Isaiah 9
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The Coming King
1Nevertheless there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time He contemptuously treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, # 2Ki 15:29; 2Ch 16:4 but in the latter time He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death,
upon them the light has shined. # Mt 4:16; Eph 5:8
3You have multiplied the nation # Isa 26:15
and increased the joy;
they rejoice before You
according to the joy of harvest
and as men rejoice
when they divide the spoil. # 1Sa 30:16
4For You have broken the yoke of his burden
and the bar of his shoulder, # Isa 14:25
the rod of his oppressor
as in the day of Midian’s defeat. # Isa 10:26–27
5For all the sandals of the tramping warriors
and all the garments rolled in blood
shall be burned as fuel for the fire.
6For unto us a child is born, # Isa 7:14; Lk 2:11
unto us a son is given,
and the government shall be upon his shoulder. # Mt 28:18
And his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7Of the increase of his government and peace
there shall be no end,
upon the throne of David
and over his kingdom,
to order it and to establish it
with justice and with righteousness,
from now until forever. # Da 2:44
The zeal of the Lord of Hosts
will perform this. # Isa 37:32
The Message Against Israel
8The Lord sent a word against Jacob,
and it falls upon Israel.
9All the people shall know,
even Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
who say in the pride
and stoutness of heart, # Isa 46:12
10“The bricks are fallen down,
but we will build with hewn stones;
the sycamores are cut down,
but we will replace them with cedars.” # Mal 1:4
11Therefore, the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him,
and join his enemies together.
12The Arameans shall be before and the Philistines behind; # 2Ch 28:18
and they shall devour Israel with open jaws.
For all this His anger is not turned away,
and His hand is stretched out still. # Isa 5:25
13For the people do not turn to Him who struck them,
nor do they seek the Lord of Hosts. # Isa 31:1; Hos 7:10
14Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail,
branch and bulrush, # Isa 19:15 in one day. # Rev 18:8
15The elder and honorable man, # Isa 3:2–3 he is the head;
and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.
16For the leaders of this people cause them to err, # Isa 3:12
and those who are led by them are destroyed. # Mt 15:14
17Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men,
nor shall He have mercy on their fatherless and widows;
for every one of them is a hypocrite and an evildoer,
and every mouth speaks folly.
For all this His anger is not turned away,
and His hand is stretched out still. # Isa 5:25; 10:6
18For wickedness burns as a fire;
it shall devour the briers and thorns,
and shall ignite in the thickets of the forest, # Ps 83:14; Mal 4:1
and they shall mount up like rising smoke.
19Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts
is the land burned up,
and the people shall be as fuel for the fire;
no man shall spare his brother. # Mic 7:2, 6
20They shall snatch on the right hand,
but still be hungry;
and they shall eat on the left hand,
and shall not be satisfied;
every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm. # Isa 49:26
21Manasseh consumes Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh,
and they together shall be against Judah. # 2Ch 28:6–8
For all this His anger is not turned away,
and His hand is stretched out still. # Isa 5:25
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