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

⁸ The Lord has sent out a word against Jacob, and it fell on Israel. ⁹ And all of the people knew it, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria in pride and arrogance of heart, saying, ¹⁰ "[The] bricks have fallen, but we will build [with] dressed stone. [The] sycamore-fig trees were felled, but we will replace [them with] cedars." ¹¹ So Yahweh strengthened {the adversaries of Rezin} against him, and he provoked his enemies-- ¹² Aram from [the] east and Philistines from [the] west-- and they devoured Israel with the whole mouth. He has not turned away his anger in all of this, and his hand is still stretched out.

¹³ And the people did not turn to the one who struck it, and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts. ¹⁴ So Yahweh cut off head and tail from Israel, palm branch and reed [in] one day. ¹⁵ Elders and {the respectable} [are] the head, and prophets who teach lies [are] the tail. ¹⁶ And the leaders of this people were misleading [them], and those who were led [were] confused. ¹⁷ Therefore the Lord did not rejoice over its young men, and he did not have compassion on its orphans and widows, for everyone [was] godless and an evildoer, and every mouth [was] speaking folly. In all of this his anger did not turn away, and still his hand [is] stretched out.

¹⁸ For wickedness burned like fire; it consumed brier and thorn. And it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward [in] a column of smoke. ¹⁹ The land was burned through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and the people became like fire fuel. {People had no compassion toward each other}. ²⁰ They devoured on [the] right but [still] were hungry and devoured on [the] left but they were not satisfied. Each one devoured the flesh of his arm, ²¹ Manasseh [devoured] Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they [were] against Judah. In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand [is] stretched out.