Isaiah 9
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PROMISED SON
Nevertheless, the gloom will not
be upon her who is distressed,
As when at first He lightly esteemed
The land of Zebulun and
the land of Naphtali,
And afterward more heavily
oppressed her,
By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan,
In Galilee of the Gentiles,
2 The people who walked in darkness
Have seen a great light;
Those who dwelt in the land
of the shadow of death,
Upon them a light has shined.
3 You have multiplied the nation
And increased its joy,
They rejoice before You
According to the joy of harvest,
As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For You have broken the
yoke of his burden
And the staff of his shoulder,
The rod of his oppressor,
As in the day of Midian.
5 For every warrior's sandal
from the noisy battle,
And garments rolled in blood,
Will be used for burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a son is given;
And the government will be
upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of His
government and peace
There will be no end,
Upon the throne of David
and over His kingdom,
To order it and establish it with
judgment and justice
From that time forward, even forever.
The zeal of the LORD of hosts
will perform this.
8 The Lord sent a word against Jacob
And it has fallen on Israel.
9 All the people will know--
Ephraim and the inhabitant
of Samaria--
Who say in pride and arrogance of heart:
10 "The bricks have fallen down,
But we will rebuild with hewn stones;
The sycamores are cut down,
But we will replace them with cedars."
11 Therefore the LORD shall set up
The adversaries of Rezin against him,
And spur his enemies on,
12 The Syrians before and the
Philistines behind;
And they shall devour Israel
with an open mouth.
For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
13 For the people do not turn to
Him who strikes them,
Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.
14 Therefore the LORD will cut off
head and tail from Israel,
Palm branch and bulrush in one day.
15 The elder and honorable he is the head;
The prophet who teaches
lies, he is the tail.
16 For the leaders of this people
cause them to err,
And those who are led by
them are destroyed.
17 Therefore the Lord will have no
joy in their young men,
Nor have mercy on their
fatherless and widows;
For everyone is a hypocrite
and an evildoer,
And every mouth speaks folly.
For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burns as the fire;
It shall devour the briers and thorns,
And kindle in the thickets of the forest;
They shall mount up like rising smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts
The land is burned up,
And the people shall be as
fuel for the fire;
No man shall spare his brother.
20 And he shall snatch on the right hand
And be hungry;
He shall devour on the left hand
And not be satisfied;
Every man shall eat the
flesh of his own arm.
21 Manasseh shall devour Ephraim,
and Ephraim Manasseh;
Together they shall be against Judah.
For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10
"Woe to those who decree
unrighteous decrees,
who write misfortune,
Which they have prescribed
2 To rob the needy of justice,
And to take what is right from
the poor of My people,
That widows may be their prey,
And that they may rob the fatherless.
3 What will you do in the day
of punishment,
And in the desolation which
will come from afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
And where will you leave your glory?
4 Without Me they shall bow down
among the prisoners,
And they shall fall among the slain."
For all this His anger is not turned away,
but His hand is stretched out still,
ARROGANT ASSYRIA ALSO JUDGED
5 "Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger
And the staff in whose hand
is My indignation.
6 I will send him against an
y nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like
the mire of the streets.
7 Yet he does not mean so,
Nor does his heart think so;
But it is in his heart to destroy,
And cut off not a few nations.
For he says,
Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno like Carchemish?
Is not Hamath like Arpad?
Is not Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand has found the
kingdoms of the idols,
Whose carved images excelled those
of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 As I have done to Samaria
and her idols,
Shall I not do also to Jerusalem
and her idols?
12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when
the Lord has performed all His work on
Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, that He will
say, "I will punish the fruit of the arrogant
heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory
of his haughty looks."
13 For he says:
"By the strength of my hand
I have done it.
And by my wisdom, for I am prudent;
Also I have removed the
boundaries of the people,
And have robbed their treasuries;
So I have put down the inhabitants
like a valiant man.
14 My hand has found like a nest
the riches of the people,
And as one gathers eggs that are left,
I have gathered all the earth;
And there was no one who
moved his wing,
Nor opened his mouth
with even a peep.
15 Shall the ax boast itself against
him who chops with it?
Or shall the saw exalt itself against
him who saws with it?
As if a rod could wield itself
against those who lift it up,
Or as if a staff could lift up,
as if it were not wood!
16 Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts,
Will send leanness among his fat ones;
And under his glory
He will kindle a burning
Like a burning of a fire.
17 So the Light of Israel will be for a fire,
And his Holy One for a flame;
It will burn and devour
His thorns and his briers in one day.
18 And it will consume the glory of his
forest and of his fruitful field,
Both soul and body;
And they will be as when a
sick man wastes away.
19 Then the rest of the trees of his forest
Will be so few in number
That a child may write them.
THE RETURNING REMNANT OF ISRAEL
20 And it shall come to pass in that day
That the remnant of Israel,
And such as have escaped of
the house of Jacob,
Will never again depend on,
him who defeated them,
But will depend on the LORD, the
Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant will return, the
remnant of Jacob,
To the Mighty God.
22 For though your people, O Israel,
be as the sand of the sea,
A remnant of them will return;
The destruction decreed shall
overflow with righteousness.
23 For the Lord GOD of hosts
Will make a determined end
In the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore thus says the Lod GOD of
hosts: "O My people, who dwell in Zion,
do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall
strike you with a rod and lift up his staff
against you, in the manner of Egypt. 25 For
yet a very little while and the indignation
will cease, as will My anger in their de
struction." 26 And the LORD of hosts will stir
up a scourge for him like the slaughter of
Midian at the rock of Oreb; as His rod was
on the sea, so will He lift it up in the man
ner of Egypt.
27 It shall come to pass in that day
That his burden will be taken
away from your shoulder,
And his yoke from your neck,
And they yoke will be destroyed
because of the anointing oil.
28 He has come to Aiath,
He has passed Migron;
At Michmash he has attended
to his equipment.
29 They have gone along the ridge,
They have taken up lodging at Geba.
Ramah is afraid,
Gibeah of Saul has fled.
30 Lift up your voice,
O daughter of Gallim!
Cause it to be heard as far as Laish--
O poor Anathoth!
31 Madmenah has fled,
The inhabitants of Gebim
seek refuge.
32 As yet he will remain at Nob that day;
He will shake his fist at the mount
of the daughter of Zion,
The hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord,
The LORD of hosts,
Will lop off the bough with terror;
Those of high stature will be hewn down,
And the haughty will be humbled.
34 He will cut down the thickets
of the forest with iron,
And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
For His glory honor and praise may we hold to our faith and His truth forevermore. Let Heaven come!
In the name of the KING OF KINGS & LORD OF LORDS
FOREVER LIFTED HIGH
Jesus Christ FOREVERMORE
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