Isaiah, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the
writers who write perverseness; {10:2} to turn aside the needy from
justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows
may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
{10:3} What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the
desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help?
and where will you leave your glory? {10:4} They shall only bow down
under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his
anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. {10:5}
Ho Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my
indignation! {10:6} I will send him against a profane 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. {10:7} However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart
think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few
nations. {10:8} For he says, Aren't my princes all of them kings?
{10:9} Isn't Calno as Carchemish? Isn't Hamath as Arpad? Isn't Samaria
as Damascus? {10:10} As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols,
whose engraved images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
{10:11} shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to
Jerusalem and her idols? {10:12} Therefore it shall happen that, when
the Lord has performed his whole work on 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. {10:13} For he has said, By the strength
of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding:
and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their
treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit
[on thrones]: {10:14} and my hand has found as a nest the riches of
the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that are forsaken, have I
gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or
that opened the mouth, or chirped. {10:15} Shall the axe boast itself
against him who hews therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against
him who wields it? as if a rod should wield those who lift it up, [or]
as if a staff should lift up [him who is] not wood. {10:16} Therefore
will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and
under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of
fire. {10:17} The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One
for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in
one day. {10:18} He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his
fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a
standard-bearer faints. {10:19} The remnant of the trees of his forest
shall be few, so that a child may write them. {10:20} It shall come to
pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and those who are
escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean on him who
struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in
truth. {10:21} A remnant shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob, to
the mighty God. {10:22} For though your people, Israel, be as the sand
of the sea, [only] a remnant of them shall return: a destruction [is]
determined, overflowing with righteousness. {10:23} For a full end,
and that determined, will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, make in the midst
of all the earth. {10:24} Therefore thus says the Lord, Yahweh of
Hosts, my people who dwell in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrian,
though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you,
after the manner of Egypt. {10:25} For yet a very little while, and
the indignation [against you] shall be accomplished, and my anger
[shall be directed] to his destruction. {10:26} Yahweh of Hosts will
stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the
rock of Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up
after the manner of Egypt. {10:27} It shall happen in that day, that
his burden shall depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off
your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.
{10:28} He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash
he lays up his baggage; {10:29} they are gone over the pass; they have
taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul is
fled. {10:30} Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! listen,
Laishah! You poor Anathoth! {10:31} Madmenah is a fugitive; the
inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. {10:32} This very day shall he
halt at Nob: he shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of
Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. {10:33} Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of
Hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature shall
be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low. {10:34} He will cut
down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a
mighty one.
{11:1} There shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and
a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. {11:2} The Spirit of
Yahweh shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear
of Yahweh. {11:3} His delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh; and he
shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the
hearing of his ears; {11:4} but with righteousness shall he judge the
poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth; and he shall
strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his
lips shall he kill the wicked. {11:5} Righteousness shall be the belt
of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins. {11:6} The wolf
shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the
kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fattened calf together;
and a little child shall lead them. {11:7} The cow and the bear shall
feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat
straw like the ox. {11:8} The sucking child shall play on the hole of
the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
{11:9} They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for
the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters
cover the sea. {11:10} It shall happen in that day, that the root of
Jesse, who stands for an ensign of the peoples, to him shall the
nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious. {11:11} It
shall happen in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the
second time to recover the remnant of his people, who shall remain,
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. {11:12} He will set up an ensign for the nations, and will
assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of
Judah from the four corners of the earth. {11:13} The envy also of
Ephraim shall depart, and those who vex Judah shall be cut off:
Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. {11:14}
They shall fly down on the shoulder of the Philistines on the west;
together shall they despoil the children of the east: they shall put
forth their hand on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall
obey them. {11:15} Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the
Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over
the River, and will strike it into seven streams, and cause men to
march over in sandals. {11:16} There shall be a highway for the
remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria; like as there
was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
{12:1} In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, Yahweh;
for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you
comfort me. {12:2} Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will
not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has
become my salvation." {12:3} Therefore with joy you shall draw water
out of the wells of salvation. {12:4} In that day you will say, "Give
thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the
peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted! {12:5} Sing to Yahweh, for
he has done excellent things! Let this be known in all the earth!
{12:6} Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for great in the
midst of you is the Holy One of Israel!"
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