¹¹ For the Lord spoke 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 those 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 you a sanctuary, but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a trap 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, who 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, who dwelleth in Mount Zion.

¹⁹ And when they shall say unto you, “Seek unto those who have familiar spirits and wizards, who peep and who 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 sorely beset 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 more grievously afflicted her by the way of the sea, beyond the 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, Counselor, 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.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

² The same was in the beginning with God.

³ All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.

⁴ In Him was life, and that life was the Light of men.

⁵ And the Light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.

⁶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

⁷ The same came as a witness to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

⁸ He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

⁹ That was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.

¹¹ He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.

¹² But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to those who believe in His name,

¹³ who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁴ And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only Begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.