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And that they, who trust in him, shall not be ashamed.

Shall the spoil be taken away from the mighty ? Or shall the prey seized by the terrible be rescued ? 25 Yea, thus saith JEHOVAH;

Even the prey of the mighty shall be retaken;

And the spoil seized by the terrible shall be rescued :
For with those, that contend with thee, I will contend;
And thy children I will deliver.

26 And I will gorge thine oppressors with their own flesh ;
And with their own blood, as with new wine, will I drench

them :

And all flesh shall know,

That I JEHOVAH am thy saviour;

And that thy redeemer is the Mighty One of Jacob.

CHAP. L.

1 THUS saith JEHOVAH:

Where is this bill of your mother's divorcement,

By which I dismissed her?

Or who is he among my creditors,

To whom I have sold you?

Behold, for your iniquities are ye sold;

And for your transgressions is your mother dismissed.

2 Wherefore came I, and there was no man?

Called I, and none answered?

Is then my hand so greatly shortened, that I cannot redeem ?

And have I no power to deliver?

Behold, at my rebuke I make dry the sea;

I make the rivers a desert:

Their fish is dried up, because there is no water;

And dieth away for thirst.

3 I clothe the heavens with blackness;

And sackcloth I make their covering.

4 THE Lord JEHOVAH hath given me the tongue of the learned; That I might know how to speak a seasonable word to the

weary.

He wakeneth, morning by morning,

He wakeneth mine ear, to hearken with the attention of a learner. 5 The Lord JEHOVAH hath opened mine ear;

And I was not rebellious;

Neither did I withdraw myself backward.

6 I gave my back to the smiters,

And my cheeks to them, that plucked off the hair:
My face I hid not from shame and spitting.
7 For the Lord JEHOVAH is my helper ;
Therefore I am not ashamed.

Therefore have I set my face as a flint;

And I know, that I shall not be confounded. 8 He that justifieth me is near at hand :

Who is he that will contend with me? let us stand forth to

gether:

Who is mine adversary? let him come on to the contest.

9 Behold, the Lord JEHOVAH is my advocate:

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Who is he that shall condemn me ?

Lo! all of them shall wax old as a garment;
The moth shall consume them.

Who is there among you, that feareth JEHOVAH ?
Let him hearken unto the voice of his servant:
That walketh in darkness, and hath no light ?

Let him trust in the name of JEHOVAH;
And rest himself on the support of his God.

11 Behold, all ye who kindle a fire;
Who heap the fuel round about :
Walk ye in the light of your fire,
And of the fuel, which ye have kindled.
This ye shall have at my hand;

Ye shall lie down in sorrow.

CHAP. LI.

1 HEARKEN unto me, ye that pursue righteousness, Ye that seek JEHOVAH.

Look unto the rock, from whence ye were hewn;
And to the hollow of the cave, whence ye were digged.

2 Look unto Abraham your father;

And unto Sarah who bore you 8

For I called him, being a single person,
And I blessed him, and I multiplied him..
6 Thus therefore shall JEHOVAH Console Sion;
He shall console all her desolations:

And he shall make her wilderness like Eden;
And her desert like the garden of JEHOVAH:

Joy and gladness shall be found in her
Thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

4 Attend unto me, O ye peoples;

And give ear unto me, O ye nations:
For the law from me shall proceed;

And my judgement will I cause to break forth for a light to the peoples.

5 My righteousness is at hand; my salvation goeth forth; And mine arm shall dispense judgement to the peoples: Me the distant lands shall expect;

And to mine arm shall they look with confidence.

6 Lift up unto the heavens your eyes;

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And look down unto the earth beneath :

Verily the heavens shall dissolve, like smoke :
And the earth shall wax old, like a garment;

And its inhabitants shall perish, like the vilest insect:
But my
salvation shall endure for ever:

And my righteousness shall not decay.

Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness;

The people, in whose heart is my law:

Fear not the reproach of wretched man;

Neither be ye borne down by their revilings: 8 For the moth shall consume them, like a garment ; And the worm shall eat them, like wool:

But my righteousness shall endure for ever;

And my salvation to the age of ages.

9 Awake, awake, clothe thyself with strength, O arm of JEHOVAH!

Awake, as in the days of old, the ancient generations.

Art thou not the same that smote Rahab, that wounded the dragon ?

10 Art thou not the same, that dried up the sea, the waters of the

great deep?

That made the depths of the sea a path for the redeemed to pass through;

11 Thus shall the ransomed of JEHOVAH return,

And come to Sion with loud acclamation:

And everlasting gladness shall crown their heads;

Who art thou, that thou shouldst fear wretched man, that dieth;

And the son of man, that shall become as the grass ?

13 And shouldst forget JEHOVAH thy maker,

Who stretched out the heavens, and founded the earth;

And shouldst every day be in continued fear,
Because of the fury of the oppressor,

As if He were just ready to destroy;

And where now is the fury of the oppressor?

14 He marcheth on with speed, who cometh to set free the captive; That he may not die in the dungeon,

And that his bread may not fail.

15 For I am JEHOVAH thy God;

He, who stilleth at once the sea, though the waves thereof roar; JEHOVAH God of Hosts is his name.

16 I have put my words in thy mouth;

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And with the shadow of my hand have I covered thee:

To stretch out the heavens, and to lay the foundations of the

earth;

And to say unto Sion, Thou art my people.

Rouse thyself, rouse thyself up; arise, () Jerusalem;

Who hast drunken from the hand of JEHOVAH the cup of his

fury:

The dregs of the cup of trembling, thou hast drunken, thou hast

wrung them out.

18 There is not one to lead her, of all the sons which she hath brought forth;

Neither is there one to support her by the hand, of all the sons

which she hath educated.

19 These two things have befallen thee; who shall bemoan thee? Desolation, and destruction; the famine, and the sword; who

shall comfort thee?

20 Thy sons lie astounded; they are cast down;

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At the head of all the streets, like the oryx taken in the toils; Drenched to the full with the fury of JEHOVAH, with the rebuke of thy God.

Wherefore hear now this, O thou afflicted daughter;

And thou drunken, but not with wine.

22 Thus saith thy Lord JEHOVAH ;

And thy God, who avengeth his people :

Behold, I take from thy hand the cup of trembling;
The dregs of the cup of my fury;

Thou shalt drink of it again no more.

23 But I will put it into the hand of them who' oppress thee! Who say to thee, Bow down thy body, that we may go over : And thou layedst down thy back, as the ground;

And as the street, to them that pass along.

CHAP. LII. 1 AWAKE, awake; be clothed with thy strength, O Sion:

Clothe thyself with thy glorious garments, O Jerusalem, thou holy city!

For no more shall enter into thee the uncircumcised and the

polluted.

2 Shake thyself from the dust, ascend thy lofty seat, O Jerusalem: Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Sion!

3 For thus saith JEHOVAH:

For nought were ye sold;
And not with money shall ye

be ransomed.

4 For thus saith the Lord JEHOVAH: My people went down to Egypt,

At the first, to sojourn there:

And the Assyrian, at the last, hath oppressed them. 5 And now, what have I more to do, saith JEHOVAH; Seeing that my people is taken away for nought;

And they, that are lords over them, make their beast of it, saith JEHOVAH :

And continually every day is my name exposed to contempt. 6 Therefore shall my people know my name in that day: For I am He, JEHOVAH, that promised; and lo! here I am!

7 How beautiful appear on the mountains

The feet of the joyful messenger; of him, that announceth peace!

Of the joyful messenger of good tidings; of him, that announc

eth salvation!

Of him, that sayeth unto Sion, Thy God reigneth!

8 All thy watchmen lift up their voice: they shout together:

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