{"id":639,"date":"2014-06-01T22:19:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T22:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themessianicprophecies.com\/?page_id=639"},"modified":"2014-06-08T11:07:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T11:07:41","slug":"64-context-isaiah-501-5525","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.themessianicprophecies.com\/?page_id=639","title":{"rendered":"64. context – Isaiah 50:1 – 55:25"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

THUS SAITH THE LORD,<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHERE IS THE BILL OF <\/strong><\/p>\n

YOUR MOTHER\u2019S DIVORCEMENT,<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHOM I HAVE PUT AWAY?<\/strong><\/p>\n

OR WHICH OF MY CREDITORS <\/strong><\/p>\n

IS IT TO I HAVE SOLD YOU?<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

or which of my creditors<\/p>\n

is it to whom I have sold you?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behold,<\/p>\n

for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves,<\/p>\n

and for your transgressions is your mother put away.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Wherefore,<\/p>\n

when I came,<\/p>\n

was there no man?<\/p>\n

when I called,<\/p>\n

was there none to answer?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Is my hand shortened at all,<\/p>\n

that it cannot redeem?<\/p>\n

or have I no power to deliver?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

behold,<\/p>\n

at my rebuke I dry up the sea,<\/p>\n

I make the rivers a wilderness:<\/p>\n

their fish stinketh,<\/p>\n

because there is no water,<\/p>\n

and dieth for thirst.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I clothe the heavens with blackness,<\/p>\n

and I make sackcloth their covering.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Lord GOD hath given me<\/p>\n

the tongue of the learned,<\/p>\n

that I should know how to speak a word in season<\/p>\n

to him that is weary:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

he wakeneth morning by morning,<\/p>\n

he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear,<\/p>\n

and I was not rebellious,<\/p>\n

neither turned away back.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I gave my back to the smiters,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I hid not my face from shame and spitting.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For the Lord GOD will help me;<\/p>\n

therefore shall I not be confounded:<\/p>\n

therefore have I set my face like a flint<\/em>,<\/p>\n

and I know that I shall not be ashamed.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He is near that justifieth me;<\/p>\n

who will contend with me?<\/p>\n

let us stand together:<\/p>\n

who is mine adversary?<\/p>\n

let him come near to me.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behold,<\/p>\n

the Lord GOD will help me;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

who is he that shall condemn me<\/em>?<\/p>\n

lo, they all shall wax old as a garment;<\/p>\n

the moth shall eat them up.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Who is among you that feareth the LORD,<\/p>\n

that obeyeth the voice of his servant,<\/p>\n

that walketh in darkness,<\/p>\n

and hath no light?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

let him trust in the name of the LORD,<\/p>\n

and stay upon his God.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BEHOLD,<\/p>\n

ALL YE THAT KINDLE A FIRE,<\/p>\n

THAT COMPASS YOURSELVES ABOUT WITH SPARKS:<\/p>\n

walk in the light of your fire,<\/p>\n

and in the sparks that ye have kindled.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This shall ye have of mine hand;<\/p>\n

ye shall lie down in sorrow.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hearken to me,<\/p>\n

ye that follow after righteousness,<\/p>\n

ye that seek the LORD:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

look unto the rock whence ye are hewn<\/em>,<\/p>\n

and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Look unto Abraham your father,<\/p>\n

and unto Sarah that bare you:<\/p>\n

for I called him alone,<\/p>\n

and blessed him,<\/p>\n

and increased him.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For the LORD shall comfort Zion:<\/p>\n

he will comfort all her waste places;<\/p>\n

and he will make her wilderness like Eden,<\/p>\n

and her desert like the garden of the LORD;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

joy and gladness shall be found therein,<\/p>\n

thanksgiving,<\/p>\n

and the voice of melody.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

HEARKEN UNTO ME,<\/p>\n

MY PEOPLE;<\/p>\n

AND GIVE EAR UNTO ME,<\/p>\n

O MY NATION:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for a law shall proceed from me,<\/p>\n

and I will make my judgment<\/p>\n

to rest for a light of the people.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My righteousness is near;<\/p>\n

my salvation is gone forth,<\/p>\n

and mine arms shall judge the people;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

the isles shall wait upon me,<\/p>\n

and on mine arm shall they trust.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Lift up your eyes to the heavens,<\/p>\n

and look upon the earth beneath:<\/p>\n

for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke,<\/p>\n

and the earth shall wax old like a garment,<\/p>\n

and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner:<\/p>\n

but my salvation shall be for ever,<\/p>\n

and my righteousness shall not be abolished.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

HEARKEN UNTO ME,<\/p>\n

YE THAT KNOW RIGHTEOUSNESS,<\/p>\n

THE PEOPLE IN WHOSE HEART IS MY LAW;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

fear ye not the reproach of men,<\/p>\n

neither be ye afraid of their revilings.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For the moth shall eat them up like a garment,<\/p>\n

and the worm shall eat them like wool:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

but my righteousness shall be for ever,<\/p>\n

and my salvation from generation to generation.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

AWAKE, AWAKE,<\/p>\n

PUT ON STRENGTH,<\/p>\n

O ARM OF THE LORD;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

awake,<\/p>\n

as in the ancient days,<\/p>\n

in the generations of old.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab,<\/p>\n

and wounded the dragon<\/em>?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Art thou not it which hath dried the sea,<\/p>\n

the waters of the great deep;<\/p>\n

that hath made the depths of the sea<\/p>\n

a way for the ransomed to pass over?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return,<\/p>\n

and come with singing unto Zion;<\/p>\n

and everlasting joy shall be upon their head:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

they shall obtain gladness and joy;<\/p>\n

and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I, even I, am he that comforteth you:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

WHO ART THOU,<\/p>\n

THAT THOU SHOULDEST BE AFRAID<\/p>\n

OF A MAN THAT SHALL DIE,<\/p>\n

AND OF THE SON OF MAN<\/p>\n

WHICH SHALL BE MADE AS GRASS;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And forgettest the LORD thy maker,<\/p>\n

that hath stretched forth the heavens,<\/p>\n

and laid the foundations of the earth;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and hast feared continually every day<\/p>\n

because of the fury of the oppressor,<\/p>\n

as if he were ready to destroy?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and where is the fury of the oppressor?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed,<\/p>\n

and that he should not die in the pit,<\/p>\n

nor that his bread should fail.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BUT I AM THE LORD THY GOD,<\/p>\n

THAT DIVIDED THE SEA,<\/p>\n

WHOSE WAVES ROARED:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The LORD of hosts is his name.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And I have put my words in thy mouth,<\/p>\n

and I have covered thee<\/p>\n

in the shadow of mine hand,<\/p>\n

that I may plant the heavens,<\/p>\n

and lay the foundations of the earth,<\/p>\n

and say unto Zion,<\/p>\n

Thou art my people.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

AWAKE,<\/p>\n

AWAKE,<\/p>\n

STAND UP,<\/p>\n

O JERUSALEM,<\/p>\n

which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD<\/p>\n

the cup of his fury;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling,<\/p>\n

and wrung them out.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

There is none to guide her<\/p>\n

among all the sons whom she hath brought forth;<\/p>\n

neither is there any that taketh her<\/p>\n

by the hand of all the sons<\/p>\n

that she hath brought up.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

These two things are come unto thee;<\/p>\n

who shall be sorry for thee?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

desolation,<\/p>\n

and destruction,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and the famine,<\/p>\n

and the sword:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

by whom shall I comfort thee?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thy sons have fainted,<\/p>\n

they lie at the head of all the streets,<\/p>\n

as a wild bull in a net:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

they are full of the fury of the LORD,<\/p>\n

the rebuke of thy God.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Therefore hear now this,<\/p>\n

thou afflicted,<\/p>\n

and drunken,<\/p>\n

but not with wine:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

THUS SAITH THY LORD THE LORD,<\/p>\n

and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behold,<\/p>\n

I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling,<\/p>\n

even the dregs of the cup of my fury;<\/p>\n

thou shalt no more drink it again:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But I will put it into the hand<\/p>\n

of them that afflict thee;<\/p>\n

which have said to thy soul,<\/p>\n

Bow down,<\/p>\n

that we may go over:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and thou hast laid thy body as the ground,<\/p>\n

and as the street,<\/p>\n

to them that went over.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

AWAKE, AWAKE;<\/p>\n

PUT ON THY STRENGTH,<\/p>\n

O ZION;<\/p>\n

put on thy beautiful garments,<\/p>\n

O Jerusalem,<\/p>\n

the holy city:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for henceforth there shall no more come into thee<\/p>\n

the uncircumcised and the unclean.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Shake thyself from the dust;<\/p>\n

arise,<\/p>\n

and sit down,<\/p>\n

O Jerusalem:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

loose thyself from the bands of thy neck,<\/p>\n

O captive daughter of Zion.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD,<\/p>\n

Ye have sold yourselves for nought;<\/p>\n

and ye shall be redeemed without money.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,<\/p>\n

My people went down aforetime into Egypt<\/p>\n

to sojourn there;<\/p>\n

and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Now therefore,<\/p>\n

what have I here,<\/p>\n

saith the LORD,<\/p>\n

that my people is taken away for nought?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

they that rule over them make them to howl,<\/p>\n

saith the LORD;<\/p>\n

and my name continually every day is blasphemed.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Therefore my people shall know my name:<\/p>\n

therefore they shall know in that day<\/p>\n

that I am he that doth speak:<\/p>\n

behold,<\/p>\n

it is I.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

HOW BEAUTIFUL UPON THE MOUNTAINS<\/p>\n

ARE THE FEET OF HIM<\/p>\n

THAT BRINGETH GOOD TIDINGS,<\/p>\n

that publisheth peace;<\/p>\n

that bringeth good tidings of good,<\/p>\n

that publisheth salvation;<\/p>\n

that saith unto Zion,<\/p>\n

Thy God reigneth!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice;<\/p>\n

with the voice together shall they sing:<\/p>\n

for they shall see eye to eye,<\/p>\n

when the LORD shall bring again Zion.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Break forth into joy,<\/p>\n

sing together,<\/p>\n

ye waste places of Jerusalem:<\/p>\n

for the LORD hath comforted his people,<\/p>\n

he hath redeemed Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The LORD hath made bare his holy arm<\/p>\n

in the eyes of all the nations;<\/p>\n

and all the ends of the earth<\/p>\n

shall see the salvation of our God.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Depart ye,<\/p>\n

depart ye,<\/p>\n

go ye out from thence,<\/p>\n

touch no unclean thing;<\/p>\n

go ye out of the midst of her;<\/p>\n

be ye clean,<\/p>\n

that bear the vessels of the LORD.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For ye shall not go out with haste,<\/p>\n

nor go by flight:<\/p>\n

for the LORD will go before you;<\/p>\n

and the God of Israel will be your rereward.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BEHOLD,<\/p>\n

MY SERVANT SHALL DEAL PRUDENTLY,<\/p>\n

he shall be exalted and extolled,<\/p>\n

and be very high.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As many were astonied at thee;<\/em><\/p>\n

his visage was so marred more than any man,<\/em><\/p>\n

and his form more than the sons of men:<\/em><\/p>\n

So shall he sprinkle many nations;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

the kings shall shut their mouths at him:<\/p>\n

for that which had not been told them shall they see;<\/p>\n

and that which they had not heard shall they consider.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Who hath believed our report?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and as a root out of a dry ground:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

he hath no form nor comeliness;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and when we shall see him,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

there is no beauty that we should desire him.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He is despised and rejected of men;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

a man of sorrows,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and acquainted with grief:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and we hid as it were our faces from him;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

he was despised,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and we esteemed him not.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Surely he hath borne our griefs,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and carried our sorrows:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

yet we did esteem him stricken,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

smitten of God,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and afflicted.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But he was wounded for our transgressions,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

he was bruised for our iniquities:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

the chastisement of our peace was upon him;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and with his stripes we are healed.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

All we like sheep have gone astray;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

we have turned every one to his own way;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and the LORD hath laid on him<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

the iniquity of us all.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He was oppressed,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and he was afflicted,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

yet he opened not his mouth:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

so he openeth not his mouth.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He was taken from prison and from judgment:<\/p>\n

and who shall declare his generation?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for he was cut off out of the land of the living:<\/p>\n

for the transgression of my people was he stricken.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And he made his grave with the wicked,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and with the rich in his death;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

because he had done no violence,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

neither was any deceit in his mouth.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him;<\/p>\n

he hath put him to grief:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin,<\/em><\/p>\n

he shall see his seed,<\/em><\/p>\n

he shall prolong his days,<\/em><\/p>\n

and the pleasure of the LORD<\/p>\n

shall prosper in his hand.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He shall see of the travail of his soul,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and shall be satisfied:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

by his knowledge<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

shall my righteous servant justify many;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

for he shall bear their iniquities.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

because he hath poured out his soul unto death:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and he was numbered with the transgressors;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and he bare the sin of many,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and made intercession for the transgressors.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SING, O BARREN,<\/p>\n

THOU THAT DIDST NOT BEAR;<\/p>\n

BREAK FORTH INTO SINGING,<\/p>\n

AND CRY ALOUD,<\/p>\n

thou that didst not travail with child:<\/p>\n

for more are the children of the desolate<\/p>\n

than the children of the married wife,<\/p>\n

saith the LORD.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Enlarge the place of thy tent,<\/p>\n

and let them stretch forth the curtains<\/p>\n

of thine habitations:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

spare not,<\/p>\n

lengthen thy cords,<\/p>\n

and strengthen thy stakes;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For thou shalt break forth on the right hand<\/p>\n

and on the left;<\/p>\n

and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles,<\/p>\n

and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Fear not;<\/p>\n

for thou shalt not be ashamed:<\/p>\n

neither be thou confounded;<\/p>\n

for thou shalt not be put to shame:<\/p>\n

f<\/p>\n

or thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth,<\/p>\n

and shalt not remember<\/p>\n

the reproach of thy widowhood<\/p>\n

any more.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For thy Maker is thine husband;<\/p>\n

the LORD of hosts is his name;<\/p>\n

and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel;<\/p>\n

The God of the whole earth shall he be called.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For the LORD hath called thee<\/p>\n

as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,<\/p>\n

and a wife of youth,<\/p>\n

when thou wast refused,<\/p>\n

saith thy God.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For a small moment have I forsaken thee;<\/p>\n

but with great mercies will I gather thee.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment;<\/p>\n

but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For this is as the waters of Noah unto me:<\/p>\n

for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah<\/p>\n

should no more go over the earth;<\/p>\n

so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee,<\/p>\n

nor rebuke thee.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For the mountains shall depart,<\/p>\n

and the hills be removed;<\/p>\n

but my kindness shall not depart from thee,<\/p>\n

neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed,<\/p>\n

saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

O thou afflicted,<\/p>\n

tossed with tempest,<\/p>\n

and not comforted,<\/p>\n

behold,<\/p>\n

I will lay thy stones with fair colours,<\/p>\n

and lay thy foundations with sapphires.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And I will make thy windows of agates,<\/p>\n

and thy gates of carbuncles,<\/p>\n

and all thy borders of pleasant stones.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD;<\/p>\n

and great shall be the peace of thy children.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In righteousness shalt thou be established:<\/p>\n

thou shalt be far from oppression;<\/p>\n

for thou shalt not fear:<\/p>\n

and from terror;<\/p>\n

for it shall not come near thee.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behold,<\/p>\n

they shall surely gather together,<\/p>\n

but not by me:<\/p>\n

whosoever shall gather together against thee<\/p>\n

shall fall for thy sake.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behold,<\/p>\n

I have created the smith<\/p>\n

that bloweth the coals in the fire,<\/p>\n

and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work;<\/p>\n

and I have created the waster to destroy.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper;<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment<\/p>\n

thou shalt condemn.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,<\/p>\n

and their righteousness is of me,<\/p>\n

saith the LORD.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

HO, EVERY ONE THAT THIRSTETH,<\/p>\n

COME YE TO THE WATERS,<\/p>\n

and he that hath no money;<\/p>\n

come ye,<\/p>\n

buy,<\/p>\n

and eat;<\/p>\n

yea,<\/p>\n

come,<\/p>\n

buy wine and milk<\/p>\n

without money and without price.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Wherefore do ye spend money<\/p>\n

for That which is not bread?<\/p>\n

and your labour for<\/p>\n

that which satisfieth not?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

hearken diligently unto me,<\/p>\n

and eat ye that which is good,<\/p>\n

and let your soul delight itself in fatness.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Incline your ear,<\/p>\n

and come unto me:<\/p>\n

hear,<\/p>\n

and your soul shall live;<\/p>\n

and I will make an everlasting covenant with you,<\/em><\/p>\n

even the sure mercies of David<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behold,<\/em><\/p>\n

I have given him for a witness to the people,<\/em><\/p>\n

a leader and commander to the people.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behold,<\/em><\/p>\n

thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not,<\/em><\/p>\n

and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

because of the LORD thy God,<\/p>\n

and for the Holy One of Israel;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for he hath glorified thee.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND,<\/p>\n

CALL YE UPON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Let the wicked forsake his way,<\/p>\n

and the unrighteous man his thoughts:<\/p>\n

and let him return unto the LORD,<\/p>\n

and he will have mercy upon him;<\/p>\n

and to our God,<\/p>\n

for he will abundantly pardon.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,<\/p>\n

neither are your ways my ways,<\/p>\n

saith the LORD.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,<\/p>\n

so are my ways higher than your ways,<\/p>\n

and my thoughts than your thoughts.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For as the rain cometh down,<\/p>\n

and the snow from heaven,<\/p>\n

and returneth not thither,<\/p>\n

but watereth the earth,<\/p>\n

and maketh it bring forth and bud,<\/p>\n

that it may give seed to the sower,<\/p>\n

and bread to the eater:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth:<\/em><\/p>\n

it shall not return unto me void,<\/em><\/p>\n

but it shall accomplish that which I please,<\/em><\/p>\n

and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For ye shall go out with joy,<\/p>\n

and be led forth with peace:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

the mountains and the hills shall break forth<\/p>\n

before you into singing,<\/p>\n

and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Instead of the thorn<\/p>\n

shall come up the fir tree,<\/p>\n

and instead of the brier<\/p>\n

shall come up the myrtle tree:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and it shall be to the LORD for a name,<\/p>\n

for an everlasting sign<\/p>\n

that shall not be cut off.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

THUS SAITH THE LORD,<\/p>\n

Keep ye judgment,<\/p>\n

and do justice:<\/p>\n

for my salvation is near to come,<\/p>\n

and my righteousness to be revealed.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Blessed is the man that doeth this,<\/p>\n

and the son of man that layeth hold on it;<\/p>\n

that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it,<\/p>\n

and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Neither let the son of the stranger,<\/p>\n

that hath joined himself to the LORD,<\/p>\n

speak,<\/p>\n

saying,<\/p>\n

The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

neither let the eunuch say,<\/p>\n

Behold, I am a dry tree.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD<\/p>\n

unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths,<\/p>\n

and choose the things that please me,<\/p>\n

and take hold of my covenant;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Even unto them will I give in mine house<\/em><\/p>\n

and within my walls<\/em><\/p>\n

a place and a name<\/em><\/p>\n

better than of sons and of daughters:<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I will give them an everlasting name<\/em>,<\/p>\n

that shall not be cut off.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Also the sons of the stranger,<\/p>\n

that join themselves to the LORD,<\/p>\n

to serve him,<\/p>\n

and to love the name of the LORD,<\/p>\n

to be his servants,<\/p>\n

every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it,<\/p>\n

and taketh hold of my covenant;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Even them will I bring to my holy mountain,<\/p>\n

and make them joyful in my house of prayer:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

their burnt offerings and their sacrifices<\/p>\n

shall be accepted upon mine altar;<\/p>\n

for mine house shall be called an house of prayer<\/em><\/p>\n

for all people<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Lord GOD<\/p>\n

which gathereth the outcasts of Israel<\/p>\n

saith,<\/p>\n

Yet will I gather others to him,<\/em><\/p>\n

beside those that are gathered unto him<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

ALL YE BEASTS OF THE FIELD,<\/p>\n

COME TO DEVOUR,<\/p>\n

YEA,<\/p>\n

ALL YE BEASTS IN THE FOREST.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

His watchmen are blind:<\/p>\n

they are all ignorant,<\/p>\n

they are all dumb dogs,<\/p>\n

they cannot bark;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

sleeping,<\/p>\n

lying down,<\/p>\n

loving to slumber.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Yea, they are greedy dogs<\/p>\n

which can never have enough,<\/p>\n

and they are shepherds that cannot understand:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

they all look to their own way,<\/p>\n

every one for his gain,<\/p>\n

from his quarter.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Come ye,<\/p>\n

say they,<\/p>\n

I will fetch wine,<\/p>\n

and we will fill ourselves with strong drink;<\/p>\n

and tomorrow shall be as this day,<\/p>\n

and much more abundant.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The righteous perisheth,<\/em><\/p>\n

and no man layeth it to heart:<\/em><\/p>\n

and merciful men are taken away,<\/em><\/p>\n

none considering<\/em><\/p>\n

that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He shall enter into peace:<\/p>\n

they shall rest in their beds,<\/p>\n

each one walking in his uprightness.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But draw near hither,<\/p>\n

ye sons of the sorceress,<\/p>\n

the seed of the adulterer and the whore.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Against whom do ye sport yourselves?<\/p>\n

against whom make ye a wide mouth,<\/p>\n

and draw out the tongue?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

are ye not children of transgression,<\/p>\n

a seed of falsehood,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Enflaming yourselves with idols<\/p>\n

under every green tree,<\/p>\n

slaying the children in the valleys<\/p>\n

under the clifts of the rocks?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion;<\/p>\n

they,<\/p>\n

they are thy lot:<\/p>\n

even to them hast thou poured a drink offering,<\/p>\n

thou hast offered a meat offering.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Should I receive comfort in these?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed:<\/p>\n

even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behind the doors also and the posts<\/p>\n

hast thou set up thy remembrance:<\/p>\n

for thou hast discovered thyself<\/p>\n

to another than me,<\/p>\n

and art gone up;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

thou hast enlarged thy bed,<\/p>\n

and made thee a covenant with them;<\/p>\n

thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And thou wentest to the king with ointment,<\/p>\n

and didst increase thy perfumes,<\/p>\n

and didst send thy messengers far off,<\/p>\n

and didst debase thyself even unto hell.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way;<\/p>\n

yet saidst thou not,<\/p>\n

There is no hope:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

thou hast found the life of thine hand;<\/p>\n

therefore thou wast not grieved.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared,<\/p>\n

that thou hast lied,<\/p>\n

and hast not remembered me,<\/p>\n

nor laid it to thy heart?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

have not I held my peace even of old,<\/p>\n

and thou fearest me not?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I will declare thy righteousness,<\/p>\n

and thy works;<\/p>\n

for they shall not profit thee.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When thou criest,<\/p>\n

let thy companies deliver thee;<\/p>\n

but the wind shall carry them all away;<\/p>\n

vanity shall take them:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

but he that putteth his trust in me<\/p>\n

shall possess the land,<\/p>\n

and shall inherit my holy mountain;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And shall say,<\/p>\n

Cast ye up,<\/p>\n

cast ye up,<\/p>\n

prepare the way,<\/p>\n

take up the stumblingblock<\/p>\n

out of the way of my people.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

FOR THUS SAITH THE HIGH AND LOFTY ONE<\/p>\n

THAT INHABITETH ETERNITY,<\/p>\n

WHOSE NAME IS HOLY;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I dwell in the high and holy place,<\/em><\/p>\n

with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit,<\/em><\/p>\n

to revive the spirit of the humble,<\/em><\/p>\n

and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For I will not contend for ever,<\/p>\n

neither will I be always wroth:<\/p>\n

for the spirit should fail before me,<\/p>\n

and the souls which I have made.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth,<\/p>\n

and smote him:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I hid me,<\/p>\n

and was wroth,<\/p>\n

and he went on frowardly<\/p>\n

in the way of his heart.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I have seen his ways,<\/p>\n

and will heal him:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I will lead him also,<\/p>\n

and restore comforts unto him<\/p>\n

and to his mourners.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I create the fruit of the lips;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Peace,<\/p>\n

peace to him that is far off,<\/p>\n

and to him that is near,<\/p>\n

saith the LORD;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and I will heal him.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But the wicked are like the troubled sea,<\/em><\/p>\n

when it cannot rest,<\/em><\/p>\n

whose waters cast up mire and dirt.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

There is no peace,<\/em><\/p>\n

saith my God,<\/em><\/p>\n

to the wicked.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

CRY ALOUD,<\/p>\n

SPARE NOT,<\/p>\n

LIFT UP THY VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET,<\/p>\n

and shew my people their transgression,<\/p>\n

and the house of Jacob their sins.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Yet they seek me daily,<\/p>\n

and delight to know my ways,<\/p>\n

as a nation that did righteousness,<\/p>\n

and forsook not the ordinance of their God:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

they ask of me the ordinances of justice;<\/p>\n

they take delight in approaching to God.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Wherefore have we fasted,<\/p>\n

say they,<\/p>\n

and thou seest not?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

wherefore have we afflicted our soul,<\/p>\n

and thou takest no knowledge?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behold,<\/p>\n

in the day of your fast ye find pleasure,<\/p>\n

and exact all your labours.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behold,<\/p>\n

ye fast for strife and debate,<\/p>\n

and to smite with the fist of wickedness:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

ye shall not fast as ye do this day,<\/p>\n

to make your voice to be heard on high.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

IS IT SUCH A FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN?<\/p>\n

A DAY FOR A MAN TO AFFLICT HIS SOUL?<\/p>\n

is it to bow down his head as a bulrush,<\/p>\n

and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

wilt thou call this a fast,<\/p>\n

and an acceptable day to the LORD?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Is not this the fast that I have chosen?<\/em><\/p>\n

to loose the bands of wickedness,<\/em><\/p>\n

to undo the heavy burdens,<\/em><\/p>\n

and to let the oppressed go free,<\/em><\/p>\n

and that ye break every yoke?<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry,<\/em><\/p>\n

and that thou bring the poor<\/em><\/p>\n

that are cast out to thy house?<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

when thou seest the naked,<\/em><\/p>\n

that thou cover him;<\/em><\/p>\n

and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,<\/p>\n

and thine health shall spring forth speedily:<\/p>\n

and thy righteousness shall go before thee;<\/p>\n

the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then shalt thou call,<\/p>\n

and the LORD shall answer;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

thou shalt cry,<\/p>\n

and he shall say,<\/p>\n

Here I am.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke,<\/p>\n

the putting forth of the finger,<\/p>\n

and speaking vanity;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry,<\/p>\n

and satisfy the afflicted soul;<\/p>\n

then shall thy light rise in obscurity,<\/p>\n

and thy darkness be as the noonday:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And the LORD shall guide thee continually,<\/p>\n

and satisfy thy soul in drought,<\/p>\n

and make fat thy bones:<\/p>\n

and thou shalt be like a watered garden,<\/p>\n

and like a spring of water,<\/p>\n

whose waters fail not.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And they that shall be of thee<\/p>\n

shall build the old waste places:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

thou shalt raise up the foundations<\/p>\n

of many generations;<\/p>\n

and thou shalt be called,<\/p>\n

The repairer of the breach,<\/p>\n

The restorer of paths to dwell in.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath,<\/p>\n

from doing thy pleasure on my holy day;<\/p>\n

and call the sabbath a delight,<\/p>\n

the holy of the LORD,<\/p>\n

honourable;<\/p>\n

and shalt honour him,<\/p>\n

not doing thine own ways,<\/p>\n

nor finding thine own pleasure,<\/p>\n

nor speaking thine own words:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD;<\/p>\n

and I will cause thee to ride<\/p>\n

upon the high places of the earth,<\/p>\n

and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father:<\/p>\n

for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BEHOLD,<\/p>\n

THE LORD’S HAND IS NOT SHORTENED,<\/p>\n

THAT IT CANNOT SAVE;<\/p>\n

neither his ear heavy,<\/p>\n

that it cannot hear:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But your iniquities have separated<\/p>\n

between you and your God,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and your sins have hid his face from you,<\/p>\n

that he will not hear.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For your hands are defiled with blood,<\/p>\n

and your fingers with iniquity;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

your lips have spoken lies,<\/p>\n

your tongue hath muttered perverseness.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

None calleth for justice,<\/p>\n

nor any pleadeth for truth:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

they trust in vanity,<\/p>\n

and speak lies;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

they conceive mischief,<\/p>\n

and bring forth iniquity.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

They hatch cockatrice’ eggs,<\/p>\n

and weave the spider’s web:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

he that eateth of their eggs dieth,<\/p>\n

and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Their webs shall not become garments,<\/p>\n

neither shall they cover themselves with their works:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

their works are works of iniquity,<\/p>\n

and the act of violence is in their hands.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Their feet run to evil,<\/p>\n

and they make haste to shed innocent blood:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;<\/p>\n

wasting and destruction are in their paths.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The way of peace they know not;<\/p>\n

and there is no judgment in their goings:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

they have made them crooked paths:<\/p>\n

whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

THEREFORE IS JUDGMENT FAR FROM US,<\/p>\n

NEITHER DOTH JUSTICE OVERTAKE US:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

we wait for light,<\/p>\n

but behold obscurity;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for brightness,<\/p>\n

but we walk in darkness.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We grope for the wall like the blind,<\/p>\n

and we grope as if we had no eyes:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

we stumble at noonday as in the night;<\/p>\n

we are in desolate places as dead men.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We roar all like bears,<\/p>\n

and mourn sore like doves:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

we look for judgment,<\/p>\n

but there is none;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for salvation,<\/p>\n

but it is far off from us.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For our transgressions are multiplied before thee,<\/p>\n

and our sins testify against us:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for our transgressions are with us;<\/p>\n

and as for our iniquities,<\/p>\n

we know them;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In transgressing and lying against the LORD,<\/p>\n

and departing away from our God,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

speaking oppression and revolt,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

conceiving and uttering<\/p>\n

from the heart words of falsehood.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And judgment is turned away backward,<\/p>\n

and justice standeth afar off:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for truth is fallen in the street,<\/p>\n

and equity cannot enter.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Yea, truth faileth;<\/p>\n

and he that departeth from evil<\/p>\n

maketh himself a prey:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and the LORD saw it,<\/p>\n

and it displeased him<\/p>\n

that there was no judgment.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And he saw that there was no man,<\/p>\n

and wondered that there was no intercessor:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

therefore his arm brought salvation unto him;<\/p>\n

and his righteousness,<\/p>\n

it sustained him.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For he put on righteousness as a breastplate,<\/em><\/p>\n

and an helmet of salvation upon his head;<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,<\/p>\n

and was clad with zeal as a cloke.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

According to their deeds,<\/p>\n

accordingly he will repay,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

fury to his adversaries,<\/p>\n

recompence to his enemies;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

to the islands he will repay recompence.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west,<\/p>\n

and his glory from the rising of the sun.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When the enemy shall come in like a flood,<\/p>\n

the Spirit of the LORD<\/p>\n

shall lift up a standard against him.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And the Redeemer shall come to Zion,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

saith the LORD.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As for me,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

this is my covenant with them,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

saith the LORD;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My spirit that is upon thee,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and my words which I have put in thy mouth,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

shall not depart out of thy mouth,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

nor out of the mouth of thy seed,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

saith the LORD,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

from henceforth and for ever.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

ARISE, SHINE;<\/p>\n

FOR THY LIGHT IS COME,<\/p>\n

and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For, behold,<\/em><\/p>\n

the darkness shall cover the earth,<\/em><\/p>\n

and gross darkness the people:<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

but the LORD shall arise upon thee,<\/p>\n

and his glory shall be seen upon thee.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And the Gentiles shall come to thy light,<\/p>\n

and kings to the brightness of thy rising.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Lift up thine eyes round about,<\/p>\n

and see:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

all they gather themselves together,<\/p>\n

they come to thee:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

thy sons shall come from far,<\/p>\n

and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then thou shalt see,<\/p>\n

and flow together,<\/p>\n

and thine heart shall fear,<\/p>\n

and be enlarged;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

because the abundance of the sea<\/p>\n

shall be converted unto thee,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The multitude of camels shall cover thee,<\/p>\n

the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

all they from Sheba shall come:<\/p>\n

they shall bring gold and incense;<\/p>\n

and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

All the flocks of Kedar<\/p>\n

shall be gathered together unto thee,<\/p>\n

the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar,<\/p>\n

and I will glorify the house of my glory.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

WHO ARE THESE THAT FLY AS A CLOUD,<\/p>\n

AND AS THE DOVES TO THEIR WINDOWS?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Surely the isles shall wait for me,<\/p>\n

and the ships of Tarshish first,<\/p>\n

to bring thy sons from far,<\/p>\n

their silver and their gold with them,<\/p>\n

unto the name of the LORD thy God,<\/p>\n

and to the Holy One of Israel,<\/p>\n

because he hath glorified thee.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls,<\/p>\n

and their kings shall minister unto thee:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for in my wrath I smote thee,<\/p>\n

but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Therefore thy gates shall be open continually;<\/p>\n

they shall not be shut day nor night;<\/p>\n

that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles,<\/p>\n

and that their kings may be brought.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For the nation and kingdom<\/p>\n

that will not serve thee<\/p>\n

shall perish;<\/p>\n

yea,<\/p>\n

those nations shall be utterly wasted.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee,<\/p>\n

the fir tree,<\/p>\n

the pine tree,<\/p>\n

and the box together,<\/p>\n

to beautify the place of my sanctuary;<\/p>\n

and I will make the place of my feet glorious.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The sons also of them that afflicted thee<\/p>\n

shall come bending unto thee;<\/p>\n

and all they that despised thee<\/p>\n

shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet;<\/p>\n

and they shall call thee,<\/p>\n

The city of the LORD,<\/p>\n

The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated,<\/p>\n

so that no man went through thee,<\/p>\n

I will make thee an eternal excellency,<\/p>\n

a joy of many generations.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles,<\/p>\n

and shalt suck the breast of kings:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and thou shalt know<\/p>\n

that I the LORD am thy Saviour<\/p>\n

and thy Redeemer,<\/p>\n

the mighty One of Jacob.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For brass I will bring gold,<\/p>\n

and for iron I will bring silver,<\/p>\n

and for wood brass,<\/p>\n

and for stones iron:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I will also make thy officers peace,<\/p>\n

and thine exactors righteousness.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Violence shall no more be heard in thy land,<\/p>\n

wasting nor destruction within thy borders;<\/p>\n

but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation,<\/p>\n

and thy gates Praise.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The sun shall be no more thy light by day;<\/p>\n

neither for brightness<\/p>\n

shall the moon give light unto thee:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light,<\/p>\n

and thy God thy glory.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thy sun shall no more go down;<\/p>\n

neither shall thy moon withdraw itself:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light,<\/p>\n

and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thy people also shall be all righteous:<\/p>\n

they shall inherit the land for ever,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

the branch of my planting,<\/p>\n

the work of my hands,<\/p>\n

that I may be glorified.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A little one shall become a thousand,<\/p>\n

and a small one a strong nation:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I the LORD will hasten it in his time.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

because the LORD hath anointed me<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

to preach good tidings unto the meek;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

to proclaim liberty to the captives,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and the opening of the prison<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

to them that are bound;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and the day of vengeance of our God;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

to comfort all that mourn;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

to give unto them beauty<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

for ashes,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

the oil of joy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

for mourning,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

the garment of praise<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

for the spirit of heaviness;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

that they might be called trees of righteousness,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

the planting of the LORD,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

that he might be glorified.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And they shall build the old wastes,<\/p>\n

they shall raise up the former desolations,<\/p>\n

and they shall repair the waste cities,<\/p>\n

the desolations of many generations.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,<\/p>\n

and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen<\/p>\n

and your vinedressers.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD:<\/em><\/p>\n

men shall call you the Ministers of our God:<\/em><\/p>\n

ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,<\/p>\n

and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For your shame ye shall have double;<\/p>\n

and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion:<\/p>\n

therefore in their land they shall possess the double:<\/p>\n

everlasting joy shall be unto them.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For I the LORD love judgment,<\/p>\n

I hate robbery for burnt offering;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and I will direct their work in truth,<\/p>\n

and I will make an everlasting covenant with them<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles,<\/p>\n

and their offspring among the people:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

all that see them shall acknowledge them,<\/p>\n

that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I WILL GREATLY REJOICE IN THE LORD,<\/p>\n

MY SOUL SHALL BE JOYFUL IN MY GOD;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation,<\/p>\n

he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments,<\/p>\n

and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For as the earth bringeth forth her bud,<\/p>\n

and as the garden causeth the things<\/p>\n

that are sown in it to spring forth;<\/p>\n

so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness<\/p>\n

and praise to spring forth before all the nations.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace,<\/p>\n

and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,<\/p>\n

until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness,<\/p>\n

and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness,<\/p>\n

and all kings thy glory:<\/p>\n

and thou shalt be called by a new name,<\/em><\/p>\n

which the mouth of the LORD shall name<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thou shalt also be a crown of glory<\/p>\n

in the hand of the LORD,<\/p>\n

and a royal diadem<\/p>\n

in the hand of thy God.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken;<\/p>\n

neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

but thou shalt be called Hephzibah,<\/p>\n

and thy land Beulah:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for the LORD delighteth in thee,<\/p>\n

and thy land shall be married.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For as a young man marrieth a virgin,<\/p>\n

so shall thy sons marry thee:<\/p>\n

and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride,<\/p>\n

so shall thy God rejoice over thee.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I have set watchmen upon thy walls,<\/em><\/p>\n

O Jerusalem,<\/em><\/p>\n

which shall never hold their peace<\/em><\/p>\n

day nor night:<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

ye that make mention of the LORD,<\/p>\n

keep not silence,<\/p>\n

And give him no rest,<\/em><\/p>\n

till he establish,<\/em><\/p>\n

and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The LORD hath sworn by his right hand,<\/p>\n

and by the arm of his strength,<\/p>\n

Surely I will no more give thy corn<\/p>\n

to be meat for thine enemies;<\/p>\n

and the sons of the stranger<\/p>\n

shall not drink thy wine,<\/p>\n

for the which thou hast laboured:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But they that have gathered it shall eat it,<\/p>\n

and praise the LORD;<\/p>\n

and they that have brought it together shall drink it<\/p>\n

in the courts of my holiness.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Go through,<\/p>\n

go through the gates;<\/p>\n

prepare ye the way of the people;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

cast up,<\/p>\n

cast up the highway;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

gather out the stones;<\/p>\n

lift up a standard for the people.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behold,<\/p>\n

the LORD hath proclaimed<\/p>\n

unto the end of the world,<\/p>\n

Say ye to the daughter of Zion,<\/p>\n

Behold,<\/p>\n

thy salvation cometh;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

behold,<\/p>\n

his reward is with him,<\/p>\n

and his work before him.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And they shall call them,<\/p>\n

The holy people,<\/p>\n

The redeemed of the LORD:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and thou shalt be called,<\/p>\n

Sought out,<\/p>\n

A city not forsaken.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

WHO IS THIS THAT COMETH FROM EDOM,<\/p>\n

WITH DYED GARMENTS FROM BOZRAH?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

this that is glorious in his apparel,<\/p>\n

travelling in the greatness of his strength?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I that speak in righteousness,<\/p>\n

mighty to save.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel,<\/p>\n

and thy garments like him that treadeth<\/p>\n

in the winefat?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I have trodden the winepress alone;<\/p>\n

and of the people there was none with me:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for I will tread them in mine anger,<\/p>\n

and trample them in my fury;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments,<\/p>\n

and I will stain all my raiment.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For the day of vengeance is in mine heart,<\/p>\n

and the year of my redeemed is come.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And I looked,<\/p>\n

and there was none to help;<\/p>\n

and I wondered<\/p>\n

that there was none to uphold:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

therefore mine own arm<\/p>\n

brought salvation unto me;<\/p>\n

and my fury,<\/p>\n

it upheld me.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And I will tread down the people in mine anger,<\/p>\n

and make them drunk in my fury,<\/p>\n

and I will bring down their strength to the earth.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I WILL MENTION THE LOVINGKINDNESSES<\/p>\n

OF THE LORD,<\/p>\n

AND THE PRAISES OF THE LORD,<\/p>\n

according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,<\/p>\n

which he hath bestowed on them<\/p>\n

according to his mercies,<\/p>\n

and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For he said,<\/p>\n

Surely they are my people,<\/p>\n

children that will not lie:<\/p>\n

so he was their Saviour<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In all their affliction he was afflicted,<\/p>\n

and the angel of his presence saved them:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

in his love<\/p>\n

and in his pity<\/p>\n

he redeemed them;<\/p>\n

and he bare them,<\/p>\n

and carried them all the days of old.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But they rebelled,<\/p>\n

and vexed his holy Spirit:<\/p>\n

therefore he was turned to be their enemy,<\/p>\n

and he fought against them.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then he remembered the days of old,<\/p>\n

Moses,<\/p>\n

and his people,<\/p>\n

saying,<\/p>\n

Where is he that brought them up out of the sea<\/p>\n

with the shepherd of his flock?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

That led them by the right hand of Moses<\/p>\n

with his glorious arm,<\/p>\n

dividing the water before them,<\/p>\n

to make himself an everlasting name?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

That led them through the deep,<\/p>\n

as an horse in the wilderness,<\/p>\n

that they should not stumble?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As a beast goeth down into the valley,<\/p>\n

the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest:<\/p>\n

so didst thou lead thy people,<\/p>\n

to make thyself a glorious name.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Look down from heaven,<\/p>\n

and behold from the habitation of thy holiness<\/p>\n

and of thy glory:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

where is thy zeal and thy strength,<\/p>\n

the sounding of thy bowels<\/p>\n

and of thy mercies toward me?<\/p>\n

are they restrained?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Doubtless thou art our father,<\/em><\/p>\n

though Abraham be ignorant of us,<\/em><\/p>\n

and Israel acknowledge us not<\/em>:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

thou,<\/p>\n

O LORD,<\/p>\n

art our father,<\/p>\n

our redeemer;<\/p>\n

thy name is from everlasting.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

O LORD,<\/p>\n

WHY HAST THOU MADE US TO ERR<\/p>\n

FROM THY WAYS,<\/p>\n

AND HARDENED OUR HEART<\/p>\n

FROM THY FEAR?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Return for thy servants’ sake,<\/p>\n

the tribes of thine inheritance.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The people of thy holiness<\/p>\n

have possessed it but a little while:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We are thine:<\/p>\n

thou never barest rule over them;<\/p>\n

they were not called by thy name.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens,<\/em><\/p>\n

that thou wouldest come down,<\/em><\/p>\n

that the mountains might flow down<\/em><\/p>\n

at thy presence,<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As when the melting fire burneth,<\/p>\n

the fire causeth the waters to boil,<\/p>\n

to make thy name known to thine adversaries,<\/p>\n

that the nations may tremble at thy presence!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When thou didst terrible things<\/p>\n

which we looked not for,<\/p>\n

thou camest down,<\/p>\n

the mountains flowed down<\/em><\/p>\n

at thy presence<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For since the beginning of the world<\/p>\n

men have not heard,<\/p>\n

nor perceived by the ear,<\/p>\n

neither hath the eye seen,<\/p>\n

O God, beside thee,<\/p>\n

what he hath prepared<\/em><\/p>\n

for him that waiteth for him<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth<\/p>\n

and worketh righteousness,<\/p>\n

those that remember thee in thy ways:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

behold,<\/p>\n

thou art wroth;<\/p>\n

for we have sinned:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

in those is continuance,<\/p>\n

and we shall be saved.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But we are all as an unclean thing,<\/em><\/p>\n

and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags<\/em>;<\/p>\n

and we all do fade as a leaf;<\/p>\n

and our iniquities,<\/p>\n

like the wind,<\/p>\n

have taken us away.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And there is none that calleth upon thy name,<\/p>\n

that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee:<\/p>\n

for thou hast hid thy face from us,<\/p>\n

and hast consumed us,<\/p>\n

because of our iniquities.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But now,<\/p>\n

O LORD,<\/p>\n

thou art our father;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

we are the clay,<\/em><\/p>\n

and thou our potter;<\/em><\/p>\n

and we all are the work of thy hand<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BE NOT WROTH VERY SORE,<\/p>\n

O LORD,<\/p>\n

NEITHER REMEMBER INIQUITY FOR EVER:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

behold,<\/p>\n

see,<\/p>\n

we beseech thee,<\/p>\n

we are all thy people.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thy holy cities are a wilderness,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Zion is a wilderness,<\/p>\n

Jerusalem a desolation.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Our holy and our beautiful house,<\/p>\n

where our fathers praised thee,<\/p>\n

is burned up with fire:<\/p>\n

and all our pleasant things are laid waste.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things,<\/p>\n

O LORD?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

wilt thou hold thy peace,<\/p>\n

and afflict us very sore?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I am sought of them that asked not for me;<\/em><\/p>\n

I am found of them that sought me not:<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I said,<\/p>\n

Behold me,<\/p>\n

behold me,<\/p>\n

unto a nation that was not called by my name<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I have spread out my hands all the day<\/p>\n

unto a rebellious people,<\/p>\n

which walketh in a way that was not good,<\/p>\n

after their own thoughts;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A people that provoketh me to anger continually<\/p>\n

to my face;<\/p>\n

that sacrificeth in gardens,<\/p>\n

and burneth incense upon altars of brick;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Which remain among the graves,<\/p>\n

and lodge in the monuments,<\/p>\n

which eat swine’s flesh,<\/p>\n

and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Which say,<\/p>\n

Stand by thyself,<\/p>\n

come not near to me;<\/p>\n

for I am holier than thou.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

These are a smoke in my nose,<\/p>\n

a fire that burneth all the day.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behold,<\/p>\n

it is written before me:<\/p>\n

I will not keep silence,<\/p>\n

but will recompense,<\/p>\n

even recompense into their bosom,<\/p>\n

Your iniquities,<\/p>\n

and the iniquities of your fathers together,<\/p>\n

saith the LORD,<\/p>\n

which have burned incense upon the mountains,<\/p>\n

and blasphemed me upon the hills:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

therefore will I measure their former work<\/p>\n

into their bosom.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

THUS SAITH THE LORD,<\/p>\n

As the new wine is found in the cluster,<\/p>\n

and one saith,<\/p>\n

Destroy it not;<\/p>\n

for a blessing is in it:<\/p>\n

so will I do for my servants’ sakes,<\/p>\n

that I may not destroy them all.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob,<\/em><\/p>\n

and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains:<\/em><\/p>\n

and mine elect shall inherit it,<\/em><\/p>\n

and my servants shall dwell there.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks,<\/p>\n

and the valley of Achor<\/p>\n

a place for the herds to lie down in,<\/p>\n

for my people that have sought me.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But ye are they that forsake the LORD,<\/p>\n

that forget my holy mountain,<\/p>\n

that prepare a table for that troop,<\/p>\n

and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Therefore will I number you to the sword,<\/p>\n

and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter:<\/p>\n

because when I called,<\/p>\n

ye did not answer;<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

when I spake,<\/p>\n

ye did not hear;<\/p>\n

but did evil before mine eyes,<\/p>\n

and did choose that wherein I delighted not.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,<\/p>\n

Behold,<\/p>\n

my servants shall eat,<\/p>\n

but ye shall be hungry:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

behold,<\/p>\n

my servants shall drink,<\/p>\n

but ye shall be thirsty:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

behold,<\/p>\n

my servants shall rejoice,<\/p>\n

but ye shall be ashamed:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Behold,<\/p>\n

my servants shall sing for joy of heart,<\/p>\n

but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart,<\/p>\n

and shall howl for vexation of spirit.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And ye shall leave your name<\/p>\n

for a curse unto my chosen:<\/p>\n

for the Lord GOD shall slay thee,<\/p>\n

and call his servants by another name:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

That he who blesseth himself in the earth<\/p>\n

shall bless himself in the God of truth;<\/p>\n

and he that sweareth in the earth<\/p>\n

shall swear by the God of truth;<\/p>\n

because the former troubles are forgotten,<\/p>\n

and because they are hid from mine eyes.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For,<\/em><\/p>\n

behold,<\/em><\/p>\n

I create new heavens and a new earth:<\/em><\/p>\n

and the former shall not be remembered,<\/em><\/p>\n

nor come into mind.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But be ye glad and rejoice for ever<\/p>\n

in that which I create:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for,<\/p>\n

behold,<\/p>\n

I create Jerusalem a rejoicing,<\/p>\n

and her people a joy.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And I will rejoice in Jerusalem,<\/p>\n

and joy in my people:<\/p>\n

and the voice of weeping<\/p>\n

shall be no more heard in her,<\/p>\n

nor the voice of crying.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

There shall be no more thence an infant of days,<\/em><\/p>\n

nor an old man that hath not filled his days:<\/em><\/p>\n

for the child shall die an hundred years old;<\/em><\/p>\n

but the sinner being an hundred years old<\/p>\n

shall be accursed.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And they shall build houses,<\/p>\n

and inhabit them;<\/p>\n

and they shall plant vineyards,<\/p>\n

and eat the fruit of them.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

They shall not build,<\/p>\n

and another inhabit;<\/p>\n

they shall not plant,<\/p>\n

and another eat:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for as the days of a tree are the days of my people,<\/p>\n

and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

They shall not labour in vain,<\/p>\n

nor bring forth for trouble;<\/p>\n

for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD,<\/p>\n

and their offspring with them.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS,<\/p>\n

that before they call,<\/p>\n

I will answer;<\/p>\n

and while they are yet speaking,<\/p>\n

I will hear.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,<\/p>\n

and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock:<\/p>\n

and dust shall be the serpent’s meat.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

They shall not hurt nor destroy<\/p>\n

in all my holy mountain,<\/p>\n

saith the LORD.<\/p>\n

Isaiah 50:1-65:25<\/em><\/h6>\n

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