Isaiah 9
9
Birth of the Prince of Peace
1Nevertheless, the gloom of the distressed land will not be like that of the former times when He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali. # Mt 4:15 But in the future He will bring honor to the Way of the Sea, to the land east of the Jordan, and to Galilee of the nations.
2# Is 9:1 in HbThe people walking in darkness
have seen a great light; # Mt 4:16; Eph 5:8
a light has dawned
on those living in the land of darkness. # Lk 1:79
3You have enlarged the nation
and increased its joy. # Alt Hb tradition reads have not increased joy # Is 26:15
The people have rejoiced before You
as they rejoice at harvest time
and as they rejoice when dividing spoils. # 1Sm 30:16
4For You have shattered their oppressive yoke # Is 10:27; 14:25
and the rod on their shoulders,
the staff of their oppressor,
just as You did on the day of Midian. # Jdg 7:25; Is 10:26
5For the trampling boot of battle
and the bloodied garments of war
will be burned as fuel for the fire.
6For a child will be born for us,
a son will be given to us, # Is 7:14; 11:1-2; 53:2; Lk 2:11; Jn 3:16
and the government will be on His shoulders. # Is 22:22; Mt 28:18; 1Co 15:25
He will be named
Wonderful Counselor, # Is 28:29 Mighty God, # Dt 10:17; Neh 9:32; Is 10:21
Eternal Father, # Is 63:16; 64:8 Prince of Peace. # Is 26:3,12; 54:10; 66:12
7The dominion will be vast,
and its prosperity will never end. # Ps 89:4; Dn 2:44; Lk 1:32-33
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. # Is 37:32; 59:17
The Hand Raised against Israel
8The Lord sent a message against Jacob;
it came against Israel.
9All the people —
Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria # Ac 1:8 — will know it.
They will say with pride and arrogance:
10“The bricks have fallen,
but we will rebuild with cut stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
but we will replace them with cedars.”
11The Lord has raised up Rezin’s adversaries against him
and stirred up his enemies.
12Aram from the east and Philistia from the west
have consumed Israel with open mouths.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike. # Is 5:25
13The people did not turn to Him who struck them;
they did not seek the Lord of Hosts.
14So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail, # Is 19:15
palm branch and reed in a single day.
15The head is the elder, the honored one; # Is 3:2-3
the tail is the prophet, the lying teacher. # Is 28:15; 59:3-4; Jr 23:14,32; Mt 24:24
16The leaders of the people mislead them,
and those they mislead are swallowed up. # Or are confused
17Therefore the Lord does not rejoice
over # DSS read not spare Israel’s young men
and has no compassion
on its fatherless and widows,
for everyone is a godless evildoer, # Is 1:4; 10:6; 14:20; 31:2; 32:6
and every mouth speaks folly.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.
18For wickedness burns like a fire # Ps 83:14; Is 1:7; Nah 1:10; Mal 4:1
that consumes thorns and briers
and kindles the forest thickets
so that they go up in a column of smoke.
19The land is scorched
by the wrath of the Lord of Hosts,
and the people are like fuel for the fire. # Is 1:31; 24:6
No one has compassion on his brother. # Mc 7:2,6
20They carve meat on the right,
but they are still hungry; # Is 8:21-22
they have eaten on the left,
but they are still not satisfied.
Each one eats the flesh of his own arm. # Dt 28:53-57; Is 49:26
21Manasseh is with Ephraim,
and Ephraim with Manasseh;
together, both are against Judah. # 2Ch 28:6,8; Is 11:13
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike. # Is 5:25
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Isaiah 9
9
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1But yet there shall not always be darkness to that land wherein is now distress:
As in the former time be made no account of
The land of Zabulon and the land of Naphtali;
So in the latter time he hath exalted
The way of the sea beyond Jordan, the Galilee of the nations.
2The people that walked in darkness,
Have seen a great light;
They that dwell in the land of the shadow of death,
Upon them hath the light shined.
3Thou hast multiplied the nation,
Thou hast increased their joy:
They joy before thee as with the joy of harvest;
As they rejoice, who divide the spoil.
4For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder,
The rod of his oppressor, hast thou broken, as in the day of Midian.
5For every greave of the warrior accoutred for battle,
And the garment rolled in blood,
Shall be for burning, as fuel for the fire.
6For unto us a child is born; unto us a son is given;
And the government shall be upon his shoulder:
And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor,
Mighty God, Father of eternity, Prince of peace.
7Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,
Upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom;
To establish it, and to support it,
With judgment and with justice, henceforth and for ever:
The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will do this.
8The Lord hath sent a word unto Jacob;
And it hath lighted upon Israel:
9And all the people shall know,
Even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria;
Who in the pride and arrogancy of heart do say:
10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stone;
The sycamores are cut down, but we will substitute cedars.
11Therefore shall Jehovah set up the adversaries of Rezin against him,
And shall arm his enemies;
12Syria from before, and the Philistines from behind;
And they shall devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this his anger is not turned away;
But his hand is still stretched out.
13For the people have not turned unto him who smote them;
And Jehovah of hosts have they not sought.
14Therefore shall Jehovah cut off from Israel head and tail;
Branch and rush in one day.
15The aged and honourable, they are the head;
And the prophet that teacheth falsehood, he is the tail.
16For the leaders of this people lead them astray,
And they that are led by them shall be devoured.
17Wherefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men,
Neither on their orphans, and on their widows, shall
he have compassion.
For every one of them is ungodly and an evil-doer:
And every mouth speaketh folly.
For all this his anger is not turned away;
But his hand is still stretched out.
18For wickedness burneth like a fire;
Brier and thorn it shall consume:
And it setteth on fire the thickets of the forest,
And they shall mount up in volumes of rising smoke.
19Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land darkened;
And the people are as the fuel of the fire;
No man spareth his brother:
20For he snatcheth on the right hand, yet is be hungry;
And devoureth on the left, yet is he not satisfied;
Each man devoureth the flesh of his own arm:
21Manasseh Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh;
And they both are united together against Judah.
For all this his anger is not turned away;
But his hand is still stretched out.
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Translated by Rev John Jones (Ioan Tegid).Published at Oxford in 1830, second edition 1842.