Isaiah, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the
writers who write oppressive decrees; {10:2} to deprive the needy from
justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, 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 will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?
{10:4} They will only bow down under the prisoners,
and will fall under the slain.
For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is stretched out still.
{10:5} Alas 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 who anger me will I give him a command 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 all of my princes kings?
{10:9} Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't
Samaria like Damascus?" {10:10} As my hand has found the kingdoms of
the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those 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 will happen
that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on
Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the
king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty 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 boundaries of
the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I
have brought down their rulers. {10:14} My hand has found the riches
of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are
abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved
their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped."
{10:15} Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a
saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift
those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is
not wood. {10:16} Therefore the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will send
among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be
kindled 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. It
will be as when a standard bearer faints. {10:19} The remnant of the
trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their
number.
{10:20} It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel,
and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again
lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on the LORD, the Holy One
of Israel, in truth. {10:21} A remnant will return, even the remnant
of Jacob, to the mighty God. {10:22} For though your people, Israel,
are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A
destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. {10:23} For
the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will make a full end, and that
determined, in the midst of all the earth. {10:24} Therefore the Lord,
the LORD of Hosts, says "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, as Egypt did. {10:25} For yet a very little while,
and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger
will be directed to his destruction." {10:26} The LORD of Hosts will
stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the
rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up
like he did against Egypt. {10:27} It will happen in that day, that
his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off
your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing
oil.
{10:28} He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At
Michmash he stores his baggage. {10:29} They have gone over the pass.
They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of
Saul has 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 he
will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter
of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. {10:33} Behold, the Lord, the LORD of
Hosts, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and
the lofty will be brought low. {10:34} He will cut down the thickets
of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
{11:1} A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse,
and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
{11:2} The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him:
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.
{11:3} His delight will be in the fear of the LORD.
He will not judge by the sight of his eyes,
neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
{11:4} but with righteousness he will judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the humble of the earth.
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;
and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
{11:5} Righteousness will be the belt of his waist,
and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
{11:6} The wolf will live with the lamb,
and the leopard will lie down with the young goat;
The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together;
and a little child will lead them.
{11:7} The cow and the bear will graze.
Their young ones will lie down together.
The lion will eat straw like the ox.
{11:8} The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole,
and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.
{11:9} They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD,
as the waters cover the sea.
{11:10} It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the
root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting
place will be glorious. {11:11} It will happen in that day that the
Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant
that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros,
from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands
of the sea. {11:12} He will set up a banner 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 will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off.
Ephraim won't envy Judah, and Judah won't persecute Ephraim. {11:14}
They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west.
Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend
their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey
them. {11:15} The LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian
sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River,
and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in
sandals. {11:16} There will be a highway for the remnant that is left
of his people from Assyria, like 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, the
LORD; 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 the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and
song; and he has become my salvation [yeshu`ah]." {12:3} Therefore
with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation [yeshu`ah].
{12:4} In that day you will say, "Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his
name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is
exalted! {12:5} Sing to the LORD, 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 the Holy One of Israel is great in the midst
of you!"
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