Isaiah 8:18–9:7

18  oBehold, I and pthe children whom the Lord hath given me

Are qfor signs and qfor rwonders in Israel

From the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

19  And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto sthem that have familiar spirits,

And unto swizards tthat peep, and uthat mutter:

vShould not a people seek unto their God?

For the living to wthe dead?

20  xTo the law and to the testimony:

yIf they speak not according to this word,

zIt is because there is †no light in them.

21  And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and ahungry:

And it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves,

And bcurse their king and their God, and look upward.

22  And cthey shall look unto the earth;

And behold dtrouble and darkness, edimness of danguish;

And they shall be driven to darkness.

9 Nevertheless athe dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation,

When at the bfirst che lightly afflicted dthe land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,

And eafterward fdid more grievously afflict her dby the way of the sea,

gBeyond Jordan, hin Galilee ||of ithe nations.

2  The djpeople kthat walked in darkness have seen a great light:

They that dwell in the land of lthe shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

3  llThou hast multiplied the nation, and ||not increased the joy:

They joy before thee according to the mjoy in harvest,

And nas men rejoice when othey divide the spoil.

4  ||For thou hast broken pthe yoke of his burden, and qthe staff of his shoulder,

qThe rod of his oppressor, as in rthe day of sMidian.

5  ||For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise,

And garments rolled in blood;

t||But this shall be with burning and †fuel of fire.

6  uFor unto us a child is born, unto us va son is given:

And wthe government shall be xupon his shoulder:

And his name shall be called yWonderful, zCounseller, aThe mighty God,

bThe everlasting cFather, dThe Prince of Peace.

7  Of the increase of his government and peace ethere shall be no end,

eUpon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom,

To order it, and to establish it fwith judgment and with justice

From henceforth even for ever.

gThe zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.