Isaiah's message to Ahaz.

1 the

2 Curds

3 till he

4 whose two kings thou

abhorrest

shall be

forsaken.

5 in the parts beyond the River, even

with

the son of Remaliah, have taken and it shall also consume the
evil counsel against thee, saying,

6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

beard.

21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one

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curds:

curds

7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Da-eat that is left in the land. 23 And it shall come to pass in mascus, and the head of Damascus that day, that every is Rezin; and within threescore be, where there were a thousand where place shall place, and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. vines at a thousand silverlings, 9 And the head of Ephraim is it shall even be for briers and shall Samaria, and the head of Samaria thorns. is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be esta-shall men come thither; because blished. all the land shall become briers and thorns.

10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

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

13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, 'a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name *Immanuel.

15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet:

* That is, God with us.

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24 With arrows and with bows

25 And on all hills that 10 shall be digged with the mattock, "there shall not come thither 12 the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of 13 lesser cattle.

10 were

11 thou shalt 12 for

13 sheep.

Against Syria and Israel.

1 peoples,

2 conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy;

3 teaching

4 chirp,
5 on behalf
of the living
should they
seek unto
the dead?

and all his glory: and he shall their king and their God, and look
come up over all his channels and upward.
go over all his banks:

8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

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9¶Associate yourselves, O ye
1 people, and ye shall be broken in
pieces; and give ear, all ye of far
countries: gird yourselves, and ye
shall be broken in pieces; gird
yourselves, and ye shall be broken
in pieces.

10 Take counsel together, and it
shall come to nought; speak the
word, and it shall not stand: for
God is with us.

22 And they shall look unto the
earth; and behold trouble and
darkness, dimness of anguish; and
they shall be driven to darkness.
CHAPTER 9.

1 What joy shall be in the midst of affic-
tions, by the kingdom and birth of Christ.
8 The judgments upon Israel for their
pride, 13 for their hypocrisy, 18 and for
their impenitency,

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NEVER

EVERTHELESS the dimness
shall not be such as was in
her vexation, when at the first he
lightly afflicted the land of Zebu-
lun and the land of Naphtali, and
more grievously
afterward did
afflict her by the way of the sea,
beyond Jordan, 'in Galilee of the

11 ¶ For the LORD spake thus to
me with a strong hand, and in-nations.
structed me that I should not walk
in the way of this people, saying,

12 Say ye not, A confederacy,
to all them to whom this people
shall say, A confederacy:`neither
fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

2 The 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.

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3 Thou hast multiplied the na-
13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts tion, and not increased the joy:
himself; and let him be your fear, they joy before thee according to
the joy in harvest, and as men re-
and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctu-joice when they divide the spoil.
4 For thou hast broken the yoke
ary; but for a stone of stumbling
and for a rock of offence to both of his burden, and the staff of his
the houses of Israel, for a gin and shoulder, the rod of his oppressor,
for a snare to the inhabitants of as in the day of Midian.
Jerusalem.

15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

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17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

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19¶ And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? "for the living to the dead?

20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse

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5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and armour of garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

6 For 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, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever.

The zeal of the
LORD of hosts will perform this.
8 The Lord sent a word into
Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
Israel.

9 And all the people shall know,
even Ephraim and the inhabitant
of Samaria, that say in the pride
and stoutness of heart,

10 The bricks are fallen down,
we will build with hewn
but
are cut
stones: the sycomores
down, but we will change them
into cedars.

the armed man in the tumult, and the gar

ments rolled in blood, shall even

be for burning, for

Israel's pride and iniquity.

1 roll upward in

thick clouds

2 to the

ISAIAH, 10. Assyria the instrument of God's wrath,

11 Therefore the LORD shall set and that they may rob the father-
up the adversaries of Rezin against less!
him, and join his enemies together;
12 The Syrians before, and the
Philistines behind; and they shall
devour Israel with open mouth,
For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched
out still.

13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.

14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand 3 whose is mine indignation.

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6 I will send him against an a profane hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give to take the him a charge, to take the spoil, and down like the mire of the streets. and to tread them prey, 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, 17 Therefore the Lord shall have neither doth his heart think so; no joy in their young men, neither but it is in his heart to destroy and shall have mercy on their father-cut off nations not a few. less and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

18 For wickedness burneth as the fire it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they 1 shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad is not Samaria as Damascus?

10 As my hand hath found the
kingdoms of the idols, and whose whose
Jerusalem and of Samaria;
graven images did excel them of

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

19 Through the wrath of the 12 Wherefore it shall come to
LORD of hosts is the land dark-pass, that when the Lord hath per-
ened, and the people shall be as
the fuel of the fire: no man shall
spare his brother.

20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

CHAPTER 10.

1. The woe of tyrants. 5 Assyria, the rod of
hypocrites, for his pride shall be broken.
20 A remnant of Israel shall be saved. 24
Israel is comforted with promise of de-
liverance from Assyria.

formed his whole work upon mount
Zion and on Jerusalem, I will pun-
ish the fruit of the stout heart of
the king of Assyria, and the glory
of his high looks.

13 For he saith, By the strength
of my hand I have done it, and by
my wisdom; for I am prudent: and
I have removed the bounds of the
people, and have robbed their
treasures, and I have put down the
inhabitants like a valiant man:

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6 peoples,

14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: 7 peoples: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth there

WOE unto them that decree un- with? or shall the saw magnify righteous decrees, and that itself against him that shaketh it? writers that write grievousness which they have as if the rod should shake itself write griev-prescribed ; against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

ousness;

2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey,

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chirped.

9 him that is not

16 Therefore shall the Lord, the 10 Lord of hosts, send among his fat 10 LORD

ISAIAH, 11.

20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them;1 but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

21 The remnant shall return,

even the remnant of Jacob, unto

A song of thanksgiving.

1 peoples; unto him 2 nations

3 resting place

ISAIAH, 12, 13.

10 ¶ And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek and his rest shall be glorious.

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The fall of Babylon.

hath done excellent things: this is
known in all the earth.

6 Cry out and shout, thou in-
habitant of Zion: for great is the
Holy One of Israel in the midst of
thee.

CHAPTER 13.

1 God mustereth the armies of his wrath.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and THE burden of Babylon, which oracle

from Shinar, and from Hamath, 4 coastlands and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

5 down upon

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14 But they shall fly upon the the shoulder shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

6 River, 7 into

8 peoples,

15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

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16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

CHAPTER 12.

6 He threateneth to destroy Babylon by the
Medes. 19 The desolation of Babylon.
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see.

Isaiah the son of Amoz did concerning

2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice. unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

3 I have commanded my 10 sancti- 19 consefied ones, I have also called my crated mighty ones for mine anger, even

my

ones.

them that rejoice in my highness. 11 4 The noise of a multitude in the proudly exulting mountains, like as of a great peokingdoms of nations gathered tople; a tumultuous noise of the gether: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host 12 of the battle.

5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

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6¶ Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; 13 it shall come 13 as as a destruction from the Almighty. destruction 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

9 Behold, the day of the Lord
A joyful thanksgiving of the faithful for the cometh, cruel both with wrath and
mercies of God.
fierce anger, to lay the land deso-

AND in that day thou shalt say, late: and he shall destroy the

from the shall it Almighty

come.

12 I will make a man more 14 pre- 14 rare cious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall re