22 Let them bring them up, and tell us what shall happen; tell ye of the former things, what they be, that we may apply our heart, and learn their issue; or make us to hear the things that are coming.

23 Tell the things that are. to come hereafter, that, we may learn that ye are gods; yea, do good and do evil, that we may look around, and see (it) together.

24 Behold ye are of nought, and your work of nothingness: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

25 I have roused up one from the north, and he came: from the rising of the sun one that ’calleth on my name; and he shall come upon rulers as morter, and as a ‘potter (that) treadeth clay.

26 Who hath told from the beginning, that we may know? and from before, that we may say, It is right! Yea, there, is nOne that telleth, yea none that maketh to be heard, yea none that heareth your words. ’

19. ‘oil-tree,’ i.e. oleaster: for ‘fir,’ and ‘larch,’ perhaps ‘cypress’ and ‘sherhin tree'24. ‘nothingness’: word supposed to have this meaning, though the form here used differs by a letter, and means strictly ‘a ’25. ‘calleth ’: or, ‘proclaimeth my ’ ‘come ’: some alter slightly to ‘trample.’

27 First to Zion, Behold, behold them; and to Jerusalem will I give one that bringeth good tidings.

28 And I saw, and there was no man; and among these, and there was no counsellor, that I should ask of them, and they should answer a word.

29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are ’; their molten images are wind and wasteness.

XLII. 1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, (in whom) my soul is well pleased: I have put my soul upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the nations.

2 He shall not cry out, nor lift up, nor make his voice heard in the street.

3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and a dimly burning wick shall he not quench; according to truth shall he bring forth judgment.

4 He shall not burn dimly nor be bruised, till he (shall) set judgment in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.

5 Thus saith the God, the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and the things that come forth of it; that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

6 Ι the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will take hold of thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for -a light of the nations:

7 To open blind eyes, to bring out a captivefrom prison, and them that sit in darkness from a house of confinement

8 Iam the Lord; that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, and my praise to graven images.

9 The ﬁrst things, behold, they have come, andI am telling new things; before they spring up I cause you to hear of them.

2. ‘in the ’: or, ‘abroad.3. ‘bruised’: or, ‘crushed.’4. ‘law’: here the meaning ‘teaching’ is prominent in the word Torah.5. ‘the ’ Heb. Ha-El.6. ‘keep ’: or, ‘form thee.

10 Sing unto the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth; ye that go down (to) the sea, and the fulness thereof; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up (their voice): the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of Sela shout, let them cry aloud from the top of mountains.

12 They shall give honour to the Lord, and tell his praise among the isles.