Isaiah:9-12

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* Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation , when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali , and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea , beyond Jordan , in Galilee of the nations . * The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light : they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death , upon them hath the light shined . * Thou hast multiplied the nation , and not increased the joy : they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest , and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil . * For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden , and the staff of his shoulder , the rod of his oppressor , as in the day of Midian . * For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise , and garments rolled in blood ; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire . * For unto us a child is born , unto us a son is given : and the government shall be upon his shoulder : and his name shall be called Wonderful , Counsellor , The mighty God , The everlasting Father , The Prince of Peace . * Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end , upon the throne of David , and upon his kingdom , to order it , and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever . The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this . * The Lord sent a word into Jacob , and it hath lighted upon Israel . * And all the people shall know , even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria , that say in the pride and stoutness of heart , * The bricks are fallen down , but we will build with hewn stones : the sycomores are cut down , but we will change them into cedars . * Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him , and join his enemies together ; * The Syrians before , and the Philistines behind ; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth . For all this his anger is not turned away , but his hand is stretched out still . * For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them , neither do they seek the LORD of hosts . * Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail , branch and rush , in one day . * The ancient and honourable , he is the head ; and the prophet that teacheth lies , he is the tail . * For the leaders of this people cause them to err ; and they that are led of them are destroyed . * Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men , neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows : for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer , and every mouth speaketh folly . For all this his anger is not turned away , but his hand is stretched out still . * For wickedness burneth as the fire : it shall devour the briers and thorns , and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest , and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke . * Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened , and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire : no man shall spare his brother . * And he shall snatch on the right hand , and be hungry ; and he shall eat on the left hand , and they shall not be satisfied : they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm : * Manasseh , Ephraim ; and Ephraim , Manasseh : and they together shall be against Judah . For all this his anger is not turned away , but his hand is stretched out still . * Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees , and that write grievousness which they have prescribed ; * To turn aside the needy from judgment , and to take away the right from the poor of my people , that widows may be their prey , and that they may rob the fatherless ! * And what will ye do in the day of visitation , and in the desolation which shall come from far ? to whom will ye flee for help ? and where will ye leave your glory ? * Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners , and they shall fall under the slain . For all this his anger is not turned away , but his hand is stretched out still . * O Assyrian , the rod of mine anger , and the staff in their hand is mine indignation . * I will send him against an hypocritical nation , and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge , to take the spoil , and to take the prey , and to tread them down like the mire of the streets . * Howbeit he meaneth not so , neither doth his heart think so ; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few . * For he saith , Are not my princes altogether kings ? * Is not Calno as Carchemish ? is not Hamath as Arpad ? is not Samaria as Damascus ? * As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols , and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria ; * Shall I not , as I have done unto Samaria and her idols , so do to Jerusalem and her idols ? * Wherefore it shall come to pass , that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem , I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria , and the glory of his high looks . * For he saith , By the strength of my hand I have done it , and by 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 a valiant man : * And my 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 peeped . * Shall the axe boast 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 . * Therefore shall the Lord , the Lord of hosts , send among his fat ones leanness ; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire . * And the light of Israel shall be for a fire , and his Holy One for a flame : and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day ; * And shall consume the glory of his forest , and of his fruitful field , both soul and body : and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth . * And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few , that a child may write them . * And it shall come to pass in that day , that the remnant of Israel , and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob , shall no more again stay upon him that smote them ; but shall stay upon the LORD , the Holy One of Israel , in truth . * The remnant shall return , even the remnant of Jacob , unto the mighty God . * For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea , yet a remnant of them shall return : the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness . * For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption , even determined , in the midst of all the land . * Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts , O my people that dwellest in Zion , be not afraid of the Assyrian : he shall smite thee with a rod , and shall lift up his staff against thee , after the manner of Egypt . * For yet a very little while , and the indignation shall cease , and mine anger in their destruction . * And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb : and as his rod was upon the sea , so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt . * And it shall come to pass in that day , that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder , and his yoke from off thy neck , and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing . * He is come to Aiath , he is passed to Migron ; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages : * They are gone over the passage : they have taken up their lodging at Geba ; Ramah is afraid ; Gibeah of Saul is fled . * Lift up thy voice , O daughter of Gallim : cause it to be heard unto Laish , O poor Anathoth . * Madmenah is removed ; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee . * As yet shall he remain at Nob that day : he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion , the hill of Jerusalem . * Behold , the Lord , the LORD of hosts , shall lop the bough with terror : and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down , and the haughty shall be humbled . * And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron , and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one . * And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse , and a Branch shall grow out of his roots : * And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him , the spirit of wisdom and understanding , the spirit of counsel and might , the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD ; * And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD : and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes , neither reprove after the hearing of his ears : * But with righteousness shall he judge the poor , and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth : and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth , and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked . * And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins , and faithfulness the girdle of his reins . * The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb , and the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together ; and a little child shall lead them . * And the cow and the bear shall feed ; their young ones shall lie down together : and the lion shall eat straw like the ox . * And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp , and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice ' den . * They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain : for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD , as the waters cover the sea . * And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse , which shall stand for an ensign of the people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek : and his rest shall be glorious . * And it shall come to pass in that day , that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people , which shall be left , from Assyria , and from Egypt , and from Pathros , and from Cush , and from Elam , and from Shinar , and from Hamath , and from the islands of the sea . * And he shall set up an ensign for the nations , and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel , and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth . * The envy also of Ephraim shall depart , and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off : Ephraim shall not envy Judah , and Judah shall not vex Ephraim . * But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west ; they shall spoil them of the east together : they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab ; and the children of Ammon shall obey them . * And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea ; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river , and shall smite it in the seven streams , and make men go over dryshod . * And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people , which shall be left , from Assyria ; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt . * And in that day thou shalt say , O LORD , I will praise thee : though thou wast angry with me , thine anger is turned away , and thou comfortedst me . * Behold , God is my salvation ; I will trust , and not be afraid : for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song ; he also is become my salvation . * Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation . * And in that day shall ye say , Praise the LORD , call upon his name , declare his doings among the people , make mention that his name is exalted . * Sing unto the LORD ; for he hath done excellent things : this is known in all the earth . * Cry out and shout , thou inhabitant of Zion : for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee . * The burden of Babylon , which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see .

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