2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which isnot bread? and your labour for that which
satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which isgood, and let your soul
delight itself in fatness.
3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an
everlasting covenant with you, eventhe sure mercies of David.
4 Behold, I have given him fora witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation thatthou knowest not, and nations thatknew not thee shall
run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified
thee.
6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
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.
8 For my thoughts arenot your thoughts, neither areyour ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For asthe heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts.
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:
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 thingwhereto I sent it.
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 theirhands.
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 thatshall not be cut
off.
1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation isnear to come, and
my righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed isthe man thatdoeth this, and the son of man thatlayeth hold on it; that keepeth the
sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
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 ama dry
tree.
4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the thingsthat
please me, and take hold of my covenant;
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.
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;
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 beaccepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be
called an house of prayer for all people.
8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather othersto him,
beside those that are gathered unto him.
9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
10 His watchmen areblind: they are all ignorant, they areall dumb dogs, they cannot bark;
sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
11 Yea, they aregreedy dogs whichcan never have enough, and they areshepherds thatcannot
understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

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, andmuch more abundant.
1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth itto heart: and merciful men aretaken away, none
considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each onewalking inhis uprightness.
3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, anddraw out the
tongue? areye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys
under the clifts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth stonesof the stream isthy portion; they, they arethy lot: even to them
hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in
these?
7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer
sacrifice.
8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast
discovered thyself to anotherthan me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made
thee a covenantwith them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
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 evenunto hell.
10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yetsaidst thou not, There is no hope: thou
hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered
me, nor laid itto thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
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;
14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the
way of my people.
15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name isHoly; I dwell in
the high and holy place, with him also that isof a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the
spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail
before me, and the souls whichI have made.
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.
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him
and to his mourners.
19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that isfar off, and to him that isnear,
saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
20 But the wicked arelike the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire
and dirt.
21 There isno peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
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.
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.

3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? whereforehave we afflicted our
soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact
all your labours.
4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not
fast as ye do thisday, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is itto 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?
6 Isnot 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?
7 Is itnot 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?
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.
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;
10 And ifthou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy
light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness beas the noonday:
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.
12 And they that shall beof 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.
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, fromdoing 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 ownwords:
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.
1 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it
cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid hisface
from you, that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken
lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor anypleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they
conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works:
their works areworks of iniquity, and the act of violence isin their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts arethoughts
of iniquity; wasting and destruction arein their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there isno judgment in their goings: they have made
them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but