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Isaiah 6-12
New International Version
Isaiah 6-12
New International Version
Isaiah’s Commission
6 In the year that King Uzziah(A) died,(B) I saw the Lord,(C) high and exalted,(D) seated on a throne;(E) and the train of his robe(F) filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim,(G) each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet,(H) and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another:
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.(M)
5 “Woe(N) to me!” I cried. “I am ruined!(O) For I am a man of unclean lips,(P) and I live among a people of unclean lips,(Q) and my eyes have seen(R) the King,(S) the Lord Almighty.”(T)
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal(U) in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips;(V) your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.(W)”
8 Then I heard the voice(X) of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send?(Y) And who will go for us?(Z)”
And I said, “Here am I.(AA) Send me!”
9 He said, “Go(AB) and tell this people:
“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’(AC)
10 Make the heart of this people calloused;(AD)
make their ears dull
and close their eyes.[a](AE)
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,(AF)
understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”(AG)
11 Then I said, “For how long, Lord?”(AH)
And he answered:
“Until the cities lie ruined(AI)
and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted(AJ)
and the fields ruined and ravaged,(AK)
12 until the Lord has sent everyone far away(AL)
and the land is utterly forsaken.(AM)
13 And though a tenth remains(AN) in the land,
it will again be laid waste.(AO)
But as the terebinth and oak
leave stumps(AP) when they are cut down,
so the holy(AQ) seed will be the stump in the land.”(AR)
The Sign of Immanuel
7 When Ahaz(AS) son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin(AT) of Aram(AU) and Pekah(AV) son of Remaliah(AW) king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.
2 Now the house of David(AX) was told, “Aram has allied itself with[b] Ephraim(AY)”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken,(AZ) as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.
3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub,[c](BA) to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.(BB) 4 Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm(BC) and don’t be afraid.(BD) Do not lose heart(BE) because of these two smoldering stubs(BF) of firewood—because of the fierce anger(BG) of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.(BH) 5 Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah’s(BI) son have plotted(BJ) 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.” 7 Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says:(BK)
“‘It will not take place,
it will not happen,(BL)
8 for the head of Aram is Damascus,(BM)
and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.(BN)
Within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be too shattered(BO) to be a people.
9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria,(BP)
and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son.
If you do not stand(BQ) firm in your faith,(BR)
you will not stand at all.’”(BS)
10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, 11 “Ask the Lord your God for a sign,(BT) whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.(BU)”
12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask; I will not put the Lord to the test.(BV)”
13 Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David!(BW) Is it not enough(BX) to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience(BY) of my God(BZ) also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you[d] a sign:(CA) The virgin[e](CB) will conceive and give birth to a son,(CC) and[f] will call him Immanuel.[g](CD) 15 He will be eating curds(CE) and honey(CF) when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, 16 for before the boy knows(CG) enough to reject the wrong and choose the right,(CH) the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.(CI) 17 The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away(CJ) from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.(CK)”
Assyria, the Lord’s Instrument
18 In that day(CL) the Lord will whistle(CM) for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.(CN) 19 They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices(CO) in the rocks, on all the thornbushes(CP) and at all the water holes. 20 In that day(CQ) the Lord will use(CR) a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River(CS)—the king of Assyria(CT)—to shave your head and private parts, and to cut off your beard(CU) also.(CV) 21 In that day,(CW) a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats.(CX) 22 And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds(CY) and honey.(CZ) 23 In that day,(DA) in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,[h](DB) there will be only briers and thorns.(DC) 24 Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers(DD) and thorns. 25 As for all the hills(DE) once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns;(DF) they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.(DG)
Isaiah and His Children as Signs
8 The Lord said to me, “Take a large scroll(DH) and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.”[i](DI) 2 So I called in Uriah(DJ) the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses(DK) for me. 3 Then I made love to the prophetess,(DL) and she conceived and gave birth to a son.(DM) And the Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.(DN) 4 For before the boy knows(DO) how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus(DP) and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.(DQ)”
5 The Lord spoke to me again:
6 “Because this people has rejected(DR)
the gently flowing waters of Shiloah(DS)
and rejoices over Rezin
and the son of Remaliah,(DT)
7 therefore the Lord is about to bring against them
the mighty floodwaters(DU) of the Euphrates—
the king of Assyria(DV) with all his pomp.(DW)
It will overflow all its channels,
run over all its banks(DX)
8 and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,(DY)
passing through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread wings(DZ) will cover the breadth of your land,
Immanuel[j]!”(EA)
9 Raise the war cry,[k](EB) you nations, and be shattered!(EC)
Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare(ED) for battle, and be shattered!
Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
10 Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;(EE)
propose your plan, but it will not stand,(EF)
for God is with us.[l](EG)
11 This is what the Lord says to me with his strong hand upon me,(EH) warning me not to follow(EI) the way of this people:
12 “Do not call conspiracy(EJ)
everything this people calls a conspiracy;
do not fear what they fear,(EK)
and do not dread it.(EL)
13 The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,(EM)
he is the one you are to fear,(EN)
he is the one you are to dread.(EO)
14 He will be a holy place;(EP)
for both Israel and Judah he will be
a stone(EQ) that causes people to stumble(ER)
and a rock that makes them fall.(ES)
And for the people of Jerusalem he will be
a trap and a snare.(ET)
15 Many of them will stumble;(EU)
they will fall and be broken,
they will be snared and captured.”
16 Bind up this testimony of warning(EV)
and seal(EW) up God’s instruction among my disciples.
17 I will wait(EX) for the Lord,
who is hiding(EY) his face from the descendants of Jacob.
I will put my trust in him.(EZ)
18 Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me.(FA) We are signs(FB) and symbols(FC) in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.(FD)
The Darkness Turns to Light
19 When someone tells you to consult(FE) mediums and spiritists,(FF) who whisper and mutter,(FG) should not a people inquire(FH) of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? 20 Consult God’s instruction(FI) and the testimony of warning.(FJ) If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light(FK) of dawn. 21 Distressed and hungry,(FL) they will roam through the land;(FM) when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse(FN) their king and their God. 22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,(FO) and they will be thrust into utter darkness.(FP)
9 [m]Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom(FQ) for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,(FR) but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan—
2 The people walking in darkness(FS)
have seen a great light;(FT)
on those living in the land of deep darkness(FU)
a light has dawned.(FV)
3 You have enlarged the nation(FW)
and increased their joy;(FX)
they rejoice before you
as people rejoice at the harvest,
as warriors rejoice
when dividing the plunder.(FY)
4 For as in the day of Midian’s defeat,(FZ)
you have shattered(GA)
the yoke(GB) that burdens them,
the bar across their shoulders,(GC)
the rod of their oppressor.(GD)
5 Every warrior’s boot used in battle
and every garment rolled in blood
will be destined for burning,(GE)
will be fuel for the fire.
6 For to us a child is born,(GF)
to us a son is given,(GG)
and the government(GH) will be on his shoulders.(GI)
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor,(GJ) Mighty God,(GK)
Everlasting(GL) Father,(GM) Prince of Peace.(GN)
7 Of the greatness of his government(GO) and peace(GP)
there will be no end.(GQ)
He will reign(GR) on David’s throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice(GS) and righteousness(GT)
from that time on and forever.(GU)
The zeal(GV) of the Lord Almighty
will accomplish this.
The Lord’s Anger Against Israel
8 The Lord has sent a message(GW) against Jacob;
it will fall on Israel.
9 All the people will know it—
Ephraim(GX) and the inhabitants of Samaria(GY)—
who say with pride
and arrogance(GZ) of heart,
10 “The bricks have fallen down,
but we will rebuild with dressed stone;(HA)
the fig(HB) trees have been felled,
but we will replace them with cedars.(HC)”
11 But the Lord has strengthened Rezin’s(HD) foes against them
and has spurred their enemies on.
12 Arameans(HE) from the east and Philistines(HF) from the west
have devoured(HG) Israel with open mouth.
13 But the people have not returned(HJ) to him who struck(HK) them,
nor have they sought(HL) the Lord Almighty.
14 So the Lord will cut off from Israel both head and tail,
both palm branch and reed(HM) in a single day;(HN)
15 the elders(HO) and dignitaries(HP) are the head,
the prophets(HQ) who teach lies(HR) are the tail.
16 Those who guide(HS) this people mislead them,
and those who are guided are led astray.(HT)
17 Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men,(HU)
nor will he pity(HV) the fatherless and widows,
for everyone is ungodly(HW) and wicked,(HX)
every mouth speaks folly.(HY)
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised.(HZ)
18 Surely wickedness burns like a fire;(IA)
it consumes briers and thorns,(IB)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,(IC)
so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
19 By the wrath(ID) of the Lord Almighty
the land will be scorched(IE)
and the people will be fuel for the fire;(IF)
they will not spare one another.(IG)
20 On the right they will devour,
but still be hungry;(IH)
on the left they will eat,(II)
but not be satisfied.
Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring[n]:
21 Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh;(IJ)
together they will turn against Judah.(IK)
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised.(IL)
10 Woe(IM) to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,(IN)
2 to deprive(IO) the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,(IP)
making widows their prey
and robbing the fatherless.(IQ)
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning,(IR)
when disaster(IS) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?(IT)
Where will you leave your riches?
4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives(IU)
or fall among the slain.(IV)
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,(IW)
his hand is still upraised.
God’s Judgment on Assyria
5 “Woe(IX) to the Assyrian,(IY) the rod(IZ) of my anger,
in whose hand is the club(JA) of my wrath!(JB)
6 I send him against a godless(JC) nation,
I dispatch(JD) him against a people who anger me,(JE)
to seize loot and snatch plunder,(JF)
and to trample(JG) them down like mud in the streets.
7 But this is not what he intends,(JH)
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(JI) all kings?’ he says.
9 ‘Has not Kalno(JJ) fared like Carchemish?(JK)
Is not Hamath(JL) like Arpad,(JM)
and Samaria(JN) like Damascus?(JO)
10 As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols,(JP)
kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
11 shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images
as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?(JQ)’”
12 When the Lord has finished all his work(JR) against Mount Zion(JS) and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria(JT) for the willful pride(JU) of his heart and the haughty look(JV) in his eyes. 13 For he says:
“‘By the strength of my hand(JW) I have done this,(JX)
and by my wisdom, because I have understanding.
I removed the boundaries of nations,
I plundered their treasures;(JY)
like a mighty one I subdued[o] their kings.(JZ)
14 As one reaches into a nest,(KA)
so my hand reached for the wealth(KB) of the nations;
as people gather abandoned eggs,
so I gathered all the countries;(KC)
not one flapped a wing,
or opened its mouth to chirp.(KD)’”
15 Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it,
or the saw boast against the one who uses it?(KE)
As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up,
or a club(KF) brandish the one who is not wood!
16 Therefore, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
will send a wasting disease(KG) upon his sturdy warriors;(KH)
under his pomp(KI) a fire(KJ) will be kindled
like a blazing flame.
17 The Light of Israel will become a fire,(KK)
their Holy One(KL) a flame;
in a single day it will burn and consume
his thorns(KM) and his briers.(KN)
18 The splendor of his forests(KO) and fertile fields
it will completely destroy,(KP)
as when a sick person wastes away.
19 And the remaining trees of his forests(KQ) will be so few(KR)
that a child could write them down.
The Remnant of Israel
20 In that day(KS) the remnant of Israel,
the survivors(KT) of Jacob,
will no longer rely(KU) on him
who struck them down(KV)
but will truly rely(KW) on the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel.(KX)
21 A remnant(KY) will return,[p](KZ) a remnant of Jacob
will return to the Mighty God.(LA)
22 Though your people be like the sand(LB) by the sea, Israel,
only a remnant will return.(LC)
Destruction has been decreed,(LD)
overwhelming and righteous.
23 The Lord, the Lord Almighty, will carry out
the destruction decreed(LE) upon the whole land.(LF)
24 Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:
“My people who live in Zion,(LG)
do not be afraid(LH) of the Assyrians,
who beat(LI) you with a rod(LJ)
and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.
25 Very soon(LK) my anger against you will end
and my wrath(LL) will be directed to their destruction.(LM)”
26 The Lord Almighty will lash(LN) them with a whip,
as when he struck down Midian(LO) at the rock of Oreb;
and he will raise his staff(LP) over the waters,(LQ)
as he did in Egypt.
27 In that day(LR) their burden(LS) will be lifted from your shoulders,
their yoke(LT) from your neck;(LU)
the yoke(LV) will be broken
because you have grown so fat.[q]
28 They enter Aiath;
they pass through Migron;(LW)
they store supplies(LX) at Mikmash.(LY)
29 They go over the pass, and say,
“We will camp overnight at Geba.(LZ)”
Ramah(MA) trembles;
Gibeah(MB) of Saul flees.(MC)
30 Cry out, Daughter Gallim!(MD)
Listen, Laishah!
Poor Anathoth!(ME)
31 Madmenah is in flight;
the people of Gebim take cover.
32 This day they will halt at Nob;(MF)
they will shake their fist(MG)
at the mount of Daughter Zion,(MH)
at the hill of Jerusalem.
33 See, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
will lop off(MI) the boughs with great power.
The lofty trees will be felled,(MJ)
the tall(MK) ones will be brought low.(ML)
34 He will cut down(MM) the forest thickets with an ax;
Lebanon(MN) will fall before the Mighty One.(MO)
The Branch From Jesse
11 A shoot(MP) will come up from the stump(MQ) of Jesse;(MR)
from his roots a Branch(MS) will bear fruit.(MT)
2 The Spirit(MU) of the Lord will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom(MV) and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of might,(MW)
the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord—
3 and he will delight in the fear(MX) of the Lord.
He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes,(MY)
or decide by what he hears with his ears;(MZ)
4 but with righteousness(NA) he will judge the needy,(NB)
with justice(NC) he will give decisions for the poor(ND) of the earth.
He will strike(NE) the earth with the rod of his mouth;(NF)
with the breath(NG) of his lips he will slay the wicked.(NH)
5 Righteousness will be his belt(NI)
and faithfulness(NJ) the sash around his waist.(NK)
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,(NL)
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling[r] together;
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.(NM)
8 The infant(NN) will play near the cobra’s den,
and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s(NO) nest.
9 They will neither harm nor destroy(NP)
on all my holy mountain,(NQ)
for the earth(NR) will be filled with the knowledge(NS) of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
10 In that day(NT) the Root of Jesse(NU) will stand as a banner(NV) for the peoples; the nations(NW) will rally to him,(NX) and his resting place(NY) will be glorious.(NZ) 11 In that day(OA) the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant(OB) of his people from Assyria,(OC) from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt,(OD) from Cush,[s](OE) from Elam,(OF) from Babylonia,[t] from Hamath(OG) and from the islands(OH) of the Mediterranean.(OI)
12 He will raise a banner(OJ) for the nations
and gather(OK) the exiles of Israel;(OL)
he will assemble the scattered people(OM) of Judah
from the four quarters of the earth.(ON)
13 Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish,
and Judah’s enemies[u] will be destroyed;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.(OO)
14 They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia(OP) to the west;
together they will plunder the people to the east.(OQ)
They will subdue Edom(OR) and Moab,(OS)
and the Ammonites(OT) will be subject to them.(OU)
15 The Lord will dry up(OV)
the gulf of the Egyptian sea;
with a scorching wind(OW) he will sweep his hand(OX)
over the Euphrates River.(OY)
He will break it up into seven streams
so that anyone can cross over in sandals.(OZ)
16 There will be a highway(PA) for the remnant(PB) of his people
that is left from Assyria,(PC)
as there was for Israel
when they came up from Egypt.(PD)
Songs of Praise
12 In that day(PE) you will say:
“I will praise(PF) you, Lord.
Although you were angry with me,
your anger has turned away(PG)
and you have comforted(PH) me.
2 Surely God is my salvation;(PI)
I will trust(PJ) and not be afraid.
The Lord, the Lord himself,(PK) is my strength(PL) and my defense[v];
he has become my salvation.(PM)”
3 With joy you will draw water(PN)
from the wells(PO) of salvation.
4 In that day(PP) you will say:
“Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;(PQ)
make known among the nations(PR) what he has done,
and proclaim that his name is exalted.(PS)
5 Sing(PT) to the Lord, for he has done glorious things;(PU)
let this be known to all the world.
6 Shout aloud and sing for joy,(PV) people of Zion,
for great(PW) is the Holy One of Israel(PX) among you.(PY)”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew; Septuagint ‘You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / 10 This people’s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes
- Isaiah 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 6-12
King James Version
Isaiah 6-12
King James Version
6 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
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.
2 And 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.
3 Then 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;
4 And 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.
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
6 Let 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:
7 Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
8 For 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.
9 And 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.
10 Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.
13 And 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?
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16 For 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.
17 The 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.
18 And 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.
19 And 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.
20 In 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.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
22 And 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.
23 And 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.
24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
25 And 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.
2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
4 For 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.
5 The Lord spake also unto me again, saying,
6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
7 Now 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:
8 And 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.
9 Associate 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.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
11 For 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,
12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And 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.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, 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.
19 And 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?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 And 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.
22 And 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.
2 The 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.
3 Thou 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.
4 For 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.
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For 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.
7 Of 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.
8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
12 The 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.
13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.
14 Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
17 Therefore 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.
18 For 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.
19 Through 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.
20 And 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:
21 Manasseh, 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;
2 To 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!
3 And 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?
4 Without 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.
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6 I 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.
7 Howbeit 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.
8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 Wherefore 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.
13 For 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:
14 And 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.
15 Shall 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.
16 Therefore 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.
17 And 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;
18 And 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.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
20 And 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.
21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
22 For 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.
23 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore 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.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
26 And 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.
27 And 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.
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
32 As 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.
33 Behold, 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.
34 And 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:
2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
3 And 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:
4 But 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.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
6 The 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.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
9 They 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.
10 And 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.
11 And 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.
12 And 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.
13 The 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.
14 But 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.
15 And 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.
16 And 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.
2 Behold, 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.
3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
4 And 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.
5 Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
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