Nevi'im
Yesha'yahu56
Isaiah · Chapter 56
Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation
is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
Blessed
is the man
that doeth this, and the son of man
that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the shabbat from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), speak, saying, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I
am a dry tree.
For thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose
the things that please me, and take hold of my b'rit;
Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), to serve him, and to love the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), to be his servants, every one that keepeth the shabbat from polluting it, and taketh hold of my b'rit;
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
shall be
accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
The master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) which gathereth the outcasts of Yisra'el saith, Yet will I gather
others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour,
yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
His watchmen
are blind: they are all ignorant, they
are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Yea,
they are greedy dogs
which can never have enough, and they
are shepherds
that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Come ye,
say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day,
and
much more abundant.
Nevi'im
Yesha'yahu57
Isaiah · Chapter 57
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth
it to heart: and merciful men
are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil
to come.
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds,
each one
walking
in his uprightness.
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth,
and draw out the tongue?
are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
Among the smooth
stones of the stream
is thy portion; they, they
are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered
thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee
a b'rit with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest
it.
And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase
thyself even unto hell.
Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way;
yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid
it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take
them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name
is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy
place, with him also
that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls
which I have made.
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to
him that is
far off, and to
him that is near, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); and I will heal him.
But the wicked
are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
There is no peace, saith my Elohim, to the wicked.
Nevi'im
Yesha'yahu58
Isaiah · Chapter 58
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Ya'aqov their sins.
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their Elohim: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to Elohim.
Wherefore have we fasted,
say they, and thou seest not?
wherefore have we afflicted our nephesh, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as
ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his nephesh?
is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes
under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)?
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) shall be thy rereward.
Then shalt thou call, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I
am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
And
if thou draw out thy nephesh to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted nephesh; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness
be as the noonday:
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy nephesh in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
And
they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
If thou turn away thy foot from the shabbat,
from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the shabbat a delight, the holy of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking
thine own words:
Then shalt thou delight thyself in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Ya'aqov thy father: for the mouth of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath spoken
it.