24 Thou haft bought me no fweet cane with money, 17 Which bringeth forth neither haft thou filled me the chariot and horse, the ar- with the fat of thy facrifices: my and the power: they but thou haft made me to fhall lie down together, they ferve with thy fins, thou haft fhall not rife: they are ex-wearied me with thine initinct, they are quenched as quities. Low,

blotteth out thy tranfgreffions for mine own fake, and will not remember thy fins.

26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together declare thou, that thou mayeft be justified.

fcribe with his hand unto the Lord, and furname himfelf by the name of Ifrael.

6 Thus faith the Lord the king of Ifrael, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts, I am the firft, and I am the last, and befides me there is no God.

7 And who, as I, fhall

27 Thy first father hath finned, and thy teachers have tranfgreffed against me. 28 Therefore I have pro-call, and fhall declare it, and faned the princes of the fanc- fet it in order for me, fince I tuary, and have given Jacob appointed the ancient peoto the curfe, and Ifrael to re- ple? and the things that are proaches. coming, and fhall come? let them fhew unto them.

CHAP. XLIV.

YET

8 Fear ye not, neither be

ET now hear, O Ja-afraid: have not I told thee cob my fervant, and Ifrael, whom I have chosen.

2 Thus faith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee, Fear not, O Jacob my fervant, and thou Jefurun, whom I have chofen.

3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirfty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy feed, and my bleffing upon thine offspring:

4 And they fhall spring up as among the grafs, as willows by the water-courses.

from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witneffes. Is there a God befides me? yea, there is no God, I know not any,

9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things fhall not profit, and they are their own witnesses, they fee not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

10 Who hath formed a god, or moltena graven image that is profitable for nothing?

11 Behold, all his fellows fhall be afhamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them ftand up;

5 One fhall fay, I am the Lord's and another fhall call bimfelf by the name of Ja-yet they fhall fear, and they cob and another fhall fub- fhall be afhamed together.

12 The fmith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the ftrength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his ftrength faileth; he drinketh no water, and is faint.

have feen the fire.

17 And the refidue there of he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and faith; Deliver me, for thou art my God.

18 They have not known 13 The carpenter stretch-nor understood: for he hath eth out his rule: he marketh fut their eyes, that they it out with a line: he fitteth cannot fee; and their hearts, it with planes, and he mark-that they cannot understand. eth it out with the compass, 19 And none confidereth and maketh it after the figure in his heart, neither is there of a man, according to the knowledge nor understandbeauty of a man; that it may ing to fay, I have burnt part remain in the house. of it in the fire, yea, alfo I 14 He heweth him down have baked bread upon the cedars, and taketh the cy-coals thereof: I have roafted prefs and the oak, which he ftrengtheneth for himfelf among the trees of the foreft: he planteth an afh, and the rain doth nourish it.

flein, and eaten it, and shall I make the refidue thereof an abomination? fhall I fall down to the ftock of a tree?

15 Then fhall it be for a 20 He feedeth on afhes; a man to burn: for he will deceived heart hath turned take thereof, and warm him-him afide, that he cannot defelf; yea, he kindleth it, and liver his foul, nor fay, Is baketh bread; yea, he ma- there not a lie in my right keth a god, and worshippeth hand?

it: he maketh it a graven 21 Remember thefe, O image, and falleth down Jacob and Ifrael; for thou thereto. art my fervant; I have form16 He burneth part thereof ed thee, thou art my fervant: in the fire with part there- O Ifrael, thou fhalt not be of he eateth flesh: he roaft-forgotten of me: eth roaft, and is fatisfied: 22 I have blotted out as yea, he warmeth himself, and a thick cloud, thy tranfgreffaith, Aha, I am warm, Ifions; and as a cloud, thy

fins: return unto me, for I even faying to Jerufalem, have redeemed thee. Thou shalt be built; and to 23 Sing, O ye heavens; the temple, Thy foundation for the Lord hath done it : fhall be laid.

fhout, ye lower parts of the

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CHAP. XLVI.

EL boweth down, Nebo ftoopeth, their idols

earth break forth into finging, ye mountains, O foreft, and every tree therein; for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himfelf in upon the cattle: your car

Ifrael.

24 Thus faith the Lord thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things, that ftretcheth forth the heavens alone, that fpreadeth abroad the earth by myfelf;

were upon the beasts and

riages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beaft.

2 They stoop, they bow down together: they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

3 Hearken unto me, 25 That fruftrateth the houfe of Jacob, and all the tokens of the liars, and ma- remnant of the house of Ifketh diviners mad, that rael, which are borne by me turneth wife men backward, from the belly, which are and maketh their knowledge carried from the womb. foolish.

4 And even to your old 26 That confirmeth the age, I am he; and even to word of his fervant, and per- hoary hairs will I carry you: formeth the counsel of his I have made, and I will bear; meffengers; that faith to Je-even I will carry, and will rufalem, Thou shalt be in- deliver you, habited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

27 That faith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

28 That faith of Cyrus, He is my fhepherd, and fhall perform all my pleasure

5¶ To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh filver in the balance, and hire a goldfimith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship,

he ftandeth; from his place LISTEN, Oifles, unto