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42:1 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.
42:2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the
 street.
42:3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not
 quench:  he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
42:4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the
 earth:  and the isles shall wait for his law.
42:5 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:
42:6 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;
42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
 and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
42:8 I am the LORD:  that is my name:  and my glory will I not give to
 another, neither my praise to graven images.
42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I
 declare:  before they spring forth I tell you of them.
42:10 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.
42:11 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.
42:12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the
 islands.
42:13 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.
42:14 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.
42:15 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.
42:16 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.
42:17 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.
42:18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
42:19 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?
42:20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he
 heareth not.
42:21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify
 the law, and make it honourable.
42:22 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.
42:23 Who among you will give ear to this?  who will hearken and hear for
 the time to come?
42:24 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.
42:25 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.

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43:1 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.
43:2 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.
43:3 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.
43:4 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.
43:5 Fear not:  for I am with thee:  I will bring thy seed from the east,
 and gather thee from the west;
43:6 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;
43:7 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.
43:8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have
 ears.
43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be
 assembled:  who among them can declare this, and show us former things? 
 let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified:  or let
 them hear, and say, It is truth.
43:10 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.
43:11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
43:12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have showed, when there was
 no strange god among you:  therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the
 LORD, that I am God.
43:13 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?
43:14 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.
43:15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
43:16 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the
 mighty waters;
43:17 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.
43:18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
43:19 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.
43:20 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.
43:21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.
43:22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of
 me, O Israel.
43:23 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.
43:24 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.
43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own
 sake, and will not remember thy sins.
43:26 Put me in remembrance:  let us plead together:  declare thou, that
 thou mayest be justified.
43:27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed
 against me.
43:28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given
 Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

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44:1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
44:2 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.
44:3 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:
44:4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water
 courses.
44:5 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.
44:6 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.
44:7 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 show unto them.
44:8 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.
44:9 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.
44:10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable
 for nothing?
44:11 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.
44:12 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.
44:13 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.
44:14 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.
44:15 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.
44:16 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:
44:17 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.
44:18 They have not known nor understood:  for he hath shut their eyes, that
 they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
44:19 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?
44:20 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?
44:21 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.
44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a
 cloud, thy sins:  return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
44:23 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.
44:24 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;
44:25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad;
 that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
44:26 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:
44:27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
44:28 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.

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45:1 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;
45:2 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:
45:3 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.
45:4 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.
45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me:
  I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
45:6 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.
45:7 I form the light, and create darkness:  I make peace, and create evil: 
 I the LORD do all these things.
45:8 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.
45:9 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?
45:10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou?  or to
 the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
45:11 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.
45:12 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.
45:13 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.
45:14 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.
45:15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the
 Saviour.
45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them:  they shall
 go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
45:17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation:
  ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
45:18 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.
45:19 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.
45:20 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.
45:21 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.
45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:  for I am
 God, and there is none else.
45:23 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.
45:24 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.
45:25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall
 glory.

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46:1 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.
46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden,
 but themselves are gone into captivity.
46:3 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:
46:4 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.
46:5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we
 may be like?
46:6 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.
46:7 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.
46:8 Remember this, and show yourselves men:  bring it again to mind, O ye
 transgressors.
46:9 Remember the former things of old:  for I am God, and there is none
 else; I am God, and there is none like me,
46:10 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:
46:11 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.
46:12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
46:13 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.

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47:1 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.
47:2 Take the millstones, and grind meal:  uncover thy locks, make bare the
 leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
47:3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen:  I will
 take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
47:4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of
 Israel.
47:5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the
 Chaldeans:  for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given
 them into thine hand:  thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient hast
 thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
47:7 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.
47:8 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:
47:9 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.
47:10 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.
47:11 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.
47:12 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.
47:13 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.
47:14 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.
47:15 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.

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48:1 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.
48:2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the
 God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
48:3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went
 forth out of my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly, and they
 came to pass.
48:4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron
 sinew, and thy brow brass;
48:5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to
 pass I showed it thee:  lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done
 them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
48:6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it?  I have
 showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst
 not know them.
48:7 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.
48:8 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.
48:9 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.
48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee
 in the furnace of affliction.
48:11 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.
48:12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the
 first, I also am the last.
48:13 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.
48:14 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.
48:15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him:  I have brought him,
 and he shall make his way prosperous.
48:16 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.
48:17 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.
48:18 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:
48:19 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.
48:20 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.
48:21 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.
48:22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

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49:1 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.
49:2 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;
49:3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be
 glorified.
49:4 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.
49:5 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.
49:6 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.
49:7 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.
49:8 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;
49:9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in
 darkness, Show yourselves.  They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures
 shall be in all high places.
49:10 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.
49:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be
 exalted.
49:12 Behold, these shall come from far:  and, lo, these from the north and
 from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
49:13 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.
49:14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten
 me.
49:15 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.
49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls
 are continually before me.
49:17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee
 waste shall go forth of thee.
49:18 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.
49:19 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.
49:20 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.
49:21 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?
49:22 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.
49:23 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.
49:24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive
 delivered?
49:25 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.
49:26 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.

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50:1 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.
50:2 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.
50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their
 covering.
50:4 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.
50:5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither
 turned away back.
50:6 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.
50:7 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.
50:8 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.
50:9 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.
50:10 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.
50:11 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
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51:1 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.
51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you:  for I
 called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
51:3 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.
51:4 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.
51:5 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.
51:6 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.
51:7 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.
51:8 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.
51:9 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?
51:10 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?
51:11 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.
51:12 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;
51:13 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?
51:14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should
 not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
51:15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared:
  The LORD of hosts is his name.
51:16 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.
51:17 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.
51:18 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.
51:19 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?
51:20 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.
51:21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with
 wine:
51:22 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:
51:23 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.