sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit asa widow, neither shall I
know the loss of children:
9 But these two thingsshall 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.
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.
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, whichthou shalt not know.
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.
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 thingsthat shall come upon
thee.
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves
from the power of the flame: there shallnot bea coal to warm at, norfire to sit before it.
15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, eventhy merchants, from thy
youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
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, butnot in truth, nor in righteousness.
2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The
LORD of hosts ishis name.
3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth,
and I shewed them; I did themsuddenly, and they came to pass.
4 Because I knew that thou artobstinate, and thy neck isan iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
5 I have even from the beginning declared itto thee; before it came to pass I shewed itthee:
lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image,
hath commanded them.
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.
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.
8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time thatthine ear was not
opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor
from the womb.
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.
10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of
affliction.
11 For mine own sake, evenfor mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my namebe
polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I amhe; I amthe first, I also amthe last.
13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the
heavens: whenI call unto them, they stand up together.
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 onthe Chaldeans.

15 I, evenI, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way
prosperous.
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 amI: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I amthe LORD thy God which
teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way thatthou shouldest go.
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:
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.
20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell
this, utter it evento the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
21 And they thirsted not whenhe 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.
22 There isno peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
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.
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;
3 And said unto me, Thou artmy servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet
surely my judgment iswith the LORD, and my work with my God.
5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to behis 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.
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.
7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, andhis 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, andthe Holy One of Israel, and he shall
choose thee.
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;
9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that arein darkness, Shew
yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall bein all high places.
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.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and
these from the land of Sinim.
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.
14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
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.
16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of myhands; thy walls arecontinually before me.
17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth

of thee.
18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, andcome to
thee. AsI 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.
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.
20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine
ears, The place istoo strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
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 hadthey been?
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 theirarms, and thy daughters shall be
carried upon theirshoulders.
23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow
down to thee with theirface toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt
know that I amthe LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
25 But thus 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.
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 amthy Saviour
and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
1 Thus saith the LORD, Where isthe bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away?
or which of my creditors is itto whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold
yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
2 Wherefore, when I came, was thereno man? when I called, was therenone 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 isno
water, and dieth for thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
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 isweary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear
as the learned.
5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
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.
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.
8 He isnear that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who ismine
adversary? let him come near to me.
9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who ishe thatshall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax
old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
10 Who isamong you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh
indarkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselvesabout with sparks: walk in the
light of your fire, and in the sparks thatye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye
shall lie down in sorrow.