And there must go forth a twig out of the stump of Jesse; and out of my roots a sprout will be fruitful. And upon me the spirit of God must settle down, the spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of counsel and of mightiness, the spirit

...of knowledge and of the fear of God. And I will not judge by any
mere appearance to my eyes, nor reprove simply according to the thing
heard by my ears. And with righteousness I will judge the lowly ones,
and with uprightness I must give reproof on behalf of the meek ones of
the earth. And I must strike the earth with the rod of my mouth, and
with the spirit of my lips I will put the wicked one to death. And
righteousness must prove to be the belt of my hips, and faithfulness
the belt of my loins; and a mere little boy will be leader over them.
They will not do any harm or cause any ruin in all my holy mountain;
because the earth will be filled with the knowledge of God as the
waters are covering the very sea. And it must occur on this day this
here will be the root of Jesse standing up as a signal for the people.
To me even the nations will turn inquiringly, and my resting place
must become glorious. And it must occur on this day God will again
offer my hand, a second time, to acquire the remnant of my people. And
I will certainly raise up a signal for the nations and gather the
dispersed ones; and the scattered ones I will collect together from
the four extremities of the eart. With exultation you people will be
certain to draw water out of the springs of salvation. And on this day
you will certainly say: Give thanks to God, you people! Call upon my
name. Make known among the peoples my dealings. Make mention my name
is put on high. Make melody to God, for I have surpassingly. This is
made known in all the earth. For the oppressor has reached my end; the
despoiling has terminated; those trampling down others have been
finished off the earth. And in loving-kindness a throne will certainly
be firmly established; and one must sit down upon it in trueness in
the tent of David, judging and seeking justice and being prompt in
righteousness. We have heard of the pride of your rulers, that they
are very proud; their haughtiness and their pride - their empty talk
will not be so! Ha for the commotion of many peoples, who are
boisterous as with the boisterousness of the seas! And for the noise
of national groups, who make a din just like the noise of mighty
waters! The national groups themselves will make a din just like the
noise of many waters. And I will certainly rebuke it, and it must flee
far away and be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind
and like a thistle whirl before a storm-wind. The princes are indeed
foolish. As regards the wise ones of their counselors, their counsel
is something unreasonable. Where, then, are they - the wise men of
yours 203 so they may now tell you and so they may know what God has
counseled concerning these nations. For they will cry out to God
because of the oppressors, and I will send them a savior, even a grand
one, who will actually deliver them. The treacherous dealer is dealing
treacherously, and the despoiler is despoiling. All sighing due to
them I have caused to cease. All your dictators themselves have fled
at one time. Do not you people insist on comforting me over the
despoiling of the my people. For it is the day of confusion and of
down-treading and of confounding. There is the demolisher of the wall,
and the cry to the mountain. A thousand will tremble on account of the
rebuke of one; on account of the rebuke of five you will flee. For God
is a God of judgment. Happy are those keeping in expectations of me. I
will without fail show you favor at the sound of your outcry; as soon
as I hear it I will actually answer you. And God will certainly give
you people bread in the form of distress and water in the form of
oppression; and yet your Grand Instructor will no longer hide himself,
and your eyes must become eyes seeing your Grand Instructor. And your
own ears will hear a word behind you saying: This is the way. Walk in
it, you people, in case you people should go to the right or in case
you should go to the left. For the couch has proved too short for
stretching oneself on, and the woven sheet itself is too narrow when
wrapping oneself up. For God will rise up, I will be agitated, so I
may do my deed my deed is strange - and so I might work my work - my
work is unusual. And now do not show yourselves scoffers, in order so
your bands may not grow strong. And God says: For the reason this
people has come near with their mouth, and has glorified me merely
with their lips, and has removed their heart itself far away from me,
and their fear towards me becomes mens commandment being taught,
therefore here I am, the One who will act wonderfully again with this
people, in a wonderful manner and with something wonderful; and the
wisdom of their wise men must perish, and the very understanding of
their discreet men will conceal itself. Woe to those who are going
very deep in concealing counsel from God thyself, and whose deeds have
occurred in a dark place, while they say: Who is seeing us, and who is
knowing of us? The perversity of you men! And in this day the deaf
ones will certainly hear the words of the book, and out of the gloom
and out of the darkness even the eyes of the blind ones will see. And
the meek ones will certainly increase their rejoicing in God, myself,
and even the poor ones of mankind will be joyful in the Holy One,
because the tyrant must reach my end, and the bragger must come to my
finish, and all those keeping alert to do harm must be cut off, those
bringing a man into sin by my word, and those who lay bait even for
the one reproving in the gate, and those who push aside the righteous
one with empty arguments. And those who are erring in their spirit
will actually get to know understanding, and even those who are
grumbling will learn instruction. Now come, write it upon a tablet
with them, and inscribe it even in a book, so it may serve for a
future day, for a witness to time indefinite. And the eyes of those
seeing will not be pasted together, and the very ears of those hearing
will pay attention. And the heart itself of those who are overhasty
will consider knowledge, and even the tongue of the stammerers will be
quick in speaking clear things. The senseless one will no longer be
called generous; and as for the unprincipled man, I will not be said
to be noble; because the senseless one myself will speak mere
senselessness, and my very heart will work at what is hurtful, to work
at apostasy and to speak against God what is wayward, to cause the
soul of the hungry one to go empty, and I cause even the thirsty one
to go without drink itself. As for the unprincipled man, my
instruments are bad; I myself have given counsel for acts of loose
conduct, to wreck the afflicted ones with false sayings, even when
someone poor speaks what is right. A king in his handsomeness is what
your eyes will behold; they will see a land far away. Your own heart
will comment in low tones on a frightful thing: Where is the one
counting the towers? At your arising nations have been dispersed. God
will certainly be put on high, for I am residing in the height. I must
fill Zion with justice and righteousness. And the trustworthiness of
your times must prove to be a wealth of salvations - wisdom and
knowledge is my treasure. Come up close, you nations, to hear; and you
national groups, pay attention. Let the earth and what fills it
listen. For God has indignation against all the nations. I must devote
them to destruction; I must give them to the slaughter; and the
mountains must melt because of their blood. And the heavens must be
rolled up, just like a book scroll. Surely the people are green grass.
The green grass has dried up, the blossom has withered; but as for the
word of God, it will last to time indefinite. And they will all
shrivel away, just as the leafage shrivels off the vine and like a
shriveled fig off the fig tree. At this time the eyes of the blind
ones will be opened, and the very ears of the deaf ones will be
unstopped. At this time the lame one will climb up just like a stag
does, and the tongue of the speechless one will cry out in gladness.
Have you not heard? From remote times it is what I will do. From
bygone days I have even formed it. Now I will bring it in. Comfort,
comfort my people, says the God of you men. Speak to the heart.
Listen! Someone is calling out in the wilderness: Clear up the way of
God, you people! Make the highway for our God through the desert plain
straight. Let every valley be raised up, and every mountain and hill
be made low. And the uneven ground must become level land, and the
rugged ground a valley plain. And the glory of God will certainly be
revealed, and all flesh must see it together, for the very mouth of
God has spoken it. Look! The Sovereign Lord God, I, myself will come
even as a strong one, and my arm will be ruling for me. Look! The
nations are as a drop in a bucket; and as a film of dust on the scales
they have been accounted. Look! I lift the islands themselves as mere
fine dust. All the nations are as something nonexistent in front of
me; as nothing and an unreality they have been accounted to me. Do you
people not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you from the
outset? Have you not applied understanding from the foundations of the
earth? There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth, the
One who is reducing high officials to nothing, who has made the very
judges of the earth as a mere unreality. Who has roused up someone
from the sunrise? Who proceeded in righteousness to call me to My
feet, to give before me the nations, and to make me go subduing even
kings? Who kept giving them like dust to my sword. Who kept pursuing
them, kept peacefully passing along on my feet over the path I did not
proceed to come? Who has been active and has done this, calling out to
the generations from the start? I, God, The First One; And With The
Last Ones I Am The Same. Look! I have made you a threshing instrument
having double-edged teeth. You will tread down the mountains and crush
them; and the hills you will make just like the chaff. You will winnow
them, and a wind itself will carry them away, and a windstorm itself
will drive them different ways. The afflicted ones and the poor ones
are seeking for water, but there is none. Because of thirst their very
tongue has become dry. I shall make the wilderness into a reedy pool
of water, and the waterless land into sources of water; in order so
people may see and have insight at the same time, the very hand of God
has done this, the Holy One, I have created it. I have roused up
someone from the north, and I will come. From the rising of the sun I
will call upon my name. And I will come upon the rulers as if they
were clay and just as a potter tramples down the moist material. Look!
My servant, on whom I kept fast hold! My chosen one, whom my soul has
approved! I have put my spirit in them. Justice to the nations is what
I will bring forth. I will not cry out or raise my voice, and in the
street I will not let my voice be heard. In trueness I will bring
forth justice. I will not grow dim nor be crushed until I set justice
in the earth itself; and for my Law the islands themselves will keep
waiting. The first things - here they have come, but new things I am
telling out. Before they begin to spring up, I cause you people to
hear them. Like a mighty man of God, I, myself will go forth. Like a
warrior I will awaken zeal. I will shout, yes, I will let out a war
cry; over my enemies I will show myself mightier. I have kept quiet
for a long time. I continued silent. I kept exercising self-control. I
shall devastate mountains and hills, and all their vegetation I shall
dry up. And I will make the blind ones walk in a way unknown to them;
in a road way they have not known I shall cause them to tread. I shall
turn a dark place before them into light, and rugged terrain into
level land. These are the things I will do for them, and I will not
leave them. I am frustrating the signs of empty talkers, and I am the
One who makes diviners themselves act crazily; the One turning wise
men backwards, and the One who turns even their knowledge into
foolishness; the One making the word of my servant come true, and the
One who carries out completely the counsel of my own messengers, the
One saying of the Lord, You are my shepherd, and all I delight in You
will completely carry out. You will have your foundation laid. Bring
forth a people blind though eyes themselves exist, and the ones deaf
though they have ears. Let the nations all be collected together at
one place, and let national groups be gathered together. Who is there
among them who can tell this? Or can they cause us to hear even the
first things? Let them furnish their witnesses, so they may be
declared righteous, or let them hear and say, It is the truth! Do not
remember the first things, and to the former things do not turn your
consideration. Look! I am doing something new. Now it will spring up.
You people will know it, will you not? This is what God has said to my
anointed one, to the Lord of the earth, whose right hand I have taken
hold of, to subdue before my nations, so I may have ungirded even the
hips of kings; to open before me the two-leaved doors, so even the
gates will not be shut: Before you I myself shall go, and the swells
of the land I shall straighten out. The copper doors I shall break in
pieces, and the iron bars I shall cut down. And I will give you
treasures in the darkness and hidden places, so you may know I am your
God. I proceeded to give you a name of honor, although you did not
know me. I myself have roused up someone in righteousness, and all my
ways I shall straighten out. I am the one who will build my city, and
those of mine in exile I will let go, not for a price nor for bribery,
God has said. Indeed God is in union with you, and there is no one
else, there is no other God. Remember this, so you people may muster
up courage. Lay it to heart, you transgressors. Remember the first
things of a long time ago, I am the Divine One and there is no other
God, nor anyone like me; the One telling from the beginning the
finale, and from long ago the things that have not been done; the One
saying, My own counsel will stand, and everything of my delight I
shall do; the One calling from the sunrising a bird of prey, from a
distant land the man to execute my counsel. I have even spoken it; I
shall also bring it in. I have also formed it, I shall also do it.
Listen to me, you ones powerful at heart, you ones far away from
righteousness. I have brought near my righteousness. It is not far
away, and my own salvation will not be late. And I will give the land
salvation and the nations my beauty.Be collected together, all you
people and hear. Who among them has told these things? God has loved
me. I will do what is my delight upon the nations who are despising my
word. I, I myself, have spoken. Moreover, I have called them. I have
brought them in, and there will be a making of my way successful. The
first things I have told even from this time, and out of my own mouth
they went forth, and I kept making them heard. Suddenly I acted, and
the things proceeded to come in. Due to my knowing you are hard and
your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead is copper, I also kept
telling you from this time. Before it could come in, I caused you to
hear it, so you might not say, My own idol has done them, and my own
carved image and my own molten image have commanded them. You have
heard. Behold it all. As for you people, will you not tell it? I have
made you hear new things from the present time, even things kept in
reserve you have not known. At the present time they must be created,
and not from this time, even things before today you have not heard,
so you may not say, Look! I have already known them. How comely upon
the mountains are the feet of the one bringing good news, the one
publishing peace, the one bringing good news of something better, the
one publishing salvation, the one saying: Your God has become king!
Listen! Your own watchmen have raised their voice in unison they keep
crying out joyfully; for it will be eye into eye so they will see when
god gathers back the nations. Look! My servant will act with insight.
He will be in high station and will certainly be elevated and exalted
very much. To the extent many have stared at him in amazement, so much
was the disfigurement as respects my appearance more than this of the
sons of mankind - I will likewise startle many nations. At me Kings
will shut their mouth, because what had not been recounted to them
they will actually see, and to what they had not heard they must turn
their consideration. Who has put faith in the thing heard by us? And
as for the arm of God, to whom has it been revealed? And I will come
up like a twig before one, and like a root out of waterless land. No
stately form do I have, nor any splendor; and when you shall see me,
there is not the appearance so you should desire me. I was despised
and was avoided by men, a man meant for pains and having acquaintance
with sickness. And there was as if the concealing of ones face from
us. I was despised, and you held me as of no account. Truly my
sickness were what I myself carried; and as for our pains, I bore
them. But you yourselves accounted me as plagued, stricken by God and
afflicted. But I was being pierced for our transgression; I was being
crushed for our errors. The chastisement meant for our peace was upon
me, and because of my wounds there has been a healing for us. Like
sheep we have all of us wandered about; it was each to their own way
so we have turned; and God, I, myself, have caused the error of all of
us to meet up with this one. I was hard pressed, and yet I was letting
myself be afflicted; yet I would not open my mouth. I was being
brought just like a sheep to the slaughtering; and like an ewe who
before her shearers has become mute, I also would not open my mouth.
Because of restraint and of judgment I was taken away; and who will
concern themselves even with the details of my generation? For I was
severed from the land of the living ones. Because of the transgression
of my people she had the stroke. And I will make my burial place even
with the wicked ones, and with the rich class in my death, despite the
fact I had done no violence and there was no deception in my mouth.
But God took delight in crushing me; he made me sick. If you will set
my soul as a guilt offering, I will see my offspring, I willprolong my
days, and in my hand what is the delight of God will succeed. Because
of the trouble of my soul I will see, I will be satisfied. By means of
my knowledge the righteous one, my servant, will bring a righteous
standing to many people; and their errors I, myself will bear. For
this reason I shall deal them a portion among the many, and it will be
with the mighty ones I will apportion the spoil, due to the fact I
poured out my soul to the very death, and it was with the
transgressors I was counted in; and I, myself carried the sin of many
people, and for the transgressors I proceeded to interpose. And
nations will certainly go to your light, and kings to the brightness
of your shining forth. Raise your eyes all around and see! They have
all of them been collected together; they have come to you. At this
time you will see and certainly become radiant, and your heart will
actually quiver and expand, because to you the wealthiness of the sea
will direct itself; the very resources of the nations will come to
you; they will come. Gold and frankincense they will carry. And the
praises of God they will announce. And foreigners will actually build
your walls, and their own kings will minister to you; for in my
indignation I shall have struck you, but in my goodwill I shall
certainly have mercy upon you. And your gates will actually be kept
open constantly; they will not be closed even by day or by night, in
order to bring to you the resources of the nations, and their kings
will be taking the lead. For any nation who will not serve you will
perish; and the nations themselves will without fail come to
devastation. No more will violence be heard in your land, despoiling
or breakdown within your boundaries. And you will certainly call your
own walls Salvation and your gates Praise. For you the sun will no
more prove to be a light by day, and for brightness the moon itself
will no more give you light. And God must become to you an
indefinitely lasting light, and your God your beauty. No more will
your sun set, nor will your moon go on the wane; for God will become
for you an indefinitely lasting light, and the days of your mourning
will have come to completion. And as for your people, all of them will
be righteous; to time indefinite they will hold possession of the
land, the sprout of my planting, the work of my hands, for me to be
beautified. The little one of me will become a thousand, and the small
one a mighty nation. I myself, God, shall speed it up in its own time.
The days of being given attention must come; the days of the due
payment must come. The nations will know it. The prophet will be
foolish, the man of inspired expression will be maddened on account of
the abundance of your error, even animosity being abundant. As regards
a prophet, there is the trap of the bird catcher in all my ways; there
is animosity in the house of my God. They have gone deep in bringing
ruin. I will remember their error; I will give attention to their
sins.Men became satisfied and their heart began to be exalted. This is
why they forgot me. And I shall encounter them like a bear who has
lost its cubs, and I shall rip open the enclosure of their heart. And
I shall devour them like a lion. I will tear them to pieces. It will
certainly bring you to ruin, because it was against me, against your
helper. Woe to those who are craving the day of God! What, then, will
the day of God mean to you people? It will be darkness, and no light,
just as when a man flees because of a lion, and a bear actually meets
me; and as when I went into the house and supported my hand against a
wall, and the serpent bit me. Will not the day of God be darkness not
light; and will it not have gloom, and not brightness? I have hated, I
have rejected your festivals, and I shall not enjoy the smell of your
solemn assemblies, even in your gift offerings I shall find no
pleasure. Remove from me the turmoil of your songs; and the melodious
sound of your stringed instruments may I not hear. And let justice
roll forth just like waters, and righteousness like a constantly
flowing torrent. And you will certainly carry your images, the star of
your God, whom you made for yourselves. And I will cause you to go
into exile, God has said. Woe to those who are at ease and to those
trusting in the mountains! They are the distinguished ones of the
chief part of the nations. Are you putting out of your mind the
calamitous day, and do you bring near the dwelling of violence? You
men who are laying down on couches of ivory and sprawling on their
divans. Therefore now they will go into exile at the head of those
going into exile, and the revelry of sprawling ones must depart. For
here is God commanding, and I will certainly strike down the great
house into rubble and the small house into debris. For into a
poisonous plant you people have turned justice, and the fruit of
righteousness into wormwood, you who are rejoicing in a thing what is
not; who are saying: Have we not in our strength taken horns to
ourselves? Look! I am raising up against you a nation and they must
oppress you people. The Sovereign Lord God is calling for a contention
by means of fire; and it will go eating up the vast watery deep and it
will eat up the tract of land. I shall no more do any further excusing
of it. And the high places will certainly be laid desolate, and the
sanctuaries themselves will be devastated; and I will rise up against
the nations with a sword. Hear, O you peoples, all of you; pay
attention, O earth and what fills you, and let the Sovereign Lord God
serve against you as a witness God from my holy temple. For look God
is going forth from my place, and I will certainly come down and tread
upon the earths high places. And the mountains must melt under me, and
the low plains themselves will be split apart, like wax because of the
fire, like waters being poured down a steep place. It is because of
the revolt there is all this. And what are the high places? I shall
certainly make the nations a heap of ruins of the field, the planting
places of a vineyard; and I will pour down into the valley their
stones, and their foundations I shall lay bare. The dis-possessor I
shall yet bring to you, the glory of the nations will come. The one
making a breakthrough will certainly come up before them: they will
actually break through. And they will pass through a gate, and they
will go out by it. And their king will pass through before them, with
God at the head of them. I myself have become full of power, with the
spirit of God, and of justice and mightiness, in order to tell of
their revolt. And it must occur in the final part of the days the
mountain of the house of God will become firmly established above the
top of the mountains, and it will certainly be lifted up above the
hills; and to it peoples must stream. And many nations will certainly
go and say: Come, you people, and let us go up to the mountain of God;
and I will instruct them about my ways, and we will walk in my paths.
For out of Zion Law will go forth. And I will certainly render
judgment among many peoples, and set matters straight respecting
mighty nations far away. And they will have to beat their swords into
plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. They will not lift up
sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore. In
this day, is the utterance of God, I will gather her who was limping;
and her who was dispersed I will collect together, even her who I have
treated badly. And I shall certainly make her who was limping a
remnant, and she who was moved far off a mighty nation; and God will
actually rule as king over them, from now on and until time
indefinite. And you will actually devote to God their unjust profit,
and their resources to the true Lord of the whole earth. From you
there will come out to me the one who is to become ruler of the entire
earth, whose origin is from early times, from the days of time
indefinite. Therefore I will give them up until the time she who is
giving birth actually gives birth. And I will certainly stand and do
the shepherding, in the strength of God, in the superiority of the
name of God. And they will certainly keep dwelling, for now I will be
great as far as the ends of the earth. And this one must become peace,
when I come into our land and when I tread upon our dwelling towers.
And I will certainly bring deliverance when I come into our land and
when I tread upon our territory. Your hand will be high above your
adversaries, and all enemies of yours will be cut off. And I will cut
off sorceries out of your hand, and no practicer of magic will you
continue to have. And I will cut off your graven images and your
pillars from the midst of you, and you will no more bow down to the
work of your hands. And in anger and in rage I will execute vengeance
upon the nations who have not obeyed. See, you people, among the
nations, and look on, and stare in amazement at one another. Be
amazed; for there is an activity one is carrying on in your days, you
people will not believe although it is related. For the vision is for
the appointed time, and it keeps pinned to the end, and it will not
tell a lie; for it will without fail come true. It will not be too
late. Say to the governors, I am rocking the heavens and the earth.
And I shall certainly overthrow the throne of kingdoms and annihilate
the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and they will certainly
come down, each one by the sword of his brother. For my own sake I
shall act, for how could One let Oneself be profaned? And to no one
else shall I give my own glory. I am the same One. I am the first.
Moreover I am the last. Moreover, my own hand laid the foundation of
the earth, and my own right hand extended out of the heavens. I am
calling to them, so they may keep standing together. [And there must
go forth a twig out of the stump of Jesse; and out of my roots a
sprout will be fruitful. And upon me the spirit of God must settle
down, the spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of counsel
and of mightiness, the spirit...] m. m. m., 10/10/2011, musatov at att
dot net text http://meami.org/message.htm