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Isaiah 7-14
English Standard Version
Isaiah 7-14
English Standard Version
Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz
7 In the days of (A)Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, (B)Rezin the king of Syria and (C)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. 2 When the house of David was told, (D)“Syria is in league with[a] (E)Ephraim,” the heart of Ahaz[b] and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
3 And the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and (F)Shear-jashub[c] your son, at the end of (G)the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field. 4 And say to him, (H)‘Be careful, (I)be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two (J)smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and (K)the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, with Ephraim and (L)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[d] for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” 7 thus says the Lord God:
(M)“‘It shall not stand,
and it shall not come to pass.
8 For the head of Syria is (N)Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is (O)the son of Remaliah.
(P)If you[e] are not firm in faith,
you will not be firm at all.’”
The Sign of Immanuel
10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz: 11 “Ask (Q)a sign of the Lord your[f] God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” 12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.” 13 And he[g] said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you (R)weary my God also? 14 Therefore the (S)Lord himself will give you a sign. (T)Behold, the (U)virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name (V)Immanuel.[h] 15 He shall eat (W)curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16 (X)For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be (Y)deserted. 17 (Z)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 (AA)Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”
18 In that day the Lord will (AB)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. 19 And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and (AC)in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.[i]
20 In that day (AD)the Lord will (AE)shave with a razor that is (AF)hired beyond (AG)the River[j]—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.
21 (AH)In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep, 22 and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat (AI)curds and honey.
23 In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels[k] of silver, will become (AJ)briers and thorns. 24 (AK)With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns. 25 (AL)And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear (AM)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 (AN)and write on it in common characters,[l] ‘Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’[m] 2 And (AO)I will get reliable witnesses, (AP)Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me.”
3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, (AQ)“Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz; 4 (AR)for before the boy knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the (AS)wealth of (AT)Damascus and the spoil of (AU)Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”
5 The Lord spoke to me again: 6 “Because this people has refused the waters of (AV)Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over (AW)Rezin and the son of Remaliah, 7 therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them (AX)the waters of (AY)the River,[n] mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it (AZ)will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks, 8 and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, (BA)reaching even to the neck, and its (BB)outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, (BC)O Immanuel.”
9 Be broken,[o] you peoples, and (BD)be shattered;[p]
give ear, all you far countries;
strap on your armor and be shattered;
strap on your armor and be shattered.
10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word, (BE)but it will not stand,
for God (BF)is with us.[q]
Fear God, Wait for the Lord
11 For the Lord spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and (BG)warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: 12 “Do not call (BH)conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and (BI)do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. 13 But the Lord of hosts, (BJ)him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 14 And he will become a (BK)sanctuary and (BL)a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many (BM)shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”
16 Bind up (BN)the testimony; (BO)seal the teaching[r] among my disciples. 17 I will (BP)wait for the Lord, who is (BQ)hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him. 18 (BR)Behold, I and (BS)the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion. 19 And when they say to you, “Inquire of the (BT)mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of (BU)the dead on behalf of the living? 20 (BV)To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no (BW)dawn. 21 They will pass through the land,[s] greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against[t] their king and their God, and turn their faces upward. 22 (BX)And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into (BY)thick darkness.
For to Us a Child Is Born
9 [u] But there will be no (BZ)gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he (CA)brought into contempt the land of (CB)Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he (CC)has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.[v]
2 [w] (CD)The people (CE)who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
those who dwelt in a land of (CF)deep darkness,
on them has light shone.
3 (CG)You have multiplied the nation;
you have increased its joy;
they rejoice before you
as with (CH)joy at the harvest,
as they (CI)are glad (CJ)when they divide the spoil.
4 (CK)For the yoke of his burden,
(CL)and the staff for his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressor,
you have broken as (CM)on the day of Midian.
5 (CN)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 (CO)For to us a child is born,
to us (CP)a son is given;
(CQ)and the government shall be (CR)upon[x] his shoulder,
and his name shall be called[y]
Wonderful (CS)Counselor, (CT)Mighty God,
(CU)Everlasting (CV)Father, Prince of (CW)Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and of peace
(CX)there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
to establish it and to uphold it
(CY)with justice and with righteousness
from this time forth and forevermore.
(CZ)The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Judgment on Arrogance and Oppression
8 The Lord has sent a word against Jacob,
and it will fall on Israel;
9 and all the people will know,
(DA)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.”
11 But the Lord raises the adversaries of Rezin against him,
and stirs up his enemies.
12 (DB)The Syrians on the east and (DC)the Philistines on the west
devour Israel with open mouth.
(DD)For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
13 The people (DE)did not turn to him who struck them,
nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.
14 So the Lord cut off from Israel (DF)head and tail,
palm branch and reed in one day—
15 (DG)the elder and honored man is the head,
and (DH)the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;
16 for those who guide this people have been leading them astray,
and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
17 Therefore the Lord does not (DI)rejoice over their young men,
and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is (DJ)godless and an evildoer,
and every mouth speaks (DK)folly.[z]
(DL)For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burns like (DM)a fire;
it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts
the land is scorched,
and (DN)the people are like fuel for the fire;
(DO)no one spares another.
20 (DP)They slice meat on the right, but are still hungry,
and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied;
(DQ)each devours the flesh of his own arm,
21 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh;
together they are (DR)against Judah.
(DS)For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
10 Woe to those who (DT)decree iniquitous decrees,
and the writers who (DU)keep writing oppression,
2 to turn aside the needy from justice
and (DV)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!
3 What will you do on (DW)the day of punishment,
in the ruin that will come (DX)from afar?
To whom will you flee for help,
and where will you leave your wealth?
4 Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners
or fall among the slain.
(DY)For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
Judgment on Arrogant Assyria
5 Woe to Assyria, (DZ)the rod of my anger;
the staff in their hands is my fury!
6 Against a (EA)godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take (EB)spoil and seize plunder,
and to (EC)tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 But he (ED)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;
8 for he says:
(EE)“Are not my commanders all kings?
9 (EF)Is not (EG)Calno like (EH)Carchemish?
Is not (EI)Hamath like (EJ)Arpad?
(EK)Is not (EL)Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand has reached to (EM)the kingdoms of the idols,
whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and (EN)her idols
(EO)as I have done to Samaria and her images?”
12 (EP)When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, (EQ)he[aa] will punish the speech[ab] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes. 13 (ER)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.
14 My 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.”
15 Shall (ES)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!
16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts
will send wasting sickness among his (ET)stout warriors,
and under his glory (EU)a burning will be kindled,
like the burning of fire.
17 (EV)The light of Israel will become a fire,
and (EW)his Holy One a flame,
and (EX)it will burn and devour
his thorns and briers (EY)in one day.
18 The glory of (EZ)his forest and of his (FA)fruitful land
the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,
and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
19 The 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 (FB)In that day (FC)the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more (FD)lean on him who struck them, but (FE)will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, (FF)to the mighty God. 22 (FG)For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, (FH)only a remnant of them will return. (FI)Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness. 23 For the Lord God of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.
24 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O my people, (FJ)who dwell in Zion, (FK)be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as (FL)the Egyptians did. 25 For (FM)in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction. 26 And (FN)the Lord of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck (FO)Midian (FP)at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it (FQ)as he did in Egypt. 27 And in that day (FR)his burden will depart from your shoulder, and (FS)his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.”[ac]
28 He has come to Aiath;
he has passed through (FT)Migron;
at Michmash he stores (FU)his baggage;
29 they have crossed over (FV)the pass;
at (FW)Geba they lodge for the night;
(FX)Ramah trembles;
(FY)Gibeah of Saul has fled.
30 Cry aloud, O daughter of (FZ)Gallim!
Give attention, O Laishah!
O poor (GA)Anathoth!
31 Madmenah is in flight;
the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
32 This very day he will halt at (GB)Nob;
he will shake his fist
at the mount of (GC)the daughter of Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord God of hosts
(GD)will lop (GE)the boughs with terrifying power;
the great in height will be hewn down,
and the lofty will be brought low.
34 He will cut down (GF)the thickets of the forest with an axe,
and (GG)Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.
The Righteous Reign of the Branch
11 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of (GH)Jesse,
and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
2 And (GI)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.
3 And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
(GJ)He shall not judge by (GK)what his eyes see,
or decide disputes by (GL)what his ears hear,
4 but (GM)with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
and he shall (GN)strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and (GO)with the breath of his lips (GP)he shall kill the wicked.
5 Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,
and (GQ)faithfulness the belt of his loins.
6 (GR)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.
7 The cow and the bear shall graze;
their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
9 (GS)They shall not hurt or destroy
in all (GT)my holy mountain;
(GU)for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
10 In that day (GV)the root of (GW)Jesse, who shall stand as (GX)a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
11 (GY)In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, (GZ)from Assyria, (HA)from Egypt, from (HB)Pathros, from (HC)Cush,[ad] from (HD)Elam, from (HE)Shinar, from (HF)Hamath, and from (HG)the coastlands of the sea.
12 He will raise (HH)a signal for the nations
and will assemble (HI)the banished of Israel,
and gather the dispersed of Judah
from the four corners of the earth.
13 (HJ)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 (HK)But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west,
and together they shall plunder (HL)the people of the east.
They shall put out their hand (HM)against (HN)Edom and (HO)Moab,
and (HP)the Ammonites shall obey them.
15 And the Lord will utterly destroy[ae]
(HQ)the tongue of the Sea of Egypt,
and will wave his hand over (HR)the River[af]
with his scorching breath,[ag]
and strike it into seven channels,
and he will lead people across in sandals.
16 And there will be (HS)a highway from Assyria
for the remnant that remains of his people,
(HT)as there was for Israel
when they came up from the land of Egypt.
The Lord Is My Strength and My Song
12 You[ah] will say (HU)in that day:
“I will give thanks to you, O Lord,
for though you were angry with me,
(HV)your anger turned away,
that you might comfort me.
2 “Behold, God is my salvation;
I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for (HW)the Lord God[ai] is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation.”
3 (HX)With joy you[aj] will draw water from the wells of salvation. 4 (HY)And you will say in that day:
(HZ)“Give thanks to the Lord,
call upon his name,
(IA)make known his deeds among the peoples,
proclaim (IB)that his name is exalted.
5 (IC)“Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously;
let this be made known[ak] in all the earth.
6 Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
for great (ID)in your[al] midst is (IE)the Holy One of Israel.”
The Judgment of Babylon
13 The oracle concerning (IF)Babylon which (IG)Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2 On a bare hill (IH)raise a signal;
cry aloud to them;
wave the hand for (II)them to enter
the gates of the nobles.
3 I myself have commanded my consecrated ones,
and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger,
my proudly exulting ones.[am]
4 The sound (IJ)of a tumult is on the mountains
as of a great multitude!
The sound of an uproar of kingdoms,
of nations gathering together!
(IK)The Lord of hosts is mustering
a host for battle.
5 (IL)They come from a distant land,
from the end of the heavens,
the Lord and the weapons of his indignation,
to destroy the whole land.[an]
6 (IM)Wail, for (IN)the day of the Lord is near;
as destruction from the Almighty[ao] it will come!
7 Therefore all hands will be feeble,
and every human heart (IO)will melt.
8 They will be dismayed:
(IP)pangs and agony will seize them;
(IQ)they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
their faces will be aflame.
9 Behold, (IR)the day of the Lord comes,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
and (IS)to destroy its sinners from it.
10 (IT)For the stars of the heavens and their constellations
will not give their light;
(IU)the sun will be dark at its rising,
and the moon will not shed its light.
11 I will punish (IV)the world for its evil,
and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will (IW)put an end to the pomp of the arrogant,
(IX)and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
12 I will make (IY)people more rare than fine gold,
and mankind than the (IZ)gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore (JA)I will make the heavens tremble,
and the earth will be shaken out of its place,
at the wrath of the Lord of hosts
in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And like a hunted gazelle,
or like sheep with none to gather them,
(JB)each will turn to his own people,
and each will flee to his own land.
15 Whoever is found will be thrust through,
and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
16 (JC)Their infants will be dashed in pieces
before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, (JD)I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who have no regard for silver
and do not delight in gold.
18 (JE)Their bows will slaughter[ap] the young men;
they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
their eyes will not pity children.
19 And Babylon, (JF)the glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be (JG)like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
20 (JH)It will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no (JI)Arab will pitch his tent there;
no (JJ)shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But (JK)wild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there (JL)ostriches[aq] will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas[ar] will cry in its towers,
and (JM)jackals in (JN)the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.
The Restoration of Jacob
14 (JO)For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and (JP)will set them in their own land, and (JQ)sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. 2 And (JR)the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land (JS)as male and female slaves.[as] (JT)They will take captive those who were their captors, (JU)and rule over those who oppressed them.
Israel's Remnant Taunts Babylon
3 When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, 4 you will take up this (JV)taunt against the king of Babylon:
“How the oppressor has ceased,
(JW)the insolent fury[at] ceased!
5 The Lord has broken the (JX)staff of the wicked,
the (JY)scepter of rulers,
6 (JZ)that struck the peoples in wrath
with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
with unrelenting persecution.
7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
(KA)they break forth into singing.
8 (KB)(KC)The cypresses rejoice at you,
(KD)the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you were laid low,
no woodcutter comes up against us.’
9 Sheol beneath is stirred up
to meet you when you come;
it rouses the shades to greet you,
all who were leaders of the earth;
it raises from their thrones
all who were kings of the nations.
10 (KE)All of them will answer
and say to you:
‘You too have become as weak as we!
You have become like us!’
11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
the sound of your harps;
maggots are laid as a bed beneath you,
and worms are your covers.
12 “How (KF)you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, (KG)son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
13 You said in your heart,
(KH)‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
(KI)I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far reaches of the north;[au]
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’
15 (KJ)But you are brought down to Sheol,
to the far reaches of the pit.
16 Those who see you will stare at you
and ponder over you:
‘Is this (KK)the man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms,
17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
(KL)who did not let his prisoners go home?’
18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
each in his own tomb;[av]
19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
like a loathed branch,
(KM)clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
who go down to the stones of the pit,
like a dead body trampled underfoot.
20 You will not be joined with them in burial,
because you have destroyed your land,
you have slain your people.
“May (KN)the offspring of evildoers
nevermore be named!
21 Prepare slaughter for his sons
(KO)because of the guilt of their fathers,
lest they rise and possess the earth,
and fill the face of the world with cities.”
22 “I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and (KP)remnant, (KQ)descendants and posterity,” declares the Lord. 23 “And I will make it a possession of the (KR)hedgehog,[aw] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.
An Oracle Concerning Assyria
24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:
(KS)“As I have planned,
so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand,
25 that (KT)I will break the Assyrian in my land,
and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and (KU)his yoke shall depart from them,
and (KV)his burden from their shoulder.”
26 This is the purpose that is purposed
concerning the whole earth,
and this is (KW)the hand that is stretched out
over all the nations.
27 (KX)For the Lord of hosts has purposed,
and who will annul it?
(KY)His hand is stretched out,
and who will turn it back?
An Oracle Concerning Philistia
28 In the year that (KZ)King Ahaz died came this (LA)oracle:
29 Rejoice not, (LB)O Philistia, all of you,
that (LC)the rod that struck you is broken,
for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder,
and its fruit will be a (LD)flying fiery serpent.
30 And the firstborn of (LE)the poor will graze,
and (LF)the needy lie down in safety;
but I will kill your root with famine,
and your remnant it will slay.
31 (LG)Wail, O (LH)gate; cry out, O city;
melt in fear, (LI)O Philistia, all of you!
(LJ)For smoke comes out of the north,
and there is no straggler in his ranks.
32 What will one answer the messengers of the nation?
(LK)“The Lord has founded Zion,
and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”
Footnotes
- 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 12:5 Or this is made known
- Isaiah 12:6 The Hebrew for your in verse 6 is singular, referring to the inhabitant of Zion
- Isaiah 13:3 Or those who exult in my majesty
- Isaiah 13:5 Or earth; also verse 9
- Isaiah 13:6 The Hebrew words for destruction and almighty sound alike
- Isaiah 13:18 Hebrew dash in pieces
- Isaiah 13:21 Or owls
- Isaiah 13:22 Or foxes
- Isaiah 14:2 Or servants
- Isaiah 14:4 Dead Sea Scroll (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain
- Isaiah 14:13 Or in the remote parts of Zaphon
- Isaiah 14:18 Hebrew house
- Isaiah 14:23 Possibly porcupine, or owl
Isaiah 7-14
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Isaiah 7-14
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The Sign of Immanuel
7 When Ahaz(A) son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin(B) of Aram(C) and Pekah(D) son of Remaliah(E) king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.
2 Now the house of David(F) was told, “Aram has allied itself with[a] Ephraim(G)”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken,(H) 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,[b](I) to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.(J) 4 Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm(K) and don’t be afraid.(L) Do not lose heart(M) because of these two smoldering stubs(N) of firewood—because of the fierce anger(O) of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.(P) 5 Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah’s(Q) son have plotted(R) 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:(S)
“‘It will not take place,
it will not happen,(T)
8 for the head of Aram is Damascus,(U)
and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.(V)
Within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be too shattered(W) to be a people.
9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria,(X)
and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son.
If you do not stand(Y) firm in your faith,(Z)
you will not stand at all.’”(AA)
10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, 11 “Ask the Lord your God for a sign,(AB) whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.(AC)”
12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask; I will not put the Lord to the test.(AD)”
13 Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David!(AE) Is it not enough(AF) to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience(AG) of my God(AH) also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you[c] a sign:(AI) The virgin[d](AJ) will conceive and give birth to a son,(AK) and[e] will call him Immanuel.[f](AL) 15 He will be eating curds(AM) and honey(AN) when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, 16 for before the boy knows(AO) enough to reject the wrong and choose the right,(AP) the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.(AQ) 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(AR) from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.(AS)”
Assyria, the Lord’s Instrument
18 In that day(AT) the Lord will whistle(AU) for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.(AV) 19 They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices(AW) in the rocks, on all the thornbushes(AX) and at all the water holes. 20 In that day(AY) the Lord will use(AZ) a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River(BA)—the king of Assyria(BB)—to shave your head and private parts, and to cut off your beard(BC) also.(BD) 21 In that day,(BE) a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats.(BF) 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(BG) and honey.(BH) 23 In that day,(BI) in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,[g](BJ) there will be only briers and thorns.(BK) 24 Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers(BL) and thorns. 25 As for all the hills(BM) once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns;(BN) they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.(BO)
Isaiah and His Children as Signs
8 The Lord said to me, “Take a large scroll(BP) and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.”[h](BQ) 2 So I called in Uriah(BR) the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses(BS) for me. 3 Then I made love to the prophetess,(BT) and she conceived and gave birth to a son.(BU) And the Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.(BV) 4 For before the boy knows(BW) how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus(BX) and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.(BY)”
5 The Lord spoke to me again:
6 “Because this people has rejected(BZ)
the gently flowing waters of Shiloah(CA)
and rejoices over Rezin
and the son of Remaliah,(CB)
7 therefore the Lord is about to bring against them
the mighty floodwaters(CC) of the Euphrates—
the king of Assyria(CD) with all his pomp.(CE)
It will overflow all its channels,
run over all its banks(CF)
8 and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,(CG)
passing through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread wings(CH) will cover the breadth of your land,
Immanuel[i]!”(CI)
9 Raise the war cry,[j](CJ) you nations, and be shattered!(CK)
Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare(CL) for battle, and be shattered!
Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
10 Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;(CM)
propose your plan, but it will not stand,(CN)
for God is with us.[k](CO)
11 This is what the Lord says to me with his strong hand upon me,(CP) warning me not to follow(CQ) the way of this people:
12 “Do not call conspiracy(CR)
everything this people calls a conspiracy;
do not fear what they fear,(CS)
and do not dread it.(CT)
13 The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,(CU)
he is the one you are to fear,(CV)
he is the one you are to dread.(CW)
14 He will be a holy place;(CX)
for both Israel and Judah he will be
a stone(CY) that causes people to stumble(CZ)
and a rock that makes them fall.(DA)
And for the people of Jerusalem he will be
a trap and a snare.(DB)
15 Many of them will stumble;(DC)
they will fall and be broken,
they will be snared and captured.”
16 Bind up this testimony of warning(DD)
and seal(DE) up God’s instruction among my disciples.
17 I will wait(DF) for the Lord,
who is hiding(DG) his face from the descendants of Jacob.
I will put my trust in him.(DH)
18 Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me.(DI) We are signs(DJ) and symbols(DK) in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.(DL)
The Darkness Turns to Light
19 When someone tells you to consult(DM) mediums and spiritists,(DN) who whisper and mutter,(DO) should not a people inquire(DP) of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? 20 Consult God’s instruction(DQ) and the testimony of warning.(DR) If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light(DS) of dawn. 21 Distressed and hungry,(DT) they will roam through the land;(DU) when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse(DV) their king and their God. 22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,(DW) and they will be thrust into utter darkness.(DX)
9 [l]Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom(DY) for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,(DZ) 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(EA)
have seen a great light;(EB)
on those living in the land of deep darkness(EC)
a light has dawned.(ED)
3 You have enlarged the nation(EE)
and increased their joy;(EF)
they rejoice before you
as people rejoice at the harvest,
as warriors rejoice
when dividing the plunder.(EG)
4 For as in the day of Midian’s defeat,(EH)
you have shattered(EI)
the yoke(EJ) that burdens them,
the bar across their shoulders,(EK)
the rod of their oppressor.(EL)
5 Every warrior’s boot used in battle
and every garment rolled in blood
will be destined for burning,(EM)
will be fuel for the fire.
6 For to us a child is born,(EN)
to us a son is given,(EO)
and the government(EP) will be on his shoulders.(EQ)
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor,(ER) Mighty God,(ES)
Everlasting(ET) Father,(EU) Prince of Peace.(EV)
7 Of the greatness of his government(EW) and peace(EX)
there will be no end.(EY)
He will reign(EZ) on David’s throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice(FA) and righteousness(FB)
from that time on and forever.(FC)
The zeal(FD) of the Lord Almighty
will accomplish this.
The Lord’s Anger Against Israel
8 The Lord has sent a message(FE) against Jacob;
it will fall on Israel.
9 All the people will know it—
Ephraim(FF) and the inhabitants of Samaria(FG)—
who say with pride
and arrogance(FH) of heart,
10 “The bricks have fallen down,
but we will rebuild with dressed stone;(FI)
the fig(FJ) trees have been felled,
but we will replace them with cedars.(FK)”
11 But the Lord has strengthened Rezin’s(FL) foes against them
and has spurred their enemies on.
12 Arameans(FM) from the east and Philistines(FN) from the west
have devoured(FO) Israel with open mouth.
13 But the people have not returned(FR) to him who struck(FS) them,
nor have they sought(FT) the Lord Almighty.
14 So the Lord will cut off from Israel both head and tail,
both palm branch and reed(FU) in a single day;(FV)
15 the elders(FW) and dignitaries(FX) are the head,
the prophets(FY) who teach lies(FZ) are the tail.
16 Those who guide(GA) this people mislead them,
and those who are guided are led astray.(GB)
17 Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men,(GC)
nor will he pity(GD) the fatherless and widows,
for everyone is ungodly(GE) and wicked,(GF)
every mouth speaks folly.(GG)
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised.(GH)
18 Surely wickedness burns like a fire;(GI)
it consumes briers and thorns,(GJ)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,(GK)
so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
19 By the wrath(GL) of the Lord Almighty
the land will be scorched(GM)
and the people will be fuel for the fire;(GN)
they will not spare one another.(GO)
20 On the right they will devour,
but still be hungry;(GP)
on the left they will eat,(GQ)
but not be satisfied.
Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring[m]:
21 Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh;(GR)
together they will turn against Judah.(GS)
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised.(GT)
10 Woe(GU) to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,(GV)
2 to deprive(GW) the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,(GX)
making widows their prey
and robbing the fatherless.(GY)
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning,(GZ)
when disaster(HA) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?(HB)
Where will you leave your riches?
4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives(HC)
or fall among the slain.(HD)
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,(HE)
his hand is still upraised.
God’s Judgment on Assyria
5 “Woe(HF) to the Assyrian,(HG) the rod(HH) of my anger,
in whose hand is the club(HI) of my wrath!(HJ)
6 I send him against a godless(HK) nation,
I dispatch(HL) him against a people who anger me,(HM)
to seize loot and snatch plunder,(HN)
and to trample(HO) them down like mud in the streets.
7 But this is not what he intends,(HP)
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(HQ) all kings?’ he says.
9 ‘Has not Kalno(HR) fared like Carchemish?(HS)
Is not Hamath(HT) like Arpad,(HU)
and Samaria(HV) like Damascus?(HW)
10 As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols,(HX)
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?(HY)’”
12 When the Lord has finished all his work(HZ) against Mount Zion(IA) and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria(IB) for the willful pride(IC) of his heart and the haughty look(ID) in his eyes. 13 For he says:
“‘By the strength of my hand(IE) I have done this,(IF)
and by my wisdom, because I have understanding.
I removed the boundaries of nations,
I plundered their treasures;(IG)
like a mighty one I subdued[n] their kings.(IH)
14 As one reaches into a nest,(II)
so my hand reached for the wealth(IJ) of the nations;
as people gather abandoned eggs,
so I gathered all the countries;(IK)
not one flapped a wing,
or opened its mouth to chirp.(IL)’”
15 Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it,
or the saw boast against the one who uses it?(IM)
As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up,
or a club(IN) brandish the one who is not wood!
16 Therefore, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
will send a wasting disease(IO) upon his sturdy warriors;(IP)
under his pomp(IQ) a fire(IR) will be kindled
like a blazing flame.
17 The Light of Israel will become a fire,(IS)
their Holy One(IT) a flame;
in a single day it will burn and consume
his thorns(IU) and his briers.(IV)
18 The splendor of his forests(IW) and fertile fields
it will completely destroy,(IX)
as when a sick person wastes away.
19 And the remaining trees of his forests(IY) will be so few(IZ)
that a child could write them down.
The Remnant of Israel
20 In that day(JA) the remnant of Israel,
the survivors(JB) of Jacob,
will no longer rely(JC) on him
who struck them down(JD)
but will truly rely(JE) on the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel.(JF)
21 A remnant(JG) will return,[o](JH) a remnant of Jacob
will return to the Mighty God.(JI)
22 Though your people be like the sand(JJ) by the sea, Israel,
only a remnant will return.(JK)
Destruction has been decreed,(JL)
overwhelming and righteous.
23 The Lord, the Lord Almighty, will carry out
the destruction decreed(JM) upon the whole land.(JN)
24 Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:
“My people who live in Zion,(JO)
do not be afraid(JP) of the Assyrians,
who beat(JQ) you with a rod(JR)
and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.
25 Very soon(JS) my anger against you will end
and my wrath(JT) will be directed to their destruction.(JU)”
26 The Lord Almighty will lash(JV) them with a whip,
as when he struck down Midian(JW) at the rock of Oreb;
and he will raise his staff(JX) over the waters,(JY)
as he did in Egypt.
27 In that day(JZ) their burden(KA) will be lifted from your shoulders,
their yoke(KB) from your neck;(KC)
the yoke(KD) will be broken
because you have grown so fat.[p]
28 They enter Aiath;
they pass through Migron;(KE)
they store supplies(KF) at Mikmash.(KG)
29 They go over the pass, and say,
“We will camp overnight at Geba.(KH)”
Ramah(KI) trembles;
Gibeah(KJ) of Saul flees.(KK)
30 Cry out, Daughter Gallim!(KL)
Listen, Laishah!
Poor Anathoth!(KM)
31 Madmenah is in flight;
the people of Gebim take cover.
32 This day they will halt at Nob;(KN)
they will shake their fist(KO)
at the mount of Daughter Zion,(KP)
at the hill of Jerusalem.
33 See, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
will lop off(KQ) the boughs with great power.
The lofty trees will be felled,(KR)
the tall(KS) ones will be brought low.(KT)
34 He will cut down(KU) the forest thickets with an ax;
Lebanon(KV) will fall before the Mighty One.(KW)
The Branch From Jesse
11 A shoot(KX) will come up from the stump(KY) of Jesse;(KZ)
from his roots a Branch(LA) will bear fruit.(LB)
2 The Spirit(LC) of the Lord will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom(LD) and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of might,(LE)
the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord—
3 and he will delight in the fear(LF) of the Lord.
He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes,(LG)
or decide by what he hears with his ears;(LH)
4 but with righteousness(LI) he will judge the needy,(LJ)
with justice(LK) he will give decisions for the poor(LL) of the earth.
He will strike(LM) the earth with the rod of his mouth;(LN)
with the breath(LO) of his lips he will slay the wicked.(LP)
5 Righteousness will be his belt(LQ)
and faithfulness(LR) the sash around his waist.(LS)
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,(LT)
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling[q] 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.(LU)
8 The infant(LV) will play near the cobra’s den,
and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s(LW) nest.
9 They will neither harm nor destroy(LX)
on all my holy mountain,(LY)
for the earth(LZ) will be filled with the knowledge(MA) of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
10 In that day(MB) the Root of Jesse(MC) will stand as a banner(MD) for the peoples; the nations(ME) will rally to him,(MF) and his resting place(MG) will be glorious.(MH) 11 In that day(MI) the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant(MJ) of his people from Assyria,(MK) from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt,(ML) from Cush,[r](MM) from Elam,(MN) from Babylonia,[s] from Hamath(MO) and from the islands(MP) of the Mediterranean.(MQ)
12 He will raise a banner(MR) for the nations
and gather(MS) the exiles of Israel;(MT)
he will assemble the scattered people(MU) of Judah
from the four quarters of the earth.(MV)
13 Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish,
and Judah’s enemies[t] will be destroyed;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.(MW)
14 They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia(MX) to the west;
together they will plunder the people to the east.(MY)
They will subdue Edom(MZ) and Moab,(NA)
and the Ammonites(NB) will be subject to them.(NC)
15 The Lord will dry up(ND)
the gulf of the Egyptian sea;
with a scorching wind(NE) he will sweep his hand(NF)
over the Euphrates River.(NG)
He will break it up into seven streams
so that anyone can cross over in sandals.(NH)
16 There will be a highway(NI) for the remnant(NJ) of his people
that is left from Assyria,(NK)
as there was for Israel
when they came up from Egypt.(NL)
Songs of Praise
12 In that day(NM) you will say:
“I will praise(NN) you, Lord.
Although you were angry with me,
your anger has turned away(NO)
and you have comforted(NP) me.
2 Surely God is my salvation;(NQ)
I will trust(NR) and not be afraid.
The Lord, the Lord himself,(NS) is my strength(NT) and my defense[u];
he has become my salvation.(NU)”
3 With joy you will draw water(NV)
from the wells(NW) of salvation.
4 In that day(NX) you will say:
“Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;(NY)
make known among the nations(NZ) what he has done,
and proclaim that his name is exalted.(OA)
5 Sing(OB) to the Lord, for he has done glorious things;(OC)
let this be known to all the world.
6 Shout aloud and sing for joy,(OD) people of Zion,
for great(OE) is the Holy One of Israel(OF) among you.(OG)”
A Prophecy Against Babylon
13 A prophecy(OH) against Babylon(OI) that Isaiah son of Amoz(OJ) saw:(OK)
2 Raise a banner(OL) on a bare hilltop,
shout to them;
beckon to them
to enter the gates(OM) of the nobles.
3 I have commanded those I prepared for battle;
I have summoned my warriors(ON) to carry out my wrath(OO)—
those who rejoice(OP) in my triumph.
4 Listen, a noise on the mountains,
like that of a great multitude!(OQ)
Listen, an uproar(OR) among the kingdoms,
like nations massing together!
The Lord Almighty(OS) is mustering(OT)
an army for war.
5 They come from faraway lands,
from the ends of the heavens(OU)—
the Lord and the weapons(OV) of his wrath(OW)—
to destroy(OX) the whole country.
6 Wail,(OY) for the day(OZ) of the Lord is near;
it will come like destruction(PA) from the Almighty.[v](PB)
7 Because of this, all hands will go limp,(PC)
every heart will melt with fear.(PD)
8 Terror(PE) will seize them,
pain and anguish will grip(PF) them;
they will writhe like a woman in labor.(PG)
They will look aghast at each other,
their faces aflame.(PH)
9 See, the day(PI) of the Lord is coming
—a cruel(PJ) day, with wrath(PK) and fierce anger(PL)—
to make the land desolate
and destroy the sinners within it.
10 The stars of heaven and their constellations
will not show their light.(PM)
The rising sun(PN) will be darkened(PO)
and the moon will not give its light.(PP)
11 I will punish(PQ) the world for its evil,
the wicked(PR) for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty(PS)
and will humble(PT) the pride of the ruthless.(PU)
12 I will make people(PV) scarcer than pure gold,
more rare than the gold of Ophir.(PW)
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;(PX)
and the earth will shake(PY) from its place
at the wrath(PZ) of the Lord Almighty,
in the day of his burning anger.(QA)
14 Like a hunted(QB) gazelle,
like sheep without a shepherd,(QC)
they will all return to their own people,
they will flee(QD) to their native land.(QE)
15 Whoever is captured will be thrust through;
all who are caught will fall(QF) by the sword.(QG)
16 Their infants(QH) will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
their houses will be looted and their wives violated.(QI)
17 See, I will stir up(QJ) against them the Medes,(QK)
who do not care for silver
and have no delight in gold.(QL)
18 Their bows(QM) will strike down the young men;(QN)
they will have no mercy(QO) on infants,
nor will they look with compassion on children.(QP)
19 Babylon,(QQ) the jewel of kingdoms,(QR)
the pride and glory(QS) of the Babylonians,[w]
will be overthrown(QT) by God
like Sodom and Gomorrah.(QU)
20 She will never be inhabited(QV)
or lived in through all generations;
there no nomads(QW) will pitch their tents,
there no shepherds will rest their flocks.
21 But desert creatures(QX) will lie there,
jackals(QY) will fill her houses;
there the owls(QZ) will dwell,
and there the wild goats(RA) will leap about.
22 Hyenas(RB) will inhabit her strongholds,(RC)
jackals(RD) her luxurious palaces.
Her time is at hand,(RE)
and her days will not be prolonged.(RF)
14 The Lord will have compassion(RG) on Jacob;
once again he will choose(RH) Israel
and will settle them in their own land.(RI)
Foreigners(RJ) will join them
and unite with the descendants of Jacob.
2 Nations will take them
and bring(RK) them to their own place.
And Israel will take possession of the nations(RL)
and make them male and female servants in the Lord’s land.
They will make captives(RM) of their captors
and rule over their oppressors.(RN)
3 On the day the Lord gives you relief(RO) from your suffering and turmoil(RP) and from the harsh labor forced on you,(RQ) 4 you will take up this taunt(RR) against the king of Babylon:(RS)
How the oppressor(RT) has come to an end!
How his fury[x] has ended!
5 The Lord has broken the rod(RU) of the wicked,(RV)
the scepter(RW) of the rulers,
6 which in anger struck down peoples(RX)
with unceasing blows,
and in fury subdued(RY) nations
with relentless aggression.(RZ)
7 All the lands are at rest and at peace;(SA)
they break into singing.(SB)
8 Even the junipers(SC) and the cedars of Lebanon
gloat over you and say,
“Now that you have been laid low,
no one comes to cut us down.”(SD)
9 The realm of the dead(SE) below is all astir
to meet you at your coming;
it rouses the spirits of the departed(SF) to greet you—
all those who were leaders(SG) in the world;
it makes them rise from their thrones—
all those who were kings over the nations.(SH)
10 They will all respond,
they will say to you,
“You also have become weak, as we are;
you have become like us.”(SI)
11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,(SJ)
along with the noise of your harps;(SK)
maggots are spread out beneath you
and worms(SL) cover you.(SM)
12 How you have fallen(SN) from heaven,
morning star,(SO) son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!(SP)
13 You said in your heart,
“I will ascend(SQ) to the heavens;
I will raise my throne(SR)
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,(SS)
on the utmost heights(ST) of Mount Zaphon.[y]
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;(SU)
I will make myself like the Most High.”(SV)
15 But you are brought down(SW) to the realm of the dead,(SX)
to the depths(SY) of the pit.(SZ)
16 Those who see you stare at you,
they ponder your fate:(TA)
“Is this the man who shook(TB) the earth
and made kingdoms tremble,
17 the man who made the world a wilderness,(TC)
who overthrew(TD) its cities
and would not let his captives go home?”(TE)
18 All the kings of the nations lie in state,
each in his own tomb.(TF)
19 But you are cast out(TG) of your tomb
like a rejected branch;
you are covered with the slain,(TH)
with those pierced by the sword,(TI)
those who descend to the stones of the pit.(TJ)
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
20 you will not join them in burial,(TK)
for you have destroyed your land
and killed your people.
Let the offspring(TL) of the wicked(TM)
never be mentioned(TN) again.
21 Prepare a place to slaughter his children(TO)
for the sins of their ancestors;(TP)
they are not to rise to inherit the land
and cover the earth with their cities.
22 “I will rise up(TQ) against them,”
declares the Lord Almighty.
“I will wipe out Babylon’s name(TR) and survivors,
her offspring and descendants,(TS)”
declares the Lord.
23 “I will turn her into a place for owls(TT)
and into swampland;
I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,(TU)”
declares the Lord Almighty.(TV)
24 The Lord Almighty has sworn,(TW)
“Surely, as I have planned,(TX) so it will be,
and as I have purposed, so it will happen.(TY)
25 I will crush the Assyrian(TZ) in my land;
on my mountains I will trample him down.
His yoke(UA) will be taken from my people,
and his burden removed from their shoulders.(UB)”
26 This is the plan(UC) determined for the whole world;
this is the hand(UD) stretched out over all nations.
27 For the Lord Almighty has purposed,(UE) and who can thwart him?
His hand(UF) is stretched out, and who can turn it back?(UG)
A Prophecy Against the Philistines
28 This prophecy(UH) came in the year(UI) King Ahaz(UJ) died:
29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines,(UK)
that the rod that struck you is broken;
from the root of that snake will spring up a viper,(UL)
its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.(UM)
30 The poorest of the poor will find pasture,
and the needy(UN) will lie down in safety.(UO)
But your root I will destroy by famine;(UP)
it will slay(UQ) your survivors.(UR)
31 Wail,(US) you gate!(UT) Howl, you city!
Melt away, all you Philistines!(UU)
A cloud of smoke comes from the north,(UV)
and there is not a straggler in its ranks.(UW)
32 What answer shall be given
to the envoys(UX) of that nation?
“The Lord has established Zion,(UY)
and in her his afflicted people will find refuge.(UZ)”
Footnotes
- 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 13:6 Hebrew Shaddai
- Isaiah 13:19 Or Chaldeans
- Isaiah 14:4 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.
- Isaiah 14:13 Or of the north; Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.
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