6 aIn the year that king bUzziah died cI saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and ||his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had dsix wings; ewith twain he covered his face, and fwith twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And †one cried unto another, and said,

gHoly, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts:

†hiThe whole earth is full of his glory.

4 And the posts of the †door moved at the voice of him that cried, and kthe house was filled with smoke. 5 lThen said I, Woe is me! for I am †undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen mthe King, the Lord of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, †having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off nthe altar: 7 And he †olaid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and pthy sin purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for qus? rThen said I, †sHere am I; send me. 9 And he said, Go, and tell this people,

†tHear ye ||indeed, but understand not;

And see ye †indeed, but perceive not.

10  uMake the heart of this people fat,

And make their ears heavy, and vshut their eyes;

wLest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,

And understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

11  Then said I, xLord, how long? And he answered,

Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant,

And the houses without man,

And the land be †utterly desolate,

12  And ythe Lord have removed men far away,

And there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

13  But yet in it shall be za tenth, ||and it shall return, and ashall be eaten:

As ba teil tree, and as an oak, whose ||substance is in them, cwhen they cast their leaves:

So dthe holy seed shall be the ||substance thereof.

7 And it came to pass in the days of aAhaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that bRezin the king of Syria, and bPekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. 2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria †is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. 3 Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and ||Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of dthe conduit of ethe upper pool in the ||fhighway of the fuller’s field; 4 And say unto him,

Take heed, and be quiet;

Fear not, †neither be fainthearted

For the two tails of these smoking gfirebrands,

For the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of hthe son of Remaliah.

5  Because Syria, Ephraim, and hthe son of Remaliah,

Have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,

6  Let us go up against Judah, and ||vex it,

And let us make a breach therein for us,

And set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

7  Thus saith the Lord God,

iIt shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

8  For kthe head of Syria is lDamascus,

And llthe head of Damascus is Rezin;

And mwithin threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, †that it be not a people.

9  And the head of Ephraim is nSamaria,

And the head of Samaria is hRemaliah’s son.

||oIf ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

10 †Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

11  Ask thee pa sign of the Lord thy God;

||Ask it either qin the depth, or rin the height above.

12 But Ahaz said, sI will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord. 13 And he said,

Hear ye now, tO house of David;

uIs it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye vweary my God also?

14  Therefore the Lord himself shall give you pwa sign;

xBehold, ya virgin shall conceive, and bear za son,

And ||shall call his name aImmanuel.

15  bButter and bhoney shall he eat,

cThat he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

16  dFor before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good,

dThe land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of eboth her kings.

17  The Lord shall bring fupon thee,

And gupon thy people, and upon thy father’s house,

Days that have not come,

From the day that hEphraim departed from Judah;

fgEven the king of Assyria.

18  And it shall come to pass iin that day,

That the Lord kshall hiss lfor the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt,

And kfor the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

19  And they shall come, and shall rest all of them

In the desolate valleys, and in mthe holes of the rocks,

And upon all nthorns, and upon all ||bushes.

20  iIn the same day shall the Lord shave with oa rasor that is hired,

Namely, pby them beyond ppthe river, by the king of Assyria,

The head, and the hair of the feet:

And it shall also consume the beard.

21  And it shall come to pass iin that day,

That a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

22  And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter:

For bbutter and bhoney shall every one eat that is left †in the land.

23  And it shall come to pass iin that day,

That every place shall be,

Where there were a thousand vines at qa thousand silverlings,

It shall even be for rbriers and thorns.

24  sWith arrows and with bows shall men come thither;

Because sall the land shall become rbriers and thorns.

25  And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock,

There shall not come thither the fear of rbriers and thorns:

But tit shall be for the sending forth of oxen,

And ufor the treading of lesser cattle.

8 Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great aroll, and bwrite in it with ca man’s pen concerning †Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, dUriah the priest, and eZechariah the son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I †went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 4 fFor before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, ||fthe riches of gDamascus and the spoil of hSamaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

5 The Lord spake also unto me again, saying,

6  Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of iShiloah that go softly,

And rejoice in kRezin and Remaliah’s son;

7  Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them

lThe waters of llthe river, strong and many,

Even mthe king of Assyria, and all his glory:

And he shall come up over all his channels,

And go over all his banks:

8  And he shall pass through Judah;

He shall nooverflow and ogo over,

He shall reach even nto the neck;

And †qthe stretching out of rhis wings shall fill sthe breadth of thy land, O tImmanuel.

9  uAssociate yourselves, O ye people, ||and vye shall be broken in pieces;

And give ear, all ye of far countries:

Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces;

Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

10  wTake counsel together, and it shall xcome to nought;

Speak the word, and yit shall not stand:

For tzGod is with us.

11  For the Lord spake thus to me †with a strong hand,

And instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

12  Say ye not, aA confederacy,

To all them to whom this people shall say, aA confederacy;

bNeither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

13  cSanctify the Lord of hosts himself;

And dlet him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

14  And ehe shall be for a sanctuary;

But for fa stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel,

gFor a gin and gfor a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15  And many among them shall stumble, and hfall, and be broken,

And be snared, and be taken.

16  Bind up the testimony, iseal the law among my kdisciples.

17  And I will lwait upon the Lord,

That mhideth his face from the house of Jacob,

And I will nlook for him.

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.

8  The Lord sent a word into Jacob,

And it hath lighted upon Israel.

9  And all the people shall hknow,

Even iEphraim and the inhabitant of kSamaria,

That say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

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

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

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

And †join his enemies together;

12  pThe 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.

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

Neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

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

tuBranch and tvrush, xin one day.

15  The ancient and yhonourable, he is the head;

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

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

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

17  Therefore 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.

18  For 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.

19  Through 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.

20  And 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:

21  mManasseh, 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.

10 Woe unto athem that decree unrighteous decrees,

And ||that write aagrievousness which they have prescribed;

2  To 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!

3  And 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?

4  gWithout 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.

6  I 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.

7  Howbeit 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.

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

9  Is not pCalno as qCarchemish?

rIs not sHamath as tArpad?

Is not uSamaria vas Damascus?

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

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

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

So do to Jerusalem and her yidols?

12  Wherefore 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.

13  dFor 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:

14  And 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.

15  Shall 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.

16  Therefore 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.

17  And 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;

18  And 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.

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

That a child may write them.

20  And 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.

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

Unto zthe mighty God.

22  For 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.

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

In the midst of all the land.

24  Therefore 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.

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

And mine anger in their destruction.

26  And 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.

27  And 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.

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

At tMichmash he hath laid up his ucarriages:

29  They 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.

31  bMadmenah is removed;

The inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.

32  As 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.

33  Behold, 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.

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

And lLebanon shall fall ||by a mighty one.