Babylon's deftruétion. The vanity of idols. the firft, and I am the laft; and befides me there is no God. Chap. xliv. 13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who thali let it? 44 Thus faith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Ifrael; For your fake I have fent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whofe cry is in the ships. 151 am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Ifrael, your King. 16 Thus faith the LORD, which maketh a way in the fea, and a path in the mighty waters; 17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army, and the power; they fhall lie down together, they thall not rife: they are extinét, they are quenched as tow. 18 Remember ye not the tormer things, neither confider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall fpring forth; fhail ye not know it! I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the defert. 20 The beat of the field thall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wildernefs, and rivers in the defer, to give drank to my people, my chofen. 21 This people have i formed for myself; they fhall fhew forth my praife. 22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hart been weary of me, Offrael. 23 Thou haft not brought me the fmall cattle of thy burnt offerings, neither haft thou honoured me with thy facrifices. I have not caufed thee to ferve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incenfe. 24 Thou hast bought me no fweet cane with money, neither hait thou filled me with the fat of thy facrifices: but thou hait made me 10 ferve with thy fins, thou haft wearied me with thine iniquities. 25 1, even 1, am he that blotteth out thy tranfgreffions for mine own fake, and will not remember thy fins. 26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayeft be justined. 27 Thy firft father hath finned, and thy teachers have tranfgrefTed against me. 28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the fanctuary, and have given Lacob to the curfe, and Ifrael to reproaches. CHAP. XLIV. 2 Thus faith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my fervant; and thou, Jefurun, whom I have chofen. 3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my Spirit upon thy feed, and my bletfing upon thine offspring: 4 And they thall fpring up as among the grafs, as willows by the water courfes. 5 One thall fay, I am the LORD's; and another thall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall fubfcribe with his hand unto the LORD, and furname, himself by the name of Ifrael. 6 Thus faith the LORD the King of Ifrael, and his redeenter the LORD of hols; I am 7 And who, as I, fhall call, and fhall declare it, and fet it in order for me, fince I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and hall come, let them thew unto them. & Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declar. ed it? ye are even my witneßes. Is there a god besides me? yea, there is no god; I know not any. 9They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things fhall not profit; and they are their own witneties; they fee not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his tellows thail be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them ftand up; yet they shall fear, and they fhall be alhamed together. 12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and faihuoneth it with hammers: and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his frength faileth he drinketh no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compaís, and maketh t after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. 14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cyprefs and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himfelt among the trees of the foreft: he planteth an ath, and the rain doth nourish it. 15 Then fhall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof and warm himfelt; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he ma keth it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. 16 He burneth part thereof in the fire: with part thereof he eateth defh; he roafteth roaft, and is fatisfied: yea, he warmeth bimfelf, and faith, Aha, I am warm, I have feen the fire: 17 And the refidue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and pray. eth unto it, and faith, Deliver me; for thou art my god. 18 They have not known nor understood : for he hath shut their eyes, that they can not fee; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. 19 And none confidereth in his heart, nei ther is there knowledge nor understanding to fay, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, alfo 1 have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted fleth, and eaten it; and shall I make the rendue thereof an abomination? hall I fall down to the ftock of a tree? 20 He feedeth on athes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his foul, nor fay, is there not a lie in my right hand? 21 Remember thefe, O Jacob and Ifrael; for thou art my fervant: I have formed thee; thou art my fervant: 0 ifrael, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. 22 I have Cyrus called. ISAIAH. 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy tranfgreifions, and, as a cloud, thy fins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. 23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: thout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into finging, ye mountains, O foreft, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Ifrael. 24 Thus faith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that ftretch eth forth the heavens alone; that fpreadeth abroad the earth by myself; 25 That fruftrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wife wen backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; 26 That confirmeth the word of his fervant, and performeth the counfel of his meifengers; that faith to Jerufalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raife up the decayed places thereof: 27 That faith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: 28 That faith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and thall perform all my pleasure; even fay. ing to Jerufalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation fhall be laid. СНАР. XLV. God calleth Cyrus for his church's fake: 5 be challengeth obedience: 20 be evinceth the vanity of idols. THUS HUS faith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whofe right hand I have holden, to fubdue nations betore him; and I will loofe the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates thall not be shut; 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places ftraight: I will break in pieces the gates of brafs, and cut in funder the bars of iron: 3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and nidden riches of fecret places, that thou mayet know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Ifrael. 4 For Jacob my fervant's fake, and Ifrael mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have furnamed thee, though thou haft not known me. Sam the LORD, and there is none elfe, there is no god befide me: I girded thee, though thou hatt not known me: 6 That they may know from the rifing of the fun, and from the weft, that there is none bende me: I am the LORD, and there is none else. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. 8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteoufnefs: let the earth open, and let them bring forth falvation, and let righteoufnefs fpring up together:, I the LORD have created it." 9 Woe unto him that triveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd frive with the The folly of idol makers: 11 Thus faith the LORD, the Holy One of Ifrael, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my fons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. 12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: 1, even my hands, have ftretched out the heavens, and all their hoft have-I commanded. 13 I have raifed him up in righteoufnefs, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he thall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, faith the LORD of hosts. 14 Thus faith the LORD, the labour of Egypt, and merchandife of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of ftature, thall come over unto thee, and they thall be thine: they thall come after thee; in chains they fhall come over, and they thall rall down unto thee, they fhall make fupplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none elle, there is no god. IS Verily thou art a God that hideft thy. felf, O God of Ifrael, the Saviour. 16 They shall be athamed, and also confounded, all of them: they hall go to con fufion together that are makers of idols. 17 But Ifrael thall be faved in the LORD with an everlasting falvation: ye thall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. 18 For thus faith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. 19 I have not fpoken in fecret, in a dark place of the earth: I faid not unto the feed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD fpeak righteoufnefs, 1 declare things that are right. 20 Affemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the na tions they have no knowledge that fet up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot fave. 21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counfel together: who hath decla red this from ancient time! who hath told it from that time? have not 1 the LORD and there is no god elfe beide me; a juft God and a Saviour: there is none befide me. 22 Look anto me, and be ye faved, all the ends of the earth for I am God, and there is none else. 23 I have fworn by myfelf, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteoufnets, and thall not return, That unto me every knee fhall bow, every tongue fhall fwear. 24 Surely, shall ne fay, in the LORD have I righteoufnefs and strength: even to him fhall men come; and all that are incensed against him fhall be ashamed. 25 In the LORD fhall all the feed of Ifrael be juftified, and shall glory. CHAP. XLVI. I The idols of Babylon could not fave them-. Jelves. 3 God faveth his people to the end. 5 Idols are not comparable to God. pottherds of the earth. Shall the clay fay BEL boweth down, Nebo ftoopeth, their to him that fashioneth it, What makeit thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? 10 Woe unto him that faith unto his father, What begetteft thou? or to the woman, What hafi tilou brought forth? idols were upon the beafts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beaft. 2 They loop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themfelves are gone into captivity. Hearton Babylon's judgment. Chap. xlvii, xlvijl. 3Hearken unto me, O houfe of Jacob, and all the remnant of the houfe of Ifrael, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: 4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. To whom will ye liken me, and make mie equal, and compare me, that we may be like? 6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh filver in the balance, and hire a goldfmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. 7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and fet him in his place, and he ftandeth; from his place fhall he not remove : yea, one thall cry unto him, yet can ne not anfwer, nor fave him out of his trouble. 8 Remember this, and thew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ̊ye tranf. gretfors. 9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else, I am God, and there is none like me; 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, faying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleature: II Calling a ravenous bird from the eaft, the man that executech my counfel from a far country: yea, I have fpoken it, I will alfo bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will allo do it. 12 Hearken unto me, ye ftouthearted, that are far from righteousness: 13 1 bring near my righteoufnefs; it shall not be far off, and my falvation fhall not tarry and I will place falvation in Zion for frael my glory. CHA P. XLVII. 1 God's judgments upon Babylon and Chaldea, 6 for their unmercifulness, 7 pride, 10 and over boldness. CON OME down, and fit in the duft, O virgin daughter of Babylon, fit on the ground: there is no throne, Ŏ daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou that no more be called tender and delicate. 2 Take the millftones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pafs over the rivers. 3 Thy nakednefs fhall be uncovered, yea, thy fhame thall be feen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. 4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hofts is his name, the Holy One of Ifrael. 5 Sit thou filent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. 6I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst fhew them no mercy; upon the ancient haft thou very heavily laid thy yoke. 7 And thou faidft, I fhall be a lady for ever: fo that thou didit not lay these things to thy heart, neither didft remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleafures, that dwelleft carelessly, That fayeft in thine heart, I am, and noncelle betide me; I shall not fit as a widow, nei ther thall I know the loss of children: The people's obftinacy. 9 But these two things thall come to the in a moment in one day, the lofs of children, and widowhood; they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy forceries, and for the great abundance of thine inchantments. 10 For thou haft trufted in thy wickedness: thou haft faid, None feeth me. Thy wifdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou haft faid in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. 11 Therefore fhall evil come upon thee! thou shalt not know from whence it rifeth: and mischief fhall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and defolation thall come upon thee fuddenly, which thou thalt not know. 12 Stand now with thine inchantments, and with the multitude of thy forceries, wherein thou hatt laboured from thy youth; if fo be thou shalt be able to profit, if fo be thou mayeft prevail. 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counfels. Let now the aftrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognofticators, ftand up and fave thee from these things that thall come upon thee. 14 Behold, they thall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they fhall not deliver them felves from the power of the flame: there fall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to fit before it. 15 Thus fhall they be unto thee with whom thou haft laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they fhall wander every one to his quarter; none thall fave thee. CHAP. XLVIII. God, to convince the people of their obflinacy, revealeth his prophecies: 12 be exborteth them to obedience. HEAR ye this, O houfe of Jacob, which are called by the name of Ifrael, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which fwear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Ifrael, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. 2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and ftay themselves upon the God of Ifrael; The LORD of hosts is his name. 3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I fhewed them: I did them fuddenly, and they came to pafs. 4 Because I knew that thou art obftinate, and thy neck is an iron finew, and thy brow brafs; 5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pafs I thewed it thee: left thou thouldeft fay, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. 6 Thou hart heard, fee all this; and will not ye declare it? I have thewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didft not know them. 7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardeft them not; left thou fhouldeft say, Behold, I knew them. 8 Yea, thou heardeft not; yea, thou kneweft not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldeft deal very treacherously, and waft called a tranfgreffor from the womb. For my name's fake will I defer mine anger, Jacob exhorted to obedience. anger, and for my praife will thee, that I cut thee not off. ISAIAH. refrain for 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with filver; i have chosen thee in the furnace of amiction. 11 For mine own fake, even for mine own fake, will I do it: for how thould my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Ifrael, my called; I am he; I am the firft, I alfo am the laff. 13 Mine hand alfo hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they Htand up together. 14 All ye affemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared thefe things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm ball be on the Chaldeans. 151, even 1, have fpoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he fhall make his way profperous. 16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in fecret from the begin ning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath fent me. 17 Thus faith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Ifrael; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldeft go. 18 Oh that thou had hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteoufnels as the waves of the fea : 19 Thy feed alfo had been as the fan, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name fhould not have been cut off nor deftroyed from before me. 20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of tinging declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth, fay ye, The LORD hath redeemed his fervant Jacob. 21 And they thirfted not when he led them through the deferts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock alfo, and the waters guihed out. 22 There is no peace, faith the LORD, unto the wicked. CHAP. XLIX. 1 Chrif being fent to the Jews complaineth of them: she is fent to the Gentiles. 17 God's love to the church. LISTEN, Oiles, unto me, and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. 2 And he hath made my mouth like a fharp fword; in the thadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished thaft; in his quiver hath he hid me, 3 And faid unto me, Thou art my fervant, Offrael, in whom I will be glorified. 4 Tien I faid, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my ftrength for nought, and in vain: yet furely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. And now, faith the LORD that form ed me from the womb to be his fervant, to Bring Jacob again to him, Though Ifrael Chrift fent to the Gentiles. be not gathered, yet fhall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God thall be my ftrength. 6 And he faid, It is a light thing that thou fhouldeft be my fervant to raise up the tribes of jaccb, and to reftore the preferved of If ract: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayeft be my falvation unto the end of the earth. 7 Thus faith the LORD, the Redeemer of Ifrael, and his Holy One, To him whom man defpifeth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a fervant of rulers, kings thall fee and arife, princes alfo thall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Ifrael, and he thall choose thee. 8 Thus faith the LORD, in an acceptable time have I heard thee: and in a day of falvation have I helped thee: and I will preferve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to caufe to inherit the defolate heritages; 9 That thou mayeft fay to the pr.foners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, shew yourselves They thall feed in the ways, and their pantures fall be in all high places. 10 They shall not hanger nor thirft; net. ther thall the heat nor fun fmite them: for he that hath mercy on them thail lead them, even by the fprings of water fhall he guide them. 11 And 1 will make all my mountains a way, and my highways tha!! be exalted. 12 Behold, thefe fha: come from far: and lo, thefe from the north and from the weft; and thefe from the land of Sinim. 13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into inging, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his af Hicted. 14 But Zion faid, The LORD hath forfaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. 15 Can a woman forget her fucking child, that the should not have compaffion on the fon of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continu ally before me. 17 Thy children thall make hafte; thy deftroyers and they that made thee wafte, shall go forth of thee. 18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all thefe gather themfelves toge ther, and come to thee. As I live, faith the LORD, thou shalt furely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride docth. 19 For thy waite and thy defolate places, and the land of thy deftruction, thall even now be too narrow by reafon of the inhabi tants, and they that fwallowed thee up thall be far away. zo The children which thou that have, after thou hast loft the other, fhall fay again in thine ears, The place is too trait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. 21 Then shalt thou fay in thine heart, Who hath begotten me thefe, feeing I have loft my children, and am defolate, a captive, and re moving to and fro and who hath brought up the fe? Behold, I was left alone; thefe, where had they been? 22 Thus faith the Lord Gor, Behold, An exhortation Chap. 1, 17. I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and fet up my ftandard to the people: and they thail bring thy fons in their arms, and thy daughters thall be carried upon their fhoulders. 23 And kings fhall be thy nurfing fathers, and their queens thy nurfing mothers: they fhall bow down to thee with their face towari the earth, and lick up the duft of thy feet; and thou shalt know that than whe LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. 24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered! 25 But thus faith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty thall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible thall be delivered: for I will contend with him that con en leth with thee, and I will fave thy children. 26 And I will feed them that opprefs thee with their own fleth; and they thall be drunken with their own blood as with fweet wine: and all flesh fhall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. CHAP. I.. iChrift fheweth the cause of the Fenus' dereliction. 10 An exhortation to trust in God, and not in ourselves. TH HIS faith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have fold you? Rehoid, for your iniquities have ye fold yourselves, and for your tranfgreffions is your mother put away. 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to anfwer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to de liver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the fea; I make the rivers a wildernefs: their fith stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. 31 clothe the heavens with blacknefs, and I make fackcloth their covering. 4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in feafon to him that is weary he wakeneth morning by morn ing, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 5The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 6 I gave my back to the fmiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked on the hair: I hid not my face from thame and fpitting. 7 For the Lord God will help me; there fore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I fet my face like a flirt, and I know that I fhall not be ashamed. 8 He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adverfary? let him come near to me. 9 Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that thall condemn me? lo, they all fhall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. 10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his fervant, that walketh in darknefs, and hath no light! let him trust in the name of the LORD, and tay upon his God. to trust in God. 11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This thall ye nave of mine hand, ye shall lie down in forrow. CHAP. LI. 1 An exhortation, after the "attern of Abraham, to trust in Chrift. 9 Chrift défendeth his people from fear. Harken to me, ye that follow after righ teoufnefs, ye that feek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit quhence ye are digge 1. 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you, for I calle i him alone, and bleffed him, and increased him. 3 For the LORD thall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her wafte places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her defert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladnefs thail be toun i therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. 4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law hall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to reft for a light of the people. 5 My righteoufnefs is near; my falvation is gone fort, and mine arms thall judge the people; the ifles thall wait upon me, and on mine arm thall they truft. 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath for the hea vens thall vanith away like fmcke, and the earth thall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my faivation shall be for ever, and my righteoufnes thall not be abolished. 7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righ. teoufness, the people in whofe heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be e ye afraid of their revilings. 8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteoufnefs fhall be for ever, and my falvation from generation to generation. 9 Awake, awake, put on ftrength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? 10 Art thou not it which hath dried the fea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the fea a way for the ranfomed to pass over? 11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD thall return, and come with finging unto Zion; and everlasting joy fall be upon their head: they thail obtain gladnefs and joy; and forrow and mourning thall flee away. 12 I, even 1, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldeft be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the fon of man which shall be made as grafs; 13 And forgetteft the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and haft feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppreffor, as if he were ready to deffroy? and where is the fury of the op preffor? 14 The captive exile hafteneth that he may be loofed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. |