Isaiah 6:1-7:9

New King James Version

Isaiah Called to Be a Prophet^(A)

6 In the year that ^(B)King Uzziah died, I ^(C)saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. ²Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, ^(D)with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ³And one cried to another and said:

^(E)“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
^(F)The whole earth is full of His glory!”

⁴And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

⁵So I said:

“Woe is me, for I am ^[a]undone!
Because I am a man of ^(G)unclean lips,
And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King,
The Lord of hosts.”

⁶Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from ^(H)the altar. ⁷And he ^(I)touched my mouth with it, and said:

“Behold, this has touched your lips;
Your iniquity is taken away,
And your sin ^[b]purged.”

⁸Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:

“Whom shall I send,
And who will go for ^(J)Us?”

Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

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

‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;
Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’

¹⁰“Make ^(L)the heart of this people dull,
And their ears heavy,
And shut their eyes;
^(M)Lest they see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart,
And return and be healed.”

¹¹Then I said, “Lord, how long?”

And He answered:

^(N)“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant,
The houses are without a man,
The land is utterly desolate,
¹²^(O)The Lord has removed men far away,
And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
¹³But yet a tenth will be in it,
And will return and be for consuming,
As a terebinth tree or as an oak,
Whose stump remains when it is cut down.
So ^(P)the holy seed shall be its stump.”

Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz^(Q)

7 Now it came to pass in the days of ^(R)Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against ^(S)it, but could not ^[c]prevail against it. ²And it was told to the house of David, saying, “Syria’s forces are ^[d]deployed in Ephraim.” So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.

³Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and ^[e]Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller’s Field, ⁴and say to him: ^[f]‘Take heed, and ^[g]be ^(T)quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah. ⁵Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying, ⁶“Let us go up against Judah and ^[h]trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel”— ⁷thus says the Lord God:

^(U)“It shall not stand,
Nor shall it come to pass.
⁸^(V)For the head of Syria is Damascus,
And the head of Damascus is Rezin.
Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be ^[i]broken,
So that it will not be a people.
⁹The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son.
^(W)If you will not believe,
Surely you shall not be established.” ’ ”

Footnotes

Isaiah 6:5 destroyed, cut off
Isaiah 6:7 atoned for
Isaiah 7:1 conquer it
Isaiah 7:2 Lit. settled upon
Isaiah 7:3 Lit. A Remnant Shall Return
Isaiah 7:4 Be careful
Isaiah 7:4 be calm
Isaiah 7:6 cause a sickening dread
Isaiah 7:8 Lit. shattered

1 Peter 2:13-25

New King James Version

Submission to Government^(A)

¹³^(B)Therefore submit yourselves to every ^[a]ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme, ¹⁴or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. ¹⁵For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men— ¹⁶^(C)as free, yet not ^(D)using liberty as a cloak for ^[b]vice, but as bondservants of God. ¹⁷Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear ^(E)God. Honor the king.

Submission to Masters^(F)

¹⁸^(G)Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh. ¹⁹For this is ^(H)commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully. ²⁰For ^(I)what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God. ²¹For ^(J)to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for ^[c]us, ^(K)leaving ^[d]us an example, that you should follow His steps:

²²“Who^(L) committed no sin,
Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;

²³^(M)who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but ^(N)committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; ²⁴^(O)who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, ^(P)that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—^(Q)by whose ^[e]stripes you were healed. ²⁵For ^(R)you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned ^(S)to the Shepherd and ^[f]Overseer of your souls.