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a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter,I do moan as a dove;Mine eyes fail with looking upward.O Lord, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety. ¹⁵What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me,And Himself hath done it;I shall go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.¹⁶O Lord, by these things men live,And altogether therein is the life of my spirit;Wherefore recover Thou me, and make me to live.¹⁷Behold, for my peace I had great bitterness;But Thou hast in love to my soul delivered itFrom the pit of corruption;For Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back. ¹⁸For the nether-world cannot praise Thee,Death cannot celebrate Thee;They that go down into the pit cannot hope for Thy truth.¹⁹The living, the living, he shall praise Thee,As I do this day;The father to the children shall make known Thy truth.²⁰The Lord is ready to save me;Therefore we will sing songs to the stringed instrumentsAll the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

       ²¹And Isaiah said: 'Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.' ²²And Hezekiah said.' What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?'

      39At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. ²And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them his treasure-house, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, 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 showed them not. ³Then 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.' ⁴Then said he: 'What have they seen in thy house?' And Hezekiah answered: 'All that is in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.' ⁵Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah: 'Hear the word of the Lord of hosts: ⁶Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy 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. ⁷And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be officers in the palace of the king of Babylon.' ⁸Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah: 'Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken.' He said moreover: 'If but there shall be peace and truth in my days.'

      40Comfort ye, comfort ye My people,Saith your God.²Bid Jerusalem take heart,And proclaim unto her,That her time of service is accomplished,That her guilt is paid off;That she hath received of the Lord's handDouble for all her sins. ³Hark! one calleth:'Clear ye in the wilderness the way of the Lord,Make plain in the desertA highway for our God.⁴Every valley shall be lifted up,And every mountain and hill shall be made low;And the rugged shall be made level,And the rough places a plain;⁵And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,And all flesh shall see it together;For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.' ⁶Hark! one saith: 'Proclaim!'And he saith: 'What shall I proclaim?''All flesh is grass,And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field;⁷The grass withereth, the flower fadeth;Because the breath of the Lord bloweth upon it—Surely the people is grass.⁸The grass withereth, the flower fadeth;But the word of our God shall stand for ever.' ⁹O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion,Get thee up into the high mountain;O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem,Lift up thy voice with strength;Lift it up, be not afraid;Say unto the cities of Judah:'Behold your God! '¹⁰Behold, the Lord God will come as a Mighty One,And His arm will rule for Him;Behold, His reward is with Him,And His recompense before Him.¹¹Even as a shepherd that feedeth his flock,That gathereth the lambs in his arm,And carrieth them in his bosom,And gently leadeth those that give suck. ¹²Who 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?¹³Who hath meted out the spirit of the Lord?Or who was His counsellor that he might instruct Him?¹⁴With whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him,And taught Him in the path of right,And taught Him knowledge,And made Him to know the way of discernment?¹⁵Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket,And are counted as the small dust of the balance;Behold the isles are as a mote in weight.¹⁶And Lebanon is not sufficient fuel,Nor the beasts thereof sufficient for burnt-offerings.¹⁷All the nations are as nothing before Him;They are accounted by Him as things of nought, and vanity.¹⁸To whom then will ye liken God?Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?¹⁹The image perchance, which the craftsman hath melted,And the goldsmith spread over with gold,The silversmith casting silver chains?²⁰A holm-oak is set apart,He chooseth a tree that will not rot;He seeketh unto him a cunning craftsmanTo set up an image, that shall not be moved. ²¹Know ye not? hear ye not?Hath it not been told you from the beginning?Have ye not understood the foundations of the earth?²²It is He that sitteth above 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;²³That bringeth princes to nothing;He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.²⁴Scarce are they planted,Scarce are they sown,Scarce hath their stock taken root in the earth;When He bloweth upon them, they wither,And the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.²⁵To whom then will ye liken Me, that I should be equal?Saith the Holy One.²⁶Lift up your eyes on high,And see: who hath created these?He that bringeth out their host by number,He calleth them all by name;By the greatness of His might, and for that He is strong in power,Not one faileth. ²⁷Why sayest thou, O Jacob,And speakest, O Israel:'My way is hid from the Lord,And my right is passed over from my God'?²⁸Hast thou not known? hast thou not heardThat the everlasting God, the Lord,The Creator of the ends of the earth,Fainteth not, neither is weary?His discernment is past searching out.²⁹He giveth power to the faint;And to him that hath no might He increaseth strength.³⁰Even the youths shall faint and be weary,And the young men shall utterly fall;³¹But they that wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;They shall mount up with wings as eagles;They shall run, and not be weary;They shall walk, and not faint. 41Keep silence before Me, O islands,And let the peoples renew their strength;Let them draw near, then let them speak;Let us come near together to judgment.²Who hath raised up one from the east,At whose steps victory attendeth?He giveth nations before him,And maketh him rule over kings;His sword maketh them as the dust,His bow as the driven stubble.³He pursueth them, and passeth on safely;The way with his feet he treadeth not.⁴Who hath wrought and done it?He that called the generations from the beginning.I, the Lord, who am the first,And with the last am the same.⁵The isles saw, and feared;The ends of the earth trembled;They drew near, and came. ⁶They helped every one his neighbour;And every one said to his brother:'Be of good courage.'⁷So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith,And he that smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth the anvil,Saying of the soldering: 'It is good';And he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. ⁸But thou, Israel, My servant,Jacob whom I have chosen,The seed of Abraham My friend;⁹Thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth,And called thee from the uttermost parts thereof,And said unto thee: 'Thou art My servant,I have chosen thee and not cast thee away';¹⁰Fear thou not, for I am with thee,Be not dismayed, for I am thy God;I strengthen thee, yea, I help thee;Yea, I uphold thee with My victorious right hand.¹¹Behold, all they that were incensed against theeShall be ashamed and confounded;They that strove with theeShall be as nothing, and shall perish.¹²Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them,Even them that contended with thee;They that warred against theeShall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.¹³For I the Lord thy GodHold thy right hand,Who say unto thee: 'Fear not,I help thee.' ¹⁴Fear not, thou worm Jacob,And ye men of Israel;I help thee, saith the Lord,And thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.¹⁵Behold, I make thee a new threshing-sledgeHaving sharp teeth;Thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small,And shalt make the hills as chaff.¹⁶Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away,And the whirlwind shall scatter them;And thou shalt rejoice in the Lord,Thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁷The poor and needy seek water and there is none,And their tongue faileth for thirst;I the Lord will answer them,I the God of Israel will not forsake them.¹⁸I will open rivers on the high hills,And fountains in the midst of the valleys;I will make

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