The Repentant Remnant of Israel

²⁰ On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer lean on the one who struck them but will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.^(A)

³¹ The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward,^{(A) 32} for from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out and from Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.^(B)

⁷ On that day people will look to their Maker, with their eyes on the Holy One of Israel;^{(A) 8} they will not have regard for the altars, the work of their hands, and they will not look to what their own fingers have made, either the sacred poles^[a] or the altars of incense.^(B)

²⁰ So King Tiglath-pileser^[a] of Assyria came against him and oppressed him instead of strengthening him.^(A)

⁷ Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.”^(A)

²⁷ And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,^{(A) 28} for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth quickly and decisively.”^{[a] 29} And as Isaiah predicted,