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| [1]KEEP silence, O you islands; and let the people renew their strength; let them come near; then let them speak; let them come near together to judgment. |
[1]Iles, be stille to me, and folkis chaunge strengthe; neiye thei, and thanne speke thei; neiye we togidere to doom. |
| [2]Who has stirred up the righteous one from the east, and hastened him on? The nations shall surrender before him, and kings shall be confounded. He gave them as the dust to his sword and as driven stubble to his bow. |
[2]Who reiside the iust man fro the eest, and clepide hym to sue hym silf? He schal yyue folkis in his siyt, and he schal welde kyngis; he schal yyue as dust to his swerd, and as stobil `that is rauyschid of the wynd, to his bowe. |
| [3]He shall pursue them, then make peace; and he shall not pass that way on foot. |
[3]He schal pursue hem, he schal go in pees; a path schal not appere in hise feet. |
| [4]Who has prepared and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first and the last; I am he. |
[4]Who wrouyte and dide these thingis? clepynge generaciouns at the bigynnyng. Y am the Lord; and Y am the firste and the laste. |
| [5]The islands saw it, and were afraid; and the ends of the earth were afraid, and they drew near and came. |
[5]Ilis sien, and dredden; the laste partis of erthe were astonyed; thei camen niy, and neiyiden. |
| [6]They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage. |
[6]Ech man schal helpe his neiybore, and schal seie to his brother, Be thou coumfortid. |
| [7]The carpenter encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering; and they fasten it with nails, that it should not be moved. |
[7]A smyth of metal smytynge with an hamer coumfortide him that polischyde, ethir made fair, in that tyme, seiynge, It is good, to glu; and he fastenede hym with nailis, that he schulde not be mouyd. |
| [8]But now, Israel, you are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham my friend, whom I have strengthened. |
[8]And thou, Israel, my seruaunte, Jacob, whom Y chees, the seed of Abraham, my frend, in whom Y took thee; |
| [9]I have called you from the ends of the earth and from among the prophets, and said to you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and have not rejected you |
[9]fro the laste partis of erthe, and fro the fer partis therof Y clepide thee; and Y seide to thee, Thou art my seruaunt; Y chees thee, and castide not awei thee. |
| [10]Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I have strengthened you, and have also helped you, yea, I will also uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. |
[10]Drede thou not, for Y am with thee; boowe thou not awei, for Y am thi God. Y coumfortide thee, and helpide thee; and the riythond of my iust man vp took thee. |
| [11]All those that reproach you shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing; and those who strive with you shall perish. |
[11]Lo! alle men schulen be schent, and schulen be aschamed, that fiyten ayens thee; thei schulen be as if thei ben not, and men schulen perische, that ayen seien thee. |
| [12]You shall seek them that strive with you, but you shall not find them; they that war against you shall be as if they were nothing. |
[12]Thou schalt seke hem, and thou schalt not fynde thi rebel men; thei schulen be, as if thei ben not, and as the wastyng of a man fiytynge ayens thee. |
| [13]For I am the LORD your God, the strengthener of your right hand. I have said to you, Fear not; I am your helper. |
[13]For Y am thi Lord God, takynge thin hond, and seiynge to thee, Drede thou not, Y helpide thee. |
| [14]Fear not, O you helpless men of Jacob, O you remnant of Israel! I am your helper, says the LORD, and your Saviour, the Holy One of Israel. |
[14]Nyle thou, worm of Jacob, drede, ye that ben deed of Israel. Y helpide thee, seith the Lord, and thin ayen biere, the hooli of Israel. |
| [15]Behold, I have made you as a new threshing instrument having teeth; a thing which tears and crushes to pieces; you shall thresh the mountains and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff. |
[15]Y haue set thee as a newe wayn threischynge, hauynge sawynge bilis; thou schalt threische mounteyns, and schalt make smal, and thou schalt sette litle hillis as dust. |
| [16]You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and you shall rejoice in the LORD and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel. |
[16]Thou schalt wyndewe hem, and the wynd schal take hem awei, and a whirlewynd schal scatere hem; and thou schalt make ful out ioie in the Lord, and thou schalt be glad in the hooli of Israel. |
| [17]When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is dried with thirst, I the LORD will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. |
[17]Nedi men and pore seken watris, and tho ben not; the tunge of hem driede for thirst. Y the Lord schal here hem, I God of Israel schal not forsake hem. |
| [18]I will open rivers in the mountains and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness pools of water, and the dry land springs of water. |
[18]Y schal opene floodis in hiy hillis, and wellis in the myddis of feeldis; Y schal sette the desert in to poondis of watris, and the lond without weie in to ryuers of watris. |
| [19]I will plant in the wilderness the cedars, the acacia tree, the myrtle, and the olive tree; I will set in the desert the cypress and the pine and the box tree together; |
[19]Y schal yyue in wildirnesse a cedre, and a thorn, and a myrte tre, and the tre of an olyue; Y schal sette in the desert a fir tre, an elm, and a box tre togidere. |
| [20]That they may see and know and consider and understand that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it |
[20]That thei se, and knowe, and bithenke, and vndurstonde togidere; that the hond of the Lord dide this thing, and the hooli of Israel made that of nouyt. |
| [21]Bring near your cause, says the LORD; bring near your counsels, says the King of Jacob. |
[21]Make ye niy youre doom, seith the Lord; brynge ye, if in hap ye han ony thing, seith the kyng of Jacob. |
| [22]Let them come near and show us the things that are to come; show us the former things, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us the things that are to come. |
[22]Neiy tho, and telle to vs, what euer thingis schulen come; telle ye the formere thingis that weren, and we schulen sette oure herte, and schulen wite; schewe ye to vs the laste thingis of hem, and tho thingis that schulen come. |
| [23]Show us the wonders that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; yea, do good, or do evil, that we may relate it and behold it together. |
[23]Telle ye what thingis schulen come in tyme to comynge, and we schulen wite, that ye ben goddis; al so do ye wel, ethir yuele, if ye moun; and speke we, and see we togidere. |
| [24]Behold, you are nothing, and your works are corrupt; choosing you is an abomination. |
[24]Lo! ye ben of nouyt, and youre werk is of that that is not; he that chees you, is abhomynacioun. |
| [25]I have stirred up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun, and shall call on my name; and the princes shall come, and shall be trodden down like mortar, and as the potter treads clay. |
[25]I reiside fro the north, and he schal come fro the risyng of the sunne; he schal clepe my name. And he schal brynge magistratis as cley, and as a pottere defoulynge erthe. |
| [26]Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? And beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? Yea, there is none that shows, yea, there is none that declares, yea, there is none that hears your words. |
[26]Who tolde fro the bigynnyng, that we wite, and fro the bigynnyng, that we seie, Thou art iust? noon is tellynge, nether biforseiynge, nether herynge youre wordis. |
| [27]These things are the chief concern of Zion; behold, I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good tidings. |
[27]The firste schal seie to Sion, Lo! Y am present; and Y schal yyue a gospellere to Jerusalem. |
| [28]For I beheld, and there was no man who could meditate about these things, that I might ask him, and that he might give me an answer. |
[28]And Y siy, and noon was of these, that token councel, and he that was axid, answeride a word. |
| [29]Behold, they are all nothing; their works are vanity; their images are wind and vanity |
[29]Lo! alle men ben vniust, and her werkis ben wynd and veyn; the symylacris of hem ben wynd, and voide thing. |