Isaiah 9:6-17

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁶For a child will be born for us,
a son will be given to us,^(A)
and the government will be on His shoulders.^(B)
He will be named
Wonderful Counselor,^(C) Mighty God,^(D)
Eternal Father,^(E) Prince of Peace.^(F)
⁷The dominion will be vast,
and its prosperity will never end.^(G)
He will reign on the throne of David
and over his kingdom,
to establish and sustain it
with justice and righteousness from now on and forever.
The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.^(H)

The Hand Raised against Israel

⁸The Lord sent a message against Jacob;
it came against Israel.
⁹All the people—
Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria^(I)—will know it.
They will say with pride and arrogance:
¹⁰“The bricks have fallen,
but we will rebuild with cut stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
but we will replace them with cedars.”
¹¹The Lord has raised up Rezin’s adversaries against him
and stirred up his enemies.
¹²Aram from the east and Philistia from the west
have consumed Israel with open mouths.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.^(J)

¹³The people did not turn to Him who struck them;
they did not seek the Lord of Hosts.
¹⁴So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail,^(K)
palm branch and reed in a single day.
¹⁵The head is the elder, the honored one;^(L)
the tail is the prophet, the lying teacher.^(M)
¹⁶The leaders of the people mislead them,
and those they mislead are swallowed up.^[a]
¹⁷Therefore the Lord does not rejoice
over^[b] Israel’s young men
and has no compassion
on its fatherless and widows,
for everyone is a godless evildoer,^(N)
and every mouth speaks folly.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.