Isaiah 9:8-21 - Yahweh's Anger Against Arrogance

⁸ A word, hath My Lord, sent unto Jacob, - And it shall alight on Israel; ⁹ and the people shall all of them know it - Ephraim and the dweller in Samaria - Who in pride and insolence of heart, are saying: ¹⁰ Bricks, have fallen down But with hewn stone, will we build, - Sycomores, have been felled, But with cedars, will we replace them. ¹¹ Therefore will Yahweh strengthen the adversaries of Resin against him, - And his enemies will he arouse: ¹² Syrians before and Philistines behind, Thus have they devoured Israel with open mouth, - For all this, hath his anger, not turned back, But still, is his hand outstretched.

¹³ Yet, the people, have not turned unto him that smote them, - And Yahweh of hosts, have they not sought. ¹⁴ Therefore hath Yahweh cut off from Israel - Head and tail Palm-top and rush, In one day. ¹⁵ The eider and favourite, he, is the head, - And the prophet teaching falsehood, he, is the tail; ¹⁶ And they who should have led this people forward have been causing them to stray, - And, they who are led of them are destroyed, ¹⁷ For this cause, over their choice young men, will My Lord not rejoice, And on their fatherless and their widows, will he not have compassion, For every one of them, is profane and an evildoer, And, every mouth is speaking baseness, - For all this, hath his anger, not turned back, But still, is his hand outstretched.

¹⁸ For lawlessness, hath consumed like fire, Briars and thorns, doth it devour, - Yea it hath kindled upon the thickets of the forest, And they have rolled up as a column of smoke. ¹⁹ Through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, is the land consumed, - And the people have come to be, as fuel for fire, A man unto his own brother, sheweth not pity; ²⁰ And he hath slain on the right, and yet is hungry, And hath eaten on the left, yet are they not satisfied, - Every one, the flesh of his own arm, will they eat: ²¹ Manasseh - Ephraim, and Ephraim - Manasseh, They together - against Judah, - For all this, hath his anger not turned back, But still, is his hand outstretched.