"How terrible it will be for those who rise at dawn in order to grab a stiff drink, for those who stay up late at night as wine inflames them!

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

Is not as Carchemish, Calno? if not as Arpad, Hamath? if not as Damascus, Shomeron?

Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Jehovah of armies sware, saying, If not as I purposed thus it was, and as I counseled, this shall stand:

Who go to go down [to] Egypt, but they do not ask [of] my mouth, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt.

For thus saith Jehovah who created the heavens, God himself who formed the earth and made it, he who established it, not as waste did he create it: he formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah, and there is none else.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Like as the multitude shall wonder upon him, because his face shall be so deformed and not as a man's face, and his beauty like no man:

Call with the throat, restrain not, As a trumpet lift up thy voice, And declare to My people their transgression, And to the house of Jacob their sins;

Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as to -day, To sound in the high place your voice.

"I let myself be sought by [those who] did not ask; I let myself be found by [those who] did not seek me. I said, 'Here I am; here I am!' to a nation [that] did not call on my name;