12 The fmith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the ftrength of his arins: yea, he is hungry, and his ftrength faileth; he drinketh no water, and is faint. have seen the fire. 17 And the refidue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and faith; Deliver me, for thou art my God. 18 They have not known 13 The carpenter ftretch-nor understood: for he hath eth out his rule: he marketh fhut their eyes, that they it out with a line: he fitteth cannot fee; and their hearts, it with planes, and he mark- that they cannot understand. eth it out with the compass, 19 And none confidereth and maketh it after the figure in his heart, neither is there of a man, according to the knowledge nor understandbeauty of a man; that it may ing to fay, I have burnt part remain in the house. of it in the fire, yea, alfo I 14 He heweth him down have baked bread upon the cedars, and taketh the cy-coals thereof: I have roafted prefs and the oak, which he flesh, and eaten it, and shall ftrengtheneth for himfelf a- I make the refidue thereof mong the trees of the foreft: an abomination? fhall I fall he planteth an afh, and the down to the flock of a rain doth nourish it. tree? 20 He feedeth on afhes; a deceived heart hath turned 15 Then fhall it be for a it: he maketh it a graven 21 Remember thefe, O eth roaft, and is fatisfied: 22 I have blotted out as fins: return unto me, for I even faying to Jerufalem, have redeemed thee. Thou shalt be built; and to 23 Sing, O ye heavens; the temple, Thy foundation for the Lord hath done it: fhall be laid. CHAP. XLVI. bo stoopeth, their idols. were upon the beafts and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beaft. 2 They floop, they bow down together: they could 24 Thus faith the Lord thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things, that stretcheth not deliver the burden, but forth the heavens alone, that themfelves are gone into capspreadeth abroad the earth by tivity. myself: 3 Hearken unto me, O 25 That fruftrateth the house of Jacob, and all the tokens of the liars, and ma- remnant of the house of Isketh diviners mad, that rael, which are borne by me turneth wife men backward, from the belly, which are and maketh their knowledge carried from the womb. foolish. 26 That confirmeth the word of his fervant, and performeth the counfel of his meffengers; that faith to Jerufalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye fhall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: 4 And even to your old age, I am he; and even to hoary hairs will I carry you? I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. 5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? 27 That faith to the deep, 6 They lavish gold out of Be dry, and I will dry up the bag, and weigh filver in thy rivers: 28 That faith of Cyrus, He is my thepherd, and fhall perform all my pleasure the balance, and hire a goldfmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. 2 7 They bear him upon the fhoulder, they carry him, and fet him in his place, and he ftandeth; from his place fhall he not remove : yea, one fhall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor fave him out of his trouble. 8 Remember this, and fhew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye tranf greffors. 9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none elfe; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, faying, My counfel fhall ftand, and I will do all my pleasure : II Calling a ravenous bird from the eaft, the man that executeth my counfel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will alfo bring it to pafs; I have propofed it, I will alfo do it. 12 ¶ Hearken unto me, ye ftout-hearted, that are far from righteoufnefs." 13 I bring near my righteoufnefs; it fhall not be far off, and my falvation fhali not tarry and I will place Salvation in Zion for Ifrael my glory, L CHAP. XLIX. me; and hearken, ye ISTEN, O ifles, unto 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 fharp fword; in the fhadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polifhed fhaft; in his quiver hath he hid me, 3 And faid unto me, Thou art my fervant, O Ifrael, in whom I will be glorified. 4 Then I faid, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my ftrength for nought, and in vain; yet furely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. 5 And now, faith the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be his fervant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Ifrael be not gathered, yet fhall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God fhall be my ftrength. 6 And he faid, It is a light thing that thou fhouldeft be my fervant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to reftore the preferved of Ifrael: I will alfo give thee for a 8 Thus faith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of falvation have I helped thee: and I will preferve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to caufe to inherit the defolate heritages; high-ways fhall be exalted. 12 Behold, these fhall come from far: and lo, these from the north and from the weft, and these from the land of Sinim. 13 Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break forth into finging, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. 14 But Zion faid, The Lord hath forfaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. 15 Can a woman forget her fucking child, that the fhould not have compaffion on the fon of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands, thy walls are continually before me. 17 Thy children fhall make hafte; thy deftroyers, and they that made thee wafte, fhall go forth of thee. 9 That thou mayeft fay to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darknefs, Shew yourselves. They fhall feed in the ways, and their paftures shall be in all high places. 18 Lift up thine eyes 10 They fhall not hun-round about, and behold: ger nor thirst; neither fhall all thefe gather themselves the heat nor fun fmite them: together, and come to thee: for he that hath mercy on as I live, faith the Lord, thou them fhall lead them, even fhalt furely clothe thee with by the fprings of water fhall them all, as with an ornahe guide them. ment, and bind them on thee as a bride doth. II And I will make all my mountains a way, and my 8. 19 For thy wafte and thy defolate defolate places, and the land of thy destruction fhall even now be too narrow by reafon of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up fhall be far away. 20 The children which thou fhalt have, after thou haft loft the other, fhall fay again in thine ears, The place is too ftrait for me give place to me, that I may dwell. 21 Then fhalt thou fay in thine heart, Who hath begotten me thefe, feeing I have loft my children, and am defolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up thefe? Behold, I was left alone, thefe, where had they been? 22 Thus faith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and fet up my ftandard to the people and they fhall bring 'thy fons in their arms, and thy daughters fhall be carried upon their shoulders. 23 And kings fhall be thy nurling-fathers, and their queens thy nurfing-mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the duft of thy feet, and thou fhalt know that I am the Lord: for they fhall not be ashamed that wait for me. 24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? 25 But thus faith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty fhall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible fhall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will fave thy children. 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee, with their own fiefh, and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with fweet wine : and all flefh fhall know that I the Lord am thy faviour and thy redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. H CHAP. LI. Earken to me, ye that follow after righteoufnefs, ye that feek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. 3 For the Lord fhall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her wafte places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her defert. like the |