Isaiah 8-11
New King James Version
Assyria Will Invade the Land
8 Moreover the Lord said to me, “Take a large scroll, and (A)write on it with a man’s pen concerning [a]Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. 2 And I will take for Myself faithful witnesses to record, (B)Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”
3 Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, “Call his name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz; 4 (C)for before the child [b]shall have knowledge to cry ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ (D)the riches of Damascus and the [c]spoil of Samaria will be taken away before the king of Assyria.”
5 The Lord also spoke to me again, saying:
6 “Inasmuch as these people refused
The waters of (E)Shiloah that flow softly,
And rejoice (F)in Rezin and in Remaliah’s son;
7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up over them
The waters of [d]the River, strong and mighty—
The king of Assyria and all his glory;
He will [e]go up over all his channels
And go over all his banks.
8 He will pass through Judah,
He will overflow and pass over,
(G)He will reach up to the neck;
And the stretching out of his wings
Will [f]fill the breadth of Your land, O (H)Immanuel.[g]
9 “Be(I) shattered, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces!
Give ear, all you from far countries.
Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces;
Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces.
10 (J)Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
Speak the word, (K)but it will not stand,
(L)For [h]God is with us.”
Fear God, Heed His Word
11 For the Lord spoke thus to me with [i]a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:
12 “Do not say, ‘A conspiracy,’
Concerning all that this people call a conspiracy,
Nor be afraid of their [j]threats, nor be [k]troubled.
13 The Lord of hosts, Him you shall hallow;
Let Him be your fear,
And let Him be your dread.
14 (M)He will be as a [l]sanctuary,
But (N)a stone of stumbling and a rock of [m]offense
To both the houses of Israel,
As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall (O)stumble;
They shall fall and be broken,
Be snared and [n]taken.”
16 Bind up the testimony,
Seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait on the Lord,
Who (P)hides His face from the house of Jacob;
And I (Q)will hope in Him.
18 (R)Here am I and the children whom the Lord has given me!
We (S)are for signs and wonders in Israel
From the Lord of hosts,
Who dwells in Mount Zion.
19 And when they say to you, (T)“Seek those who are mediums and wizards, (U)who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their God? Should they (V)seek the dead on behalf of the living? 20 (W)To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because (X)there[o] is no light in them.
21 They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and (Y)curse [p]their king and their God, and look upward. 22 Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.
The Government of the Promised Son(Z)
9 Nevertheless (AA)the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed,
As when at (AB)first He lightly esteemed
The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
And (AC)afterward more heavily oppressed her,
By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan,
In Galilee of the Gentiles.
2 (AD)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 [q]increased its joy;
They rejoice before You
According to the joy of harvest,
As men rejoice (AE)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 (AF)Midian.
5 For every warrior’s [r]sandal from the noisy battle,
And garments rolled in blood,
(AG)Will be used for burning and fuel [s]of fire.
6 (AH)For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a (AI)Son is given;
And (AJ)the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
(AK)Wonderful, Counselor, (AL)Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, (AM)Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of His government and peace
(AN)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 (AO)zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
The Punishment of Samaria
8 The Lord sent a word against (AP)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 [t]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 (AQ)in one day.
15 The elder and honorable, he is the head;
The prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
16 For (AR)the leaders of this people cause them to err,
And those who are led by them are destroyed.
17 Therefore the Lord (AS)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 [u]folly.
(AT)For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness (AU)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
(AV)The land is burned up,
And the people shall be as fuel for the fire;
(AW)No man shall spare his brother.
20 And he shall [v]snatch on the right hand
And be hungry;
He shall devour on the left hand
(AX)And not be satisfied;
(AY)Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm.
21 Manasseh shall devour Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh;
Together they shall be (AZ)against Judah.
(BA)For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
Assyria Shall Be Broken
10 “Woe to those who (BB)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 (BC)What will you do in (BD)the day of punishment,
And in the desolation which will come from (BE)afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
And where will you leave your glory?
4 Without Me they shall bow down among the (BF)prisoners,
And they shall fall [w]among the slain.”
(BG)For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
Arrogant Assyria Also Judged
5 “Woe to Assyria, (BH)the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
6 I will send him against (BI)an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will (BJ)give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 (BK)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.
8 (BL)For he says,
‘Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not (BM)Calno (BN)like Carchemish?
Is not Hamath like Arpad?
Is not Samaria (BO)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 [x]performed all His work (BP)on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, that He will say, (BQ)“I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks.”
13 (BR)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 [y]valiant man.
14 (BS)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 (BT)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 [z]Lord of hosts,
Will send leanness among his fat ones;
And under his glory
He will kindle a burning
Like the burning of a fire.
17 So the Light of Israel will be for a fire,
And his Holy One for a flame;
(BU)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 (BV)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,
(BW)Will never again depend on him who [aa]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 (BX)Mighty God.
22 (BY)For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea,
(BZ)A remnant of them will return;
The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
23 (CA)For the Lord God of hosts
Will make a determined end
In the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion, (CB)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 (CC)Egypt. 25 For yet a very little while (CD)and the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction.” 26 And the Lord of hosts will [ab]stir up (CE)a scourge for him like the slaughter of (CF)Midian at the rock of Oreb; (CG)as His rod was on the sea, so will He lift it up in the manner 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 the yoke will be destroyed because of (CH)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 [ac]along (CI)the ridge,
They have taken up lodging at Geba.
Ramah is afraid,
(CJ)Gibeah of Saul has fled.
30 [ad]Lift up your voice,
O daughter (CK)of Gallim!
Cause it to be heard as far as (CL)Laish—
[ae]O poor Anathoth!
31 (CM)Madmenah has fled,
The inhabitants of Gebim seek refuge.
32 As yet he will remain (CN)at Nob that day;
He will (CO)shake his fist at the mount of (CP)the daughter of Zion,
The hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord,
The Lord of hosts,
Will lop off the bough with terror;
(CQ)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.
The Reign of Jesse’s Offspring(CR)
11 There (CS)shall come forth a [af]Rod from the [ag]stem of (CT)Jesse,
And (CU)a Branch shall [ah]grow out of his roots.
2 (CV)The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him,
The Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The Spirit of counsel and might,
The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
3 His delight is in the fear of the Lord,
And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes,
Nor decide by the hearing of His ears;
4 But (CW)with righteousness He shall judge the poor,
And decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
He shall (CX)strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.
5 Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins,
And faithfulness the belt of His waist.
6 “The(CY) wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
7 The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.
9 (CZ)They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
For (DA)the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.
10 “And(DB) in that day (DC)there shall be a Root of Jesse,
Who shall stand as a (DD)banner to the people;
For the (DE)Gentiles shall seek Him,
And His resting place shall be glorious.”
11 It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time
To recover the remnant of His people who are left,
(DF)From Assyria and Egypt,
From Pathros and Cush,
From Elam and Shinar,
From Hamath and the [ai]islands of the sea.
12 He will set up a banner for the nations,
And will [aj]assemble the outcasts of Israel,
And gather together (DG)the dispersed of Judah
From the four [ak]corners of the earth.
13 Also (DH)the envy of Ephraim shall depart,
And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west;
Together they shall plunder the [al]people of the East;
(DI)They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab;
And the people of Ammon shall obey them.
15 The Lord (DJ)will utterly [am]destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt;
With His mighty wind He will shake His fist over [an]the River,
And strike it in the seven streams,
And make men cross over [ao]dry-shod.
16 (DK)There will be a highway for the remnant of His people
Who will be left from Assyria,
(DL)As it was for Israel
In the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 8:1 Lit. Speed the Spoil, Hasten the Booty
- Isaiah 8:4 knows how
- Isaiah 8:4 plunder
- Isaiah 8:7 The Euphrates
- Isaiah 8:7 Overflow
- Isaiah 8:8 Lit. be the fullness of
- Isaiah 8:8 Lit. God-With-Us
- Isaiah 8:10 Heb. Immanuel
- Isaiah 8:11 Mighty power
- Isaiah 8:12 Lit. fear or terror
- Isaiah 8:12 Lit. in dread
- Isaiah 8:14 holy abode
- Isaiah 8:14 stumbling over
- Isaiah 8:15 captured
- Isaiah 8:20 Or they have no dawn
- Isaiah 8:21 Or by their king and by their God
- Isaiah 9:3 So with Qr., Tg.; Kt., Vg. not increased joy; LXX Most of the people You brought down in Your joy
- Isaiah 9:5 boot
- Isaiah 9:5 for the fire
- Isaiah 9:12 In judgment
- Isaiah 9:17 foolishness
- Isaiah 9:20 slice off or tear
- Isaiah 10:4 Lit. under
- Isaiah 10:12 completed
- Isaiah 10:13 mighty
- Isaiah 10:16 So with Bg.; MT, DSS YHWH (the Lord)
- Isaiah 10:20 Lit. struck
- Isaiah 10:26 arouse
- Isaiah 10:29 Or over the pass
- Isaiah 10:30 Or Cry shrilly
- Isaiah 10:30 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Syr. Listen to her, O Anathoth
- Isaiah 11:1 Shoot
- Isaiah 11:1 stock or trunk
- Isaiah 11:1 be fruitful
- Isaiah 11:11 Or coastlands
- Isaiah 11:12 gather
- Isaiah 11:12 Lit. wings
- Isaiah 11:14 Lit. sons
- Isaiah 11:15 So with MT, Vg.; LXX, Syr., Tg. dry up
- Isaiah 11:15 The Euphrates
- Isaiah 11:15 Lit. in sandals
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