Isaiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 483
The Books of the Prophets
ISAIAH. _
CH. 60.
Ow 56, Bcox II. A11 Kedafs Hocks gather to you, The rams of N ebaioth shall serve, To My Altar ascend with delight, And My Beautiful House will adorn. ‘ Who are these flying up like a cloud? And like doves on long wings 2 Why tum the Islesmen to Me E —·- And the best of the shipping of Tarshish To bring your sons from afar, with their silver and gold, To the NAME, EVER-L1v1NG,——YoUR Gon. And Israel’s HOLY,———Your honour. Then the strangers will build up your walls, And their Kings form alliance with you, Whom in anger I struck, but I tenderly love. And your Gates shall be wide both by day and by night, Never shut to the Nations who bring you their wealth, With their Kings riding in. For the Nation and Kingdom which serves not to you, Shall perish ; And the Nations destructive, destroyed. To you they shall come up, like Lebanon’sgIory, With the hr, and the elm, and the box tree together, To deck My Holy Place, The Place resting My feet. There the sons of your '1`yrants come bending to you ; All your scorners bend down to the soles of your feet, And proclaim you the CITY OF LIFE, Zion, the Holy of Israel ! Instead of you being forsaken and hated, With none passing through, I will make you a Glory for ever, For ages and ages a ]oy! You shall suck milk from the Nations Their Kings’ laps shall support, For I, the LORD, saved, And the Mxonrr of jacob set free. For brass, I will bring gold, And for iron, bring silver, For wood bronze, and for iron bring stones, Make your rulers gentle, and your taxers just. No more shall oppression be heard in your land, Destruction or breaking be heard in your bounds; IO II I216 18
But your walls called Salvation, and Thanks be your Gates! No more shall the Sun be your light in the day, And at night the Moon give you her light, But the LORD shall be to you a light everlasting, And your Gon be the Splendour for you! Your Sun never set, And your Moon never cease, For the LORD shall be to you perpetual light, And the days of your sorrow will end. 2i When your People will always be just, They shall conquer the earth ; Like a plant My hand set and made grow, 22 The few will become thousands, The weak a strong Nation; I, the LORD, hasten it now ! 483
