For mine enemies said to me, and they watching my soul took counsel together,

And they said, How did God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?

If I said, I will recount thus; behold, I transgressed against the generation of thy sons.

They said in their heart, We will rage against them together: they burnt up all the appointments of God in the earth.

I said to the foolish, Ye shall not be foolish; and to the unjust, Ye shall not lift up the horn:

And they will speak against God; they said, Will God be able to arrange a table in the desert?

I said, Ye are gods; and the sons of the Most High all of you.

They said, Come, and we will cut them off from a nation; and the name of Israel shall no more be remembered.

Who said, We will inherit for us the dwellings of God.

For I said, Mercy shall be built up forever: the heavens, thy faithfulness shall be prepared in them.

If I said, My foot wavered; thy mercy, O Jehovah, upheld me.

He said, and the gad-fly will come, and gnats in all their bounds.

He said, and the locust will come and the feeder, and no number.

They did not destroy the peoples which Jehovah said to them.

I said in my alarm, Every man a lie.

My portion, O Jehovah: I said to watch thy words.

And they passing by, said not, The praise of Jehovah to you: we praised you in the name of Jehovah.

I said to Jehovah, Thou my God: give ear, O Jehovah, to the voice of my supplication.

I cried to thee, O Jehovah: I said, Thou my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.

Who the simple, he shall turn aside here: he wanting heart, she said to him,

Who is simple, he shall turn aside here: and he wanting heart, and she said to him,

The slothful one said, A lion without; I shall be slain in the midst of the broad places.

The slothful one said, A lion in the way; a lion between the broad places.

Lest I shall be filled and I spake lies, and said, Who is Jehovah? and lest I shall be dispossessed and I stole, and I laid hold upon the name of God.

Hades; and the closed womb; the earth not filled with water; and fire said not, Wealth.

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.

Is there a word will be said, See, this is new? This was already to a long time which was before us.

I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.

To laughter I said, It is mad: and to gladness, What did this?

And I said in my heart, As the event of the foolish one, also I, it will meet me; and wherefore then was I more wise? And I spake in my heart, This is also vanity.

I said in my heart, The just one and the unjust one, God will judge: for a time for every inclination and for every work there.

I said in my heart concerning the speeches of the sons of man, for God to separate them, and for them to see that they are cattle to themselves.

If a man shall beget a hundred, and live many years, and a multitude shall be the days of his years, and his soul shall not be satisfied from good, and also there was no burial to him; I said, Good above him an abortion.

All this I proved by wisdom: I said I will be wise, and it was removed far off from me.

See, this I found, said the preacher: one to one to find understanding

There is vanity which was done upon the earth; that there is the just which it comes upon them according to the work of the unjust: and there is the unjust, it comes upon them according to the work of the just. I said, Also this is vanity.

And I said, Wisdom is good above strength: and the wisdom of the poor one was despised, and his words not heard.

And also as the foolish one went in the way, his heart was wanting, and he said to all, It is folly.

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity.

My beloved answered and said to me, Rise up for thyself, my friend, my beautiful one, and go for thyself.

I said, I will go up upon the palm tree, I will hold fast upon its branches: and now thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the odor of thy nose as apples.

And many people went and said, Come, and we will go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us from his ways, and we will go in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

And this called to this, and said, Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of armies: all the earth full of his glory.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah, It shall not stand, and it shall not be.

For thus said Jehovah to me with strength of the hand, and he will turn me away from going in the way of this people, saying,

For he said, By strength of my hand I did, and by my wisdom, for I was discreet: and I will remove the bounds of the people, and their things prepared I plundered, and I will bring down as a strong one the inhabitants.

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah of armies, Thou my people dwelling in Zion shalt not fear from Assur: with the rod he shall strike thee and he will lift up his rod upon thee, in the way of Egypt.

And ye said in that day, Praise ye to Jehovah, call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples; keep ye in remembrance that his name was exalted.

And I rose against them, said Jehovah of armies, and I cut off to Babel the name and remainder, offspring and progeny, says Jehovah.

For thus said Jehovah to me, I will cause rest, and I will behold in my dwelling place as the serene heat upon the light, and as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest

In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt speaking the lip of Canaan, and they sware to Jehovah of armies; and to one it shall be said, The city of the sun.

And he inhabiting this island said in that day, Behold, thus our expectation, where we fled there for help to be delivered from the face of the king of Assur: and how shall we escape?

For thus said Jehovah to me, Go set up a watchman, he shall announce what he shall see.

The watch said, I will mark out morning, and also night; if ye will seek, seek ye: turn back, come.

For thus said the Lord to me, Within yet a year; as the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar was finished.

For this I said, Look ye away from me; I will be bitter in my weeping, ye shall not hasten to comfort me upon the desolation of the daughter of my people.

And it was uncovered in the ears of Jehovah of armies, If this iniquity shall be expiated to you till ye shall die, said the Lord Jehovah of armies.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah of armies, Go, come in to this associate to Shebna who is over the house,

Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea said, the strength of the sea, saying, I was not pained, I brought not forth, and I caused not youths to grow, and I raised not up virgins.

And it was said in that day, Behold, this our God, we hoped for him, and he will save us: this Jehovah, we hoped for him, we will rejoice and be glad in his salvation.

To whom he said to them, This the rest they caused to the weary to rest; and this the quiet: and they would not hear.

Because ye said, We cut out a covenant with death, and with hades we did this; when this overflowing scourge passed through it shall not come to us, for we set falsehood our refuge, and in ahewe hid ourselves.,

For this, thus said the Lord. Jehovah, Behold me placing for a foundation in Zion a stone, a stone of trial, a corner precious, a foundation being founded: and he believing shall not hasten.

And the vision of all will be to you as the words of the book being sealed, which they shall give to him, to him knowing writing, saying, Read now, this: and he said, I shall not be able, for it was sealed.

And the book was given to him not knowing writing, saying, Read now, this: and he said, I know not writing.

For this, thus said Jehovah, to the house of Jacob, who redeemed Abraham, Jacob shall not now be ashamed and his face shall not now become pale.

Who said to the seeing, Ye shall not see, and to the perceiving, Ye shall not perceive for us right things, speak to us smooth things, perceive delusions.

Therefore thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because ye rejected in this word, and ye will trust in violence and perverseness, and ye will do upon it

For thus said Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In turning back and in rest shall ye be saved; in quiet and in trust shall be your strength, and ye would not.

Liberal shall no more be called to the foolish, and noble shall not be said to the deceiver.

And Rabshakeh will say to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus said the king, the great king of Assur, What this trust in which thou trustedst?

I said, (also a word of the lips) Counsel and strength for the war; now upon whom trustedst thou that thou didst rebel against me?

And now came I up without Jehovah against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it

Thus said the king, Hezekiah shall not lift up to you, for he will not be able to deliver you.

Ye shall not hear to Hezekiah; for thus said the king of Assur, Make to me a blessing, and come forth to me: and eat a man of his vine and a man of his fig tree, and drink ye a man water of his cistern;

And they will say to him, Thus said Hezekiah, A day of straits and chastisement and reproach, this day; for the sons came even to the breaking forth and not strength to bring forth.

And Isaiah will say to them, Thus shall ye say to your lord, Thus said Jehovah, Thou shalt not fear from the face of the words which thou heardest which the boys of the king of Assur reviled me.

And Isaiah son of Amos will send to Hezekiah, saying, Thus said Jehovah God of Israel, Because thou didst pray to me against Senherib the king of Assur

For this, thus said Jehovah concerning the king of Assur, Thou shalt not come into this city, and thou shalt not shoot an arrow there, and thou shalt not go before it with a shield, and thou shalt not cast a mound against it.

In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah son of Amos, the prophet, will come in to him, and say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Command to thy house, for thou diest, and shalt not live.

Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I heard thy prayer; and I saw thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.

I said in the quiet of my days, I shall go to the gates of hades: I was missed the remainder of my years.

I said, I shall not see Jah Jah, in the land of the living: I shall no more behold man with the inhabitants of the place of rest.

What shall I speak? and he said to me, and he did: I shall go slowly all my years upon the bitterness of my soul.

And Isaiah the prophet will come to king Hezekiah, and say to him, What said these men? and from whence will they come to thee? And Hezekiah will say, From a land far off came they to me, from Babel.

Behold, the days coming and all which is in thy house and which thy fathers treasured up, even to this day, being lifted up to Babel: there shall not be left a word, said Jehovah.

The voice said, Call And he said, What shall I call? All flesh grass, and all its goodness as the flower of the field:

Thus said God Jehovah, creating the heavens and stretching them out; and spreading out the earth and its productions; giving breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those going upon it:

And this people was plundered and spoiled; snaring all of them in holes, and they were hid in houses of prisons: they were for plunder and none delivering; a treading down, and none said, Turn back

And now, thus said Jehovah creating thee, O Jacob, and forming thee, O Israel, Thou shalt not fear, for I redeemed thee; I called by thy name; thou art to me.

Thus said Jehovah redeeming you, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I sent to Babel, and brought down the bars all of them, and the Chaldees shouting in their ships.

Thus said Jehovah giving a way in the sea, and a beaten path in the strong waters;,

Thus said Jehovah making thee, and forming thee from the belly, he will help thee; Thou shalt not be afraid, my servant Jacob, and Jeshurun whom I chose.

Thus said Jehovah king of Israel, and Jehovah of armies, redeeming him, I the first and I the last; and besides me no God.

Thus said Jehovah redeeming thee, and forming thee from the belly, I am Jehovah making all; stretching forth the heavens alone; spreading out the earth from myself:

Thus said Jehovah to his Messiah, to Cyrus whom I held by his right hand to bring down nations before him; and I will loosen the loins of kings to open before him the doors; and the gates shall not be shut

Thus said Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his potter, Ask me of things coming concerning the sons, and concerning the work of my hands will ye command me?

I mused him up in justice, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall send away my captivity, not by price and not by a gift, said Jehovah of armies.

This said Jehovah, The labor of Egypt and the gain of Cush, and of the Sabeans, men of measure, shall pass over upon thee, and to thee shall they be: after thee shall they come in fetters: they shall pass over and to thee shall they worship and supplicate to thee, Surely God is in thee, and none yet: no God.

For thus said Jehovah creating the heavens, He the God forming the earth, and he made it; he prepared it, be created it not in vain, he formed it to be dwelt in: I Jehovah and none besides