1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low; their idols are borne by beasts of burden. The images that are carried about are burdensome, a burden for the weary. 2 They…

1 ‘Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, queen city of the Babylonians. No more will you be called tender or…

1 ‘Listen to this, you descendants of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel and come from the line of Judah, you who take oaths in the…

1 Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: before I was born the Lordcalled me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name. 2 He made…

1 This is what the Lordsays: ‘Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because…

1 ‘Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were…

1 Awake, awake, Zion, clothe yourself with strength! Put on your garments of splendour, Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again. 2 Shake off…

1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lordbeen revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root…

1 ‘Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labour; because more are the children of the desolate…

1 ‘Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without…