Category: Isaiah

Reign of the Davidic King

1 Then a shoot will grow from the stump of Jesse,

and a branchfrom his roots will bear fruit.

2 The Spirit of theLordwill rest on Him—

a Spirit of wisdom and understanding,

a Spirit of counsel and strength,

a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of theLord.

3 His delight will be in the fear of theLord.

He will not judge

by what He sees with His eyes,

He will not execute justice

by what He hears with His ears,

4 but He will judge the poor righteously

and execute justice for the oppressed of the land.

He will strike the land

with disciplinefrom His mouth,

and He will kill the wicked

with a commandfrom His lips.

5 Righteousness will be a belt around His loins;

faithfulness will be a belt around His waist.

6 The wolf will live with the lamb,

and the leopard will lie down with the goat.

The calf, the young lion, and the fatling will be together,

and a child will lead them.

7 The cow and the bear will graze,

their young ones will lie down together,

and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

8 An infant will play beside the cobra’s pit,

and a toddler will put his hand into a snake’s den.

9 None will harm or destroy another

on My entire holy mountain,

for the land will be as full

of the knowledge of theLord

as the sea is filled with water.

Israel Regathered

10 On that day the root of Jesse

will stand as a banner for the peoples.

The nations will seek Him,

and His resting place will be glorious.

11 On that daythe Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover — from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coasts and islands of the west — the remnant of His people who survive.

12 He will lift up a banner for the nations

and gather the dispersed of Israel;

He will collect the scattered of Judah

from the four corners of the earth.

13 Ephraim’s envy will cease;

Judah’s harassment will end.

Ephraim will no longer be envious of Judah,

and Judah will not harass Ephraim.

14 But they will swoop down

on the Philistine flank to the west.

Together they will plunder the people of the east.

They will extend their power over Edom and Moab,

and the Ammonites will be their subjects.

15 TheLordwill dividethe Gulf of Suez.

He will wave His hand over the Euphrates

with His mighty wind

and will split it into seven streams,

letting people walk through on foot.

16 There will be a highway for the remnant of His people

who will survive from Assyria,

as there was for Israel

when they came up from the land of Egypt.

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A Song of Praise

1 On that day you will say:

“I will praise You,Lord,

although You were angry with me.

Your anger has turned away,

and You have had compassionon me.

2 Indeed, God is my salvation;

I will trust Him and not be afraid,

for Yah, theLord,

is my strength and my song.

He has become my salvation.”

3 You will joyfully draw water

from the springs of salvation,

4 and on that day you will say:

“Give thanks to Yahweh; proclaim His name!

Celebrate His works among the peoples.

Declare that His name is exalted.

5 Sing to Yahweh, for He has done glorious things.

Let this be known throughout the earth.

6 Cry out and sing, citizen of Zion,

for the Holy One of Israelis among you

in His greatness.”

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An Oracle against Babylon

1 An oracleagainst Babylonthat Isaiah son of Amoz saw:

2 Lift up a banner on a barren mountain.

Call out to them.

Wave your hand, and they will go

through the gates of the nobles.

3 I have commanded My chosen ones;

I have also called My warriors,

who exult in My triumph,

to execute My wrath.

4 Listen, a tumult on the mountains,

like that of a mighty people!

Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,

like nations being gathered together!

TheLordof Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.

5 They are coming from a far land,

from the distant horizon —

theLordand the weapons of His wrath —

to destroy the whole country.

6 Wail! For the day of theLordis near.

It will come like destruction from the Almighty.

7 Therefore everyone’s hands will become weak,

and every man’s heart will melt.

8 They will be horrified;

pain and agony will seize them;

they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.

They will look at each other,

their faces flushed with fear.

9 Look, the dayof theLordis coming —

cruel, with rage and burning anger —

to make the earth a desolation

and to destroy the sinners on it.

10 Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations

will not give their light.

The sun will be dark when it rises,

and the moon will not shine.

11 I will bring disaster on the world,

and their own iniquity,on the wicked.

I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant

and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.

12 I will make man scarcer than gold,

and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.

13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,

and the earth will shake from its foundations

at the wrath of theLordof Hosts,

on the day of His burning anger.

14 Like wandering gazelles

and like sheep without a shepherd,

each one will turn to his own people,

each one will flee to his own land.

15 Whoever is found will be stabbed,

and whoever is caught will die by the sword.

16 Their children will be smashed to death before their eyes;

their houses will be looted,

and their wives raped.

17 Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them,

who cannot be bought off withsilver

and who have no desire for gold.

18 Their bows will cut young men to pieces.

They will have no compassion on little ones;

they will not look with pity on children.

19 And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms,

the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans,

will be like Sodom and Gomorrah

when God overthrew them.

20 It will never be inhabited

or lived in from generation to generation;

a nomad will not pitch his tent there,

and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.

21 But desert creatures will lie down there,

and owls will fill the houses.

Ostriches will dwell there,

and wild goats will leap about.

22 Hyenas will howl in the fortresses,

and jackals, in the luxurious palaces.

Babylon’s time is almost up;

her days are almost over.

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Israel’s Return

1 For theLordwill have compassionon Jacob and will choose Israel again.He will settle them on their own land.The foreigner will join them and be united with the house of Jacob.

2 The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess them as male and female slaves in theLord’s land.They will make captives of their captors and will rule over their oppressors.

Downfall of the King of Babylon

3 When theLordgives you rest from your pain,torment, and the hard laboryou were forced to do,

4 you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylonand say:

How the oppressor has quieted down,

and how the raginghas become quiet!

5 TheLordhas broken the staff of the wicked,

the scepter of the rulers.

6 It struck the peoples in anger

with unceasing blows.

It subdued the nations in rage

with relentless persecution.

7 All the earth is calm and at rest;

people shout with a ringing cry.

8 Even the cypresses and the cedars of Lebanon

rejoice over you:

“Since you have been laid low,

no woodcutter has come against us.”

9 Sheol below is eager to greet your coming.

He stirs up the spirits of the departed for you —

all the rulersof the earth.

He makes all the kings of the nations

rise from their thrones.

10 They all respond to you, saying:

“You too have become as weak as we are;

you have become like us!

11 Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol,

along with the music of your harps.

Maggots are spread out under you,

and worms cover you.”

12 Shining morning star,

how you have fallen from the heavens!

You destroyer of nations,

you have been cut down to the ground.

13 You said to yourself:

“I will ascend to the heavens;

I will set up my throne

above the stars of God.

I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly,

in the remotest parts of the North.

14 I will ascend above the highest clouds;

I will make myself like the Most High.”

15 But you will be brought down to Sheol

into the deepest regions of the Pit.

16 Those who see you will stare at you;

they will look closely at you:

“Is this the man who caused the earth to tremble,

who shook the kingdoms,

17 who turned the world into a wilderness,

who destroyed its cities

and would not release the prisoners to return home? ”

18 All the kings of the nations

lie in splendor, each in his own tomb.

19 But you are thrown out without a grave,

like a worthless branch,

covered by those slain with the sword

and dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.

20 You will not join them in burial,

because you destroyed your land

and slaughtered your own people.

The offspring of evildoers

will never be remembered.

21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons,

because of the iniquityof their fathers.

They will never rise up to possess a land

or fill the surface of the earth with cities.

22 “I will rise up against them” — this is the declaration of theLordof Hosts — “and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity” — this is theLord’s declaration.

23 “I will make her a swampland and a region for screech owls,and I will sweep her away with a broom of destruction.”

This is the declaration of theLordof Hosts.

Assyria Will Be Destroyed

24 TheLordof Hosts has sworn:

As I have purposed, so it will be;

as I have planned it, so it will happen.

25 I will break Assyriain My land;

I will tread him down on My mountain.

Then his yoke will be taken from them,

and his burden will be removed from their shoulders.

26 This is the planprepared

for the whole earth,

and this is the hand stretched out

against all the nations.

27 TheLordof Hosts Himself has planned it;

therefore, who can stand in its way?

It is His hand that is outstretched,

so who can turn it back?

An Oracle against Philistia

28 In the year that King Ahaz died,this oracle came:

29 Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia,

because the rod of the one who struck youis broken.

For a viper will come from the rootof a snake,

and from its egg comes a flying serpent.

30 Then the firstbornof the poor will be well fed,

and the impoverished will lie down in safety,

but I will kill your root with hunger,

and your remnant will be slain.

31 Wail, you gates!Cry out, city!

Tremble with fear,all Philistia!

For a cloud of dust is coming from the north,

and there is no one missing from the invader’s ranks.

32 What answer will be given to the messengers from that nation?

TheLordhas founded Zion,

and His afflicted people find refuge in her.

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An Oracle against Moab

1 An oracle against Moab:

Ar in Moab is devastated,

destroyed in a night.

Kir in Moab is devastated,

destroyed in a night.

2 Dibon went up to its temple

to weep at its high places.

Moab wails on Nebo and atMedeba.

Every head is shaved;

every beard is cut off.

3 In its streets they wear sackcloth;

on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,

falling down and weeping.

4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;

their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.

Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out,

and they tremble.

5 My heart cries out over Moab,

whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar,

to Eglath-shelishiyah;

they go up the slope of Luhith weeping;

they raise a cry of destruction

on the road to Horonaim.

6 The waters of Nimrimare desolate;

the grass is withered, the foliage is gone,

and the vegetation has vanished.

7 So they carry their wealth and belongings

over the Wadi of the Willows.

8 For their cry echoes

throughout the territory of Moab.

Their wailing reaches Eglaim;

their wailing reaches Beer-elim.

9 The waters of Dibonare full of blood,

but I will bring on Diboneven more than this —

a lion for those who escape from Moab,

and for the survivors in the land.

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1 Send lambs to the ruler of the land,

from Sela in the desert

to the mountain of Daughter Zion.

2 Like a bird fleeing,

forced from the nest,

the daughters of Moab

will be at the fords of the Arnon.

3 Give us counsel and make a decision.

Shelter us at noonday

with shade that is as dark as night.

Hide the refugees;

do not betray the one who flees.

4 Let my refugees stay with you;

be a refuge for Moabfrom the aggressor.

When the oppressor has gone,

destruction has ended,

and marauders have vanished from the land.

5 Then in the tent of David

a throne will be established by faithful love.

A judge who seeks what is right

and is quick to execute justice

will sit on the throne forever.

6 We have heard of Moab’s pride—

how very proud he is —

his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance,

and his empty boasting.

7 Therefore let Moab wail;

let every one of them wail for Moab.

Mourn, you who are completely devastated,

for the raisin cakesof Kir-hareseth.

8 For Heshbon’s terraced vineyards

and the grapevines of Sibmah have withered.

The rulers of the nations

have trampled its choice vines

that reached as far as Jazer

and spread to the desert.

Their shoots spread out

and reached the Dead Sea.

9 So I join with Jazer

to weep for the vines of Sibmah;

I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears.

Triumphant shouts have fallen silent

over your summer fruit and your harvest.

10 Joy and rejoicinghave been removed from the orchard;

no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards.

No one tramples grapesin the winepresses.

I have put an end to the shouting.

11 Therefore I moan like the sound of a lyre for Moab,

as does my innermost being for Kir-heres.

12 When Moab appears on the high place,

when he tireshimself out

and comes to his sanctuary to pray,

it will do him no good.

13 This is the message that theLordpreviously announced about Moab.

14 And now theLordsays, “In three years, as a hired worker counts years,Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, in spite of a very large population. And those who are left will be few and weak.”

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An Oracle against Damascus

1 An oracleagainst Damascus:

Look, Damascus is no longer a city.

It has become a ruined heap.

2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken;

they will be places for flocks.

They will lie down without fear.

3 The fortress disappears from Ephraim,

and a kingdom from Damascus.

The remnant of Aram will be

like the splendor of the Israelites.

This is the declaration of theLordof Hosts.

Judgment against Israel

4 On that day

the splendor of Jacob will fade,

and his healthy bodywill become emaciated.

5 It will be as if a reaper had gathered standing grain —

his arm harvesting the heads of grain —

and as if one had gleaned heads of grain

in the Valley of Rephaim.

6 Only gleanings will be left in Israel,

as if an olive tree had been beaten —

two or three berries at the very top of the tree,

four or five on its fruitful branches.

This is the declaration of theLord,

the God of Israel.

7 On that day people will look to their Maker and will turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

8 They will not look to the altarsthey made with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altarsthey made with their fingers.

9 On that day their strong cities will be

like the abandoned woods and mountaintops

that were abandoned because of the Israelites;

there will be desolation.

10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation,

and you have failed to remember

the rock of your strength;

therefore you will plant beautiful plants

and set out cuttings from exotic vines.

11 On the day that you plant,

you will help them to grow,

and in the morning

you will help your seed to sprout,

but the harvest will vanish

on the day of disease and incurable pain.

Judgment against the Nations

12 Ah! The roar of many peoples —

they roar like the roaring of the seas.

The raging of the nations —

they rage like the raging of mighty waters.

13 The nations rage like the raging of many waters.

He rebukes them, and they flee far away,

driven before the wind like chaff on the hills

and like tumbleweeds before a gale.

14 In the evening — sudden terror!

Before morning — it is gone!

This is the fate of those who plunder us

and the lot of those who ravage us.

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The Lord’s Message to Cush

1 Ah! The land of buzzing insect wings

beyond the rivers of Cush

2 sends couriers by sea,

in reed vessels on the waters.

Go, swift messengers,

to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,

to a people feared far and near,

a powerful nation with a strange language,

whose land is divided by rivers.

3 All you inhabitants of the world

and you who live on the earth,

when a banner is raised on the mountains, look!

When a trumpet sounds, listen!

4 For, theLordsaid to me:

I will quietly look out from My place,

like shimmering heat in sunshine,

like a rain cloud in harvest heat.

5 For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over

and the blossom becomes a ripening grape,

He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife,

and tear away and remove the branches.

6 They will all be left for the birds of prey on the hills

and for the wild animals of the land.

The birds will spend the summer on them,

and all the animals, the winter on them.

7 At that time a gift will be brought to Yahweh of Hosts froma people tall and smooth-skinned,a people feared far and near, a powerful nation with a strange language, whose land is divided by rivers — to Mount Zion, the place of the name of Yahweh of Hosts.

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An Oracle against Egypt

1 An oracleagainst Egypt:

Look, theLordrides on a swift cloud

and is coming to Egypt.

Egypt’s idols will tremble before Him,

and Egypt’s heart will melt within it.

2 I will provoke Egypt against Egypt;

each will fight against his brother

and each against his friend,

city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

3 Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it,

and I will frustrate its plans.

Then they will seek idols, ghosts,

spirits of the dead, and spiritists.

4 I will deliver Egypt into the hands of harsh masters,

and a strong king will rule it.

This is the declaration of the LordGodof Hosts.

5 The waters of the sea will dry up,

and the river will be parched and dry.

6 The channels will stink;

they will dwindle, and Egypt’s canals will be parched.

Reed and rush will die.

7 The reeds by the Nile, by the mouth of the river,

and all the cultivated areas of the Nile

will wither, blow away, and vanish.

8 Then the fishermen will mourn.

All those who cast hooks into the Nile will lament,

and those who spread nets on the water will shrivel up.

9 Those who work with flax will be dismayed;

the combers and weavers will turn pale.

10 Egypt’s weaverswill be dejected;

all her wage earners will be demoralized.

11 The princes of Zoan are complete fools;

Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!

How can you say to Pharaoh,

“I am oneof the wise,

a student of easternkings”?

12 Where then are your wise men?

Let them tell you and reveal

what theLordof Hosts has planned against Egypt.

13 The princes of Zoan have been fools;

the princes of Memphis are deceived.

Her tribal chieftains have led Egypt astray.

14 TheLordhas mixed within her a spirit of confusion.

The leaders have made Egypt stagger in all she does,

as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.

15 No head or tail, palm or reed,

will be able to do anything for Egypt.

Egypt Will Know the Lord

16 On that day Egypt will be like women. She will tremble with fear because of the threatening hand of theLordof Hosts when He raises it against her.

17 The land of Judah will terrify Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble because of what theLordof Hosts has plannedagainst it.

18 On that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear loyalty to theLordof Hosts. One of the cities will be called the City of the Sun.

19 On that day there will be an altar to theLordin the center of the land of Egypt and a pillar to theLordnear her border.

20 It will be a sign and witness to theLordof Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to theLordbecause of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and leader, and he will rescue them.

21 TheLordwill make Himself known to Egypt, and Egypt will know theLordon that day. They will offer sacrifices and offerings;they will make vows to theLordand fulfill them.

22 TheLordwill strike Egypt, striking and healing. Then they will return to theLordand He will hear their prayers and heal them.

23 On that day there will be a highwayfrom Egypt to Assyria. Assyria will go to Egypt, Egypt to Assyria, and Egypt will worship with Assyria.

24 On that day Israel will form a triple alliance with Egypt and Assyria — a blessing within the land.

25 TheLordof Hosts will bless them, saying, “Egypt My people, Assyria My handiwork,and Israel My inheritance are blessed.”

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No Help from Cush or Egypt

1 In the year that the chief commander,sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdodand attacked and captured it —

2 during that time theLordhad spoken through Isaiahson of Amoz, saying, “Go, take off your sackclothand remove the sandals from your feet,” and he did so, going naked and barefoot—

3 theLordsaid, “As My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,

4 so the king of Assyria will lead the captives of Egyptand the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks — to Egypt’s shame.

5 Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

6 And the inhabitants of this coastland will say on that day, ‘Look, this is what has happened to those we relied on and fled to for help to rescue us from the king of Assyria! Now, how will we escape? ’ ”

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