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Isaiah 4–8
New American Standard Bible (1995)
1 For seven women will take hold of aone man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; btake away our reproach!”
2 In that day the aBranch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the bfruit of the earth will be the pride and the adornment of the csurvivors of Israel.
3 It will come about that he who is aleft in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called bholy—everyone who is crecorded for life in Jerusalem.
4 When the Lord has washed away the filth of the adaughters of Zion and 1purged the bbloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the cspirit of judgment and the dspirit of burning,
5 then the Lord will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies aa cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the bglory will be a canopy.
6 There will be a ashelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and 1protection from the storm and the rain.
1 Let me sing now for my well-beloved
A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard.
My well-beloved had a avineyard on 1a fertile hill.
2 He dug it all around, removed its stones,
And planted it with 1the achoicest vine.
And He built a tower in the middle of it
And also hewed out a 2wine vat in it;
Then He bexpected it to produce good grapes,
But it produced only 3worthless ones.
3 “And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
aJudge between Me and My vineyard.
4 “aWhat more was there to do for My vineyard 1that I have not done in it?
Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce 2worthless ones?
5 “So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will aremove its hedge and it will be consumed;
I will bbreak down its wall and it will become ctrampled ground.
6 “I will alay it waste;
It will not be pruned or hoed,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also charge the clouds to brain no rain on it.”
7 For the avineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel
And the men of Judah His delightful plant.
Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bbloodshed;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
8 Woe to those who aadd house to house and join field to field,
Until there is no more room,
So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!
9 In my ears the Lord of hosts has sworn, “Surely, amany houses shall become bdesolate,
Even great and fine ones, without occupants.
10 “For aten acres of vineyard will yield only one 1bath of wine,
And a bhomer of seed will yield but an 2ephah of grain.”
11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue astrong drink,
Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!
12 Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and aharp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine;
But they bdo not pay attention to the deeds of the Lord,
Nor do they consider the work of His hands.
13 Therefore My people go into exile for their alack of knowledge;
And 1their bhonorable men are famished,
And their multitude is parched with thirst.
14 Therefore aSheol has enlarged its 1throat and opened its mouth without measure;
And 2Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it.
15 So the common man will be humbled and the man of importance abased,
aThe eyes of the proud also will be abased.
16 But the aLord of hosts will be bexalted in judgment,
And the holy God will show Himself choly in righteousness.
17 aThen the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
And strangers will eat in the waste places of the 1wealthy.
18 Woe to those who drag ainiquity with the cords of 1falsehood,
And sin as if with cart ropes;
19 aWho say, “Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it;
And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near
And come to pass, that we may know it!”
20 Woe to those who acall evil good, and good evil;
Who 1bsubstitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who 1substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are awise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight!
22 aWoe to those who are heroes in drinking wine
And valiant men in mixing strong drink,
23 aWho justify the wicked for a bribe,
And btake away the 1rights of the ones who are in the right!
24 Therefore, aas a tongue of fire consumes stubble
And dry grass collapses into the flame,
So their broot will become clike rot and their blossom 1blow away as dust;
For they have drejected the law of the Lord of hosts
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 On this account the aanger of the Lord has burned against His people,
And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down.
And the bmountains quaked, and their ccorpses 1lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.
dFor all this His anger 2is not spent,
But His ehand is still stretched out.
26 He will also lift up a astandard to the 1distant nation,
And will bwhistle for it cfrom the ends of the earth;
And behold, it will dcome with speed swiftly.
27 aNo one in it is weary or stumbles,
None slumbers or sleeps;
Nor is the bbelt at its waist undone,
Nor its sandal strap broken.
28 1aIts arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent;
The hoofs of its horses 2seem like flint and its chariot bwheels like a whirlwind.
29 Its aroaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions;
It growls as it bseizes the prey
And carries it off with cno one to deliver it.
30 And it will agrowl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one blooks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress;
Even the light is darkened by its clouds.
1 In the year of aKing Uzziah’s death bI saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.
2 Seraphim stood above Him, aeach having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
3 And one called out to another and said,
“aHoly, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts,
The 1bwhole earth is full of His glory.”
4 And the 1foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the 2atemple was filling with smoke.
“aWoe is me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of bunclean lips,
And I live among a cpeople of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the dKing, the Lord of hosts.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the aaltar with tongs.
7 He atouched my mouth with it and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and byour iniquity is taken away and your sin is 1forgiven.”
8 Then I heard the avoice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then bI said, “Here am I. Send me!”
9 He said, “Go, and tell this people:
‘Keep on alistening, but do not perceive;
Keep on looking, but do not understand.’
10 “aRender the hearts of this people 1binsensitive,
Their ears 2dull,
And their eyes 3dim,
cOtherwise they might see with their eyes,
Hear with their ears,
Understand with their hearts,
And return and be healed.”
11 Then I said, “Lord, ahow long?” And He answered,
“Until bcities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,
12 “The Lord has aremoved men far away,
And the 1bforsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 “Yet there will be a tenth portion in it,
And it will again be subject to burning,
Like a terebinth or an aoak
Whose stump remains when it is felled.
The bholy seed is its stump.”
1 Now it came about in the days of aAhaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that bRezin the king of Aram and cPekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but dcould not 1conquer it.
2 When it was reported to the ahouse of David, saying, “The Arameans 1bhave camped in cEphraim,” his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake 2with the wind.
3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son 1Shear-jashub, at the end of the aconduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the 2fuller’s field,
4 and say to him, ‘Take care and be acalm, have no bfear and cdo not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering dfirebrands, on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the eson of Remaliah.
5 ‘Because aAram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying,
6 “Let us go up against Judah and 1terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in 2its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,”
7 thus says the Lord 1God: “aIt shall not stand nor shall it come to pass.
8 “For the head of Aram is aDamascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another 65 years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people),
9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. aIf you will not believe, you surely shall not 1last.” ’ ”
10 Then the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
11 “Ask a asign for yourself from the Lord your God; 1make it deep as Sheol or high as 2heaven.”
12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I test the Lord!”
13 Then he said, “Listen now, O ahouse of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will btry the patience of cmy God as well?
14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, aa 1virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name 2bImmanuel.
15 “He will eat acurds and honey 1at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.
16 “aFor before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, bthe land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.
17 “The Lord will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house such days as have never come since the day that aEphraim separated from Judah, the bking of Assyria.”
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