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9 Yet, the gloom shall not be as the affliction was at first, when He lightly touched the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, nor afterward when he was more grievous by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the Gentiles.
2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great Light. Those who dwelled in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the Light shined.
3 You have multiplied the nation, not increased joy. Men rejoice when they divide a spoil.
4 For You have broken the yoke of their burden, and the staff of their shoulder, and the rod of their oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5 Surely every battle of the warrior is with noise, and with tumbling of garments in blood. But this shall be with burning and devouring of fire.
6 For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given. And the government is upon His shoulder. And His Name shall be called: Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 The increase of His dominion and peace shall have no end. He shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment, and with justice, from henceforth, forever. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will perform this.
8 The LORD has sent a Word into Jacob, and it lighted upon Israel.
9 And all the people shall know—Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria— who say in the pride and presumption of their heart,
10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will build it with hewn stones. The wild fig trees are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.”
11 Nevertheless, the LORD will raise up the adversaries of Rezin against him and join his enemies together,
12 Aram in front and the Philistines behind. And they shall devour Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, His wrath is not turned away. But His hand is stretched out still.
13 For the people do not turn to Him Who strikes them, nor do they seek the LORD of Hosts.
14 Therefore, the LORD will cut off head and tail from Israel, branch and rush, in one day.
15 To the ancient and the honorable man, He is the head. And to the prophet who teaches lies, He is the tail.
16 For the leaders of the people cause them to err. And those who are led by them are devoured.
17 Therefore, the LORD shall have no pleasure in their young men. Nor will He have compassion on their fatherless and on their widows. For everyone is a hypocrite and wicked. And every mouth speaks folly. For all this, His wrath is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burns as a fire. It devours the briers and the thorns, and will kindle in the thick places of the forest. And they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
19 By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts shall the land be darkened. And the people shall be as the meat of the fire. No man shall spare his brother.
20 And he shall cut on the right hand and be hungry. And he shall eat on the left hand and shall not be satisfied. Everyone shall eat the flesh of his own arm.
21 Manasseh-Ephraim and Ephraim-Manasseh, they both shall be against Judah. For all this, His wrath is not turned away. But His Hand is stretched out still.
10 “Woe to those who decree wicked decrees and write grievous things,
2 “to keep back the poor from judgment and to take away the judgment of the poor of My people. So that widows may be their prey and that they may spoil the fatherless.
3 “What will you do now, on the day of visitation, and of destruction, which shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help and where will you leave your glory?
4 “Without Me, everyone shall fall among those who are bound. And they shall fall down among the slain. Yet for all this, His wrath is not turned away. But His Hand is stretched out still.
5 “O Assyria, the rod of My wrath! And the staff in their hands is My indignation!
6 “I will send him to a profane nation. And I will give him a charge against the people of My wrath, to take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread them under feet like the mire in the street.
7 “But he does not think so, nor does his heart think so. But he imagines to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.
8 “For he says, ‘Are not my princes all kings?
9 ‘Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus,
10 ‘just as my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols (seeing their idols were above Jerusalem and above Samaria).’
11 “Shall not I, as I have done to Samaria and to its idols, so do to Jerusalem and to its idols?
12 “But when the LORD has accomplished all His work upon Mount Zion and Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and his glorious and proud looks.
13 “Because he said, ‘By the power of my own hand I have done it, and by my wisdom. Because I am wise.’ “Therefore I have removed the borders of the people, and have spoiled their treasures, and have pulled down the inhabitants like a valiant man.
14 “And My Hand has found the riches of the people as a nest. And as one who gathers leftover eggs, have I gathered all the Earth. And there was no one to move the wing or to open the mouth or to whisper.
15 “Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews with it? Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who moves it? As if the rod could wield itself against him who raises it, or the staff could lift itself up as if it were not wood?
16 “Therefore, the LORD God of Hosts shall send among His fat men leanness. And under His Glory, He shall kindle a burning, like the burning of fire.
17 “And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame. And it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day
18 “and shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful fields, both soul and flesh. And he shall be as the fainting of a standard bearer.
19 “And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may record them.”
20 And at that day shall the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped from the House of Jacob, lean no more upon him who struck them, but shall lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return (the remnant of Jacob) to the Mighty God.
22 For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, the remnant of them shall return. The decreed destruction shall overflow with righteousness.
23 For the LORD God of Hosts shall make the determined destruction in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore, thus says the LORD God of Hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion. Do not be afraid of Assyria. He shall strike you with a rod and shall lift up his staff against you, just as Egypt did.
25 “But yet a very little time and the wrath shall be consumed, and My anger, in their destruction.”
26 And the LORD of Hosts shall raise up a scourge for him, according to the plague of Midian, in the rock Oreb. And as his staff was upon the sea, so he will lift it up as in Egypt.
27 And at that day shall his burden be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck. And the yoke shall be destroyed, because of the anointing.
28 He has come to Aiath. He has passed into Migron. At Michmash he shall lay up his armor.
29 They have gone over the pass. They stayed in the lodging at Geba. Ramah is afraid. Gibeah of Saul has fled away.
30 Lift up your voice, O daughter Gallim! Cause Laish to hear, O poor Anathoth!
31 Madmenah is removed! The inhabitants of Gebim have gathered themselves together.
32 Yet there is a time that he will stay at Nob. He shall lift up his hand toward the Mount of the daughter Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the LORD God of Hosts shall cut off the bough with terror. And they of high stature shall be cut off. And the high shall be humbled.
34 And He shall cut away the thick places of the forest with iron. And Lebanon shall have a mighty fall.
3 For this reason, I, Paul, am the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles.
2 If indeed you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God, which is given to me toward you.
3 So that God, by revelation, has shown this mystery to me (as I briefly wrote before;
4 by which, when you read it, you may know my understanding of the mystery of Christ,
5 which was not made known to the sons of men in other ages as it is now revealed to His holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit),
6 So that the Gentiles should also be inheritors of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ, by the Gospel;
7 whereof I am made a minister by the gift of the grace of God (given to me through the working of His power).
8 To me, the least of all saints, is this grace given, so that I would preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9 and make clear to all what the stewardship of the mystery is (which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, Who has created all things by Jesus Christ);
10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to principalities and powers in Heavenly realms,
11 according to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord;
12 By Him we have boldness and confident access, through faith in Him.
13 Therefore, I desire that you do not grow weary of my tribulations for you (which is your glory).
14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 (from Whom is named every family in Heaven and on Earth)
16 so that He might grant - according to the riches of His Glory - that you be strengthened by His Spirit in the inner man;
17 So that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith;
18 so that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend (with all saints) what is the breadth and length and depth and height;
19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge. So that you may be filled with all fullness of God.
20 Now therefore, to the One Who is able to do all things exceedingly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us;
21 to Him be praise in the church and in Christ Jesus, throughout all generations, forever. Amen.
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