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Those two things came to you; who shall grieve for you? Ruin and shattering and famine and the sword, who but I shall comfort you?

So hear this now, afflicted one, and drunken, but not from wine:

But I will put it into the hand of those oppressing you, who have said to your soul, Bow down that we may cross, and, Put your back to the ground, and as the street to those who cross.

But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His wounds we ourselves are healed.

He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, but He did not open His mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a ewe before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.

And He appointed Him His grave with the wicked, but He was with a rich man in His death; though He had done no violence, and deceit was not in His mouth.

But Jehovah pleased to crush Him, to make Him sick, so that If He should put His soul as a guilt offering, He shall see His seed; He shall prolong His days; and the will of Jehovah shall prosper in His hand.

For a little moment I have left you, but I will gather you with great pityings.

In a flood of wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; but I will have pity on you with everlasting kindness, says Jehovah your Redeemer.

For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but My mercy shall not depart from you; nor shall the covenant of My peace be removed, says Jehovah who has pity on you.

Behold, gathering they shall gather, but not from Me. Who has gathered against you? By you he shall fall.

so shall My Word be, which goes out of My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in what I sent it to do!

But you, draw near here, sons of the sorceress, seed of the adulterer and playing the harlot.

When you cry, let your assembly deliver you; but the wind shall bear away all of them; vanity takes them. But he who takes refuge in Me shall inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.

His ways I have seen, but I will heal him, and will lead him and complete comforts to him and to his mourners.

But the wicked are like the driven sea, which cannot be quiet, and its waves cast up mire and dirt.

But your iniquities are coming between you and your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.

For this reason justice is far from us; and righteousness does not overtake us. We wait for light, but, behold, dimness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

We all of us roar like bears, and moaning we moan like doves. We look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples. But Jehovah shall rise on you, and His glory shall be seen on you.