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39.3 said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?' And Hezekiah said: 'They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.' Then said he: 'What have they seen in thy house?' And Hezekiah answered: 'All that is in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.' Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah: 'Hear the word of the of hosts: Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, saith the. And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be officers in the palace of the king of Babylon.' Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah: 'Good is the word of the which thou hast spoken.' He said moreover: 'If but there shall be peace and truth in my days.'


 * Comfort ye, comfort ye My people,
 * Saith your God.
 * Bid Jerusalem take heart,
 * And proclaim unto her,
 * That her time of service is accomplished,
 * That her guilt is paid off;
 * That she hath received of the hand
 * Double for all her sins.


 * Hark! one calleth:
 * 'Clear ye in the wilderness the way of the ,
 * Make plain in the desert
 * A highway for our God.
 * Every valley shall be lifted up,
 * And every mountain and hill shall be made low;
 * And the rugged shall be made level,
 * And the rough places a plain;
 * And the glory of the shall be revealed,
 * And all flesh shall see it together;
 * For the mouth of the hath spoken it.'


 * Hark! one saith: 'Proclaim!'
 * And he saith: 'What shall I proclaim?'
 * 'All flesh is grass,
 * And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field;
 * The grass withereth, the flower fadeth;
 * Because the breath of the bloweth upon it—
 * Surely the people is grass.
 * The grass withereth, the flower fadeth;
 * But the word of our God shall stand for ever.'


 * O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion,
 * Get thee up into the high mountain;
 * O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem,
 * Lift up thy voice with strength;
 * Lift it up, be not afraid;
 * Say unto the cities of Judah:
 * 'Behold your God! '
 * Behold, the Lord will come as a Mighty One,
 * And His arm will rule for Him;
 * Behold, His reward is with Him,
 * And His recompense before Him.
 * Even as a shepherd that feedeth his flock,
 * That gathereth the lambs in his arm,
 * And carrieth them in his bosom,
 * And gently leadeth those that give suck.


 * Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
 * And meted out heaven with the span,