Or who is he among my creditors,

To whom I have fold you?

Behold, for your iniquities are ye fold;

And for your tranfgreffions is your mother difmiffed.

2 Wherefore came I, and there was no man ? Called I, and none answered?

3

Is then my hand fo greatly fhortened, that I cannot redeem?

And have I no power to deliver?

Behold, at my rebuke I make dry the fea;

I make the rivers a defert:

Their fifh is dried up,

because there is no water:

And dieth away for thirst.

I cloath the heavens with blackness;
And fackcloth I make their covering.

4 THE Lord JEHOVAH hath given me the tongue of the learned;

That I might know how to fpeak a seasonable word to the weary.

He wakeneth, morning by morning,

He wakeneth mine car, to hearken with the attention of a learner.

5 The Lord JEHOVAH hath opened mine ear; And I was not rebellious;

Neither did I withdraw myself backward.

6 I gave my back to the fmiters,

And my cheeks to them, that plucked off the

hair:

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My face I hid not from shame and spitting. 7 For the Lord JEHOVAH is my helper; Therefore I am not afhamed.

Therefore have I fet my face as a flint;

And I know, that I fhall not be confounded. 8 He that juftificth me is near at hand :

Who is he that will contend with me? let us ftand forth together:

Who is mine adverfary? let him come on to the conteft.

9 Behold, the Lord JEHOVAH is my advocate: Who is he that fhall condemn me?

10

Lo! all of them fhall wax old as a garment;
The moth fhall confume them.

Who is there among you, that feareth JE.
HOVAH?

Let him hearken unto the voice of his fervant:
That walketh in darkness, and hath no light?
Let him trust in the name of JEHOVAH;
And reft himself on the support of his God,
11 Behold, all ye who kindle a fire;
Who heap the fuel round about :
Walk ye in the light of your fire,
And of the fuel, which ye have kindled.
ye fhall have at my hand:

This

Ye fhall lie down in forrow.

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HEARKEN unto me, ye that purfue righte

oufnefs,

Ye that feek JEHOVAH:

Look unto the rock, from whence ye were hewen;

And to the hollow of the cave whence ye were

digged.

2 Look unto Abraham your

father;

And unto Sarah, who bore you :

For I called him, being a single person,
And I bleffed him, and I multiplied him.
3 Thus therefore fhall JEHOVAH confole Sion;
He fhall confole all her defolations:

4

And he fhall make her wildernefs like Eden: And her defert like the garden of JEHOVAH :Joy and gladnefs fhall be found in her;

Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

And give ear unto me, O ye nations:
For the law from me fhall proceed:

And my judgement will I cause to break forth for a light to the peoples.

5 My righteousness is at hand; my salvation gocth forth:

And mine arm shall difpenfe judgement to the peoples:

Me the distant lands fhall expect;

And to mine arm fhall they look with con

fidence.

6 Lift up unto the heavens your eyes;

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And look down unto the earth beneath :
Verily the heavens fhall diffolve, like smoke;
And the earth fhall wax old, like a garment;
And its inhabitants shall perish, like the vilest
infect:

But my falvation fhall endure for ever;

And my righteoufnefs fhall not decay.

Hearken unto me, ye that know righteous

nefs;

The people, in whose heart is my law :

Fear not the reproach of wretched man ;

Neither be ye borne down by their revilings:

8 For the moth fhall confume them like a gar

ment:

And the worm shall eat them, like wool:

But my righteousness fhall endure for ever;
And my falvation to the age of ages.

Awake, awake, clothe thyfelf with ftrength,
O Arm of JEHOVAH !

Awake, as in the days of old, the antient ge-
nerations.

Art thou not the fame, that smote Rahab, that wounded the dragon?

10 Art thou not the fame, that dried up the fea, the waters of the great deep?

That

That made the depths of the fea a path for the

redeemed to pafs through;

11 Thus fhall the ranfomed of JEHOVAH return, And come to Sion with loud acclamation: And everlasting gladnefs fhall crown their heads;

Joy and gladness fhall they obtain,

And forrow and fighing fhall flee away.

12 I, even I, am he that comforteth

you: Who art thou, that thou shouldft fear wretched man, that dieth;

And the fon of man, that fhall become as the grafs ?

13 And fhouldst forget JEHOVAH thy maker, Who ftretched out the heavens, and founded the earth;

And shouldst every day be in continued fear,
Becaufe of the fury of the oppreffor,

As if He were just ready to destroy:

And where now is the fury of the oppreffor?

14 He marcheth on with fpeed, who cometh to fet free the captive;

That he may not die in the dungeon,

And that his bread may not fail.

15 For I am JEHOVAH thy God;

He, who ftilleth at once the fea, though the

waves thereof roar;

JEHOVAH God of Hofts is his name, 16 I have put my words in thy mouth;