10 Thy holy cities are become wilderness, Zion is become a wildemess, Jerusalem a desolation.

11 Our house of holiness and beauty, (in) which our fathers praised thee, is burned up with ﬁre, and all our desirable things are laid waste.

12 Wilt thou, for all this, refrain thyself, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and affict us to the uttermost ?

LXV. 1 I was to be inquired of by them that asked not, have let myself be found by them that sought me not; I said, Here am I, Here am I, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a refractory people, which walk in a way which is not good, after their own thoughts.

5 fin Very dubious. Some render, ‘in them (thy ways) is continuance (or eternity), and we shall be saved.7. ‘and melted us’: Seeker. Lowth, Cheyne, c. with Pesh. Targ. propose to read ‘delivered us into the hand of' [ root ABBREVfor ABBREVPerhaps ‘into’ is right.8. ‘potter': or ‘fashioner,’ xxix. 16, xlv. 9.9. ‘to the uttermost,' or, ‘to excess.

3 The people that irritate me continually to my face; which sacrifice in the gardens, and burn incense upon the bricks:

4 Which sit in the graves, and lodge in guarded places, which eat swine's ﬂesh, and broth of abominations is in their vessels:

5 Which say, Keep to thyself, come not near to me; for I am holy to thee. These are a smoke in my nose, a ﬁre that burneth all the day.

6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not hold my peace, unless I requite, and I will requite into their bosom,

7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD; which burned incense on the mountains, and reproached me upon the hills: and I will measure their recompense ﬁrst into their bosom.

8 Thus saith the LORD, As when the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servants’ sake, not to destroy the whole.

9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah a possessor of my mountains; and my chosen ones shall possess it, and my servants shall (go to) dwell there.

10 And Sharon shall become a home for ﬂocks, and the valley of Achor a resting place for oxen, for my people that have inquired of me.