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a son will be given to us,
and the government will be on His shoulders.
He will be named
Wonderful Counselor,
Eternal Father,
Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you
because the Lord has anointed Me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent Me to heal
to proclaim liberty to the captives
and freedom to the prisoners;
will renew their strength;
they will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary;
they will walk and not faint.
crushed because of our iniquities;
punishment
and we are healed by His wounds.
how you have fallen from the heavens!
You destroyer of nations,
you have been cut down to the ground.
and He carried our pains;
but we in turn regarded Him stricken,
struck down by God,
In the year that King Uzziah
and all our righteous acts are like a polluted
all of us wither like a leaf,
and our iniquities
we all have turned to our own way;
and the Lord has punished Him
for
and your ways are not My ways.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
you who seek the Lord:
Look to the rock from which you were cut,
and to the quarry from which you were dug.
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they will be as white as snow;
though they are as red as crimson,
they will be like wool.
and the donkey its master’s feeding trough,
but Israel does not know;
My people do not understand.”
A voice of one crying out:
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
and women rule over them.
My people, your leaders mislead you;
they confuse the direction of your paths.
do not be afraid, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you; I will help you;
I will hold on to you with My righteous right hand.
and a branch
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and My servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe Me
and understand that I am He.
No god was formed before Me,
and there will be none after Me.
come to the waters;
and you without money,
come, buy, and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost!
in perfect peace,
for it is trusting in You.
between you and your God,
and your sins have made Him hide His face from you
so that He does not listen.
this is My Chosen One;
I have put My Spirit on Him;
He will bring justice
but we will rebuild with cut stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
but we will replace them with cedars.”
will not return to Me empty,
but it will accomplish what I please
and will prosper in what I send it to do.”
and the leopard will lie down with the goat.
The calf, the young lion, and the fatling will be together,
and a child will lead them.
a song about my loved one’s vineyard:
The one I love had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
This is what the Lord, your Redeemer,
who teaches you for your benefit,
who leads you in the way you should go.
the past events will not be remembered or come to mind.
He touched my mouth
your wickedness is removed
and your sin is atoned for.
the One who created you, Jacob,
and the One who formed you, Israel
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name; you are Mine.
and His ear is not too deaf to hear.
This is what the Lord, the King of Israel and its Redeemer,
There is no God but Me.
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.
He was like someone people turned away from;
He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.
the mountain of the Lord’s house
at the top of the mountains
and will be raised above the hills.
All nations will stream to it,
Have you not heard?
Yahweh is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the whole earth.
He never grows faint or weary;
there is no limit to His understanding.
no spot is uninjured
wounds, welts, and festering sores
not cleansed, bandaged,
or soothed with oil.
and provide arbitration for many peoples.
They will turn their swords into plows
and their spears into pruning knives.
Nations will not take up the sword against other nations,
and they will never again train for war.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying:
Who will go for Us?
I said:
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a shack in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.
To break the chains of wickedness,
to untie the ropes of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free,
and to tear off every yoke?
He will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.
and stirred up his enemies.
To the law and to the testimony!
and good evil,
who substitute darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who substitute bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
And who has the arm of the Lord
are the feet of the herald,
who proclaims peace,
who brings news of good things,
who proclaims salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
yet He did not open His mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
and like a sheep silent before her shearers,
He did not open His mouth.
I make success and create disaster;
I, Yahweh, do all these things.
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
And one called to another:
His glory
your cities burned with fire;
foreigners devour your fields
before your very eyes—
a desolation demolished by foreigners.
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up.
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.
the head of Damascus is Rezin
(within 65 years
Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people),
When
He will see His seed, He will prolong His days,
and by His hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.
for I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and no one is like Me.
and do not return there
without saturating the earth
and making it germinate and sprout,
and providing seed to sow
and food to eat,
The Lord said:
to honor Me with lip-service
yet their hearts are far from Me,
and their worship consists of man-made rules
learned by rote—
had not left us a few survivors,
we would be like Sodom,
we would resemble Gomorrah.
when you pass through the waters,
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not overwhelm you.
You will not be scorched
when you walk through the fire,
and the flame will not burn you.
God is the Creator of the heavens.
He formed the earth and made it.
He established it;
He did not create it to be empty,
but formed it to be inhabited
“I am Yahweh,
and there is no other.
and He will receive
because He submitted Himself to death,
and was counted among the rebels;
yet He bore the sin of many
and interceded for the rebels.
the tongue of those who are instructed
to know how to sustain the weary with a word.
He awakens Me each morning;
He awakens My ear to listen like those being instructed.
from doing whatever you want on My holy day;
if you call the Sabbath a delight,
and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
seeking your own pleasure, or talking too much;
who lives forever, whose name is Holy
“I live in a high and holy place,
and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and revive the heart of the oppressed.
Not one of them will be missing,
none will be lacking its mate,
because He has ordered it by my
and He will gather them by His Spirit.
who requires this from you—
this trampling of My courts?
I will not give My glory to another
or My praise to idols.
a Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
a Spirit of counsel and strength,
a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
there is no God but Me.
I will strengthen
though you do not know Me,
He gathers the lambs in His arms
and carries them in the fold of His garment.
He gently leads those that are nursing.
the Lord is our lawgiver,
the Lord is our King.
He will save us.
“Look, I have laid a stone
a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;
the one who believes will be unshakable.
and you will refute any accusation
raised against you in court.
This is the heritage of the Lord’s servants,
and their righteousness is from Me.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Your incense is detestable to Me.
New Moons and Sabbaths,
and the calling of solemn assemblies
I cannot stand iniquity
This is what the Lord says:
and earth is My footstool.
What house could you possibly build for Me?
And what place could be My home?
pay attention, all you distant lands;
prepare for war, and be broken;
prepare for war, and be broken.
Then I said:
because I am a man of unclean lips
and live among a people of unclean lips,
and because my eyes have seen the King,
the Lord of Hosts.
Raise your voice like a trumpet.
Tell My people their transgression
and the house of Jacob their sins.
have seen a great light;
a light has dawned
on those living in the land of darkness.
and let them rejoice in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
will be acceptable on My altar,
for My house will be called a house of prayer
for all nations.”
The vision
I exult in my God;
for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation
and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness,
as a groom wears a turban
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
This is what the Lord, your Redeemer
who stretched out the heavens by Myself;
who alone spread out the earth;
And He replied:
Keep listening, but do not understand;
keep looking, but do not perceive.
for My own sake
and remember your sins no more.
all the ends of the earth.
For I am God,
and there is no other.
and the sinful one his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord,
so He may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for He will freely forgive.
distant peoples, pay attention.
The Lord called
He named me while I was in my mother’s womb.
on My entire holy mountain,
for the land will be as full
of the knowledge of the Lord
as the sea is filled with water.
I will trust Him and not be afraid,
for Yah, the Lord,
is my strength and my song.
He has become my salvation.”
They have become a burden to Me;
I am tired of putting up with them.
for the Lord has spoken:
“I have raised children
but they have rebelled against Me.
to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes,
festive oil instead of mourning,
and splendid clothes instead of despair.
And they will be called righteous trees,
planted by the Lord
to glorify Him.
The vision that Isaiah
and is rising up to show you compassion,
for the Lord is a just God.
All who wait patiently for Him are happy.
I will refuse to look at you;
even if you offer countless prayers,
I will not listen.
Your hands are covered with blood.
even now it is coming. Do you not see it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,
rivers
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will set up my throne
above the stars of God.
I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly,
in the remotest parts of the North.
“It is not enough for you to be My Servant
raising up the tribes of Jacob
and restoring the protected ones of Israel.
I will also make you a light for the nations,
to be My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
Judah’s harassment will end.
Ephraim will no longer be envious of Judah,
and Judah will not harass Ephraim.
and like a root out of dry ground.
He didn’t have an impressive form
or majesty that we should look at Him,
no appearance that we should desire Him.
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
who gives breath to the people on it
and life
and He will be satisfied with His knowledge.
My righteous
and He will carry their iniquities.
and with a rich man at His death,
although He had done no violence
and had not spoken deceitfully.
and from long ago what is not yet done,
saying: My plan will take place,
and I will do all My will.
the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
When they say to you, “Consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,”
or lack compassion for the child of her womb?
Even if these forget,
yet I will not forget you.
and so they all came into being.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will look favorably on this kind of person:
one who is humble,
and trembles at My word.
and I will not keep still because of Jerusalem,
until her righteousness shines like a bright light
and her salvation, like a flaming torch.
for a righteous purpose,
and I will hold You by Your hand.
I will keep You and appoint You
to be a covenant for the people
and a light to the nations,
we are the clay, and You are our potter;
we all are the work of Your hands.
for all the peoples on this mountain
a feast of aged wine, choice meat,
and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.
If you do not stand firm in your faith,
then you will not stand at all.
is the house of Israel,
and the men
the plant He delighted in.
He looked for justice
but saw injustice,
for righteousness,
but heard cries of wretchedness.
you will be devoured by the sword.”
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
have consumed Israel with open mouths.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.
deafen their ears and blind their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their minds,
turn back, and be healed.
will I not also do to Jerusalem and its idols?”
Then the Lord spoke again to Ahaz:
on the Philistine flank to the west.
Together they will plunder the people of the east.
They will extend their power over Edom and Moab,
and the Ammonites will be their subjects.
and will burn away your dross
I will remove all your impurities.
they will look closely at you:
“Is this the man who caused the earth to tremble,
who shook the kingdoms,
He will wave His hand over the Euphrates
with His mighty wind
and will split it into seven streams,
letting people walk through on foot.
and join field to field
until there is no more room
and you alone are left in the land.
who will survive from Assyria,
as there was for Israel
when they came up from the land of Egypt.
the Mighty One of Israel, declares:
“Ah, I will gain satisfaction from My foes;
I will take revenge against My enemies.
Make a prediction; it will not happen.
For God is with us.
friends of thieves.
They all love graft
and chase after bribes.
They do not defend the rights of the fatherless,
and the widow’s case never comes before them.
and like sheep without a shepherd,
each one will turn to his own people,
each one will flee to his own land.
“Ask for a sign
it will be burned again.
Like the terebinth or the oak
that leaves a stump when felled,
the holy seed
man against man, neighbor against neighbor;
the youth will act arrogantly toward the elder,
and the worthless toward the honorable.
and your advisers to their former state.
Afterward you will be called the Righteous City,
a Faithful City.”
For this is what the Lord said to me with great power, to keep
they did not seek the Lord of Hosts.
But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I
Then I said, “Until when, Lord?”
houses are without people,
the land is ruined and desolate,
and his work a spark;
both will burn together,
with no one to quench the flames.
and those who abandon the Lord will perish.
He gives wonderful advice;
He gives great wisdom.
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of divination from the East
and of fortune-tellers
They are in league
Then the Lord will create
I heard the Lord of Hosts say:
grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.
It will be a sign and witness to the Lord of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and leader, and he will rescue them.
in pursuit of beer,
who linger into the evening,
inflamed by wine.
you desired,
and you will be embarrassed because of the gardens
you have chosen.
only six gallons,
and 10 bushels
only one bushel.
these people say is an alliance.
Do not fear what they fear;
do not be terrified.
the tail is the prophet, the lying teacher.
over
and has no compassion
on its fatherless and widows,
for everyone is a godless evildoer,
and every mouth speaks folly.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.
who destroyed its cities
and would not release the prisoners to return home?”
in his father’s house, saying:
“You have a cloak—you be our leader!
This heap of rubble will be under your control.”
For he said:
and wisdom, for I am clever.
I abolished the borders of nations
and plundered their treasures;
like a mighty warrior, I subjugated the inhabitants.
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
to seize the wealth of the nations.
Like one gathering abandoned eggs,
I gathered the whole earth.
No wing fluttered;
no beak opened or chirped.
and there is no limit to their treasures;
their land is full of horses,
and there is no limit to their chariots.
and there will be a booth for shade from heat by day, and a refuge and shelter from storm and rain.
I will drive him, like a peg, into a firm place. He will be a throne of honor for his father’s house.
and hide in the dust
from the terror of the Lord
and from His majestic splendor.
but they are still hungry;
they have eaten on the left,
but they are still not satisfied.
Each one eats the flesh of his own arm.
because they lack knowledge;
her
and her
whose leaves are withered,
and like a garden without water.
and like Sodom,
They do not conceal it.
Woe to them,
for they have brought evil on themselves.
Only He should be feared;
only He should be held in awe.
by the wrath of the Lord of Hosts,
and the people are like fuel for the fire.
No one has compassion on his brother.
Isaiah
their houses will be looted,
and their wives raped.
“I’m not a healer.
I don’t even have food or clothing in my house.
Don’t make me the leader of the people!”
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up—it will be humbled—
and the loftiness of men will be humbled;
the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
they will fall and be broken;
they will be snared and captured.
By the time he learns to reject what is bad and choose what is good,
and the loftiness of men will be brought low;
the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
because of the iniquity
They will never rise up to possess a land
or fill the surface of the earth with cities.
the Lord will whistle
that is at the farthest streams of the Nile
and to the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
The Lord will make Himself known to Egypt, and Egypt will know the Lord on that day. They will offer sacrifices and offerings;
above the one who chops with it?
Does a saw magnify itself
above the one who saws with it?
It would be like a staff waving the one who lifts
It would be like a rod lifting a man who isn’t wood!
and Ephraim with Manasseh;
together, both are against Judah.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.
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tambourine, flute, and wine.
They do not perceive the Lord’s actions,
and they do not see the work of His hands.
and its Holy One, a flame.
In one day it will burn up Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
and opens wide its enormous jaws,
and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses,
her crowds, and those who carouse in her!
will inflict an emaciating disease
on the well-fed of Assyria,
and He will kindle a burning fire
under its glory.
who cannot be bought off with
and who have no desire for gold.
The foundations of the doorways shook
that consumes thorns and briers
and kindles the forest thickets
so that they go up in a column of smoke.
and Judah has fallen
because they have spoken and acted against the Lord,
defying His glorious presence.
for they will eat the fruit of their labor.
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken from the altar
“I will make her a swampland and a region for screech owls,
This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
The Lord also says:
walking with heads held high
and seductive eyes,
going along with prancing steps,
jingling their ankle bracelets,
who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob.
I will wait for Him.
in the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks,
in all the thornbushes, and in all the water holes.
will seize one man,
“We will eat our own bread
and provide our own clothing.
Just let us be called by your name.
Take away our disgrace.”
Here I am with the children the Lord has given me
because you destroyed your land
and slaughtered your own people.
The offspring of evildoers
will never be remembered.
for the king for a long time now.
Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,
with plenty of fire and wood.
The breath of the Lord,
kindles it.
“I will rise up against them”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity”—this is the Lord’s declaration.
On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on the one who struck them, but they will faithfully depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
lofty and lifted up,
against all the oaks of Bashan,
as the sand of the sea,
only a remnant of them will return.
Destruction has been decreed;
justice overflows.
For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned.
against the elders and leaders of His people:
“You have devastated the vineyard.
The plunder from the poor is in your houses.
The Lord will bring on you, your people, and the house of your father, such a time as has never been since Ephraim separated from Judah
He will not judge
by what He sees with His eyes,
He will not execute justice
by what He hears with His ears,
The Lord of Hosts has sworn:
as I have planned it, so it will happen.
“I will praise You, Lord,
although You were angry with me.
Your anger has turned away,
and You have had compassion
for what they have done will be done to them.
the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans,
will be like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
because the rod of the one who struck you
For a viper will come from the root
and from its egg comes a flying serpent.
and holes in the ground,
away from the terror of the Lord
and from His majestic splendor,
when He rises to terrify the earth.
Then the Lord said to me, “Take a large piece of parchment
like a worthless branch,
covered by those slain with the sword
and dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.
who has only the breath in his nostrils.
What is he really worth?
and the holy God
against all the lofty hills,
is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah
every kind of security:
the entire supply of bread and water,
as if in
and strangers
among the ruins of the rich.
and the impoverished will lie down in safety,
but I will kill your root with hunger,
and your remnant will be slain.
and the crevices in the cliffs,
away from the terror of the Lord
and from His majestic splendor,
when He rises to terrify the earth.
because the whole land will be thorns and briers.
faithfulness will be a belt around His waist.
his burden will fall from your shoulders,
and his yoke from your neck.
The yoke will be broken because of fatness.
the glory of its forests and orchards
as a sickness consumes a person.
On that day the Lord will use a razor
against every fortified wall,
will be so few in number
that a child could count them.
Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem
They will hang on him the whole burden of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the small vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.
Therefore, the Lord God of Hosts says this: “My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, though he strikes you with a rod and raises his staff over you as the Egyptians did.
therefore, who can stand in its way?
It is His hand that is outstretched,
so who can turn it back?
that the Lord brings down on him
will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres;
He will fight against him with brandished weapons.
for the whole earth,
and this is the hand stretched out
against all the nations.
their young ones will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
of the daughters of Zion,
and the Lord will shave their foreheads bare.
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected
but it yielded worthless grapes.
with cords of deceit
and pull sin along with cart ropes,
They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.
the Lord God of Hosts
is carrying out a destruction that was decreed.
and grind the faces of the poor?”
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.
and the bloodied garments of war
will be burned as fuel for the fire.
They will look toward the earth
their silver and gold idols,
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.
“Give thanks to Yahweh; proclaim His name!
Celebrate His works among the peoples.
Declare that His name is exalted.
On that day
He raised His hand against them and struck them;
the mountains quaked,
and their corpses were like garbage in the streets.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.
Let this be known throughout the earth.
and a toddler will put his hand into a snake’s den.
The Lord has founded Zion,
and His afflicted people find refuge in her.
And the Lord of Hosts will brandish a whip against him as He did when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb;
and whistles
Look—how quickly and swiftly they come!
and to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice,
so that widows can be their spoil
and they can plunder the fatherless.
“Let Him hurry up and do His work quickly
so that we can see it!
Let the plan
so that we can know it!”
The inhabitants of Gebim have sought refuge.
and has gone through Migron,
storing his equipment at Michmash.
a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
and increased its joy.
The people have rejoiced before You
as they rejoice at harvest time
and as they rejoice when dividing spoils.
flood over it, and sweep through,
reaching up to the neck;
and its spreading streams
will fill your entire land, Immanuel!
and men of Judah,
please judge between Me
and My vineyard.
Isn’t Hamath like Arpad?
Isn’t Samaria
I will command him to go
against a people destined for My rage,
to take spoils, to plunder,
and to trample them down like clay
every place where there were 1,000 vines,
worth 1,000 pieces of silver,
will become thorns and briers.
he will eat butter,
for every survivor in the land will eat butter and honey.
In just a little while My wrath will be spent and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
They will have no compassion on little ones;
they will not look with pity on children.
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will become like something rotten
and their blossoms will blow away like dust,
for they have rejected
the instruction of the Lord of Hosts,
and they have despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel.
When it became known to the house of David
for the Holy One of Israel
in His greatness.”
when devastation comes from far away?
Who will you run to for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?
instead of a belt, a rope;
instead of beautifully styled hair,
instead of fine clothes, sackcloth;
instead of beauty, branding.
I was then intimate with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
“We will spend the night at Geba.”
The people of Ramah are trembling;
those at Gibeah of Saul have fled.
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.
The Lord will strike Egypt, striking and healing. Then they will return to the Lord and He will hear their prayers and heal them.
Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub
when the Lord has washed away the filth
the slowly flowing waters of Shiloah
and rejoiced with
and the son of Remaliah,
the counselor, cunning magician,
than I did?
Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes,
did it yield worthless grapes?
Tremble with fear,
For a cloud of dust is coming from the north,
and there is no one missing from the invader’s ranks.
this is not what he plans.
It is his intent to destroy
and to cut off many nations.
except crouch among the prisoners
or fall among the slain.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.
the mighty rushing waters of the Euphrates River—
the king of Assyria and all his glory.
It will overflow its channels
and spill over all its banks.
I have appointed
and the rod on their shoulders,
the staff of their oppressor,
just as You did on the day of Midian.
and owls will fill the houses.
Ostriches will dwell there,
and wild goats will leap about.
and all their bows strung.
Their horses’ hooves are like flint;
their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.
Say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Don’t be afraid or cowardly
that were once tilled with a hoe,
for fear of the thorns and briers.
Those hills will be places for oxen to graze
and for sheep to trample.
for before the boy knows how to call out father or mother,
Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria
They will say with pride and arrogance:
like the roaring of the sea.
When one looks at the land,
there will be darkness and distress;
light will be obscured by clouds.
they roar like young lions;
they growl and seize their prey
and carry it off,
and no one can rescue it.
whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted harm against you. They say,
no one slumbers or sleeps.
No belt is loose
and no sandal strap broken.
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat.
‘Let us go up against Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it for ourselves. Then we can install Tabeel’s son as king in it.’”
The Lord spoke to me again:
and to the fading flower of its beautiful splendor,
which is on the summit above the rich valley.
Woe to those overcome with wine.
On that day there will be a highway
so My ways are higher than your ways,
and My thoughts than your thoughts.
their prosperity will be great,
and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
and its prosperity will never end.
He will reign on the throne of David
and over his kingdom,
to establish and sustain it
with justice and righteousness from now on and forever.
The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.
whose right hand I have grasped
to subdue nations before him,
to disarm
to open the doors before him
and the gates will not be shut:
you rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the instruction of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!
For you will be covered with the morning dew,
and the earth will bring out the departed spirits.
burst into song and shout,
you who have not been in labor!
For the children of the forsaken one will be more
than the children of the married woman,”
says the Lord.
will stand as a banner for the peoples.
The nations will seek Him,
and His resting place will be glorious.
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us about His ways
so that we may walk in His paths.”
For instruction will go out of Zion
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Seek justice.
Correct the oppressor.
Defend the rights of the fatherless.
Plead the widow’s cause.
which I will make,
will endure before Me”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“so your offspring and your name will endure.
“You will be delivered by returning and resting;
your strength will lie in quiet confidence.
But you are not willing.”
For the Lord will have compassion
On that day the Lord with His harsh, great, and strong sword, will bring judgment on Leviathan,
The Lord God will wipe away the tears
from every face
and remove His people’s disgrace
from the whole earth,
for the Lord has spoken.
and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:
On that day”—the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“the peg that was driven into a firm place will give way, be cut off, and fall, and the load on it will be destroyed.” Indeed, the Lord has spoken.
I have appointed watchmen on your walls;
they will never be silent, day or night.
There is no rest for you,
who remind the Lord.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
They carry out a plan,
they make an alliance,
but against My will,
piling sin on top of sin.
who created
He brings out the starry host by number;
He calls all of them by name.
Because of His great power and strength,
not one of them is missing.
On that day
and created for My glory.
I have formed him; indeed, I have made him.”
and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard.
I did not hide My face from scorn and spitting.
“As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against Me;
yes, let them take counsel together.
Who predicted this long ago?
Who announced it from ancient times?
Was it not I, Yahweh?
There is no other God but Me,
a righteous God and Savior;
there is no one except Me.
or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?
Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure
or weighed the mountains in a balance
and the hills in the scales?
On that day Israel will form a triple alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing within the land.
Another
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.
satisfy you in a parched land,
and strengthen your bones.
You will be like a watered garden
and like a spring whose waters never run dry.
From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
from the time anything existed, I was there.”
And now the Lord God
has sent me and His Spirit.
and come down,
so that mountains would quake at Your presence
He stirs up the spirits of the departed for you—
all the rulers
He makes all the kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.
and execute justice for the oppressed of the land.
He will strike the land
with discipline
and He will kill the wicked
with a command
or lived in from generation to generation;
a nomad will not pitch his tent there,
and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.
His name is Yahweh of Hosts—
and the Holy One of Israel
He is called the God of all the earth.
the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior,
give Egypt as a ransom for you,
Cush and Seba in your place.
Truth has gone from My mouth,
a word that will not be revoked:
Every knee will bow
every tongue will swear allegiance.
no one has listened,
no eye has seen any God except You,
who acts on behalf of the one who waits for Him.
and gather the dispersed of Israel;
He will collect the scattered of Judah
from the four corners of the earth.
Put on the strength of the Lord’s power.
Wake up as in days past,
as in generations of long ago.
Wasn’t it You who hacked Rahab to pieces,
who pierced the sea monster?
His appearance was so disfigured
that He did not look like a man,
and His form did not resemble a human being—
hold your right hand
and say to you: Do not fear,
I will help you.
who makes a way in the sea,
and a path through surging waters,
and who considered His fate?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
He was struck because of my people’s rebellion.
I was found by those who did not seek Me.
I said: Here I am, here I am,
to a nation that was not called by
Jacob, whom I have chosen,
descendant of Abraham, My friend
This is what the Lord says:
for My salvation is coming soon,
and My righteousness will be revealed.
Remove your evil deeds from My sight.
Stop doing evil.
go up on a high mountain.
Jerusalem, herald of good news,
raise your voice loudly.
Raise it, do not be afraid!
Say to the cities of Judah,
“Here is your God!”
will not give their light.
The sun will be dark when it rises,
and the moon will not shine.
people weighed down with iniquity,
brood of evildoers,
depraved children!
They have abandoned
they have despised
they have turned their backs on Him.
your Maker who formed you from the womb;
He
Do not fear; Jacob is My servant;
I have chosen Jeshurun.
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and is coming to Egypt.
Egypt’s idols will tremble before Him,
and Egypt’s heart will melt within it.
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out My Spirit
and My blessing on your offspring.
you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon
and how the raging
you will restore the foundations laid long ago;
you will be called the repairer of broken walls,
the restorer of streets where people live.
and who depend on horses!
They trust in the abundance of chariots
and in the large number of horsemen.
They do not look
and they do not seek the Lord’s help.
and the hills shake,
My love will not be removed from you
and My covenant of peace
says your compassionate Lord.
and come to Zion with singing,
crowned with unending joy.
Joy and gladness will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee.
in crimson-stained garments from Bozrah—
this One who is splendid in His apparel,
rising up proudly
powerful to save.
it will be called the Holy Way.
The unclean will not travel on it,
but it will be for the one who walks the path.
Even the fool will not go astray.
to bring the poor and homeless into your house,
to clothe the naked when you see him,
and not to ignore
His chariots are like the whirlwind
to execute His anger with fury
and His rebuke with flames of fire.
and no one takes it to heart;
faithful men are swept away,
with no one realizing
that the righteous one is swept away
from the presence
he will fulfill all My pleasure”
and says to Jerusalem, “She will be rebuilt,”
and of the temple, “Its foundation will be laid.”
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and your land will not be called Desolate;
instead, you will be called My Delight is in Her,
and your land Married;
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land will be married.
asks the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams
and the fat of well-fed cattle;
I have no desire for the blood of bulls,
lambs, or male goats.
This is what the Lord says:
and I will help you in the day of salvation.
I will keep you, and I will appoint you
to be a covenant for the people,
to restore the land,
to make them possess the desolate inheritances,
but for the two houses of Israel,
He will be a stone
and a rock to trip over,
and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
one clay pot among many.
Does clay say to the one forming it,
‘What are you making?’
Or does your work say,
‘He has no hands’?
In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill.
and His glory in the east;
for He will come like a rushing stream
driven by the wind of the Lord.
but I will take you back with great compassion.
On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
Salvation is established as walls and ramparts.
or satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices.
But you have burdened Me with your sins;
you have wearied Me
listen, so that you will live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
the promises assured to David.
It will come like destruction from the Almighty.
Have I not told you and declared it long ago?
You are my witnesses!
Is there any God but Me?
There is no other Rock;
and be peacefully guided;
the mountains and the hills will break into singing before you,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
I will guide them on paths they have not known.
I will turn darkness to light in front of them
and rough places into level ground.
This is what I will do for them,
and I will not forsake them.
An oracle
It has become a ruined heap.
and your wages on what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.
put on your strength, Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments,
Jerusalem, the Holy City!
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
will no longer enter you.
when you cry out, He will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you get rid of the yoke among you,
the finger-pointing and malicious speaking,
should say,
“The Lord will exclude me from His people”;
and the eunuch should not say,
“Look, I am a dried-up tree.”
calling the generations from the beginning?
I, Yahweh, am the first,
and with the last
yes, my spirit within me diligently seeks You,
for when Your judgments are in the land,
the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
and to those in Jacob who turn from transgression.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
and jackals, in the luxurious palaces.
Babylon’s time is almost up;
her days are almost over.
The moonlight will be as bright as the sunlight, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter
and I will bear you up when you turn gray.
I have made you, and I will carry you;
I will bear and save you.
and the Lord’s praiseworthy acts,
because of all the Lord has done for us—
even the many good things
He has done for the house of Israel
and has done for them based on His compassion
and the abundance of His faithful love.
what an adulteress
She was once full of justice.
Righteousness once dwelt in her—
but now, murderers!
“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,”
the city where David camped!
Continue year after year;
let the festivals recur.
Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you
from the beginning?
Have you not considered
the foundations of the earth?
and your recovery will come quickly.
Your righteousness will go before you,
and the Lord’s glory will be your rear guard.
who rule this people in Jerusalem.
minister to Him, love the name of Yahweh
and become His servants,
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold firmly to My covenant—
Seraphim
I will exalt You. I will praise Your name,
for You have accomplished wonders,
plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
your walls are continually before Me.
and satisfy the afflicted one,
then your light will shine in the darkness,
and your night will be like noonday.
all who love her.
Rejoice greatly with her,
all who mourn over her—
We have denied ourselves, but You haven’t noticed!”
“Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast,
and oppress all your workers.
and the Angel of His Presence saved them.
He redeemed them
because of His love and compassion;
He lifted them up and carried them
all the days of the past.
that there is no one but Me.
I am Yahweh, and there is no other.
This is what the Lord says:
that I used to send her away?
Or who were My creditors that I sold you to?
Look, you were sold for your iniquities,
and your mother was put away
because of your transgressions.
Who is he
Infants
Babies
and your sins like a mist.
Return to Me,
for I have redeemed you.
listening to the voice of His Servant?
Who among you walks in darkness,
and has no light?
Let him trust in the name of Yahweh;
let him lean on his God.
and His power establishes His rule.
His reward is with Him,
and His gifts accompany Him.
and let your tent curtains be stretched out;
do not hold back;
lengthen your ropes,
and drive your pegs deep.
An oracle
for your haven has been destroyed.
Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
with wonder after wonder.
The wisdom of their wise men will vanish,
and the understanding of the perceptive will be hidden.
and inscribe it on a scroll;
it will be for the future,
forever and ever.
and the day of our God’s vengeance;
to comfort
This took place during the reign of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah king of Judah:
cruel, with rage and burning anger—
to make the earth a desolation
and to destroy the sinners on it.
called for weeping,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
but the serpent’s food will be dust!
They will not do what is evil or destroy
on My entire holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
only a few days,
or an old man not live out his days.
Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years,
and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed.
sing His praise from the ends of the earth,
you who go down to the sea with all that fills it,
you islands with your
and the brightness of the moon will not shine on you;
but the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and your God will be your splendor.
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there.”
the effect of righteousness
will be quiet confidence forever.
The Lord of Hosts will bless them, saying, “Egypt My people, Assyria My handiwork,
the people in whose heart is My instruction:
do not fear disgrace by men,
and do not be shattered by their taunts.
I will bring your descendants from the east,
and gather you from the west.
and Israel, why do you assert:
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my claim is ignored by my God”?
Why do you keep on rebelling?
The whole head is hurt,
and the whole heart is sick.
so I will comfort you,
and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
turning away from following our God,
speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.
therefore I have not been humiliated;
therefore I have set My face like flint,
and I know I will not be put to shame.
and all humanity
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
In the year that the chief commander,
from one New Moon to another
and from one Sabbath to another,”
says the Lord.
The skies will roll up like a scroll,
and their stars will all wither
as leaves wither on the vine,
and foliage on the fig tree.
“Knowing
I will place the key
He will comfort all her waste places,
and He will make her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and melodious song.
On that day the Branch of
“Be strong; do not fear!
Here is your God; vengeance is coming.
God’s retribution is coming; He will save you.”
in the path of Your judgments.
Our desire is for Your name and renown.
On that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the center of the land of Egypt and a pillar to the Lord near her border.
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the everlasting covenant.
and we have made an agreement with Sheol;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through,
it will not touch us,
because we have made falsehood our refuge
and have hidden behind treachery.”
their tongues are parched with thirst.
I, Yahweh, will answer them;
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
and one wild goat will call to another.
Indeed, the screech owl will stay there
and will find a resting place for herself.
who formed me from the womb to be His Servant,
to bring Jacob back to Him
so that Israel might be gathered to Him;
for I am honored in the sight of the Lord,
and my God is my strength—
so your sons will marry you;
and as a groom rejoices
so your God will rejoice over you.
He was amazed that there was no one interceding;
so His own arm brought salvation,
and His own righteousness supported Him.
and grieved His Holy Spirit.
So He became their enemy
and fought against them.
and He will not put out a smoldering wick;
He will faithfully bring justice.
And if the document is given to one who cannot read and he is asked to read it,
Who has seen such things?
Can a land be born in one day
or a nation be delivered in an instant?
Yet as soon as Zion was in labor,
she gave birth to her sons.
the Lord will thresh grain from the Euphrates River
as far as the Wadi of Egypt,
and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.
trembling seizes the ungodly:
“Who among us can dwell with a consuming fire?
Who among us can dwell with ever-burning flames?”
and the earth will shake from its foundations
at the wrath of the Lord of Hosts,
on the day of His burning anger.
and stumble under the influence of beer:
priest and prophet stagger because of beer,
they are confused by wine.
They stumble because of beer,
they are muddled in their visions,
they stumble in their judgments.
I will tread him down on My mountain.
Then his yoke will be taken from them,
and his burden will be removed from their shoulders.
and Israel, the one called by Me:
I am He; I am the first,
I am also the last.
Who are you that you should fear man who dies,
or a son of man who is given up like grass?
So let them stand and save you—
the astrologers,
who predict monthly
what will happen to you.
and every mountain and hill will be leveled;
the uneven ground will become smooth
and the rough places, a plain.
Kings will shut their mouths because of Him,
For they will see what had not been told them,
and they will understand what they had not heard.
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an overwhelming urge to
He has shut your eyes—the prophets,
and covered your heads—the seers.
I will set your stones in black mortar,
and lay your foundations in sapphires.
along with the music of your harps.
Maggots are spread out under you,
and worms cover you.”
they know nothing;
all of them are mute dogs,
they cannot bark;
they dream, lie down,
and love to sleep.
And let peoples renew their strength.
Let them approach, then let them testify;
let us come together for the trial.
even though Abraham does not know us
and Israel doesn’t recognize us.
You, Yahweh, are our Father;
from ancient times,
Your name is our Redeemer.
Earth, rejoice!
Mountains break into joyful shouts!
For the Lord has comforted His people,
and will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
Virgin Daughter Babylon.
Sit on the ground without a throne,
Daughter Chaldea!
For you will no longer be called pampered and spoiled.
Now I declare new events;
I announce them to you before they occur.”
you peoples, pay attention!
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it,
the world and all that comes from it.
and announce to her
that her time of forced labor is over,
her iniquity
and she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.”
and to the south: Do not hold them back!
Bring My sons from far away,
and My daughters from the ends of the earth
Call out to them.
Wave your hand, and they will go
through the gates of the nobles.
to magnify His instruction and make it glorious.
during that time the Lord had spoken through Isaiah
and close your doors behind you.
Hide for a little while until the wrath has passed.
and their own iniquity,
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant
and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.
The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess them as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land.
“Look, this is our God;
we have waited for Him, and He has saved us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for Him.
Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
and all kings, your glory.
You will be called by a new name
that the Lord’s mouth will announce.
and their queens
They will bow down to you
with their faces to the ground,
and lick the dust at your feet.
Then you will know that I am Yahweh;
those who put their hope in Me
will not be put to shame.
the Redeemer
to one who is despised,
to one abhorred by people,
to a servant of rulers:
“Kings will see and stand up,
and princes
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel
as if the potter were the same as the clay.
How can what is made say about its maker,
“He didn’t make me”?
How can what is formed
say about the one who formed it,
“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?
you men
I will help you—
this is the Lord’s declaration.
Your Redeemer
and to the prophets,
“Do not prophesy the truth to us.
Tell us flattering things.
Prophesy illusions.
and the result of the removal of his sin will be this:
when he makes all the altar stones
like crushed bits of chalk,
no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
The people who dwell there
will be forgiven
Do not touch anything unclean;
go out from her, purify yourselves,
you who carry the vessels of the Lord.
and what they treasure does not profit.
Their witnesses do not see or know anything,
so they will be put to shame.
the words of a document,
and out of a deep darkness
the eyes of the blind will see.
and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy,
for water will gush in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;
and created man on it.
It was My hands that stretched out the heavens,
and I commanded all their host.
the Holy One of Israel
“Ask Me what is to happen to
and instruct Me about the work of My hands.
until He has established justice on earth.
The islands will wait for His instruction.”
An oracle
Why have all of you gone up to the rooftops?
and honored, and I love you,
I will give people in exchange for you
and nations instead of your life.
When the Lord gives you rest from your pain,
A day for a person to deny himself,
to bow his head like a reed,
and to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
Will you call this a fast
and a day acceptable to the Lord?
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
An oracle against Moab:
destroyed in a night.
Kir in Moab is devastated,
destroyed in a night.
Their idols are consigned to beasts and cattle.
The images you carry are loaded,
as a burden for the weary animal.
and look at the earth beneath;
for the heavens will vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment,
and its inhabitants will die like gnats.
But My salvation will last forever,
and My righteousness will never be shattered.
I have tested
to bring out prisoners from the dungeon,
and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.
On that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear loyalty to the Lord of Hosts. One of the cities will be called the City of the Sun.
Death cannot praise You.
Those who go down to the Pit
cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
to a rebellious people
who walk in the wrong path,
following their own thoughts.
one sacrifices a lamb, one breaks a dog’s neck;
one offers a grain offering, one offers pig’s blood;
one offers incense, one praises an idol—
all these have chosen their ways
and delight in their detestable practices.
who forget My holy mountain,
who prepare a table for Fortune
and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
An oracle against Arabia:
you will camp for the night,
you caravans of Dedanites.
like a devastating hail storm,
like a storm with strong flooding waters.
He will bring it across the land with His hand.
don’t be humiliated, for you will not be disgraced.
For you will forget the shame of your youth,
and you will no longer remember
the disgrace of your widowhood.
before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.
for You have also done all our work for us.
Then the desert will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest.
that I had such great bitterness;
but Your love has delivered me
from the Pit of destruction,
for You have thrown all my sins behind Your back.
for how can I
I will not give My glory to another.
and reveal His arm
and a flame of consuming fire,
in driving rain, a torrent, and hailstones.
An oracle
it comes from the desert, from the land of terror.
and the thirsty land springs of water.
In the haunt of jackals,
there will be grass, reeds, and papyrus.
and the sun disgraced,
because the Lord of Hosts will reign as king
on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,
and He will display His glory
in the presence of His elders.
tremble, you overconfident ones!
Strip yourselves bare
and put sackcloth around your waists.
they will restore the former devastations;
they will renew the ruined cities,
the devastations of many generations.
young camels of Midian and Ephah—
all of them will come from Sheba.
They will carry gold and frankincense
and proclaim the praises of the Lord.
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
who have been sustained from the womb,
carried along since birth.
In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah,
deceptive children,
children who do not want to obey the Lord’s instruction.
I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put,
The Lord says,
“Peace, peace to the one who is far or near,
and I will heal him.
“Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there,”
so they go stumbling backward,
to be broken, trapped, and captured.
and come to Zion with singing,
crowned with unending joy.
Joy and gladness will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee.
and righteousness stands far off.
For truth has stumbled in the public square,
and honesty cannot enter.
Then
anyone who maintains this,
who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,
and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
The Lord will give you meager bread and water during oppression,
An oracle
of lioness and lion,
of viper and flying serpent,
they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people who will not help them.
when I swore that the waters of Noah
would never flood the earth again,
so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you
or rebuke you.
those who are called by the name Israel
and have descended from
who swear by the name of Yahweh
and declare the God of Israel,
but not in truth or righteousness.
and they will be drunk with their own blood
as with sweet wine.
Then all flesh will know
that I, Yahweh, am your Savior,
and your Redeemer,
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“that My people are taken away for nothing?
Its rulers wail”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.
to weep at its high places.
Moab wails on Nebo and at
Every head is shaved;
every beard is cut off.
on a foundation of righteousness.
You will be far from oppression,
you will certainly not be afraid;
you will be far from terror,
it will certainly not come near you.
a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
The fear of the Lord is Zion’s treasure.
He will destroy the burial shroud,
the shroud over all the peoples,
the sheet covering all the nations;
This is what the Lord says:
and the Sabeans, men of stature,
will come over to you
and will be yours;
they will follow you,
they will come over in chains
and bow down to you.
They will confess
God is indeed with you,
there is no other God.
For you the entire vision will be like the words of a sealed document.
a stronghold for the needy
a refuge from the rain, a shade from the heat.
When the breath of the violent
is like rain against a wall,
An oracle
“Watchman, what is left of the night?
Watchman, what is left of the night?”
butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep,
eating of meat, and drinking of wine—
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
The Lord God of Hosts said: “Go to Shebna,
Stand up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk the cup of His fury
from the hand of the Lord;
you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs—
the cup that causes people to stagger.
He hid me in the shadow of His hand.
He made me like a sharpened arrow;
He hid me in His quiver.
to the ends of the earth,
“Say to Daughter Zion:
Look, your salvation is coming,
His reward is with Him,
and His gifts accompany Him.”
He will rise in wrath, as at the Valley of Gibeon,
to do His work, His strange work,
and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
they are considered as a speck of dust in the scales;
He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
and a helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
and He wrapped Himself in zeal as in a cloak.
for it cannot be still,
and its waters churn up mire and muck.
and the great owl and the raven will dwell there.
The Lord will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line over her
for her destruction and chaos.
This is what the Lord, your Redeemer,
and bring all of them as fugitives,
even the Chaldeans
and total darkness the peoples;
but the Lord will shine over you,
and His glory will appear over you.
a great trumpet
and those lost in the land of Assyria will come,
as well as those dispersed in the land of Egypt;
and they will worship the Lord
at Jerusalem on the holy mountain.
the host of heaven above
and kings of the earth below.
will chop off the branches with terrifying power,
and the tall trees will be cut down,
the high trees felled.
and let the skies shower righteousness.
Let the earth open up
so that salvation will sprout
and righteousness will spring up with it.
I, Yahweh, have created it.
and riches from secret places,
so that you may know that I, Yahweh,
the God of Israel call you by your name.
and I will frustrate its plans.
Then they will seek idols, ghosts,
spirits of the dead, and spiritists.
from Sela in the desert
to the mountain of Daughter Zion.
rejoice over you:
“Since you have been laid low,
no woodcutter has come against us.”
“Build it up, build it up, prepare the way,
remove every obstacle from My people’s way.”
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
At that time
with thunder, earthquake, and loud noise,
storm, tempest, and a flame of consuming fire.
and level the uneven places;
I will shatter the bronze doors
and cut the iron bars in two.
and speaks rightly,
who refuses gain from extortion,
whose hand never takes a bribe,
who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots
and shuts his eyes to avoid endorsing evil
Israel will blossom and bloom
and fill the whole world with fruit.
and you will not have to take flight;
because the Lord is going before you,
and the God of Israel is your rear guard.
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.
in the sight of all the nations;
all the ends of the earth will see
the salvation of our God.
This is what the Lord God says:
and raise My banner to the peoples.
They will bring your sons in their arms,
and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.
and they rush to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;
ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.
I hate robbery and injustice;
I will faithfully reward them
and make an everlasting covenant
and your many sorceries,
which you have wearied yourself with from your youth.
Perhaps you will be able to succeed;
perhaps you will inspire terror!
I must go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the rest of my years.
will be blessed by the God of truth,
and whoever swears in the land
will swear by the God of truth.
For the former troubles will be forgotten
and hidden from My sight.
“For the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
and choose what pleases Me,
and hold firmly to My covenant,
a throne will be established by faithful love.
A judge who seeks what is right
and is quick to execute justice
will sit on the throne forever.
departed spirits do not rise up.
Indeed, You have visited and destroyed them;
You have wiped out all memory of them.
He stirs up His zeal like a soldier.
He shouts, He roars aloud,
He prevails over His enemies.
hear the word of the Lord:
“Your brothers who hate and exclude you
because of Me have said,
‘Let the Lord be glorified
so that we can see your joy!’
But they will be put to shame.”
suddenly, in one day:
loss of children and widowhood.
They will happen to you in their entirety,
in spite of your many sorceries
and the potency of your spells.
the Lord said, “As My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,
I have spent my strength for nothing and futility;
yet my vindication is with the Lord,
and my reward is with my God.
Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
and none can deliver from My hand.
I act, and who can reverse it?”
somewhere in a land of darkness.
I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:
Seek Me in a wasteland.
I, Yahweh, speak truthfully;
I say what is right.
a refuge from the rain,
like streams of water
and the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.
and covered you in the shadow of My hand,
in order to plant
to found the earth,
and to say to Zion, “You are My people.”
Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim,
with an everlasting salvation;
you will not be put to shame or humiliated
for all eternity.
The Lord says this:
and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it,
for there’s some good
so I will act because of My servants
and not destroy them all.
For you people will live on Zion in Jerusalem and will never cry again. He will show favor to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears, He will answer you.
each will fight against his brother
and each against his friend,
city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
they will possess the land forever;
they are the branch I planted,
the work of My
so that I may be glorified.
When King Hezekiah heard their report,
they remember You in Your ways.
But we have sinned, and You were angry.
How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
blind yourselves and be blind!
They are drunk,
they stagger,
shaking his fist at the mountain of Daughter Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem.
from the distant horizon—
the Lord and the weapons of His wrath—
to destroy the whole country.
and no one from the nations was with Me.
I trampled them in My anger
and ground them underfoot in My fury;
their blood spattered My garments,
and all My clothes were stained.
the days of Moses and his people.
Where is He who brought them out of the sea
with the shepherds
Where is He who put His Holy Spirit among the flock?
and a royal diadem in the palm of your God.
it will then come down on Edom
and on the people I have set apart for destruction.
you traitor never betrayed!
When you have finished destroying,
you will be destroyed.
When you have finished betraying,
they will betray you.
a man for My purpose from a far country.
Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about.
I have planned it; I will also do it.
I will lead him and restore comfort
to him and his mourners,
they will speak of you as ministers of our God;
you will eat the wealth of the nations,
and you will boast in their riches.
He calls righteousness to his feet.
The Lord hands nations over to him,
and he subdues kings.
He makes them like dust with his sword,
like wind-driven stubble with his bow.
prepare a way for the people!
Build it up, build up the highway;
clear away the stones!
Raise a banner for the peoples.
the earth is split open;
the earth is violently shaken.
don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you!’
These practices are smoke in My nostrils,
a fire that burns all day long.
acacias, myrtles, and olive trees.
I will put juniper trees in the desert,
elms and cypress trees together,
and listen to Me, My nation;
for instruction will come from Me,
and My justice for a light to the nations.
I will bring it about quickly.
take it to heart, you transgressors!
But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men who are sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
who blows on the charcoal fire
and produces a weapon suitable for its task;
and I have created the destroyer to cause havoc.
shout, depths of the earth.
Break out into singing, mountains,
forest, and every tree in it.
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob,
and glorifies Himself through Israel.
you sons of a sorceress,
offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!
I hid My face
but I will have compassion on you
with everlasting love,”
says the Lord your Redeemer.
and will also rejoice with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon.
They will see the glory of the Lord,
the splendor of our God.
and My right hand spread out the heavens;
when I summoned them,
they stood up together.
the Lord of Hosts will become a crown of beauty
and a diadem of splendor
to the remnant of His people,
from the north and from the west,
and from the land of Sinim.
because of Jacob My servant
and Israel My chosen one.
I give a name to you,
though you do not know Me.
and nurse at the breast of kings;
you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior
and Redeemer,
he does not learn righteousness.
In a righteous land he acts unjustly
and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
My salvation appears,
and My arms will bring justice to the nations.
The coastlands
and they will look to My strength.
and I will restrain Myself for your benefit and for My praise,
so that you will not be destroyed.
and you have failed to remember
the rock of your strength;
therefore you will plant beautiful plants
and set out cuttings from exotic vines.
over the Wadi of the Willows.
like that of a mighty people!
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,
like nations being gathered together!
The Lord of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.
a memorial and a name
better than sons and daughters.
I will give each of them an everlasting name
that will never be cut off.
in reed vessels on the waters.
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,
whose land is divided by rivers.
whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar,
to Eglath-shelishiyah;
they go up the slope of Luhith weeping;
they raise a cry of destruction
on the road to Horonaim.
Why was there no one to answer when I called?
Is My hand too short to redeem?
Or do I have no power to deliver?
Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke;
I turn the rivers into a wilderness;
their fish rot because of lack of water
and die of thirst.
who stretched out the heavens
and laid the foundations of the earth.
You are in constant dread all day long
because of the fury of the oppressor,
who has set himself to destroy.
But where is the fury of the oppressor?
His anger burning and heavy with smoke.
His lips are full of fury,
and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
a leader and commander for the peoples,
and called you from its farthest corners.
I said to you: You are My servant;
I have chosen you and not rejected you.
and righteousness the mason’s level.”
Hail will sweep away the false refuge,
and water will flood your hiding place.
who sits securely,
who says to herself,
‘I exist, and there is no one else.
I will never be a widow
or know the loss of children.’
listen to me.
Pay attention to what I say,
you overconfident daughters.
furious with all their armies.
He will set them apart for destruction,
giving them over to slaughter.
and whoever turns from evil is plundered.
and He was offended.
“The treacherous one acts treacherously,
and the destroyer destroys.
Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes!
I will put an end to all her groaning.”
and nations who do not know you will run to you.
For the Lord your God,
even the Holy One of Israel,
has glorified you.”
and they cried out, “Disgrace is their portion,”
therefore, they will possess double in their land,
and eternal joy will be theirs.
jackals and ostriches,
because I provide water in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert,
to give drink to My chosen people.
they never have enough.
And they are shepherds
who have no discernment;
all of them turn to their own way,
every last one for his own gain.
Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
a peaceful pasture,
its tent pegs will not be pulled up
nor will any of its cords be loosened.
and your agreement with Sheol will not last.
When the overwhelming scourge passes through,
you will be trampled.
I am going to make the sun’s shadow that goes down on Ahaz’s stairway go back by 10 steps.”
For this is what the Lord says:
and the wealth
you will nurse and be carried on her hip
and bounced on her lap.
It drips with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
to hide their plans from the Lord.
They do their works in darkness,
and say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
and your heart will tremble and rejoice,
because the riches of the sea will become yours
and the wealth of the nations will come to you.
you said, ‘No one sees me.’
Your wisdom and knowledge
led you astray.
You said to yourself,
‘I exist, and there is no one else.’
and as a garden enables what is sown to spring up,
so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
to spring up before all the nations.
and delight to know My ways,
like a nation that does what is right
and does not abandon the justice of their God.
They ask Me for righteous judgments;
they delight in the nearness of God.”
the rams of Nebaioth will serve you
and go up on My altar as an acceptable sacrifice.
I will glorify My beautiful house.
The leaders have made Egypt stagger in all she does,
as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.
the smallest a mighty nation.
I am Yahweh;
I will accomplish it quickly in its time.
and springs in the middle of the plains.
I will turn the desert into a pool of water
and dry land into springs of water.
when the breath
indeed, the people are grass.
and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain.
When I called him, he was only one;
I blessed him and made him many.
and draw near, you fugitives of the nations.
Those who carry their wooden idols,
and pray to a god who cannot save,
have no knowledge.
his arm harvesting the heads of grain—
and as if one had gleaned heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
and be glad in My people.
The sound of weeping and crying
will no longer be heard in her.
the scorching heat or sun will not strike them;
for their compassionate One will guide them,
and lead them to springs of water.
and a kingdom from Damascus.
The remnant of Aram will be
like the splendor of the Israelites.
This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
they lift up their voices,
shouting for joy together;
for every eye will see
when the Lord returns to Zion.
Eat and drink!
Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!
“You too have become as weak as we are;
you have become like us!
“You were sold for nothing,
and you will be redeemed without silver.”
they came out of My mouth; I proclaimed them.
Suddenly I acted, and they occurred.
you will speak from the ground,
and your words will come from low in the dust.
Your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground;
your speech will whisper from the dust.
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.
The earth will reveal the blood shed on it
and will no longer conceal her slain.
and makes fools of diviners;
who confounds the wise
and makes their knowledge foolishness;
Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one
a student of eastern
Then He will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
pain and agony will seize them;
they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look at each other,
their faces flushed with fear.
you merchants of Sidon;
your agents have crossed the sea
on the night of a holy festival,
and your heart will rejoice
like one who walks to the music of a flute,
going up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the Rock of Israel.
Be our strength every morning
and our salvation in time of trouble.
I have been quiet and restrained Myself.
But now, I will groan like a woman in labor,
gasping breathlessly.
In the islands of the west
honor the name of Yahweh,
the God of Israel.
striving to take hold of You.
For You have hidden Your face from us
and made us melt because of
does he not then scatter black cumin and sow cumin?
He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots,
with spelt as their border.
with the ships of Tarshish in the lead,
to bring your children from far away,
their silver and gold with them,
for the honor of the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
who has glorified you.
therefore they will know on that day
that I am He who says:
Here I am.”
flee from the Chaldeans!
Declare with a shout of joy,
proclaim this,
let it go out to the end of the earth;
announce,
“The Lord has redeemed His servant
is filled with revelry.
Your dead did not die by the sword;
they were not killed in battle.
and Lebanon with its majesty will fall.
They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the Lord on horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,”
and their kings will serve you.
Although I struck you in My wrath,
yet I will show mercy to you with My favor.
this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:
despises you and scorns you:
Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head
behind your back.
another will call himself by the name of Jacob;
still another will write on his hand, ‘The Lord’s,’
and name himself by the name of Israel.”
“Even the captives of a mighty man will be taken,
and the prey of a tyrant will be delivered;
I will contend with the one who contends with you,
and I will save your children.
They will not look to the altars
they will be places for flocks.
They will lie down without fear.
is only in the Lord.”
All who are enraged against Him
will come to Him and be put to shame.
and not some foreign god
So you are My witnesses”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and
as I do today;
a father will make Your faithfulness known to children.
children who will not be disloyal,”
and He became their Savior.
from Your lofty home—holy and beautiful.
Where is Your zeal and Your might?
Your yearning
are withheld from me.
under every green tree,
who slaughter children in the wadis
below the clefts of the rocks?
“Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the groves
This is the Lord’s declaration.
the princes of Memphis are deceived.
Her tribal chieftains have led Egypt astray.
Look, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff
and Israel, for you are My servant;
I formed you, you are My servant;
Israel, you will never be forgotten by Me.
and young bulls with the mighty bulls.
Their land will be soaked with
and their soil will be saturated with fat.
At that time a gift will be brought to Yahweh of Hosts from
so the Lord of Hosts will protect Jerusalem
by protecting it, He will rescue it,
by sparing it, He will deliver it.
devastation and destruction
will be gone from your borders.
But you will name your walls salvation
and your gates, praise.
that will not serve you will perish;
those nations will be annihilated.
Lebanon will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest?
and righteousness does not reach us.
We hope for light, but there is darkness;
for brightness, but we live in the night.
the combers and weavers will turn pale.
who encircle yourselves with
walk in the light of your fire
and in the firebrands you have lit!
This is what you’ll get from My hand:
you will lie down in a place of torment.
and the grapevines of Sibmah have withered.
The rulers of the nations
have trampled its choice vines
that reached as far as Jazer
and spread to the desert.
Their shoots spread out
and reached the Dead Sea.
and your moon will not fade;
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and the days of your sorrow will be over.
to weep for the vines of Sibmah;
I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears.
Triumphant shouts have fallen silent
over your summer fruit and your harvest.
“This sin of yours will never
The Lord God of Hosts has spoken.
and instead of the brier, a myrtle will come up;
it will make a name for Yahweh
as an everlasting sign that will not be destroyed.
who gathers the dispersed of Israel:
“I will gather to them still others
besides those already gathered.”
You subdue the uproar of barbarians.
As
so He silences the song of the violent.
will fall into a pit,
and whoever escapes from the pit
will be caught in a trap.
For the windows are opened from heaven,
and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
For this is what the Lord said to me:
when a band of shepherds is called out against it,
and is not terrified by their shouting
or subdued by their noise,
so the Lord of Hosts will come down
to fight on Mount Zion
and on its hill.
with unceasing blows.
It subdued the nations in rage
with relentless persecution.
no one pleads honestly.
They trust in empty and worthless words;
they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.
will come and bow down to you;
all who reviled you
will fall facedown at your feet.
They will call you the City of the Lord,
Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
and the peoples are assembled.
Who among them can declare this,
and tell us the former things?
Let them present their witnesses
to vindicate themselves,
so that people may hear and say, “It is true.”
For the Lord said this to me: “Within one year,
or he takes a cypress or an oak.
He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.
He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
He rebukes them, and they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills
and like tumbleweeds before a gale.
his refuge will be the rocky fortresses,
his food provided, his water assured.
and many of the ruthless, like blowing chaff.
Then suddenly, in an instant,
servant and master,
female servant and mistress,
buyer and seller,
lender and borrower,
creditor and debtor.
pairs of horsemen,
riders on donkeys,
riders on camels—
he must pay close attention.”
they roar like the roaring of the seas.
The raging of the nations—
they rage like the raging of mighty waters.
or the captives of the righteous
and I will make you ride over the heights of the land,
and let you enjoy the heritage of your father Jacob.”
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
and your fingers, with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies,
and your tongues mutter injustice.
her soil into sulfur;
her land will become burning pitch.
as straw is trampled in a dung pile.
and to those who are in darkness: Show yourselves.
They will feed along the pathways,
and their pastures will be on all the barren heights.
The Splendor of the Righteous One.
Woe is me.”
The treacherous act treacherously;
the treacherous deal very treacherously.
as does my innermost being for Kir-heres.
without asking My advice,
in order to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection
and take refuge in Egypt’s shadow.
horsemen in pairs.”
And he answered, saying,
“Babylon has fallen,
All the images of her gods
have been shattered on the ground.”
and sways like a hut.
Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,
and it falls, never to rise again.
they will not plant and others eat.
For My people’s lives will be
like the lifetime of a tree.
My chosen ones will fully enjoy
the work of their hands.
and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
A poem by Hezekiah king of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:
what will happen.
Tell us the past events,
so that we may reflect on them
and know the outcome,
or tell us the future.
On that day people will look to their Maker and will turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
and I will bring on them what they dread
because I called and no one answered;
I spoke and they didn’t hear;
they did what was evil in My sight
and chose what I didn’t delight in.
and I will not always be angry;
for then the spirit would grow weak before Me,
even the breath of man, which I have made.
they poured out whispered prayers
because Your discipline fell on them.
forced from the nest,
the daughters of Moab
will be at the fords of the Arnon.
its pine, fir, and cypress together
to beautify the place of My sanctuary,
and I will glorify My dwelling place.
and multiplied your perfumes;
you sent your couriers far away
and sent them down even to Sheol.
how very proud he is—
his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance,
and his empty boasting.
then we will know that you are gods.
Indeed, do something good or bad,
then we will be in awe
Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:
but you will be hungry;
My servants will drink,
but you will be thirsty;
My servants will rejoice,
but you will be put to shame.
no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards.
No one tramples grapes
I have put an end to the shouting.
as a curse for My chosen ones,
and the Lord God will kill you;
but He will give His servants another name.
I will bring silver instead of iron,
bronze instead of wood,
and iron instead of stones.
I will appoint peace as your guard
and righteousness as your ruler.
His deceived mind has led him astray,
and he cannot deliver himself,
or say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
of a potter’s jar,
so that not even a fragment of pottery
will be found among its shattered remains—
no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth
or scoop water from a cistern.”
there is no longer anything to restrain you.
and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made their roads crooked;
no one who walks on them will know peace.
and fulfills the counsel of His messengers;
who says to Jerusalem, “She will be inhabited,”
and to the cities of Judah, “They will be rebuilt,”
and I will restore her ruins;
and will level all roads for him.
He will rebuild My city,
and set My exiles free,
not for a price or a bribe,”
says the Lord of Hosts.
On that day Tyre will be forgotten for 70 years—the life span of one king. At the end of 70 years, what the song says about the prostitute will happen to Tyre:
and you who live on the earth,
when a banner is raised on the mountains, look!
When a trumpet sounds, listen!
her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.
She will become a dwelling for jackals,
an abode
let your collection of idols deliver you!
The wind will carry all of them off,
a breath will take them away.
But whoever takes refuge in Me
will inherit the land
and possess My holy mountain.
the one who flattens with the hammer
supports the one who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, “It is good.”
He fastens it with nails so that it will not fall over.
they proclaim in the west
the majesty of the Lord.
You harden our hearts so we do not fear
Return, because of Your servants,
the tribes of Your heritage.
they all gather and come to you;
your sons will come from far away,
and your daughters will be carried on the hip.
let every one of them wail for Moab.
Mourn, you who are completely devastated,
for the raisin cakes
writhes and cries out in her pains,
so we were before You, Lord.
Then the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, along with a massive army, from Lachish
Lebanon is ashamed and decayed.
Sharon is like a desert;
Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
after joy in the Lord,
and the poor people will rejoice
in the Holy One of Israel.
a fortified city, into ruins;
the fortress of barbarians
it will never be rebuilt.
“Because you have rejected this message
and have trusted in oppression and deceit,
and have depended on them,
Who will you measure Me with,
so that we should be like each other?
the settlements where Kedar dwells cry aloud.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;
let them cry out from the mountaintops.
“This is the place of rest,
let the weary rest;
this is the place of repose.”
But they would not listen.
he outlines it with a stylus;
he shapes it with chisels
and outlines it with a compass.
He makes it according to a human likeness,
like a beautiful person,
to dwell in a temple.
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?
and not deliver it?”
says the Lord;
“or will I who deliver, close the womb?”
says your God.
new, with many teeth.
You will thresh mountains and pulverize them
and make hills into chaff.
The king had heard this about Tirhakah king of Cush:
and all of you will kneel down to be slaughtered,
because I called and you did not answer,
I spoke and you did not hear;
you did what was evil in My sight
and chose what I did not delight in.
fury to His enemies,
retribution to His foes,
and He will repay the coastlands.
or deaf like My messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like My dedicated one,
or blind like the servant of the Lord?
Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,
like prisoners in a pit.
They will be confined to a dungeon;
after many days they will be punished.
their horses are flesh, not spirit.
When the Lord raises His hand to strike,
the helper will stumble
and the one who is helped will fall;
both will perish together.
He does not go back on what He says;
He will rise up against the house of wicked men
and against the allies of evildoers.
Did the gods of the nations
like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit,
a wife of one’s youth
says your God.
and his mind plots iniquity.
He lives in a godless way
and speaks falsely about the Lord.
He leaves the hungry empty
and deprives the thirsty of drink.
The noise of the jubilant has stopped.
The joyful lyre has ceased.
will be ashamed and disgraced;
those who contend with you
will become as nothing and will perish.
The cities of violent nations will fear You.
Then he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and the leading priests, who were wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
as if an olive tree had been beaten—
two or three berries at the very top of the tree,
four or five on its fruitful branches.
This is the declaration of the Lord,
the God of Israel.
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar
His name is Yahweh of Hosts.
Streams flowing with water will be on every high mountain and every raised hill on the day of great slaughter when the towers fall.
accuse a person of wrongdoing,
who set a trap at the gate for the mediator,
and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.
Let him listen and obey in the future.
and there will be mourning and crying,
and she will be to Me like an Ariel.
and weave spider’s webs.
Whoever eats their eggs will die;
crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
Will you not acknowledge it?
From now on I will announce new things to you,
hidden things that you have not known.
and will be totally plundered,
for the Lord has spoken this message.
and cannot understand,
for He has shut their eyes
and their minds so they cannot understand.
For, the Lord said to me:
like shimmering heat in sunshine,
like a rain cloud in harvest heat.
Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.
had a day of tumult, trampling, and confusion
in the Valley of Vision—
people shouting
remove your veil,
strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,
wade through the streams.
the busy city abandoned.
The hill and the watchtower will become
barren places forever,
the joy of wild donkeys,
and a pasture for flocks,
On that day Egypt will be like women. She will tremble with fear because of the threatening hand of the Lord of Hosts when He raises it against her.
The inhabitants of the land of Tema
meet
in what I am creating;
for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy
and its people to be a delight.
Tyre’s revenue was the grain from Shihor—
the harvest of the Nile.
She was the merchant among the nations.
shapes the idol with hammers,
and works it with his strong arm.
Also he grows hungry and his strength fails;
he doesn’t drink water and is faint.
you ruins of Jerusalem!
For the Lord has comforted His people;
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
And now the Lord says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts years,
because, Israel, you have become weary of Me.
Therefore, the Lord who redeemed Abraham
and his face will no longer be pale.
it is not far away,
and My salvation will not delay.
I will put salvation in Zion,
My splendor in Israel.
“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add 15 years to your life.
and its inhabitants have become guilty;
the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,
and only a few survive.
For a long time your ears have not been open.
For I knew that you were very treacherous,
and were known as a rebel from birth.
“You will not rejoice anymore,
ravished young woman, daughter of Sidon.
Get up and cross over to Cyprus
even there you will have no rest!”
You did not take these things to heart
or think about their outcome.
and a wind will carry them away,
a gale will scatter them.
But you will rejoice in the Lord;
you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.
“Now I will lift Myself up.
Now I will be exalted.
“Lord, I stand on the watchtower all day,
and I stay at my post all night.
to strike viciously with your fist.
You cannot fast as you do today,
hoping to make your voice heard on high.
and our sins testify against us.
For our transgressions are with us,
and we know our iniquities:
who will contend with Me?
Let us confront each other.
Who has a case against Me?
Let him come near Me!
but they do not see it.
They will see Your zeal for Your people,
and they will be put to shame.
The fire for Your adversaries will consume them!
the waters of the great deep,
who made the sea-bed into a road
for the redeemed to pass over?
they are considered by Him
as nothingness and emptiness.
their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.
Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out,
and they tremble.
Let him say so and make a case before Me,
since I have established an ancient people.
Let these gods declare
and what will take place.
with no one passing through,
I will make you an object of eternal pride,
a joy from age to age.
The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root
Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary,
He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
but I will bring on Dibon
a lion for those who escape from Moab,
and for the survivors in the land.
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Take your seat, Jerusalem.
Remove the bonds
captive Daughter Zion.”
on all flesh
and many will be slain by the Lord.
the work of My hands within his nation,
they will honor My name,
they will honor the Holy One of Jacob
and stand in awe of the God of Israel.
the bestower of crowns,
whose traders are princes,
whose merchants are the honored ones of the earth?
Before morning—it is gone!
This is the fate of those who plunder us
and the lot of those who ravage us.
they will dwindle, and Egypt’s canals will be parched.
Reed and rush will die.
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “The Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,
I moan like a dove.
My eyes grow weak looking upward.
Lord, I am oppressed; support me.
behind the door and doorpost.
For away from Me, you stripped,
went up, and made your bed wide,
and you have made a bargain
You have loved their bed;
you have gazed on their genitals.
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.
and your neck is iron
and your forehead bronze,
with a threshing board,
and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin.
But black cumin is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.
then wakes and is still hungry;
and like a thirsty one who dreams he is drinking,
then wakes and is still thirsty, longing for water.
So it will be for all the many nations
who go to battle against Mount Zion.
on the threshing floor,
I have declared to you
what I have heard from the Lord of Hosts,
the God of Israel.
spending nights in secret places,
eating the meat of pigs,
and putting polluted broth in their bowls.
and your descendants will dispossess nations
and inhabit the desolate cities.
and the Valley of Achor a place for cattle to lie down,
for My people who have sought Me.
They all gather together; they come to you.
As I live”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“you will wear all your children
and put them on as a bride does.
a people who no longer exist.
Assyria destined it for desert creatures.
They set up their siege towers
and stripped its palaces.
They made it a ruin.
“Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly!
Do not try to comfort me
about the destruction of my dear
or your shackles will become stronger.
Indeed, I have heard from the Lord God of Hosts
a decree of destruction for the whole land.
and righteousness will dwell in the orchard.
and His strong arm:
I will no longer give your grain
to your enemies for food,
and foreigners will not drink your new wine
you have labored for.
sit in silence
For you will no longer be called mistress of kingdoms.