because he loved them, and spared them. He took them up, and carried them from of old.

But they provoked and enraged his Holy Spirit: therefore he became their enemy, and fought against them.

And he remembered the former time, Moses, which was among his people. Where then is he that brought them up out of the sea, and the shepherd of his flock? Where is he who gave his Holy Spirit among them?

Who led Moses by the right hand with his glorious arm, which parted the waters before them, that he might make him an everlasting name,

Who leadeth them through the deep, as horses in the wilderness, which stumble not, 14. As the cattle that go down into the field, which the breath of the LORD driveth? So hast thou also led thy people, that thou mightest make thee a glorious name.

Look therefore from heaven, and behold from thy holy glorious habitation. Where then is thy zeal, thy might? Thy great hearty mercy holdeth hard against me.

Thou art our father. For Abraham knoweth not of us, and Israel knoweth us not. But thou, O
LORD, art our Father, and our Redeemer: of old time is thy name.

Why hast thou caused us to err, O LORD, from thy ways, and hardened our hearts, that we fear not thee? Return again for thy servants’ sake, for the tribes’ sake, for thine inheritance.

They almost possess thy holy people: thine adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

We are as we were before, when thou didst not rule over us, and we were not called by thy name.
(Isaiah)
Chapter 64,
1: Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, and bring down the mountains before thee!

As waters boiled by fierce fire, that thy name might be known among thine enemies, and that the heathen might tremble at thy presence.

By the wonders which thou doest, which are not understood, when thou camest down, and the mountains were melted before thee.

For as it is not heard from the world, nor heard with ears, neither hath eye seen, without thee, O God, what befalleth them that wait for him.

Thou metst the merry, and them that do righteousness, and remember thee in thy ways.
Behold, thou wast angry with us, because we sinned, and abode long within: but we were saved.

But now we are all as the unclean, and all our righteousness is as an unclean garment. We are all withered as the leaves, and our sins carry us away as the wind.

No man calleth upon thy name, nor riseth up to hold thee: for thou hidest thy face from us, and causest us to languish in our sins.

But now, O Lord, thou art our Father, we are clay; thou art our potter, and we are all the work
of thy hands.

O LORD, be not angry with us, and remember not our sins for ever. Behold, we are all thy people!

The cities of thy sanctuary are desolate: Zion is desolate, Jerusalem is destroyed.

The house of our holiness and glory, wherein our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire, and all that we had of beauty is put to shame.

O Lord, wilt thou be so hard unto such, and hold our peace, and smite us so much?
(Isaiah)
Chapter 65
Casting out of the Jews. Calling of the Gentiles.

I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: and to the Gentiles that called not upon my name, I say, Here I am, here I am.

For I stretch out my hands all the day long unto a disobedient people, which walk after their own thoughts in a way that is not good.

A people that indigneth me is ever before my face, sacrificing in the gardens, and burning incense upon the bricks,

dwell among the tombs, and keep themselves in dens, and eat swine’s flesh, and have abominable soups in their pots

And say: Tarry at home, and stir me not: for I shall sanctify thee. Such shall become a smoke in mine anger, a fire that burneth all the day.

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will pay; yea, I will pay them in their bosoms,

Both their iniquity, and their fathers’ iniquity, together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense in the mountains, and have defiled me in the hills; and I will measure unto them their former works in their bosoms.

Thus saith the LORD; As when one findeth must in a bunch, and saith, Destroy it not; for there is a blessing in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I destroy it not all, 9. But I will cause seed to grow out of Jacob, and out of Judah to possess my mountain: for mine elect shall possess it, and my servants shall dwell there.

And Saron shall be a house for the flock, and the valley of Achor shall be a storehouse for my people that seek me.

But ye that forsake the LORD, and forget my holy mountain, and prepare a table for Gad, and offer a drink offering to Meni,

Now therefore I will number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down yourselves to the battle: because I called, and ye answered not; because I spake, and ye hearkened not; but did that which was evil in my sight, and mentioned that which was not in my sight.

Therefore thus saith the LORD GOD; Behold, my servants shall eat, and ye shall hunger; behold, my servants shall drink, and ye shall thirst; behold, my servants shall rejoice, and ye shall be ashamed;

Behold, my servants shall shout for joy, but ye shall cry for sorrow, and howl for lamentation.

And ye shall leave your name for an oath unto my chosen ones: and the LORD GOD shall kill you, and call his servants by another name,

That whosoever shall bless himself on earth shall bless himself in the right God, and whosoever shall swear on earth shall swear by the right God: for the former fears are forgotten, and are hid from mine eyes.

For, behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall be no more to be remembered, nor to be cherished,

But they shall rejoice for ever, and be glad in that which I create. For, behold, I will make Jerusalem to rejoice, and her people to be glad.

And I will be glad in Jerusalem, and rejoice in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be heard no more within, neither the voice of lamentation.

There shall be no more children that do not attain their days, nor old men that do not fulfil
their years: but the children of an hundred years shall die, and the sinners of an hundred years shall be accursed.

They shall build houses, and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

They shall not build, that another may inhabit; neither shall they plant, that another may eat.
For the days of my people shall be as the days of a tree, and the work of their hands shall wax old in mine elect.

They shall not labor in vain, nor bear untimely birth: for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their seed with them.

And it shall come to pass, before they call, that I will answer; and while they yet speak, that I will hear.

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and the serpent shall eat earth. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
(Isaiah)
Chapter 66
Spreading the true worship of God.

Thus saith the LORD; Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what house then will ye build me, or what place shall I rest in?

My hand hath made all that there is, saith the LORD. But I look on the wretched, and on him that is of a broken spirit, and that feareth my word.

For he that killeth an ox is even as he that killeth a man. He that sacrificeth a sheep is as if he had broken the neck of a dog. He that offereth a meat offering is as he that offereth a wave offering. He that burneth incense is as one that praiseth iniquity. They choose such things in their ways, and their souls delight in their abominations.

Therefore will I also choose that which they shall mock at; and that which they shall shun will I bring upon them; because I called, and no man answered that I spake; and they hearkened not, and did that which was evil in my sight, and chose that which was not in my sight.

Hear the word of the LORD, ye that fear his word: your brethren that hate you, and turn you away for my name’s sake, say: Let them see how glorious the LORD is: let him appear for your joy: they shall be put to shame.

For there shall be heard a voice of tumult in the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD paying his enemies.

She beareth before her woe: she is recovered of a child before the need of her child cometh.

who hath ever heard such things? Who hath seen such things? Can a nation be born at the same time, before a land has a woe? For Zion hath born her children without the woe.

Shall I suffer others to break the mother’s womb, and shall not myself also bring forth? saith the LORD. Shall I let others bear, and be shut up myself? saith thy God.

Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad in her, all ye that love her. Rejoice with her, all