“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;

^zthe whole earth is full of his glory!”²

^e“‘Keep on hearing,³ but do not understand;

keep on seeing,⁴ but do not perceive.’

10  ^fMake the heart of this people dull,⁵

and their ears heavy,

and ^gblind their eyes;

lest they see with their eyes,

and hear with their ears,

and understand with their hearts,

and turn and be healed.”

11  Then I said, “How long, O Lord?”

And he said:

“Until cities lie waste

without inhabitant,

and houses without people,

and the land is a desolate waste,

12  and the Lord removes people far away,

and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

13  And though a tenth remain in it,

it will be burned⁶ again,

like a terebinth or an oak,

whose stump remains

when it is felled.”

The holy seed⁷ is its stump.

1  ^fComfort, comfort my people, says your God.

2  Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,

and cry to her

that her warfare¹ is ended,

that her iniquity is pardoned,

that she has received from the Lord’s hand

double for all her sins.

3  ^gA voice cries:²

“In the wilderness ^hprepare the way of the Lord;

make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

4  Every valley shall be lifted up,

and every mountain and hill be made low;

the uneven ground shall become level,

and the rough places a plain.

5  And the glory of the Lord shall be ⁱrevealed,

and ^jall flesh shall see it together,

^kfor the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

6  A voice says, “Cry!”

And I said,³ “What shall I cry?”

^lAll flesh is grass,

and all its beauty⁴ is like the flower of the field.

7  The grass withers, the flower fades

when the breath of the Lord blows on it;

surely the people are grass.

8  The grass withers, the flower fades,

but the word of our God will stand forever.

9  Go on up to a high mountain,

O Zion, herald of good news;⁵

lift up your voice with strength,

O Jerusalem, herald of ^mgood news;⁶

lift it up, fear not;

say to the cities of Judah,

“Behold your God!”

10  Behold, the Lord God comes with might,

and his arm rules for him;

behold, ⁿhis reward is with him,

and his recompense before him.

11  He will tend his flock like a ^oshepherd;

he will gather the lambs in his arms;

he will carry them in his bosom,

and gently lead those that are with young.

12  Who has ^pmeasured the waters in the hollow of his hand

and marked off the heavens with a span,

enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure

and weighed the mountains in scales

and the hills in a balance?

13  ^qWho has measured⁷ the Spirit of the Lord,

or what man shows him his counsel?

14  Whom did he consult,

and who made him understand?

Who taught him the path of justice,

and taught him knowledge,

and showed him the way of understanding?

15  Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,

and are accounted as the dust on the scales;

behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.

16  Lebanon would not suffice for fuel,

nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

17  All the nations are ^ras nothing before him,

they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

18  ^sTo whom then will you liken God,

or what likeness compare with him?

19  An idol! A ^tcraftsman casts it,

and a ^ugoldsmith overlays it with gold

and casts for it silver chains.

20  He who is too impoverished for an offering

chooses wood⁸ that will not rot;

he seeks out a skillful craftsman

to set up an idol that will ^vnot move.

21  Do you not know? Do you not hear?

Has it not been told you from the beginning?

Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

22  It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,

and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;

who ^wstretches out the heavens like a curtain,

and spreads them ^xlike a tent to dwell in;

23  who brings princes to nothing,

and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.

24  Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,

scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,

when he blows on them, and they wither,

and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

25  To whom then will you compare me,

that I should be like him? says the Holy One.

26  Lift up your eyes on high and see:

who created these?

^yHe who brings out their host by number,

calling them all by name;

by the greatness of his might

and because he is strong in power,

not one is missing.

27  Why do you say, O Jacob,

and speak, O Israel,

^z“My way is hidden from the Lord,

and my right is disregarded by my God”?

28  Have you not known? Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He does not faint or grow weary;

^ahis understanding is unsearchable.

29  He gives power to the faint,

and to him who has no might he increases strength.

30  Even youths shall faint and be weary,

and young men shall fall exhausted;

31  but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;

they shall mount up with wings ^blike eagles;

they shall run and not be weary;

they shall walk and not faint.

1  ^fAwake, awake,

put on your strength, O Zion;

put on your beautiful garments,

O Jerusalem, the ^gholy city;

for there shall no more come into you

the uncircumcised and the ^hunclean.

2  Shake yourself from the dust and arise;

be seated, O Jerusalem;

loose the bonds from your neck,

O captive daughter of Zion.

7  ⁿHow beautiful upon the mountains

are the feet of him who ^obrings good news,

who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,

who publishes salvation,

who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”

8  The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice;

together they sing for joy;

for eye to eye they see

the return of the Lord to Zion.

9  Break forth together into singing,

you waste places of Jerusalem,

for the Lord has comforted his people;

he has redeemed Jerusalem.

10  The Lord has bared his holy arm

before the eyes of all the nations,

and ^pall the ends of the earth shall see

the salvation of our God.

11  ^qDepart, depart, go out from there;

touch no unclean thing;

go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,

you who bear the vessels of the Lord.

12  For you shall not go out ^rin haste,

and you shall not go in flight,

for the Lord will go before you,

and ^sthe God of Israel will be your rear guard.

13  Behold, ^tmy servant shall act wisely;²

he shall be ^uhigh and lifted up,

and shall be exalted.

14  As many were astonished at you—

his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,

and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—

15  so shall he sprinkle³ many nations.

Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,

for ^vthat which has not been told them they see,

and that which they have not heard they understand.

1  ^wWho has ^xbelieved what he has heard from us?⁴

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

2  For he grew up before him like a young plant,

and like a ^yroot out of dry ground;

he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,

and no beauty that we should desire him.

3  He was ^zdespised and rejected⁵ by men,

a man of sorrows⁶ and acquainted with⁷ grief;⁸

and as one from whom men hide their faces⁹

he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4  Surely ^ahe has borne our griefs

and carried our sorrows;

yet we esteemed him stricken,

smitten by God, and afflicted.

5  But he was pierced ^bfor our transgressions;

he was crushed for our iniquities;

upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,

and with his wounds we are healed.

6  ^cAll we like sheep have gone astray;

we have turned—every one—to his own way;

and the Lord has laid on him

the iniquity of us all.

7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

yet ^dhe opened not his mouth;

^elike a lamb that is led to the slaughter,

and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,

so he opened not his mouth.

8  By oppression and judgment he was taken away;

and as for his generation, who considered

that he was cut off out of the land of the living,

stricken for the transgression of my people?

9  And they made his grave with the wicked

and with a ^frich man in his death,

although^{10 g}he had done no violence,

and there was no deceit in his mouth.

10  Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;

he has put him to grief;¹¹

when his soul makes¹² an offering for guilt,

he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;

the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

11  Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see¹³ and be satisfied;

by his knowledge shall the righteous one, ^hmy servant,

ⁱmake many to be accounted righteous,

and he shall ^jbear their iniquities.

12  Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,¹⁴

and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,¹⁵

because he poured out his soul to death

^kand was numbered ^lwith the transgressors;

yet he ^mbore the sin of many,

and makes intercession for the transgressors.