Isaiah 9
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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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Yeshayah (Isaiah) 9
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1But there is no gloom upon her who is distressed, as when at first He humbled the land of Zeḇulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward more heavily oppressed her, by the way of the sea, beyond the Yardĕn, in Galil of the nations.
2The people who were walking in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death a light has shone.
3You shall increase the nation; You shall make its joy great. They shall rejoice before You, as in the joy of harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4For You shall break the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Miḏyan.
5For every boot of one trampling in tumult, and coat rolled in blood, shall be used for burning and fuel of fire.
6For a Child is born unto us, a Son is given unto us, and the rule is on His shoulder. And His Name is called Wonder, Counsellor, Strong Ěl, Father of Continuity, Prince of Peace.
7Of the increase of His rule and peace there is no end, upon the throne of Dawiḏ and over His reign,#See Isa. 16:5; Psa. 2; Psa. 45:6; Mic. 5:2; Luke 1:32, 33 to establish it and sustain it with right-ruling and with righteousness from now on, even forever. The ardour of יהוה of hosts does this.
8יהוה sent a word against Ya‛aqoḇ, and it has fallen on Yisra’ĕl.
9And the people shall know, all of them, Ephrayim and the inhabitant of Shomeron, who say in pride and greatness of heart:
10“The bricks have fallen down, but we rebuild with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we replace them with cedars.”
11And יהוה set up the adversaries of Retsin against him, and stirred up his enemies,
12the Arameans before and the Philistines behind. And they devour Yisra’ĕl with an open mouth. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out.
13And the people have not turned back to Him who strikes them, nor have they sought יהוה of hosts.
14And יהוה cuts off head and tail from Yisra’ĕl, palm branch and reed in one day.
15Elder and highly respected, he is the head; the prophet who teaches falsehood, he is the tail.
16For the leaders of this people lead them astray,#See Isa. 3:12 and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
17Therefore יהוה does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is defiled and evil, and every mouth speaks foolishness. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out.
18For wrongness burns as the fire; it consumes thornbushes and weeds, and sets the bushes of the forest ablaze, and they roll up like rising smoke.
19The land shall be burned up by the wrath of יהוה of hosts, and the people be as fuel for the fire. A man shall not spare his brother,
20and cut down on the right hand, but shall be hungry; and he devours on the left hand, but shall not be satisfied; each one devouring the flesh of his own arm:
21Menashsheh Ephrayim, and Ephrayim Menashsheh; together they are against Yehuḏah. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out.
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