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 be clean,  take  away  the  evil  of  your  devices  from  my  eyes: cease to do  perversely. Learn to  do  well: seek  judgment. Then come and accuse  me,  saith  the  Lord. If your  sins  be  as  scarlet,  they shall be  made  as  white  as  snow: if  they  be  red  as  crimson,  they shall be  as  white  as  wool. But if  you  will  provoke  me  to  wrath, the sword  shall  devour  you.”

To this  prophet  also  the  Lord  revealed  so  many  particulars relating to  the  Saviour  of  the  world  that,  reading  his  prophecies, one would  suppose  Isaias  had  lived  at  the  same  time  as  our  Divine Lord, instead  of  living  seven  hundred  years  before. A few of these  prophecies  will  show  how  clearly  this  greatest  of  all  the prophets foresaw  the  Birth,  Passion  and  Death  of  the  Redeemer.

Speaking of  the  Mother  of  the  Messias,  as  well  as  of  the Messias Himself,  he  said:  “Behold,  a virgin  shall  conceive  and bear a son,  and  His  name  shall  be  called  Emmanuel,  that  is,  God with us.” — “And  there  shall  come  forth  a rod  out  of  the  root  of Jesse,  and  a flower  shall  rise  up  out  of  his  root. And the  Spirit of the  Lord  shall  rest  upon  Him,  the  spirit  of  wisdom  and  understanding, the  spirit  of  counsel  and  of  fortitude,  the  spirit  of  knowledge and  of  godliness. And He  shall  be  filled  with  the  spirit  of the  fear  of  the  Lord.”

“A Child  is  born  to  us,  a Son  is  given  to  us,  and  the government is  upon  His  shoulder. His name  shall  be  called Wonderful, Counsellor,  God  the  mighty,  the  Father  of  the  world to come,  the  Prince  of  Peace.”  “God  Himself  will  come  and save you;  then  shall  the  eyes  of  the  blind  be  opened  and  the ears of  the  deaf  shall  be  unstopped.”

Concerning the  Passion  of  our  Lord  he  prophesied:  “There is no  beauty  in  Him,  nor  comeliness. Despised, and  the  most abject of  men,  a man  of  sorrows. He has  borne  our  infirmities;