Isaiah, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of
Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son
of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it,
but could not prevail against it. {7:2} It was told the house of
David, saying, "Syria is allied with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and
the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the
wind. {7:3} Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you,
and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool,
on the highway of the fuller's field. {7:4} Tell him, 'Be careful, and
keep calm. Don't be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of
these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin
and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. {7:5} Because Syria, Ephraim,
and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying, {7:6}
"Let's go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let's divide it
among ourselves, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of
Tabeel." {7:7} This is what the Lord Yahweh says: "It shall not stand,
neither shall it happen." {7:8} For the head of Syria is Damascus, and
the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim
shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people; {7:9} and
the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's
son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.'"
{7:10} Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying, {7:11} "Ask a sign of
Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above."
{7:12} But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh."
{7:13} He said, "Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for
you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my
God also? {7:14} Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign.
Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his
name [1>]Immanuel.[<1] {7:15} He shall eat butter and honey when he
knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good. {7:16} For before the
child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose
two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. {7:17} Yahweh will bring on
you, on your people, and on your father's house, days that have not
come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of
Assyria. {7:18} It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle
for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and
for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. {7:19} They shall come,
and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the
rocks, on all thorn-hedges, and on all pastures. {7:20} In that day
the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the
River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the
feet; and it shall also consume the beard. {7:21} It shall happen in
that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep;
{7:22} and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk
which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat
butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land. {7:23} It will
happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines
at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns. {7:24}
People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land
will be briers and thorns. {7:25} All the hills that were cultivated
with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns;
but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of
sheep."
{8:1} Yahweh said to me, "Take a large tablet, and write on it with
a man's pen, '[1>]For Maher Shalal Hash Baz;[<1]' {8:2} and I will
take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and
Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. {8:3} I went to the prophetess; and
she conceived, and bore a son. Then said Yahweh to me, Call his name
Maher Shalal Hash Baz. {8:4} For before the child shall have knowledge
to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the
spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.
{8:5} Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying, {8:6} Because this people
have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in
Rezin and Remaliah's son; {8:7} now therefore, behold, the Lord brings
up on them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king
of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its
channels, and go over all its banks; {8:8} and it shall sweep onward
into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to
the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth
of your land, Immanuel. {8:9} Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be
broken in pieces! And give ear, all you of far countries: gird
yourselves, and be broken in pieces! Gird yourselves, and be broken in
pieces! {8:10} Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to
nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
{8:11} For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed
me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, {8:12} Don't you
say, "A conspiracy!" concerning all about which this people shall say,
"A conspiracy!" neither fear their fear, nor be in dread [of it].
{8:13} Yahweh of hosts, him shall you sanctify; and let him be your
fear, and let him be your dread. {8:14} He shall be for a sanctuary;
but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the
houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem. {8:15} Many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken,
and be snared, and be taken. {8:16} Bind up the testimony, seal the
law among my disciples. {8:17} I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his
face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. {8:18} Behold,
I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for
wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.
{8:19} When they shall tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar
spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:" shouldn't a
people consult with their God? on behalf of the living [should they
consult] with the dead? {8:20} To the law and to the testimony! if
they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning
for them. {8:21} They shall pass through it, sore distressed and
hungry; and it shall happen that when they shall be hungry, they shall
fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn
their faces upward: {8:22} and they shall look to the earth, and see,
distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness
[they shall be] driven away.
{9:1} But there shall be no gloom to her who was in anguish. In the
former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land
of Naphtali; but in the latter time has he made it glorious, by the
way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. {9:2} The
people who walked in darkness have seen a great light: those who lived
in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.
{9:3} You have multiplied the nation, you have increased their joy:
they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice
when they divide the spoil. {9:4} For the yoke of his burden, and the
staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in
the day of Midian. {9:5} For all the armor of the armed man in the
tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for
fuel of fire. {9:6} For to us a child is born, to us a son is given;
and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be
called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of
Peace. {9:7} Of the increase of his government and of peace there
shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to
establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness
from henceforth even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts will perform
this. {9:8} The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted on
Israel. {9:9} All the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the
inhabitant of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,
{9:10} The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the
sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place. {9:11}
Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of
Rezin, and will stir up his enemies, {9:12} 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. {9:13} Yet the people have not turned to him who struck
them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Hosts. {9:14} Therefore
Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush,
in one day. {9:15} The elder and the honorable man, he is the head;
and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail. {9:16} For those who
lead this people cause them to err; and those who are led of them are
destroyed. {9:17} Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young
men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaks
folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still. {9:18} For wickedness burns as the fire; it
devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the
forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. {9:19} Through the
wrath of Yahweh of hosts is the land burnt up; and the people are as
the fuel of fire: no man spares his brother. {9:20} One 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: {9:21} 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.
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:14} "Immanuel" means "God with us."
[1] {8:1} "Maher Shalal Hash Baz" means "quick to the plunder, swift to
the spoil."
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