57  The righteous man perishes,

and no one ^ulays it to heart;

devout men are taken away,

while no one understands.

For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;

2  he enters into peace;

they ^vrest in their beds

who walk in their uprightness.

3  But you, draw near,

sons of the sorceress,

offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.

4  Whom are you mocking?

Against whom do you ^wopen your mouth wide

and stick out your tongue?

Are you not children of transgression,

the offspring of deceit,

5  you who burn with lust among the ^xoaks,¹

under every green tree,

who ^yslaughter your children in the valleys,

under the clefts of the rocks?

6  Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion;

they, they, are your lot;

to them you have poured out a drink offering,

you have brought a grain offering.

Shall I relent for these things?

7  On a high and lofty mountain

you have set your bed,

and there you went up to offer sacrifice.

8  Behind the door and the doorpost

you have set up your memorial;

for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed,

you have gone up to it,

you have made it wide;

and you have made a covenant for yourself with them,

you have loved their bed,

you have looked on nakedness.²

9  You journeyed to the king with oil

and multiplied your perfumes;

you ^zsent your envoys far off,

and sent down even to Sheol.

10  You were wearied with the length of your way,

but you did not say, “It is hopeless”;

you found new life for your strength,

and so you were not faint.³

11  Whom did you dread and fear,

so that you lied,

and did not remember me,

did not lay it to heart?

^aHave I not held my peace, even for a long time,

and you do not fear me?

12  I will declare your righteousness and your deeds,

but they will not profit you.

13  When you cry out, ^blet your collection of idols deliver you!

The wind will carry them all off,

a breath will take them away.

But he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land

and shall inherit my holy mountain.

14  And it shall be said,

^c“Build up, build up, prepare the way,

remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”

15  For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,

who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:

“I dwell in the high and holy place,

and also with him who is of a ^dcontrite and lowly spirit,

to revive the spirit of the lowly,

and to revive the heart of the contrite.

16  For ^eI will not contend forever,

nor will I always be angry;

for the spirit would grow faint before me,

and the breath of life that I made.

17  Because of the iniquity of his ^funjust gain I was angry,

I struck him; I ^ghid my face and was angry,

but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.

18  I have seen his ways, but I will ^hheal him;

I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

19  creating the fruit of the lips.

ⁱPeace, peace, to the far and to the near,” says the Lord,

“and I will heal him.

20  But ^jthe wicked are like the tossing sea;

for it cannot be quiet,

and its waters toss up mire and dirt.

21  ^kThere is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

58  “Cry aloud; do not hold back;

lift up your voice like a trumpet;

^ldeclare to my people their transgression,

to the house of Jacob their sins.

2  ^mYet they seek me daily

and delight to know my ways,

as if they were a nation that did righteousness

and did not forsake the judgment of their God;

they ask of me righteous judgments;

they delight to draw near to God.

3  ‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?

Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’

Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,¹

and oppress all your workers.

4  Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight

and to hit with a wicked fist.

Fasting like yours this day

will not make your voice to be heard on high.

5  Is such the fast that I choose,

a day for a person to humble himself?

Is it to bow down his head like a reed,

and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?

Will you call this a fast,

and a day acceptable to the Lord?

6  “Is not this the fast that I choose:

to loose the bonds of wickedness,

to undo the straps of the yoke,

ⁿto let the oppressed² go free,

and to break every yoke?

7  Is it not to ^oshare your bread with the hungry

and ^pbring the homeless poor into your house;

^qwhen you see the naked, to cover him,

and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

8  ^rThen shall your light break forth like the dawn,

and your healing shall spring up speedily;

your righteousness shall go before you;

^sthe glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

9  Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;

you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’

If you take away the yoke from your midst,

the ^tpointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,

10  if you pour yourself out for the hungry

and satisfy the desire of the afflicted,

then shall your light rise in the darkness

and your gloom be as the noonday.

11  And the Lord will guide you continually

and satisfy your desire in scorched places

and make your bones strong;

and you shall be ^ulike a watered garden,

like a spring of water,

whose waters do not fail.

12  And your ^vancient ruins shall be rebuilt;

you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;

you shall be called the repairer of the breach,

the restorer of streets to dwell in.

13  “If you turn back your foot from the ^wSabbath,

from doing your pleasure³ on my holy day,

and call the Sabbath a delight

and the holy day of the Lord honorable;

if you honor it, not going your own ways,

or seeking your own pleasure,⁴ or talking idly;⁵

14  then you shall take delight in the Lord,

and I will ^xmake you ride on the heights of the earth;⁶

I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,

^yfor the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

59  Behold, ^zthe Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,

or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

2  but ^ayour iniquities have made a separation

between you and your God,

and your sins have ^bhidden his face from you

so that he does not hear.

3  For your ^chands are defiled with blood

and your fingers with iniquity;

your lips have spoken lies;

your tongue mutters wickedness.

4  No one enters suit justly;

no one goes to law honestly;

they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,

they ^dconceive 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  Their 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  ^eTheir 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 ^fway of peace they do not know,

and there is no justice in their paths;

they have made their roads crooked;

no one who treads on them knows peace.

9  Therefore justice is far from us,

and righteousness does not overtake us;

we hope for light, and ^gbehold, darkness,

and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

10  We ^hgrope for the wall like the blind;

we grope like those who have no eyes;

we stumble at noon as in the twilight,

among those in full vigor we are like dead men.

11  We all growl like bears;

we moan and moan ⁱlike doves;

we 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 ^jtestify 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,

speaking oppression and revolt,

conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

14  Justice 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  He saw that ^kthere was no man,

and wondered that there was no one to intercede;

then ^lhis own arm brought him salvation,

and his righteousness upheld him.

17  He put on righteousness as a ^mbreastplate,

and a ⁿhelmet of salvation on his head;

he put on garments of ^ovengeance for clothing,

and wrapped himself in ^pzeal as a cloak.

18  According to their deeds, so will he repay,

wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies;

to the coastlands he will render repayment.

19  So they shall ^qfear the name of the Lord ^rfrom the west,

and his glory from the rising of the sun;

for he will come like a rushing stream,²

which the wind of the Lord drives.

20  “And ^sa Redeemer will come to Zion,

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

60  ^wArise, shine, for your light has come,

and the glory of the Lord has ^xrisen 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  ^yAnd nations shall come to your light,

and kings to the brightness of your rising.

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

they all gather together, they come to you;

^ayour sons shall come from afar,

^band your daughters shall be carried on the hip.

5  Then you shall see and be radiant;

your heart shall thrill and exult,¹

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

the wealth of the nations ^cshall come to you.

6  A multitude of camels shall cover you,

the young camels of Midian and Ephah;

all those from Sheba shall come.

They shall bring gold and frankincense,

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

7  All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you;

the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you;

they shall come up ^dwith acceptance on my altar,

and I will beautify my beautiful house.

8  Who are these that fly like a cloud,

and like doves to their windows?

9  For ^ethe coastlands shall hope for me,

the ^fships of Tarshish first,

to 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 he has made you beautiful.

10  ^gForeigners shall build up your walls,

and their kings shall minister to you;

for ^hin my wrath I struck you,

but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

11  ⁱYour gates shall be open continually;

day and night they shall not be shut,

that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations,

with their kings led in procession.

12  For the nation and kingdom

that will not serve you shall perish;

those nations shall be utterly laid waste.

13  The glory of Lebanon shall come to you,

the ^jcypress, the plane, and the pine,

to beautify the place of my sanctuary,

and I will make the place of my feet glorious.

14  The sons of those who afflicted you

shall come bending low to you,

and all who despised you

shall ^kbow down at your feet;

they shall ^lcall you the ^mCity of the Lord,

the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

15  Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,

with no one passing through,

I will make you majestic forever,

ⁿa joy from age to age.

16  You shall suck the milk of nations;

you shall ^onurse at the breast of kings;

and you shall know that I, the Lord, am ^pyour Savior

and your Redeemer, the 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

and your taskmasters righteousness.

18  Violence shall no more be heard in your land,

devastation or destruction within your borders;

you shall call your ^qwalls Salvation,

and your gates Praise.

19  The sun shall be no more

your light by day,

nor for brightness shall the moon

give you light;²

but ^rthe Lord will be your everlasting light,

and your God will be your glory.³

20  Your sun shall no more go down,

nor your moon withdraw itself;

for the Lord will be your everlasting light,

and ^syour days of mourning shall be ended.

21  Your people shall all be righteous;

they shall possess the land forever,

the branch of my ^tplanting, the work of my hands,

that I might be glorified.⁴

22  The least one shall become a clan,

and the smallest one a mighty nation;

I am the Lord;

in its time I will hasten it.

61  ^uThe Spirit of the Lord God is ^vupon me,

because the Lord has ^wanointed me

to bring ^xgood news to the poor;¹

he has sent me to ^ybind up the brokenhearted,

to proclaim liberty to the captives,

and ^zthe opening of the prison to those who are bound;²

2  to proclaim ^athe year of the Lord’s favor,

and the ^bday of vengeance of our God;

to ^ccomfort all who mourn;

3  to grant to those who mourn in Zion—

to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,

the ^doil of gladness instead of mourning,

the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;

that they may be called oaks of righteousness,

the ^eplanting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.³

4  They shall build up the ^fancient ruins;

they shall raise up the former devastations;

they shall repair the ^gruined cities,

the devastations of many generations.

5  ^hStrangers shall stand and tend your flocks;

foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;

6  but ⁱyou shall be called the priests of the Lord;

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

you shall eat the ^jwealth of the nations,

and in their glory you shall boast.

7  Instead 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 ^keverlasting joy.

8  For I the Lord love justice;

I hate robbery and wrong;⁴

I will faithfully give them their recompense,

and I will make an everlasting ^lcovenant 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  I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;

my soul shall exult in my God,

for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;

he has covered me with the ^mrobe of righteousness,

as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress,

and 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 righteousness and praise

to sprout up before all the nations.