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Isaiah 4-6
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Isaiah 4-6
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4 1 In that day(A) seven women
will take hold of one man(B)
and say, “We will eat our own food(C)
and provide our own clothes;
only let us be called by your name.
Take away our disgrace!”(D)
The Branch of the Lord
2 In that day(E) the Branch of the Lord(F) will be beautiful(G) and glorious, and the fruit(H) of the land will be the pride and glory(I) of the survivors(J) in Israel. 3 Those who are left in Zion,(K) who remain(L) in Jerusalem, will be called holy,(M) all who are recorded(N) among the living in Jerusalem. 4 The Lord will wash away the filth(O) of the women of Zion;(P) he will cleanse(Q) the bloodstains(R) from Jerusalem by a spirit[a] of judgment(S) and a spirit[b] of fire.(T) 5 Then the Lord will create(U) over all of Mount Zion(V) and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night;(W) over everything the glory[c](X) will be a canopy.(Y) 6 It will be a shelter(Z) and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge(AA) and hiding place from the storm(AB) and rain.
The Song of the Vineyard
5 I will sing for the one I love
a song about his vineyard:(AC)
My loved one had a vineyard
on a fertile hillside.
2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones
and planted it with the choicest vines.(AD)
He built a watchtower(AE) in it
and cut out a winepress(AF) as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
but it yielded only bad fruit.(AG)
3 “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.(AH)
4 What more could have been done for my vineyard
than I have done for it?(AI)
When I looked for good grapes,
why did it yield only bad?(AJ)
5 Now I will tell you
what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
and it will be destroyed;(AK)
I will break down its wall,(AL)
and it will be trampled.(AM)
6 I will make it a wasteland,(AN)
neither pruned nor cultivated,
and briers and thorns(AO) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
not to rain(AP) on it.”
7 The vineyard(AQ) of the Lord Almighty
is the nation of Israel,
and the people of Judah
are the vines he delighted in.
And he looked for justice,(AR) but saw bloodshed;
for righteousness,(AS) but heard cries of distress.(AT)
Woes and Judgments
8 Woe(AU) to you who add house to house
and join field to field(AV)
till no space is left
and you live alone in the land.
9 The Lord Almighty(AW) has declared in my hearing:(AX)
“Surely the great houses will become desolate,(AY)
the fine mansions left without occupants.
10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath[d] of wine;
a homer[e] of seed will yield only an ephah[f] of grain.”(AZ)
11 Woe(BA) to those who rise early in the morning
to run after their drinks,
who stay up late at night
till they are inflamed with wine.(BB)
12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
pipes(BC) and timbrels(BD) and wine,
but they have no regard(BE) for the deeds of the Lord,
no respect for the work of his hands.(BF)
13 Therefore my people will go into exile(BG)
for lack of understanding;(BH)
those of high rank(BI) will die of hunger
and the common people will be parched with thirst.(BJ)
14 Therefore Death(BK) expands its jaws,
opening wide its mouth;(BL)
into it will descend their nobles and masses
with all their brawlers and revelers.(BM)
15 So people will be brought low(BN)
and everyone humbled,(BO)
the eyes of the arrogant(BP) humbled.
16 But the Lord Almighty will be exalted(BQ) by his justice,(BR)
and the holy God will be proved holy(BS) by his righteous acts.
17 Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;(BT)
lambs will feed[g] among the ruins of the rich.
18 Woe(BU) to those who draw sin along with cords(BV) of deceit,
and wickedness(BW) as with cart ropes,
19 to those who say, “Let God hurry;
let him hasten(BX) his work
so we may see it.
The plan of the Holy One(BY) of Israel—
let it approach, let it come into view,
so we may know it.”(BZ)
20 Woe(CA) to those who call evil good(CB)
and good evil,(CC)
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,(CD)
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.(CE)
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes(CF)
and clever in their own sight.
22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine(CG)
and champions at mixing drinks,(CH)
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,(CI)
but deny justice(CJ) to the innocent.(CK)
24 Therefore, as tongues of fire(CL) lick up straw(CM)
and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,
so their roots will decay(CN)
and their flowers blow away like dust;(CO)
for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty
and spurned the word(CP) of the Holy One(CQ) of Israel.
25 Therefore the Lord’s anger(CR) burns against his people;
his hand is raised and he strikes them down.
The mountains shake,(CS)
and the dead bodies(CT) are like refuse(CU) in the streets.(CV)
26 He lifts up a banner(CY) for the distant nations,
he whistles(CZ) for those at the ends of the earth.(DA)
Here they come,
swiftly and speedily!
27 Not one of them grows tired(DB) or stumbles,
not one slumbers or sleeps;
not a belt(DC) is loosened at the waist,(DD)
not a sandal strap is broken.(DE)
28 Their arrows are sharp,(DF)
all their bows(DG) are strung;
their horses’ hooves(DH) seem like flint,
their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.(DI)
29 Their roar is like that of the lion,(DJ)
they roar like young lions;
they growl as they seize(DK) their prey
and carry it off with no one to rescue.(DL)
30 In that day(DM) they will roar over it
like the roaring of the sea.(DN)
And if one looks at the land,
there is only darkness(DO) and distress;(DP)
even the sun will be darkened(DQ) by clouds.
Isaiah’s Commission
6 In the year that King Uzziah(DR) died,(DS) I saw the Lord,(DT) high and exalted,(DU) seated on a throne;(DV) and the train of his robe(DW) filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim,(DX) each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet,(DY) and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another:
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.(ED)
5 “Woe(EE) to me!” I cried. “I am ruined!(EF) For I am a man of unclean lips,(EG) and I live among a people of unclean lips,(EH) and my eyes have seen(EI) the King,(EJ) the Lord Almighty.”(EK)
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal(EL) in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips;(EM) your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.(EN)”
8 Then I heard the voice(EO) of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send?(EP) And who will go for us?(EQ)”
And I said, “Here am I.(ER) Send me!”
9 He said, “Go(ES) and tell this people:
“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’(ET)
10 Make the heart of this people calloused;(EU)
make their ears dull
and close their eyes.[h](EV)
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,(EW)
understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”(EX)
11 Then I said, “For how long, Lord?”(EY)
And he answered:
“Until the cities lie ruined(EZ)
and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted(FA)
and the fields ruined and ravaged,(FB)
12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away(FC)
and the land is utterly forsaken.(FD)
13 And though a tenth remains(FE) in the land,
it will again be laid waste.(FF)
But as the terebinth and oak
leave stumps(FG) when they are cut down,
so the holy(FH) seed will be the stump in the land.”(FI)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 4:4 Or the Spirit
- Isaiah 4:4 Or the Spirit
- Isaiah 4:5 Or over all the glory there
- Isaiah 5:10 That is, about 6 gallons or about 22 liters
- Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 360 pounds or about 160 kilograms
- Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms
- Isaiah 5:17 Septuagint; Hebrew / strangers will eat
- Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew; Septuagint ‘You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / 10 This people’s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes
Isaiah 4-6
King James Version
Isaiah 4-6
King James Version
4 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
5 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9 In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16 But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
6 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
2 Chronicles 26:9-23
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2 Chronicles 26:9-23
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9 Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate,(A) at the Valley Gate(B) and at the angle of the wall, and he fortified them. 10 He also built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns, because he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain. He had people working his fields and vineyards in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.
11 Uzziah had a well-trained army, ready to go out by divisions according to their numbers as mustered by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer under the direction of Hananiah, one of the royal officials. 12 The total number of family leaders over the fighting men was 2,600. 13 Under their command was an army of 307,500 men trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies. 14 Uzziah provided shields, spears, helmets, coats of armor, bows and slingstones for the entire army.(C) 15 In Jerusalem he made devices invented for use on the towers and on the corner defenses so that soldiers could shoot arrows and hurl large stones from the walls. His fame spread far and wide, for he was greatly helped until he became powerful.
16 But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride(D) led to his downfall.(E) He was unfaithful(F) to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense(G) on the altar of incense. 17 Azariah(H) the priest with eighty other courageous priests of the Lord followed him in. 18 They confronted King Uzziah and said, “It is not right for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord. That is for the priests,(I) the descendants(J) of Aaron,(K) who have been consecrated to burn incense.(L) Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful; and you will not be honored by the Lord God.”
19 Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests in their presence before the incense altar in the Lord’s temple, leprosy[a](M) broke out on his forehead. 20 When Azariah the chief priest and all the other priests looked at him, they saw that he had leprosy on his forehead, so they hurried him out. Indeed, he himself was eager to leave, because the Lord had afflicted him.
21 King Uzziah had leprosy until the day he died. He lived in a separate house[b](N)—leprous, and banned from the temple of the Lord. Jotham his son had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
22 The other events of Uzziah’s reign, from beginning to end, are recorded by the prophet Isaiah(O) son of Amoz. 23 Uzziah(P) rested with his ancestors and was buried near them in a cemetery that belonged to the kings, for people said, “He had leprosy.” And Jotham his son succeeded him as king.(Q)
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 26:19 The Hebrew for leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin; also in verses 20, 21 and 23.
- 2 Chronicles 26:21 Or in a house where he was relieved of responsibilities
2 Chronicles 26:9-23
King James Version
2 Chronicles 26:9-23
King James Version
9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
13 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the Lord, that were valiant men:
18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the Lord, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the Lord God.
19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, from beside the incense altar.
20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the Lord had smitten him.
21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the Lord: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
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