Isaiah 9–10

9Nevertheless ^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.

²The ^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.

^3llThou 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.

^6uFor 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.

⁷Of 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.

⁸The Lord sent a word into Jacob,

And it hath lighted upon Israel.

⁹And all the people shall ^hknow,

Even ⁱEphraim and the inhabitant of ^kSamaria,

That say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

¹⁰The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones:

^lThe sycomores are cut down, but we will ^mchange them into cedars.

¹¹Therefore the Lord shall ⁿset up the adversaries of ^oRezin against him,

And ^†join his enemies together;

^12pThe Syrians before, and ^qthe Philistines behind;

And they shall devour Israel ^†with open mouth.

^rFor all this his anger is not turned away,

But his hand is stretched out still.

¹³For ^sthe people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,

Neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

¹⁴Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel ^thead and tail,

^tuBranch and ^tvrush, ^xin one day.

¹⁵The ancient and ^yhonourable, he is the head;

And ^zthe prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

¹⁶For ^||athe leaders of this people ^zcause them to err;

And ^||athey that are led of them are ^†adestroyed.

¹⁷Therefore ^bthe Lord shall have no joy in their young men,

Neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows:

For every one is ^can hypocrite and an evildoer,

And every mouth speaketh ^||ccfolly.

^dFor all this his anger is not turned away,

But his hand is stretched out still.

¹⁸For wickedness ^eburneth as the fire:

It shall devour ^fthe briers and thorns,

And shall kindle in ^gthe thickets of the forest,

And they shall mount up like ^hthe lifting up of smoke.

¹⁹Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened,

And the people shall be as the ^†fuel of the fire:

ⁱNo man shall spare his brother.

²⁰And he shall ^†snatch on the right hand, and be hungry;

And ^khe shall eat on the left hand, and ^kthey shall not be satisfied:

^lThey shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

^21mManasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh:

And ⁿthey together shall be against Judah.

^dFor all this his anger is not turned away,

But his hand is stretched out still.

10Woe unto ^athem that decree unrighteous decrees,

And ^||that write ^aagrievousness which they have prescribed;

²To turn aside the needy from judgment,

And to take away the right from ^bthe poor of my people,

^bbThat widows may be their prey,

And that ^bthey may rob the fatherless!

³And ^cwhat will ye do in ^dthe day of ^cvisitation,

And in ^ethe desolation which shall come ^ffrom far?

To whom will ye flee for help?

And where will ye leave your glory?

^4gWithout me they shall bow down under the prisoners,

And they shall fall under the slain.

^hFor all this his anger is not turned away,

^*But his hand is stretched out still.

^5||O ^†Assyrian, ⁱthe rod of mine anger,

^||And ⁱthe staff in their hand is mine indignation.

⁶I will send him against ^kan hypocritical nation,

And against the people of my wrath ^lwill I give him a charge,

^mTo take the spoil, and to take the prey,

And ^†to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁷Howbeit ⁿhe meaneth not so,

Neither doth his heart think so;

But it is in his heart to destroy

And cut off nations not a few.

^8oFor he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

⁹Is not ^pCalno as ^qCarchemish?

^rIs not ^sHamath as ^tArpad?

Is not ^uSamaria ^vas Damascus?

^10wAs my hand hath found the kingdoms of ^xthe idols,

And whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of ^uSamaria;

¹¹Shall I not, as I have done unto ^uSamaria and her ^xidols,

So do to Jerusalem and her ^yidols?

¹²Wherefore it shall come to pass, that ^zwhen the Lord hath performed his whole work

^aUpon mount Zion and on Jerusalem,

^bI will ^†punish the fruit ^†of the stout heart of ^cthe king of Assyria,

And the glory of his high looks.

^13dFor he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it,

And ^eby my wisdom; for I am prudent:

And I have removed the bounds of the people,

And have robbed their treasures,

And I have put down the inhabitants ^||like ^fa valiant man:

¹⁴And ^gmy hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people:

And as one gathereth eggs that are left,

Have I gathered all the earth;

And there was none that moved the wing,

Or opened the mouth, or ^hpeeped.

¹⁵Shall the axe ⁱboast itself against him that heweth therewith?

Or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it?

^||As if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up,

Or as if the staff should lift up ^||itself, as if it were no wood.

¹⁶Therefore shall ^kthe Lord, the Lord of hosts,

Send among his ^lfat ones ^mleanness;

And under his glory he shall kindle a burning

Like the burning of a fire.

¹⁷And the light of Israel shall be for a fire,

And his Holy One for a flame:

And ⁿit shall burn and devour ^ohis thorns and his briers ^pin one day;

¹⁸And shall consume ^qthe glory of his forest, and of ^rhis fruitful field,

^†Both soul and body:

And they shall be as when ^ta standardbearer fainteth.

¹⁹And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be ^†few,

That a child may write them.

²⁰And it shall come to pass ^uin that day,

That the remnant of Israel,

And ^vsuch as are escaped of the house of Jacob,

^wShall no more again stay upon him that smote them;

But ^xshall stay upon the Lord,

The Holy One of Israel, in truth.

^21yThe remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob,

Unto ^zthe mighty God.

²²For ^athough thy people Israel be ^bas the sand of the sea,

Yet a remnant ^†of them shall return:

^cThe consumption decreed shall overflow ^||with righteousness.

²³For the Lord God of hosts shall ^dmake a consumption, even determined,

In the midst of all the land.

²⁴Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts,

O my people that dwellest in Zion,

^eBe not afraid of the Assyrian:

He shall smite thee with ^fa rod,

^||And shall lift up his ^fstaff against thee, ^gafter ^hthe manner of Egypt.

²⁵For ⁱyet ^ja very little while, and ^kthe indignation shall cease,

And mine anger in their destruction.

²⁶And ^lthe Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him

According to ^mthe slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb:

And as ⁿhis rod was upon the sea,

So shall he lift it up ^gafter ^hthe manner of Egypt.

²⁷And it shall come to pass ^oin that day,

That ^phis burden ^†shall be taken away from off thy shoulder,

And his yoke from off thy neck,

And the yoke ^qshall be destroyed because of ^rthe anointing.

²⁸He is come to ^rrAiath, he is passed to ^sMigron;

At ^tMichmash he hath laid up his ^ucarriages:

²⁹They are gone over ^vthe passage: they have taken up their lodging at ^wGeba;

^xRamah is afraid; ^yGibeah of Saul is fled.

^30†Lift up thy voice, O daughter of ^zGallim:

Cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor ^aAnathoth.

^31bMadmenah is removed;

The inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.

³²As yet shall he remain at ^cNob that day:

He shall ^dshake his hand ^eagainst ^eethe mount of ^fthe daughter of Zion,

The hill of Jerusalem.

³³Behold, ^gthe Lord, the Lord of hosts,

Shall lop ^hthe bough with terror:

And ⁱthe high ones of stature shall be hewn down,

And the haughty shall be humbled.

³⁴And he shall cut down ^kthe thickets of the forest with iron,

And ^lLebanon shall fall ^||by a mighty one.