able, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

5. Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy feed from the eaft, and gather thee from the west.

6. I will fay to the north, Give up: and to the fouth, Keep not back: bring my fons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

7. Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him, yea, I have made him.

CHAP, XLV. 17.

17. But Ifrael shall be faved in the Lord with an everlasting falvation: ge fball not be afbamed nor confounded world without

end.

CHA P. XLIX. 8,-26.

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 to the people,to establish the earth, to caufe to inherit the defolate heritages;

9. That thou mayeft fay to the prisoners, Goforth; to them that are in darkness, Shew your selves: they shall feed in the ways, and their pastures fhall be in all high places.

10. They fhall not hanger nor thirst, neither shall the beat nor fun fmite them: for he that hath mercy on them fall lead them, even by the Springs of water shall be guide them.

11. And I will make all my mountains a way, and my high-ways Shall be exalted.

12. Behold, thefe fhall come from far and lo, thefe from the north, and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim.

13. Sing, O beavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break forth into finging, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

14. But Zion faid, The Lord bath for faken me, and my Lord bath forgotten me.

15. Can a woman forget her fucking child, that she should not have compaffion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget; yet will I not forget thee.

16. Be

16. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands, thy walls are continually before me.

17. Thy children fhall make hafte; thy destroyers, and they that made thee wafte fall go forth of thee.

18. Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee: as I live, faith the Lord, Thoufhalt furely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee as a bride doth.

19. For thy waste and thy defolate places, and the land of thy deftruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up fhall be far away.

20. The children which thou shalt have, after thou haft loft the other, shall fay again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me : give place to me that I may dwell.

21. Then fhalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me thefe, feeing I have loft my children, and am defolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone, these, where had they been?

22. Thus faith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they fball bring thy fons in their arms, and thy daughters fhall be carried upon their fhoulders.

23. Andkings shall be thy nurfing fathers, and their queens thy nurfing-mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet, and thoushalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

24, Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful cap

tive delivered?

25. But thus faith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty fhall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible fhall be delivered: for 1 will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will fave thy children.

25. And I will feed them that oppress thee, with their own fles», and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine : and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy faviour, and thy redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.

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CHAP. LI. I,-II, 22.

Earken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek. the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewen, 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 alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

3. For the Lord fhall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her wafte places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and ben defert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

4. Hearken unto me, my people, and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law fhall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to reft for a light of the people.

5. My righteousness is near: my falvation is gone forth; and mine arms fhall judge the people: the ifles fhall wait upon me, and on mine arm fhall they truft.

6. Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens fhall vanish away like smoke, and the earth Shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteoufness fhall not be abolished.

7. Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whofe heart is my law, fear ye not the reproch of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

8. For the moth fall eat them up like a garment, and the worm Shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my falvation from generation to generation.

9. Awake, awake, put on strength, 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 sea a way for the ranfomed to pass over?

11. Therefore the redeemed of the Lord fhall return, and come with finging unto Zion, and everlasting joy fall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

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22. Thus faith thy Lord, the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury, thou shalt no more drink it again.

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CHAP. Lij. I,−3, 7.

Wake, awake, put on thy ftrength, O Zion, put on thy beantiful garments, O Jerufalem, the holy city: for henceforth there fhall no more come into thee the uncircumcifed, and the un

clean.

2. Shake thy felf from the dust: arise, and fit down, O Ferufalem: loofe thy felf from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

3. For thus faith the Lord, Ye have fold your felves for nought: and ye shall be redeemed without money.

7. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publifheth peace,that bringeth good tidings of good, that publifheth falvation, that faith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

CHAP. LX. I.-9.

A Rife, fine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is

rifen upon

2. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,and grofs darknefs the people: but the Lord fhall arife upon thee, and his glory fhall be feen upon

thee.

3. And the Gentiles fhall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

4. Lift up thine eyes round about, and fee, all they gather themfelves together, they come to thee, thy fons shall come from far, and thy daughters fhall be nurfed at thy fide.

5. Then thou shalt fee and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged, because the abundance of the fea fhall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles fhall come unto thee,

6. The multitude of camels fhall cover thee: the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah: all they from Sheba fhall come: they shall bring gold and incense, and they shall fhew forth the praises of the

Lord.

7. All

7. All the flocks of Kedar fhall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorifie the house of my glory.

8. Who are these that flie as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

9. Surely the ifles fall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy fons from far, their filver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the holy One of Ifrael, because he hath glorified thee.

CHAP. LXiij. 7,-19.

7. Iwill mention the loving kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness towards the house of Ifrael, which he hath bestowed on them, according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

8. For he faid, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: fo he was their faviour.

9. In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his prefence faved them: in his love and in his pity be redeemed them, and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

10. But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

11. Then he remembred the days of old, Mofes and his people, Saying, Where is he that brought them out of the fea, with the hepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?

12. That led them by the right hand of Mofes, with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlafting name?

13. That led them through the deep, as an horfe in the wildernefs, that they should not stumble?

14. As a beaft goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caufed him to reft: fo diuft thou lead thy people, to make thy felf a glorious name.

15. Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness, and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength,

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