¹ Keep silent towards Me, O isles, And the peoples pass on `to' power, They come nigh, then they speak, `Together -- to judgment we draw near.'

¹³ Hush, all flesh, because of Jehovah, For He hath been roused up from His holy habitation!'

²⁰ And Jehovah `is' in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!

¹⁸ Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

¹⁰ Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, `I `am' mighty.'

¹¹ Haste, and come in, all ye nations round, And be gathered together, Thither cause to come down, O Jehovah, Thy mighty ones.

⁶ Each his neighbour they help, And to his brother he saith, `Be strong.'

⁷ And strengthen doth an artizan the refiner, A smoother `with' a hammer, Him who is beating `on' an anvil, Saying, `For joining it `is' good,' And he strengtheneth it with nails, it is not moved!

¹¹ And it hath come to pass, in that day, The Lord addeth a second time his power, To get the remnant of His people that is left, From Asshur, and from Egypt, And from Pathros, and from Cush, And from Elam, and from Shinar, And from Hamath, and from isles of the sea,

¹ Hear, I pray you, that which Jehovah is saying: `Rise -- strive thou with the mountains, And cause thou the hills to hear thy voice.'

² Hear, O mountains, the strife of Jehovah, Ye strong ones -- foundations of earth! For a strife `is' to Jehovah, with His people, And with Israel He doth reason.

³ O My people, what have I done to thee? And what -- have I wearied thee? Testify against Me.

⁸ Near `is' He who is justifying me, Who doth contend with me? We stand together, who `is' mine opponent? Let him come nigh unto me.

¹ Hearken, O isles, unto me, And attend, O peoples, from afar, Jehovah from the womb hath called me, From the bowels of my mother He hath made mention of my name.

¹⁶ Come ye near unto me, hear this, Not from the beginning in secret spake I, From the time of its being, there `am' I, And now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and His Spirit.

²¹ Bring near your cause, saith Jehovah, Bring nigh your mighty ones, saith the king of Jacob.

²² They bring nigh, and declare to us that which doth happen, The first things -- what they `are' declare ye, And we set our heart, and know their latter end, Or the coming things cause us to hear.

¹ Come near, ye nations, to hear, And ye peoples, give attention, Hear doth the earth and its fulness, The world, and all its productions.

⁹ Be friends, O nations, and be broken, And give ear, all ye far off ones of earth, Gird yourselves, and be broken, Gird yourselves, and be broken.

¹⁰ Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'

¹⁰ Desist, and know that I `am' God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

⁷ Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

⁸ Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

⁹ And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?

¹⁰ Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour and beauty put on.

³ Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

³⁵ Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

³⁶ If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.

³ O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

⁴ I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill `with' arguments.

⁵ I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.

⁶ In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth `it' in me.

⁷ There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.