All they that see them shall acknowledge them,
That they are a seed, which JEHOVAH hath blessed,

10 I will greatly rejoice in JEHOVAH;

My soul shall exult in my God.

For he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation.
He hath covered me with the mantle of righteousness:
As the bridegroom decketh himself with a priestly crown;
And as the bride adorneth herself with her costly jewels.
11 Surely, as the earth pusheth forth her tender shoots;
And as a garden maketh her seed to germinate :

So shall the Lord JEHOVAH cause righteousness to spring forth;
And praise, in the presence of all the nations.

CHAP. LXII.

1 FOR Sion's sake I will not keep silence;
And for the sake of Jerusalem I will not rest:
Until her righteousness break forth as a strong light:
And her salvation, like a blazing torch.

2 And the nations shall see thy righteousness;

And all the kings, thy glory:

And thou shalt be called by a new name,

Which the mouth of JEHOVAH shall fix upon thee.

3 And thou shalt be a beautiful crown in the hand of JEHOVAH; And a royal diadem in the grasp of thy God.

4 No more shall it be said unto thee, Thou forsaken!

Neither to thy land shall it be said any more, Thou desolate! But thou shalt be called, The object of my delight;

And thy land, The wedded matron :

For JEHOVAH shall delight in thee;

And thy land shall be joined in marriage.

5 For as a young man weddeth a virgin, So shall thy restorer wed thee:

And as the bridegroom rejoiceth in his bride,

So shall thy God rejoice in thee.

6 Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,

Have I set watchmen all the day;

And all the night long they shall not keep silence.
O ye, that proclaim the name of JEHOVAH!

7 Keep not silence yourselves, nor let him rest in silence;

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Until he establish, and until he render,

Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

8 JEHOVAH hath sworn by his right hand, and by his powerful

arm:

I will no more give thy corn for food to thine enemies ;

Nor shall the sons of the stranger drink thy must, for which thou hast laboured:

9 But they that reap the harvest, shall eat it, and praise JEнovah; And they, that gather the vintage, shall drink it in my sacred

courts.

Pass ye, pass through the gates; prepare the way for the people!

Cast ye up, cast up the caussey; clear it from the stones!
Lift up on high a standard to the nations!

11 Behold, JEHOVAH hath thus proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say ye to the daughter of Sion, Lo thy saviour cometh!!

Lo! his reward is with him, and the recompense of his work before him.

And they shall be called, The holy people, The redeemed of

JEHOVAH :

12 And thou shalt be called, The much desired, The city unforsaken.

CHAP. LXIII. 1 CHO.

WHO is this that cometh from Edom ?

With garments deeply died from Botsra P
This, that is magnificent in his apparel ;

Marching on in the greatness of his strength?

MES. I, who publish righteousness, and am mighty to save. 2 CHO. Wherefore is thine apparel red ?

And thy garments as of one that treadeth the wine-vat?

3 MES. I have trodden the vat alone;

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And of the peoples there was not a man with me.

And I trod them in mine anger;

And I trampled them in mine indignation:

And their life-blood was sprinkled upon my garments;

And I have stained all mine apparel.

For the day of vengeance was in my heart;

And the year of my redeemed was come.
And I looked, and there was no one to help;

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And I was astonished, that there was no one to uphold:
Therefore mine own arm wrought salvation for me,
And mine indignation itself sustained me.

And I trod down the peoples in mine anger;
And I crushed them in mine indignation;

And I spilled their life-blood on the ground.

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THE mercies of JEHOVAH will I record, the praise of JE

HOVAH;

According to all that JEHOVAH hath bestowed upon us:

And the greatness of his goodness to the house of Israel;

Which he hath bestowed upon them, through his tenderness and great kindness.

8 For he said: Surely they are my people, children that will not prove false;

And he became their saviour in all their distress.

9 It was not an envoy, nor an angel of his presence, that saved

them :

Through his love, and his indulgence, He himself redeemed

them :

And he took them up, and he bare them, all the days of old. 10 But they rebelled, and grieved his Holy Spirit;

So that he became their enemy; and he fought against them. 11 And he remembered the days of old, Moses his servant; How he brought them up from the sea, with the shepherd of his flock;

How he placed in his breast his holy spirit:

12 Making his glorious arm to attend Moses on his right hand in his march;

Cleaving the waters before them, to make himself a name ev

erlasting;

13 Leading them through the abyss, like a courser in the plain, without obstacle.

14 As the herd descendeth to the valley, the spirit of JEHOVAH conducted them :

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So didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a name illus

trious.

Look down from heaven, and see, from thy holy and glori

The yearning of thy bowels, and thy tender affections ? are

they restrained from us?

16 Verily, thou art our Father; for Abraham knoweth us not, And Israel doth not acknowledge us.

Thou, O JEHOVAH, art our Father:

O deliver us for the sake of thy name!

17 Wherefore, O JEHOVAH, dost thou suffer us to err from thy ways?

To harden our hearts from the fear of thee?

Return, for the sake of thy servants;

For the sake of the tribes of thine inheritance.

18 It is little, that they have taken possession of thy holy moun

tain;

That our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary:

19 We have long been as those, whom thou hast not ruled; Who have not been called by thy name.

CHAP. LXIV. 1 O! that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that thou wouldst descend;

That the mountains might flow down at thy presence!

2 As the fire kindleth the dry fuel;

As the fire causeth the waters to boil:

To make known thy name to thine enemies ;

That the nations might tremble at thy presence.

3 When thou didst wonderful things, which we expected not; Thou didst desend; at thy presence the mountains flowed down. 4 For never have men heard, nor perceived by the ear;

Nor hath eye seen, a God beside thee,

Who doeth such things for those that trust in him. 5 Thou meetest with joy those, who work righteousness; Who in thy ways remember thee:

Lo! Thou art angry; for we have sinned:

Because of our deeds; for we have been rebellious.

6 And we are all of us as a polluted thing;

And like a rejected garment are all our righteous deeds:
And we are withered away, like a leaf, all of us;
And our sins, like the wind, have borne us away.
7 There is no one, that invoketh thy name;
That rouseth himself up to lay hold on thee:
Therefore thou hast hidden thy face from us;

And hast delivered us up into the hand of our iniquities.

9 But thou, O JEHOVAH, thou art our Father; We are the clay, and thou hast formed us: We are all of us the work of thy hands.

9 Be not wroth, O JEHOVAH, to the uttermost;

Nor forever remember iniquity.

Behold, look upon us, we beseech thee; we are all thy people. 10 Thy holy cities are become a wilderness;

Sion is become a wilderness; Jerusalem is desolate.

11 Our holy and glorious temple,

Wherein our fathers praised thee,

Is utterly burnt up with fire;

And all the objects of our desire are become a devastation. 12 Wilt thou contain thyself at these things, O JEHOVAH ? Wilt thou keep silence, and still grievously afflict us ?

CHAP. LXV.

1 I AM made known to those, that asked not for me; I am found of those, that sought me not:

I have said: Behold me, here I am,

To the nation, which never invoked my name:

2 I have stretched out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, Who walk in an evil way, after their own devices,

3 A people, who provoke me to my face continually;

Sacrificing in the gardens, and burning incense on the tiles: 4 Who dwell in the sepulchres, and lodge in the caverns; Who eat the flesh of the swine;

And the broth of abominable meats is in their vessels.

5 Who say: Keep to thyself; come not near me; for I am holier than thou.

These kindle a smoke in my nostrils, a fire burning all the day

long.

6 Behold, this is recorded in writing before me :

I will not keep silence, but will certainly requite;

7 I will requite into their bosom their iniquities;

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And the iniquities of their fathers together, saith JEHOVAH. Who burnt incense on the mountains, and dishonoured me upon the hills :

Yea I will pour into their bosom the full measure of their former deeds.

Thus saith JEHOVAH :