Isaias

6 I‘herefore my people shall know my name; therefore (they shall know) in that day that I am he that doth speak: Here am L

7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that causeth peace to be heard ; that bringeth glad tidings of good, that causeth salvation to be heard; that saith unto Zion, Thy God doth reign

8 The voice of thy watchmen! they lifl: up the voice, they - sing together; for they shall see eye to eye, at the LoitD’s return to Zion. ·

9 Break forth, sing together, y’e wastes of .Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of. ’ all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye. out from thence, touch not. what is unclean; goye out of the midst of her; purify your- - selves, ye that bear the vessels of the LORD.

12 For ye shall not go out in haste, nor go in flight: for the Lord goeth before you, and the God of Israel is your rereward.

13 Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be high, and lifted up, and exalted exceedingly.

14 Like as many were appalled at thee; his sightliness was so marred from (that of) a man, and his form from (that of) the sons of men: ’

15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; kingsshall shut their mouths because of him; for that which was not recounted to them shall they see, and that which they heard not shall they discern.

LIII. 1 Who hath believed our message? and the arm of the Lord, to whom was it revealed?

2 And he grew up before him as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground: he had no form nor majesty; and we saw him, and there was no sightliness, that we should desire him.

3 Despised and avoided of men; a man of pains, and one that knew sickness; and as one from whom faces are hid despised, and we esteemed him not.