The Pillars of Three Faiths: Tanakh, Bible & Qu'ran. Various Authors

those nations shall be utterly wasted. ¹³The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee,The cypress, the plane-tree and the larch together;To beautify the place of My sanctuary,And I will make the place of My feet glorious.¹⁴And the sons of them that afflicted theeShall come bending unto thee,And all they that despised thee shall bow downAt the soles of thy feet;And they shall call thee The city of the Lord,The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁵Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated,So that no man passed through thee,I will make thee an eternal excellency,A joy of many generations.¹⁶Thou shalt also suck the milk of the nations,And shalt suck the breast of kings;And thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour,And I, the Mighty One of Jacob, thy Redeemer. ¹⁷For brass I will bring gold,And for iron I will bring silver,And for wood brass,And for stones iron;I will also make thy officers peace,And righteousness thy magistrates.¹⁸Violence shall no more be heard in thy land,Desolation nor destruction within thy borders;But thou shalt call thy walls Salvation,And thy gates Praise. ¹⁹The sun shall be no more thy light by day,Neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee;But the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light,And thy God thy glory.²⁰Thy sun shall no more go down,Neither shall thy moon withdraw itself;For the Lord shall be thine everlasting light,And the days of thy mourning shall be ended. ²¹Thy people also shall be all righteous,They shall inherit the land for ever;The branch of My planting, the work of My hands,Wherein I glory.²²The smallest shall become a thousand,And the least a mighty nation;I the Lord will hasten it in its time. 61The spirit of the Lord God is upon me;Because the Lord hath anointed meTo bring good tidings unto the humble;He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted,To proclaim liberty to the captives,And the opening of the eyes to them that are bound;²To proclaim the year of the Lord's good pleasure,And the day of vengeance of our God;To comfort all that mourn;³To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion,To give unto them a garland for ashes,The oil of joy for mourning,The mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness;That they might be called terebinths of righteousness,The planting of the Lord, wherein He might glory.⁴And they shall build the old wastes,They shall raise up the former desolations,And they shall renew the waste cities,The desolations of many generations.⁵And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,And aliens shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.⁶But ye shall be named the priests of the Lord,Men shall call you the ministers of our God;Ye shall eat the wealth of the nations,And in their splendour shall ye revel.⁷For your shame which was double,And for that they rejoiced: 'Confusion is their portion';Therefore in their land they shall possess double,Everlasting joy shall be unto them. ⁸For I the Lord love justice,I hate robbery with iniquity;And I will give them their recompense in truth,And I will make an everlasting covenant with them.⁹And their seed shall be known among the nations,And their offspring among the peoples;All that see them shall acknowledge them,That they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed. ¹⁰I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,My soul shall be joyful in my God;For He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation,He hath covered me with the robe of victory,As a bridegroom putteth on a priestly diadem,And as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.¹¹For as the earth bringeth forth her growth,And as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth;So the Lord God will cause victory and gloryTo spring forth before all the nations. 62For Zion's sake will I not hold My peace,And for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest,Until her triumph go forth as brightness,And her salvation as a torch that burneth.²And the nations shall see thy triumph,And all kings thy glory;And thou shalt be called by a new name,Which the mouth of the Lord shall mark out.³Thou shalt also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,And a royal diadem in the open hand of thy God.⁴Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken,Neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate;But thou shalt be called, My delight is in her,And thy land, Espoused;For the Lord delighteth in thee,And thy land shall be espoused.⁵For as a young man espouseth a virgin,So shall thy sons espouse thee;And as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride,So shall thy God rejoice over thee. ⁶I have set watchmenUpon thy walls, O Jerusalem,They shall never hold their peaceDay nor night:'Ye that are the Lord's remembrancers,Take ye no rest,⁷And give Him no rest,Till He establish,And till He make JerusalemA praise in the earth.'⁸The Lord hath sworn by His right hand,And by the arm of His strength:Surely I will no more give thy cornTo be food for thine enemies;And strangers shall not drink thy wine,For which thou hast laboured;⁹But they that have garnered it shall eat it,And praise the Lord,And they that have gathered it shall drink itIn the courts of My sanctuary. ¹⁰Go through, go through the gates,Clear ye the way of the people;Cast up, cast up the highway,Gather out the stones;Lift up an ensign over the peoples.¹¹Behold, the Lord hath proclaimedUnto the end of the earth:Say ye to the daughter of Zion:'Behold, thy salvation cometh;Behold, His reward is with Him,And His recompense before Him.'¹²And they shall call them The holy people,The redeemed of the Lord;And thou shalt be called Sought out,A city not forsaken. 63'Who is this that cometh from Edom,With crimsoned garments from Bozrah?This that is glorious in his apparel,Stately in the greatness of his strength?'—'I that speak in victory, mighty to save.'—²'Wherefore is Thine apparel red,And Thy garments like his that treadeth in the winevat?'—³'I have trodden the winepress alone,And of the peoples there was no man with Me;Yea, I trod them in Mine anger,And trampled them in My fury;And their lifeblood is dashed against My garments,And I have stained all My raiment.⁴For the day of vengeance that was in My heart,And My year of redemption are come.⁵And I looked, and there was none to help,And I beheld in astonishment, and there was none to uphold;Therefore Mine own arm brought salvation unto Me,And My fury, it upheld Me.⁶And I trod down the peoples in Mine anger,And made them drunk with My fury,And I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.' ⁷I will make mention of the mercies of the Lord,And the praises of the Lord,According to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us;And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,Which He hath bestowed on them according to His compassions,And according to the multitude of His mercies.⁸For He said: 'Surely, they are My people,Children that will not deal falsely';So He was their Saviour.⁹In all their affliction He was afflicted,And the angel of His presence saved them;In His love and in His pity He redeemed them;And He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.¹⁰But they rebelled, and grieved His holy spirit;Therefore He was turned to be their enemy,Himself fought against them.¹¹Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses:'Where is He that brought them up out of the seaWith the shepherds of His flock?Where is He that put His holy spiritIn the midst of them?¹²That caused His glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses?That divided the water before them,To make Himself an everlasting name?¹³That led them through the deep,As a horse in the wilderness, without stumbling?¹⁴As the cattle that go down into the valley,The spirit of the Lord caused them to rest;So didst Thou lead Thy people,To make Thyself a glorious name.' ¹⁵Look down from heaven, and see,Even from Thy holy and glorious habitation;Where is Thy zeal and Thy mighty acts,The yearning of Thy heart and Thy compassions,Now restrained toward me?¹⁶For Thou art our Father;For Abraham knoweth us not,And Israel doth not acknowledge us;Thou, O Lord, art our Father,Our Redeemer from everlasting is Thy name.¹⁷O Lord, why dost Thou make us to err from Thy ways,And hardenest our heart from Thy fear?Return for Thy servants'sake,The tribes of Thine inheritance.¹⁸Thy holy people they have well nigh driven out,Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.¹⁹We are become as they over whom Thou never borest rule,As they that were not called by Thy name. Oh, that Thou wouldest rend the heavens, that Thou wouldest come down,That the mountains might quake at Thy presence,64As when fire kindleth the brush-wood,And the fire causeth the waters to boil;To make Thy name known to Thine adversaries,That the nations might tremble at Thy presence,²When Thou didst tremendous thingsWhich we looked not for—Oh that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence!—³And whereof from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,Neither hath the eye seen a God beside Thee,Who worketh for him that waiteth for Him. ⁴Thou didst take away him that joyfully worked righteousness,Those that remembered Thee in Thy ways—Behold, Thou wast wroth, and we sinned—Upon them have we stayed of old, that we might be saved.⁵And we are all become as one that is unclean,And all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment;And we all do fade as a leaf,And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.⁶And there is none that calleth upon Thy