 Chapter 59-66 of the Book of Isaiah from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Mark Penfold. Chapter 59-66 of Isaiah from the Young's Literal Translation. Chapter 59. Low, the hand of Jehovah hath not been shortened from saving, nor heavy his ear from hearing. But your iniquities have been separating between you and your God, and your sins have hidden the presence from you from hearing. For your hands have been polluted with blood, and your fingers with iniquity, your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue perverseness doth mutter. There is none calling in righteousness, and there is none pleading in faithfulness, trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity. Eggs of a viper they have hatched, and webs of a spider they weave, whoso is eating their eggs doth die, and the crushed hatcheth a viper. Their webs become not a garment, nor do they cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and a deed of violence is in their hands, their feet to evil do run, and they haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, spoiling and destruction are in their highways. A way of peace they have not known, and there is no judgment in their paths. Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, no treachery in it hath known peace. Therefore hath judgment been far from us, and righteousness reacheth us not. We wait for light and low darkness, for brightness in thick darkness we go. We feel like the blind for the wall, yea, as without eyes we feel. We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, in desolate places as the dead. We make a noise as bears, all of us, and as doves we coo sorely. We wait for judgment, and there is none. For salvation it hath been far from us. For our transgressions hath been multiplied before thee, and our sins hath testified against us. For our transgressions are with us. And our iniquities we have known them. Transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and removing from after our God, speaking oppression and apostasy, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood, and removed backward is judgment, and righteousness afar off standeth. For truth hath been feeble in the street, and straightforwardness is not able to enter, and the truth is lacking. And whoso is turning aside from evil is making himself a spoil, and Jehovah seeeth, and it is evil in his eyes that there is no judgment. And he seeeth that there is no man, and is astonished that there is no intercessor, and his own arm giveth salvation to him, and his righteousness it sustained him. And he puteth on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation on his head. And he puteth on garments of vengeance for clothing, and is covered as with an upper robe with zeal. According to deeds, so he repayeth fury to his adversaries, their deed to his enemies, to the aisles their deed he repayeth. And they fear from the west the name of Jehovah, and from the rising of the sun his honor. When come in as a flood doth an adversary, the spirit of Jehovah hath raised an ensign against him, and come to Zion hath a redeemer, even to captives of transgression in Jacob, an affirmation of Jehovah. And I, this is my covenant with them, said Jehovah, my spirit that is on thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth depart not from thy mouth, and from the mouth of thy seed, and from the mouth of thy seed's seed, said Jehovah, from henceforth unto the age. Chapter 60. Arise, be bright, for come hath thy light, and the honor of Jehovah hath risen on thee, for lo, the darkness doth cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples, and on thee rise doth Jehovah, and his honor on thee is seen, and come hath nations to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Lift up round about thine eyes and see, all of them have been gathered, they have come to thee, thy sons from afar do come, and thy daughters on the side are supported, then thou seest, and hast become bright, and thine heart hath been afraid and enlarged, for turn unto thee doth the multitude of the sea, the forces of nations do come to thee. A company of camels covereth thee, dromedaries of Midian and Itha, all of them from Sheba do come, gold and frankincense they bear, and of the praises of Jehovah they proclaim the tidings. All the flock of Kedar are gathered to thee, the rams of Nabaioth do serve thee, they ascend for acceptance mine altar, and the house of my beauty I beautify. Who are these, as a thick cloud they fly, and as doves unto their windows? Surely for me aisles do wait, and ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of Jehovah thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath beautified thee. And sons of a stranger have built by walls, and their kings do serve thee, for in my wrath I have smitten thee, and in my good pleasure I have pitied thee, and opened have thy gates continually, by day and by night they are not shut, to bring unto thee the force of nations, even their kings are led. For the nation and the kingdom that do not serve thee perish, yea the nations are utterly wasted. The honor of Lebanon unto thee doth come, fur, pine, and box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and the place of my feet I make honorable, and come unto thee, bowing down have sons of those afflicting thee, and bowed themselves to the soles of thy feet, have all despising thee, and they have cried to thee, City of Jehovah, Zion of the Holy One of Israel, instead of thy being forsaken and hated, and none passing through, I have made thee for an excellency age during, a joy of generation and generation, and thou hast sucked the milk of nations, yea the breast of kings thou suckest, and thou hast known that I, Jehovah, thy Savior, and thy Redeemer, am the mighty one of Jacob. Instead of the brass I bring in gold, and instead of the iron I bring in silver, and instead of the wood brass, and instead of the stone iron, and I have made thy inspection peace, and thy exactors righteousness. Violence is not heard any more in thy land, spoiling and destruction in thy borders, and thou hast called salvation thy walls, and thy gates praise. To thee no more is the sun for a light by day, and for brightness the moon giveth not light to thee, and Jehovah hath become to thee a light age during, and thy God thy beauty. Thy sun goeth no more in, and thy moon is not removed, for Jehovah becomeeth to thee a light age during, and the days of thy mourning hath been completed, and thy people are all of them righteous, to the age they possess the earth, a branch of my planting, a work of my hands, to be beautified. The little one doth become a chief, and the small one a mighty nation, I, Jehovah, in its own time do hasten it. Chapter 61. The spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, because Jehovah did anoint me to proclaim tidings to the humble. He sent me to bind the broken of heart, to proclaim to captives liberty, and to bound ones an opening of bands, to proclaim the year of the good pleasure of Jehovah, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all mourners, to appoint two mourners in Zion, to give to them beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, a covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, and he is calling to them, trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, to be beautified, and they have built the wastes of old, the desolations of the ancients they raise up, and they have renewed waste cities, the desolations of generation and generation, and strangers hath stood and fed your flock, sons of a foreigner are your husband men, and your vine dressers, and ye are called priests of Jehovah, ministers of our God is said of you, the strength of nations ye consume, and in their honor ye do boast yourselves, instead of your shame and confusion, a second time they sing of their portion, therefore in their land a second time do they take possession, joy age-during is for them, for I am Jehovah, loving judgment, hating plunder for a burnt offering, and I have given their wage in truth, and a covenant age-during I make for them, and known among nations hath been their seed, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples, all their beholders acknowledge them, for they are a seed Jehovah hath blessed. I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, joy doth my soul and my God, for he clothed me with garments of salvation, with a robe of righteousness covereth me, as a bride groom prepareth ornaments, and as a bride puteth on her jewels, for as the earth bringeth forth her shoots, and as a garden causeth its own things to shoot up, so the Lord Jehovah causeth righteousness and praise to shoot up before all the nations. Chapter 62 For Zion's sake I am not silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I do not rest, till her righteousness go out as brightness, and her salvation as a torch that burneth, and nations have seen thy righteousness, and all kings thine honor, and he is giving to thee a new name that the mouth of Jehovah doth define, and thou hast been a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a diadem of royalty in the hand of thy God. It is not said of thee any more forsaken, and of thy land it is not said any more desolate, for to thee is cried, my delight is in her, and to thy land, married. For Jehovah hath delighted in thee, and thy land is married. For a young man doth marry a virgin, thy builders do marry thee, with the joy of a bride groom over a bride, rejoice over thee doth thy God. On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all the day and all the night, continually they are not silent. O ye remembrancers of Jehovah, keep not silence for yourselves, and give not silence to him, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. Sworn hath Jehovah by his right hand, even by the arm of his strength. I give not thy corn any more as food for thine enemies, nor do sons of a stranger drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored. For those gathering it do eat it, and have praised Jehovah, and those collecting it do drink it in my holy courts. Pass ye on, pass on through the gates, prepare ye the way of the people, raise up, raise up the highway, clear it from stones, lift up an ensign over the peoples. Lo Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, say ye to the daughter of Zion, lo thy salvation hath come, lo his hire is with him, and his wage before him, and they have cried to them, people of the holy one redeemed of Jehovah, ye to thee is called, sought out one, a city not forsaken. Chapter 63 Who is this coming from Edom with dyed garments from Basra, this that is honorable in his clothing, traveling in the abundance of his power? I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save, wherefore is thy clothing red, and thy garments as treading in a wine fat, a wine press I have trodden by myself, and of the peoples there is no one with me, and I tread them in mine anger, and I trample them in my fury, sprinkled is their strength from my garments, and all my clothing I have polluted, for the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed hath come, and I look attentively, and there is none helping, and I am astonished that there is none supporting, and give salvation to me doth mine own arm, and my wrath it hath supported me, and I tread down peoples in mine anger, and I make them drunk in my fury, and I bring down to earth their strength, the kind acts of Jehovah I make mention of, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath done for us, and the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel that he hath done for them, according to his mercies, and according to the abundance of his kind acts, and he saith only my people they are, sons, they lie not, and he is to them for a savior in all their distress, he is no adversary, and the messenger of his presence saved them in his love, and in his pity he redeemed them, and he doth lift them up, and beareth them all the days of old, and they have rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit, and he turneth to them for an enemy he himself hath fought against them, and he remembereth the days of old, Moses his people, where is he who is bringing them up from the sea, the shepherd of his flock, where is he who is putting in its midst his Holy Spirit, leading by the right hand of Moses, the arm of his glory, cleaving waters from before them, to make to himself a name aged during, leading them through the depths, as a horse in a plane they stumble not, as a beast into a valley goeth down, the Spirit of Jehovah causeth him to rest, so hast thou led thy people to make to thyself a glorious name. Look attentively from the heavens, and see from thy holy and beauteous habitation, where is thy zeal and thy might? The multitude of thy bowels and thy mercies towards me have refrained themselves, for thou art our Father, for Abraham hath not known us, and Israel doth not acknowledge us. Thou, O Jehovah, art our Father, our Redeemer from the age, is thy name. Why causest thou us to wander, O Jehovah, from thy ways? Thou hardenest our heart from thy fear. Turn back for thy servant's sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. For a little while did thy holy people possess, our adversaries hath trodden down thy sanctuary. We have been from of old, thou hast not ruled over them. Not called is thy name upon them. Chapter 64 Didst thou not ren the heavens? Thou didst come down from thy presence did mountains flow, as fire kindleth stubble, fire causeth water to boil, to make known thy name to thine adversaries, from thy presence do nations tremble, in thy doing fearful things we expect not. Thou didst come down from thy presence did mountains flow, even from antiquity men have not heard, they have not given ear. I hath not seen a God save thee, he doth work for those waiting for him. Thou hast met with a rejoicer, and the doer of righteousness. In thy ways they remember thee, lo, thou hast been wroth when we sin. By them is continuance, and we are saved, and we are as unclean, all of us, and as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts, and we fade as a leaf, all of us, and our iniquities as wind do take us away, and there is none calling in thy name, stirring up himself to lay hold on thee, for thou hast hid thy face from us, and thou meltest us away by our iniquities. And now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father, we are the clay, and thou our framer, and the work of thy hand, all of us. Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, nor forever remember iniquity. Lo, look attentively, we beseech thee, thy people are we all. Thy holy cities have been a wilderness, Zion a wilderness have been, Jerusalem a desolation, our holy and our beautiful house, where praise thee did our Fathers hath become burnt with fire, and all our desirable things have become a waste. For these dost thou refrain thyself, Jehovah? Thou art silent, and dost afflict us very sore. Chapter 65 I have been inquired of by those who asked not. I have been found by those who sought me not. I have said, behold me, behold me, unto a nation not calling in my name. I have spread out my hands all the day unto an apostate people who are going in the way not good after their own thoughts, the people who are provoking me to anger, to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making perfume on the bricks, who are dwelling among sepulchres, and lodge in reserved places, who are eating flesh of the sow, and a piece of abominable things, their vessels, who are saying, keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, for I have declared thee unholy. These are a smoke in mine anger, a fire burning all the day. Lo, it is written before me, I am not silent, but have recompensed, and I have recompensed into their bosom, your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, who have made perfume on the mountains, and on the heights have reproached me, and I have measured their former work into their bosom. Thus, said Jehovah, as the new wine is found in the cluster, and one hath said, destroy it not for a blessing is in it, so I do for my servant's sake not to destroy the whole. And I have brought out from Jacob a seed, and from Judah a possessor of my mount, and possess it do my chosen ones, and my servants do dwell there, and Sharon hath been for the habitation of a flock, and the valley of Acor for the lying down of a herd, for my people who have sought me. And he are those forsaking Jehovah, who are forgetting my holy mountain, who are setting in array for Gad a table, and who are filling for Manny a mixture, and I have numbered you for the sword, and all of you for slaughter bow down, because I called, and ye have not answered, I have spoken, and ye have not harkened, and ye do the evil thing in mine eyes, and on that which I desired not fixed. Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah, lo, my servants do eat, and ye do hunger, lo, my servants do drink, and ye do thirst, lo, my servants rejoice, and ye are ashamed, lo, my servants sing from joy of heart, and ye cry from pain of heart, and from breaking of spirit ye do howl, and ye have left your name for an oath for my chosen ones, and the Lord Jehovah hath put thee to death, and to his servants he giveth another name, so that he who is blessing himself in the earth doth bless himself in the God of faithfulness, and he who is swearing in the earth doth swear by the God of faithfulness, because the former distresses have been forgotten, and because they have been hid from mine eyes. For, lo, I am creating new heavens and a new earth, and the former things are not remembered, nor do they ascend on the heart. But joy ye and rejoice forever that I am creator, for, lo, I am creating Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I have rejoiced in Jerusalem, and have joyed in my people, and not heard in her any more is the voice of weeping and the voice of crying. There is not dense any more a suckling of days, and an aged man who doth not complete his days, for the youth a hundred years old dyeth, and the sinner a hundred years old is lightly esteemed. And they have built houses, and inhabited, and planted vineyards, and eaten their fruit. They do not build, and another inhabit. They do not plant, and another eat. For as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and the work of their hands wear out do my chosen ones. They labor not for a vain thing, nor do they bring forth for trouble, for the seed of the blessed of Jehovah are they, and their offspring with them. And it hath come to pass, they do not yet call, and I answer. They are yet speaking, and I hear. Wolf and lamb do feed as one, and a lion as an ox eateth straw, as to the serpent. Dust is its food. They do no evil, nor destroy. In all my holy mountain, said Jehovah. Chapter 66. Thus said Jehovah. The heavens are my throne, and the earth my footstool. Where is this, the house that ye build for me? And where is this, the place, my rest? And all these my hand hath made. And all these things are an affirmation of Jehovah. And unto this one I look attentively, unto the humble and bruised in spirit, and who is trembling at my word. Whoso slaughtereth the ox, smiteeth a man. Whoso sacrifices the lamb, beheadeth a dog. Whoso is bringing up a present, the blood of a sow. Whoso is making mention of frankincense, is blessing iniquity. Yea, they have fixed on their own ways, and in their abominations their soul hath delighted. I also, I fix on their vexations, and their fears I bring in to them, because I have called, and there is none answering. I spake, and they have not harkened. And they do the evil things in my eyes, and on that which I desired not fixed. Hear a word of Jehovah ye who are trembling unto his word, said have your brethren who are hating you, who are driving you out for my namesake. Honored is Jehovah, and we look on your joy, but they are ashamed. The voice of noise is from the city, a voice from the temple, the voice of Jehovah, giving recompense to his enemies. Before she is pained, she hath brought forth. Before a pain cometh to her, she hath delivered a mail. Who hath heard anything like this? Who hath seen anything like these? Is earth caused to bring forth in one day? Born is a nation at once? For she hath been pained, Zion also hath borne her sons. Do I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? Sayeth Jehovah. Am not I he who is causing to beget? I have also restrained, said thy God. Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad in her, all ye loving her. Rejoice ye with her for joy, all ye are mourning for her, so that ye suck, and have been satisfied from the breast of her consolations, so that ye ring out, and have delighted yourselves from the abundance of her honor. For thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am stretching out to her peace as a river, and as an overflowing stream, the honor of nations, and ye have sucked on the side ye are carried, and on the knees ye are dandled, as one whom his mother comforteth. So do I comfort you, ye in Jerusalem, ye are comforted, and ye have seen, and rejoiced hath your heart, and your bones as tender grass do flourish, and the hand of Jehovah hath been known unto his servants, and he hath been indignant with his enemies. For Lo, Jehovah in fire cometh, and as a hurricane his chariots, to refresh in fury his anger, and his rebuke in flames of fire. For by fire and by his sword doth Jehovah do judgment with all flesh, and many have been Jehovah's pierced ones, those sanctifying and cleansing themselves at the gardens, after ahad in the midst, eating flesh of the sow, and of the abomination, and of the mouse, together are consumed an affirmation of Jehovah. And I, their works and their thoughts, I come to gather all the nations and tongues, and they have come and seen my honor, and I have set among them a sign, and have sent out of them those escaping unto the nations, Tarshish, Pool, and Ludd, Drawing Bow, Tubal and Javan, the Isles that are far off, who have not heard my fame, nor seen my honor, and they have declared my honor among nations, and they have brought all your brethren out of all the nations, a present to Jehovah, on horses, and on chariot, and on litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, unto my holy mountain Jerusalem, said Jehovah. As the sons of Israel bring the present in a clean vessel into the house of Jehovah, and also of them I take for priests, for Levites, said Jehovah. For as the new heavens and the new earth that I am making are standing before me, an affirmation of Jehovah, so remain doth your seed and your name, and it hath been from month to month, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, come do all flesh to bow themselves before me, said Jehovah, and they have gone forth, and looked on the carcasses of the men who are transgressing against me, for their worm dyeth not, and their fire is not quenched, and they have been an abhorrence to all flesh. The end of chapters 59 through 66, and the end of the book of Isaiah from the Young's Literal Translation of the Bible. Recording by Mark Penfold.