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chapter 1 the vision concerning judah and jerusalem that was seen by isaiah the son of amos during the reigns of azia jotham ahaz and hezekiah kings of judah hear me heavens hear earth for the lord has spoken I raised children and raised them but they have rebelled against me the ox knows its master the donkey its owner's manger but Israel does not know my people do not understand woe to the sinful nation a people whose guilt is great a brood of evildoers children given over to corruption have abandoned the lord they have They despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

Why should they be hit more? Why do they persist in rebellion? His entire head is injured. His whole heart is afflicted from the soul of his foot to the crown of his head. There is no health. only wounds, bruises and open sores that have not been cleaned, bandaged or soothed with oil. Your country is desolate. Your city is burned with fire. Your fields are being despoiled by foreigners just before you raze them, as when it is torn down by strangers. The daughter of Zion remains like a refuge in a vineyard like a hut in a cucumber field like a city under siege unless the lord almighty had left us some survivors we would have been like sodom we would have been like gomorrah here the word of the lord you rulers of Sodom listen to the instruction of our god, people of Gomorrah, the multitude of your sacrifices, what are they to me? says the Lord.

I am more than sick of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fatted animals. I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs and goats when you come. appear before me who has asked this of you this trampling of my courts stop bringing meaningless offerings your incense is detestable to me new moons Saturdays and convocations I cannot bear your useless assemblies your new moon parties and your designated festivals that I hate with all my heart being have become a burden to me I am tired of bearing them when you extend your hands in prayer I hide my eyes from you even when you offer many prayers I do not listen your hands are full of blood wash and cleanse yourself take your evil deeds out of my sight stop do evil learn to do good seek justice defend the oppressed take up the cause of the orphans defend the widow's case come now, let's settle the matter says the lord even if your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow even if they are red like crimson they will be like wool if you are willing and obedient you will eat the good things of the earth but if you resist and rebel you will be devoured by the sword because the mouth of the lord has spoken look how the faithful city has become a prostitute she once was full of justice justice used to dwell in it but now murderers your silver has become dross your choice wine is diluted with water your rulers are rebellious companions of thieves they all love bribes and persecute after gifts they do not defend the cause of orphans the case of the widow does not come before them that is why the lord the lord almighty the powerful of israel declares ah I will take out my wrath on my enemies and I will take revenge on my enemies I will turn my hand against you I will

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ly cleanse your scum and I will remove all your impurities I will restore your leaders as in the days of old your rulers as at first later you will be called the city of righteousness the faithful city Zion will be delivered with righteousness repent with righteousness but rebels and sinners will both be broken and those who forsake the lord will perish you will be ashamed for the sacred oaks in which you have delighted you will be dishonored by the gardens you have chosen you will be like an oak with withered leaves like a garden without water the brave will become tinder and his work as a spark both will burn together with no one to put out the fire isaiah Chapter 2 This is what Isaiah the son of Amos saw about Judah and Jerusalem in the last days.

The temple mount of the Lord will be established as the highest of the mountains. It will be exalted above the hills and all nations will flock to it. Many people will come. and they will say come, let us go up to the mountain of the lord to the temple of the god of jacob he will teach us his ways so that we may walk in his paths the law will come out of zion the word of the lord from jerusalem he will judge between the nations and settle disputes for many peoples they will overcome their swords into plowshares and their spears into sickles nation will not lift up sword against nation nor will they train themselves for war anymore descendants of Jacob come let us walk in the light of the lord your lord you have abandoned your people the descendants of Jacob are full of superstitions from the east they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs their land is full of silver and gold their treasures have no end their land is full of horses there is no end of chariots their land is full of idols bow before the work of their hands before what their fingers They have done so that the people are brought down and all humiliated do not forgive them go to the rocks hide in the earth from the fearsome presence of the lord and the splendor of his majesty the eyes of the arrogant will be humiliated and human pride brought down the lord will only be exalted on that day the almighty lord has a day reserved for all the proud and the haughty for all that is exalted and they will be humbled for all the cedars of Lebanon high and lofty and all the oaks of Basian for all the mighty mountains and all the hills high by every elevated tower and every fortified wall by every commercial ship and every majestic vessel, the arrogance of man will be lowered and human pride will humiliate the lord will only be exalted on that day and the idols will totally disappear the people will flee to the caves in the rocks to holes in the earth of the fearsome presence of the lord and the splendor of his majesty when he rises to shake the earth on that day the people will throw to the moles and bats their silver idols and their golden idols that they made to worship, They will flee to caves in the rocks to the hanging rocks from the fearsome presence of the Lord and from the splendor of his majesty when he rises to shake the earth stop trusting mere humans who only have a breath in their nostrils why hold them in esteem Isaiah chapter 3 look now the lord the lord almighty is about to take from jerusalem and judah both the supply and sustenance of all food supplies and all water supplies the hero and the warrior the judge and the prophet the soothsayer and the elder the captain of fifty and the man of rank the councilor skillful craftsman and cunning enchanter I will make mere youths his officials children will govern them the people will oppress each other man against man neighbor against neighbor the young will rise against the old the no ones against the honest a man will grab one of his brothers in his father's house and say to him: you have a cloak, be our leader, take charge of this pile of ruins, but on that day he will cry out, I have no remedy, I have no food or clothing in my house, no. make me leader of the people Jerusalem is tottering Judah is falling their words and deeds are against the Lord defying his glorious presence the expression on their faces testifies against them they flaunt their sin like sodom they do not hide it woe to them they have brought disaster on themselves about themselves they tell the righteous that it will be well with them because they will enjoy the fruit of their works woe to the wicked disaster is upon them they will be repaid for what their hands have done the young men oppress my people the women govern them my people your guides they lead you astray they lead you astray from the path the lord takes his place at court he rises to judge the people the lord enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people it is you who have ruined my vineyard the spoils of the poor are in your houses what do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor declares the lord the lord almighty the lord says the women of zion are haughty walking with their necks outstretched flirting with their eyes strutting with their hips swaying with ornaments jingling on their ankles That is why the Lord will bring swords on the heads of the women of Zion.

The Lord will make their hair bold. On that day, the Lord will take away their finery, their bracelets, their diadems, their crescent necklaces, their earrings, their bracelets, and their necklaces. veils, headdresses, anklets and sashes, perfume bottles and amulets, signet rings and nose rings, fine dresses, cloaks and cloaks, purses, mirrors and linen. dresses and tiaras and shawls instead of fragrance there will be a stench instead of a sash a rope instead of well-combed hair boldness instead of fine clothing sackcloth instead of beauty marking your men your warriors will fall by the sword in battle the gates of Zion will lament and cry destitute will sit on the ground isaiah chapter 4 on that day seven women will grab a man and say we will eat our own food and provide our own clothing just let us call you by your name remove our dishonor on that day the branch of the lord It will be beautiful and glorious and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel those who remain in Zion those who remain in Jerusalem will be called saints all those who are registered among those living in Jerusalem the Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion will cleanse the bloodstains of Jerusalem with a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire then the Lord will create over all Mount Zion and over those who gather there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flame from fire at night above all glory will be a canopy will be shelter and shade from the heat of the day and shelter and hiding place from the storm and rain isaiah chapter 5 I will sing for him I love a song about his vineyard my beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hillside He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with the best vines, built a watchtower on it and also cut down a winepress, then he sought a harvest of good grapes but it only bore bad fruit.

Now you, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, Judge between me and my vineyard, what more could have been done for my vineyard than I did for it when I expected good. grapes why it only gave bad Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard I will remove its hedge and it will be destroyed I will tear down its wall and it will be trampled I will not turn it into a pruned or cultivated desert and there brambles and thorns will grow I will command the clouds let it not rain on him the vineyard of the lord almighty is the nation of israel and the people of judah are the vines in which he delighted and hoped for justice but saw bloodshed for justice but heard cries of anguish woe to you who add house after house and you join field after field until there is no space left and you live alone in the land that the almighty lord has declared in my ears, surely the great houses will be left desolate the beautiful mansions!

If left unoccupied, a 10-acre vineyard will produce only one bath of wine, one homer of seed will produce only one ifá of grain. Woe to those who get up early in the morning to run after their drinks and who stay up late in the morning. the night until inflamed! with wine they have harps and liars at their banquets flutes and tambourines and wine but they have no consideration for the works of the lord nor respect for the work of their hands that is why my people will go into exile for lack of understanding those of high rank will die of hunger and the common people will dry up with thirst, that is why death will expand its jaws, opening its mouth wide towards it, its nobles and masses will descend with all their troublemakers and revelers so that the people will be humiliated and all the eyes of the humble arrogant will be humiliated. but the almighty lord will be exalted by his justice and the

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by his acts of justice then the sheep will graze as in their own pastures the lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich woe to those who drag sin along with them ropes of deceit and evil as with ropes of card to those who say that God hasten, let him hasten his work so that we may see it, the plan of the saint of Israel, let him approach, let it be seen so that we may know it.

Woe to those! who call evil good and good evil who put darkness for light and light for darkness who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter Woe to those who are wise in their own opinion and intelligent in their own opinion! Woe to those who are wine-drinking heroes! and champions of mixing drinks who absolve the guilty of a bribe but deny justice to the innocent, therefore, like tongues of fire they lick the straw and like dry grass sinks in the flames, their roots will rot and their flowers will fly away like dust because they have rejected the law of the lord almighty and despised the word of the holy one of israel, therefore the wrath of the lord burns against his people, his hand is raised and strikes them down, the mountains tremble and the corpses are like rubbish in the streets still for everyone. this his anger has not been calmed his hand is still raised he raises a banner for the distant nations he whistles for those from the ends of the earth here they come swift and swift none of them tires or stumbles none of them slumbers or sleeps or loosens a belt Not even the strap of a sandal breaks.

Their arrows are sharp. All their bows are tense. The hooves of their horses are like flint. The wheels of their chariots are like a whirlwind. Their roar is like that of a lion. They roar like young lions. They growl as they grab their prey and take it. they carry without anyone to rescue her on that day they will roar over her like the roar of the sea and if one looks at the land there is only darkness and anguish even the sun will be obscured by the clouds isaiah chapter 6 in the year that king azia died i saw the lordtall and exalted sitting on a throne and the border of his mantle filled the temple above him there were seraphim each with six wings with two wings they covered their faces with two they covered their feet and with two they flew and called each other holy holy Holy is the Lord Almighty, the whole earth is filled with his glory at the sound of their voices, the posts and the thresholds trembled and the temple was filled with smoke, woe is me!

I cried I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips and my eyes have seen the king the lord almighty then one of the seraphim flew towards me with a burning coal in his hand that he had taken with tongs from the altar with him he touched my mouth and said look this has touched your lips your guilt has been removed and your sin atoned for because then I heard the voice of the Lord saying who will I send and who will go for us and I said here I am, he sent me he said go and tell these people always listen but never understand always see but never perceive silence the heart of this people make their ears dull and close their eyes otherwise they could see with their eyes here with their ears understand with their heart and become and be healed then I said for how long sir and he answered until the cities are ruined and without inhabitants until the houses are deserted and the fields ruined and devastated until the lord has sent everyone away and the land is

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ly abandoned and although a tenth remains in the land, it will be devastated again, but like the aquatic turtles and the oak leaves when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land isaiah chapter 7 when ahaz son of jotham the son of azia was king of judah king reason of aram and pika son of ramallah king of israel marched to fight against jerusalem but they could not dominate it now the house of david was told that aram had allied himself with ephraim, so the hearts of ahaz and his people They shook like the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind, then the Lord said to Isaiah, go out you and your son, Shia Jason, to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool on the way to the field of the washers tell him Let him be careful, let him remain calm and not be afraid, he will not be discouraged by these two pieces of smoking firewood due to the fierce anger of reason and Aram and the son of rimalaya aram efraim and the son of remalya have planned your ruin saying: let us invade Judah, let us destroy it and divide it among ourselves and make the son of Tabihil king over it, but this is what the sovereign lord says, it will not happen, yes This will not happen because the head of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is the only reason why in 65 years Ephraim will be too destroyed to be a town.

The head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria is only the son of Ramallah if you do not stand firm. In your faith you will not resist at all again the lord spoke to ahaz ask the lord your god for a sign either in the deepest depths or in the highest heights but aha he said I will not ask I will not test the lord then Isaiah said here now house of david it is not enough to test the patience of humans you will test the patience of my god also for that reason the lord himself will give you a sign the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and will name him emmanuel he will be eating curd and honey when he knows what enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, because before the child knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you fear will be laid waste, the lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house a time like no other since Ephraim separated from Judah will bring the king of Assyria on that day the Lord will whistle for the flies of the Nile Delta in Egypt and for the bees of the land of Assyria everyone will come and they will settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices of the rocks in all the thorns and in all the watering holes in that day the lord will use a razor rented from the other side of the river euphrates the king of assyria to shave your head and private parts and Cut your beard also on that day a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats and because of the abundance of the milk they give there will be curds to eat for all who are left on the earth.

They will eat curds and honey on that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, there will be only brambles and thorns; The hunters will go there with bow and arrow, because the land will be covered with brambles and thorns, as it is for everyone. The hills once cultivated by the Ho, you will no longer go there for fear of the brambles and the thorns, they will become places where the cattle are loosed and where the sheep run. Isaiah chapter 8, the Lord told me, take a large scroll and write on it with ordinary pen chaos, so I called Uriah, the priest and Zechariah, son of jebarika, as reliable witnesses for me, then I made love to the prophetess and she conceived and gave birth to a son and the lord told me that I named him Chaos before the child.

My father or my mother knows how to say the riches of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be taken by the king of Assyria. The Lord spoke to me again because this people has rejected the gentle waters of Shiloah and rejoices in reason and the son of Remaliah. Therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the great flood of the waters of the Euphrates. The king of Assyria with all his pomp will overflow all its canals. It will flow along all its banks and sweep as far as Judah, swirling over it, passing through it and reaching to the neck his outstretched wings will cover the width of your land emmanuel raise the war cry nations and be destroyed listen to all the distant lands prepare for battle and be destroyed prepare for battle and be destroyed devise your strategy but it will be frustrated propose your plan that will not it will remain because God is with us this is what the Lord tells me with his strong hand on me warning me not to follow the path of this people do not call conspiracy everything that this people call conspiracy do not fear what they fear and do not fear it the lord almighty is the one you should consider holy he is the one you should fear he is the one you should fear it will be a holy place for both israel and judah it will be a stone that makes people stumble and a rock that makes them fall and for the people of Jerusalem will be a snare and a snare many of them will stumble will fall and be broken will be caught and captured will bind this testimony of warning and seal the instruction of God among my disciples I will wait for the Lord who hides his face from the descendants of Jacob I will put my trust In him here I am and the children that the Lord has given me are signs and symbols in Israel of the almighty Lord who lives on Mount Zion when someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritualists who whisper and murmur, should not a people ask to your god why consult the dead on behalf of the living consult god's instruction and warning testimony if anyone does it? do not speak according to this word you have no light of dawn distressed and hungry you will wander the earth when you are hungry you will be angry and looking up you will curse your king and your god then you will look towards the earth and you will only see distress and darkness and dreadful darkness and you will be thrown into utter darkness isaiah chapter 9 however there will be no more darkness for those who were in trouble in the past he humiliated the land of zebulon and the land of naphtali but in the future he will honor galilee of the nations by the way from the sea to the other side of the Jordan the people who walked in darkness have seen a great light upon those who lived in the land of deep darkness a light has shone you have magnified the nation and increased their joy they rejoice before you as the people rejoice in the harvest as the warriors rejoice in dividing the plunger because, as on the day of the defeat of Midian, you destroyed the yoke that weighed them down, the bar on their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor, the boot of every warrior used in battle and every garment wrapped in blood It will be destined for burning it will be fuel for the fire because a child has been born to us a sun is given and the government will be on his shoulders and he will be called wonderful counselor god powerful eternal father prince of peace of the greatness of his government and his peace They will have no end.

He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, establishing and maintaining it with justice and righteousness from now on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this. The Lord has sent a message against Jacob. It will fall on Israel. All the people will know. Ephraim. and the inhabitants of samaria who say with pride and arrogance of heart the bricks have fallen but we will rebuild with hewn stone the fig trees have been cut down but we will replace them with cedars but the lord has strengthened the reasons of the enemies against them and has incited their enemies The Arameans from the east and the Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with their mouths open but despite all this their anger has not been calmed their hand is still raised but the people have not returned to the one who wounded them nor have they sought the almighty lord That is why the Lord will cut off from Israel both the head and the tail, both the palm and the reed, in a single day.

The elders and dignitaries of the head, the prophets who teach lies from the story, those who guide this people deceive them and those who are guided are led astray, therefore the Lord will not take pleasure in the young nor will he have compassion on the orphans and widows because they are all ungodly and wicked every mouth speaks foolishly but for all this his anger is not turned away his hand is still raised surely evil burns like a fire consumes brambles and thorns sets fire to the thickets of the forest so that it rolls up in a column of smoke through the wrath of the almighty lord the earth will be burned and the people will be fuel for the fire they will not forgive each other on the right they will devour but be hungry on the left they will eat but not be satisfied each will feed on the flesh of his own offspring Manasseh will feed on Ephraim and Ephraim on Manasseh together they will turn against Judah but despite all this their wrath has not subsided his hand is still raised isaiah chapter 10 woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees to deprive the poor of their rights and deny them justice!

The oppressed of my people make widows their prey and rob orphans. What will you do on the day of judgment when disaster comes from afar? Who will you turn to for help? Where will you leave your riches? There will be nothing left but to cower among the captives or fall among the dead, but despite all this his wrath has not subsided, his hand is still raised, woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, in whose hand is the club of my wrath. I send it against an ungodly nation I send it against a people who anger me to seize the spoils and snatch the spoils and trample them like mud in the streets but this is not what it intends this is not what it has in mind its purpose is to destroy to put an end many nations honor all my commanders kings, he says, narcal has not fared like carcamish is not hay mathematics like our pad and samaria like damascus while my hand sees the kingdoms of the idols kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria I must not deal with Jerusalem and its images as I did with Samaria and its idols when the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem will say I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes because it says by the strength of my hand I have done this and with my wisdom because I have understanding I removed the borders of the nations I plundered their treasures like a mighty one I subdued their kings as one puts his hand into a nest so my hand reached the wealth of the nations while people gather abandoned eggs so I gathered all the countries not a single one flapped a wing or opened its mouth to screech does the ax rise above whoever wields it or does the saw boast in front of whoever uses it as if a rod out to wield whoever wields it? he lifts it or a club he brandishes the one who is not wood therefore the lord the lord almighty will send a debilitating disease upon his sturdy warriors under his bomb a fire will be kindled like a burning flame the light of israel will become a holy fire one one flame in a single day will burn and consume its thorns and brambles, the splendor of its forests and fertile fields will completely destroy as when one who is sick wastes away, and the trees that remain from its forests will be so few that a child could write them in that day the remnant of israel the survivors of jacob will no longer trust in the one who overthrew them but will truly trust in the lord the saint of israel a remnant will return a remnant of jacob will return to the mighty god although your people are like the sand by the sea israel only a remnant will return the destruction has been decreed overwhelming and just the lord the lord almighty will carry out the destruction decreed upon the entire earth therefore this is what the lord the lord almighty says my people who dwell in zion do not fear the Assyrians who beat you with a rod and raise a club against you like Egypt did very soon my anger against you will end and my anger will be directed towards their destruction the almighty lord will whip them with a whip like when he struck down Midian on the rock of oreb and he will lift his staff over the waters as he did in Egypt on that day his burden will be removed from your shoulders his yoke from your neck the yolk will break because you have become so fat they enter a yaf they pass through migronthey store supplies in mcmash they review the past and say we will camp overnight in jiba rama trembles babbling soul runs away shouts daughter garlim listens laisha poor anatot madmina is on the run the village of jibim takes cover this day they will stop at nob they will shake their fist on the mount of the daughter of zion on the hill of jerusalem you will see the lord the lord almighty will cut down the branches with great power the tall trees will be felled the tall ones will be brought down he will cut down with an ax the thick of the forest lebanon will fall before the mighty isaiah chapter 11 a shoot will sprout from the stump of Jesse from its roots a branch will bear fruit the spirit of the lord will rest upon it the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and power the spirit of knowledge and fear of the lord and will delight in fear of the Lord will not judge by what he sees with his eyes nor decide by what he hears with his ears but with justice he will judge the needy with justice he will make decisions for the poor of the earth he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth with the breath of his lips will kill the wicked justice will be his belt and faithfulness the belt around his waist the wolf will live with the lamb the leopard will lie down with the goat the calf and the lion and the year together and a the child will guide them the cow He will feed with the bear, his cubs will lie down together and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

The child will play near the cobra's den and the child will put his hand in the viper's nest. They will not harm or destroy in all my holy mountain because The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. On that day the root of Jesse will be raised as a banner for the people. The nations will join him and at his rest the place will be glorious. On that day the Lord will stretch out his hand throughout second time to claim the surviving remnant of his people from assyria from lower egypt from upper egypt from kush from ilam from babylon from hey mouth and from the islands of the mediterranean he will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of israel he will gather the people dispersed from Judah from the four parts of the earth Ephraim's jealousy will vanish and Judah's enemies will be destroyed Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah nor will Judah be hostile towards Ephraim They will rush together on the slopes of Philistia towards the west, together they will plunder the people of the east, they will subdue Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will submit to them.

The Lord will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian sea with a scorching wind. He will pass his hand over the Euphrates River, dividing it into seven streams so that anyone can cross in sandals. He will be a way for the remnant of his people that is left of Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up. from egypt isaiah chapter 12 on that day you will say I will praise you lord even though you are angry with me your anger has turned away and you have comforted me surely god is my salvation I will trust and will not fear the lord the lord himself is my strength and my defense has become in my salvation with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation on that day you will say praise the lord proclaim his name make known among the nations what he has done and proclaim that his name is exalted sing to the lord because he has done glorious things let this be known throughout the world shout loudly and sing for joy people of Zion for great is the saint of Israel among you Isaiah 13 a prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah the son of Amos saw Raise a banner on the top of a hill of bears, Shout to them, signal to them to enter through the noble gates.

I have ordered those whom I prepared for battle. I have summoned my warriors to carry out my wrath. Those who rejoice in my triumph. Hear a noise in the mountains. like that of a great multitude hears an uproar among the kingdoms like nations gathering the lord almighty is gathering an army for war they come from distant lands from the ends of heaven the lord and the weapons of his wrath to destroy the whole country they will mourn Because the day of the Lord is near, it will come as destruction from the almighty, so all hands will weaken, every heart will melt with fear, terror will take hold of them, pain and anguish will take hold of them, they will writhe like a woman in labor, some will look horrified. others with their faces on fire will see that the day of the Lord is coming, a cruel day with wrath and fierce fury to desolate the earth and destroy the sinners within it, the stars of heaven and its constellations will not show their light, the rising one.

The sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light I will punish the world for its evil the wicked for their sins I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and I will humble the pride of the ruthless I will make people scarcer than pure gold rarer than the gold of ophia therefore I will shake the heavens and the earth will be shaken from its place before the wrath of the almighty lord in the day of his fiery wrath like a gazelle persecuted like a sheep without a shepherd everyone will return to their own people they will flee to their native land , whoever is captured will be pierced by all those who are captured will fall by the sword their children will be torn to pieces before their eyes their houses will be plundered and their wives raped I will see, I will incite against them the Medes who do not care about money and do not They delight in gold.

Their bows will overthrow the young. They will not have pity on children nor will they look with compassion on children. Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, pride and glory. of the Babylonians it will be overthrown by god like sodom and gomorrah it will never be inhabited nor inhabited through all generations there no nomads will pitch their tents there no shepherds will rest their flocks but the creatures of the desert will lie there the jackals will fill their houses there the The owls will dwell and there the wild goats will jump hyenas their fortresses will inhabit their jackals their luxurious palaces their time is near and their days will not be prolonged isaiah chapter 14 the lord will have mercy on jacob once again he will choose israel and settle them in their own land, foreigners will join them and join the descendants of Jacob.

The nations will take them and bring them to their own place and Israel will take possession of the nations and make male and female servants in the land of the Lord. captives of your captors and rule over your repressed the day the lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and the hard work that has been imposed on you, you will take this mockery against the king of Babylon how the oppressor has come to an end how his fury The Lord has finished, he has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, who in anger wounded the people with incessant blows and in fury subdued the nations with relentless aggression, all the lands are at rest and in peace, they break into song until the end.

The junipers and cedars of Lebanon gloat over you and say now that you have been laid low, no one is coming to cut us down, the kingdom of the dead below is all a commotion to meet you at your coming, awaken the spirits of the dead to greet you. He makes you rise from their thrones, all those who are leaders in the world, all those who were kings over the nations, everyone will respond and tell you, you too have become weak like us, you have become like us, all your pomp has been brought down to the ground.

Tomb along with the noise of your hearts. The worms spread beneath you and the worms cover you. How you have fallen from the sky. Morning star, son of the dawn. You have been thrown to the ground. You who once brought down the nations. you said in your heart I will ascend to the heavens I will raise my throne above the stars of God I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly on the extreme heights of Mount Zephon I will ascend above the tops of the clouds I will make myself like the higher but you are brought down to the kingdom of the dead to the depths of the abyss those who see you stare at you reflect on your destiny is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble the man who made the world a desert that destroyed its cities and did not let his captives return home all the kings of the nations state of lion each in his own grave but you are thrown out of your grave like a rejected branch you are covered with the dead with those pierced by the sword to those who descend to the stones of the pit like trampled corpses you will not join them in burial because you have destroyed your land and killed your people may the offspring of the wicked never be mentioned again prepare a place to slaughter their children for the sins of their ancestors they will not rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities I will rise against them declares the lord almighty I will erase the name of Babylon and the survivors its offspring and descendants declares the lord I will make it a place for the owls and into the swamps I will sweep it with the broom of destruction declares the lord almighty the lord almighty has sworn surely as I have planned so it will be and as I have intended so it will happen I will crush the Assyrian in my land in my mountains I will trample his yoke It will be removed from my people and its burden removed from its shoulders this is the determined plan for the entire world this is the hand extended over all nations because the almighty lord has purposed and who can thwart it?

His hand is outstretched and who can draw it back? This prophecy came in the year that King Ahaz died. Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, for the rod that struck you is broken from the root of that serpent; a viper will sprout from its fruit. It will be a poisonous snake that darts quickly, the poorest of the poor will find pasture and the needy will lie down in safety, but your root I will destroy with hunger, it will kill your survivors. Whale, your gate, howl, your city, melt all the Philistines, a cloud of smoke. comes from the north and is not left behind in its ranks what answer will be given to the envoys of that nation the lord has established Zion and in it his afflicted people will find refuge isaiah chapter 15 a prophecy against moab ah in moab is ruined destroyed in a cur night in Moab is ruined destroyed in one night he goes up to his temple to his high places to weep Moab Welsh over nebo and mediba every head is shaved and every beard is cut off in the streets they wear sackcloth on the roofs and in the squares everyone groans prostrate with tears heshbond and eliela cry out their voices are heard as far as jehon so the armed men of moab cry out and their hearts fail my heart cries out over moab their fugitives flee as far as if they were to the egg bar sheldishya they climb the hill to cry as they go the path to the name of horror they lament its destruction the waters of the nimrum dry up and the grass withers the vegetation has disappeared and nothing green remains so the riches they have acquired and accumulated they take through the ravine of the poplars their Cry resounds along the border of Moab His cries reach to the lame egg His lamentation to the elim beer The waters of the diamond are full of blood but I will bring even more on the diamond a lion on the fugitives of Moab and on those who remain in the land isaiah chapter 16 send lambs as a tribute to the ruler of the land from Sulla through the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion like fluttering birds driven from the nest so are the women of Moab on the outskirts of Arnon make up your mind Moab says make a decision make your shadow like the night at noon hide the fugitives do not betray the refugees let the Moabite fugitives stay with you be their refuge from the destroyer the oppressor will come to an end and the destruction will cease the aggressor will disappear from the land in love a throne will be established in faithfulness a man will sit on it one of the house of david one who in judging seeks justice and hastens the cause of justice we have heard of the pride of moab how great is his arrogance of his vanity their pride and their insolence but their boasts are empty that is why the Moabites lament together for Moab they lament and lament for the raisin cakes of ker haresheth the fields of Hezbollah wither the vines of Sibmar also the rulers of the nations have trampled The choicest vines that once reached Jaisa and spread towards the desert their shoots spread and reached the sea, so I cry as Jaisa cries for the vines of Sigma Hegemon and Eliela I soak you with tears the cries of joy for your ripe fruit and by your crops they have been silenced joy and joy are taken from the orchards no one sings or shouts in the vineyards no one steps on the wine from the winepresses because I have put an end to the shouting my heart mourns for Moab like a harp my innermost being by kerr haresseth when moab appears in her high place she only wears out when she goes to her sanctuary to pray it is of no use this is the word that the lord has it has already been spoken about moab but now the lord says that within three years as a servant bound by contract he would count them splendor of Moab and all his people will be despised and his survivors will be very few and weak Isaiah chapter 17 a prophecy against Damascus see Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins the cities of Arora will be deserted and abandoned to flocks that will lie down without anyone frightening them the fortified city will disappear from Ephraim and the royal power of Damascus the remnant of Aram will be as the glory of the Israelites declares the Lord Almighty in that day Jacob's glory will fade the fat from his body will be consumed it will be like when the reapers harvest the standing corn gathering the corn in theirarms like when someone cleans ears of corn in the valley of Rifam, but some gleanings will remain like when you hit an olive tree, leaving two or three olives on the highest branches, four or five in the fruitful entrails, declares the Lord the god of Israel in that On that day the people will look to their maker and turn their eyes to the holy one of Israel, they will not look at the altars made by his hands and will not consider the grove poles and the altars of incense that his fingers made on that day, his strong cities that Those that remained because of the Israelites will be like places abandoned to weeds and weeds and everything will be desolation you have forgotten God your savior you have not remembered the rock your strength so there you will plant the best plants and you will plant imported vines although On the day you spread them, you make them grow and in the morning, when you plant them, you make them bloom, but the harvest will be like nothing on the day of illness and incurable pain.

Woe to the many nations that rage! They rage like the raging sea. Woe to the many nations that rage! the towns that raw roar like the roar of great waters although the roar of the towns like the roar of turbulent waters when he rebukes them they flee far away carried before the wind like chaff on the hills like tumbleweed before a gale in the afternoon sudden terror before the tomorrow they are gone this is the portion of those who plunder us the lot of those who plunder us isaiah chapter 18 a prophecy against Cush woe to the land of the humming of the wings along the rivers of Cush! who sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats on the water go fast messengers to a tall, smooth-skinned people to a people feared everywhere an aggressive nation of strange speech whose land is divided by rivers all of you people of the world, you who live on earth when a banner is raised on the mountains you will see it and when a trumpet sounds you will hear it this is what the lord tells me I will remain silent and look from my dwelling like a shining heat under the sun like a cloud of dew in the heat of the harvest because before the harvest, when the flower is gone and the flower becomes a ripe grape, he will cut the shoots with pruning knives and cut and remove the spreading branches, all of them will be left in the hands of the birds of prey from the mountains and the wild animals the birds will feed on them all summer the wild animals all winter at that time they will bring gifts to the almighty lord from a tall and soft-skinned people from a people feared everywhere and aggressive nation of strange speech whose land is divided by rivers the gifts will be brought to mount zion the place of the name of the lord almighty isaiah 19 a prophecy against egypt behold the lord rides on a swift cloud and comes to egypt the idols of egypt will tremble before him and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt with fear.

I will agitate Egyptian against Egyptian brother I will fight against brother neighbor against neighbor city against city kingdom against kingdom the Egyptians will be discouraged and I will ruin their plans they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead the mediums and the spiritists I will deliver the Egyptians into the power of a master cruel and a fierce king will rule them declares the lord the lord almighty the waters of the river will dry up and the bed of the river The canals will dry up and dry up the streams of Egypt will stink the reeds will dwindle and dry up and the reeds will also wither along the Nile at the mouth of the river.

Every field sown along the Nile will dry up and be blown away by the wind. The fisherman will no longer moan or lament, all those who throw hooks into the Nile, those who throw nets into the water will faint, those who work with combed linen will despair, the weavers of fine linen will lose hope, the cloth workers will be left dejected and all the hirelings will be sick at heart the officials of zohan are nothing more than fools the wise advisors of pharaoh give meaningless advice how can you tell pharaoh? I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings.

Where are your wise men now? they show you and let you know what the almighty lord has planned against egypt the officials of zoan have become fools the leaders of memphis are deceived the cornerstones of their people have led astray to egypt the lord has poured out upon them a spirit of giddiness They make Egypt stagger in everything she does like a drunk staggers in his vomit there is nothing Egypt can do with head or tail, palm branch or reed on that day the Egyptians will become weak, they will tremble with fear before the raised hand that the lord almighty raises against them and the land of judah will bring terror to the egyptians, all those to whom judah is mentioned will be terrified by what the lord almighty is planning against them on that day five cities in egypt will speak the language of canaan and will swear allegiance to the almighty lord. one of them will be called the city of the sun in that day there will be an altar to the lord in the heart of Egypt and a monument to the lord on its border will be a sign and testimony of the almighty lord in the land of Egypt when they cry out to the lord because of their oppressors he will send them a savior and defender and will rescue them so that the lord will make himself known to the Egyptians and on that day they will recognize the lord and worship with sacrifices and grain offerings they will make vows to the lord and fulfill them the lord will strike Egypt with a plague will strike them and heal them they will return to the lord and he will answer their prayers and heal them on that day there will be a road from egypt to assyria the assyrians will go to egypt and the egyptians to assyria the egyptians and assyrians will worship together on that day israel It will be the third along with Egypt and Assyria a blessing in the land the Lord Almighty will bless them saying blessed be Egypt my people Assyria my work and Israel my inheritance Isaiah chapter 20 a prophecy against Egypt and Cush in the year that the supreme commander sent By Sargon, king of Assyria, he came to Ashdod and attacked it and captured it.

At that time, the Lord spoke through Isaiah, the son of masters, and said to him, "Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet," and he did so, walking naked and barefoot. Lord said, as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as an important sign against Egypt and Cush so that the king of Assyria may take the Egyptian captives naked and barefoot and the exiles young and old with their buttocks uncovered to shame. of egypt those who trusted in cush and boasted in egypt will be dismayed and ashamed on that day the people who live on this coast will say: look what has happened to those we trusted, to whom we fled for help and deliverance of the king of assyria, how then can we escape from isaiah chapter 21 a prophecy against the wilderness by the sea like whirlwinds that sweep? the land of the south an invader comes from the desert of a land of terror I have been shown a terrible vision the traitor betrays the plunderer takes the loot elam attacks the media I will lay siege I will put an end to all the moans she caused at this my body He is tormented with pain He sees me like those of a woman in labor I am astonished by what I hear I am disconcerted by what I see My heart wavers Fear makes me tremble The twilight I longed for has become a horror for me said the tables that spread the rugs Eat, drink, get up, officers, grease your shields, this is what the Lord tells me, go set up a lookout and let him report what he sees when he sees chariots with teams of horses, riders on donkeys or riders on camels, leave him alone. alert completely alert and the watchman shouted day after day my lord I am in the watchtower every night I remain at my post look here comes a man in a chariot with a team of horses and he returns the answer babylon has fallen has fallen all the images of their gods lie broken on the ground my people who are crushed in the threshing floor I tell you what I have heard from the almighty lord of the god of Israel a prophecy against the duma someone calls me from the seer watchman what is left of the night watchman what is left of the night the watchman answers that the morning comes but also the night if you ask, ask and a prophecy against arabia returns again you, caravans of dead knights who camp in the bushes of arabia bring water for the thirsty you who live in tima bring food for the fugitives they flee from the sword of the drawn sword of the drawn bow and the heat of battle this is what the lord tells me within a year as a servant bound by contract would tell all the splendor of kida will come to an end the survivors of the archers the warriors of kedar will be few the lord the god of israel has spoken isaiah 22 a prophecy against the valley of vision what worries you now that you have all climbed to the roofs your people so full of commotion your city of tumult and revelry your dead were not killed by the sword nor died in battle all your leaders have fled together they have been captured without using the bow all those who were captured were taken prisoner together having fled while the enemy was still far away that is why I said get away from me let me cry bitterly do not try to console me for the destruction of my people the lord the lord almighty has a day of tumult in trampling and terror in the valley of vision a day of breaking down walls and crying out to the mountains elam takes the quiver with his charioteers and horses kerr reveal the shield your best valleys are full of chariots and horsemen stationed at the gates of the city the lord stripped the defenses of Judah and that day you looked at the weapons in the palace of the forest, you saw that the walls of the city of David were broken down in many places, you gathered water in the lower pool, you counted the buildings in Jerusalem and you tore down houses. to strengthen the wall you built a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the ancient pond but you did not look at the one who did it nor did you give consideration to the one who planned it a long time ago the lord the lord almighty called you on that day to cry and moan to tear you away hair and dress in sackcloth but look there is joy and revelry killing cattle and killing sheep eating meat and drinking wine let's eat and drink you say that tomorrow we will die the almighty lord has revealed this to my ears until the day of your death this sin will not will be atoned says the lord the lord almighty this is what the lord the lord almighty says go and tell this butler to shebna the palace manager what are you doing here and who gave you You have permission to dig a grave for yourself here, digging your grave on high and chiseling your resting place in the rock, be careful, the lord is about to grab you firmly and throw you away, mighty man, he will roll you up tightly like a ball and I will throw you into a big country there you will die and there the chariots of which you were so proud will become a disgrace to your master's house I will remove you from your position and you will be removed from your position on that day I will summon you My servant Elia Kim son of Hilkiah I will clothe him with your cloak and I will gird him with your belt and I will give him your authority.

He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. I'll put it on his shoulder. the key to the house of david what opens no one can close and what closes no one can open i will drive it like a peg in a firm place it will become a seat of honor for your father's house all the glory of your family will hang on it he his descendants and offspring all his lesser vessels from the daring to all the jars on that day declares the lord almighty the peg driven into the firm place will give way it will be cut off and fall and the burden hanging on it will be cut down the lord has spoken isaiah chapter 23 a prophecy against the draft whale you, ships of tarshish, the tire was destroyed and left without house or port from the land of cyprus the news has reached you keep silent, people of the island and you, merchants of Sidon, to whom sailors have become rich in the great waters, you brought the grain of the shahor, the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tire and it became the market of the nations.

Be ashamed, Sidon and you, fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken, I have not labored nor given birth, I have not raised sons nor raised daughters, when the news reaches Egypt, they will be distressed by the report from Tire, They will cross to Tarshish, they will lament, people of the island, is this your city of revelry? the old old city whose feet have carried it to settle in distant lands who planned this against weariness the bestower of crowns whose merchants are princes whose merchants are renowned in the land the almighty lord planned it to tear down your pride in all its splendor and to humiliate all the famous in the land to your land as they do along the Nile, daughter of Tarshish, because you no longer have a harbor, the lord has stretched out his hand over the sea and has shaken its kingdoms, he has given an order about Phoenicia. let his fortresses be destroyed he said no more of your daughter virgin Sidon revelry now crushed cross to cyprus even there you will not find rest look at the land of the Babylonians this town that is now of no importance the Assyrians have turned it into a place for the creatures of the desert they raised their siege towers, stripped their fortresses and turned them into ruins, lament, ships of Tarshish, your fortress will be destroyed at that time, Tire will be forgotten for seventy years, the length of a king's life, but in the end. of these seventy years you will become tired as in the song of theprostitute take the harp walk through the city forgotten prostitute play the harp well sing many songs so that you will be remembered at the end of the 70 years the lord will treat you with Tyre, she will return to her lucrative prostitution and will carry out her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth, but their gains and their profits will be set aside for the lord, they will not be stored up or treasured, their prophets will go away.

To those who live before the Lord for abundant food and fine clothing Isaiah chapter 24, see the Lord is going to raze the earth and devastate it, he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants, it will be the same for the priest as for the people, for the master as for his servant for the lady as for her servant for the seller as for the buyer for the borrower as for the lender for the debtor as for the creditor the land will be completely devastated and totally plundered the lord has pronounced this word the land dries up and dries up the world languishes and dries up the heavens languish with the earth the earth is polluted by its people they have disobeyed the laws violated the statutes and broken the eternal covenant therefore a curse consumes the earth its people must bear its guilt therefore The inhabitants of the earth are burned and very few remain.

The new wine dries up and the vine withers. All the revelers moan. The joyful tambourines are silent. The noise of the revelers has ceased. The joyful harp is silent. They no longer drink wine with song. The beer is bitter to its drinkers the the city in ruins lies desolate the entrance to every house is closed in the streets they cry out for wine all joy turns into darkness all joyful sounds are banished from the earth the city lies in ruins its door is destroyed so it will be on earth and among the nations as when an olive tree is struck or when bushes are struck after the harvest they raise their voices they shout for joy from the west they acclaim the majesty of the Lord that is why in the east they give glory to the Lord they exalt the name of the Lord the god of Israel in the islands of the sea from the From the ends of the earth we hear the glory of the righteous sing, but I said, I waste myself, I say goodbye, woe is me, the treacherous, they betray with treachery, the treacherous, they betray with terror They catch you and trap you, people of the earth, whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a hole, whoever comes out of the hole will be trapped in a trap, the floodgates of the heavens open the foundations of the earth the earth shakes the earth breaks apart the earth shakes violently the earth staggers like a drunk it sways like a hut in the wind, so heavy on him is the guilt of his rebellion that he falls never to rise again on that day the Lord will punish the powers and the heavens above and the kings on the earth below will be crowded together like prisoners tied in a dungeon they will be locked in prison and will be punished after many days the moon will be dismayed the sun will be ashamed because the almighty lord will reign on the mountain of Zion and in Jerusalem and before his elders with great glory chapter of Isaiah 25 Lord you are my god I will exalt you and praise your name for your imperfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things things planned long ago you have made the city a heap of rubble the fortified city in ruins the fortress of foreigners a city that will never be rebuilt, therefore, strong people will honor you, cities of ruthless nations will revere you, you have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, shelter from the storm and shade from the heat, because the breath of the merciless is like a storm advancing against a wall and like the heat of the desert you silence the commotion of foreigners like the heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud so the song of the ruthless is silenced on this mountain the almighty lord will prepare a feast of delicious food for all peoples a banquet of aged wine the best meats and the best wines on this mountain he will destroy the shroud that wraps all the peoples the mantle that covers all nations will swallow death forever the sovereign lord will wipe away the tears from all faces he will remove the dishonor of his people from all the earth the lord has spoken on that day they will surely say this is our god we trust in him and he saved us this It is the Lord in him we trust in him let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain but Moab will be trampled in his land as straw is trampled in dung they will stretch out their hands in it as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim God will tear down their pride despite the craftiness of his hands He will tear down your high fortified walls and tear them down He will tear them down to the dust Isaiah chapter 26 On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah We have a strong city God make salvation its walls and strongholds open the doors so that the righteous nation can enter the nation that maintains the faith you will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are firm because they trust in you trust in the lord forever because the lord the lord himself is the eternal Rock He humbles those who dwell on high He humbles the high city He levels it to the ground and casts it into the dust The feet trample it The feet of the oppressed The footsteps of the poor The path of the righteous is leveled You the upright smooth the path of the righteous Yes Lord walking in the path of your laws we await you your name and renown are the desire of our hearts my soul longs for you at night in the morning my spirit longs for you when your judgments come upon the earth the people of the world learn justice but when grace is shown to the wicked they do not learn justice even in a land of righteousness they continue to do evil and do not consider the majesty of the lord lord your hand is raised high but they do not see it let them see your zeal for your people and be ashamed let them the fire reserved for your enemies consumes them lord you establish peace for us everything we have achieved you have done for us lord our god another The lords at your side have ruled us, but we only honor your name.

Now they are dead. They no longer live. Their spirits do not rise. You punished them and led them to ruin. You erased all memory of them. You have enlarged the nation. Mister. You have made the nation great, you have won glory for yourself, you have extended all the borders of the lord of the land, they came to you in their distress when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer while a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and screams. inside. pain so we were in your presence lord we were conceived we writhed in labor but we gave birth to the wind we have not brought salvation to the earth and the people of the world have not come back to life but your dead will live lord their bodies yes arise let them awaken that dwell in the dust and shout for joy your dew is like the morning dew the earth will give birth to its dead go, my people, enter your chambers and close the doors behind you hide a little until their wrath has past look the lord leaves his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins the earth will reveal the blood shed on it the earth will hide its dead more Isaiah chapter 27 on that day the lord punishes with his sword his fierce great sword and mighty leviathan the slithering serpent leviathan the coiled serpent he will kill the sea monster on that day sing about a fruitful vineyard I the lord take care of it I water it continually I take care of it day and night so that no one can harm it I am not angry if only there were brambles and thorns in front of me, I would march against them in battle, set them all on fire or let them come to me for shelter, make peace with me, yes.

May they make peace with me in the days to come. Jacob will take root. Israel will charge. He will flourish and fill the whole world with fruit. Has the Lord struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been murdered like those who killed her were murdered? war and exile you contend with it with its fierce blast he expels it like the day the east wind blows then Jacob's guilt will be atoned and this will be the complete fruit of the removal of his sin when he makes all the stones of the altar will be like limestone crushed into pieces there will be no Asherah poles or incense altars standing the fortified city is desolate an abandoned settlement abandoned like the desert there the carved ones graze there they lie down they bare their branches when their twigs are dry they are broken off and women come and they make fire with them because this is a people without understanding so their maker has no compassion for them and their creator does not show them any favors on that day the lord will thresh from the euphrates that flows to the body of egypt and you israel will be gathered one for one and on that day a great trumpet will sound those who perished in assyria and those who were exiled in egypt will come and worship the lord on the holy mountain in jerusalem isaiah chapter 28 woe to that crown! the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim to the withered flower its glorious beauty placed at the head of a fertile valley to that city the pride of those crushed by wine look that the lord has one who is powerful and strong like a hail storm and a destructive wind like a torrential rain and downpour will force it to the ground that crowns the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trampled underfoot that withered flower its glorious beauty placed at the head of a fertile valley will be like figs just before the harvest, as soon as the people see them and take them in their hands they will swallow them on that day the lord almighty will be a glorious crown a beautiful crown for the remnant of his people it will be a spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment a fountain of strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate and these too stagger from wine and stagger from beer priests and prophets stagger from beer and are stunned by wine stagger from beer stagger from see visions stumble when making decisions all the tables are covered with vomit and there is no place without filth who is trying to teach who is explaining his message to children weaned from milk to those who have just taken the breast why is doing this make that a rule for this a rule for that a little here a little there very well then with strange lips and strange tongues god will speak to this people to whom he said this is the place of rest let the weary rest and this It is the place of rest but they did not want to listen like this then the word of the Lord will become them do this do that a rule for this a rule for that a little here a little there so that when they go they fall backwards they will be hurt and trapped and captured therefore hear the word of the lord you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem you boast that we have made a pact with death with the kingdom of the dead we have made an agreement when an overwhelming scourge passes through it cannot touch us because we have made of lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place so this is what the sovereign lord says look, I lay a stone in Zion, a proven stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation, he who trusts in it will never be attacked because of the panic.

I will make justice the line of measurement and righteousness the plum line hail. The lie will sweep away your refuge and the water will flood your hiding place your pact with death will be annulled your agreement with the kingdom of the dead will not stand when the overwhelming scourge passes you will be defeated by it as often as it comes it will take you morning after morning, day and night, the understanding of this message will pass through you, it will bring you pure terror, the bed is too short to stretch out on the blanket, too narrow to wrap you around, the lord will rise as he did on mount perezin he will wake up as in the valley of Gibeon to do his work his strange work and perform his task his strange task now stop mocking or your chains will become heavier the lord the lord almighty has spoken to me of the destruction decreed against the entire earth listen and hear my voice pays attention and listens to what I say when a farmer plows to sow, he plows continuously, he continues to break and work the land when he has leveled the surface, does he not call and disperse?

Don't you plant wheat in his place, barley in your field, and spelt in his field? His god instructs him and teaches him the right path. Caraway is not threshed with a thresh nor is it rolled over cumin with a cartwheel. The calaway is struck with a rod and comes with a stick the grain must be ground to make bread so that it is not threshed forever the wheels of the threshing cart can pass over it but horses are not used to grind the grain all this comes from the lord almighty whose plan is wonderful whose wisdom is magnificent chapter 29 woe to you, ariel, ariel, the city where david settled, add year after year and let your cycle of festivals continue, but i will lay siege to ariel, she will weep and lament , it will be like an altar to me, I will camp! against you on all sides I will surround you with towers and I will raise my sieges against you dejected you will speak from the earth your word will murmur from the dust your voice will come like a ghost from the earth from the dust your speech will whisper but your many enemies will become like fine dust the merciless hordes like chaff thrown suddenly in an instant the lord almighty will come with thunder and earthquakes and great noise with whirlwind and tempest and flames of devouring fire then the hordes of all the nations that fight against ariel that attack her toshe and her fortress and besiege it will be as it is with a dream with a vision in the night as when a hungry man dreams of eating but wakes up hungry still as when a thirsty man dreams of drinking but wakes up fainting and thirsty still so it will be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion be astonished and amazed be blinded and thirsty cyclists get drunk but not with wine stagger but not with beer the lord has brought upon you a deep sleep he has sealed your eyes the prophets he has covered your heads the seers for you This whole vision is nothing more than words sealed on a scroll and if you give the scroll to someone who can read and you say read this please they will answer you I can't it is sealed or if you give the scroll to someone who can't read and you say read Please answer this, I don't know how to read, the Lord says, these people approach me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but with their hearts they are far from me.

Their adoration of me is based on merely human rules that they have been taught, for Therefore, once again I will astonish these people with astonishment after astonishment the wisdom of the wise will perish the intelligence of the intelligent will disappear woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the lord who do their work in darkness and think who see us who will know how to turn things around as if the potter were thought of as the clay will say what is formed to the one who formed it you did not make the pot tell the potter you do not know anything in a very short time Lebanon will not become a fertile field and the fertile field looked like a forest on that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll and out of darkness and gloom the eyes of the blind will see once more the humble will rejoice in the lord the needy will rejoice in the saint of Israel the merciless the scoffers will disappear and all those who have an eye for evil will be cut down to those who with a word make someone guilty who trap the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice that's why this is what it says the lord who redeemed abraham the descendants of jacob will no longer be ashamed jacob with their faces will turn pale when they see their children among them the work of my hands they will sanctify my name they will recognize the holiness of the holy jacob and they will fear the god of israel the backslidden in spirit they will gain understanding those who complain will accept instruction isaiah chapter 30 woe to the stubborn children declares the lord to those who carry out plans that are not mine forming an alliance! but not by my spirit accumulating sin upon sin that they descend to Egypt without consulting me that they seek help in the protection of Pharaoh in the shadow of Egypt for refuge but the protection of Pharaoh will be to your shame the shadow of Egypt will bring you dishonor even though they have officials in zoan and his envoys have arrived in haines they will all be ashamed because of a people useless to them who bring them neither help nor advantage but only shame and dishonor a prophecy about the animals of the negev through a land of hardships and anguish of lions and lionesses of vipers and swift snakes the envoys carry their riches and the donkeys back up their treasures on the humps of the camels to that unprofitable nation to Egypt whose help is completely useless that's why I call it rahab don't do anything, now write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll but for the days to come it can be an eternal testimony because these are rebellious people deceitful children children who are not willing to listen to the instructions of the Lord they tell the seers not to see any more visions and the prophets not to give us more visions of what is right tell us pleasant things prophesy illusions leave this path get out of this path and stop confronting us with the saint of israel therefore this is what the saint of israel says because you have rejected this message you trusted in oppression and you depended on deception this sin Become to you like a high cracked and bulging wall that suddenly collapses in an instant will break into pieces like pottery shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found to remove coals from a house, this is what the sovereign lord the holy one of israel says in repentance and rest is your salvation inquiry and trust is your strength but you did not want any of that you said we will not flee on horseback therefore you will flee you said we will ride on swift horses therefore your pursuers will be swift a thousand will flee at the threat of one at the threat of five all of you will flee until you are like a flagpole on the top of a mountain like a banner on a hill, but the lord longs to be merciful to you, therefore he will arise. to show you compassion because the Lord is a god of justice blessed are all those who hope in him people of Zion who live in Jerusalem you will no longer cry how merciful he will be when you cry for help as soon as he hears you he will answer you even if the Lord gives you the bread of the adversity in the water of affliction your teachers will no longer hide with your own eyes you will see them whether you turn to the right or to the left your ears will hear a voice behind you saying this is the path walk on it then you will desecrate your idols covered with silver and your images covered with gold you will throw them like a menstrual cloth and you will tell them to go with you he will also send you rain for the seed that you sow in the earth and the food that comes from the earth will be rich and abundant on that day your cattle will graze in wide pastures the oxen and the donkeys that till the land will eat fodder and mash spread with fork and shovel on the day of the great slaughter when the towers will fall streams of water will flow over every high mountain and every lofty hill the moon will shine like the sun and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter as the light of seven full days when the lord binds up the wounds of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted see the name of the lord comes from afar with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke his lips are full of wrath and his tongue is a consuming fire his breath is like an impetuous torrent that rises to the neck he shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction he puts in the jaws of the people a little that leads them astray and you will sing as on the night that you celebrate holy festival your hearts will rejoice as when the people playing flute go up to the mountain of the lord to the rock of israel the lord will make the people hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm descending with furious anger and consuming fire with cloud storm and hail will break out the voice of the lord will destroy Assyria with his rod he will knock them down every blow that the lord gives them with his club of punishment will be with the music of tambourines and hearts while he fights against them in battle with the blows of his arm. topheth has been prepared long ago, it has been prepared for the king, its hearth has been made deep and wide with an abundance of fire and wood the breath of the lord like a stream of burning sulfur lights it up isaiah chapter 31 woe to those who They descend to Egypt for help who depend on horses who rely on the multitude of their chariots! and in the great forces of his horsemen, but do not look at the saint of Israel or seek help from the lord, however, he is also wise and can bring disasters, he will not go back on his words, he will rise against that evil nation, against those . who help evildoers but the Egyptians are mere mortals and not god their horses are flesh and not spirit when the lord extends his hand those who help will stumble those who are helped will fall they will all perish together this is what the lord tells me like a lion He roars like a great lion upon his prey, and although a whole company of shepherds gathers against him, he is not frightened by their shouts nor disturbed by their cry, so the Lord Almighty will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights. . like birds fluttering over your heads the almighty lord will protect jerusalem he will protect it and deliver it he will pass over it and rescue it you israelites return him against whom you have rebelled so much because on that day each of you will reject the silver idols and gold that your sinful hands have made Assyria will fall by no human sword a sword not of mortals will devour them they will flee before the sword and their young men will be put to hard labor their strength will fall because of terror in the place of the battle standard their commanders will enter in panic declares the lord whose fire is in zion whose furnace is in jerusalem isaiah 32 see a king will reign in righteousness and rulers will rule in righteousness each one will be a refuge from the wind and a refuge from the storm like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed and the ears of those who hear will listen the fearful heart will know and understand and the stuttering tongue will be fluent and clear the fool will no longer be called noble nor will the scoundrel be greatly respected because fools speak foolishly their hearts are bent on evil they practice impiety and spread error regarding the lord the hungry leave empty spaces and withhold water from the thirsty the scoundrels use perverse methods they invent evil plans to destroy the poor with lies even when the plea of ​​the needy is just but the nobles make noble plans and with noble deeds they resist you, women who are so complacent, stand up and listen to me.

You daughters who feel safe listen to what I have to tell you in just over a year you who feel safe will tremble the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive tremble you complacent women tremble you daughters who feel safe get rid of your fines dress yourself and wrap yourself in rags beat your chest for the pleasant fields for the fruitful vines and for the land of my people a land covered with thorns and brambles yes cry for all the houses of joy and for this city of revelry the fortress will be abandoned noisy city deserted citadel and watchtower will become a desert forever the delight of donkeys a pasture for the flow until the spirit pours down on us from above and the desert becomes a fertile field and the fertile field looks like a forest in which the justice of the Lord will dwell the desert his justice will live in the fertile field the fruit of that justice will be peace its effect will be tranquility and confidence forever my people will live in peaceful dwellings in safe homes in quiet resting places although the hail let the forest be leveled and the city leveled completely how blessed you will be sowing your seed next to every stream and letting your cattle and donkeys run free Isaiah chapter 33 woe to you, destroyer, you who have not been destroyed, woe to you, traitor, You, who have not been betrayed, when you stop destroying, you will! you will be destroyed when you stop betraying you you will be betrayed lord have mercy on us we long for you be our strength every morning our salvation in times of trouble before the uproar of your army the people flee when you rise the nation scatters your loot or nations is harvested as by locusts young like a swarm of locusts the people swarm upon him the lord is exalted because he dwells on high he will fill zion with his justice and righteousness he will be the sure foundation for his times a rich storehouse of salvation and wisdom and knowledge the fear of the lord It is the key to this treasure, look, its brave men shout in the streets, the peace envoys cry bitterly, the roads are deserted, there are no travelers on the roads, the treaty is broken, its witnesses are despised, no one is respected, the land dries up and is consumed, Lebanon is consumed.

Shame and dry up Sharon is like the Arab and Bashan and Carmel release their leaves now I will rise says the Lord now I will be exalted now I will be raised you conceive straw you give birth to straw your breath is a fire that consumes you the people will be reduced to ashes like cut brambles will be burned you who are far away hear what I have done you who are near recognize my power the sinners in Zion are terrified the trembling grips the wicked Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Which of us can dwell with eternal fire?

Those who walk righteously and speak righteously those who reject the gains of extortion and keep their hands from accepting bribes those who stop their ears to murder plots and close their eyes against the contemplation of evil they are the ones who will dwell in the heights whose refuge will be the mountain fortress their bread will be supplied and water will not lack your eyes will see the king in his beauty and will contemplate a land that stretches far in your thoughts You will reflect on the former terror Where is that chief officer? Where is the one who took the income?

Where is the officer in charge of the towers? You will see those arrogant people, no more people whose speech is dark whose language is strange and incomprehensible look to Zion. the city of our festivals your eyes will see jerusalem a peaceful habitation a tent that will not be moved its stakes will never be torn down nor any of its ropes broken there the lord will be our mighty it will be like a place of wide rivers and streams no galley with oars the no powerful ship will sail them because the lord is our judge the lord is our legislator the lord is our king it is he who will save us your rigging hangs loose the mast is not secure the sail is not spread then abundant spoils will be distributedyou finished me I cried like a swift or a thrush I moaned like a dove in mourning my eyes I grew weak as I looked at the sky I am being threatened lord come to my help but what can I say he has spoken to me and he himself has done this I will walk humbly all my years For this anguish of my soul, Lord, for such things people live and my spirit also finds life in them.

You restored my health and let me live. Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish in your love. You kept me from the pit of destruction. left all my sins behind you Back to the grave they cannot praise you death cannot sing your praises those who go down into the pit cannot wait for your faithfulness the living the living praise you as I do today parents tell their children About your faithfulness the Lord will save me and we will sing with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the temple of the Lord Isaiah had said prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the wound and hezekiah will recover Hezekiah had asked what the sign would be that I will go up to the temple of the Lord Isaiah chapter 39 At that time the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters to Hezekiah as a gift because he had heard of his illness and recovery.

Hezekiah gladly received the envoys and showed them what was in his warehouses. the silver the gold the spices the fine olive oil all his armory and everything that was among his treasures there was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them so the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked him What were those men saying and where had they come from a distant land Hezekiah answered that they came to me from Babylon the prophet asked what they saw in your palace they saw everything in my palace Hezekiah said that there is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them then Isaiah He said to Hezekiah listen to the word of the Lord Almighty the time will surely come when everything that is in your palace and everything that your predecessors have accumulated to this day will be taken to Babylon there will be nothing left, says the Lord, when some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be born to you will be taken away and will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon the word of the lord that you have spoken is good hezekiah responded because he thought there will be peace and security in my life isaiah chapter 40 comfort comfort To my people says your God, speak tenderly to Jerusalem and proclaim to them that their arduous service has been completed that their sin has been paid for that they have received from the hand of the Lord double for all their sins a voice that cries in the desert prepare the way for the lord make straight in the desert a highway for our god every valley will be elevated every mountain and every hill will be lowered the rough terrain will be leveled the rough places will be level and the glory of the lord will be revealed and all the peoples will see it together because the mouth From the Lord a voice has spoken, he says cry out and I said what am I going to cry?

All the people are like the grass and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall because the breath of the Lord blows on them, surely the people It is grass The grass withers and the flowers fall but the word of our God remains forever you who bring good news to Zion go up to a high mountain you who bring good news to Jerusalem lift up your voice with a shout lift it up do not be afraid tell the people of judah here is your god look the sovereign lord comes with power and rules with a powerful arm look his reward is with him and his reward accompanies him he takes care of his flock like a shepherd gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart leads gently to those who have babies who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand or with the breadth of his hand marked from the heavens, who gathered the dust of the earth in a basket or weighed the mountains in the scales and the hills in a scale, who can fathom the spirit of the lord or instruct the lord as his advisor, whom the lord consulted to enlighten him. and who taught him the right path who was it who taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket they are considered like dust in the balance he weighs the islands as if they were fine dust lebanon no He is not enough for the fires of the altar nor are his animals enough for the burnt offerings before him all nations are like nothing they are considered by him as useless and least of all with whom then will you compare god to what image will you compare him as an idol ?

A blacksmith melts it and a goldsmith covers it with gold and makes silver chains. A person too poor to present such an offering selects wood that will not rot, they look for a skilled worker to raise an idol that will not fall. You don't know, haven't you heard? Haven't they told you from the beginning? Have you not understood it since the earth was founded? He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth and the inhabitants of him are like grasshoppers. He spreads the heavens like a canopy and stretches them out. like a tent to live in, he nullifies the princes and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing, as soon as they are planted, as soon as they are sown, as soon as they take root in the earth, then he breathes on them. and they wither and the whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff who will you compare me with or who is my equal says the saint lift his eyes and look at the sky who created all these who brings out the starry host one by one and summons each of them by name because of their great power and great strength none of them are missing why do you complain jacob why do you say israel my way is hidden from the lord my cause is ignored by my god you do not know you have not listened to the lord is the eternal god the creator of the ends of the earth he will not grow weary or faint and his understanding no one can fathom him he gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak even the young grow weary and weary and the young stumble and fall but those who hope in the lord will renew their strength they will fly with wings like eagles they will run and will not tire they will walk and will not faint isaiah chapter 41 be silent before me islands, let the nations renew their strength let them come near and speak, let us gather in the place of the judgment that has awakened Calling one from the east in justice to his service, he gives him the nations and subdues the kings before him, turning them into dust with his sword blown by the wind. straw with his bow pursues them and advances unharmed along a path that his feet have not trod before who has done this and has carried it forward calling the generations from the beginning I am the lord with the first of them and with the last I am he The islands have seen it and they fear they tremble the ends of the earth they approach and advance they help each other and tell their companions to be strong the blacksmith encourages the goldsmith and the one who smoothes with the hammer spurs the one who strikes the anvil one says of welding is Well the other one nails the idle so it doesn't fall but you Israel my servant Jacob whom I have chosen descendants of Abraham my friend I brought you from the ends of the earth from its farthest corners I called you I said you are my servant I have chosen you and I have not rejected you so do not fear for I am with you do not be dismayed for I am your god I will strengthen you and help you I will uphold you with my righteous right hand all those who are angry with you will surely be ashamed and dishonored those who oppose you will be like nothing and they will perish even if you look for your enemies you will not find them those who wage war against you will be like nothing because I am the lord your god who takes your right hand and tells you do not fear I will help you do not be afraid worm Jacob little Israel no fear for I myself will help you declares the Lord your redeemer the saint of Israel look I will make you a new sharp threshing machine with many teeth, you will thresh the mountains and crush them and reduce the hills to chaff, you will winnow them, the wind will gather them and a The gale will take them away, but you will rejoice in the Lord and glory in the Holy One of Israel.

The poor and needy seek water but there is none. Their tongues are parched with thirst, but I, the Lord, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow. on baron heights and springs in the valleys I will turn the desert into pools of water and the dry land into springs I will put in the desert cedars and acacias, myrtle and olive trees, I will plant junipers in the desert, skins and cypresses together so that people can see and know consider and understand that the hand of the lord has done this that the saint of Israel has created it present your case says the lord stated his arguments says the king of jacob tell us idols what is going to happen happen tell us what the past things were so that we can consider them and know its final outcome or declare to us things to come tell us what the future holds for us so that we know you our gods do something whether good or bad so that we will be dismayed and full of fear, but you are less than nothing and your works They are completely useless.

Whoever chooses them is detestable. I have awakened one from the north and one comes from the rising sun who calls upon my name, tramples on the rulers as if they were mortar as if he were a potter treading clay who told this from the beginning so that we would know or beforehand so that we could say that I was right no one said this no one predicted it no one heard a word from you I was the first to tell Zion look here they are I gave Jerusalem a messenger of good news I look but there is no one among the gods to give advice no one to give an answer when they I ask, look, they are all false, their works are worthless, their images about the wind and confusion, Isaiah chapter 42, here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight, I will put my spirit upon him and he will bring justice to the nations, he will not shout nor cry out. or he will raise his voice in the streets, a bruised reed that he will not break and a smoking wick that he will not extinguish in faithfulness, he will bring justice, he will not falter or be discouraged until he establishes justice in the land in his teaching, the islands will put their hope in this This is what God says, the Lord, the creator of the heavens, the one who extends them, the one who extends the earth with everything that flows from it, the one who gives breath to his people and life to those who walk on it, and the Lord, I have called you justice.

I will take your hand, I will keep you, and I will make you a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out the captives from prison, and to bring out of prison those who sit in darkness. I am the Lord that is my name I will not give my glory to another nor my praise to idols look at past things have happened and new things I declare before they arise I announce them to you sing to the Lord a new one sing his praise from the ends of the earth you who descend to the sea and all that is in it, you the islands and all who live on them, may the desert and its cities raise their voices, may the settlements where kidar lives rejoice, may the people of sila sing for joy that shout from the tops of the mountains to give glory to the lord and proclaim his praise in the islands the lord will march like a champion like a warrior he will awaken his zeal with a shout he will raise the war cry and triumph over his enemies for a long time I have been silent I have been silent and I have restrained myself but now like a woman in labor I cry I gasp and gasp I will devastate the mountains and the hills and dry up all their vegetation I will turn the rivers into islands and dry up the ponds I will lead the blind along paths they have not known by paths strangers I will guide them I will turn darkness into light before them and soften the rough places These are the things I will do I will not abandon them, but those who trust in idols that say to images, you are our gods, will turn back in utter shame, They will hear his death, they will look blind and see who is blind, but my servant and deaf like the messenger I send. blind like the one who is in covenant with me blind like the servant of the lord you have seen many things but you do not pay attention your ears are open but you do not listen please the lord for the love of his justice to make his law great and glorious but this is a plundered town and looted all of them trapped in pits or hidden in prisons have become loot with no one to rescue them they have been made loot with no one to say send them back who among you will listen to this? or pay close attention in the future who gave jacob to be plunder and israel to the plunderers was it not against the lord that we have sinned because they did not want to follow his ways they did not obey his law so he poured out on them his burning wrath violence of war engulfed them in flames but they did not understand consumed them but they did not take it seriously isaiah chapter 43 but now this is what the lord says, the one who created you jacob the one who formed you israel do not do it fear because I have redeemed you I have called by your name you are mine when you pass through the waters I will be with you and when you pass through the rivers they will not sweep you away when you pass through the fire you will not be burned the flames will not set you on fire because I am the lord your god the holy one of Israel your savior I give to Egypt for your ransom cush and siba in your place since you are precious and honored in my eyes and because I love you I will give you people in exchange for you nations in exchange for your life do not fear because I am with you I will bring your children from the east and I will gather you from the west I will tell the north to hand them over and to the south do not detain them Bring back my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth, all who bear my name, those whom I created for my glory , whom I formed and brought out those who have eyes but are blind, those who have ears but are deaf to all.

HEGather the nations, Gather all the people whose gods predicted this and proclaimed to us the previous things, Let them bring their witnesses to prove that they were right so that others may hear and say it is true. You are my witnesses, declares the Lord and my servant to whom. I have chosen so that you know me and believe and understand that I am he before me no god was formed nor will there be after me I even am the lord and apart from me there is no savior that I have revealed and saved and proclaimed myself and not some god stranger among you are my witnesses declares the lord that I am god yes and from ancient times I am he no one can deliver me from my hand when I act who can reverse it this is what the lord says your redeemer the saint of Israel for your love I will send to Babylon and I will make all the Babylonians fall as fugitives in the ships in which they prided themselves I am the Lord your holy one the creator of Israel your king this is what the Lord says he who made a way through the sea a way through the powerful waters that took out the chariots and the horses the army and the reinforcements together and stayed there never to rise again extinguished extinguished like a wick forget the previous things you don't stay in the past look I'm doing something new now it springs up don't you perceive it ?

I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland the wild animals honor me the jackals and the owls because I provide water in the desert and streams in the wasteland to give water to my people my chosen the people that I formed for myself so that They will proclaim my praise, you have not yet called upon me, Jacob, you have not labored for me, Israel, you have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, nor have you honored me with Your sacrifices, I have not burdened you with grain offerings, nor have I tired you with demands for incense.

You have not bought me any fragrant calamus nor have you lavished on me the deed of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins and have tired me with your offenses. Even I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my own good and remembers your sins. Don't go through the past for me anymore. Let's discuss the matter together. Plead the case for your innocence. Your first father sinned. Those I sent to teach you rebelled against me. I dishonored the dignitaries of your temple I handed Jacob over to destruction and Israel to despise Isaiah chapter 44 but now listen Jacob my servant Israel whom I have chosen this is what the Lord says, the one who made you, the one who formed you in the womb and the one who will help you Do not fear, Jacob, my servant Cheshire, whom I have chosen, for I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry land, I will pour my spirit on your descendants and my blessing on your descendants, they will spring up like grass in a meadow like poplars beside flowing streams some will say that I belong to the lord others will call themselves by the name of jacob and others will write on their hands the lords and will take the name of israel this is what the lord king and redeemer of israel the lord almighty I am the first and I am the last apart from me there is no god who is like me so let him proclaim it let him declare and lay before me what has happened since I established my ancient people and what is to come come if he lets let them predict what is to come do not tremble do not be afraid, did I not proclaim this and predict it a long time ago you are my witnesses is there any god besides me no there is no other rock I do not know anyone all those who make idols are nothing and the things that They hoard have no value those who would speak for them are blind they are ignorant of their own shame who forms a god and throws down an idol that can benefit nothing the people who do that will be ashamed those artisans are just human beings who get together and agree foot will be brought to terror and shame the blacksmith takes a tool and works with it on the embers he forms an idol with hammers he forges it with the strength of his arm he is hungry and loses his strength he does not drink water and faints the carpenter measures with a line and traces an outline with a marker, roughs it with chisels and marks it with compasses, gives it human shape, human shape in all its splendor, so that it can inhabit a sanctuary, cuts cedars or perhaps took a cypress or a Oak. he let it grow among the trees of the forest or he planted a pine tree and the rain made it grow he uses it as fuel to burn something he takes and warms himself he lights a fire and bakes bread but he also forms a god and worships him he makes an idol and bows before he burns half of the wood in the fire above him he prepares his food he roasts his meat and eats until he is satisfied he also warms himself and says ah I'm hot I see the fire from where he rests, he makes a god his idol, he bows before him and He worships him, prays to him and tells him: save me, you are my god, they know nothing, they understand nothing, their eyes are covered so that they cannot see and their minds are closed so that they cannot.

Understand that no one stops to think, no one has the knowledge or understanding to say that I used half of it as fuel, I even baked bread over the coals, roasted meat and ate, will I do something hateful with what is left? Will I bow to her? a block of wood such a person feeds on ashes a deceived heart deceives him he cannot be saved or say is not this in my right hand a lie remember these things jacob for you israel you are my servant I have made you you are my servant israel Don't you I will forget I have swept away your offenses like a cloud.

Your sins like the morning mist return to me because I have redeemed you with joy. heavens because the Lord has done this. and all your trees because the Lord has redeemed Jacob he shows his glory in Israel this is what the Lord says your redeemer who formed you in the womb I am the Lord the maker of all things who stretches out the heavens who stretches out the earth by Myself, who destroys the signs of false prophets and drives soothsayers mad, who subverts the wisdom of the wise and turns it into foolishness, who carries out the words of his servants and fulfills the prediction of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem that will be inhabited by the people of Judah will be rebuilt and from its ruins I will restore them whoever says to the abyss of waters dry up and I will dry up your streams who says of Cyrus he is my shepherd and will do whatever I please will say of Jerusalem let it be rebuilt and of the temple that its foundations be laid Isaiah chapter 45 This is what the Lord says to his anointed Tisyrus whose right hand he took to subdue the nations before him and to strip the kings of their weapons to open doors before him so that the doors do not be closed I will go before you and level the mountains I will break down gates of bronze and cut down bars of iron I will give you hidden treasures riches kept in secret places so that you may know that I am the Lord the god of Israel who calls you by your name for the sake of Jacob my servant of Israel my chosen one I call you by your name and I give you a title of honor although you do not recognize me I am the lord and there is no other besides me there is no god I will strengthen you although you have not recognized me so that from the departure of the sun to the place of its setting people know that there is no one besides me I am the lord there is no other I form the light and create darkness I bring prosperity and create disaster I the lord do all these things you heavens above rain my justice let the clouds wash over it done let the earth open wide let salvation sprout let justice flourish with it I the lord have created it Woe to those who quarrel with their maker!

Those that are nothing more than vessel jackets among the pots on the ground. Does the clay tell the potter what you do? Your work says that the potter has no hands. Woe to him who tells a father! What have you fathered or a mother? What have you given birth to? This is what the Lord, the Holy One of Israel and the Maker of it, says about what is to come. Do you ask me about my children or give me orders about the work of my hands? Am I the one who made the earth and created humanity on it?

My own hands stretched out the heavens. I gathered his starry hosts. I will raise up Cyrus in my justice. I will make straight all his paths. He will rebuild my city and free my exiles, but no. for a price or reward says the lord almighty this is what the lord says the products of egypt and the merchant eyes of cush and those tall serbs will approach you and will be yours they will trudge behind you coming towards you in chains they will bow down before you and they will beg you saying surely god is with you and there is no other there is no other god truly you are a god who has been hiding the god and savior of israel all the idol makers will be put to shame and dishonored they will go together to dishonor but israel will be saved through the lord with an eternal salvation you will never be ashamed or dishonored forever and ever because this is what the lord says he who created the heavens he is god who formed and made the earth he founded it he did not create it to be empty but he formed it to be inhabited he says I am the lord and there is no other I have not spoken in secret from somewhere in a land of darkness I have not told the descendants of Jacob they search for me in vain I the lord I speak the truth I declare what is right gather together and come to gather fugitives from the nations ignorant of those who carry wooden idols who pray to gods they cannot save declare what must come forward let them denounce together who predicted this long ago who declared it since a distant past, was I not the lord and there is no god besides me, a just and savior god, there is no one but me, turn to me and be saved? all the ends of the earth for I am god and there is no other by myself I have sworn my mouth is spoken with all integrity a word that will not be revoked before me every knee will bow before me every tongue will swear they will say of me alone in the lord our deliverance and strength all those who have raged against him will come to him and be ashamed but all the descendants of israel will find deliverance in the lord and will boast in him isaiah 46 the bell bows nebo bows down his idols are born of beasts of load the images that are carried are heavy a burden for the weary they bow and prostrate together unable to rescue the load they themselves go into captivity listen to me you descendants of jacob, all the remnant of the people of israel to you who I have held you since your birth and I have carried you since you were born until your old age and your gray hair I am he I am the one who will hold you I have made you and I will carry you I will sustain you and I will rescue you who will you compare me to or consider me equal to who will you compare me to so that we may be compared, some take gold out of their bags and weigh silver on the scales, they hire a goldsmith to turn it into a god and they bow down and worship it, they lift it on their shoulders and carry it, they place it in its place and it remains there. from that place you cannot move even if someone shouts at you you cannot respond you cannot save them from their problems remember this keep it in mind take it seriously you rebels remember the past things those of yesteryear I am god and there is no other I am god and there is no one like me I make the end known from the beginning from ancient times what is yet to come I say my purpose will stand and I will do whatever I will from the east I summon a bird of prey from a distant land to a man to fulfill my purpose I have said that I will achieve what I have planned that I will do listen to me you stubborn hearts you who are now far from my justice I am drawing near my justice is not far and my salvation will not be long I will give salvation to Zion my splendor to Israel Isaiah chapter 47 go sit on dust virgin daughter Babylon sit on the ground without a throne queen city of the Babylonians you will no longer be called tender or delicate take millstones and grind flowers take off your veil lift your skirts carry your legs and ford the streams your nakedness will be exposed and your shame discovered I will take revenge I will not forgive anyone our redeemer the lord almighty is his name he is the saint of Israel sit in silence go to the darkness city queen of the Babylonians you will no longer be called queen of kingdoms I was angry with my people and I defiled my inheritance I handed them over in your hand and you showed no mercy even to the elders you put a very heavy yoke you said I am forever the eternal queen but you did not consider these things nor reflect on what might happen now and then listen, lover of pleasure, resting in your security and saying to yourself, I am and there is no one but me, I will never be a widow nor suffer the loss of children, both will reach you in a moment. one day loss of children and widowhood will come upon you in all its magnitude despite your many sorceries and all your powerful spells you have trusted in your evil and you have said no one sees me your wisdom and knowledge deceive you when you say yourself I am and there is no no one except me a disaster will befall you and you will not know how to conjure it a calamity will fall on you that you will not be able to avoid with a rescue a catastrophe that you cannot foresee will come to you suddenly go ahead then with your magical spells and with your many sorceries in which you have worked since childhood maybe you will succeed maybe you will cause terror all the advice you have received has only exhausted you let your astrologers come in those stargazers who make predictions month after month month let them save you from what is coming upon you surely they are like stubble the fire will burn them they cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame these are not coals to warm oneself this is not a fire to sit on, that is all they are for you these ones you have dealt with and worked with since little one they all continue in their era there is no one who can save you isaiah chapter 48 listen to this you descendants of jacob you whoThey bear the name of Israel and come from the lineage of Judah, you who swear in the name of the Lord and call on the god of Israel, but not in truth or justice, you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city and claim to trust in the god of Israel, the Lord.

Almighty is his name I predicted the above things a long time ago my mouth announced them and I made them known then suddenly I acted and they happened because I knew how stubborn you were the muscles in your neck were iron your forehead was bronze that's why I told you these things for a long time before they happened I announced them to you so that you could not tell my images they were brought my image of wood and metal god ordained them have you heard these things look at them all you will not admit them from now on I will tell you new things of hidden things unknown to you, they are created now and not long ago you have not heard of them before today, so you cannot say that yes, I knew them.

You have not heard or understood them since ancient times. Your ears have not been open. Ok, do it. I know how treacherous you are, they call you a rebel since you were born for the love of my own name, I delay my anger for my praise, I withhold it from you so as not to destroy you completely. Look, I have refined you, although I do not eat silver. I have tested you in the furnace of affliction for my own sake for my own sake I do this how can I allow myself to be defamed? I will not give my glory to another listen to me Jacob Israel whom I have called I am he I am the first and I am the last my own hand laid the foundations of the earth and my right hand stretched out the heavens when I summon you all rise together, gather together all you and listen to which of the idols has predicted these things the chosen one of the lord ally will carry out his purpose against Babylon his arm will be against the Babylonians I have even spoken yes I have called him I will bring him and he will succeed in his mission come close to me and listen this from the first announcement that I have not spoken in secret at the moment it happens I am there and now the sovereign lord has sent me endowed with his spirit this is what the lord your redeemer says the saint of Israel I am the lord your god who teaches you what is best for you who directs you in the path you should follow if you had paid attention to my commandments your peace would have been like a river your well-being like the waves of the sea your descendants would have been like the sand your children like their countless grains his name would never be blotted out nor destroyed before me let Babylon flee from the Babylonians announce this with shouts of joy and proclaim it send it to the ends of the earth say the lord has redeemed his servant jacob they were not thirsty when he led them through from the deserts he made water flow for them from the rock he split the rock and water came out there is no peace says the lord for the wicked isaiah chapter 49 listen to me you islands listen to this you distant nations before I was born the lord called me from the womb of my mother has pronounced my name she made my mouth like a sharp sword in the shadow of her hand she hid me she made me a polished arrow and hid me in her quiver she said to me you are my servant Israel in whom I will show my splendor but I said that I have worked in I have spent my strength in vain for nothing at all yet my due is in the hand of the lord and my reward is with my god and now the lord says that he who formed me in the womb to be his servant bring Jacob back to him and gather israel to himself for me.

I am honored in the eyes of the Lord and my god has been my strength he says it is too little for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel whom I have kept I will also make you a light for the Gentiles to May my salvation reach to the ends of the earth This is what the Lord says, the redeemer and saint of Israel To the one who was despised and hated by the nation To the servant of rulers The kings will see you and will rise up The princes will see you and will bow down because of the Lord who is faithful the saint of Israel who has chosen you this is what the Lord says in the time of my favor I will answer you and on the day of salvation I will help you he will keep you and make you a covenant for the people to restore the land and reallocate its desolate inheritances to say to the captives come out and to those who are in darkness be free they will feed by the roads and find pasture on every barren hill They will not hunger or thirst nor will the heat of the desert strike them nor Sun.

He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them to springs of water. I will turn all my mountains into roads and my highways will rise. They will come from afar some from the north some from the west some from the region of us a shout of joy you heavens rejoice you the earth burst into song you mountains because the Lord comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted but Zion said the Lord to me The Lord has forsaken me, he has forgotten me. Can a mother forget the baby that is in her breast and not have compassion for the child she has given birth to, even if she forgets him, I will not forget him?

You see, I have you engraved in the palms of my hands. The walls are always in front of me. Your children are quick to retreat and those who devastated you are moving away from you. Raise your eyes and look around you. All your children gather and come to you. As surely as I live, declares the Lord. You will use them all as decorations. Dress them like a bride although you were ruined and desolate and your land was devastated now you will be too small for your people and those who devoured you will be far away the children born during your mourning will still say in your ear this place is too small for us give us more space to live then you will say in your heart who gave birth to me these I was heartbroken and baron I was exiled and rejected who raised them they left me completely alone but these where do they come from?

This is what the sovereign lord says. Look, I will do signs to the nations. I will raise my banner to the people. They will carry your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their hips. The kings will be your adoptive fathers and their queens will be your nurses. They will prostrate themselves before you. With your face on the ground, they will lick the dust from your feet, then you will know that I am the Lord. Those who wait on me will not be disappointed. Loot can be taken from warriors or captives rescued from the ferocious. but this is what the lord says yes, captives will be taken from the warriors and the booty will be recovered from the fierce.

I will contend with those who contend with you and your children. I will save them. I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh. They will become drunk with their own blood as with wine then all humanity will know that I the Lord am your savior your redeemer the mighty of Jacob Isaiah chapter 50 this is what the Lord says where is your mother's divorce certificate with which I fired her or to which of my creditors I sold you for your sins You were sold for your transgressions Your mother was fired when I came Why there was no one when I called Why there was no one to answer My arm was too short to free you right? there is no strength to rescue you with a simple reproach, the sea is dry, I turn the rivers into a desert, its fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst, seeing the skies of darkness, and I make sackcloth their shelter, the sovereign lord has given me a well-instructed tongue to knowing the word that sustains the weary awakens me morning after morning awakens my ear to listen as instructed the sovereign lord has opened my ears I have not been rebellious I have not turned away I turned my back on those who struck my cheeks on those who tore me away the beard I do not hide my face from mockery and spitting because the sovereign lord helps me I will not be dishonored that is why I have set my face like flint and I know that I will not be put to shame the one who vindicates me is near who will then accuse me let's face each other who is my accuser let him face me it is the sovereign lord who helps me the one who will condemn me everyone will wear out like a dress the moths Eat them he who among you fears the lord and obeys the word of his servant than he who walks in darkness he who has no light trust in the name of the lord and trust in his god but now all of you who light fires and supply yourselves with burning torches walk in the light of your fires and the torches that you have lit this is what you will receive at my hand in torment you will lie down isaiah chapter 51 Listen to me, you who pursue justice and those who seek the Lord, look at the rock from which you were cut and at the quarry from which you were hewn, look at Abraham your father and at Sarah who gave birth to you when I called him he was one man And I blessed him and made him many.

The Lord will surely comfort Zion and look with compassion on all her ruins. He will make her deserts like Eden. Her wastelands like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her thanksgiving and the sound of songs. Listen to me, people. mine listen to me instruction of my nation will come from me my justice will become a light to the nations my justice is quickly approaching my salvation is on the way and my arm will bring justice to the nations the islands will look at me and wait in hope my arm will lift up your eyes to the heavens look at the earth below the heavens will vanish like smoke the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants will die like flies but my salvation will last forever my justice will never fail listen to me you who know what is right you who have taken my mys seriously instructions do not fear the reproach of mere mortals nor be terrified by their insults because the moth will eat you like a garment the worm will devour you like wool but my justice will last forever my salvation for all generations awake awake arm of the lord clothe yourself in strength wake up as in times past as in generations of yore it was not you who cut rahab into pieces who pierced that monster was it not you who dried up the sea the waters of the great deep who made a way in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed could cross those whom the lord has rescued will return they will enter into sion with songs eternal joy will crown their heads joy and joy will reach them and pain and sighs will flee even I am the one who consoles you who are you who fear simple mortal human beings who are nothing more than grass that you forget the lord your maker who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundations of the earth that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor who is bent on destruction because? where is the wrath of the oppressor?

The cowed prisoners will soon be freed. They will not die in their dungeon nor will they lack bread because I am the lord your god who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar the lord almighty is his name I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow from my hand I who set the heavens in their place who laid the foundations of the earth and who say to Zion you are my people wake up wake up arise Jerusalem you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath you who have emptied to her dregs the chalice that makes her stagger among all the children she gave birth to there was no one to guide her among all the children she raised there was no one to take her hand these double calamities have befallen you who can console you ruin and destruction famine and sword who can console you your children have fainted they lie in every corner like antelopes caught in a net you are full of the wrath of the lord with the rebuke of your god therefore listen to this afflicted one drunk but not with wine this is what your sovereign lord says your god who defends his people look, I have taken from your hand the cup that made you stagger from that cup the chalice of my wrath you will never drink again I will put it in the hands of your executioners who told you prostrate that we can walk on you and you you made your back like the ground like a street to walk on isaiah 52 wake up wake up zion put on strength put on your garments of splendor jerusalem the holy city the uncircumcised and defiled will no longer enter you shake off your dust arise sit on the throne jerusalem free yourself from the chains of your neck daughter Zion now captive for this is what the lord says you were sold for nothing and without money you will be redeemed for this is what the sovereign lord says at the beginning my people went down to egypt to live lately assyria has oppressed them and Now what do I do, behold, declares the Lord, because my people have been taken away for nothing, and those who rule them mock, declares the Lord, and all day long my name is constantly blasphemed, so my people will know my name, so on that day they will know that I am I who predicted it yes it is I how beautiful in the mountains of the feet of those who bring good news who proclaim peace who bring good news who proclaim salvation who say to Zion your god queen listen to your watchmen raise their voices together they shout for joy When the Lord returns to Zion you will see it with your own eyes you will break out together in songs of joy you ruins of Jerusalem because the Lord has comforted his people he has redeemed Jerusalem the Lord will bare his holy arm in the sight of all nations and all ends of the earth will see the salvation of our god depart, leave there, touch, let no unclean thing come out of it and you who carry the objects of the house of the Lord be pure, but you will not leave in haste nor enter. flee because the lord will go before you the god of israel will be your rear guard look my servant will act wisely he will be lifted up and exalted and greatly exalted just as there were many who were horrified before him his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and its form marred beyond human likeness so it will sprinkle many nations and kings will close themouth because of him for what was not told them they will see and what they have not heard they will understand Isaiah chapter 53 whoever believed our message and to whom it was revealed the arm of the Lord grew before him like a tender shoot and like a root of the dry land had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him nothing in his appearance that we should desire he was despised and rejected by humanity a man of suffering and familiar with pain as one from whom people hide their faces he was despised and we kept him In lesser vapor surely he assumed our pain and endured our suffering but we considered him punished by God wounded by him and afflicted but he was pierced for our transgressions he was crushed for our iniquities the punishment that brought us peace was upon him and by his wounds we were Healed, all of us like sheep, we have gone astray, each of us has returned to his own way, and the Lord bore upon him the iniquity of all of us, he was oppressed and afflicted, but he did not open his mouth, he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and like a sheep before his shearers remained silent so he did not open his mouth because of oppression and judgment he was taken away, but whoever of his generation protested because he was cut off from the land of the living for the transgression of my people was punished he was assigned a tomb with the wicked and with the rich In his death, although he had not done violence nor was there deceit in his mouth, however, it was the Lord's will to crush him and make him suffer, and although the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his descendants and prolong his days and his will.

Lord will prosper in his hand after having suffered he will see the light of life and will be satisfied with his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many and bear their iniquities therefore I will give him a share among the great and he will divide the spoils with the strong because he poured out his life until death and was numbered with the transgressors because he bore the sin of many and interceded for the transgressors isaiah chapter 54 sing baron woman you who never gave birth to a son, burst into song shout for joy you who were never in labor because there are more children of the desolate woman of whom the Lord says of her who has a husband, enlarge the place of your tent, spread the curtains of your tent wide, do not stop, lengthen your ropes, strengthen your stakes because you will spread out To the right and to the left, your descendants will dispossess nations and will settle in their desolate cities.

Do not be afraid, you will not be ashamed, do not fear disgrace, you will not be humiliated, you will forget the shame of your youth and you will not remember. but the reproach of your widowhood because your maker is your husband the lord almighty is his name the saint of israel is your redeemer he is called the god of all the earth the lord will call you back as if you were a wife abandoned and distressed in spirit a wife who married young only to be rejected says your god for a brief moment I abandoned you but with deep compassion I will bring you back in a wave of anger I hid my face from you for a moment but with eternal kindness I will have mercy on you The Lord your redeemer tells me this is like the days of Noah when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth so now I have sworn not to be angry with you I will never again rebuke you although the mountains will shake and the hills will be removed, but my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace will be removed, says the Lord who has compassion on you afflicted city battered by storms and not consoled I will rebuild you with turquoise stones your foundations with lapis lazuli I will make your battlements of rubies your doors of sparkling jewels and all your walls of precious stones all your children will be taught by the lord and great will be his peace in justice you will be established tyranny will be far from you you will have nothing to fear terror will be far away it will not come near you if anyone attacks you it will not be my work whoever is To the attacks you will surrender, you see, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the embers and forges a weapon suitable for his work and it is I who created the destroyer to wreak havoc.

No weapon formed against you will prevail and you refute every tongue that accuses you this is the heritage of the servants of the lord and this is their vindication on my part declares the lord isaiah chapter 55 come all you who thirst come to the waters and those who do not you have money come, buy and eat come buy wine and milk without money and without cost why spend money on what is not bread and your work on what is not satisfying listen listen to me and eat the good and you will delight in the richest things here and come to me listen to that you can live I will make an eternal pact with you my faithful love promised to David look I have made him a witness to the people a ruler and commander of the people you will surely summon nations that you do not know and nations that you do not know will come running towards you because of the Lord your god the saint of Israel because he has endowed you with splendor seek the Lord while he can be found call upon him while he is near let the wicked abandon their ways and the unrighteous turn their thoughts to the Lord and he will have mercy on them and to our god because he will forgive freely because my thoughts are not your thoughts nor your ways my ways declares the lord as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts like the rain and The snow comes down from heaven and does not return to it without watering the earth and making it sprout and flower so that it gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so is my word.

What comes out of my mouth will not return to me empty but will fulfill what I desire and accomplish the purpose for which I sent it. You will go out with joy and be led in peace. The mountains and the hills will burst into song before you and all the trees of the field. They will clap their hands instead of the bramble we will grow the juniper and instead of the brambles the myrtle will grow this will be for the renown of the Lord for an eternal sign that will last forever Isaiah chapter 56 this is what the Lord says maintain justice and do what is right for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed blessed is he who does this who keeps it, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hands from doing any evil that no foreigner who is linked to the lord says that the lord will surely exclude me of his people and let no eunuch complain I am just a dry tree because this is what the Lord says to the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths that they choose what pleases me and hold on to my covenant with them I will give them inside my temple and their walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters I will give them an eternal name that will last forever and to the foreigners who join the lord to minister to him to love the name of the lord and be his servants to all who keep the Sabbath without profane it and who cling to my covenant, these I will take to my holy mountain and I will give them joy in my house of prayer, their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar because my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.

The sovereign lord declares the one who gathers the exiles of Israel. I will gather others besides those already gathered, come all the beasts of the field. and devour all the beasts of the forest the sentinels of Israel are blind everyone recognizes that they are all mute dogs they cannot bark they lie down and dream they love to sleep they are dogs with great appetites they never have enough they are shepherds who lack understanding they all take their own path they seek their own benefit they come each one cries let me get wine let's drink our fill of beer and tomorrow will be like today or even much better Isaiah 57 the righteous perish and no one takes it seriously the devout are taken away and no one understands that the righteous are taken away To be delivered from evil those who walk in integrity enter into peace find rest while they lie in death but you come here, sons of witches, sons of adulterers and prostitutes, who are you? mocking who you mock and stick out your tongue, are you not a generation of rebels, the offspring of liars who burn with lust among the oaks and under each leafy tree you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the rocks the idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion, in truth they are your lot if you have poured out libations to them and offered grain offerings in view of all this you should repent you have made your bed on a high and steep mountain there you went up to offer your sacrifices behind your doors and your jambs you have put your pagan symbols abandoning me you discovered your bed you climbed onto it and opened it wide you made a pact with those whose beds you love and you looked with lust at their naked bodies you left to grind with olive oil and increase your perfumes you sent your ambassadors away you descended to the very kingdom of the dead you tired yourself with such adventures but you did not say that it is useless you found renewal of your strength and so you did not do it Who have you feared and feared so much that you have not been faithful to me and you have not reminded me or taken this seriously?

Is it not because I have been silent for so long that you do not fear me? I will expose your justice and your works and they will not benefit you when you ask for help let your collection of idols save you the wind will carry them all away a simple breath will carry them away but he who takes refuge in me will inherit the earth and will possess my holy mountain and will will say build build prepare the way remove obstacles from the path of my people because this is what says the high and exalted one who lives forever whose name is holy I live in a high and holy place but also with the one who is contrite and humble in spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite I will not accuse them forever nor will I always be angry because then the very people I have created would faint because of me I became angry at their sinful greed I punished them and hid my face with anger, but they continued in their willful ways.

I have seen their ways but I will heal them. I will guide them and restore comfort to the mourners of Israel by creating praise on their lips. Peace. peace to those near and far says the lord and I will heal them but the wicked are like the troubled sea that cannot rest whose waves throw up mud and mud there is no peace says my god for the wicked isaiah chapter 58 shout it out loud don't do it Hold fast, lift up your voice like a trumpet, declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins because day after day they seek me, they seem eager to know my ways as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not abandoned the commandments of their god.

They ask for fair decisions and seem eager for God to come to them why we have fasted they say and you have not seen it why we have humiliated ourselves and you have not yet realized it on the day of your fast you do what you want and you exploit all your workers your fast ends in fights and strife and hitting each other with evil fists you cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high is this the kind of fast I have? chosen only a day for people to humble themselves is only to bow their heads like a reed and to lie down in sackcloth and ashes is that what you call a fast a day acceptable to the lord is not this the type of fast that I have chosen ?

To loose the chains of injustice and unloose the ropes of the yoke to free the oppressed and break every yoke, is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter to the poor wanderer when you see the naked to clothe them and not to clothe them? turn away from your own flesh and blood then your light will break forth like the dawn and your healing will appear quickly then your righteousness will go before you and the glory of the lord will be your rear then you will call and the lord will answer you will cry for help and he will say: Here I am.

If you remove the yoke of oppression with the finger pointing and speaking maliciously and if you strive for the hungry and meet the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise. in the darkness and your night will become like noon the lord will always guide you he will satisfy your needs in a land scorched by the sun and will strengthen your figure you will be like a well-watered garden like a spring whose waters never fail your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise the secular foundations they will call you repairer of broken down walls restorer of streets with houses if you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day yes Call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the honorable Lord and if you honor him without going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking words of idols, then you will find your joy in the Lord and I will make you ride in triumph. in the heights of the earth and to delight in the inheritance of your father Jacob for the mouth of the lord has spoken isaiah chapter 59 surely the arm of the lord is not too short to save nor his ear too dull to hear but your iniquities have separated you from your god your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not listen to you because your hands are stained with blood your fingers with guilt your lips have spoken lies and your tongue murmurs bad things no one asks for justice no one pleads the case with integrity they are based on arguments empty they tell lies they conceive problems and give birth to evil they hatch viper eggs and weave a spider web whoever eats their eggs will die and when one breaks a viper is born their webs are useless for clothing they cannot be covered with what they do their works are bad actions and acts of violence are in their hands their feet rush into sin they are quick to shed innocent blood they pursueevil plans acts of violence mark their paths the path of peace they do it we do not know that there is no justice in their paths they have turned them into crooked paths no one who walks in them will know peace that is why justice is far from us and righteousness is not We reach for light but everything is darkness for brightness but we walk in deep shadows like the blind we grope along the wall groping like people without eyes at noon we stumble as if it were twilight among the strong we are like the dead we all grunt like bears we moan sadly like doves we seek justice but we find none for deliverance but it is far away because our offenses are many before your eyes and our sins testify against us our offenses are always with us and we recognize our iniquities rebellion and betrayal against the lord turning our backs on him to our god inciting rebellion and oppression speaking lies our hearts have conceived so justice is rejected and righteousness is kept at a distance the truth has stumbled in the streets honesty cannot enter the truth is nowhere to be found and he who avoids evil becomes a prey.

The lord looked and was disgusted because there was no justice. He saw that there was no one. He was horrified that there was no one to intervene. Then his own arm achieved salvation for him and his own justice sustained him. He dressed. of righteousness as his breastplate and the helmet of salvation on his head he put on the garment of vengeance and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak according to what they have done so he will repay the wrath to his enemies and the punishment to his enemies he will repay the islands their due from the west the people will fear the name of the lord and from the rising of the sun they will revere his glory for he will come like a suppressed flood that the breath of the lord drives the redeemer will come to zion to those in jacob who repent of their sins declares the lord as for me this is my covenant with them says the lord my spirit that is upon you will not depart from you and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips on the lips of your children and in the lips of his descendants from this time forward and forever says the Lord Isaiah chapter 60 arise shine for your light has come and the glory of the Lord rises above you see darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is upon the people but the Lord rises above you and his glory appears above you nations will come to his light in kings at the brightness of his dawn lift up your eyes and look around you all gather together and will come to you your sons come from afar and your daughters are carried on your hips then they will look and be radiant.

The heart will palpitate and swell with joy. The riches of the seas will be brought to you. The riches of the nations will come. Herds of camels will cover your land. Young camels from Midian and Ifá and all from Saba will come carrying golden incense and proclaiming. the praise of the lord all the flocks of kidas will be gathered for you the rams of nebayath will serve you will be accepted as offerings on my altar and I will adorn my glorious temple who are these who fly like clouds like doves to their nests surely the islands look at me in front of the ships of Tarshish bringing your sons from afar with their silver and gold in honor of the Lord your god the holy one of Israel because he has endowed you with splendor foreigners will rebuild your walls and their kings will serve you, although in anger you I struck for you, I will show you compassion.

Your doors will always be open. They will never be shot day or night so that people can bring to you the riches of their nations their kings led in triumphal procession through the nation or kingdom that does not serve you will perish will be completely ruined the glory of Lebanon will come to you the I will juniper skin and cypress together to adorn my sanctuary and I will glorify the place for my feet the children of your oppressors will come prostrate before you all those who despise you will prostrate themselves at your feet and call you the city of the lord zion of the holy one of israel although you have been forsaken and hated without anyone traveling through you I will make you the eternal pride and joy of all generations you will drink the milk of the nations and you will be nursed at royal breasts then you will know that I the Lord am your savior your redeemer the mighty of Jacob instead of bronze I will bring you gold and silver instead of iron instead of wood I will bring you bronze and iron instead of stones I will make peace for your governor and prosperity for your ruler no more violence will be heard in your land nor ruin nor destruction within your borders but you will call your walls salvation and your doors praises, the sun will no longer be your light of day nor the brightness of the moon will shine on you because the lord will be your eternal light and your god will be your glory your sun will never set again and your moon will no longer wane the lord will be your eternal light and your days of pain will end then all your people will be righteous and they will possess the earth forever they are the shoot that I have planted the work of my hands to the display of my splendor the least of you will become a thousand the least a mighty nation I am the lord in his time I will do this quickly isaiah chapter 61 the spirit of the sovereign lord is upon me because the lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and release from darkness to the captives to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our god to comfort all who they mourn and provide for those who are afflicted in Zion to grant them a crown of beauty instead of ashes the oil of joy instead of mourning and a robe of praise instead of a spirit of despair they will be called oaks of righteousness to the plantation of the lord to the display of their splendor they will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated by generations strangers they will shepherd your foreign flocks they will work your fields and vineyards and you will be called priests of the lord you will be appointed ministers of our god you will feed on the riches of the nations and in their riches you will glory instead of your shame you will receive a double portion and instead of dishonor you will rejoice in your inheritance and so you will inherit a double portion in your land and eternal joy will be yours because I the Lord I love justice I hate theft and evil in my faithfulness I will reward my people and I will make an eternal covenant with them their descendants will be known among the nations and their descendants among the peoples all who see them will recognize that they are a people that the Lord He has blessed I greatly delight in the Lord my soul rejoices in my god because he has clothed me with garments of salvation and has clothed me with a robe of his righteousness. as the groom adorns his head like a priest and as the bride adorns herself with her jewels because as the earth makes the young plant sprout and the garden makes the seed grow, so the sovereign lord will make justice and praise spring up before all the nations Isaiah chapter 62 for the love of Zion I will not be silent for the love of Jerusalem I will not stand still until her vindication shines like the dawn her salvation like a burning torch the nations will see your vindication and all the kings your glory you will be called by a new name that the mouth from the lord will grant you it will be a crown of splendor in the hand of the lord a royal diadem in the hand of your god they will no longer call you desert nor will they call your land desolate but they will call you hefsibar and your land biula because the lord will delight in you and your land will marry as a young man marries a young woman, so your builder will marry you as a bridegroom rejoices with his bride, so your god will rejoice with you.

I have posted sentinels on your walls. jerusalem you will never be silent day or night you who call on the lord do not give yourselves rest and do not give him rest until he establishes jerusalem and makes it the praise of the land the lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies and foreigners will never again drink the new wine for which you have labored but those who harvest it will eat it and praise the Lord and those who harvest the grapes will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary pass through the gates prepare the way for the people build build the road remove the stones raise a banner for the nations the lord has made proclamation to the ends of the earth tell the daughter of zion see your savior is coming see his the reward is with him and his reward who accompanies him the holy people will be called the redeemed of the Lord and you will be called species after the city that is no longer deserted Isaiah chapter 63 who is this who comes from Edom of Buzzera with his garments stained with crimson what is this dress of splendor walking forward in the greatness of his strength it is I proclaiming mighty victory to save why your garments are red like those of one who treads the winepress I have trodden the winepress alone of the nations no one was with me I trampled them with my anger and I trampled them with my anger his blood splashed my clothes and stained all my clothes it was for me the day of vengeance the year to redeem myself had arrived I looked but there was no one to help me I was horrified that no one gave me support so my own arm achieved salvation for me me and my own anger sustained me.

I trampled the nations in my anger in my roths I made them drunk and shed their blood on the earth I will tell of the goodness of the lord the works for which he should be praised according to all that the lord has done for us yes the many good things he has done for Israel according to his compassion and many kindnesses, he said, surely my people are children who will be faithful to me and thus he became their savior in all their anguish, he was also anguished and the angel of his presence saved them in his love and mercy, He redeemed them, raised them up, and carried them all the days of old, but they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit. then he turned and became their enemy and he himself fought against them then his people remembered the days of old, the day of Moses and his people, where is he who led them through the sea with the shepherd of his flock, Where is the one who put his saint? spirit among them who sent his glorious arm of power to be the right hand of Moses who divided the waters before them to gain for himself eternal renown who led them through the depths like a horse in an open field they did not stumble like cattle descending into the the plain gave them rest by the spirit of the lord so you guided your people to make a glorious name look from heaven and see from your most high holy and glorious throne where is your zeal and your power your tenderness and compassion are denied to us but you are our father although abraham does not know us nor does israel recognize us you lord you are our father our redeemer from ancient times is your name why lord you make us deviate from your ways and harden our hearts so that we do not worship, return for the love of your servants the tribes that are your inheritance for a little while your people possessed your holy place but now our enemies have trampled your sanctuary we are yours from ancient times but you have not ruled over them they have not been called by your name isaiah chapter 64 oh, yes you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you as when the fire sets fire to the twigs and makes the water boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to tremble before you because when you did terrible things that we did not expect you descended and the mountains trembled before you since ancient times no one has heard no ear has perceived no eye has seen no god outside of you who acts on behalf of those who wait for it you come to the aid of those who gladly do the well they remember your ways but when we continued to sin against them you became angry how then we can be saved all of us have become like one who is unclean and all our acts of righteousness We are like filthy rags, we all wither like a leaf and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

No one calls upon your name or strives to take hold of you because you have hidden your face from us and still given us over to our sins. your lord you are our father we are the clay you are the potter we are all the work of your hand do not be angry beyond measure lord do not remember our sins forever oh look at us we pray because we are all your people your sacred cities have become a wasteland, even Zion is a wasteland. Jerusalem and desolation, our holy and glorious temple where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire and all that we treasure lies in ruins, after all, this lord, you will stop, be silent and punish us. without measure isaiah chapter 65 I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me I was found by those who did not seek me to a nation that did not call on my name I said here I am here I am all day I have sustained I raise my hands to a stubborn people who walk by no good paths following their own imaginations, a people who continually provoke me to my very face by offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on brick altars that sit among the tombs and spend their nights keeping a secret vigil. who eat pork and whose pots contain broth of impure meat who say do not come near me because I am too sacred for you those people are smoking under my nose a fire that continues to burn all day look at it written before me I will not be silent but I will pay everythingthat I will pay in their laps your sins and the sins of your ancestors says the Lord because they burn sacrifices on the mountains and divide me on the hills I will measure in their laps the full payment for their previous acts, this is what the Lord says, when juice is still found in a bunch of grapes and people say do not destroy it, there is still a blessing in it, so will I do it in the name of my servants.

I will not destroy them all, I will make descendants of Jacob and Judah, those who will possess my mountains, my chosen people will inherit them, and there my servants will live, the shadow will become pasture for sheep, and the valley of Achor will become a resting place for cows, my people who you seek, but as for you who abandon the lord and forget my holy mountain who prepare a table for fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for destiny, I will destine you to the sword and you will all fall in the slaughter for me. I called but you did not answer I spoke but you did not listen you did evil in my sight and you chose what displeases me therefore this is what the sovereign lord says my servants will eat but you will go hungry my servants will drink but you will thirst my servants will rejoice but you you will be ashamed my servants will sing with the joy of their hearts but you will cry out from the anguish of the heart and you will groan with a broken spirit you will leave your name so that my chosen ones can use it in their curses the sovereign lord will kill you but he will give his servants another name whoever invokes a blessing on earth will do so by the only true god whoever swears on earth will swear by the only true god for the past problems will be forgotten and hidden from my eyes look, I will create new heavens and a new earth past things will not They will not be remembered nor will they come to mind but rejoice and rejoice forever in what I will create for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy I will rejoice in Jerusalem and I will delight in my people the sound of weeping and crying will be heard in it There will never again be a child who lives only a few days or an old man in it.

The man who does not live out his years. He who dies at one hundred will be considered a simple child. He who does not reach one hundred will be considered cursed. They will build houses and live in them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruits. They will no longer build houses and others will live in them or plant and others will eat because as the days of a tree will be the days of my people, my chosen ones will enjoy the work of their hands for a long time. They will not work in vain. nor will they work to give birth to children condemned to misfortune because they will be a people blessed by the Lord they in their descendants with them before they call I will answer while they still speak I will hear the wolf and the lamb they will graze together and the lion will eat straw like the ox and the dust will be Serpent food they will not harm or destroy throughout my holy mountain says the Lord Isaiah chapter 66 This is what the Lord says Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool Where is the house that you will build for him?

I, where my resting place will be, has not my hand made all these things and thus they were born, declares the Lord, these are those whom I look with favor upon, those who are humble and contrite in spirit and who tremble at my word, but he who sacrifices himself bull is like the one who kills a person and the one who offers a lamb is like the one who breaks the neck of a dog, the one who makes an offering of grain is like the one who presents pig's blood and the one who burns commemorative incense is like the one who worships an idol that they have chosen their own ways and they delight in their abominations, so I too will choose harsh treatment for them and bring upon them what they fear when I called no one answered when I spoke no one listened they did evil in my sight and they chose what I do not like to hear the word of the Lord you who tremble at his word your own people who hate you and exclude you for my name have said that the Lord be glorified so that we can see his joy but they will be ashamed listen to that commotion in the city hearing that noise from the temple is the sound of the lord paying her enemies everything they deserve before she goes into labor she gives birth before the pain comes she gives birth to a son she has ever heard of of things like this, who has seen things like this?

Can a country be born in a day or a nation born in a moment and as soon as Zion is in labor then she gives birth to her children? Do I carry to the moment of birth and not give birth? says the Lord, closure? the womb when it gives birth says your god, rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all of you who love her, rejoice greatly with her, all of you who cry for her because you will be fed and satisfied with her comforting breasts, you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance.

For this is what the Lord says, I will spread peace to him like a river and the wealth of nations like a flooded stream, you will be fed and carried in his arm and caressed on his knees as a mother comforts her child. Will I comfort you and will you be comforted over Jerusalem when you see this? Your heart will rejoice and you will flourish like grass. The hand of the Lord will be made known to his servants, but his fury will be shown to his enemies. Look at the Lord. coming with fire and his chariots like a whirlwind he will bring down his wrath with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire because with fire and with his sword the lord will execute judgment on all people and many will be killed by the lord those who consecrate themselves and purify themselves for go into the gardens following one who is among those who eat pork, rats and other unclean things, they will meet their end along with the one they follow declares the lord and I for what they have planned and Done, I am about to come and Gather people from all nations and languages ​​and they will come and see my glory.

I will put a sign between them and send some of those who survive to the nations to make tashish with the Libyans and Lydians. famous as archers to Tubal and to Greece and to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame nor seen my glory, they will proclaim my glory among the nations and will bring all your people from all nations to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering. to the Lord on horses in chariots and carts and on mules and camels says the Lord they will bring them as the Israelites bring their grain offerings to the temple of the Lord in ceremonially clean vessels and I will select some of them also to be priests and the Levites says the Lord, as the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me, declares the Lord, so will your name and your descendants endure from one new moon to another and from one Sabbath to the next, all humanity will come and bow down before me, says the Lord. and they will come out and look at the corpses of those who rebelled against me, the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be extinguished, and they will be hateful to all humanity.