ISA 1:1
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, concerning
Judah and Jerusalem which he saw during the reigns
of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of
Judah.
ISA 1:2 Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth;
For the Lord speaks, "Sons I have reared and brought
up, But they have revolted against Me.
ISA 1:3 "An ox knows its owner, And a donkey
its master's manger, But Israel does not know, My
people do not understand."
ISA 1:4 Alas, sinful nation, People weighed
down with iniquity, Offspring of evildoers, Sons who
act corruptly! They have abandoned the Lord, They
have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have
turned away from Him.
ISA 1:5 Where will you be stricken again, As
you continue in your rebellion? The whole head is
sick, And the whole heart is faint.
ISA 1:6 From the sole of the foot even to the
head There is nothing sound in it, Only bruises,
welts, and raw wounds, Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.
ISA 1:7 Your land is desolate, Your cities
are burned with fire, Your fields - - strangers are
devouring them in your presence; It is desolation,
as overthrown by strangers.
ISA 1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left like
a shelter in a vineyard, Like a watchman's hut in a
cucumber field, like a besieged city.
ISA 1:9 Unless the Lord of hosts Had left us
a few survivors, We would be like Sodom, We would be
like Gomorrah.
ISA 1:10 Hear the word of the Lord, You
rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the instruction of our
God, You people of Gomorrah.
ISA 1:11 "What are your multiplied sacrifices
to Me?" Says the Lord."I have had enough of burnt
offerings of rams, And the fat of fed cattle. And I
take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs, or
goats.
ISA 1:12 "When you come to appear before Me,
Who requires of you this trampling of My courts?
ISA 1:13 "Bring your worthless offerings no
longer, Incense is an abomination to Me. New moon
and sabbath, the calling of assemblies - - I cannot
endure iniquity and the solemn assembly.
ISA 1:14 "I hate your new moon festivals and
your appointed feasts, They have become a burden to
Me. I am weary of bearing them.
ISA 1:15 "So when you spread out your hands
in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you, Yes, even
though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your
hands are covered with blood.
ISA 1:16 "Wash yourselves, make yourselves
clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight.
Cease to do evil,
ISA 1:17 Learn to do good; Seek justice,
Reprove the ruthless; Defend the orphan, Plead for
the widow.
ISA 1:18 "Come now, and let us reason
together," Says the Lord, "Though your sins are as
scarlet, They will be as #663300 as snow; Though
they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.
ISA 1:19 "If you consent and obey, You will
eat the best of the land;
ISA 1:20 "But if you refuse and rebel, You
will be devoured by the sword." Truly, the mouth of
the Lord has spoken.
ISA 1:21 How the faithful city has become a
harlot, She who was full of justice! Righteousness
once lodged in her, But now murderers.
ISA 1:22 Your silver has become dross, Your
drink diluted with water.
ISA 1:23 Your rulers are rebels, And
companions of thieves; Everyone loves a bribe, And
chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan,
Nor does the widow's plea come before them.
ISA 1:24 Therefore the Lord God of hosts, The
Mighty One of Israel declares, "Ah, I will be
relieved of My adversaries, And avenge Myself on My
foes.
ISA 1:25 "I will also turn My hand against
you, And will smelt away your dross as with lye, And
will remove all your alloy.
ISA 1:26 "Then I will restore your judges as
at the first, And your counselors as at the
beginning; After that you will be called the city of
righteousness, A faithful city."
ISA 1:27 Zion will be redeemed with justice,
And her repentant ones with righteousness.
ISA 1:28 But transgressors and sinners will
be crushed together, And those who forsake the Lord
shall come to an end.
ISA 1:29 Surely, you will be ashamed of the
oaks which you have desired, And you will be
embarrassed at the gardens which you have chosen.
ISA 1:30 For you will be like an oak whose
leaf fades away, Or as a garden that has no water.
ISA 1:31 And the strong man will become
tinder, His work also a spark. Thus they shall both
burn together, And there will be none to quench
them.
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ISA 2:1
The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning
Judah and Jerusalem.
ISA 2:2 Now it will come about that In the
last days, The mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills; And all the
nations will stream to it.
ISA 2:3 And many peoples will come and say,
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, To
the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us
concerning His ways, And that we may walk in His
paths." For the law will go forth from Zion, And the
word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
ISA 2:4 And He will judge between the
nations, And will render decisions for many peoples;
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not
lift up sword against nation, And never again will
they learn war.
ISA 2:5 Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk
in the light of the Lord.
ISA 2:6 For Thou hast abandoned Thy people,
the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with
influences from the east, And they are soothsayers
like the Philistines, And they strike bargains with
the children of foreigners.
ISA 2:7 Their land has also been filled with
silver and gold, And there is no end to their
treasures; Their land has also been filled with
horses, And there is no end to their chariots.
ISA 2:8 Their land has also been filled with
idols; They worship the work of their hands, That
which their fingers have made.
ISA 2:9 So the common man has been humbled,
And the man of importance has been abased, But do
not forgive them.
ISA 2:10 Enter the rock and hide in the dust
From the terror of the Lord and from the splendor of
His majesty.
ISA 2:11 The proud look of man will be
abased, And the loftiness of man will be humbled,
And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
ISA 2:12 For the Lord of hosts will have a
day of reckoning Against everyone who is proud and
lofty, And against everyone who is lifted up, That
he may be abased.
ISA 2:13 And it will be against all the
cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up,
Against all the oaks of Bashan,
ISA 2:14 Against all the lofty mountains,
Against all the hills that are lifted up,
ISA 2:15 Against every high tower, Against
every fortified wall,
ISA 2:16 Against all the ships of Tarshish,
And against all the beautiful craft.
ISA 2:17 And the pride of man will be
humbled, And the loftiness of men will be abased,
And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
ISA 2:18 But the idols will completely
vanish.
ISA 2:19 And men will go into caves of the
rocks, And into holes of the ground Before the
terror of the Lord, And before the splendor of His
majesty, When He arises to make the earth tremble.
ISA 2:20 In that day men will cast away to
the moles and the bats Their idols of silver and
their idols of gold, Which they made for themselves
to worship,
ISA 2:21 In order to go into the caverns of
the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, Before the
terror of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty,
When He arises to make the earth tremble.
ISA 2:22 Stop regarding man, whose breath of
life is in his nostrils; For why should he be
esteemed?
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ISA 3:1
For behold, the Lord God of hosts is going to remove
from Jerusalem and Judah Both supply and support,
the whole supply of bread, And the whole supply of
water;
ISA 3:2 The mighty man and the warrior, The
judge and the prophet, The diviner and the elder,
ISA 3:3 The captain of fifty and the
honorable man, The counselor and the expert artisan,
And the skillful enchanter.
ISA 3:4 And I will make mere lads their
princes And capricious children will rule over them,
ISA 3:5 And the people will be oppressed,
Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;
The youth will storm against the elder, And the
inferior against the honorable.
ISA 3:6 When a man lays hold of his brother
in his father's house, saying, "You have a cloak,
you shall be our ruler, And these ruins will be
under your charge,"
ISA 3:7 On that day will he protest, saying,
"I will not be your healer, For in my house there is
neither bread nor cloak; You should not appoint me
ruler of the people."
ISA 3:8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah
has fallen, Because their speech and their actions
are against the Lord, To rebel against His glorious
presence.
ISA 3:9 The expression of their faces bears
witness against them. And they display their sin
like Sodom; They do not even conceal it. Woe to
them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
ISA 3:10 Say to the righteous that it will go
well with them, For they will eat the fruit of their
actions.
ISA 3:11 Woe to the wicked! It will go badly
with him, For what he deserves will be done to him.
ISA 3:12 O My people! Their oppressors are
children, And women rule over them. O My people!
Those who guide you lead you astray, And confuse the
direction of your paths.
ISA 3:13 The Lord arises to contend, And
stands to judge the people.
ISA 3:14 The Lord enters into judgment with
the elders and princes of His people, "It is you who
have devoured the vineyard; The plunder of the poor
is in your houses.
ISA 3:15 "What do you mean by crushing My
people, And grinding the face of the poor?" Declares
the Lord God of hosts.
ISA 3:16 Moreover, the Lord said, "Because
the daughters of Zion are proud, And walk with heads
held high and seductive eyes, And go along with
mincing steps, And tinkle the bangles on their feet,
ISA 3:17 Therefore the Lord will afflict the
scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs, And the
Lord will make their foreheads bare."
ISA 3:18 In that day the Lord will take away
the beauty of their anklets, headbands, crescent
ornaments,
ISA 3:19 dangling earrings, bracelets, veils,
ISA 3:20 headdresses, ankle chains, sashes,
perfume boxes, amulets,
ISA 3:21 finger rings, nose rings,
ISA 3:22 festal robes, outer tunics, cloaks,
money purses,
ISA 3:23 hand mirrors, undergarments,
turbans, and veils.
ISA 3:24 Now it will come about that instead
of sweet perfume there will be putrefaction; Instead
of a belt, a rope; Instead of well-set hair, a
plucked-out scalp; Instead of fine clothes, a
donning of sackcloth; And branding instead of
beauty.
ISA 3:25 Your men will fall by the sword, And
your mighty ones in battle.
ISA 3:26 And her gates will lament and mourn;
And deserted she will sit on the ground.
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ISA 4:1
For seven women will take hold of one man in that
day, saying, "We will eat our own bread and wear our
own clothes, only let us be called by your name;
take away our reproach!"
ISA 4:2 In that day the Branch of the Lord
will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the
earth will be the pride and the adornment of the
survivors of Israel.
ISA 4:3 And it will come about that he who is
left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called
holy - - everyone who is recorded for life in
Jerusalem.
ISA 4:4 When the Lord has washed away the
filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the
bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit
of judgment and the spirit of burning,
ISA 4:5 then the Lord will create over the
whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a
cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a
flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will
be a canopy.
ISA 4:6 And there will be a shelter to give
shade from the heat by day, and refuge and
protection from the storm and the rain.
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ISA 5:1
Let me sing now for my well-beloved A song of my
beloved concerning His vineyard. My well-beloved had
a vineyard on a fertile hill.
ISA 5:2 And He dug it all around, removed its
stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. And
He built a tower in the middle of it, And hewed out
a wine vat in it; Then He expected it to produce
good grapes, But it produced only worthless ones.
ISA 5:3 "And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
and men of Judah, Judge between Me and My vineyard.
ISA 5:4 "What more was there to do for My
vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I
expected it to produce good grapes did it produce
worthless ones?
ISA 5:5 "So now let Me tell you what I am
going to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge
and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall
and it will become trampled ground.
ISA 5:6 "And I will lay it waste; It will not
be pruned or hoed, But briars and thorns will come
up. I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on
it."
ISA 5:7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah His
delightful plant. Thus He looked for justice, but
behold, bloodshed; For righteousness, but behold, a
cry of distress.
ISA 5:8 Woe to those who add house to house
and join field to field, Until there is no more
room, So that you have to live alone in the midst of
the land!
ISA 5:9 In my ears the Lord of hosts has
sworn, "Surely, many houses shall become desolate,
Even great and fine ones, without occupants.
ISA 5:10 "For ten acres of vineyard will
yield only one bath of wine, And a homer of seed
will yield but an ephah of grain."
ISA 5:11 Woe to those who rise early in the
morning that they may pursue strong drink; Who stay
up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!
ISA 5:12 And their banquets are accompanied
by lyre and harp, by tambourine and flute, and by
wine; But they do not pay attention to the deeds of
the Lord, Nor do they consider the work of His
hands.
ISA 5:13 Therefore My people go into exile
for their lack of knowledge; And their honorable men
are famished, And their multitude is parched with
thirst.
ISA 5:14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its
throat and opened its mouth without measure; And
Jerusalem's splendor, her multitude, her din of
revelry, and the jubilant within her, descend into
it.
ISA 5:15 So the common man will be humbled,
and the man of importance abased, The eyes of the
proud also will be abased.
ISA 5:16 But the Lord of hosts will be
exalted in judgment, And the holy God will show
Himself holy in righteousness.
ISA 5:17 Then the lambs will graze as in
their pasture, And strangers will eat in the waste
places of the wealthy.
ISA 5:18 Woe to those who drag iniquity with
the cords of falsehood, And sin as if with cart
ropes;
ISA 5:19 Who say, "Let Him make speed, let
Him hasten His work, that we may see it; And let the
purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near And come
to pass, that we may know it!"
ISA 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and
good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and
light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!
ISA 5:21 Woe to those who are wise in their
own eyes, And clever in their own sight!
ISA 5:22 Woe to those who are heroes in
drinking wine, And valiant men in mixing strong
drink;
ISA 5:23 Who justify the wicked for a bribe,
And take away the rights of the ones who are in the
right!
ISA 5:24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire
consumes stubble, And dry grass collapses into the
flame, So their root will become like rot and their
blossom blow away as dust; For they have rejected
the law of the Lord of hosts, And despised the word
of the Holy One of Israel.
ISA 5:25 On this account the anger of the
Lord has burned against His people, And He has
stretched out His hand against them and struck them
down, And the mountains quaked; and their corpses
lay like refuse in the middle of the streets. For
all this His anger is not spent, But His hand is
still stretched out.
ISA 5:26 He will also lift up a standard to
the distant nation, And will whistle for it from the
ends of the earth; And behold, it will come with
speed swiftly.
ISA 5:27 No one in it is weary or stumbles,
None slumbers or sleeps; Nor is the belt at its
waist undone, Nor its sandal strap broken.
ISA 5:28 Its arrows are sharp, and all its
bows are bent; The hoofs of its horses seem like
flint, and its chariot wheels like a whirlwind.
ISA 5:29 Its roaring is like a lioness, and
it roars like young lions; It growls as it seizes
the prey, And carries it off with no one to deliver
it.
ISA 5:30 And it shall growl over it in that
day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the
land, behold, there is darkness and distress; Even
the light is darkened by its clouds.
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ISA 6:1
In the year of King Uzziah's death, I saw the Lord
sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the
train of His robe filling the temple.
ISA 6:2 Seraphim stood above Him, each having
six wings; with two he covered his face, and with
two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
ISA 6:3 And one called out to another and
said, "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts, The
whole earth is full of His glory."
ISA 6:4 And the foundations of the thresholds
trembled at the voice of him who called out, while
the temple was filling with smoke.
ISA 6:5 Then I said, "Woe is me, for I am
ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I
live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes
have seen the King, the Lord of hosts."
ISA 6:6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me,
with a burning coal in his hand which he had taken
from the altar with tongs.
ISA 6:7 And he touched my mouth with it and
said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your
iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven."
ISA 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord,
saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?"
Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
ISA 6:9 And He said, "Go, and tell this
people: 'Keep on listening, but do not perceive;
Keep on looking, but do not understand.'
ISA 6:10 "Render the hearts of this people
insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim,
Lest they see with their eyes, Hear with their ears,
Understand with their hearts, And return and be
healed."
ISA 6:11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And
He answered, "Until cities are devastated and
without inhabitant, Houses are without people, And
the land is utterly desolate,
ISA 6:12 "The Lord has removed men far away,
And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the
land.
ISA 6:13 "Yet there will be a tenth portion
in it, And it will again be subject to burning, Like
a terebinth or an oak Whose stump remains when it is
felled. The holy seed is its stump."
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ISA 7:1
Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of
Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin
the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king
of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against
it, but could not conquer it.
ISA 7:2 When it was reported to the house of
David, saying, "The Arameans have camped in
Ephraim," his heart and the hearts of his people
shook as the trees of the forest shake with the
wind.
ISA 7:3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out
now to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at
the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the
highway to the fuller's field,
ISA 7:4 and say to him,' Take care, and be
calm, have no fear and do not be fainthearted
because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands,
on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram,
and the son of Remaliah.
ISA 7:5 'Because Aram, with Ephraim and the
son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you,
saying,
ISA 7:6 "Let us go up against Judah and
terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in its
walls, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the
midst of it,"
ISA 7:7 thus says the Lord God, "It shall not
stand nor shall it come to pass.
ISA 7:8 "For the head of Aram is Damascus and
the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another 65
years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no
longer a people),
ISA 7:9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria
and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If
you will not believe, you surely shall not last."'"
ISA 7:10 Then the Lord spoke again to Ahaz,
saying,
ISA 7:11 "Ask a sign for yourself from the
Lord your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as
heaven."
ISA 7:12 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, nor
will I test the Lord!"
ISA 7:13 Then he said, "Listen now, O house
of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try
the patience of men, that you will try the patience
of my God as well?
ISA 7:14 "Therefore the Lord Himself will
give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child
and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.
ISA 7:15 "He will eat curds and honey at the
time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.
ISA 7:16 "For before the boy will know enough
to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two
kings you dread will be forsaken.
ISA 7:17 "The Lord will bring on you, on your
people, and on your father's house such days as have
never come since the day that Ephraim separated from
Judah, the king of Assyria."
ISA 7:18 And it will come about in that day,
that the Lord will whistle for the fly that is in
the remotest part of the rivers of Egypt, and for
the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
ISA 7:19 And they will all come and settle on
the steep ravines, on the ledges of the cliffs, on
all the thorn bushes, and on all the watering
places.
ISA 7:20 In that day the Lord will shave with
a razor, hired from regions beyond the Euphrates
(that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and
the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the
beard.
ISA 7:21 Now it will come about in that day
that a man may keep alive a heifer and a pair of
sheep;
ISA 7:22 and it will happen that because of
the abundance of the milk produced he will eat
curds, for everyone that is left within the land
will eat curds and honey.
ISA 7:23 And it will come about in that day,
that every place where there used to be a thousand
vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will
become briars and thorns.
ISA 7:24 People will come there with bows and
arrows because all the land will be briars and
thorns.
ISA 7:25 And as for all the hills which used
to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there
for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become
a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.
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ISA 8:1
Then the Lord said to me, "Take for yourself a large
tablet and write on it in ordinary letters: Swift is
the booty, speedy is the prey.
ISA 8:2 "And I will take to Myself faithful
witnesses for testimony, Uriah the priest and
Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."
ISA 8:3 So I approached the prophetess, and
she conceived and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord
said to me, "Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
ISA 8:4 for before the boy knows how to cry
out' My father' or' My mother,' the wealth of
Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried
away before the king of Assyria."
ISA 8:5 And again the Lord spoke to me
further, saying,
ISA 8:6 "Inasmuch as these people have
rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah, And
rejoice in Rezin and the son of Remaliah;
ISA 8:7 "Now therefore, behold, the Lord is
about to bring on them the strong and abundant
waters of the Euphrates, Even the king of Assyria
and all his glory; And it will rise up over all its
channels and go over all its banks.
ISA 8:8 "Then it will sweep on into Judah, it
will overflow and pass through, It will reach even
to the neck; And the spread of its wings will fill
the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
ISA 8:9 "Be broken, O peoples, and be
shattered; And give ear, all remote places of the
earth. Gird yourselves, yet be shattered; Gird
yourselves, yet be shattered.
ISA 8:10 "Devise a plan but it will be
thwarted; State a proposal, but it will not stand,
For God is with us."
ISA 8:11 For thus the Lord spoke to me with
mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the
way of this people, saying,
ISA 8:12 "You are not to say, 'It is a
conspiracy!' In regard to all that this people call
a conspiracy, And you are not to fear what they fear
or be in dread of it.
ISA 8:13 "It is the Lord of hosts whom you
should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear,
And He shall be your dread.
ISA 8:14 "Then He shall become a sanctuary;
But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike
and a rock to stumble over, And a snare and a trap
for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
ISA 8:15 "And many will stumble over them,
Then they will fall and be broken; They will even be
snared and caught."
ISA 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law
among my disciples.
ISA 8:17 And I will wait for the Lord who is
hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even
look eagerly for Him.
ISA 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the
Lord has given me are for signs and wonders in
Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount
Zion.
ISA 8:19 And when they say to you, "Consult
the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and
mutter," should not a people consult their God?
Should they consult the dead on behalf of the
living?
ISA 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If
they do not speak according to this word, it is
because they have no dawn.
ISA 8:21 And they will pass through the land
hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that
when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse
their king and their God as they face upward.
ISA 8:22 Then they will look to the earth,
and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of
anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.
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ISA 9:1
But there will be no more gloom for her who was in
anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of
Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but
later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of
the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the
Gentiles.
ISA 9:2 The people who walk in darkness Will
see a great light; Those who live in a dark land,
The light will shine on them.
ISA 9:3 Thou shalt multiply the nation, Thou
shalt increase their gladness; They will be glad in
Thy presence As with the gladness of harvest, As men
rejoice when they divide the spoil.
ISA 9:4 For Thou shalt break the yoke of
their burden and the staff on their shoulders, The
rod of their oppressor, as at the battle of Midian.
ISA 9:5 For every boot of the booted warrior
in the battle tumult, And cloak rolled in blood,
will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
ISA 9:6 For a child will be born to us, a son
will be given to us; And the government will rest on
His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful
Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of
Peace.
ISA 9:7 There will be no end to the increase
of His government or of peace, On the throne of
David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to
uphold it with justice and righteousness From then
on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts
will accomplish this.
ISA 9:8 The Lord sends a message against
Jacob, And it falls on Israel.
ISA 9:9 And all the people know it, That is,
Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, Asserting in
pride and in arrogance of heart:
ISA 9:10 "The bricks have fallen down, But we
will rebuild with smooth stones; The sycamores have
been cut down, But we will replace them with
cedars."
ISA 9:11 Therefore the Lord raises against
them adversaries from Rezin, And spurs their enemies
on,
ISA 9:12 The Arameans on the east and the
Philistines on the west; And they devour Israel with
gaping jaws. In spite of all this His anger does not
turn away, And His hand is still stretched out.
ISA 9:13 Yet the people do not turn back to
Him who struck them, Nor do they seek the Lord of
hosts.
ISA 9:14 So the Lord cuts off head and tail
from Israel, Both palm branch and bulrush in a
single day.
ISA 9:15 The head is the elder and honorable
man, And the prophet who teaches falsehood is the
tail.
ISA 9:16 For those who guide this people are
leading them astray; And those who are guided by
them are brought to confusion.
ISA 9:17 Therefore the Lord does not take
pleasure in their young men, Nor does He have pity
on their orphans or their widows; For every one of
them is godless and an evildoer, And every mouth is
speaking foolishness. In spite of all this His anger
does not turn away, And His hand is still stretched
out.
ISA 9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire; It
consumes briars and thorns; It even sets the
thickets of the forest aflame, And they roll upward
in a column of smoke.
ISA 9:19 By the fury of the Lord of hosts the
land is burned up, And the people are like fuel for
the fire; No man spares his brother.
ISA 9:20 And they slice off what is on the
right hand but still are hungry, And they eat what
is on the left hand but they are not satisfied; Each
of them eats the flesh of his own arm.
ISA 9:21 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and
Ephraim Manasseh, And together they are against
Judah. In spite of all this His anger does not turn
away, And His hand is still stretched out.
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ISA 10:1
Woe to those who enact evil statutes, And to those
who constantly record unjust decisions,
ISA 10:2 So as to deprive the needy of
justice, And rob the poor of My people of their
rights, In order that widows may be their spoil, And
that they may plunder the orphans.
ISA 10:3 Now what will you do in the day of
punishment, And in the devastation which will come
from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where
will you leave your wealth?
ISA 10:4 Nothing remains but to crouch among
the captives Or fall among the slain. In spite of
all this His anger does not turn away, And His hand
is still stretched out.
ISA 10:5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,
ISA 10:6 I send it against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My fury To
capture booty and to seize plunder, And to trample
them down like mud in the streets.
ISA 10:7 Yet it does not so intend Nor does
it plan so in its heart, But rather it is its
purpose to destroy, And to cut off many nations.
ISA 10:8 For it says, "Are not my princes all
kings?
ISA 10:9 "Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or
Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus?
ISA 10:10 "As my hand has reached to the
kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images were
greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
ISA 10:11 Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her
images Just as I have done to Samaria and her
idols?"
ISA 10:12 So it will be that when the Lord
has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on
Jerusalem, He will say, "I will punish the fruit of
the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the
pomp of his haughtiness."
ISA 10:13 For he has said, "By the power of
my hand and by my wisdom I did this, For I have
understanding; And I removed the boundaries of the
peoples, And plundered their treasures, And like a
mighty man I brought down their inhabitants,
ISA 10:14 And my hand reached to the riches
of the peoples like a nest, And as one gathers
abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; And there
was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak
or chirped."
ISA 10:15 Is the axe to boast itself over the
one who chops with it? Is the saw to exalt itself
over the one who wields it? That would be like a
club wielding those who lift it, Or like a rod
lifting him who is not wood.
ISA 10:16 Therefore the Lord, the God of
hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout
warriors; And under his glory a fire will be kindled
like a burning flame.
ISA 10:17 And the light of Israel will become
a fire and his Holy One a flame, And it will burn
and devour his thorns and his briars in a single
day.
ISA 10:18 And He will destroy the glory of
his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and
body; And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
ISA 10:19 And the rest of the trees of his
forest will be so small in number That a child could
write them down.
ISA 10:20 Now it will come about in that day
that the remnant of Israel, and those of the house
of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on
the one who struck them, but will truly rely on the
Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
ISA 10:21 A remnant will return, the remnant
of Jacob, to the mighty God.
ISA 10:22 For though your people, O Israel,
may be like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant
within them will return; A destruction is
determined, overflowing with righteousness.
ISA 10:23 For a complete destruction, one
that is decreed, the Lord God of hosts will execute
in the midst of the whole land.
ISA 10:24 Therefore thus says the Lord God of
hosts, "O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear
the Assyrian who strikes you with the rod and lifts
up his staff against you, the way Egypt did.
ISA 10:25 "For in a very little while My
indignation against you will be spent, and My anger
will be directed to their destruction."
ISA 10:26 And the Lord of hosts will arouse a
scourge against him like the slaughter of Midian at
the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the
sea, and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.
ISA 10:27 So it will be in that day, that his
burden will be removed from your shoulders and his
yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken
because of fatness.
ISA 10:28 He has come against Aiath, He has
passed through Migron; At Michmash he deposited his
baggage.
ISA 10:29 They have gone through the pass,
saying, "Geba will be our lodging place." Ramah is
terrified, and Gibeah of Saul has fled away.
ISA 10:30 Cry aloud with your voice, O
daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah and
wretched Anathoth!
ISA 10:31 Madmenah has fled. The inhabitants
of Gebim have sought refuge.
ISA 10:32 Yet today he will halt at Nob; He
shakes his fist at the mountain of the daughter of
Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
ISA 10:33 Behold, the Lord, the God of hosts,
will lop off the boughs with a terrible crash; Those
also who are tall in stature will be cut down, And
those who are lofty will be abased.
ISA 10:34 And He will cut down the thickets
of the forest with an iron axe, And Lebanon will
fall by the Mighty One.
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ISA 11:1
Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And
a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
ISA 11:2 And the Spirit of the Lord will rest
on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The
spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of
knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
ISA 11:3 And He will delight in the fear of
the Lord, And He will not judge by what His eyes
see, Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;
ISA 11:4 But with righteousness He will judge
the poor, And decide with fairness for the afflicted
of the earth; And He will strike the earth with the
rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He
will slay the wicked.
ISA 11:5 Also righteousness will be the belt
about His loins, And faithfulness the belt about His
waist.
ISA 11:6 And the wolf will dwell with the
lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the kid,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling
together; And a little boy will lead them.
ISA 11:7 Also the cow and the bear will
graze; Their young will lie down together; And the
lion will eat straw like the ox.
ISA 11:8 And the nursing child will play by
the hole of the cobra, And the weaned child will put
his hand on the viper's den.
ISA 11:9 They will not hurt or destroy in all
My holy mountain, For the earth will be full of the
knowledge of the Lord As the waters cover the sea.
ISA 11:10 Then it will come about in that day
That the nations will resort to the root of Jesse,
Who will stand as a signal for the peoples; And His
resting place will be glorious.
ISA 11:11 Then it will happen on that day
that the Lord Will again recover the second time
with His hand The remnant of His people, who will
remain, From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam,
Shinar, Hamath, And from the islands of the sea.
ISA 11:12 And He will lift up a standard for
the nations, And will assemble the banished ones of
Israel, And will gather the dispersed of Judah From
the four corners of the earth.
ISA 11:13 Then the jealousy of Ephraim will
depart, And those who harass Judah will be cut off;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, And Judah will
not harass Ephraim.
ISA 11:14 And they will swoop down on the
slopes of the Philistines on the west; Together they
will plunder the sons of the east; They will possess
Edom and Moab; And the sons of Ammon will be subject
to them.
ISA 11:15 And the Lord will utterly destroy
The tongue of the Sea of Egypt; And He will wave His
hand over the River With His scorching wind; And He
will strike it into seven streams, And make men walk
over dry-shod.
ISA 11:16 And there will be a highway from
Assyria For the remnant of His people who will be
left, Just as there was for Israel In the day that
they came up out of the land of Egypt.
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ISA 12:1
Then you will say on that day, "I will give thanks
to Thee, O Lord; For although Thou wast angry with
me, Thine ang
