Isaias

10 Sing unto the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth; ye that go down (to) the sea, and the fulness thereof; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up (their voice): the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of Sela shout, let them cry aloud from the top of mountains.

12 They shall give honour to the Lord, and tell his praise among the isles.

13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall rouse up zeal like a man of war: he shall shout, yea, roar; he shall do mightily against his enemies.

14 I have been silent from of old: I have been still, and refrained myself; (now) will I cry like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.

15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbage; and I will turn rivers to islands, and I will dry up pools.

16 And I will make the blind walk by a way that they knew not; I will make them tread in paths they knew not; I will turn darkness to light before them, and uneven places into a plain. These are the things, I will do them, and will not abandon them.

17 They are turned back; they shall be ashamed, that trust in the graven images, that say to the molten image, Ye are our gods.

18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

19 Who is blind, but my servant, and deaf, but my messenger whom I (shall) send? who is blind as the surrendered one, and blind as the Lord's servant?

20 Thou hast seen many things, but thou observest Inot: opening the ears, and he heareth not.

21 The Lord was pleased for his righteousness’ sake: he make the law great, and make it glorious.

22 And it is a people spoiled and robbed: snared in holes all of them, and hidden in houses of confinement; they are for a spoil, and there is none that delivereth; a prey, and none that saith, Restore.

23 Who among you will give ear to this? will hearken, and hear for the time to come?

24 Who gave up Jacob for a prey, and Israel to spoilers? was it not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, and heard not his law.

25 And be poured upon him fury, his anger, and the violence of war; and it set him on fire round about, and he knew not; and kindled upon him, and he laid it not to heart.

XLIII. 1 And now thus saith the Lord, that created thee, O Jacob, and that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not; for I have redeemed thee, I have called (thee) by thy name, thou (art) mine.

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 scorched, and the flame shall not kindle upon thee.

3 For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead.

4 Since thou art (become) precious in mine eyes, hast been honoured, and I have loved thee; therefore I will give man in thy stead, and people for thy life.