Isaiah 1:1-12:4

English Standard Version

1 The ^(A)vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem ^(B)in the days of ^(C)Uzziah, ^(D)Jotham, ^(E)Ahaz, and ^(F)Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

The Wickedness of Judah

²^(G)Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O ^(H)earth;
    for the Lord has spoken:
“Children^[a] ^(I)have I reared and brought up,
    but they have rebelled against me.
³The ox ^(J)knows its owner,
    and the donkey its master's crib,
but Israel does ^(K)not know,
    my people do not understand.”

⁴Ah, sinful nation,
    a people laden with iniquity,
^(L)offspring of evildoers,
    children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
    they have ^(M)despised ^(N)the Holy One of Israel,
    they are utterly ^(O)estranged.

⁵Why will you still be ^(P)struck down?
    Why will you ^(Q)continue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
    and the whole heart faint.
⁶^(R)From the sole of the foot even to the head,
    there is no soundness in it,
but bruises and sores
    and raw wounds;
they are ^(S)not pressed out or bound up
    or softened with oil.

⁷^(T)Your country lies desolate;
    your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
    foreigners devour your land;
    it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
⁸And ^(U)the daughter of Zion is left
    like a ^(V)booth in a vineyard,
like a lodge in a cucumber field,
    like a besieged city.

⁹^(W)If the Lord of hosts
had not left us ^(X)a few survivors,
we should have been like ^(Y)Sodom,
and become like ^(Z)Gomorrah.

¹⁰Hear the word of the Lord,
    you rulers of ^(AA)^(AB)Sodom!
Give ear to the teaching^[b] of our God,
    you people of ^(AC)Gomorrah!
¹¹^(AD)“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
    says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
    and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
    or of lambs, or of goats.

¹²“When you come to ^(AE)appear before me,
    who has required of you
    this trampling of my courts?
¹³Bring no more vain offerings;
    incense is an abomination to me.
^(AF)New moon and Sabbath and the ^(AG)calling of convocations—
    I cannot endure ^(AH)iniquity and ^(AI)solemn assembly.
¹⁴Your ^(AJ)new moons and your appointed feasts
    my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
    I am weary of bearing them.
¹⁵When you ^(AK)spread out your hands,
    I will hide my eyes from you;
^(AL)even though you make many prayers,
    I will not listen;
    ^(AM)your hands are full of blood.
¹⁶^(AN)Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
    remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
^(AO)cease to do evil,
¹⁷    learn to do good;
^(AP)seek justice,
    correct oppression;
^(AQ)bring justice to the fatherless,
    plead the widow's cause.

¹⁸“Come now, ^(AR)let us reason^[c] together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as ^(AS)white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
    they shall become like wool.
¹⁹^(AT)If you are willing and obedient,
    you shall eat the good of the land;
²⁰but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    ^(AU)for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

The Unfaithful City

²¹How the faithful city
    ^(AV)has become a whore,^[d]
    ^(AW)she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
    but now murderers.
²²^(AX)Your silver has become dross,
    your best wine mixed with water.
²³Your princes are rebels
    and companions of thieves.
Everyone ^(AY)loves a bribe
    and runs after gifts.
^(AZ)They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
    and the widow's cause does not come to them.

²⁴Therefore the ^(BA)Lord declares,
    the Lord of hosts,
    the ^(BB)Mighty One of Israel:
“Ah, I will get relief from my enemies
    ^(BC)and avenge myself on my foes.
²⁵^(BD)I will turn my hand against you
    and will smelt away your ^(BE)dross as with lye
    and remove all your alloy.
²⁶And I will restore your judges ^(BF)as at the first,
    and your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward ^(BG)you shall be called the city of righteousness,
    the faithful city.”

²⁷^(BH)Zion shall be redeemed by justice,
    and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
²⁸^(BI)But rebels and sinners shall be broken together,
    and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
²⁹^(BJ)For they^[e] shall be ashamed of ^(BK)the oaks
    that you desired;
and you shall blush for ^(BL)the gardens
    that you have chosen.
³⁰For you shall be ^(BM)like an oak
    whose leaf withers,
    and like a garden without water.
³¹And the strong shall become ^(BN)tinder,
    and his work a spark,
and both of them shall burn together,
    with ^(BO)none to quench them.

The Mountain of the Lord

2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²^(BP)It shall come to pass in the latter days
    that ^(BQ)the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and ^(BR)all the nations shall flow to it,
³    and ^(BS)many peoples shall 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 his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For ^(BT)out of Zion shall go forth the law,^[f]
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴He shall judge between the nations,
    and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
^(BU)and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
^(BV)nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war anymore.

⁵O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in ^(BW)the light of the Lord.

The Day of the Lord

⁶For you have rejected your people,
    the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things ^(BX)from the east
    and ^(BY)of fortune-tellers ^(BZ)like the Philistines,
    and they ^(CA)strike hands with the children of foreigners.
⁷Their land is ^(CB)filled with silver and gold,
    and there is no end to their treasures;
their land is ^(CC)filled with horses,
    and there is no end to their chariots.
⁸Their land is ^(CD)filled with idols;
    they bow down to ^(CE)the work of their hands,
    to what their own fingers have made.
⁹So man ^(CF)is humbled,
    and each one ^(CG)is brought low—
    do not forgive them!
¹⁰^(CH)Enter into the rock
    and hide in the dust
^(CI)from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty.
¹¹^(CJ)The haughty looks of man shall be brought low,
    and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

¹²^(CK)For the Lord of hosts has a day
    against all that is proud and lofty,
    against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;
¹³against all the ^(CL)cedars of Lebanon,
    lofty and lifted up;
    and against all the ^(CM)oaks of Bashan;
¹⁴against all ^(CN)the lofty mountains,
    and against all the uplifted hills;
¹⁵against every high tower,
    and against every fortified wall;
¹⁶against all ^(CO)the ships of Tarshish,
    and against all the beautiful craft.
¹⁷^(CP)And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,
    and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,
    and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
¹⁸^(CQ)And the idols shall utterly pass away.
¹⁹^(CR)And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
    and the holes of the ground,^[g]
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty,
    ^(CS)when he rises to terrify the earth.

²⁰In that day ^(CT)mankind will cast away
    their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
    to the moles and to the ^(CU)bats,
²¹^(CV)to enter the caverns of the rocks
    and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty,
    ^(CW)when he rises to terrify the earth.
²²^(CX)Stop regarding man
    ^(CY)in whose nostrils is breath,
    for of what account is he?

Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem

3 For behold, the ^(CZ)Lord God of hosts
    is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah
support and supply,^[h]
    all ^(DA)support of bread,
    and all support of water;
²^(DB)the mighty man and the soldier,
    the judge and the prophet,
    the diviner and the elder,
³the captain of fifty
    and the man of rank,
the counselor and the skillful magician
    and the expert in charms.
⁴^(DC)And I will make boys their princes,
    and infants^[i] shall rule over them.
⁵^(DD)And the people will oppress one another,
    every one his fellow
    and every one his neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder,
    and the despised to the honorable.

⁶For ^(DE)a man will take hold of his brother
    in the house of his father, saying:
“You have a cloak;
    you shall be our leader,
and this heap of ruins
    shall be under your rule”;
⁷in that day he will speak out, saying:
“I will not be a ^(DF)healer;^[j]
    in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;
you shall not make me
    leader of the people.”
⁸For Jerusalem has stumbled,
    and Judah has fallen,
because their ^(DG)speech and their deeds are against the Lord,
    ^(DH)defying his glorious presence.^[k]

⁹For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
    they proclaim their sin ^(DI)like Sodom;
    they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
    ^(DJ)For they have brought evil on themselves.
¹⁰^(DK)Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them,
    ^(DL)for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
¹¹^(DM)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
    for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
¹²My people—^(DN)infants are their oppressors,
    and women rule over them.
O my people, ^(DO)your guides mislead you
    and they have swallowed up^[l] the course of your paths.

¹³The Lord ^(DP)has taken his place to contend;
    he stands to judge peoples.
¹⁴The Lord will enter into judgment
    with the ^(DQ)elders and princes of his people:
“It is you who ^(DR)have devoured^[m] the vineyard,
    ^(DS)the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
¹⁵What do you mean by ^(DT)crushing my people,
    by grinding the face of the poor?”
declares the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁶The Lord said:
^(DU)Because ^(DV)the daughters of Zion are haughty
    and walk with outstretched necks,
    glancing wantonly with their eyes,
mincing along as they go,
    ^(DW)tinkling with their feet,
¹⁷therefore the Lord ^(DX)will strike with a scab
    the heads of ^(DY)the daughters of Zion,
    and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.

¹⁸In that day the Lord will take away ^(DZ)the finery of the anklets, the ^(EA)headbands, and the ^(EB)crescents; ¹⁹the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; ²⁰the ^(EC)headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; ²¹the signet rings and ^(ED)nose rings; ²²the ^(EE)festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags; ²³the mirrors, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.

²⁴Instead of ^(EF)perfume there will be rottenness;
    and instead of a ^(EG)belt, a rope;
and instead of ^(EH)well-set hair, ^(EI)baldness;
    and instead of a rich robe, a ^(EJ)skirt of sackcloth;
    and ^(EK)branding instead of beauty.
²⁵Your men shall fall by the sword
    and your mighty men in battle.
²⁶And ^(EL)her gates shall lament and mourn;
    empty, she shall ^(EM)sit on the ground.

4 ^(EN)And seven women ^(EO)shall take hold of ^(EP)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; ^(EQ)take away our reproach.”

The Branch of the Lord Glorified

²In that day ^(ER)the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and ^(ES)the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel. ³^(ET)And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called ^(EU)holy, everyone who has ^(EV)been recorded for life in Jerusalem, ⁴when ^(EW)the Lord shall have washed away the filth of ^(EX)the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by ^(EY)a spirit of burning.^[n] ⁵Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies ^(EZ)a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be ^(FA)a canopy. ⁶^(FB)There will be a ^(FC)booth for shade by day from the heat, and ^(FD)for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed

5 Let me sing for my beloved
    my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had ^(FE)a vineyard
    on a very fertile hill.
²He dug it and cleared it of stones,
    and planted it with ^(FF)choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
    and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and ^(FG)he looked for it to yield grapes,
    but it yielded wild grapes.

³And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
    and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
⁴^(FH)What more was there to do for my vineyard,
    that I have not done in it?
^(FI)When I looked for it to yield grapes,
    why did it yield wild grapes?

⁵And now I will tell you
    what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove ^(FJ)its hedge,
    and it shall be devoured;^[o]
^(FK)I will break down its wall,
    and it shall be trampled down.
⁶I will make it a waste;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and ^(FL)briers and thorns shall grow up;
^(FM)I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no rain upon it.

⁷^(FN)For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
    is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
    are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
    but behold, bloodshed;^[p]
for righteousness,
    but behold, an outcry!^[q]

Woe to the Wicked

⁸Woe to those who ^(FO)join house to house,
    who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
    and you are made to dwell alone
    in the midst of the land.
⁹The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
^(FP)“Surely many houses shall be desolate,
    large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
¹⁰^(FQ)For ten acres^[r] of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
    and a ^(FR)homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”^[s]

¹¹Woe to those who ^(FS)rise early in the morning,
    that they may run after strong drink,
who tarry late into the evening
    as wine inflames them!
¹²^(FT)They have lyre and harp,
    tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,
^(FU)but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,
    or see the work of his hands.

¹³Therefore my people go into exile
    ^(FV)for lack of knowledge;^[t]
their ^(FW)honored men go hungry,^[u]
    and their multitude is parched with thirst.
¹⁴Therefore Sheol has ^(FX)enlarged its appetite
    and opened ^(FY)its mouth beyond measure,
and the nobility of Jerusalem^[v] and her multitude will go down,
    her revelers and he who ^(FZ)exults in her.
¹⁵^(GA)Man is humbled, and each one is brought low,
    and the eyes of the haughty^[w] are brought low.
¹⁶^(GB)But the Lord of hosts is exalted^[x] in justice,
    and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
¹⁷Then shall the lambs graze ^(GC)as in their pasture,
    and ^(GD)nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

¹⁸Woe to those who draw iniquity with ^(GE)cords of falsehood,
    who draw sin as with cart ropes,
¹⁹who say: ^(GF)“Let him be quick,
    let him speed his work
    that we may see it;
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near,
    and let it come, that we may know it!”
²⁰Woe to ^(GG)those who call evil good
    and good evil,
^(GH)who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter!
²¹Woe to those who are ^(GI)wise in their own eyes,
    and shrewd in their own sight!
²²Woe to those who are ^(GJ)heroes at drinking wine,
    and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
²³who ^(GK)acquit the guilty for a bribe,
    and deprive the innocent of his right!

²⁴Therefore, ^(GL)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so ^(GM)their root will be ^(GN)as rottenness,
    and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have ^(GO)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
    and have ^(GP)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
²⁵Therefore ^(GQ)the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
    and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,
    and ^(GR)the mountains quaked;
and their corpses were ^(GS)as refuse
    in the midst of the streets.
^(GT)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

²⁶He will ^(GU)raise a signal for nations far away,
    and ^(GV)whistle for them ^(GW)from the ends of the earth;
and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
²⁷^(GX)None is weary, none stumbles,
    none slumbers or sleeps,
not a waistband is loose,
    not a sandal strap broken;
²⁸^(GY)their arrows are sharp,
    all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs seem like flint,
    and their wheels ^(GZ)like the whirlwind.
²⁹Their roaring is like a lion,
    like young lions they roar;
they growl and ^(HA)seize their prey;
    they carry it off, and none can rescue.
³⁰They will growl over it on that day,
    like the growling of the sea.
And if one looks to the land,
    behold, ^(HB)darkness and distress;
and the light is darkened by its clouds.

Isaiah's Vision of the Lord

6 In the year that ^(HC)King Uzziah died I ^(HD)saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train^[y] of his robe filled the temple. ²Above him stood the seraphim. Each had ^(HE)six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ³And one called to another and said:

^(HF)“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
^(HG)the whole earth is full of his glory!”^[z]

⁴And ^(HH)the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and ^(HI)the house was filled with smoke. ⁵And I said: “Woe is me! ^(HJ)For I am lost; ^(HK)for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the ^(HL)King, the Lord of hosts!”

⁶Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. ⁷And he ^(HM)touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

Isaiah's Commission from the Lord

⁸And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for ^(HN)us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” ⁹And he said, “Go, and say to this people:

^(HO)“‘Keep on hearing,^[aa] but do not understand;
keep on seeing,^[ab] but do not perceive.’
¹⁰^(HP)Make the heart of this people ^(HQ)dull,^[ac]
    and their ears heavy,
    and blind their eyes;
^(HR)lest they see with their eyes,
    and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
    and turn and be healed.”
¹¹Then I said, ^(HS)“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until ^(HT)cities lie waste
    without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
    and the land is a desolate waste,
¹²and the Lord removes people far away,
    and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
¹³^(HU)And though a tenth remain in it,
    it will be burned^[ad] again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
    whose stump ^(HV)remains
    when it is felled.”
^(HW)The holy seed^[ae] is its stump.

Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz

7 In the days of ^(HX)Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, ^(HY)Rezin the king of Syria and ^(HZ)Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it. ²When the house of David was told, ^(IA)“Syria is in league with^[af] ^(IB)Ephraim,” the heart of Ahaz^[ag] and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

³And the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and ^(IC)Shear-jashub^[ah] your son, at the end of ^(ID)the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field. ⁴And say to him, ^(IE)‘Be careful, ^(IF)be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two ^(IG)smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and ^(IH)the son of Remaliah. ⁵Because Syria, with Ephraim and ^(II)the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, ⁶“Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it^[ai] for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” ⁷thus says the Lord God:

^(IJ)“‘It shall not stand,
    and it shall not come to pass.
⁸For the head of Syria is ^(IK)Damascus,
    and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
    Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
⁹And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
    and the head of Samaria is ^(IL)the son of Remaliah.
^(IM)If you^[aj] are not firm in faith,
    you will not be firm at all.’”

The Sign of Immanuel

¹⁰Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz: ¹¹“Ask ^(IN)a sign of the Lord your^[ak] God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” ¹²But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.” ¹³And he^[al] said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you ^(IO)weary my God also? ¹⁴Therefore the ^(IP)Lord himself will give you a sign. ^(IQ)Behold, the ^(IR)virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name ^(IS)Immanuel.^[am] ¹⁵He shall eat ^(IT)curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good. ¹⁶^(IU)For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be ^(IV)deserted. ¹⁷^(IW)The Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house such days as have not come since the day that ^(IX)Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”

¹⁸In that day the Lord will ^(IY)whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. ¹⁹And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and ^(IZ)in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.^[an]

²⁰In that day ^(JA)the Lord will ^(JB)shave with a razor that is ^(JC)hired beyond ^(JD)the River^[ao]—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.

²¹^(JE)In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep, ²²and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat ^(JF)curds and honey.

²³In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels^[ap] of silver, will become ^(JG)briers and thorns. ²⁴^(JH)With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns. ²⁵^(JI)And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear ^(JJ)of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.

The Coming Assyrian Invasion

8 Then the Lord said to me, “Take a large tablet ^(JK)and write on it in common characters,^[aq] ‘Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’^[ar] ²And ^(JL)I will get reliable witnesses, ^(JM)Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me.”

³And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, ^(JN)“Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz; ⁴^(JO)for before the boy knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the ^(JP)wealth of ^(JQ)Damascus and the spoil of ^(JR)Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”

⁵The Lord spoke to me again: ⁶“Because this people has refused the waters of ^(JS)Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over ^(JT)Rezin and the son of Remaliah, ⁷therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them ^(JU)the waters of ^(JV)the River,^[as] mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it ^(JW)will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks, ⁸and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, ^(JX)reaching even to the neck, and its ^(JY)outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, ^(JZ)O Immanuel.”

⁹Be broken,^[at] you peoples, and ^(KA)be shattered;^[au]
    give ear, all you far countries;
strap on your armor and be shattered;
    strap on your armor and be shattered.
¹⁰Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
    speak a word, ^(KB)but it will not stand,
    for God ^(KC)is with us.^[av]

Fear God, Wait for the Lord

¹¹For the Lord spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and ^(KD)warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: ¹²“Do not call ^(KE)conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and ^(KF)do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. ¹³But the Lord of hosts, ^(KG)him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. ¹⁴And he will become a ^(KH)sanctuary and ^(KI)a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁵And many ^(KJ)shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”

¹⁶Bind up ^(KK)the testimony; ^(KL)seal the teaching^[aw] among my disciples. ¹⁷I will ^(KM)wait for the Lord, who is ^(KN)hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him. ¹⁸^(KO)Behold, I and ^(KP)the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion. ¹⁹And when they say to you, “Inquire of the ^(KQ)mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of ^(KR)the dead on behalf of the living? ²⁰^(KS)To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no ^(KT)dawn. ²¹They will pass through the land,^[ax] greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against^[ay] their king and their God, and turn their faces upward. ²²^(KU)And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into ^(KV)thick darkness.

For to Us a Child Is Born

9 ^[az] But there will be no ^(KW)gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he ^(KX)brought into contempt the land of ^(KY)Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he ^(KZ)has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.^[ba]

²^[bb] ^(LA)The people ^(LB)who walked in darkness
    have seen a great light;
those who dwelt in a land of ^(LC)deep darkness,
    on them has light shone.
³^(LD)You have multiplied the nation;
    you have increased its joy;
they rejoice before you
    as with ^(LE)joy at the harvest,
    as they ^(LF)are glad ^(LG)when they divide the spoil.
⁴^(LH)For the yoke of his burden,
    ^(LI)and the staff for his shoulder,
    the rod of his oppressor,
    you have broken as ^(LJ)on the day of Midian.
⁵^(LK)For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult
    and every garment rolled in blood
    will be burned as fuel for the fire.
⁶^(LL)For to us a child is born,
    to us ^(LM)a son is given;
^(LN)and the government shall be ^(LO)upon^[bc] his shoulder,
    and his name shall be called^[bd]
Wonderful ^(LP)Counselor, ^(LQ)Mighty God,
    ^(LR)Everlasting ^(LS)Father, Prince of ^(LT)Peace.
⁷Of the increase of his government and of peace
    ^(LU)there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
    to establish it and to uphold it
^(LV)with justice and with righteousness
    from this time forth and forevermore.
^(LW)The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Judgment on Arrogance and Oppression

⁸The Lord has sent a word against Jacob,
    and it will fall on Israel;
⁹and all the people will know,
    ^(LX)Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
    who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:
¹⁰“The bricks have fallen,
    but we will build with dressed stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
    but we will put cedars in their place.”
¹¹But the Lord raises the adversaries of Rezin against him,
    and stirs up his enemies.
¹²^(LY)The Syrians on the east and ^(LZ)the Philistines on the west
    devour Israel with open mouth.
^(MA)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

¹³The people ^(MB)did not turn to him who struck them,
    nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.
¹⁴So the Lord cut off from Israel ^(MC)head and tail,
    palm branch and reed in one day—
¹⁵^(MD)the elder and honored man is the head,
    and ^(ME)the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;
¹⁶for those who guide this people have been leading them astray,
    and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
¹⁷Therefore the Lord does not ^(MF)rejoice over their young men,
    and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is ^(MG)godless and an evildoer,
    and every mouth speaks ^(MH)folly.^[be]
^(MI)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

¹⁸For wickedness burns like ^(MJ)a fire;
    it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
    and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
¹⁹Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts
    the land is scorched,
and ^(MK)the people are like fuel for the fire;
    ^(ML)no one spares another.
²⁰^(MM)They slice meat on the right, but are still hungry,
    and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied;
^(MN)each devours the flesh of his own arm,
²¹Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh;
    together they are ^(MO)against Judah.
^(MP)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

10 Woe to those who ^(MQ)decree iniquitous decrees,
    and the writers who ^(MR)keep writing oppression,
²to turn aside the needy from justice
    and ^(MS)to rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be their spoil,
    and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
³What will you do on ^(MT)the day of punishment,
    in the ruin that will come ^(MU)from afar?
To whom will you flee for help,
    and where will you leave your wealth?
⁴Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners
    or fall among the slain.
^(MV)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

⁵Woe to Assyria, ^(MW)the rod of my anger;
    the staff in their hands is my fury!
⁶Against a ^(MX)godless nation I send him,
    and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take ^(MY)spoil and seize plunder,
    and to ^(MZ)tread them down like the mire of the streets.
⁷But he ^(NA)does not so intend,
    and his heart does not so think;
but it is in his heart to destroy,
    and to cut off nations not a few;
⁸for he says:
^(NB)“Are not my commanders all kings?
⁹^(NC)Is not ^(ND)Calno like ^(NE)Carchemish?
    Is not ^(NF)Hamath like ^(NG)Arpad?
    ^(NH)Is not ^(NI)Samaria like Damascus?
¹⁰As my hand has reached to ^(NJ)the kingdoms of the idols,
    whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
¹¹shall I not do to Jerusalem and ^(NK)her idols
    ^(NL)as I have done to Samaria and her images?”

¹²^(NM)When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, ^(NN)he^[bf] will punish the speech^[bg] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes. ¹³^(NO)For he says:

“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
    and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I remove the boundaries of peoples,
    and plunder their treasures;
    like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
¹⁴My hand has found like a nest
    the wealth of the peoples;
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
    so I have gathered all the earth;
and there was none that moved a wing
    or opened the mouth or chirped.”

¹⁵Shall ^(NP)the axe boast over him who hews with it,
    or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
    or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
¹⁶Therefore the Lord God of hosts
    will send wasting sickness among his ^(NQ)stout warriors,
and under his glory ^(NR)a burning will be kindled,
    like the burning of fire.
¹⁷^(NS)The light of Israel will become a fire,
    and ^(NT)his Holy One a flame,
and ^(NU)it will burn and devour
    his thorns and briers ^(NV)in one day.
¹⁸The glory of ^(NW)his forest and of his ^(NX)fruitful land
    the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,
    and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
¹⁹The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few
    that a child can write them down.

The Remnant of Israel Will Return

²⁰^(NY)In that day ^(NZ)the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more ^(OA)lean on him who struck them, but ^(OB)will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. ²¹A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, ^(OC)to the mighty God. ²²^(OD)For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, ^(OE)only a remnant of them will return. ^(OF)Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness. ²³For the Lord God of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.

²⁴Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O my people, ^(OG)who dwell in Zion, ^(OH)be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as ^(OI)the Egyptians did. ²⁵For ^(OJ)in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction. ²⁶And ^(OK)the Lord of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck ^(OL)Midian ^(OM)at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it ^(ON)as he did in Egypt. ²⁷And in that day ^(OO)his burden will depart from your shoulder, and ^(OP)his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.”^[bh]

²⁸He has come to Aiath;
he has passed through ^(OQ)Migron;
    at Michmash he stores ^(OR)his baggage;
²⁹they have crossed over ^(OS)the pass;
    at ^(OT)Geba they lodge for the night;
^(OU)Ramah trembles;
    ^(OV)Gibeah of Saul has fled.
³⁰Cry aloud, O daughter of ^(OW)Gallim!
    Give attention, O Laishah!
    O poor ^(OX)Anathoth!
³¹Madmenah is in flight;
    the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
³²This very day he will halt at ^(OY)Nob;
    he will shake his fist
    at the mount of ^(OZ)the daughter of Zion,
    the hill of Jerusalem.

³³Behold, the Lord God of hosts
    ^(PA)will lop ^(PB)the boughs with terrifying power;
the great in height will be hewn down,
    and the lofty will be brought low.
³⁴He will cut down ^(PC)the thickets of the forest with an axe,
    and ^(PD)Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.

The Righteous Reign of the Branch

11 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of ^(PE)Jesse,
    and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
²And ^(PF)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 the fear of the Lord.
³And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
^(PG)He shall not judge by ^(PH)what his eyes see,
    or decide disputes by ^(PI)what his ears hear,
⁴but ^(PJ)with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
    and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
and he shall ^(PK)strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
    and ^(PL)with the breath of his lips ^(PM)he shall kill the wicked.
⁵Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,
    and ^(PN)faithfulness the belt of his loins.

⁶^(PO)The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
    and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
    and a little child shall lead them.
⁷The cow and the bear shall graze;
    their young shall lie down together;
    and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
⁸The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
    and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
⁹^(PP)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all ^(PQ)my holy mountain;
^(PR)for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰In that day ^(PS)the root of ^(PT)Jesse, who shall stand as ^(PU)a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.

¹¹^(PV)In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, ^(PW)from Assyria, ^(PX)from Egypt, from ^(PY)Pathros, from ^(PZ)Cush,^[bi] from ^(QA)Elam, from ^(QB)Shinar, from ^(QC)Hamath, and from ^(QD)the coastlands of the sea.

¹²He will raise ^(QE)a signal for the nations
    and will assemble ^(QF)the banished of Israel,
and gather the dispersed of Judah
    from the four corners of the earth.
¹³^(QG)The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart,
    and those who harass Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah,
    and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
¹⁴^(QH)But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west,
    and together they shall plunder ^(QI)the people of the east.
They shall put out their hand ^(QJ)against ^(QK)Edom and ^(QL)Moab,
    and ^(QM)the Ammonites shall obey them.
¹⁵And the Lord will utterly destroy^[bj]
    ^(QN)the tongue of the Sea of Egypt,
and will wave his hand over ^(QO)the River^[bk]
    with his scorching breath,^[bl]
and strike it into seven channels,
    and he will lead people across in sandals.
¹⁶And there will be ^(QP)a highway from Assyria
    for the remnant that remains of his people,
^(QQ)as there was for Israel
    when they came up from the land of Egypt.

The Lord Is My Strength and My Song

12 You^[bm] will say ^(QR)in that day:
“I will give thanks to you, O Lord,
for though you were angry with me,
^(QS)your anger turned away,
that you might comfort me.

²“Behold, God is my salvation;
I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for ^(QT)the Lord God^[bn] is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation.”

³^(QU)With joy you^[bo] will draw water from the wells of salvation. ⁴^(QV)And you will say in that day:

^(QW)“Give thanks to the Lord,
call upon his name,
^(QX)make known his deeds among the peoples,
proclaim ^(QY)that his name is exalted.

Footnotes

Isaiah 1:2 Or Sons; also verse 4
Isaiah 1:10 Or law
Isaiah 1:18 Or dispute
Isaiah 1:21 Or become unchaste
Isaiah 1:29 Some Hebrew manuscripts you
Isaiah 2:3 Or teaching
Isaiah 2:19 Hebrew dust
Isaiah 3:1 Hebrew staff
Isaiah 3:4 Or caprice
Isaiah 3:7 Hebrew binder of wounds
Isaiah 3:8 Hebrew the eyes of his glory
Isaiah 3:12 Or they have confused
Isaiah 3:14 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
Isaiah 4:4 Or purging
Isaiah 5:5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike
Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike
Isaiah 5:10 Hebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day
Isaiah 5:10 A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; an ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
Isaiah 5:13 Or without their knowledge
Isaiah 5:13 Or die of hunger
Isaiah 5:14 Hebrew her nobility
Isaiah 5:15 Hebrew high
Isaiah 5:16 Hebrew high
Isaiah 6:1 Or hem
Isaiah 6:3 Or may his glory fill the whole earth
Isaiah 6:9 Or Hear indeed
Isaiah 6:9 Or see indeed
Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew fat
Isaiah 6:13 Or purged
Isaiah 6:13 Or offspring
Isaiah 7:2 Hebrew Syria has rested upon
Isaiah 7:2 Hebrew his heart
Isaiah 7:3 Shear-jashub means A remnant shall return
Isaiah 7:6 Hebrew let us split it open
Isaiah 7:9 The Hebrew for you is plural in verses 9, 13, 14
Isaiah 7:11 The Hebrew for you and your is singular in verses 11, 16, 17
Isaiah 7:13 That is, Isaiah
Isaiah 7:14 Immanuel means God is with us
Isaiah 7:19 Or watering holes, or brambles
Isaiah 7:20 That is, the Euphrates
Isaiah 7:23 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
Isaiah 8:1 Hebrew with a man's stylus
Isaiah 8:1 Maher-shalal-hash-baz means The spoil speeds, the prey hastens
Isaiah 8:7 That is, the Euphrates
Isaiah 8:9 Or Be evil
Isaiah 8:9 Or dismayed
Isaiah 8:10 The Hebrew for God is with us is Immanuel
Isaiah 8:16 Or law; also verse 20
Isaiah 8:21 Hebrew it
Isaiah 8:21 Or speak contemptuously by
Isaiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Hebrew
Isaiah 9:1 Or of the Gentiles
Isaiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
Isaiah 9:6 Or is upon
Isaiah 9:6 Or is called
Isaiah 9:17 Or speaks disgraceful things
Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew I
Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew fruit
Isaiah 10:27 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Isaiah 11:11 Probably Nubia
Isaiah 11:15 Hebrew devote to destruction
Isaiah 11:15 That is, the Euphrates
Isaiah 11:15 Or wind
Isaiah 12:1 The Hebrew for you is singular in verse 1
Isaiah 12:2 Hebrew for Yah, the Lord
Isaiah 12:3 The Hebrew for you is plural in verses 3, 4

Isaiah 1:1-12:4

New International Version

1 The vision^(A) concerning Judah and Jerusalem^(B) that Isaiah son of Amoz saw^(C) during the reigns of Uzziah,^(D) Jotham,^(E) Ahaz^(F) and Hezekiah,^(G) kings of Judah.

A Rebellious Nation

²Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth!^(H)
    For the Lord has spoken:^(I)
“I reared children^(J) and brought them up,
    but they have rebelled^(K) against me.
³The ox knows^(L) its master,
    the donkey its owner’s manger,^(M)
but Israel does not know,^(N)
    my people do not understand.^(O)”

⁴Woe to the sinful nation,
    a people whose guilt is great,^(P)
a brood of evildoers,^(Q)
    children given to corruption!^(R)
They have forsaken^(S) the Lord;
    they have spurned the Holy One^(T) of Israel
    and turned their backs^(U) on him.

⁵Why should you be beaten^(V) anymore?
    Why do you persist^(W) in rebellion?^(X)
Your whole head is injured,
    your whole heart^(Y) afflicted.^(Z)
⁶From the sole of your foot to the top of your head^(AA)
    there is no soundness^(AB)—
only wounds and welts^(AC)
    and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged^(AD)
    or soothed with olive oil.^(AE)

⁷Your country is desolate,^(AF)
    your cities burned with fire;^(AG)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners^(AH)
    right before you,
    laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.^(AI)
⁸Daughter Zion^(AJ) is left^(AK)
    like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut^(AL) in a cucumber field,
    like a city under siege.
⁹Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,^(AM)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.^(AN)

¹⁰Hear the word of the Lord,^(AO)
    you rulers of Sodom;^(AP)
listen to the instruction^(AQ) of our God,
    you people of Gomorrah!^(AR)
¹¹“The multitude of your sacrifices—
    what are they to me?” says the Lord.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
    of rams and the fat of fattened animals;^(AS)
I have no pleasure^(AT)
    in the blood of bulls^(AU) and lambs and goats.^(AV)
¹²When you come to appear before me,
    who has asked this of you,^(AW)
    this trampling of my courts?
¹³Stop bringing meaningless offerings!^(AX)
    Your incense^(AY) is detestable^(AZ) to me.
New Moons,^(BA) Sabbaths and convocations^(BB)—
    I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
¹⁴Your New Moon^(BC) feasts and your appointed festivals^(BD)
    I hate with all my being.^(BE)
They have become a burden to me;^(BF)
    I am weary^(BG) of bearing them.
¹⁵When you spread out your hands^(BH) in prayer,
    I hide^(BI) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
    I am not listening.^(BJ)

Your hands^(BK) are full of blood!^(BL)

¹⁶Wash^(BM) and make yourselves clean.
    Take your evil deeds out of my sight;^(BN)
    stop doing wrong.^(BO)
¹⁷Learn to do right;^(BP) seek justice.^(BQ)
    Defend the oppressed.^[a]^(BR)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;^(BS)
    plead the case of the widow.^(BT)

¹⁸“Come now, let us settle the matter,”^(BU)
    says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as white as snow;^(BV)
though they are red as crimson,
    they shall be like wool.^(BW)
¹⁹If you are willing and obedient,^(BX)
    you will eat the good things of the land;^(BY)
²⁰but if you resist and rebel,^(BZ)
    you will be devoured by the sword.”^(CA)
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.^(CB)

²¹See how the faithful city
    has become a prostitute!^(CC)
She once was full of justice;
    righteousness^(CD) used to dwell in her—
    but now murderers!^(CE)
²²Your silver has become dross,^(CF)
    your choice wine is diluted with water.
²³Your rulers are rebels,^(CG)
    partners with thieves;^(CH)
they all love bribes^(CI)
    and chase after gifts.
They do not defend the cause of the fatherless;
    the widow’s case does not come before them.^(CJ)

²⁴Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    the Mighty One^(CK) of Israel, declares:
“Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes
    and avenge^(CL) myself on my enemies.^(CM)
²⁵I will turn my hand against you;^[b]^(CN)
    I will thoroughly purge^(CO) away your dross^(CP)
    and remove all your impurities.^(CQ)
²⁶I will restore your leaders as in days of old,^(CR)
    your rulers as at the beginning.
Afterward you will be called^(CS)
    the City of Righteousness,^(CT)
    the Faithful City.^(CU)”

²⁷Zion will be delivered with justice,
her penitent^(CV) ones with righteousness.^(CW)
²⁸But rebels and sinners^(CX) will both be broken,
and those who forsake^(CY) the Lord will perish.^(CZ)

²⁹“You will be ashamed^(DA) because of the sacred oaks^(DB)
    in which you have delighted;
you will be disgraced because of the gardens^(DC)
    that you have chosen.
³⁰You will be like an oak with fading leaves,^(DD)
    like a garden without water.
³¹The mighty man will become tinder
    and his work a spark;
both will burn together,
    with no one to quench the fire.^(DE)”

The Mountain of the Lord^(DF)

2 This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:^(DG)

²In the last days^(DH)

the mountain^(DI) of the Lord’s temple will be established
as the highest of the mountains;^(DJ)
it will be exalted^(DK) above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.^(DL)

³Many peoples^(DM) will come and say,

“Come, let us go^(DN) up to the mountain^(DO) of the Lord,
    to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
    so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law^(DP) will go out from Zion,
    the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.^(DQ)
⁴He will judge^(DR) between the nations
    and will settle disputes^(DS) for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
    and their spears into pruning hooks.^(DT)
Nation will not take up sword against nation,^(DU)
    nor will they train for war anymore.

⁵Come, descendants of Jacob,^(DV)
let us walk in the light^(DW) of the Lord.

The Day of the Lord

⁶You, Lord, have abandoned^(DX) your people,
    the descendants of Jacob.^(DY)
They are full of superstitions from the East;
    they practice divination^(DZ) like the Philistines^(EA)
    and embrace^(EB) pagan customs.^(EC)
⁷Their land is full of silver and gold;^(ED)
    there is no end to their treasures.^(EE)
Their land is full of horses;^(EF)
    there is no end to their chariots.^(EG)
⁸Their land is full of idols;^(EH)
    they bow down^(EI) to the work of their hands,^(EJ)
    to what their fingers^(EK) have made.
⁹So people will be brought low^(EL)
    and everyone humbled^(EM)—
    do not forgive them.^[c]^(EN)

¹⁰Go into the rocks, hide^(EO) in the ground
    from the fearful presence of the Lord
    and the splendor of his majesty!^(EP)
¹¹The eyes of the arrogant^(EQ) will be humbled^(ER)
    and human pride^(ES) brought low;^(ET)
the Lord alone will be exalted^(EU) in that day.^(EV)

¹²The Lord Almighty has a day^(EW) in store
    for all the proud^(EX) and lofty,^(EY)
for all that is exalted^(EZ)
    (and they will be humbled),^(FA)
¹³for all the cedars of Lebanon,^(FB) tall and lofty,^(FC)
    and all the oaks of Bashan,^(FD)
¹⁴for all the towering mountains
    and all the high hills,^(FE)
¹⁵for every lofty tower^(FF)
    and every fortified wall,^(FG)
¹⁶for every trading ship^[d]^(FH)
    and every stately vessel.
¹⁷The arrogance of man will be brought low^(FI)
    and human pride humbled;^(FJ)
the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,^(FK)
¹⁸    and the idols^(FL) will totally disappear.^(FM)

¹⁹People will flee to caves^(FN) in the rocks
    and to holes in the ground^(FO)
from the fearful presence^(FP) of the Lord
    and the splendor of his majesty,^(FQ)
    when he rises to shake the earth.^(FR)
²⁰In that day^(FS) people will throw away
    to the moles and bats^(FT)
their idols of silver and idols of gold,^(FU)
    which they made to worship.^(FV)
²¹They will flee to caverns in the rocks^(FW)
    and to the overhanging crags
from the fearful presence of the Lord
    and the splendor of his majesty,^(FX)
    when he rises^(FY) to shake the earth.^(FZ)

²²Stop trusting in mere humans,^(GA)
who have but a breath^(GB) in their nostrils.
Why hold them in esteem?^(GC)

Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah

3 See now, the Lord,
    the Lord Almighty,
is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah
    both supply and support:^(GD)
all supplies of food^(GE) and all supplies of water,^(GF)
²    the hero and the warrior,^(GG)
the judge and the prophet,
    the diviner^(GH) and the elder,^(GI)
³the captain of fifty^(GJ) and the man of rank,^(GK)
    the counselor, skilled craftsman^(GL) and clever enchanter.^(GM)

⁴“I will make mere youths their officials;
children will rule over them.”^(GN)

⁵People will oppress each other—
man against man, neighbor against neighbor.^(GO)
The young will rise up against the old,
the nobody against the honored.

⁶A man will seize one of his brothers
    in his father’s house, and say,
“You have a cloak, you be our leader;
    take charge of this heap of ruins!”
⁷But in that day^(GP) he will cry out,
    “I have no remedy.^(GQ)
I have no food^(GR) or clothing in my house;
    do not make me the leader of the people.”^(GS)

⁸Jerusalem staggers,
    Judah is falling;^(GT)
their words^(GU) and deeds^(GV) are against the Lord,
    defying^(GW) his glorious presence.
⁹The look on their faces testifies^(GX) against them;
    they parade their sin like Sodom;^(GY)
    they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
    They have brought disaster^(GZ) upon themselves.

¹⁰Tell the righteous it will be well^(HA) with them,
    for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.^(HB)
¹¹Woe to the wicked!^(HC)
    Disaster^(HD) is upon them!
They will be paid back^(HE)
    for what their hands have done.^(HF)

¹²Youths^(HG) oppress my people,
women rule over them.
My people, your guides lead you astray;^(HH)
they turn you from the path.

¹³The Lord takes his place in court;^(HI)
    he rises to judge^(HJ) the people.
¹⁴The Lord enters into judgment^(HK)
    against the elders and leaders of his people:
“It is you who have ruined my vineyard;
    the plunder^(HL) from the poor^(HM) is in your houses.
¹⁵What do you mean by crushing my people^(HN)
    and grinding^(HO) the faces of the poor?”^(HP)
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.^(HQ)

¹⁶The Lord says,
    “The women of Zion^(HR) are haughty,
walking along with outstretched necks,^(HS)
    flirting with their eyes,
strutting along with swaying hips,
    with ornaments jingling on their ankles.
¹⁷Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion;
    the Lord will make their scalps bald.^(HT)”

¹⁸In that day^(HU) the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces,^(HV) ¹⁹the earrings and bracelets^(HW) and veils,^(HX) ²⁰the headdresses^(HY) and anklets and sashes, the perfume bottles and charms, ²¹the signet rings and nose rings,^(HZ) ²²the fine robes and the capes and cloaks,^(IA) the purses ²³and mirrors, and the linen garments^(IB) and tiaras^(IC) and shawls.

²⁴Instead of fragrance^(ID) there will be a stench;^(IE)
    instead of a sash,^(IF) a rope;
instead of well-dressed hair, baldness;^(IG)
    instead of fine clothing, sackcloth;^(IH)
    instead of beauty,^(II) branding.^(IJ)
²⁵Your men will fall by the sword,^(IK)
    your warriors in battle.^(IL)
²⁶The gates^(IM) of Zion will lament and mourn;^(IN)
    destitute,^(IO) she will sit on the ground.^(IP)

4 ¹In that day^(IQ) seven women
    will take hold of one man^(IR)
and say, “We will eat our own food^(IS)
    and provide our own clothes;
only let us be called by your name.
    Take away our disgrace!”^(IT)

The Branch of the Lord

²In that day^(IU) the Branch of the Lord^(IV) will be beautiful^(IW) and glorious, and the fruit^(IX) of the land will be the pride and glory^(IY) of the survivors^(IZ) in Israel. ³Those who are left in Zion,^(JA) who remain^(JB) in Jerusalem, will be called holy,^(JC) all who are recorded^(JD) among the living in Jerusalem. ⁴The Lord will wash away the filth^(JE) of the women of Zion;^(JF) he will cleanse^(JG) the bloodstains^(JH) from Jerusalem by a spirit^[e] of judgment^(JI) and a spirit^[f] of fire.^(JJ) ⁵Then the Lord will create^(JK) over all of Mount Zion^(JL) and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night;^(JM) over everything the glory^[g]^(JN) will be a canopy.^(JO) ⁶It will be a shelter^(JP) and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge^(JQ) and hiding place from the storm^(JR) and rain.

The Song of the Vineyard

5 I will sing for the one I love
    a song about his vineyard:^(JS)
My loved one had a vineyard
    on a fertile hillside.
²He dug it up and cleared it of stones
    and planted it with the choicest vines.^(JT)
He built a watchtower^(JU) in it
    and cut out a winepress^(JV) as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
    but it yielded only bad fruit.^(JW)

³“Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
    judge between me and my vineyard.^(JX)
⁴What more could have been done for my vineyard
    than I have done for it?^(JY)
When I looked for good grapes,
    why did it yield only bad?^(JZ)
⁵Now I will tell you
    what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
    and it will be destroyed;^(KA)
I will break down its wall,^(KB)
    and it will be trampled.^(KC)
⁶I will make it a wasteland,^(KD)
    neither pruned nor cultivated,
    and briers and thorns^(KE) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain^(KF) on it.”

⁷The vineyard^(KG) 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,^(KH) but saw bloodshed;
    for righteousness,^(KI) but heard cries of distress.^(KJ)

Woes and Judgments

⁸Woe^(KK) to you who add house to house
and join field to field^(KL)
till no space is left
and you live alone in the land.

⁹The Lord Almighty^(KM) has declared in my hearing:^(KN)

“Surely the great houses will become desolate,^(KO)
the fine mansions left without occupants.
¹⁰A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath^[h] of wine;
a homer^[i] of seed will yield only an ephah^[j] of grain.”^(KP)

¹¹Woe^(KQ) 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.^(KR)
¹²They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
    pipes^(KS) and timbrels^(KT) and wine,
but they have no regard^(KU) for the deeds of the Lord,
    no respect for the work of his hands.^(KV)
¹³Therefore my people will go into exile^(KW)
    for lack of understanding;^(KX)
those of high rank^(KY) will die of hunger
    and the common people will be parched with thirst.^(KZ)
¹⁴Therefore Death^(LA) expands its jaws,
    opening wide its mouth;^(LB)
into it will descend their nobles and masses
    with all their brawlers and revelers.^(LC)
¹⁵So people will be brought low^(LD)
    and everyone humbled,^(LE)
    the eyes of the arrogant^(LF) humbled.
¹⁶But the Lord Almighty will be exalted^(LG) by his justice,^(LH)
    and the holy God will be proved holy^(LI) by his righteous acts.
¹⁷Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;^(LJ)
    lambs will feed^[k] among the ruins of the rich.

¹⁸Woe^(LK) to those who draw sin along with cords^(LL) of deceit,
    and wickedness^(LM) as with cart ropes,
¹⁹to those who say, “Let God hurry;
    let him hasten^(LN) his work
    so we may see it.
The plan of the Holy One^(LO) of Israel—
    let it approach, let it come into view,
    so we may know it.”^(LP)

²⁰Woe^(LQ) to those who call evil good^(LR)
    and good evil,^(LS)
who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,^(LT)
who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter.^(LU)

²¹Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes^(LV)
and clever in their own sight.

²²Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine^(LW)
    and champions at mixing drinks,^(LX)
²³who acquit the guilty for a bribe,^(LY)
    but deny justice^(LZ) to the innocent.^(MA)
²⁴Therefore, as tongues of fire^(MB) lick up straw^(MC)
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,
so their roots will decay^(MD)
    and their flowers blow away like dust;^(ME)
for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty
    and spurned the word^(MF) of the Holy One^(MG) of Israel.
²⁵Therefore the Lord’s anger^(MH) burns against his people;
    his hand is raised and he strikes them down.
The mountains shake,^(MI)
    and the dead bodies^(MJ) are like refuse^(MK) in the streets.^(ML)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,^(MM)
his hand is still upraised.^(MN)

²⁶He lifts up a banner^(MO) for the distant nations,
    he whistles^(MP) for those at the ends of the earth.^(MQ)
Here they come,
    swiftly and speedily!
²⁷Not one of them grows tired^(MR) or stumbles,
    not one slumbers or sleeps;
not a belt^(MS) is loosened at the waist,^(MT)
    not a sandal strap is broken.^(MU)
²⁸Their arrows are sharp,^(MV)
    all their bows^(MW) are strung;
their horses’ hooves^(MX) seem like flint,
    their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.^(MY)
²⁹Their roar is like that of the lion,^(MZ)
    they roar like young lions;
they growl as they seize^(NA) their prey
    and carry it off with no one to rescue.^(NB)
³⁰In that day^(NC) they will roar over it
    like the roaring of the sea.^(ND)
And if one looks at the land,
    there is only darkness^(NE) and distress;^(NF)
    even the sun will be darkened^(NG) by clouds.

Isaiah’s Commission

6 In the year that King Uzziah^(NH) died,^(NI) I saw the Lord,^(NJ) high and exalted,^(NK) seated on a throne;^(NL) and the train of his robe^(NM) filled the temple. ²Above him were seraphim,^(NN) each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet,^(NO) and with two they were flying. ³And they were calling to one another:

“Holy, holy^(NP), holy is the Lord Almighty;^(NQ)
the whole earth^(NR) is full of his glory.”^(NS)

⁴At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.^(NT)

⁵“Woe^(NU) to me!” I cried. “I am ruined!^(NV) For I am a man of unclean lips,^(NW) and I live among a people of unclean lips,^(NX) and my eyes have seen^(NY) the King,^(NZ) the Lord Almighty.”^(OA)

⁶Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal^(OB) in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. ⁷With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips;^(OC) your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.^(OD)”

⁸Then I heard the voice^(OE) of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send?^(OF) And who will go for us?^(OG)”

And I said, “Here am I.^(OH) Send me!”

⁹He said, “Go^(OI) and tell this people:

“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
    be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’^(OJ)
¹⁰Make the heart of this people calloused;^(OK)
    make their ears dull
    and close their eyes.^[l]^(OL)
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    hear with their ears,^(OM)
    understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”^(ON)

¹¹Then I said, “For how long, Lord?”^(OO)

And he answered:

“Until the cities lie ruined^(OP)
    and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted^(OQ)
    and the fields ruined and ravaged,^(OR)
¹²until the Lord has sent everyone far away^(OS)
    and the land is utterly forsaken.^(OT)
¹³And though a tenth remains^(OU) in the land,
    it will again be laid waste.^(OV)
But as the terebinth and oak
    leave stumps^(OW) when they are cut down,
    so the holy^(OX) seed will be the stump in the land.”^(OY)

The Sign of Immanuel

7 When Ahaz^(OZ) son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin^(PA) of Aram^(PB) and Pekah^(PC) son of Remaliah^(PD) king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.

²Now the house of David^(PE) was told, “Aram has allied itself with^[m] Ephraim^(PF)”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken,^(PG) as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.

³Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub,^[n]^(PH) to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.^(PI) ⁴Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm^(PJ) and don’t be afraid.^(PK) Do not lose heart^(PL) because of these two smoldering stubs^(PM) of firewood—because of the fierce anger^(PN) of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.^(PO) ⁵Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah’s^(PP) son have plotted^(PQ) your ruin, saying, ⁶“Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it.” ⁷Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says:^(PR)

“‘It will not take place,
    it will not happen,^(PS)
⁸for the head of Aram is Damascus,^(PT)
    and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.^(PU)
Within sixty-five years
    Ephraim will be too shattered^(PV) to be a people.
⁹The head of Ephraim is Samaria,^(PW)
    and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son.
If you do not stand^(PX) firm in your faith,^(PY)
    you will not stand at all.’”^(PZ)

¹⁰Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, ¹¹“Ask the Lord your God for a sign,^(QA) whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.^(QB)”

¹²But Ahaz said, “I will not ask; I will not put the Lord to the test.^(QC)”

¹³Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David!^(QD) Is it not enough^(QE) to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience^(QF) of my God^(QG) also? ¹⁴Therefore the Lord himself will give you^[o] a sign:^(QH) The virgin^[p]^(QI) will conceive and give birth to a son,^(QJ) and^[q] will call him Immanuel.^[r]^(QK) ¹⁵He will be eating curds^(QL) and honey^(QM) when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, ¹⁶for before the boy knows^(QN) enough to reject the wrong and choose the right,^(QO) the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.^(QP) ¹⁷The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away^(QQ) from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.^(QR)”

Assyria, the Lord’s Instrument

¹⁸In that day^(QS) the Lord will whistle^(QT) for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.^(QU) ¹⁹They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices^(QV) in the rocks, on all the thornbushes^(QW) and at all the water holes. ²⁰In that day^(QX) the Lord will use^(QY) a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River^(QZ)—the king of Assyria^(RA)—to shave your head and private parts, and to cut off your beard^(RB) also.^(RC) ²¹In that day,^(RD) a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats.^(RE) ²²And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds^(RF) and honey.^(RG) ²³In that day,^(RH) in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,^[s]^(RI) there will be only briers and thorns.^(RJ) ²⁴Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers^(RK) and thorns. ²⁵As for all the hills^(RL) once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns;^(RM) they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.^(RN)

Isaiah and His Children as Signs

8 The Lord said to me, “Take a large scroll^(RO) and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.”^[t]^(RP) ²So I called in Uriah^(RQ) the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses^(RR) for me. ³Then I made love to the prophetess,^(RS) and she conceived and gave birth to a son.^(RT) And the Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.^(RU) ⁴For before the boy knows^(RV) how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus^(RW) and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.^(RX)”

⁵The Lord spoke to me again:

⁶“Because this people has rejected^(RY)
    the gently flowing waters of Shiloah^(RZ)
and rejoices over Rezin
    and the son of Remaliah,^(SA)
⁷therefore the Lord is about to bring against them
    the mighty floodwaters^(SB) of the Euphrates—
    the king of Assyria^(SC) with all his pomp.^(SD)
It will overflow all its channels,
    run over all its banks^(SE)
⁸and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,^(SF)
    passing through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread wings^(SG) will cover the breadth of your land,
    Immanuel^[u]!”^(SH)

⁹Raise the war cry,^[v]^(SI) you nations, and be shattered!^(SJ)
    Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare^(SK) for battle, and be shattered!
    Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
¹⁰Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;^(SL)
    propose your plan, but it will not stand,^(SM)
    for God is with us.^[w]^(SN)

¹¹This is what the Lord says to me with his strong hand upon me,^(SO) warning me not to follow^(SP) the way of this people:

¹²“Do not call conspiracy^(SQ)
    everything this people calls a conspiracy;
do not fear what they fear,^(SR)
    and do not dread it.^(SS)
¹³The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,^(ST)
    he is the one you are to fear,^(SU)
    he is the one you are to dread.^(SV)
¹⁴He will be a holy place;^(SW)
    for both Israel and Judah he will be
a stone^(SX) that causes people to stumble^(SY)
    and a rock that makes them fall.^(SZ)
And for the people of Jerusalem he will be
    a trap and a snare.^(TA)
¹⁵Many of them will stumble;^(TB)
    they will fall and be broken,
    they will be snared and captured.”

¹⁶Bind up this testimony of warning^(TC)
and seal^(TD) up God’s instruction among my disciples.
¹⁷I will wait^(TE) for the Lord,
who is hiding^(TF) his face from the descendants of Jacob.
I will put my trust in him.^(TG)

¹⁸Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me.^(TH) We are signs^(TI) and symbols^(TJ) in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.^(TK)

The Darkness Turns to Light

¹⁹When someone tells you to consult^(TL) mediums and spiritists,^(TM) who whisper and mutter,^(TN) should not a people inquire^(TO) of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? ²⁰Consult God’s instruction^(TP) and the testimony of warning.^(TQ) If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light^(TR) of dawn. ²¹Distressed and hungry,^(TS) they will roam through the land;^(TT) when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse^(TU) their king and their God. ²²Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,^(TV) and they will be thrust into utter darkness.^(TW)

9 ^[x]Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom^(TX) for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,^(TY) but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan—

²The people walking in darkness^(TZ)
    have seen a great light;^(UA)
on those living in the land of deep darkness^(UB)
    a light has dawned.^(UC)
³You have enlarged the nation^(UD)
    and increased their joy;^(UE)
they rejoice before you
    as people rejoice at the harvest,
as warriors rejoice
    when dividing the plunder.^(UF)
⁴For as in the day of Midian’s defeat,^(UG)
    you have shattered^(UH)
the yoke^(UI) that burdens them,
    the bar across their shoulders,^(UJ)
    the rod of their oppressor.^(UK)
⁵Every warrior’s boot used in battle
    and every garment rolled in blood
will be destined for burning,^(UL)
    will be fuel for the fire.
⁶For to us a child is born,^(UM)
    to us a son is given,^(UN)
    and the government^(UO) will be on his shoulders.^(UP)
And he will be called
    Wonderful Counselor,^(UQ) Mighty God,^(UR)
    Everlasting^(US) Father,^(UT) Prince of Peace.^(UU)
⁷Of the greatness of his government^(UV) and peace^(UW)
    there will be no end.^(UX)
He will reign^(UY) on David’s throne
    and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
    with justice^(UZ) and righteousness^(VA)
    from that time on and forever.^(VB)
The zeal^(VC) of the Lord Almighty
    will accomplish this.

The Lord’s Anger Against Israel

⁸The Lord has sent a message^(VD) against Jacob;
    it will fall on Israel.
⁹All the people will know it—
    Ephraim^(VE) and the inhabitants of Samaria^(VF)—
who say with pride
    and arrogance^(VG) of heart,
¹⁰“The bricks have fallen down,
    but we will rebuild with dressed stone;^(VH)
the fig^(VI) trees have been felled,
    but we will replace them with cedars.^(VJ)”
¹¹But the Lord has strengthened Rezin’s^(VK) foes against them
    and has spurred their enemies on.
¹²Arameans^(VL) from the east and Philistines^(VM) from the west
    have devoured^(VN) Israel with open mouth.

Yet for all this, his anger^(VO) is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised.^(VP)

¹³But the people have not returned^(VQ) to him who struck^(VR) them,
    nor have they sought^(VS) the Lord Almighty.
¹⁴So the Lord will cut off from Israel both head and tail,
    both palm branch and reed^(VT) in a single day;^(VU)
¹⁵the elders^(VV) and dignitaries^(VW) are the head,
    the prophets^(VX) who teach lies^(VY) are the tail.
¹⁶Those who guide^(VZ) this people mislead them,
    and those who are guided are led astray.^(WA)
¹⁷Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men,^(WB)
    nor will he pity^(WC) the fatherless and widows,
for everyone is ungodly^(WD) and wicked,^(WE)
    every mouth speaks folly.^(WF)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised.^(WG)

¹⁸Surely wickedness burns like a fire;^(WH)
    it consumes briers and thorns,^(WI)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,^(WJ)
    so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
¹⁹By the wrath^(WK) of the Lord Almighty
    the land will be scorched^(WL)
and the people will be fuel for the fire;^(WM)
    they will not spare one another.^(WN)
²⁰On the right they will devour,
    but still be hungry;^(WO)
on the left they will eat,^(WP)
    but not be satisfied.
Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring^[y]:
²¹    Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh;^(WQ)
    together they will turn against Judah.^(WR)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised.^(WS)

10 Woe^(WT) to those who make unjust laws,
    to those who issue oppressive decrees,^(WU)
²to deprive^(WV) the poor of their rights
    and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,^(WW)
making widows their prey
    and robbing the fatherless.^(WX)
³What will you do on the day of reckoning,^(WY)
    when disaster^(WZ) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?^(XA)
    Where will you leave your riches?
⁴Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives^(XB)
    or fall among the slain.^(XC)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,^(XD)
his hand is still upraised.

God’s Judgment on Assyria

⁵“Woe^(XE) to the Assyrian,^(XF) the rod^(XG) of my anger,
    in whose hand is the club^(XH) of my wrath!^(XI)
⁶I send him against a godless^(XJ) nation,
    I dispatch^(XK) him against a people who anger me,^(XL)
to seize loot and snatch plunder,^(XM)
    and to trample^(XN) them down like mud in the streets.
⁷But this is not what he intends,^(XO)
    this is not what he has in mind;
his purpose is to destroy,
    to put an end to many nations.
⁸‘Are not my commanders^(XP) all kings?’ he says.
⁹    ‘Has not Kalno^(XQ) fared like Carchemish?^(XR)
Is not Hamath^(XS) like Arpad,^(XT)
    and Samaria^(XU) like Damascus?^(XV)
¹⁰As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols,^(XW)
    kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
¹¹shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images
    as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?^(XX)’”

¹²When the Lord has finished all his work^(XY) against Mount Zion^(XZ) and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria^(YA) for the willful pride^(YB) of his heart and the haughty look^(YC) in his eyes. ¹³For he says:

“‘By the strength of my hand^(YD) I have done this,^(YE)
    and by my wisdom, because I have understanding.
I removed the boundaries of nations,
    I plundered their treasures;^(YF)
    like a mighty one I subdued^[z] their kings.^(YG)
¹⁴As one reaches into a nest,^(YH)
    so my hand reached for the wealth^(YI) of the nations;
as people gather abandoned eggs,
    so I gathered all the countries;^(YJ)
not one flapped a wing,
    or opened its mouth to chirp.^(YK)’”

¹⁵Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it,
    or the saw boast against the one who uses it?^(YL)
As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up,
    or a club^(YM) brandish the one who is not wood!
¹⁶Therefore, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    will send a wasting disease^(YN) upon his sturdy warriors;^(YO)
under his pomp^(YP) a fire^(YQ) will be kindled
    like a blazing flame.
¹⁷The Light of Israel will become a fire,^(YR)
    their Holy One^(YS) a flame;
in a single day it will burn and consume
    his thorns^(YT) and his briers.^(YU)
¹⁸The splendor of his forests^(YV) and fertile fields
    it will completely destroy,^(YW)
    as when a sick person wastes away.
¹⁹And the remaining trees of his forests^(YX) will be so few^(YY)
    that a child could write them down.

The Remnant of Israel

²⁰In that day^(YZ) the remnant of Israel,
    the survivors^(ZA) of Jacob,
will no longer rely^(ZB) on him
    who struck them down^(ZC)
but will truly rely^(ZD) on the Lord,
    the Holy One of Israel.^(ZE)
²¹A remnant^(ZF) will return,^[aa]^(ZG) a remnant of Jacob
    will return to the Mighty God.^(ZH)
²²Though your people be like the sand^(ZI) by the sea, Israel,
    only a remnant will return.^(ZJ)
Destruction has been decreed,^(ZK)
    overwhelming and righteous.
²³The Lord, the Lord Almighty, will carry out
    the destruction decreed^(ZL) upon the whole land.^(ZM)

²⁴Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:

“My people who live in Zion,^(ZN)
    do not be afraid^(ZO) of the Assyrians,
who beat^(ZP) you with a rod^(ZQ)
    and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.
²⁵Very soon^(ZR) my anger against you will end
    and my wrath^(ZS) will be directed to their destruction.^(ZT)”

²⁶The Lord Almighty will lash^(ZU) them with a whip,
    as when he struck down Midian^(ZV) at the rock of Oreb;
and he will raise his staff^(ZW) over the waters,^(ZX)
    as he did in Egypt.
²⁷In that day^(ZY) their burden^(ZZ) will be lifted from your shoulders,
    their yoke^(AAA) from your neck;^(AAB)
the yoke^(AAC) will be broken
    because you have grown so fat.^[ab]

²⁸They enter Aiath;
    they pass through Migron;^(AAD)
    they store supplies^(AAE) at Mikmash.^(AAF)
²⁹They go over the pass, and say,
    “We will camp overnight at Geba.^(AAG)”
Ramah^(AAH) trembles;
    Gibeah^(AAI) of Saul flees.^(AAJ)
³⁰Cry out, Daughter Gallim!^(AAK)
    Listen, Laishah!
    Poor Anathoth!^(AAL)
³¹Madmenah is in flight;
    the people of Gebim take cover.
³²This day they will halt at Nob;^(AAM)
    they will shake their fist^(AAN)
at the mount of Daughter Zion,^(AAO)
    at the hill of Jerusalem.

³³See, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    will lop off^(AAP) the boughs with great power.
The lofty trees will be felled,^(AAQ)
    the tall^(AAR) ones will be brought low.^(AAS)
³⁴He will cut down^(AAT) the forest thickets with an ax;
    Lebanon^(AAU) will fall before the Mighty One.^(AAV)

The Branch From Jesse

11 A shoot^(AAW) will come up from the stump^(AAX) of Jesse;^(AAY)
    from his roots a Branch^(AAZ) will bear fruit.^(ABA)
²The Spirit^(ABB) of the Lord will rest on him—
    the Spirit of wisdom^(ABC) and of understanding,
    the Spirit of counsel and of might,^(ABD)
    the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord—
³and he will delight in the fear^(ABE) of the Lord.

He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes,^(ABF)
    or decide by what he hears with his ears;^(ABG)
⁴but with righteousness^(ABH) he will judge the needy,^(ABI)
    with justice^(ABJ) he will give decisions for the poor^(ABK) of the earth.
He will strike^(ABL) the earth with the rod of his mouth;^(ABM)
    with the breath^(ABN) of his lips he will slay the wicked.^(ABO)
⁵Righteousness will be his belt^(ABP)
    and faithfulness^(ABQ) the sash around his waist.^(ABR)

⁶The wolf will live with the lamb,^(ABS)
    the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling^[ac] together;
    and a little child will lead them.
⁷The cow will feed with the bear,
    their young will lie down together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox.^(ABT)
⁸The infant^(ABU) will play near the cobra’s den,
    and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s^(ABV) nest.
⁹They will neither harm nor destroy^(ABW)
    on all my holy mountain,^(ABX)
for the earth^(ABY) will be filled with the knowledge^(ABZ) of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰In that day^(ACA) the Root of Jesse^(ACB) will stand as a banner^(ACC) for the peoples; the nations^(ACD) will rally to him,^(ACE) and his resting place^(ACF) will be glorious.^(ACG) ¹¹In that day^(ACH) the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant^(ACI) of his people from Assyria,^(ACJ) from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt,^(ACK) from Cush,^[ad]^(ACL) from Elam,^(ACM) from Babylonia,^[ae] from Hamath^(ACN) and from the islands^(ACO) of the Mediterranean.^(ACP)

¹²He will raise a banner^(ACQ) for the nations
    and gather^(ACR) the exiles of Israel;^(ACS)
he will assemble the scattered people^(ACT) of Judah
    from the four quarters of the earth.^(ACU)
¹³Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish,
    and Judah’s enemies^[af] will be destroyed;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
    nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.^(ACV)
¹⁴They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia^(ACW) to the west;
    together they will plunder the people to the east.^(ACX)
They will subdue Edom^(ACY) and Moab,^(ACZ)
    and the Ammonites^(ADA) will be subject to them.^(ADB)
¹⁵The Lord will dry up^(ADC)
    the gulf of the Egyptian sea;
with a scorching wind^(ADD) he will sweep his hand^(ADE)
    over the Euphrates River.^(ADF)
He will break it up into seven streams
    so that anyone can cross over in sandals.^(ADG)
¹⁶There will be a highway^(ADH) for the remnant^(ADI) of his people
    that is left from Assyria,^(ADJ)
as there was for Israel
    when they came up from Egypt.^(ADK)

Songs of Praise

12 In that day^(ADL) you will say:

“I will praise^(ADM) you, Lord.
    Although you were angry with me,
your anger has turned away^(ADN)
    and you have comforted^(ADO) me.
²Surely God is my salvation;^(ADP)
    I will trust^(ADQ) and not be afraid.
The Lord, the Lord himself,^(ADR) is my strength^(ADS) and my defense^[ag];
    he has become my salvation.^(ADT)”
³With joy you will draw water^(ADU)
    from the wells^(ADV) of salvation.

⁴In that day^(ADW) you will say:

“Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;^(ADX)
make known among the nations^(ADY) what he has done,
and proclaim that his name is exalted.^(ADZ)

Footnotes

Isaiah 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor
Isaiah 1:25 That is, against Jerusalem
Isaiah 2:9 Or not raise them up
Isaiah 2:16 Hebrew every ship of Tarshish
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.’ / ¹⁰This people’s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes
Isaiah 7:2 Or has set up camp in
Isaiah 7:3 Shear-Jashub means a remnant will return.
Isaiah 7:14 The Hebrew is plural.
Isaiah 7:14 Or young woman
Isaiah 7:14 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls son, and he or son, and they
Isaiah 7:14 Immanuel means God with us.
Isaiah 7:23 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms
Isaiah 8:1 Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz means quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil; also in verse 3.
Isaiah 8:8 Immanuel means God with us.
Isaiah 8:9 Or Do your worst
Isaiah 8:10 Hebrew Immanuel
Isaiah 9:1 In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-21 is numbered 9:1-20.
Isaiah 9:20 Or arm
Isaiah 10:13 Or treasures; / I subdued the mighty,
Isaiah 10:21 Hebrew shear-jashub (see 7:3 and note); also in verse 22
Isaiah 10:27 Hebrew; Septuagint broken / from your shoulders
Isaiah 11:6 Hebrew; Septuagint lion will feed
Isaiah 11:11 That is, the upper Nile region
Isaiah 11:11 Hebrew Shinar
Isaiah 11:13 Or hostility
Isaiah 12:2 Or song

Isaiah 1-23

King James Version

1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

²Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

³The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

⁴Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

⁵Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

⁶From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

⁷Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

⁸And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

⁹Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

¹⁰Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

¹¹To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

¹²When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

¹³Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

¹⁴Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

¹⁵And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

¹⁶Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

¹⁷Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

¹⁸Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

¹⁹If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

²⁰But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

²¹How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

²²Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

²³Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

²⁴Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

²⁵And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

²⁶And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

²⁷Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

²⁸And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

²⁹For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

³⁰For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

³¹And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

2 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

³And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

⁴And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

⁵O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

⁶Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

⁷Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:

⁸Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

⁹And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

¹⁰Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.

¹¹The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹²For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

¹³And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

¹⁵And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

¹⁶And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

¹⁷And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹⁸And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

¹⁹And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

²⁰In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

²¹To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

²²Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?

3 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.

²The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

³The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

⁴And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

⁵And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

⁶When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

⁷In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

⁸For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

⁹The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

¹⁰Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

¹¹Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

¹²As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

¹³The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

¹⁴The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

¹⁵What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁶Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

¹⁷Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.

¹⁸In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,

¹⁹The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

²⁰The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

²¹The rings, and nose jewels,

²²The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

²³The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

²⁴And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

²⁵Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

²⁶And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

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.

²In 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.

³And 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:

⁴When 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.

⁵And 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.

⁶And 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:

²And 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.

³And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

⁴What 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?

⁵And 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:

⁶And 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.

⁷For 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.

⁸Woe 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!

⁹In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

¹⁰Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

¹¹Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

¹²And 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.

¹³Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

¹⁴Therefore 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.

¹⁵And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

¹⁶But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

¹⁷Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

¹⁸Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

¹⁹That 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!

²⁰Woe 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!

²¹Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

²²Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

²³Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

²⁴Therefore 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.

²⁵Therefore 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.

²⁶And 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:

²⁷None 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:

²⁸Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

²⁹Their 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.

³⁰And 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.

²Above 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.

³And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

⁴And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

⁵Then 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.

⁶Then 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:

⁷And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

⁸Also 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.

⁹And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

¹⁰Make 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.

¹¹Then 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,

¹²And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

¹³But 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.

7 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

²And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.

³Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

⁴And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

⁵Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,

⁶Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

⁷Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

⁸For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

⁹And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

¹⁰Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

¹¹Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

¹²But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

¹³And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

¹⁴Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

¹⁵Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

¹⁶For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

¹⁷The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

¹⁸And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

¹⁹And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

²⁰In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

²¹And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

²²And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

²³And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

²⁴With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

²⁵And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

8 Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

²And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

³And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.

⁴For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

⁵The Lord spake also unto me again, saying,

⁶Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

⁷Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

⁸And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

⁹Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

¹⁰Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

¹¹For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

¹²Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

¹³Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

¹⁴And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹⁵And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

¹⁶Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

¹⁷And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

¹⁸Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

¹⁹And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

²⁰To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

²¹And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

²²And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

9 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

²The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

³Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

⁴For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

⁵For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

⁶For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

⁷Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

⁸The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

⁹And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

¹⁰The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

¹¹Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;

¹²The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

¹³For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

¹⁴Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

¹⁵The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

¹⁶For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

¹⁷Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

¹⁸For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

¹⁹Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

²⁰And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

²¹Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

10 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

²To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

³And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

⁴Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

⁵O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

⁶I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁷Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

⁸For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

⁹Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

¹⁰As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

¹¹Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

¹²Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

¹³For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

¹⁴And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

¹⁵Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

¹⁶Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

¹⁷And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

¹⁸And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.

¹⁹And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

²⁰And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

²¹The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

²²For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

²³For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.

²⁴Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

²⁵For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

²⁶And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

²⁷And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

²⁸He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

²⁹They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

³⁰Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.

³¹Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.

³²As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

³³Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.

³⁴And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

11 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

²And 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;

³And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

⁴But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

⁵And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

⁶The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

⁷And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

⁸And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

⁹They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

¹¹And 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, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

¹²And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

¹³The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

¹⁴But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

¹⁵And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

¹⁶And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

12 And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

²Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

³Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

⁴And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.

⁵Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.

⁶Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

13 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

²Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

³I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

⁴The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

⁵They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

⁶Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

⁷Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

⁸And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

⁹Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

¹⁰For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

¹¹And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

¹²I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

¹³Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

¹⁴And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

¹⁵Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

¹⁶Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

¹⁷Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

¹⁸Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.

¹⁹And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

²⁰It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

²¹But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

²²And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

14 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

²And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

³And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

⁴That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

⁵The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

⁶He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

⁷The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

⁸Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

⁹Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

¹⁰All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

¹¹Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

¹²How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

¹³For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

¹⁵Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

¹⁶They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

¹⁷That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

¹⁸All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

¹⁹But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

²⁰Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

²¹Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

²²For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.

²³I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.

²⁴The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

²⁵That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

²⁶This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

²⁷For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

²⁸In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

²⁹Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

³⁰And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

³¹Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

³²What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

15 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

²He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

³In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

⁴And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

⁵My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

⁶For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

⁷Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

⁸For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.

⁹For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

16 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

²For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

³Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

⁴Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

⁵And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

⁶We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

⁷Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.

⁸For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

⁹Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

¹⁰And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

¹¹Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.

¹²And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

¹³This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

¹⁴But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

17 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

²The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

³The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.

⁴And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

⁵And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

⁶Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.

⁷At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

⁸And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

⁹In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

¹⁰Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

¹¹In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

¹²Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

¹³The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

¹⁴And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

18 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

²That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

³All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

⁴For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

⁵For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

⁶They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

⁷In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.

19 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

²And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

³And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

⁴And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

⁵And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

⁶And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

⁷The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

⁸The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

⁹Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

¹⁰And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

¹¹Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

¹²Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

¹³The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

¹⁴The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

¹⁵Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

¹⁶In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

¹⁷And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

¹⁸In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

¹⁹In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.

²⁰And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

²¹And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.

²²And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

²³In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

²⁴In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:

²⁵Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

20 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

²At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

³And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;

⁴So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

⁵And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

⁶And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

21 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

²A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

³Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

⁴My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

⁵Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

⁶For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

⁷And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

⁸And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

⁹And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

¹⁰O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

¹¹The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

¹²The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

¹³The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

¹⁴The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

¹⁵For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

¹⁶For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

¹⁷And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.

22 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

²Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

³All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

⁴Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

⁵For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

⁶And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

⁷And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

⁸And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

⁹Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

¹⁰And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

¹¹Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

¹²And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

¹³And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

¹⁴And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁵Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,

¹⁶What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

¹⁷Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.

¹⁸He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.

¹⁹And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.

²⁰And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

²¹And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

²²And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

²³And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

²⁴And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

²⁵In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

23 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

²Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

³And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

⁴Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.

⁵As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

⁶Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

⁷Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

⁸Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

⁹The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

¹⁰Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.

¹¹He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

¹²And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.

¹³Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

¹⁴Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

¹⁵And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

¹⁶Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

¹⁷And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

¹⁸And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

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Isaiah 1:1-12:4 English Standard Version

The Wickedness of Judah

The Unfaithful City

The Mountain of the Lord

The Day of the Lord

Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem

The Branch of the Lord Glorified

The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed

Woe to the Wicked

Isaiah's Vision of the Lord

Isaiah's Commission from the Lord

Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz

The Sign of Immanuel

The Coming Assyrian Invasion

Fear God, Wait for the Lord

For to Us a Child Is Born

Judgment on Arrogance and Oppression

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

The Remnant of Israel Will Return

The Righteous Reign of the Branch

The Lord Is My Strength and My Song

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Isaiah 1:1-12:4 New International Version

A Rebellious Nation

The Mountain of the Lord(DF)

The Day of the Lord

Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah

The Branch of the Lord

The Song of the Vineyard

Woes and Judgments

Isaiah’s Commission

The Sign of Immanuel

Assyria, the Lord’s Instrument

Isaiah and His Children as Signs

The Darkness Turns to Light

The Lord’s Anger Against Israel

God’s Judgment on Assyria

The Remnant of Israel

The Branch From Jesse

Songs of Praise

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Isaiah 1-23 King James Version

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Isaiah 1:1-12:4

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Isaiah 1:1-12:4

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Isaiah 1-23

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