Daily Reading

Isaiah 49:1-52:12

49:1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
49:2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow
of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in
his quiver hath he hid me;

49:3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom
I will be glorified.

49:4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my
strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is
with the LORD, and my work with my God.

49:5 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to
be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be
not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD,
and my God shall be my strength.

49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my
servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the
Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the
earth.

49:7 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy
One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation
abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise,
princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is
faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose
thee.

49:8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard
thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will
preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to
establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate
heritages;

49:9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them
that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the
ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat
nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead
them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

49:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways
shall be exalted.

49:12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the
north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

49:13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth
into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his
people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

49:14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath
forgotten me.

49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not
have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget,
yet will I not forget thee.

49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands;
thy walls are continually before me.

49:17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they
that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

49:18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these
gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live,
saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as
with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

49:19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy
destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the
inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

49:20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost
the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too
strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

49:21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me
these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a
captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up
these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they
been?

49:22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand
to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they
shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall
be carried upon their shoulders.

49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens
thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their
face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and
thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be
ashamed that wait for me.

49:24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful
captive delivered?

49:25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty
shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be
delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with
thee, and I will save thy children.

49:26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own
flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with
sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy
Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
50:2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called,
was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that
it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my
rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their
fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for
thirst.

50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth
their covering.

50:4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that
I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is
weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to
hear as the learned.

50:5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not
rebellious, neither turned away back.

50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that
plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and
spitting.

50:7 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be
confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I
know that I shall not be ashamed.

50:8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me?
let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come
near to me.

50:9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall
condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth
shall eat them up.

50:10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the
voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no
light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his
God.

50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass
yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire,
and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of
mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock [whence] ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit [whence] ye are digged.
51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare
you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased
him.

51:3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her
waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and
her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall
be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

51:4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my
nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my
judgment to rest for a light of the people.

51:5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and
mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me,
and on mine arm shall they trust.

51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth
beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the
earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein
shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever,
and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

51:7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in
whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men,
neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

51:8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm
shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for
ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as
in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not
it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

51:10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of
the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for
the ransomed to pass over?

51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come
with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon
their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow
and mourning shall flee away.

51:12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou,
that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of
the son of man which shall be made as grass;

51:13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched
forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and
hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the
oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the
fury of the oppressor?

51:14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and
that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should
fail.

51:15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose
waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.

51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered
thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens,
and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou
art my people.

51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at
the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the
dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

51:18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she
hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by
the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

51:19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry
for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the
sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

51:20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the
streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of
the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

51:21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but
not with wine:

51:22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth
the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand
the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury;
thou shalt no more drink it again:

51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;
which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and
thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to
them that went over.

52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
52:2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O
Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive
daughter of Zion.

52:3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for
nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

52:4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime
into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them
without cause.

52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my
people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make
them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day
is blasphemed.

52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they
shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold,
it is I.

52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth
good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith
unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

52:8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice
together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when
the LORD shall bring again Zion.

52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of
Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath
redeemed Jerusalem.

52:10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all
the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the
salvation of our God.

52:11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no
unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean,
that bear the vessels of the LORD.

52:12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for
the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be
your rereward.



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