48 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob,

Which are called by the name of Israel,

And aare come forth out of the waters of Judah,

bWhich swear by the name of the Lord,

And make mention of cthe God of Israel,

But not din truth, nor in righteousness.

2  For they call themselves of ethe holy city,

And fstay themselves upon the God of Israel;

The Lord of hosts is his name.

3  gI have declared the former things hfrom the beginning;

And they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them;

I did them suddenly, and ithey came to pass.

4  Because I knew that thou art †obstinate,

And jthy neck is an iron sinew,

And thy brow brass;

5  I have even hfrom the beginning declared it to thee;

Before it came to pass I shewed it thee:

kLest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them,

And my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

6  Thou hast heard, see all this;

And will not ye declare it?

I have shewed thee new things from this time,

Even lhidden things, and thou didst not know them.

7  They are created now, and not hfrom the beginning;

Even before the day when thou heardest them not;

kLest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

8  Yea, thou heardest not; yea, kthou knewest not;

Yea, hfrom that time that thine ear was not opened:

For I knew that thou wouldest mdeal very treacherously,

And wast called a transgressor nfrom the womb.

9  oFor my name’s sake pwill qI defer mine anger,

And for my praise will I refrain for thee,

That I cut thee not off.

10  Behold, rI have refined thee, but not ||with silver;

I have chosen thee sin the furnace of affliction.

11  tFor mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it:

For uhow should my name be polluted?

And vI will not give my glory unto another.

12  Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called;

wI am he; xI am the first, I also am the last.

13  yMine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth,

And ||my right hand hath spanned the heavens:

When I call unto them, they stand up together.

14  All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear;

zWhich among them hath declared these things?

aThe Lord hath loved him:

bHe will do his pleasure on Babylon,

And ahis arm shall be on cthe Chaldeans.

15  I, even I, have spoken; yea, dI have called him:

I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

16  Come ye near unto me, hear ye this;

eI have not spoken in secret from the beginning;

From the time that it was, there am I:

And now fthe Lord God, and fhis Spirit, hath sent me.

17  ghThus saith the Lord, hthy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;

I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit,

Which leadeth thee iby the way that thou shouldest go.

18  jO that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments!

Then had kthy peace been as a river,

And thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

19  Thy seed also had been las the sand,

And mthe offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof;

His name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

20  nGo ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from cthe Chaldeans,

nnWith a voice of singing declare ye, tell this,

Utter it even to the end of the earth;

Say ye, nnoThe Lord hhath redeemed phis servant Jacob.

21  And qthey thirsted not when he led them through the deserts:

rHe caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them:

qHe clave the rock also, and sthe waters gushed out.

22  tThere is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

49 Listen, aO isles, unto me;

And hearken, ye people, bfrom far;

cThe Lord hath called me dfrom the womb;

From the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

2  And he hath made emy mouth flike a sharp sword;

gIn the shadow of his hand hath he hid me,

And made me ha polished shaft;

In his quiver hath he hid me;

3  And said unto me, iThou art my servant,

O Israel, kin whom I will be glorified.

4  Then I said, lI have laboured in vain,

I have spent my strength mfor nought, and in vain:

Yet surely nmy judgment is with the Lord,

And ||my work with my God.

5  And now, saith cthe Lord othat formed me dfrom the womb to be his servant,

To bring Jacob again to him,

||Though Israel be not gathered,

Yet shall I pbe glorious in the eyes of the Lord,

And my God shall be my strength.

6  And he said, ||qIt is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant

To raise up the tribes of Jacob,

And to restore the ||rpreserved of Israel:

sI will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles,

That thou mayest be tmy salvation unto the end of the earth.

7  uThus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,

v||To him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers,

wKings shall see and arise,

Princes also shall worship,

Because of xthe Lord that is faithful,

And the Holy One of Israel, and yhe shall choose thee.

8  Thus saith the Lord,

zIn an acceptable time have I heard thee,

And in a day of salvation have I helped thee:

And I will preserve thee, and agive thee for a covenant of the people,

To ||establish the earth, aato cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

9  That thou mayest say bcto the prisoners, Go forth;

bTo them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves.

They shall feed in the ways,

And their pastures shall be in all high places.

10  dThey shall not hunger nor thirst;

eNeither shall fthe heat nor sun smite them:

For he that hath mercy on them gshall lead them,

Even by hthe springs of water gshall he guide them.

11  And iI will make all my mountains a way,

And my highways shall be exalted.

12  Behold, kthese shall come from far:

And, lo, these lfrom the north and lfrom the west;

And these from the land of Sinim.

13  mSing, O heavens; and nbe joyful, O earth;

And mbreak forth into singing, oO mountains:

For the Lord hath comforted his people,

And will have mercy upon his afflicted.

14  pBut Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me,

And my Lord hath forgotten me.

15  Can a woman forget her sucking child,

†That she should not have compassion on qthe son of her womb?

Yea, rthey may forget,

sYet will I not forget thee.

16  Behold, tI have graven thee upon the palms of my hands;

Thy walls are continually before me.

17  Thy children shall make haste;

uThy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

18  vLift up thine eyes round about, and behold:

vAll these gather themselves together, and come to thee.

wAs I live, saith the Lord, xthou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament,

And xxbind them on thee, yas a bride doeth.

19  For yythy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of uthy destruction,

zShall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants,

And they that aswallowed thee up shall be far away.

20  bThe children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears,

The place is too strait for me:

cGive place to me that I may dwell.

21  Then shalt thou say in thine heart, dWho hath begotten me these,

Seeing I have lost my children, and eam desolate,

A captive, and removing to and fro?

And who hath brought up these?

Behold, I was left alone;

These, where had they been?

22  Thus saith the Lord God,

fBehold, gI will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles,

And hset up my standard to the people:

And ithey shall bring thy sons in their †arms,

And thy daughters jshall be carried upon their shoulders.

23  And kkings shall be thy †nursing fathers,

And their †queens thy nursing mothers:

ilThey shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth,

And mlick up the dust of thy feet;

And thou shalt know that I am the Lord:

For nthey shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

24  oShall the prey be taken from the mighty,

Or †the lawful captive delivered?

25  But thus saith the Lord,

Even the †captives of the mighty shall be taken away,

And the prey of the terrible shall be delivered:

For I will contend with phim that contendeth with thee,

And I will save thy children.

26  And qI will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh;

And rthey shall be drunken with their own blood, as with ||sweet wine:

And all flesh sshall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour

And tthy Redeemer, uthe mighty One of Jacob.

50 Thus saith the Lord,

Where is athe bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away?

Or bwhich of my creditors is it to whom cI have sold you?

Behold, dfor your iniquities ehave ye sold yourselves,

And for your transgressions is your mother put away.

2  Wherefore, when I came, was there no man?

fWhen I called, was there none to answer?

gIs my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem?

Or have I no power to deliver?

Behold, hat my rebuke I idry up the sea,

kI make the rivers a wilderness:

lTheir fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

3  mI clothe the heavens with blackness,

And nI make sackcloth their covering.

4  oThe Lord God hath given me the tongue of pthe learned,

qThat I should know how to speak a word in season to rhim that is weary:

He wakeneth smorning by morning,

He wakeneth mine ear to hear as pthe learned.

5  The Lord God thath opened mine ear,

And uI was not rebellious,

Neither vturned away back.

6  I wgave my back to the smiters,

And xymy cheeks to zthem that plucked off the hair:

I hid not my face from shame and xaspitting.

7  For the Lord God will help me;

Therefore shall I not be confounded:

Therefore have bI set my face like ca flint,

And dI know that I shall not be ashamed.

8  eHe is near that justifieth me;

fWho will contend with me? let us stand together:

Who is †mine adversary? let him come near to me.

9  Behold, the Lord God will help me;

Who is he that shall condemn me?

Lo, ghthey all shall wax old as a garment; githe moth shall eat them up.

10  Who is among you that feareth the Lord,

That obeyeth the voice of his servant,

kThat walketh in darkness, and hath no light?

Let him trust in the name of the Lord,

And lstay upon his God.

11  Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with msparks:

Walk in nthe light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye ohave kindled.

pThis shall ye have of mine hand;

Ye shall lie down qin sorrow.