Isaias

21 And thou shalt say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, and I was bereaved and barren, an exile, and outcast? and who hath nourished up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?

22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand toward the nations, and set up my standard to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in the bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried on the shoulder,

23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their princesses thy nursing mothers: they shall bow themselves to thee face to the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, on whom they that wait shall not be ashamed.

24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captive of the righteous delivered?

25 For thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered, and I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

26 And I will make them that oppress thee to eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with new wine; and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy saviour and thy redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

L. 1 Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your rebellions was your mother put away.

2 Why came I, and there was no man? Whycalled I, and. there was none that answered? Is my hand utterly too shortened to redeem? and is there no power in me to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I will dry up the sea, I will make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for want of water, and die with thirst.

3 I will clothe the heavens in blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.

4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of disciples, that I should know how to sustain the weary with a word ; he wakeneth every morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as disciples.

5 The Lord GOD hath opened me an ear, and I resisted not,.I drew not back.

6 I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked 96 the hair; I hid not my face from ignominies and spitting. θ .

7 And the Lord GOD will help ‘me; therefore I am not confounded ; therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

8 Near is he that justifieth me: who will contend with me? let us stand forth together ; who is the master of my judgment? let him come near to me.

9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? 10, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them.

10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that hearkeneth‘ to the voice of his servant? He that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Loan, and lean ἶ upon his God.

11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that gird yourselves with firebrands; walk amid the light of your fire, and amid the brands that ye have kindled. From my hand is this for you; ye shall lie down in pain.

LI. 1 Hearken to me, ye that pursue righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for I called him, being one, and blessed him, and increased him.

3 For the Lord hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her waste places; and he hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of song.