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+<book name='Isaiah' permalink='isaiah' id='23'>
+  <chapter no='1'>
+    <verse no='1'>The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw  concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and  Hezekiah, kings of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath  spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have  rebelled against me.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but  Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of  evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD,  they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone  away backward.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and  more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no  soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they  have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with  ointment.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire:  your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as  overthrown by strangers.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard,  as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small  remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like  unto Gomorrah.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto  the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?  saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat  of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs,  or of he goats.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at  your hand, to tread my courts?</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto  me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot  away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:  they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes  from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands  are full of blood.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings  from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,  judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though  your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be  red like crimson, they shall be as wool.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the  land:</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the  sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of  judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every  one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the  fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One  of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of  mine enemies:</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy  dross, and take away all thy tin:</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy  counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The  city of righteousness, the faithful city.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with  righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners  shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired,  and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden  that hath no water.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a  spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='2'>
+    <verse no='1'>The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah  and Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the  mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the  mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall  flow unto it.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up  to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he  will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of  Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many  people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their  spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against  nation, neither shall they learn war any more.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of  the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,  because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the  Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there  any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither  is there any end of their chariots:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of  their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth  himself: therefore forgive them not.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of  the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness  of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that  day.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one  that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he  shall be brought low:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted  up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that  are lifted up,</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant  pictures.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the  haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be  exalted in that day.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the idols he shall utterly abolish.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the  caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his  majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his  idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the  moles and to the bats;</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the  ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty,  when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for  wherein is he to be accounted of?</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='3'>
+    <verse no='1'>For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away  from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of  bread, and the whole stay of water.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the  prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the  counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And I will give children to be their princes, and babes  shall rule over them.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and  every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly  against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of  his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this  ruin be under thy hand:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer;  for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of  the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their  tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of  his glory.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and  they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul!  for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for  they shall eat the fruit of their doings.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the  reward of his hands shall be given him.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women  rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err,  and destroy the way of thy paths.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the  people.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his  people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the  spoil of the poor is in your houses.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the  faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are  haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking  and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the  head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret  parts.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their  tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round  tires like the moon,</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the  headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>The rings, and nose jewels,</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the  wimples, and the crisping pins,</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the  vails.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there  shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set  hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and  burning instead of beauty.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate  shall sit upon the ground.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='4'>
+    <verse no='1'>And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,  saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let  us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and  glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for  them that are escaped of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and  he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one  that is written among the living in Jerusalem:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the  daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from  the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of  burning.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount  Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the  shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a  defence.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time  from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm  and from rain.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='5'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved  touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very  fruitful hill:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and  planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of  it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should  bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,  judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have  not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth  grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my  vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up;  and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged;  but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the  clouds that they rain no rain upon it.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of  Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for  judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to  field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the  midst of the earth!</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses  shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the  seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they  may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame  them!</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine,  are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither  consider the operation of his hands.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they  have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their  multitude dried up with thirst.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth  without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp,  and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man  shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God  that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste  places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and  sin as it were with a cart rope:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we  may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and  come, that we may know it!</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put  darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet,  and sweet for bitter!</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent  in their own sight!</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of  strength to mingle strong drink:</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the  righteousness of the righteous from him!</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame  consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their  blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the  LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his  people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath  smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn  in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away,  but his hand is stretched out still.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and  will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall  come with speed swiftly:</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall  slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed,  nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their  horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a  whirlwind:</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like  young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall  carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And in that day they shall roar against them like the  roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and  sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='6'>
+    <verse no='1'>In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD  sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the  temple.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with  twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with  twain he did fly.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is  the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that  cried, and the house was filled with smoke.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man  of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips:  for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal  in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath  touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I  send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but  understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears  heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear  with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be  healed.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the  cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and  the land be utterly desolate,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great  forsaking in the midst of the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and  shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in  them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the  substance thereof.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='7'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham,  the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and  Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to  war against it, but could not prevail against it.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is  confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his  people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,  thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper  pool in the highway of the fuller's field;</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither  be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the  fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken  evil counsel against thee, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a  breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son  of Tabeal:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall  it come to pass.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus  is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken,  that it be not a people.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria  is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be  established.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the  depth, or in the height above.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small  thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a  virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name  Immanuel.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse  the evil, and choose the good.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and  choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both  her kings.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and  upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that  Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall  hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt,  and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the  desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns,  and upon all bushes.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is  hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the  head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall  nourish a young cow, and two sheep;</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that  they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every  one eat that is left in the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place  shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings,  it shall even be for briers and thorns.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because  all the land shall become briers and thorns.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock,  there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it  shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser  cattle.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='8'>
+    <verse no='1'>Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and  write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the  priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare  a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father,  and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be  taken away before the king of Assyria.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that  go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the  waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all  his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all  his banks:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go  over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his  wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in  pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye  shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in  pieces.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak  the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and  instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people  shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your  fear, and let him be your dread.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of  stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a  gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken,  and be snared, and be taken.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the  house of Jacob, and I will look for him.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are  for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which  dwelleth in mount Zion.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have  familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should  not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according  to this word, it is because there is no light in them.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry:  and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall  fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and  darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='9'>
+    <verse no='1'>Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her  vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun  and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her  by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light:  they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the  light shined.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy:  they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men  rejoice when they divide the spoil.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff  of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and  garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of  fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the  government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called  Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The  Prince of Peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be  no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it,  and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even  for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the  inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn  stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into  cedars.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin  against him, and join his enemies together;</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they  shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not  turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,  neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail,  branch and rush, in one day.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet  that teacheth lies, he is the tail.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they  that are led of them are destroyed.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men,  neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one  is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For  all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out  still.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the  briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and  they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened,  and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his  brother.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he  shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall  eat every man the flesh of his own arm:</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together  shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but  his hand is stretched out still.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='10'>
+    <verse no='1'>Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that  write grievousness which they have prescribed;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the  right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and  that they may rob the fatherless!</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the  desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help?  and where will ye leave your glory?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they  shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away,  but his hand is stretched out still.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their  hand is mine indignation.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against  the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and  to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so;  but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not  Samaria as Damascus?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose  graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so  do to Jerusalem and her idols?</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath  performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will  punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the  glory of his high looks.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and  by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the  people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the  inhabitants like a valiant man:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people:  and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth;  and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth  therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it?  as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as  if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his  fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like  the burning of a fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy  One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers  in one day;</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his  fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a  standard-bearer fainteth.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a  child may write them.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of  Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more  again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the  Holy One of Israel, in truth.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto  the mighty God.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet  a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow  with righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even  determined, in the midst of all the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that  dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee  with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner  of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall  cease, and mine anger in their destruction.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him  according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his  rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall  be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck,  and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he  hath laid up his carriages:</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their  lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be  heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather  themselves to flee.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his  hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough  with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the  haughty shall be humbled.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,  and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='11'>
+    <verse no='1'>And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,  and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit  of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the  spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the  LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither  reprove after the hearing of his ears:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove  with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth:  with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he  slay the wicked.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and  faithfulness the girdle of his reins.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard  shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the  fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall  lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and  the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for  the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters  cover the sea.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall  stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and  his rest shall be glorious.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall  set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his  people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from  Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from  Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall  assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of  Judah from the four corners of the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries  of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah  shall not vex Ephraim.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines  toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall  lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the  Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the  river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over  dryshod.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people,  which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day  that he came up out of the land of Egypt.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='12'>
+    <verse no='1'>And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee:  though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou  comfortedst me.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be  afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is  become my salvation.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of  salvation.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his  name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name  is exalted.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this  is known in all the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the  Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='13'>
+    <verse no='1'>The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice  unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the  nobles.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my  mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a  great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered  together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even  the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole  land.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come  as a destruction from the Almighty.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart  shall melt:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold  of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall  be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath  and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the  sinners thereof out of it.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall  not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and  the moon shall not cause her light to shine.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked  for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to  cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man  than the golden wedge of Ophir.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall  remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the  day of his fierce anger.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no  man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee  every one into his own land.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every  one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their  eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall  not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they  shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare  children.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the  Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and  Gomorrah.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in  from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent  there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their  houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there,  and satyrs shall dance there.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their  desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is  near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='14'>
+    <verse no='1'>For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose  Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be  joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the people shall take them, and bring them to their  place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the  LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives,  whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall  give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard  bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of  Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city  ceased!</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the  sceptre of the rulers.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he  that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth  into singing.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of  Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against  us.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy  coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of  the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the  nations.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become  weak as we? art thou become like unto us?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy  viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the  morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the  nations!</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into  heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also  upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be  like the most High.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the  pit.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and  consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble,  that did shake kingdoms;</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the  cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in  glory, every one in his own house.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable  branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with  a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden  under feet.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou  hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers  shall never be renowned.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their  fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face  of the world with cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts,  and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew,  saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools  of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the  LORD of hosts.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have  thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it  stand:</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my  mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off  them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth:  and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul  it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him  that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come  forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy  shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he  shall slay thy remnant.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art  dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall  be alone in his appointed times.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation?  That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust  in it.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='15'>
+    <verse no='1'>The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid  waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid  waste, and brought to silence;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to  weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads  shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth:  on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall  howl, weeping abundantly.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be  heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry  out; his life shall be grievous unto him.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee  unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of  Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim  they shall raise up a cry of destruction.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is  withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which  they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the  howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will  bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon  the remnant of the land.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='16'>
+    <verse no='1'>Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the  wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the  nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night  in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that  wandereth.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to  them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end,  the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall  sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking  judgment, and hasting righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even  of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall  not be so.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl:  for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are  stricken.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah:  the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof,  they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness:  her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine  of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for  the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful  field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall  there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their  presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and  mine inward parts for Kirharesh.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is  weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray;  but he shall not prevail.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab  since that time.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as  the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned,  with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and  feeble.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='17'>
+    <verse no='1'>The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from  being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks,  which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom  from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of  the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of  Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn,  and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth  ears in the valley of Rephaim.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of  an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough,  four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD  God of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes  shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands,  neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the  groves, or the images.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough,  and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of  Israel: and there shall be desolation.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and  hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou  plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the  morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be  a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like  the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a  rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but  God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased  as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing  before the whirlwind.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he  is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them  that rob us.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='18'>
+    <verse no='1'>Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the  rivers of Ethiopia:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of  bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation  scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning  hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers  have spoiled!</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,  see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he  bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I  will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and  like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour  grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with  pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains,  and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them,  and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of  hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from  their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot,  whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the  LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='19'>
+    <verse no='1'>The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift  cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved  at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they  shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his  neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and  I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols,  and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the  wizards.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel  lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD  of hosts.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall  be wasted and dried up.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of  defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall  wither.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks,  and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and  be no more.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle  into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters  shall languish.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave  networks, shall be confounded.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that  make sluices and ponds for fish.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the  wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh,  I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell  thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon  Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph  are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay  of the tribes thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst  thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a  drunken man staggereth in his vomit.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or  tail, branch or rush, may do.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be  afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of  hosts, which he shaketh over it.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every  one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of  the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the  language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be  called, The city of destruction.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst  of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD  of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because  of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one,  and he shall deliver them.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians  shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation;  yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it:  and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of  them, and shall heal them.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to  Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into  Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with  Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt  my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine  inheritance.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='20'>
+    <verse no='1'>In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the  king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz,  saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy  shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked  naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and  upon Ethiopia;</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians  prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and  barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their  expectation, and of Egypt their glory.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day,  Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be  delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='21'>
+    <verse no='1'>The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the  south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous  dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam:  besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken  hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down  at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my  pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink:  arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let  him declare what he seeth.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of  asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much  heed:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the  watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of  horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and  all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have  heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto  you.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman,  what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night:  if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye  lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him  that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and  from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year,  according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall  fail:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of  the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel  hath spoken it.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='22'>
+    <verse no='1'>The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now,  that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city:  thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the  archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled  from far.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly,  labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my  people.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of  perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking  down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen,  and Kir uncovered the shield.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall  be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at  the gate.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look  in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that  they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses  have ye broken down to fortify the wall.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of  the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither  had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping,  and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing  sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to  morrow we shall die.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts,  Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith  the Lord GOD of hosts.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this  treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast  hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre  on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty  captivity, and will surely cover thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into  a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy  glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state  shall he pull thee down.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my  servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with  thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he  shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of  Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his  shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and  none shall open.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he  shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's  house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from  the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is  fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and  the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken  it.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='23'>
+    <verse no='1'>The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is  laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of  Chittim it is revealed to them.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the  merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the  river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the  strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children,  neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely  pained at the report of Tyre.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient  days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,  whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of  the earth?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of  all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish:  there is no more strength.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the  kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city,  to destroy the strong holds thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed  virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also  shalt thou have no rest.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till  the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set  up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he  brought it to ruin.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be  forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the  end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been  forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be  remembered.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years,  that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and  shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the  face of the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the  LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall  be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for  durable clothing.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='24'>
+    <verse no='1'>Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it  waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the  inhabitants thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as  with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her  mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so  with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of  usury to him.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for  the LORD hath spoken this word.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth  and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;  because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken  the everlasting covenant.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that  dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are  burned, and few men left.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the  merryhearted do sigh.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice  endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be  bitter to them that drink it.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut  up, that no man may come in.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is  darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with  destruction.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the  people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the  gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the  majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of  the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs,  even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe  unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the  treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O  inhabitant of the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise  of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the  midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on  high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean  dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall  be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy  upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall  punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the  earth upon the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are  gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many  days shall they be visited.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when  the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and  before his ancients gloriously.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='25'>
+    <verse no='1'>O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise  thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are  faithfulness and truth.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a  ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of  the terrible nations shall fear thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the  needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat,  when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in  a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of  the terrible ones shall be brought low.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all  people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat  things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the  covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all  nations.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will  wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall  he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we  have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have  waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and  Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for  the dunghill.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as  he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring  down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he  bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='26'>
+    <verse no='1'>In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We  have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth  the truth may enter in.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on  thee: because he trusteth in thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is  everlasting strength:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty  city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he  bringeth it even to the dust.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and  the steps of the needy.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost  weigh the path of the just.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for  thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of  thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my  spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in  the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn  righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and  will not behold the majesty of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but  they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the  fire of thine enemies shall devour them.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast  wrought all our works in us.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion  over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they  shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and  made all their memory to perish.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased  the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the  ends of the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a  prayer when thy chastening was upon them.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of  her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been  in thy sight, O LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it  were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the  earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall  they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as  the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy  doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until  the indignation be overpast.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the  inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall  disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='27'>
+    <verse no='1'>In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong  sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that  crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest  any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns  against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them  together.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace  with me; and he shall make peace with me.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel  shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is  he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with  it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and  this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the  stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the  groves and images shall not stand up.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation  forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and  there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken  off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no  understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them,  and he that formed them will shew them no favour.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall  beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye  shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great  trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish  in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and  shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='28'>
+    <verse no='1'>Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim,  whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the  fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a  tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters  overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be  trodden under feet:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat  valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the  summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in  his hand he eateth it up.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory,  and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in  judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>But they also have erred through wine, and through strong  drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through  strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way  through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that  there is no place clean.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to  understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from  the breasts.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line  upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to  this people.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the  weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept,  precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little,  and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be  broken, and snared, and taken.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that  rule this people which is in Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death,  and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall  pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our  refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for  a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure  foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to  the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the  waters shall overflow the hiding place.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your  agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall  pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for  morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it  shall be a vexation only to understand the report.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself  on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be  wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange  work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made  strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even  determined upon the whole earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break  the clods of his ground?</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast  abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal  wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach  him.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing  instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but  the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing  it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his  horsemen.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is  wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='29'>
+    <verse no='1'>Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye  year to year; let them kill sacrifices.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and  sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege  against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the  ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice  shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and  thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small  dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that  passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and  with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame  of devouring fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the multitude of all the nations that fight against  Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that  distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and,  behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a  thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and,  behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude  of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are  drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep  sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the  seers hath he covered.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a  book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying,  Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the book is delivered to him that is not learned,  saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near  me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed  their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the  precept of men:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work  among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom  of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent  men shall be hid.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the  LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and  who knoweth us?</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed  as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He  made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He  had no understanding?</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be  turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed  as a forest?</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book,  and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of  darkness.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the  poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner  is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for  him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of  nought.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham,  concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither  shall his face now wax pale.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in  the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy  One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding,  and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='30'>
+    <verse no='1'>Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take  counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my  spirit, that they may add sin to sin:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my  mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to  trust in the shadow of Egypt!</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and  the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to  Hanes.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit  them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of  trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper  and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the  shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of  camels, to a people that shall not profit them.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:  therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a  book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children  that will not hear the law of the LORD:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets,  Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,  prophesy deceits:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause  the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye  despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay  thereon:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to  fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an  instant.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel  that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not  be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or  to take water withal out of the pit.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In  returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence  shall be your strength: and ye would not.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore  shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they  that pursue you be swift.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke  of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a  mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious  unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon  you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait  for him.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt  weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy  cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the  water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a  corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This  is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye  turn to the left.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of  silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast  them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee  hence.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow  the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall  be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large  pastures.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground  shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and  with the fan.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every  high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great  slaughter, when the towers fall.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the  sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven  days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and  healeth the stroke of their wound.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with  his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of  indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the  midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and  there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity  is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come  into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and  shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his  anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and  tempest, and hailstones.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be  beaten down, which smote with a rod.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass,  which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps:  and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is  prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and  much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth  kindle it.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='31'>
+    <verse no='1'>Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on  horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen,  because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of  Israel, neither seek the LORD!</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call  back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and  against the help of them that work iniquity.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses  flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both  he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and  they all shall fail together.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and  the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is  called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor  abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come  down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;  defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve  it.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have  deeply revolted.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of  silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you  for a sin.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty  man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall  flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his  princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in  Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='32'>
+    <verse no='1'>Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes  shall rule in judgment.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a  covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the  shadow of a great rock in a weary land.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears  of them that hear shall hearken.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and  the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the  churl said to be bountiful.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will  work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the  LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink  of the thirsty to fail.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth  wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the  needy speaketh right.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal  things shall he stand.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye  careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women:  for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless  ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields,  for the fruitful vine.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers;  yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the  city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a  joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the  wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a  forest.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and  righteousness remain in the fruitful field.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect  of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in  sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city  shall be low in a low place.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth  thither the feet of the ox and the ass.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='33'>
+    <verse no='1'>Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and  dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when  thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt  make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with  thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be  thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of  trouble.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting  up of thyself the nations were scattered.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the  caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled  Zion with judgment and righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy  times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the  ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath  broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and  hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off  their fruits.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now  will I lift up myself.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your  breath, as fire, shall devour you.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns  cut up shall they be burned in the fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that  are near, acknowledge my might.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised  the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who  among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that  despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding  of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth  his eyes from seeing evil;</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the  munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall  behold the land that is very far off.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe?  where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper  speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou  canst not understand.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes  shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be  taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed,  neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad  rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall  gallant ship pass thereby.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the  LORD is our king; he will save us.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen  their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great  spoil divided; the lame take the prey.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that  dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='34'>
+    <verse no='1'>Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let  the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that  come forth of it.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his  fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath  delivered them to the slaughter.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall  come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with  their blood.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the  heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall  fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig  from the fig tree.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall  come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat  with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of  the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a  great slaughter in the land of Idumea.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks  with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their  dust made fat with fatness.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of  recompences for the controversy of Zion.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the  dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning  pitch.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof  shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste;  none shall pass through it for ever and ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl  also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it  the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none  shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and  brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of  dragons, and a court for owls.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild  beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the  screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of  rest.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch,  and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered,  every one with her mate.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of  these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath  commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided  it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation  to generation shall they dwell therein.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='35'>
+    <verse no='1'>The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for  them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and  singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of  Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the  excellency of our God.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear  not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a  recompence; he will come and save you.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of  the deaf shall be unstopped.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of  the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and  streams in the desert.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty  land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay,  shall be grass with reeds and rushes.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be  called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it  shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err  therein.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up  thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk  there:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion  with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy  and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='36'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah,  that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced  cities of Judah, and took them.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to  Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the  conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was  over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the  recorder.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus  saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this  wherein thou trustest?</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have  counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou  rebellest against me?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on  Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it:  so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it  not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away,  and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the  king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be  able on thy part to set riders upon them.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the  least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots  and for horsemen?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to  destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy  it.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak,  I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we  understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears  of the people that are on the wall.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and  to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit  upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own  piss with you?</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the  Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king  of Assyria.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he  shall not be able to deliver you.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The  LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the  hand of the king of Assyria.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,  Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye  every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye  every one the waters of his own cistern;</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land,  a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will  deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out  of the hand of the king of Assyria?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods  of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have  delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver  Jerusalem out of my hand?</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for  the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the  household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the  recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words  of Rabshakeh.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='37'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he  rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the  house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna  the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto  Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a  day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are  come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh,  whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living  God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard:  wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your  master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast  heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed  me.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a  rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the  sword in his own land.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring  against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is  come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent  messengers to Hezekiah, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let  not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem  shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done  to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers  have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of  Eden which were in Telassar?</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the  king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the  messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the  LORD, and spread it before the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the  cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of  the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O  LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent  to reproach the living God.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all  the nations, and their countries,</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no  gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have  destroyed them.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that  all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even  thou only.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus  saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against  Sennacherib king of Assyria:</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him;  The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee  to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom  hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even  against the Holy One of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast  said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the  mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars  thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the  height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet  have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of  ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass,  that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were  dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as  the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted  before it be grown up.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in,  and thy rage against me.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into  mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in  thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year  such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of  the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards,  and eat the fruit thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall  again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that  escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of  Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there,  nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and  shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake,  and for my servant David's sake.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp  of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when  they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and  returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of  Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with  the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon  his son reigned in his stead.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='38'>
+    <verse no='1'>In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the  prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith  the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed  unto the LORD,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have  walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done  that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of  David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears:  behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the  king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the  LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which  is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun  returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been  sick, and was recovered of his sickness:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the  gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land  of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the  world.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's  tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with  pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break  all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as  a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed;  undertake for me.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself  hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my  soul.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is  the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in  love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast  cast all my sins behind thy back.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate  thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this  day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my  songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house  of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay  it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up  to the house of the LORD?</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='39'>
+    <verse no='1'>At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of  Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that  he had been sick, and was recovered.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of  his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the  precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was  found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his  dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said  unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And  Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from  Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And  Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is  nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of  hosts:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and  that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be  carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt  beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of  the king of Babylon.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD  which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and  truth in my days.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='40'>
+    <verse no='1'>Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that  her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she  hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye  the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill  shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the  rough places plain:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh  shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All  flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the  field:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit  of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our  God shall stand for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the  high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy  voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of  Judah, Behold your God!</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm  shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before  him.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the  lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead  those that are with young.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and  meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth  in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a  balance?</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his  counsellor hath taught him?</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and  taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and  shewed to him the way of understanding?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are  counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the  isles as a very little thing.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts  thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted  to him less than nothing, and vanity.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye  compare unto him?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith  spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth  a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to  prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told  you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of  the earth?</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the  inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the  heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges  of the earth as vanity.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown:  yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also  blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take  them away as stubble.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith  the Holy One.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these  things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by  names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power;  not one faileth.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is  hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the  everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth,  fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his  understanding.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might  he increaseth strength.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men  shall utterly fall:</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength;  they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be  weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='41'>
+    <verse no='1'>Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew  their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come  near together to judgment.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to  his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he  gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he  had not gone with his feet.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from  the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were  afraid, drew near, and came.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to  his brother, Be of good courage.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that  smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready  for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be  moved.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen,  the seed of Abraham my friend.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and  called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my  servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am  thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will  uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be  ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive  with thee shall perish.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them  that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as  nothing, and as a thing of nought.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto  thee, Fear not; I will help thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help  thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument  having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and  shalt make the hills as chaff.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and  the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD,  and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and  their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God  of Israel will not forsake them.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the  midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and  the dry land springs of water.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree,  and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir  tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand  together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of  Israel hath created it.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong  reasons, saith the King of Jacob.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen:  let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider  them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to  come.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know  that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed,  and behold it together.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an  abomination is he that chooseth you.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from  the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come  upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and  beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that  sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that  heareth your words.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will  give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and  there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a  word.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their  molten images are wind and confusion.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='42'>
+    <verse no='1'>Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my  soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth  judgment to the Gentiles.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be  heard in the street.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax  shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set  judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and  stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which  cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and  spirit to them that walk therein:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold  thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the  people, for a light of the Gentiles;</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the  prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give  to another, neither my praise to graven images.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things  do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end  of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the  isles, and the inhabitants thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their  voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the  rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in  the islands.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up  jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail  against his enemies.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and  refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will  destroy and devour at once.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their  herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I  will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness  light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do  unto them, and not forsake them.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed,  that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our  gods.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that  I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's  servant?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the  ears, but he heareth not.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he  will magnify the law, and make it honourable.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of  them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a  prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and  hear for the time to come?</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did  not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk  in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and  the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he  knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='43'>
+    <verse no='1'>But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and  he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I  have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee;  and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest  through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame  kindle upon thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy  Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been  honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee,  and people for thy life.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the  east, and gather thee from the west;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not  back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the  earth;</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created  him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf  that have ears.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people  be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former  things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be  justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I  have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am  he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when  there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses,  saith the LORD, that I am God.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can  deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;  For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their  nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your  King.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a  path in the mighty waters;</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the  power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are  extinct, they are quenched as tow.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the  things of old.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth;  shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and  rivers in the desert.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the  owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the  desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth  my praise.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast  been weary of me, O Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt  offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have  not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with  incense.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast  thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to  serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for  mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou,  that thou mayest be justified.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have  transgressed against me.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and  have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='44'>
+    <verse no='1'>Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have  chosen:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the  womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou,  Jesurun, whom I have chosen.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods  upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my  blessing upon thine offspring:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by  the water courses.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call  himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand  unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the  LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there  is no God.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it  in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things  that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from  that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a  God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and  their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own  witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is  profitable for nothing?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen,  they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up;  yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and  fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his  arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no  water, and is faint.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out  with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the  compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the  beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the  oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest:  he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take  thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea,  he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and  falleth down thereto.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he  eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth  himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven  image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto  it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their  eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot  understand.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And none considereth in his heart, neither is there  knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the  fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have  roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an  abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside,  that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my  right hand?</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant:  I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be  forgotten of me.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,  and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye  lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O  forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and  glorified himself in Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee  from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth  forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh  diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their  knowledge foolish;</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the  counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be  inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will  raise up the decayed places thereof:</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy  rivers:</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform  all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to  the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='45'>
+    <verse no='1'>Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right  hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the  loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates  shall not be shut;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight:  I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars  of iron:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden  riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which  call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have  even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast  not known me.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God  beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the  west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none  else.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and  create evil: I the LORD do all these things.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour  down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth  salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have  created it.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd  strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that  fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest  thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker,  Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of  my hands command ye me.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my  hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I  commanded.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all  his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not  for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of  Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee,  and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they  shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make  supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is  none else, there is no God.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel,  the Saviour.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them:  they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting  salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God  himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he  created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD;  and there is none else.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I  said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak  righteousness, I declare things that are right.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that  are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood  of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel  together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it  from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside  me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:  for I am God, and there is none else.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in  righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow,  every tongue shall swear.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and  strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against  him shall be ashamed.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and  shall glory.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='46'>
+    <verse no='1'>Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the  beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are  a burden to the weary beast.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver  the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of  the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are  carried from the womb:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs  will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and  will deliver you.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me,  that we may be like?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the  balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down,  yea, they worship.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him  in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea,  one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his  trouble.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to  mind, O ye transgressors.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there  is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times  the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I  will do all my pleasure:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that  executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will  also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from  righteousness:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and  my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for  Israel my glory.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='47'>
+    <verse no='1'>Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of  Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the  Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make  bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be  seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy  One of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of  the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine  inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no  mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou  didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the  latter end of it.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures,  that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none  else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the  loss of children:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one  day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in  their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great  abundance of thine enchantments.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said,  None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee;  and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know  from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt  not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee  suddenly, which thou shalt not know.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of  thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou  shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now  the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up,  and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them;  they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there  shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured,  even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his  quarter; none shall save thee.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='48'>
+    <verse no='1'>Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name  of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear  by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not  in truth, nor in righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay  themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>I have declared the former things from the beginning; and  they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them  suddenly, and they came to pass.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an  iron sinew, and thy brow brass;</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before  it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol  hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath  commanded them.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I  have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and  thou didst not know them.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>They are created now, and not from the beginning; even  before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say,  Behold, I knew them.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from  that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest  deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my  praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have  chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for  how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto  another.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I  am the first, I also am the last.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my  right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand  up together.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath  declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure  on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have  brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in  secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and  now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I  am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee  by the way that thou shouldest go.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy  peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy  bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off  nor destroyed from before me.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a  voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the  earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts:  he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the  rock also, and the waters gushed out.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='49'>
+    <verse no='1'>Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far;  The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother  hath he made mention of my name.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow  of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver  hath he hid me;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I  will be glorified.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my  strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the  LORD, and my work with my God.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be  his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not  gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God  shall be my strength.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my  servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved  of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou  mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy  One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a  servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall  worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of  Israel, and he shall choose thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard  thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve  thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the  earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them  that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and  their pastures shall be in all high places.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor  sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by  the springs of water shall he guide them.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways  shall be exalted.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the  north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth  into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and  will have mercy upon his afflicted.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath  forgotten me.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not  have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will  I not forget thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy  walls are continually before me.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that  made thee waste shall go forth of thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather  themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou  shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind  them on thee, as a bride doeth.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy  destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants,  and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the  other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me:  give place to me that I may dwell.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me  these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and  removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left  alone; these, where had they been?</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to  the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall  bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon  their shoulders.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy  nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the  earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am  the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful  captive delivered?</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty  shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered:  for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save  thy children.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh;  and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and  all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer,  the mighty One of Jacob.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='50'>
+    <verse no='1'>Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's  divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to  whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold  yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was  there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot  redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up  the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because  there is no water, and dieth for thirst.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth  their covering.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I  should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he  wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the  learned.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious,  neither turned away back.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that  plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be  confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that  I shall not be ashamed.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let  us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall  condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat  them up.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the  voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let  him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves  about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks  that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie  down in sorrow.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='51'>
+    <verse no='1'>Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that  seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole  of the pit whence ye are digged.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you:  for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her  waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert  like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein,  thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my  nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to  rest for a light of the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and  mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on  mine arm shall they trust.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth  beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth  shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in  like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness  shall not be abolished.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in  whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye  afraid of their revilings.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm  shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and  my salvation from generation to generation.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as  in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that  hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the  great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed  to pass over?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come  with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head:  they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee  away.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that  thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man  which shall be made as grass;</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth  the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared  continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he  were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that  he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves  roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered  thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay  the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the  hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of  the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath  brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all  the sons that she hath brought up.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for  thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by  whom shall I comfort thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the  streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the  LORD, the rebuke of thy God.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but  not with wine:</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the  cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of  trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more  drink it again:</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;  which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou  hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went  over.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='52'>
+    <verse no='1'>Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy  beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there  shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O  Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter  of Zion.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought;  and ye shall be redeemed without money.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime  into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without  cause.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my  people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to  howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall  know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that  bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good  tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy  God reigneth!</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice  together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD  shall bring again Zion.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of  Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed  Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the  nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our  God.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no  unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear  the vessels of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for  the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your  rereward.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted  and extolled, and be very high.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more  than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut  their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they  see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='53'>
+    <verse no='1'>Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the  LORD revealed?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a  root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we  shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and  acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was  despised, and we esteemed him not.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:  yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised  for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and  with his stripes we are healed.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one  to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not  his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep  before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall  declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the  living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in  his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in  his mouth.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to  grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see  his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall  prosper in his hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be  satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many;  for he shall bear their iniquities.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he  shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his  soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he  bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='54'>
+    <verse no='1'>Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into  singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for  more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married  wife, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth  the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and  strengthen thy stakes;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the  left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate  cities to be inhabited.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou  confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget  the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy  widowhood any more.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his  name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole  earth shall he be called.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and  grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith  thy God.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great  mercies will I gather thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but  with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy  Redeemer.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have  sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have  I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed;  but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant  of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,  behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy  foundations with sapphires.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of  carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great  shall be the peace of thy children.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be  far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it  shall not come near thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me:  whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in  the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I  have created the waster to destroy.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and  every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt  condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their  righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='55'>
+    <verse no='1'>Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he  that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk  without money and without price.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and  your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me,  and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in  fatness.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul  shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the  sure mercies of David.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a  leader and commander to the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and  nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy  God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him  while he is near:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his  thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon  him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways  my ways, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways  higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and  returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring  forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the  eater:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it  shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I  please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace:  the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing,  and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead  of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD  for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='56'>
+    <verse no='1'>Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for  my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that  layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and  keepeth his hand from doing any evil.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined  himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me  from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my  sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my  covenant;</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls  a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give  them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the  LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his  servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and  taketh hold of my covenant;</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them  joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their  sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be  called an house of prayer for all people.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith,  Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto  him.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye  beasts in the forest.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all  dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and  they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own  way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill  ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and  much more abundant.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='57'>
+    <verse no='1'>The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and  merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is  taken away from the evil to come.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds,  each one walking in his uprightness.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of  the adulterer and the whore.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a  wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of  transgression, a seed of falsehood.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree,  slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they,  they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou  hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even  thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy  remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and  art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with  them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst  increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst  debase thyself even unto hell.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst  thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand;  therefore thou wast not grieved.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast  lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I  held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they  shall not profit thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the  wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that  putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my  holy mountain;</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take  up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth  eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with  him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit  of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always  wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have  made.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote  him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of  his heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him  also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is  far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot  rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='58'>
+    <verse no='1'>Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and  shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a  nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their  God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in  approaching to God.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?  wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge?  Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your  labours.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the  fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your  voice to be heard on high.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to  afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to  spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and  an acceptable day to the LORD?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands  of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go  free, and that ye break every yoke?</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou  bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the  naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine  own flesh?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine  health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go  before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt  cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of  thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the  afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy  darkness be as the noon day:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy  soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a  watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste  places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and  thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths  to dwell in.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy  pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of  the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways,  nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will  cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee  with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath  spoken it.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='59'>
+    <verse no='1'>Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot  save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>But your iniquities have separated between you and your God,  and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with  iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered  perverseness.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they  trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring  forth iniquity.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he  that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out  into a viper.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they  cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity,  and the act of violence is in their hands.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent  blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction  are in their paths.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in  their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth  therein shall not know peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice  overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness,  but we walk in darkness.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we  had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate  places as dead men.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look  for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from  us.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our  sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for  our iniquities, we know them;</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing  away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and  uttering from the heart words of falsehood.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth  afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh  himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there  was no judgment.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there  was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and  his righteousness, it sustained him.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet  of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for  clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to  his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will  repay recompence.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and  his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like  a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn  from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My  spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth,  shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed,  nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from  henceforth and for ever.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='60'>
+    <verse no='1'>Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the  LORD is risen upon thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross  darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory  shall be seen upon thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the  brightness of thy rising.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather  themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far,  and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart  shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be  converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of  Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold  and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto  thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up  with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my  glory.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their  windows?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of  Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold  with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of  Israel, because he hath glorified thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and  their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but  in my favour have I had mercy on thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall  not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of  the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall  perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the  pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary;  and I will make the place of my feet glorious.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending  unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at  the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the LORD,  The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated, so that no man  went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of  many generations.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt  suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy  Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring  silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy  officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor  destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls  Salvation, and thy gates Praise.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for  brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be  unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon  withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the  days of thy mourning shall be ended.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit  the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,  that I may be glorified.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a  strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='61'>
+    <verse no='1'>The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath  anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to  bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the  opening of the prison to them that are bound;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of  vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them  beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise  for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of  righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the  former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the  desolations of many generations.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons  of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall  call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the  Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they  shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall  possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt  offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an  everlasting covenant with them.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their  offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them,  that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful  in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he  hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh  himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her  jewels.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden  causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD  will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the  nations.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='62'>
+    <verse no='1'>For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for  Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go  forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings  thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of  the LORD shall name.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD,  and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy  land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah,  and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land  shall be married.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons  marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall  thy God rejoice over thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall  never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD,  keep not silence,</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make  Jerusalem a praise in the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his  strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine  enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the  which thou hast laboured:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the  LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the  courts of my holiness.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the  people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a  standard for the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world,  Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold,  his reward is with him, and his work before him.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of  the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='63'>
+    <verse no='1'>Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from  Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the  greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to  save.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments  like him that treadeth in the winefat?</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there  was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them  in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I  will stain all my raiment.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of  my redeemed is come.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered  that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation  unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make  them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the  earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the  praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on  us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath  bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the  multitude of his lovingkindnesses.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will  not lie: so he was their Saviour.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of  his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;  and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he  was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people,  saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the  shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious  arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting  name?</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>That led them through the deep, as an horse in the  wilderness, that they should not stumble?</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the  LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself  a glorious name.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy  holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the  sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they  restrained?</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of  us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our  redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and  hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the  tribes of thine inheritance.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little  while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were  not called by thy name.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='64'>
+    <verse no='1'>Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest  come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the  waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the  nations may tremble at thy presence!</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for,  thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor  perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee,  what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,  those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we  have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our  righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and  our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth  up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us,  and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and  thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity  for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness,  Jerusalem a desolation.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised  thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid  waste.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt  thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='65'>
+    <verse no='1'>I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of  them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation  that was not called by my name.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious  people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own  thoughts;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face;  that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments,  which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their  vessels;</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am  holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all  the day.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence,  but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers  together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains,  and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former  work into their bosom.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the  cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so  will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah  an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my  servants shall dwell there.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of  Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have  sought me.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy  mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the  drink offering unto that number.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all  bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer;  when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did  choose that wherein I delighted not.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall  eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye  shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be  ashamed:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye  shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for  the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless  himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall  swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten,  and because they are hid from mine eyes.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the  former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create:  for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and  the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of  crying.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old  man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred  years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they  shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not  plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my  people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble;  for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring  with them.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will  answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion  shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat.  They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the  LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='66'>
+    <verse no='1'>Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth  is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is  the place of my rest?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those  things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to  him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that  sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an  oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as  if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their  soul delighteth in their abominations.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their  fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake,  they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that  in which I delighted not.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your  brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said,  Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they  shall be ashamed.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a  voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain  came, she was delivered of a man child.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things?  Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be  born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her  children.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?  saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith  thy God.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that  love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her  consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance  of her glory.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her  like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then  shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon  her knees.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you;  and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your  bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be  known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his  chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his  rebuke with flames of fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all  flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the  gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the  abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come,  that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and  see my glory.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that  escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw  the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not  heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my  glory among the Gentiles.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto  the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in  litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain  Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering  in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites,  saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make,  shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your  name remain.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to  another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to  worship before me, saith the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the  men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die,  neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring  unto all flesh.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+</book>