1  Behold, ^bthe Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,

or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

2  ^cbut your iniquities have made a separation

between you and your God,

and your sins have hidden his face from you

so that he does not hear.

3  ^dFor your hands are defiled with blood

and your fingers with iniquity;

your lips have spoken lies;

your tongue mutters wickedness.

4  ^eNo one enters suit justly;

no one goes to law honestly;

they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,

^fthey conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

5  They hatch adders’ eggs;

they weave the spider’s web;

he who eats their eggs dies,

and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.

6  ^gTheir webs will not serve as clothing;

men will not cover themselves with what they make.

Their works are works of iniquity,

and deeds of violence are in their hands.

7  ^hTheir feet run to evil,

and they are swift to shed innocent blood;

their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;

desolation and destruction are in their highways.

8  The way of peace they do not know,

and there is no justice in their paths;

they have made their roads crooked;

ⁱno one who treads on them knows peace.

9  Therefore justice is far from us,

and righteousness does not overtake us;

^jwe hope for light, and behold, darkness,

and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

10  ^kWe grope for the wall like the blind;

we grope like those who have no eyes;

we stumble at noon as in the twilight,

^lamong those in full vigor we are like dead men.

11  We all growl like bears;

^mwe moan and moan like doves;

ⁿwe hope for justice, but there is none;

for salvation, but it is far from us.

12  For our transgressions are multiplied before you,

and our sins testify against us;

for our transgressions are with us,

and we know our iniquities:

13  transgressing, and denying the Lord,

and turning back from following our God,

^ospeaking oppression and revolt,

conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

14  ^pJustice is turned back,

and righteousness stands far away;

for truth has stumbled in the public squares,

and uprightness cannot enter.

15  Truth is lacking,

and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

The Lord saw it, and it displeased him¹

that there was no justice.

16  ^qHe saw that there was no man,

and wondered that there was no one to intercede;

then his own arm brought him salvation,

and his righteousness upheld him.

17  ^rHe put on righteousness as a breastplate,

and a helmet of salvation on his head;

he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,

and wrapped himself in ^szeal as a cloak.

18  ^tAccording to their deeds, so will he repay,

wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies;

^uto the coastlands he will render repayment.

19  ^vSo they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west,

and his glory from the rising of the sun;

^wfor he will come like a rushing stream,²

which the wind of the Lord drives.

20  ^x“And ^ya Redeemer will come to Zion,

to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the Lord.

1  ^bArise, shine, for your light has come,

and ^cthe glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

2  For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,

and thick darkness the peoples;

but the Lord will arise upon you,

and his glory will be seen upon you.

3  ^dAnd nations shall come to your light,

and kings to the brightness of your rising.

4  ^eLift up your eyes all around, and see;

they all gather together, they come to you;

^fyour sons shall come from afar,

and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.

5  Then you shall see and ^gbe radiant;

your heart shall thrill and exult,³

because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you,

^hthe wealth of the nations shall come to you.

6  A multitude of camels shall cover you,

the young camels of ⁱMidian and ^jEphah;

all those from ^kSheba shall come.

^lThey shall bring gold and frankincense,

and shall bring good news, the praises of the Lord.

7  All the flocks of ^mKedar shall be gathered to you;

the rams of ⁿNebaioth shall minister to you;

^othey shall come up with acceptance on my altar,

^pand I will beautify my beautiful house.

8  Who are these that fly like a cloud,

and ^qlike doves to their windows?

9  For ^rthe coastlands shall hope for me,

^sthe ships of Tarshish first,

^tto bring your children from afar,

their silver and gold with them,

for the name of the Lord your God,

and for the Holy One of Israel,

because ^uhe has made you beautiful.

10  ^vForeigners shall build up your walls,

and ^vtheir kings shall minister to you;

for in my wrath I struck you,

but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

11  ^wYour gates shall be open continually;

day and night they shall not be shut,

^wthat people may bring to you the wealth of the nations,

with their kings led in procession.

12  ^xFor the nation and kingdom

that will not serve you shall perish;

those nations shall be utterly laid waste.

13  ^yThe glory of Lebanon shall come to you,

the cypress, the plane, and ^zthe pine,

to beautify the place of my sanctuary,

and I will make the place of my feet glorious.

14  ^aThe sons of those who afflicted you

shall come bending low to you,

^band all who despised you

shall bow down at your feet;

^cthey shall call you the City of the Lord,

the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

15  ^dWhereas you have been forsaken and hated,

with no one passing through,

^eI will make you majestic forever,

a joy from age to age.

16  ^fYou shall suck the milk of nations;

you shall nurse at the breast of kings;

and you shall know that ^gI, the Lord, am your Savior

and your Redeemer, ^hthe Mighty One of Jacob.

17  Instead of bronze I will bring gold,

and instead of iron I will bring silver;

instead of wood, bronze,

instead of stones, iron.

I will make your overseers peace

ⁱand your taskmasters righteousness.

18  ^jViolence shall no more be heard in your land,

devastation or destruction within your borders;

^kyou shall call your walls Salvation,

and your gates Praise.

19  ^lThe sun shall be no more

your light by day,

nor for brightness shall the moon

give you light;⁴

but the Lord will be your everlasting light,

and your God will be your glory.⁵

20  Your sun shall no more go down,

nor your moon withdraw itself;

for the Lord will be your everlasting light,

and ^myour days of mourning shall be ended.

21  ⁿYour people shall all be righteous;

^othey shall possess the land forever,

^pthe branch of my planting, the work of my hands,

that I might be glorified.⁶

22  ^qThe least one shall become a clan,

and the smallest one a mighty nation;

^rI am the Lord;

in its time I will hasten it.

1  ^sThe Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,

because the Lord has ^tanointed me

to bring good news to the poor;⁷

he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

to proclaim liberty to the captives,

and ^uthe opening of the prison to those who are bound;⁸

2  ^vto proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,

^wand the day of vengeance of our God;

to comfort all who mourn;

3  to grant to those who mourn in Zion—

^xto give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,

^ythe oil of gladness instead of mourning,

the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;

^zthat they may be called oaks of righteousness,

the planting of the Lord, ^athat he may be glorified.⁹

4  ^bThey shall build up the ancient ruins;

they shall raise up the former devastations;

they shall repair the ruined cities,

the devastations of many generations.

5  ^cStrangers shall stand and tend your flocks;

foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;

6  ^dbut you shall be called the priests of the Lord;

they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God;

^eyou shall eat the wealth of the nations,

and in their glory you shall boast.

7  ^fInstead of your shame there shall be a double portion;

instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot;

therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion;

they shall have everlasting joy.

8  ^gFor I the Lord love justice;

I hate robbery and wrong;¹⁰

^hI will faithfully give them their recompense,

ⁱand I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

9  Their offspring shall be known among the nations,

and their descendants in the midst of the peoples;

all who see them shall acknowledge them,

that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.

10  ^jI will greatly rejoice in the Lord;

my soul shall exult in my God,

^kfor he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;

he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,

as a bridegroom decks himself ^llike a priest with a beautiful headdress,

^mand as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

11  For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,

and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up,

so the Lord God will cause ⁿrighteousness and praise

to sprout up before all the nations.

1  ^oFor Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,

and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet,

^puntil her righteousness goes forth as brightness,

and her salvation as a burning torch.

2  ^qThe nations shall see your righteousness,

and all the kings your glory,

^rand you shall be called by a new name

that the mouth of the Lord will give.

3  You shall be ^sa crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,

and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

4  ^tYou shall no more be termed ^uForsaken,¹¹

and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,¹²

^rbut you shall be called ^vMy Delight Is in Her,¹³

and your land Married;¹⁴

for the Lord delights in you,

and your land shall be married.

5  For as a young man marries a young woman,

so ^wshall your sons marry you,

and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,

so ^xshall your God rejoice over you.

6  On your walls, O Jerusalem,

I have set ^ywatchmen;

all the day and all the night

they shall never be silent.

You who put the Lord in remembrance,

take no rest,

7  and give him no rest

until he establishes Jerusalem

and makes it ^za praise in the earth.

8  The Lord has sworn ^aby his right hand

and by his mighty arm:

“I will not again give ^byour grain

to be food for your enemies,

^cand foreigners shall not drink your wine

for which you have labored;

9  but ^dthose who garner it shall eat it

and praise the Lord,

and ^dthose who gather it shall drink it

in the courts of my sanctuary.”¹⁵

10  Go through, go through the gates;

^eprepare the way for the people;

^fbuild up, build up the highway;

clear it of stones;

^glift up a signal over the peoples.

11  Behold, the Lord has proclaimed

to the end of the earth:

^hSay to the daughter of Zion,

ⁱ“Behold, your salvation comes;

behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense before him.”

12  ^jAnd they shall be called The Holy People,

The Redeemed of the Lord;

^kand you shall be called Sought Out,

A City Not Forsaken.

1  I will sing of ^csteadfast love and justice;

to you, O Lord, I will make music.

2  I will ^dponder the way ^ethat is blameless.

Oh when will you ^fcome to me?

I will ^gwalk with ^hintegrity of heart

within my house;

3  I will not set before my eyes

anything ⁱthat is worthless.

I hate the work of those who ^jfall away;

it shall not cling to me.

4  ^kA perverse heart shall be far from me;

I will ^lknow nothing of evil.

5  Whoever slanders his neighbor ^msecretly

I will ⁿdestroy.

Whoever has a ^ohaughty look and an ^parrogant heart

I will not endure.

6  I will look with favor on the faithful in the land,

that they may dwell with me;

he who walks in ^qthe way that is blameless

shall minister to me.

7  No one who ^rpractices deceit

shall dwell in my house;

no one who utters lies

shall ^scontinue before my eyes.

8  ^tMorning by morning I will destroy

all the wicked in the land,

^ucutting off all ^vthe evildoers

from ^wthe city of the Lord.