taken by the mighty,\nshall be delivered. But I will judge those that have judged thee, and\nthy children I will save.\n\n49:26. And I will feed thy enemies with their own flesh: and they shall\nbe made drunk with their own blood, as with new wine: and all flesh\nshall know, that I am the Lord that save thee, and thy Redeemer the\nMighty One of Jacob.\n\nIsaias Chapter 50\n\nThe synagogue shall be divorced for her iniquities. Christ for her sake\nwill endure ignominious afflictions.\n\n50:1. Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your\nmother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I\nsold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked\ndeeds have I put your mother away.\n\n50:2. Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was\nnone that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I\ncannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my\nrebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry\nland: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst.\n\n50:3. I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and will make sackcloth\ntheir covering.\n\n50:4. The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to\nuphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the\nmorning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.\n\n50:5. The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not\ngone back.\n\n50:6. I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that\nplucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me,\nand spit upon me.\n\n50:7. The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded:\ntherefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I\nshall not be confounded.\n\n50:8. He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us\nstand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.\n\n50:9. Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me?\nLo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them\nup.\n\n50:10. Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, that heareth the\nvoice of his servant, that hath walked in darkness, and hath no light?\nlet him hope in the name of the Lord, and lean upon his God.\n\n50:11. Behold all you that kindle a fire, encompassed with flames, walk\nin the light of your fire, and in the flames which you have kindled:\nthis is done to you by my hand, you shall sleep in sorrows.\n\nIsaias Chapter 51\n\nAn exhortation to trust in Christ. He shall protect the children of his\nchurch.\n\n51:1. Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that\nseek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole\nof the pit from which you are dug out.\n\n51:2. Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for I\ncalled him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.\n\n51:3. The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and will comfort all the\nruins thereof: and he will make her desert as a place of pleasure, and\nher wilderness as the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be\nfound therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of praise.\n\n51:4. Hearken unto me, O my people, and give ear to me, O my tribes: for\na law shall go forth from me, and my judgment shall rest to be a light\nof the nations.\n\n51:5. My just one is near at hand, my saviour is gone forth, and my arms\nshall judge the people: the islands shall look for me, and shall\npatiently wait for my arm.\n\n51:6. Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth beneath:\nfor the heavens shall vanish like smoke, and the earth shall be worn\naway like a garment, and the inhabitants thereof shall perish in like\nmanner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice shall not\nfail.\n\n51:7. Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my\nlaw in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of\ntheir blasphemies.\n\n51:8. For the worm shall eat them up as a garment: and the moth shall\nconsume them as wool: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice\nfrom generation to generation.\n\n51:9. Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou arm of the Lord, arise as in\nthe days of old, in the ancient generations. Hast not thou struck the\nproud one, and wounded the dragon?\n\n51:10. Hast not thou dried up the sea, the water of the mighty deep, who\nmadest the depth of the sea a way, that the delivered might pass over?\n\n51:11. And now they that are redeemed by the Lord, shall return, and\nshall come into Sion singing praises, and joy everlasting shall be upon\ntheir heads, they shall obtain joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning\nshall flee away.\n\n51:12. I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be\nafraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away\nlike grass?\n\n51:13. And thou hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, who stretched out the\nheavens, and founded the earth: and thou hast been afraid continually\nall the day at the presence of his fury who afflicted thee, and had\nprepared himself to destroy thee: where is now the fury of the\noppressor?\n\n51:14. He shall quickly come that is going to open unto you, and he\nshall not kill unto utter destruction, neither shall his bread fail.\n\n51:15. But I am the Lord thy God, who trouble the sea, and the waves\nthereof swell: the Lord of hosts is my name.\n\n51:16. I have put my words in thy mouth, and have protected thee in the\nshadow of my hand, that thou mightest plant the heavens, and found the\nearth: and mightest say to Sion: Thou art my people.\n\n51:17. Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand\nof the Lord the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunk even to the bottom of\nthe cup of dead sleep, and thou hast drunk even to the dregs.\n\n51:18. There is none that can uphold her among all the children that she\nhath brought forth: and there is none that taketh her by the hand among\nall the children that she hath brought up.\n\n51:19. There are two things that have happened to thee: who shall be\nsorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the\nsword, who shall comfort thee?\n\n51:20. Thy children are cast forth, they have slept at the head of all\nthe ways, and the wild ox that is snared: full of the indignation of the\nLord, of the rebuke of thy God.\n\n51:21. Therefore hear this, thou poor little one, and thou that art\ndrunk but not with wine.\n\n51:22. Thus saith thy Sovereign the Lord, and thy God, who will fight\nfor his people: Behold I have taken out of thy hand the cup of dead\nsleep, the dregs of the cup of my indignation, thou shalt not drink it\nagain any more.\n\n51:23. And I will put it in the hand of them that have oppressed thee,\nand have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast\nlaid thy body as the ground, and as a way to them that went over.\n\nIsaias Chapter 52\n\nUnder the figure of the deliverance from the Babylonish captivity, the\nchurch is invited to rejoice for her redemption from sin.  Christ's\nkingdom shall be exalted.\n\n52:1. Arise, arise, put on thy strength, O Sion, put on the garments of\nthy glory, O Jerusalem, the city of the Holy One: for henceforth the\nuncircumcised, and unclean shall no more pass through thee.\n\n52:2. Shake thyself from the dust, arise, sit up, O Jerusalem: loose the\nbonds from off thy neck, O captive daughter of Sion.\n\n52:3. For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you shall be\nredeemed, without money.\n\n52:4. For thus saith the Lord God: My people went down into Egypt at the\nbeginning to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without\nany cause at all.\n\n52:5. And now what have I here, saith the Lord: for my people is taken\naway gratis. They that rule over them treat them unjustly, saith the\nLord, and my name is continually blasphemed all the day long.\n\n52:6. Therefore my people shall know my name in that day: for I myself\nthat spoke, behold I am here.\n\n52:7. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth\ngood tidings, and that preacheth peace: of him that sheweth forth good,\nthat preacheth salvation, that saith to Sion: Thy God shall reign!\n\n52:8. The voice of thy watchmen: they have lifted up their voice, they\nshall praise together: for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall\nconvert Sion.\n\n52:9. Rejoice, and give praise together, O ye deserts of Jerusalem: for\nthe Lord hath comforted his people: he hath redeemed Jerusalem.\n\n52:10. The Lord hath prepared his holy arm in the sight of all the\nGentiles: and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our\nGod.\n\n52:11. Depart, depart, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing: go\nout of the midst of her, be ye clean, you that carry the vessels of the\nLord.\n\n52:12. For you shall not go out in a tumult, neither shall you make\nhaste by flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel\nwill gather you together.\n\n52:13. Behold my servant shall understand, he shall be exalted, and\nextolled, and shall be exceeding high.\n\n52:14. As many have been astonished at thee, so shall his visage be\ninglorious among men, and his form among the sons of men.\n\n52:15. He shall sprinkle many nations, kings shall shut their mouth at\nhim: for they to whom it was not told of him, have seen: and they that\nheard not, have beheld.\n\nIsaias Chapter 53\n\nA prophecy of the passion of Christ.\n\n53:1. Who a hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord\nrevealed?\n\n53:2. And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root\nout of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and\nwe have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be\ndesirous of him:\n\n53:3. Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and\nacquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and\ndespised, whereupon we esteemed him not.\n\n53:4. Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and\nwe have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and\nafflicted.\n\n53:5. But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our\nsins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we\nare healed.\n\n53:6. All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside\ninto his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.\n\n53:7. He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his\nmouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as\na lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth.\n\n53:8. He was taken away from distress, and from judgment: who shall\ndeclare his generation? because he is cut off out of the land of the\nliving: for the wickedness of my people have I struck him.\n\n53:9. And he shall give the ungodly for his burial, and the rich for his\ndeath: because he hath done no iniquity, neither was there deceit in his\nmouth.\n\n53:10. And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall\nlay down his life for sin, he shall see a longlived seed, and the will\nof the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand.\n\n53:11. Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by\nhis knowledge shall this my just servant justify many, and he shall bear\ntheir iniquities.\n\n53:12. Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall divide\nthe spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered his soul unto death,\nand was reputed with the wicked: and he hath borne the sins of many, and\nhath prayed for the transgressors.\n\nIsaias Chapter 54\n\nThe Gentiles, who were barren before, shall multiply in the church of\nChrist: from which God's mercy shall never depart.\n\n54:1. Give praise, O thou barren, that bearest not: sing forth praise,\nand make a joyful noise, thou that didst not travail with child: for\nmany are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a\nhusband, saith the Lord.\n\n54:2. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and stretch out the skins of thy\ntabernacles, spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.\n\n54:3. For thou shalt pass on to the right hand, and to the left: and thy\nseed shall inherit the Gentiles, and shall inhabit the desolate cities.\n\n54:4. Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded, nor blush: for thou\nshalt not be put to shame, because thou shalt forget the shame of thy\nyouth, and shalt remember no more the reproach of thy widowhood.\n\n54:5. For he that made thee shall rule over thee, the Lord of hosts is\nhis name: and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, shall be called the\nGod of all the earth.\n\n54:6. For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and mourning in\nspirit, and as a wife cast off from her youth, said thy God.\n\n54:7. For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies\nwill I gather thee.\n\n54:8. In a moment of indignation have I hid my face a little while from\nthee, but with everlasting kindness have I had mercy on thee, said the\nLord thy Redeemer.\n\n54:9. This thing is to me as in the days of Noe, to whom I swore, that I\nwould no more bring in the waters of Noe upon the earth: so have I sworn\nnot to be angry with thee, and not to rebuke thee.\n\n54:10. For the mountains shall be moved, and the hills shall tremble;\nbut my mercy shall not depart from thee, and the covenant of my peace\nshall not be moved: said the Lord that hath mercy on thee.\n\n54:11. O poor little one, tossed with tempest, without all comfort,\nbehold I will lay thy stones in order, and will lay thy foundations with\nsapphires,\n\n54:12. And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven\nstones, and all thy borders of desirable stones.\n\n54:13. All thy children shall be taught of the Lord: and great shall be\nthe peace of thy children.\n\n54:14. And thou shalt be founded in justice: depart far from oppression,\nfor thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near\nthee.\n\n54:15. Behold, an inhabitant shall come, who was not with me, he that\nwas a stranger to thee before, shall be joined to thee.\n\n54:16. Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the\nfire, and bringeth forth an instrument for his work, and I have created\nthe killer to destroy.\n\n54:17. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every\ntongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the\ninheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me,\nsaith the Lord.\n\nIsaias Chapter 55\n\nGod promises abundance of spiritual graces to the faithful, that shall\nbelieve in Christ out of all nations, and sincerely serve him.\n\n55:1. All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no\nmoney make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without\nmoney, and without any price.\n\n55:2. Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your\nlabour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me,\nand eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness.\n\n55:3. Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live,\nand I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies\nof David.\n\n55:4. Behold I have given him for a witness to the people, for a leader\nand a master to the Gentiles.\n\n55:5. Behold thou shalt call a nation, which thou knewest not: and the\nnations that knew not thee shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy\nGod, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.\n\n55:6. Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he\nis near.\n\n55:7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts,\nand let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to\nour God: for he is bountiful to forgive.\n\n55:8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways,\nsaith the Lord.\n\n55:9. For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways\nexalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.\n\n55:10. And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return no\nmore thither, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to spring,\nand give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:\n\n55:11. So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall\nnot return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall\nprosper in the things for which I sent it.\n\n55:12. For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the\nmountains and the hills shall sing praise before you, and all the trees\nof the country shall clap their hands.\n\n55:13. Instead of the shrub, shall come up the fir tree, and instead of\nthe nettle, shall come up the myrtle tree: and the Lord shall be named\nfor an everlasting sign, that shall not be taken away.\n\nIsaias Chapter 56\n\nGod invites all to keep his commandments: the Gentiles that keep them\nshall be the people of God: the Jewish pastors are reproved.\n\n56:1. Thus saith the Lord: Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my\nsalvation is near to come, and my justice to be revealed.\n\n56:2. Blessed is the man that doth this, and the son of man that shall\nlay hold on this: that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, that\nkeepeth his hands from doing any evil.\n\n56:3. And let not the son of the stranger, that adhereth to the Lord,\nspeak, saying: The Lord will divide and separate me from his people. And\nlet not the eunuch say: Behold I am a dry tree.\n\n56:4. For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, They that shall keep my\nsabbaths, and shall choose the things that please me, and shall hold\nfast my covenant:\n\n56:5. I will give to them in my house, and within my walls, a place, and\na name better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting\nname which shall never perish.\n\n56:6. And the children of the stranger that adhere to the Lord, to\nworship him, and to love his name, to be his servants: every one that\nkeepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and that holdeth fast my\ncovenant:\n\n56:7. I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make them joyful in\nmy house of prayer: their holocausts, and their victims shall please me\nupon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer, for all\nnations.\n\n56:8. The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel, saith: I will\nstill gather unto him his congregation.\n\n56:9. All ye beasts of the field come to devour, all ye beasts of the\nforest.\n\n56:10. His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not\nable to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams.\n\n56:11. And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds\nthemselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own\nway, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last.\n\n56:12. Come, let us take wine, and be filled with drunkenness: and it\nshall be as to day, so also to morrow, and much more.\n\nIsaias Chapter 57\n\nThe infidelity of the Jews: their idolatry. Promises to humble\npenitents.\n\n57:1. The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of\nmercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the\njust man is taken away from before the face of evil.\n\n57:2. Let peace come, let him rest in his bed that hath walked in his\nuprightness.\n\n57:3. But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the\nadulterer, and of the harlot.\n\n57:4. Upon whom have you jested? upon whom have you opened your mouth\nwide, and put out your tongue? are not you wicked children, a false\nseed,\n\n57:5. Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing\nchildren in the torrents, under the high rocks?\n\n57:6. In the parts of the torrent is thy portion, this is thy lot: and\nthou hast poured out libations to them, thou hast offered sacrifice.\nShall I not be angry at these things?\n\n57:7. Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast\ngone up thither to offer victims.\n\n57:8. And behind the door, and behind the post thou hast set up thy\nremembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself near me, and hast received\nan adulterer: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a covenant with them:\nthou hast loved their bed with open hand.\n\n57:9. And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment, and hast\nmultiplied thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and wast\ndebased even to hell.\n\n57:10. Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy ways: yet thou\nsaidst not: I will rest: thou has found life of thy hand, therefore thou\nhast not asked.\n\n57:11. For whom hast thou been solicitous and afraid, that thou hast\nlied, and hast not been mindful of me, nor thought on me in thy heart?\nfor I am silent, and as one that seeth not, and thou hast forgotten me.\n\n57:12. I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee.\n\n57:13. When thou shalt cry, let thy companies deliver thee, but the wind\nshall carry them all off, a breeze shall take them away, but he that\nputteth his trust in me, shall inherit the land, and shall possess my\nholy mount.\n\n57:14. And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of the\npath, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.\n\n57:15. For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity:\nand his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with\na contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to\nrevive the heart of the contrite.\n\n57:16. For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the\nend: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I\nwill make.\n\n57:17. For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and I struck\nhim: I hid my face from thee, and was angry: and he went away wandering\nin his own heart.\n\n57:18. I saw his ways, and I healed him, and brought him back, and\nrestored comforts to him, and to them that mourn for him.\n\n57:19. I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far\noff, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him.\n\n57:20. But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and\nthe waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.\n\n57:21. There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord God.\n\nIsaias Chapter 58\n\nGod rejects the hypocritical fasts of the Jews: recommends works of\nmercy, and sincere godliness.\n\n58:1. Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my\npeople their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins.\n\n58:2. For they seek me from day to day, and desire to know my ways, as a\nnation that hath done justice, and hath not forsaken the judgment of\ntheir God: they ask of me the judgments of justice: they are willing to\napproach to God.\n\n58:3. Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled\nour souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your\nfast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors.\n\n58:4. Behold you fast for debates and strife, and strike with the fist\nwickedly. Do not fast as you have done until this day, to make your cry\nto be heard on high.\n\n58:5. Is this such a fast as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his\nsoul for a day? is this it, to wind his head about like a circle, and to\nspread sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast, and a day\nacceptable to the Lord?\n\n58:6. Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of\nwickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go\nfree, and break asunder every burden.\n\n58:7. Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the\nharbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him,\nand despise not thy own flesh.\n\n58:8. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health\nshall speedily arise, and thy justice shall go before thy face, and the\nglory of the Lord shall gather thee up.\n\n58:9. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and\nhe shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the\nmidst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that\nwhich profiteth not.\n\n58:10. When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt\nsatisfy the afflicted soul, then shall thy light rise up in darkness,\nand thy darkness shall be as the noonday.\n\n58:11. And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy\nsoul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a\nwatered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not\nfail.\n\n58:12. And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in\nthee: thou shalt raise up the foundation of generation and generation:\nand thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths\ninto rest.\n\n58:13. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own\nwill in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of\nthe Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways,\nand thy own will is not found, to speak a word:\n\n58:14. Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up\nabove the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the\ninheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken\nit.\n\nIsaias Chapter 59\n\nThe dreadful evil of sin is displayed, as the great obstacle to all good\nfrom God: yet he will send a Redeemer, and make an everlasting covenant\nwith his church.\n\n59:1. Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save,\nneither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear.\n\n59:2. But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and\nyour sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear.\n\n59:3. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with\niniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity.\n\n59:4. There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one\nthat judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak\nvanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.\n\n59:5. They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of\nspiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is\nbrought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk.\n\n59:6. Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover\nthemselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the\nwork of iniquity is in their hands.\n\n59:7. Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood:\ntheir thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in\ntheir ways.\n\n59:8. They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in\ntheir steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one that\ntreadeth in them knoweth no peace.\n\n59:9. Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake\nus. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have\nwalked in the dark.\n\n59:10. We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have groped as\nif we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are in\ndark places, as dead men.\n\n59:11. We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful\ndoves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation,\nand it is far from us.\n\n59:12. For our iniquities are multiplied before thee, and our sins have\ntestified against us: for our wicked doings are with us, and have known\nour iniquities:\n\n59:13. In sinning and lying against the Lord: and we have turned away so\nthat we went not after our God, but spoke calumny and transgression: we\nhave conceived, and uttered from the heart, words of falsehood.\n\n59:14. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath stood far\noff: because truth hath fallen down in the street, and equity could not\ncome in.\n\n59:15. And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed from evil,\nlay open to be a prey: and the Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his\neyes, because there is no judgment.\n\n59:16. And he saw that there is not a man: and he stood astonished,\nbecause there is none to oppose himself: and his own arm brought\nsalvation to him, and his own justice supported him.\n\n59:17. He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation\nupon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance, and was clad with\nzeal as with a cloak.\n\n59:18. As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath to his adversaries,\nand a reward to his enemies: he will repay the like to the islands.\n\n59:19. And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and they\nfrom the rising of the sun, his glory when he shall come as a violent\nstream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:\n\n59:20. And there shall come a redeemer to Sion, and to them that return\nfrom iniquity in Jacob, saith the Lord.\n\n59:21. This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is\nin thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out\nof thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of\nthy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.\n\nThis is my covenant, etc... Note here a clear promise of perpetual\northodoxy to the church of Christ.\n\nIsaias Chapter 60\n\nThe light of true faith shall shine forth in the church of Christ, and\nshall be spread through all nations, and continue for all ages.\n\n60:1. Arise, be enlightened, O Jerusalem: for thy light is come, and the\nglory of the Lord is risen upon thee.\n\n60:2. For behold darkness shall cover the earth, and a mist the people:\nbut the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon\nthee.\n\n60:3. And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and kings in the\nbrightness of thy rising.\n\n60:4. Lift up thy eyes round about, and see: all these are gathered\ntogether, they are come to thee: thy sons shall come from afar, and thy\ndaughters shall rise up at thy side.\n\n60:5. Then shalt thou see, and abound, and thy heart shall wonder and be\nenlarged, when the multitude of the sea shall be converted to thee, the\nstrength of the Gentiles shall come to thee.\n\n60:6. The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of\nMadian and Epha: all they from Saba shall come, bringing gold and\nfrankincense: and shewing forth praise to the Lord.\n\n60:7. All the flocks of Cedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the\nrams of Nabaioth shall minister to thee: they shall be offered upon my\nacceptable altar, and I will glorify the house of my majesty.\n\n60:8. Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their windows?\n\n60:9. For, the islands wait for me, and the ships of the sea in the\nbeginning: that I may bring thy sons from afar: their silver, and their\ngold with them, to the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of\nIsrael, because he hath glorified thee.\n\n60:10. And the children of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their\nkings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath have I struck thee, and in\nmy reconciliation have I had mercy upon thee.\n\n60:11. And thy gates shall be open continually: they shall not be shut\nday nor night, that the strength of the Gentiles may be brought to thee,\nand their kings may be brought.\n\n60:12. For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee, shall\nperish: and the Gentiles shall be wasted with desolation.\n\n60:13. The glory of Libanus shall come to thee, the fir tree, and the\nbox tree, and the pine tree together, to beautify the place of my\nsanctuary: and I will glorify the place of my feet.\n\n60:14. And the children of them that afflict thee, shall come bowing\ndown to thee, and all that slandered thee shall worship the steps of thy\nfeet, and shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy One\nof Israel.\n\n60:15. Because thou wast forsaken, and hated, and there was none that\npassed through thee, I will make thee to be an everlasting glory, a joy\nunto generation and generation:\n\n60:16. And thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles, and thou shalt be\nnursed with the breasts of kings: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord\nthy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.\n\n60:17. For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver:\nand for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make thy visitation\npeace, and thy overseers justice.\n\n60:18. Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor\ndestruction in thy borders, and salvation shall possess thy walls, and\npraise thy gates.\n\n60:19. Thou shalt no more have the sun for thy light by day, neither\nshall the brightness of the moon enlighten thee: but the Lord shall be\nunto thee for an everlasting light, and thy God for thy glory.\n\nThou shalt no more, etc... In this latter part of the chapter, the\nprophet passes from the illustrious promises made to the church militant\non earth, to the glory of the church triumphant in heaven.\n\n60:20. Thy sun shall go down no more, and thy moon shall not decrease:\nfor the Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting light, and the days\nof thy mourning shall be ended.\n\n60:21. And thy people shall be all just, they shall inherit the land for\never, the branch of my planting, the work of my hand to glorify me.\n\n60:22. The least shall become a thousand, and a little one a most strong\nnation: I the Lord will suddenly do this thing in its time.\n\nIsaias Chapter 61\n\nThe office of Christ: the mission of the Apostles; the happiness of\ntheir converts.\n\n61:1. The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed\nme: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of\nheart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them\nthat are shut up.\n\n61:2. To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of\nvengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn:\n\n61:3. To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for\nashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit\nof grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the\nplanting of the Lord to glorify him.\n\n61:4. And they shall build the places that have been waste from of old,\nand shall raise up ancient ruins, and shall repair the desolate cities,\nthat were destroyed for generation and generation.\n\n61:5. And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks: and the sons\nof strangers shall be your husbandman, and the dressers of your vines.\n\n61:6. But you shall be called the priests of the Lord: to you it shall\nbe said: Ye ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the\nGentiles, and you shall pride yourselves in their glory.\n\n61:7. For your double confusion and shame, they shall praise their part:\ntherefore shall they receive double in their land, everlasting joy shall\nbe unto them.\n\n61:8. For I am the Lord that love judgment, and hate robbery in a\nholocaust: and I will make their work in truth, and I will make a\nperpetual covenant with them.\n\n61:9. And they shall know their seed among the Gentiles, and their\noffspring in the midst of peoples: all that shall see them, shall know\nthem, that these are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.\n\n61:10. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful\nin my God: for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation: and\nwith the robe of justice he hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked with\na crown, and as a bride adorned with her jewels.\n\n61:11. For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden\ncauseth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to\nspring forth, and praise before all the nations.\n\nIsaias Chapter 62\n\nThe prophet will not cease from preaching Christ: to whom all nations\nshall be converted: and whose church shall continue for ever.\n\n62:1. For Sion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of\nJerusalem, I will not rest till her just one come forth as brightness,\nand her saviour be lighted as a lamp.\n\n62:2. And the Gentiles shall see thy just one, and all kings thy\nglorious one: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of\nthe Lord shall name.\n\n62:3. And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a\nroyal diadem in the hand of thy God.\n\n62:4. Thou shalt no more be called Forsaken: and thy land shall no more\nbe called Desolate: but thou shalt be called My pleasure in her, and thy\nland inhabited. Because the Lord hath been well pleased with thee: and\nthy land shall be inhabited.\n\n62:5. For the young man shall dwell with the virgin, and thy children\nshall dwell in thee. And the bridegroom shall rejoice over the bride,\nand thy God shall rejoice over thee.\n\n62:6. Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all the\nday, and all the night, they shall never hold their peace.  You that are\nmindful of the Lord, hold not your peace,\n\n62:7. And give him no silence till he establish, and till he make\nJerusalem a praise in the earth.\n\n62:8. The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his\nstrength: Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy\nenemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for\nwhich thou hast laboured.\n\n62:9. For they that gather it, shall eat it, and shall praise the Lord:\nand they that bring it together, shall drink it in my holy courts.\n\n62:10. Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people,\nmake the road plain, pick out the stones, and lift up the standard to\nthe people.\n\n62:11. Behold the Lord hath made it to be heard in the ends of the\nearth, tell the daughter of Sion: Behold thy Saviour cometh: behold his\nreward is with him, and his work before him.\n\n62:12. And they shall call them, The holy people, the redeemed of the\nLord. But thou shalt be called: A city sought after, and not forsaken.\n\nIsaias Chapter 63\n\nChrist's victory over his enemies: his mercies to his people: their\ncomplaint.\n\n63:1. Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bosra,\nthis beautiful one in his robe, walking in the greatness of his\nstrength. I, that speak justice, and am a defender to save.\n\nEdom... Edom and Bosra (a strong city of Edom) are here taken in a\nmystical sense for the enemies of Christ and his church.\n\n63:2. Why then is thy apparel red, and thy garments like theirs that\ntread in the winepress?\n\n63:3. I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the Gentiles there is\nnot a man with me: I have trampled on them in my indignation, and have\ntrodden them down in my wrath, and their blood is sprinkled upon my\ngarments, and I have stained all my apparel.\n\n63:4. For the day of vengeance is in my heart, the year of my redemption\nis come.\n\n63:5. I looked about, and there was none to help: I sought, and there\nwas none to give aid: and my own arm hath saved for me, and my\nindignation itself hath helped me.\n\n63:6. And I have trodden down the people in my wrath, and have made them\ndrunk in my indignation, and have brought down their strength to the\nearth.\n\n63:7. I will remember the tender mercies of the Lord, the praise of the\nLord for all the things that the Lord hath bestowed upon us, and for the\nmultitude of his good things to the house of Israel, which he hath given\nthem according to his kindness, and according to the multitude of his\nmercies.\n\n63:8. And he said: Surely they are my people, children that will not\ndeny: so he became their saviour.\n\n63:9. In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his\npresence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and\nhe carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.\n\n63:10. But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy\nOne: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.\n\n63:11. And he remembered the days of old of Moses, and of his people:\nWhere is he that brought them up out of the sea, with the shepherds of\nhis flock? where is he that put in the midst of them the spirit of his\nHoly One?\n\n63:12. He that brought out Moses by the right hand, by the arm of his\nmajesty: that divided the waters before them, to make himself an\neverlasting name.\n\n63:13. He that led them out through the deep, as a horse in the\nwilderness that stumbleth not.\n\n63:14. As a beast that goeth down in the field, the spirit of the Lord\nwas their leader: so didst thou lead thy people to make thyself a\nglorious name.\n\n63:15. Look down from heaven, and behold from thy holy habitation and\nthe place of thy glory: where is thy zeal, and thy strength, the\nmultitude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies? they have held back\nthemselves from me.\n\nThey have held back, etc... This is spoken by the prophet in the person\nof the Jews at the time when, for their sins, they were given up to\ntheir enemies.\n\n63:16. For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and\nIsrael hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our\nredeemer, from everlasting is thy name.\n\nAbraham hath not know us, etc... That is, Abraham will not now\nacknowledge us for his children, by reason of our degeneracy; but thou,\nO Lord, art our true father and our redeemer, and no other can be called\nour parent in comparison with thee.\n\n63:17. Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast\nthou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee?  return for the\nsake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.\n\nMade us to err, etc. Hardened our heart, etc... The meaning is, that God\nin punishment of their great and manifold crimes, and their long abuse\nof his mercy and grace, had withdrawn his graces from them, and so given\nthem up to error and hardness of heart.\n\n63:18. They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have\ntrodden down thy sanctuary.\n\n63:19. We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over\nus, and when we were not called by thy name.\n\nIsaias Chapter 64\n\nThe prophet prays for the release of his people; and for the remission\nof their sins.\n\n64:1. O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the\nmountains would melt away at thy presence.\n\n64:2. They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn\nwith fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the\nnations might tremble at thy presence.\n\n64:3. When thou shalt do wonderful things, we shall not bear them: thou\ndidst come down, and at thy presence the mountains melted away.\n\n64:4. From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived\nwith the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things\nthou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.\n\n64:5. Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways\nthey shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in\nthem we have been always, and we shall be saved.\n\n64:6. And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the\nrag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our\niniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.\n\nOur justices, etc... That is, the works by which we pretended to make\nourselves just. This is spoken particularly of the sacrifices,\nsacraments, and ceremonies of the Jews, after the death of Christ, and\nthe promulgation of the new law.\n\n64:7. There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and\ntaketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us\nin the hand of our iniquity.\n\n64:8. And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou\nart our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.\n\n64:9. Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity:\nbehold, see we are all thy people.\n\n64:10. The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a\ndesert, Jerusalem is desolate.\n\n64:11. The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our fathers\npraised thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned\ninto ruins.\n\n64:12. Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon these things, wilt thou\nhold thy peace, and afflict us vehemently?\n\nIsaias Chapter 65\n\nThe Gentiles shall seek and find Christ, but the Jews will persecute\nhim, and be rejected, only a remnant shall be reserved. The church shall\nmultiply, and abound with graces.\n\n65:1. They have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found\nme that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that\ndid not call upon my name.\n\n65:2. I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people,\nwho walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.\n\n65:3. A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that\nimmolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.\n\n65:4. That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that\neat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.\n\n65:5. That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou art\nunclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day.\n\n65:6. Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will\nrender and repay into their bosom.\n\n65:7. Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together,\nsaith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have\nreproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work\nin their bosom.\n\n65:8. Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found in a cluster, and it\nbe said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing: so will I do for the\nsake of my servants, that I may not destroy the whole.\n\n65:9. And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Juda a\npossessor of my mountains: and my elect shall inherit it, and my\nservants shall dwell there.\n\n65:10. And the plains shall be turned to folds of flocks, and the valley\nof Achor into a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that\nhave sought me.\n\n65:11. And you, that have forsaken the Lord, that have forgotten my holy\nmount, that set a table for fortune, and offer libations upon it,\n\n65:12. I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by\nslaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I spoke, and you did\nnot hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have chosen the things\nthat displease me.\n\n65:13. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat,\nand you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall\nbe thirsty.\n\n65:14. Behold my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be confounded:\nbehold my servants shall praise for joyfulness of heart, and you shall\ncry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for grief of spirit.\n\n65:15. And you shall leave your name for an execration to my elect: and\nthe Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name.\n\n65:16. In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be blessed in\nGod, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen:\nbecause the former distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid\nfrom my eyes.\n\n65:17. For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former\nthings shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the\nheart.\n\n65:18. But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in these things, which\nI create: for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and the people\nthereof joy.\n\n65:19. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the\nvoice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.\n\n65:20. There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man\nthat shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years\nold, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.\n\n65:21. And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall\nplant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them.\n\n65:22. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant,\nand another eat: for as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of my\npeople, and the works of their hands shall be of long continuance.\n\n65:23. My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble;\nfor they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity\nwith them.\n\n65:24. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will hear; as\nthey are yet speaking, I will hear.\n\n65:25. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion and the ox\nshall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent's food: they shall not\nhurt nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.\n\nIsaias Chapter 66\n\nMore of the reprobation of the Jews, and of the call of the Gentiles.\n\n66:1. Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my\nfootstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is\nthis place of my rest?\n\nWhat is this house, etc... This is a prophecy that the temple should be\ncast off.\n\n66:2. My hand made all these things, and all these things were made,\nsaith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is\npoor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my\nwords?\n\n66:3. He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew a man: he that killeth\na sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an\noblation, as if he should offer swine's blood; he that remembereth\nincense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things have they\nchosen in their ways, and their soul is delighted in their abominations.\n\nHe that sacrificeth an ox, etc... This is a prophecy that the sacrifices\nwhich were offered in the old law should be abolished in the new; and\nthat the offering of them should be a crime.-Ibid. Remembereth\nincense... Viz., to offer it in the way of a sacrifice.\n\n66:4. Wherefore I also will choose their mockeries, and will bring upon\nthem the things they feared: because I called, and there was none that\nwould answer; I have spoken, and they heard not; and they have done evil\nin my eyes, and have chosen the things that displease me.\n\nI will choose their mockeries... I will turn their mockeries upon\nthemselves; and will cause them to be mocked by their enemies.\n\n66:5. Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble at his word: Your\nbrethren that hate you, and cast you out for my name's sake, have said:\nLet the Lord be glorified, and we shall see in your joy: but they shall\nbe confounded.\n\n66:6. A voice of the people from the city, a voice from the temple, the\nvoice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to his enemies.\n\n66:7. Before she was in labour, she brought forth; before her time came\nto be delivered, she brought forth a man child.\n\nBefore she was in labour, etc... This relates to the conversion of the\nGentiles, who were born, as it were, all on a sudden to the church of\nGod.\n\n66:8. Who hath ever heard such a thing? and who hath seen the like to\nthis? shall the earth bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be\nbrought forth at once, because Sion hath been in labour, and hath\nbrought forth her children?\n\n66:9. Shall not I that make others to bring forth children, myself bring\nforth, saith the Lord? shall I, that give generation to others, be\nbarren, saith the Lord thy God?\n\n66:10. Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love\nher: rejoice for joy with her, all you that mourn for her.\n\n66:11. That you may suck, and be filled with the breasts of her\nconsolations: that you may milk out, and flow with delights, from the\nabundance of her glory.\n\n66:12. For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring upon her as it were\na river of peace, and as an overflowing torrent the glory of the\nGentiles, which you shall suck; you shall be carried at the breasts, and\nupon the knees they shall caress you.\n\n66:13. As one whom the mother caresseth, so will I comfort you, and you\nshall be comforted in Jerusalem.\n\n66:14. You shall see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall\nflourish like an herb, and the hand of the Lord shall be known to his\nservants, and he shall be angry with his enemies.\n\n66:15. For behold the Lord will come with fire, and his chariots are\nlike a whirlwind, to render his wrath in indignation, and his rebuke\nwith flames of fire.\n\n66:16. For the Lord shall judge by fire, and by his sword unto all\nflesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many.\n\n66:17. They that were sanctified, thought themselves clean in the\ngardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine's flesh, and the\nabomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith the\nLord.\n\n66:18. But I know their works, and their thoughts: I come that I may\ngather them together with all nations and tongues: and they shall come\nand shall see my glory.\n\n66:19. And I will set a sign among them, and I will send of them that\nshall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia\nthem that draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the islands afar off,\nto them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And they\nshall declare my glory to the Gentiles:\n\n66:20. And they shall bring all your brethren out of all nations for a\ngift to the Lord, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on\nmules, and in coaches, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as\nif the children of Israel should bring an offering in a clean vessel\ninto the house of the Lord.\n\n66:21. And I will take of them to be priests, and Levites, saith the\nLord.\n\n66:22. For as the new heavens, and the new earth, which I will make to\nstand before me, saith the Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your\nname.\n\n66:23. And there shall be month after month, and sabbath after sabbath:\nand all flesh shall come to adore before my face, saith the Lord.\n\n66:24. And they shall go out, and see the carcasses of the men that have\ntransgressed against me: their worm shall not die, and their fire shall\nnot be quenched: and they shall be a loathsome sight to all flesh.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":42058}