words:
[14] Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places
of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken
it.
Isa.59
[1] Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot
hear:
[2] But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face
from you, that he will not hear.
[3] For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your
lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
[4] None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth
for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
[5] They hatch
cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed
breaketh out into a viper.
[6] Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves
with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
[7] Their feet
run to evil, and they make hast to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting
and destruction are in their paths.
[8] The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their
goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
[9] Therefore
is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness,
but we walk in darkness.
[10] We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we
stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
[11] We roar all like bears,
and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from
us.
[12] For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions
are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
[13] In transgressing and lying against the LORD,
and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the
heart words of falsehood.
[14] And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for
truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
[15] Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil
maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
[16] And
he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought
salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
[17] For he put on righteousness as a breastplate,
and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and
was clad with zeal as a cloke.
[18] According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries,
recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
[19] So shall they fear the name of
the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like
a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
[20] And the Redeemer shall come
to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
[21] As for me, this is my
covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy
mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy
seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
Isa.60
[1] Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
[2] For, behold, the
darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and
his glory shall be seen upon thee.
[3] And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness
of thy rising.
[4] Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come
to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
[5] Then thou shalt
see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea
shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
[6] The multitude of camels
shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring
gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.
[7] All the flocks of Kedar shall be
gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance
on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
[8] Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the
doves to their windows?
[9] Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy
sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy