16 Verily, Thou art our Father: for Abraham knoweth

us not,

And Israel doth not acknowledge us.
Thou, O JEHOVAH, art our Father:

O deliver us for the sake of thy name!

17 Wherefore, O JEHOVAH, dost thou suffer us to err from thy ways?

To harden our hearts from the fear of thee?
Return, for the sake of thy servants;

For the sake of the tribes of thine inheritance.

18 It is little, that they have taken possession of thy holy mountain;

That our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary: 19 We have long been as those, whom thou hast not ruled;

Who have not been called by thy name.

CHAP. LXIV.

1 O! that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that thou wouldst descend;

That the mountains might flow down at thy presence! 2 As the fire kindleth the dry fuel:

As the fire causeth the waters to boil:

To make known thy name to thine enemies; That the nations might tremble at thy presence. 3 When thou didst wonderful things, which we expected not;

Thou didst descend; at thy presence the mountains flowed down.

4 For never have men heard, nor perceived by the

ear;

Nor hath eye seen, a God beside thee.

Who doeth such things for those that trust in him. 5 Thou meetest with joy those, who work righteous

ness:

Who in thy ways remember thee:

Lo! Thou art angry; for we have sinned:

Because of our deeds; for we have been rebellious.

6 And we are all of us as a polluted thing;

And like a rejected garment are all our righteous deeds:

And we are withered away, like a leaf, all of us; And our sins, like the wind, have borne us away. 7 There is no one, that invoketh thy name; That rouseth himself up to lay hold on thee: Therefore thou hast hidden thy face from us; And hast delivered us up into the hand of our iniquities.

8 But Thou, O JEHOVAH, Thou art our Father; We are the clay, and Thou hast formed us: We are all of us the work of thy hands.

9 Be not wroth, O JEHOVAH, to the uttermost; Nor for ever remember iniquity.

Behold, look upon us, we beseech thee; we are all thy people.

10 Thy holy cities are become a wilderness;

Sion is become a wilderness; Jerusalem is desolate. 11 Our holy and glorious temple,

Wherein our fathers praised thee,

Is utterly burnt up with fire;

And all the objects of our desire are become a devastation.

12 Wilt thou contain thyself at these things, O'JEHOVAH?

Wilt thou keep silence, and still grievously afflict us?

CHAP. LXV.

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I AM made known to those, that asked not for

me:

I am found of those, that sought me not:

I have said: Behold me, here I am,

To the nation, which never invoked my name : 2 I have stretched out my hands all the day to a rebellious people,

Who walk in an evil way, after their own devices.

3 A people, who provoke me to my face continually; Sacrificing in the gardens, and burning incense on the tiles:

4 Who dwell in the sepulchres, and lodge in the ca

verns;

Who eat the flesh of the swine;

And the broth of abominable meats is in their vessels.

5 Who say: Keep to thyself; come not near me; for I am holier than thou.

These kindle a smoke in my nostrils, a fire burning all the day long.

6 Behold, this is recorded in writing before me:

I will not keep silence, but will certainly requite; 7 I will requite into their bosom their iniquities: And the iniquities of their fathers together, saith JEHOVAH.

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Who burnt incense on the mountains, and dishonoured me upon the hills:

Yea, I will pour into their bosom the full measure of their former deeds.

Thus saith JEHOVAH:

As when one findeth a good grape in the cluster;
And saith: Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it:
So will I do for the sake of my servants; I will not
destroy the whole.

9. So will I bring forth from Jacob a seed;

And from Judah an inheritor of my mountain:
And my chosen shall inherit the land;

And my servants shall dwell there.

10 And Sharon shall be a fold for the flock,

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And the valley of Achor a resting for the herd;
For my people, who have sought after me.

But
ye, who have deserted JEHOVAH;
And have forgotten my holy mountain:
Who set in order a table for Gad;

And fill out a libation to Meni :

12 You will I number out to the sword;

And all of you shall bow down to the slaughter:
Because I called, and ye answered not;

I spake, and ye would not hear:

But ye

did that, which is evil in my sight;

And that, in which I delighted not, ye chose.

13 Wherefore thus saith the Lord JEHOVAH:

Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be famished;

Behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty:

Behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be

confounded:

14 Behold, my servants shall sing aloud, for gladness of heart;

But ye shall cry aloud, for grief of heart;

And in the anguish of a broken spirit shall ye howl. 15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen:

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And the Lord JEHOVAH shall slay you;

And his servants shall he call by another name.
Whoso blesseth himself upon the earth,

Shall bless himself in the God of truth:
And whoso sweareth upon the earth,
Shall swear by the God of truth.

Because the former provocations are forgotten;
And because they are hidden from mine eyes.
17 For behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth;
And the former ones shall not be remembered,

Neither shall they be brought to mind any more. 18 But ye shall rejoice and exult in the age to come, which I create:

For lo! I create Jerusalem a subject of joy, and her people of gladness.

19 And I will exult in Jerusalem, and rejoice in my people. And there shall not be heard any more therein,

The voice of weeping, and the voice of a distressful

cry.

20 No more shall be there an infant short-lived;
Nor an old man who hath not fulfilled his days:
For he, that dieth at a hundred years, shall die a boy;
And the sinner that dieth at a hundred years, shall

be deemed accursed.

21 And they shall build houses, and shall inhabit them, And they shall plant vineyards, and shall eat the fruit thereof.

22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; They shall not plant, and another eat:

For as the days of a tree, shall be the days of my people;

And they shall wear out the works of their own hands. 23 My chosen shall not labour in vain;

Neither shall they generate a short-lived race;
For they shall be a seed blessed of JEHOVAH:
They, and their offspring with them.

24 And it shall be, that before they call, I will answer; They shall be yet speaking, and I shall have heard. 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together;

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And the lion shall eat straw like the ox:

But as for the serpent, dust shall be his food.
They shall not hurt, neither shall they destroy,
In all my holy mountain, saith JEHOVAH.

CHAP. LXVI.

THUS saith JEHOVAH :

The heavens are my throne; and the earth is my
footstool:

Where is this house, which ye build for me?
And where is this place of my rest?

2 For all these things my hand hath made;

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And all these things are mine, saith JEHOVAH.
But such a one will I regard, even him that is
humble,

And of a contrite spirit, and that revereth my word.
He that slayeth an ox, killeth a man ;
That sacrificeth a lamb, beheadeth a dog;