any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD
delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
[5] For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy
sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
[6]
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye
that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
[7] And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he
make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
[8] The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his
strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger
shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
[9] But they that have gathered it shall eat it,
and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
[10]
Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather
out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
[11] Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of
the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him,
and his work before him.
[12] And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and
thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
Isa.63
[1] Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his
apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
[2]
Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
[3] I have
trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine
anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain
all my raiment.
[4] For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
[5]
And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine
own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
[6] And I will tread down the people in
mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
[7] I will
mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD
hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on
them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
[8] For he said,
Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
[9] In all their affliction he
was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and
he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
[10] But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore
he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
[11] Then he remembered the days of old,
Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of
his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
[12] That led them by the right hand of Moses
with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
[13] That
led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
[14] As a beast
goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people,
to make thyself a glorious name.
[15] Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy
holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies
toward me? are they restrained?
[16] Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us,
and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
[17]
O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return
for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
[18] The people of thy holiness have possessed it
but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
[19] We are thine: thou never barest
rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
Isa.64
[1] Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might
flow down at thy presence,
[2] As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to
make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
[3] When thou
didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
[4]
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye