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: