Nevi'im
Yesha'yahu46
Isaiah · Chapter 46
Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages
were heavy loaden;
they are
a burden to the weary
beast.
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
Hearken unto me, O house of Ya'aqov, and all the remnant of the house of Yisra'el, which are borne
by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
And
even to
your old age I
am he; and
even to hoar hairs will I carry
you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver
you.
To whom will ye liken me, and make
me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance,
and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a elohim: they fall down, yea, they worship.
They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea,
one
shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
Remember the former things of old: for I
am Elohim, and
there is none else;
I am Elohim, and
there is
none like me,
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times
the things that are not
yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken
it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed
it, I will also do it.
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that
are far from righteousness:
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Tsiyon for Yisra'el my glory.
Nevi'im
Yesha'yahu47
Isaiah · Chapter 47
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Bavel, sit on the ground:
there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet
thee as a man.
As for our redeemer, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) of hosts
is his name, the Holy One of Yisra'el.
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever:
so that thou didst not lay these
things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
Therefore hear now this,
thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I
am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit
as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
But these two
things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries,
and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I
am, and none else beside me.
Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put if off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly,
which thou shalt not know.
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from
these things that shall come upon thee.
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame:
there shall
not
be a coal to warm at,
nor fire to sit before it.
Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured,
even
thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
Nevi'im
Yesha'yahu48
Isaiah · Chapter 48
Hear ye this, O house of Ya'aqov, which are called by the name of Yisra'el, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and make mention of the Elohim of Yisra'el,
but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the Elohim of Yisra'el; 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) of hosts
is his name.
I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did
them suddenly, and they came to pass.
Because I knew that thou
art obstinate, and thy neck
is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
I have even from the beginning declared
it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed
it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare
it?
I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time
that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
For mine own sake,
even for mine own sake, will I do
it: for how should
my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
Hearken unto me, O Ya'aqov and Yisra'el, my called; I
am he; I
am the first, I also
am the last.
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the shamayim:
when I call unto them, they stand up together.
All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these
things? 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Bavel, and his arm
shall be on the Chaldeans.
I,
even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there
am I: and now the master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and his Spirit, hath sent me.
Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Yisra'el; I
am
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way
that thou shouldest go.
O that thou hadst hearkened to my mitsvot! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
Go ye forth of Bavel, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it
even to the end of the earth; say ye, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath redeemed his servant Ya'aqov.
And they thirsted not
when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
There is no peace, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), unto the wicked.