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The Lord sent a word into Jacob,

    and it falls on Israel.
All the people will know,
    including 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 cut stone.
The sycamore fig trees have been cut down,
    but we will put cedars in their place.”
11 Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin,
    and will stir up his enemies,
12     The Syrians in front,
    and the Philistines behind;
    and they will devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this, his anger is not turned away,
    but his hand is stretched out still.

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A Rebuke to Jacob and Israel

“The Lord[a] has sent a plague[b] against Jacob,
    and it will fall on Israel;
and all of the people were evil[c]
    Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria—
        saying proudly with arrogant hearts:
10 ‘The bricks have fallen,
    but we will build with dressed[d] stones;
the sycamore[e] trees have been cut down,
    but we will replace them with cedars.’[f]
11 But the Lord has raised adversaries[g] from Rezin[h] against him,
    and he stirs up his enemies—
12 Arameans from the east
    and Philistines from the west—
and they devour Israel with open mouths!

“Yet[i] for all this, his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.”[j]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 9:8 So 1QIsaa; MT reads Lord
  2. Isaiah 9:8 So LXX; MT reads word; 1QIsaa can mean plague or word.
  3. Isaiah 9:9 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read knew
  4. Isaiah 9:10 Or quarried
  5. Isaiah 9:10 The sycamore fruit tree native to Israel bears figs
  6. Isaiah 9:10 I.e. a genus of coniferous evergreen in the family Pinaceae
  7. Isaiah 9:11 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; other MT mss. read princes
  8. Isaiah 9:11 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks from Rezin
  9. Isaiah 9:12 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac; the Heb. lacks Yet
  10. Isaiah 9:12 DSS MT lack ready to strike