Isaiah 8:22–9:1

²²They will look at the earth and see only distress and gloom. 

They will go in anguish and be forced into darkness. 

9TH CHAPTER^a

¹But there will be no more gloom 

for the land that is in distress. 

God humbled the lands of Zebulun and Naphtali in earlier times. 

But in the future he will bring glory to the road by the sea, 

to the land across the Jordan River, 

to Galilee, where foreigners live.