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the truth known to the children. the Lord.
20 O Lord, save me, and we will sing our 7 And of thy children, that shall issue from
psalms all the days of our life in the house of thee, whom thou shalt beget, they shall take
the Lord. away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace
21 Now Isaias had ordered that they should of the king of Babylon.
take a lump of figs, and lay it as a plaster upon 8 And Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of
the wound, and that he should be healed. the Lord, which he hath spoken, is good. And
22 And Ezechias had said: What shall be the he said: Only let peace and truth be in my days.
sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?

Chapter 40
Chapter 39
Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith
At that time Merodach Baladan, the son of Bal- your God.
adan king of Babylon, sent letters and presents 2 Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call
to Ezechias: for he had heard that he had been to her: for her evil is come to an end, her iniquity
sick and was recovered. is forgiven: she hath received of the hand of the
2 And Ezechias rejoiced at their coming, and Lord double for all her sins.
he shewed them the storehouses of his aromatical 3 The voice of one crying in the desert: Pre-
spices, and of the silver, and of the gold, and of pare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the
the sweet odours, and of the precious ointment, wilderness the paths of our God.
and all the storehouses of his furniture, and all 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every
things that were found in his treasures. There mountain and hill shall be made low, and the
was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion crooked shall become straight, and the rough
that Ezechias shewed them not. ways plain.
3 Then Isaias the prophet came to king 5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
Ezechias, and said to him: What said these and all flesh together shall see, that the mouth
men, and from whence came they to thee? And of the Lord hath spoken.
Ezechias said: From a far country they came to 6 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said:
me, from Babylon. What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the
4 And he said: What saw they in thy house? glory thereof as the flower of the field.
And Ezechias said: All things that are in my 7 The grass is withered, and the flower is
house have they seen, there was not any thing fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown
which I have not shewn them in my treasures. upon it. Indeed the people is grass:
5 And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word 8 The grass is withered, and the flower is
of the Lord of hosts. fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for
6 Behold the days shall come that all that is ever.
in thy house, and that thy fathers have laid up 9 Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou
in store until this day, shall be carried away into that bringest good tidings to Sion: lift up thy
Babylon: there shall not any thing be left, saith voice with strength, thou that bringest good tid-