Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not hold my peace, unless I requite, and I will requite into their bosom,

7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD; which burned incense on the mountains, and reproached me upon the hills: and I will measure their recompense first into their bosom.

8 Thus saith the LORD, As when the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servants’ sake, not to destroy the whole.

9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah a possessor of my mountains; and my chosen ones shall possess it, and my servants shall (go to) dwell there.

10 And Sharon shall become a home for flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting place for oxen, for my people that have inquired of me.

11 And as for you, that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that set in order a table for Fortune, that fill up a mingled draught for Destiny:

[*](4. Or, ‘who dwell...and pass the night in guarded places.)[*](5. Or, possibly, ‘I sanctify thee. ...)[*](7. ‘reproached,' or, ‘insulted.’)[*](9 fin. Lit. ‘shall dwell thither.)
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12 I will (even) destine you for the sword, and ye shall all crouch down to the slaughter; because I called, and ye did not answer; I spake, and ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I took not pleasure.

13 Therefore, thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, and ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, and ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, and ye shall be ashamed:

14 Behold, my servants shall sing for happiness of heart, and ye shall cry out for pain of heart, and shall howl for breaking of spirit.

15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen and the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name;

16 So that he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself by the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the first distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

17 For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the first things shall not be remembered, nor come up into the heart.