<p class="poetry">Look, the <sc>Lordsc> announces to the entire earth:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Say to Daughter Zion,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Look, your deliverer comes!p> <p class="poetry">Look, his reward is with himp> <p class="poetry">and his reward goes before him!&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">no eye has seen any God besides you,p> <p class="poetry">who intervenes for those who wait for him.p>

<p class="poetry">Hear the word of the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">you who respect what he has to say!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Your countrymen,<n id="2" /> who hate youp> <p class="poetry">and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name,p> <p class="poetry">say, &#8220;May the <sc>Lordsc> be glorified,p> <p class="poetry">then we will witness your joy.&#8221;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">But they will be put to shame.p>

<p class="poetry">The one who lives<n id="1" /> uprightly<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and speaks honestly;p> <p class="poetry">the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measuresp> <p class="poetry">and rejects a bribe;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who does not plot violent crimes<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and does not seek to harm others<n id="5" /> &#8211;p>

<p class="bodytext">Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, &#8220;Speak to your servants in Aramaic,<n id="1" /> for we understand it. Don&#8217;t speak with us in the Judahite dialect<n id="2" /> in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.&#8221;

Don&#8217;t listen to Hezekiah!&#8217; For this is what the king of Assyria says, &#8216;Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me.<n id="1" /> Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

Isaiah said to them, &#8220;Tell your master this: &#8216;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says: &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid because of the things you have heard &#8211; these insults the king of Assyria&#8217;s servants have hurled against me.<n id="1" />

&#8220;Go and tell Hezekiah: &#8216;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> God of your ancestor<n id="1" /> David says: &#8220;I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,

<p class="poetry">Tell me! Present the evidence!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them consult with one another!p> <p class="poetry">Who predicted this in the past?p> <p class="poetry">Who announced it beforehand?p> <p class="poetry">Was it not I, the <sc>Lordsc>?p> <p class="poetry">I have no peer, there is no God but me,p> <p class="poetry">a God who vindicates and delivers;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">there is none but me.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Listen to this, O family of Jacob,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you who are called by the name &#8216;Israel,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and are descended from Judah,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">who take oaths in the name of the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">and invoke<n id="3" /> the God of Israel &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">but not in an honest and just manner.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">You did not hear,p> <p class="poetry">you do not know,p> <p class="poetry">you were not told beforehand.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For I know that you are very deceitful;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you were labeled<n id="3" /> a rebel from birth.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> has given me the capacity to be his spokesman,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so that I know how to help the weary.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He wakes me up every morning;p> <p class="poetry">he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I predestine you to die by the sword,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because I called to you, and you did not respond,p> <p class="poetry">I spoke and you did not listen.p> <p class="poetry">You did evil before me;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">you chose to do what displeases me.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">So I will choose severe punishment<n id="1" /> for them;p> <p class="poetry">I will bring on them what they dread,p> <p class="poetry">because I called, and no one responded,p> <p class="poetry">I spoke and they did not listen.p> <p class="poetry">They did evil before me;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they chose to do what displeases me.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Who has ever heard of such a thing?p> <p class="poetry">Who has ever seen this?p> <p class="poetry">Can a country<n id="1" /> be brought forth in one day?p> <p class="poetry">Can a nation be born in a single moment?p> <p class="poetry">Yet as soon as Zion goes into labor she gives birth to sons!p>

I will perform a mighty act among them<n id="1" /> and then send some of those who remain to the nations &#8211; to Tarshish, Pul,<n id="2" /> Lud<n id="3" /> (known for its archers<n id="4" />), Tubal, Javan,<n id="5" /> and to the distant coastlands<n id="6" /> that have not heard about me or seen my splendor. They will tell the nations of my splendor.