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Isaiah

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Heaven Is My Throne

1 THUS saith our Lord: Heaven is my seat, and the earth my foot stool: what is this house that you will build to me? And what is this place of my rest?

2 My hand hath made all these things, & all these things have been done, saith our Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to the poor little one, & the contrite of spirit, and him that trembleth at my words?

3 He that immolateth an oxe, is as he that should slay a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as he that should brain a dog: he that offereth oblation, as he that should offer swine's blood: he that remembereth frankincense, as he that should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in their ways, and in their abominations their soul is delighted.

4 Wherefore I also will choose their delusions: and the things that they feared, I will bring to them: because I called, and there was none that would answer: I have spoken, and they heard not: & they have done evil in mine eyes, and have chosen the things that I would not.

5 Hear the word of our Lord, ye that tremble at his word: your brethren that hate you, and reject you for my name sake, have said: Let the Lord be glorified, & we shall see in your joy: but they shall be confounded.

6 A voice of people from the city, a voice from the temple, the voice of our Lord repaying retribution to his enemies.

Rejoice with Jerusalem

7 Before she travailed, she brought forth, before her time came to be delivered, she brought forth a man child.

8 Who ever heard such a thing? & who hath seen the like to this? Why, shall the earth travail in one day? Or shall a nation be brought forth together, because Sion hath travailed, & brought forth her children?

9 Shall not I that make others to bring forth children, my self bring forth, saith the Lord? Shall I, that give generation to others, be barren, saith the Lord thy God?

10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, & be joyful in her all ye that love her: be glad with her in gladness all ye, that mourn upon her,

11 that you may suck, & be filled of the breast of her consolation: that you may milk, & flow with delights in all manner of her glory.

12 Because thus saith our Lord: Behold I will decline upon her as it were a flood of peace, and as a torrent overflowing the glory of the Gentiles, which you shall suck: at the breasts, you shall be carried, & upon the knees they shall speak you fair.

13 As if the mother would speak one fair, so will I comfort you, & in Jerusalem you shall be comforted.

14 You shall see, & your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall spring as an herb, and the hand of our Lord shall be known to his servants, & he shall be wrath with his enemies.

Final Judgments against the Wicked

15 Because lo our Lord will come in fire, & his chariots as a whirlwind, to render his fury in indignation, & his rebuking in flames of fire:

16 because our Lord shall judge in fire, & in his sword to all flesh, and the slain of our Lord shall be multiplied,

17 they that were sanctified, & thought themselves clean in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine's flesh, and abomination, and the mouse: they shall be confounded, saith our Lord.

18 But I know their works, and their cogitations: I come that I may gather together, with all nations and tongues: and they shall come and shall see my glory.

19 And I will put a sign in them, and I will send of them, that shall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Afrike, & Lydia, them that hold the arrow: into Italy, and Greece; to the islands far off, to them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And they shall shew forth my glory to the Gentiles:

20 and they shall bring all your brethren of all nations a gift to our Lord, upon horses, and in chariots, & in horse-litters, & on mules, and in coaches, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith our Lord, as if the children of Israel should bring in a gift in a clean vessel into the house of our Lord.

21 And I will take of them to be Priests, & Levites, saith our Lord.

22 Because as new heavens, and a new earth, which I make to stand before me, saith our Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your name.

23 And there shall be month after month, and sabbath after sabbath: all flesh shall come to adore before my face, saith our Lord.

24 And they shall go out, and see the carcasses of the men, that have transgressed against me: their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched: and they shall be even unto satiety of sight to all flesh.