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burned the half 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?'²⁰He striveth after 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?' ²¹Remember these things, O Jacob,And Israel, for thou art My servant;I have formed thee, thou art Mine own servant;O Israel, thou shouldest not forget Me.²²I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,And, as a cloud, thy sins;Return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee.²³Sing, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath done it;Shout, ye lowest parts of the earth;Break forth into singing, ye mountains,O forest, and every tree therein;For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob,And doth glorify Himself in Israel. ²⁴Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer,And He that formed thee from the womb:I am the Lord, that maketh all things;That stretched forth the heavens alone;That spread abroad the earth by Myself;²⁵That frustrateth the tokens of the imposters,And maketh diviners mad;That turneth wise men backward,And maketh their knowledge foolish;²⁶That confirmeth the word of His servant,And performeth the counsel of His messengers;That saith of Jerusalem: 'She shall be inhabited';And of the cities of Judah: 'They shall be built,And I will raise up the waste places thereof';²⁷That saith to the deep: 'Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers';²⁸That saith of Cyrus: 'He is My shepherd,And shall perform all My pleasure';Even saying of Jerusalem: 'She shall be built';And to the temple: 'My foundation shall be laid.' 45Thus saith the Lord to His anointed,To Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden,To subdue nations before him,And to loose the loins of kings;To open the doors before him,And that the gates may not be shut:²I will go before thee,And make the crooked places straight;I will break in pieces the doors of brass,And cut in sunder the bars of iron;³And I will give thee the treasures of darkness,And hidden riches of secret places,That thou mayest know that I am the Lord,Who call thee by thy name, even the God of Israel.⁴For the sake of Jacob My servant,And Israel Mine elect,I have called thee by thy name,I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known Me.⁵I am the Lord, and there is none else,Beside Me there is no God;I have girded thee, though thou hast not known Me;⁶That 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;⁷I form the light, and create darkness;I make peace, and create evil;I am the Lord, that doeth all these things. ⁸Drop down, ye heavens, from above,And let the skies pour down righteousness;Let the earth open, that they may bring forth salvation,And let her cause righteousness to spring up together;I the Lord have created it. ⁹Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker,As a potsherd with the potsherds of the earth!Shall the clay say to him that fashioned it: 'What makest thou?'Or: 'Thy work, it hath no hands'?¹⁰Woe unto him that saith unto his father.' Wherefore begettest thou?'Or to a woman: 'Wherefore travailest thou?' ¹¹Thus saith the Lord,The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:Ask Me of the things that are to come;Concerning My sons, and concerning the work of My hands, command ye Me.¹²I, even 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.¹³I have roused him up in victory,And I make level all his ways;He shall build My city,And he shall let Mine exiles go free,Not for price nor reward,Saith the Lord of hosts. ¹⁴Thus saith the Lord:The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia,And of the Sabeans, men of stature,Shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine;They shall go after thee, in chains they shall come over;And they shall fall down unto thee,They shall make supplication unto thee:Surely God is in thee, and there is none else,There is no other God.¹⁵Verily Thou art a God that hidest Thyself,O God of Israel, the Saviour.¹⁶They shall be ashamed, yea, confounded, all of them;They shall go in confusion together that are makers of idols.¹⁷O Israel, that art saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation;Ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. ¹⁸For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens,He is God;That formed the earth and made it,He established it,He created it not a waste, He formed it to be inhabited:I am the Lord, and there is none else.¹⁹I have not spoken in secret,In a place of the land of darkness;I said not unto the seed of Jacob:'Seek ye Me in vain';I the Lord speak righteousness,I declare things that are right.²⁰Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together,Ye that are escaped of the nations;They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image,And pray unto a god that cannot save.²¹Declare ye, and bring them near,Yea, let them take counsel together:Who hath announced this from ancient time,And declared it of old?Have not I the Lord?And there is no God else beside Me,A just God and a Saviour;There is none beside Me.²²Look unto Me, and be ye saved,All the ends of the earth;For I am God, and there is none else.²³By Myself have I sworn,The word is gone forth from My mouth in righteousness,And shall not come back,That unto Me every knee shall bow,Every tongue shall swear.²⁴Only in the Lord, shall one say of Me, is victory and strength;Even to Him shall men come in confusion,All they that were incensed against Him.²⁵In the Lord shall all the seed of IsraelBe justified, and shall glory. 46Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth;Their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle;The things that ye carried about are made a load,A burden to the weary beast.²They stoop, they bow down together,They could not deliver the burden;And themselves are gone into captivity.³Hearken unto Me, O house of Jacob,And all the remnant of the house of Israel,That are borne [by Me] from the birth,That are carried from the womb:⁴Even to old age I am the same,And even to hoar hairs will I carry you;I have made, and I will bear;Yea, I will carry, and will deliver. ⁵To whom will ye liken Me, and make Me equal,And compare Me, that we may be like?⁶Ye that lavish gold out of the bag,And weigh silver in the balance;Ye that hire a goldsmith, that he make it a god,To fall down thereto, yea, to worship.⁷He is borne upon the shoulder, he is carried,And set in his place, and he standeth,From his place he doth not remove;Yea, though one cry unto him, he cannot answer,Nor save him out of his trouble. ⁸Remember this, and stand fast;Bring it to mind, O ye transgressors.⁹Remember the former things of old:That I am God, and there is none else;I am God, and there is none like Me;¹⁰Declaring the end from the beginning,And from ancient times things that are not yet done;Saying: 'My counsel shall stand,And all My pleasure will I do';¹¹Calling a bird of prey from the east,The man of My counsel from a far country;Yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass,I have purposed, I will also do it. ¹²Hearken unto Me, ye stout-hearted,That are far from righteousness:¹³I bring near My righteousness, it shall not be far off,And My salvation shall not tarry;And I will place salvation in ZionFor Israel My glory. 47Come down, and sit in the dust,O virgin daughter of Babylon,Sit on the ground without a throne,O daughter of the Chaldeans;For thou shalt no more be calledTender and delicate.²Take the millstones, and grind meal;Remove thy veil,Strip off the train, uncover the leg,Pass through the rivers.³Thy nakedness shall be uncovered,Yea, thy shame shall be seen;I will take vengeance,And will let no man intercede.⁴Our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is His name,The Holy One of Israel.⁵Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness,O daughter of the Chaldeans;For thou shalt no more be calledThe mistress of kingdoms.⁶I was wroth with My people,I profaned Mine inheritance,And gave them into thy hand;Thou didst show them no mercy;Upon the aged hast thou very heavilyLaid thy yoke.⁷And thou saidst:'For ever shall I be mistress';So that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart,Neither didst remember the end thereof. ⁸Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures,That sittest securely,That sayest in thy heart:'I am, and there is none else beside me;I shall not sit as a widow,Neither shall I know the loss of children';⁹But these two things shall come to thee in a momentIn one day, the loss of children, and widowhood;In their full measure shall they come upon thee,For the multitude of thy sorceries,And the great abundance of thine enchantments. ¹⁰And thou hast been secure in thy wickedness,Thou hast said: 'None seeth me';Thy wisdom and thy knowledge,It hath perverted thee;And thou hast said in thy heart.'I am, and there is none else beside me.'¹¹Yet shall evil came upon thee;Thou shalt not know how to charm it away;And calamity shall fall upon thee;Thou shalt not be able to put it away;And ruin shall come upon thee suddenly,Before thou knowest. ¹²Stand 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.¹³Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels;Let now the astrologers, the stargazers,The

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