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Isaiah
Judah’s Rebellion
1 [This is] the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth,
“I have raised children and brought them up,
but they have rebelled against Me.
and the donkey its master’s manger,
My people do not understand.”
they have despised the Holy One of Israel
[and] turned their backs on Him.
5 Why do you want more beatings?
Your head has a massive wound,
and your whole heart is afflicted.
6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head,
only wounds and welts and festering sores
neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.
your cities [are] burned with fire.
Foreigners devour your fields before you—
a desolation demolished by strangers.
8 And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned
like a shack in a cucumber field,
had left us a few survivors,[fn]
Meaningless Offerings
listen to the instruction of our God,
11 “What [good] to Me [is] your multitude of sacrifices?”
“I am full from the burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of well-fed cattle;
I take no delight in the blood of bulls
12 When you come to appear before Me,
13 Bring your worthless offerings no more;
your incense is detestable to Me.
New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—
I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.
They have become a burden to Me;
15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,
even though you multiply your prayers,
Your hands are covered with blood.
16 Wash and cleanse yourselves.
Remove your evil deeds from My sight.
seek justice [and] correct the oppressor.[fn]
[and] plead the case of the widow.”
18 “Come now, let us reason together,”
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they will be as white as snow;
though they are as red as crimson,
19 If you are willing and obedient,
you will eat the best of the land.
20 But if you resist and rebel,
you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
The Corruption of Zion
21 [See] how the faithful city has become a harlot!
righteousness resided within her,
22 Your silver has become dross;
your fine wine is diluted with water.
They do not defend the fatherless,
and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
24 Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts,
the Mighty One of Israel, declares:
“Ah, I will be relieved of My foes
and avenge Myself on My enemies.
25 I will turn My hand against you;
I will thoroughly purge your dross;
I will remove all your impurities.
26 I will restore your judges as at first,
and your counselors as at the beginning.
After that you will be called the City of Righteousness,
27 Zion will be redeemed with justice,
her repentant ones with righteousness.
28 But rebels and sinners will together be shattered,
and those who forsake the LORD will perish.
29 Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks
you will be embarrassed by the gardens
30 For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered,
31 The strong man will become tinder
The Mountain of the House of the LORD
2 [This is] the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
2 In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD
will be established as the chief of the mountains;
it will be raised above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.
3 And many peoples will come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
so that we may walk in His paths.”
For the law will go forth from Zion,
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 Then He will judge between the nations
and arbitrate for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
The Day of Reckoning
let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6 For You have abandoned Your people,
[with influences] from the east;
they are soothsayers like the Philistines;
they strike [hands] with the children of foreigners.
7 Their land is full of silver and gold,
with no limit to their treasures;
with no limit to their chariots.
8 Their land is full of idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
and the splendor of His majesty.
11 The proud look of man will be humbled,
and the loftiness of men brought low;
the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
12 For the Day of the LORD of Hosts
[will come] against all the proud and lofty,
13 against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up,
against all the oaks of Bashan,
14 against all the tall mountains,
16 against every ship of Tarshish,[fn]
and against every stately vessel.
17 So the pride of man will be brought low,
and the loftiness of men will be humbled;
the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,
18 and the idols will vanish completely.
19 Men will flee to caves in the rocks
away from the terror of the LORD
and from the splendor of His majesty,
when He rises to shake the earth.
20 In that day men will cast away
their idols of silver and gold—
[the idols] they made to worship.
21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks
away from the terror of the LORD
and from the splendor of His majesty,
when He rises to shake the earth.
Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah
3 For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts
the whole supply of food and water,
2 the mighty man and the warrior,
3 the commander of fifty and the dignitary,
the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.
4 “I will make mere lads their leaders,
and children will rule over them.”
5 The people will oppress one another,
man against man, neighbor against neighbor;
the young will rise up against the old,
and the base against the honorable.
6 A man will seize his brother
“You have a cloak—you be our leader!
Take charge of this heap of rubble.”
7 On that day he will cry aloud:
I have no food or clothing in my house.
Do not make me leader of the people!”
because they spoke and acted against the LORD,
defying His glorious presence.[fn]
9 The expression on their faces testifies against them,
and like Sodom they flaunt their sin;
for they have brought disaster upon themselves.
10 Tell the righteous it will be well with them,
for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
11 Woe to the wicked; disaster [is upon them]!
For they will be repaid with what their hands have done
O My people, your guides mislead you;
they turn you from your paths.
13 The LORD arises to contend;
He stands to judge the people.
14 The LORD brings this charge
against the elders and leaders of His people:
“You have devoured the vineyard;
the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
15 Why do you crush My people
and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
A Warning to the Daughters of Zion
“Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—
walking with heads held high
and wanton eyes,
prancing and skipping as they go,
jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
on the heads of the daughters of Zion,
and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.[fn]”
18 In that day the Lord will take away their finery:
[their] anklets and headbands and crescents;
19 [their] pendants, bracelets, and veils;
20 [their] headdresses, ankle chains, and sashes;
[their] perfume bottles and charms;
21 [their] signet rings and nose rings;
22 [their] festive robes, capes, cloaks, and purses;
23 and [their] mirrors, linen garments, tiaras, and shawls.
instead of styled hair, baldness;
instead of fine clothing, sackcloth;
25 Your men will fall by the sword,
A Remnant in Zion
will take hold of one man and say,
Just let us be called by your name.
2 On that day the Branch of the LORD
will be beautiful and glorious,
will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.
and whoever is left in Jerusalem
all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living—
4 when the Lord has washed away
the filth of the daughters of Zion
and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem
by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
5 Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion
The Song of the Vineyard
5 I will sing for my beloved a song of [his] vineyard:
2 He dug it up and cleared the stones
He built a watchtower in the middle
and dug out a winepress {as well}.
He waited for [the vineyard] to yield good grapes,
but the fruit it produced was sour!
3 “And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem
4 What more could have been done for My vineyard
Why, when I expected [sweet] grapes,
did it bring forth sour fruit?
5 Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard:
neither pruned nor cultivated,
and thorns and briers will grow up.
that rain shall not fall on it.”
Woes to the Wicked
8 Woe to you who add house to house
and you live alone in the land.
9 I heard the LORD of Hosts {declare}:
“Surely many houses will become desolate,
great mansions left unoccupied.
will yield [but] a bath [of wine],[fn]
[only] an ephah [of grain].[fn]”
11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning
12 At their feasts are the lyre [and] harp,
tambourines and flutes and wine.
They disregard the actions of the LORD
and fail to see the work of His hands.
13 Therefore My people will go into exile
for their lack of understanding;
their dignitaries are starving
and their masses are parched with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat
and opens wide its enormous jaws,
and down go [Zion’s] nobles [and] masses,
15 So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled;
the arrogant will lower their eyes.
16 But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice,
and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
17 Lambs will graze as in their own pastures,
and strangers[fn] will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit
and pull sin along with cart ropes,
19 to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work
Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come
20 Woe to those who call evil good
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
and clever in their own sight.
22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine
and champions in mixing strong drink,
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe
and deprive the innocent of justice.
24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw,
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
and their blossoms will blow away like dust;
for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts
and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people;
His hand is raised against them to strike them down.
and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets.
Despite all this, His anger is not turned away;
26 He lifts a banner for the distant nations
and whistles for those at the ends of the earth.
Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!
27 None of them grows weary [or] stumbles;
and no sandal strap is broken.
28 Their arrows are sharpened,
and all their bows are strung.
The hooves of their horses are like flint;
their chariot wheels [are] like a whirlwind.
29 Their roaring is like that of a lion;
they roar like young lions.
They growl and seize their prey;
they carry it away, and no one can rescue it.
30 In that day they will roar over it,
Isaiah’s Commission
(Matthew 13:10–17, Mark 4:10–12, Acts 28:16–31)
6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe[fn] filled the temple. 2 Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings With two [wings] they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling out to one another:
“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts;
all the earth is full of His glory.”
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
because I am a man of unclean lips
dwelling among a people of unclean lips;
for my eyes have seen the King,
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And with it he touched my mouth and said:
“Now that this has touched your lips,
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying:
‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’[fn]
10 {Make} the hearts of this people calloused;
deafen their ears and close their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
until the houses are left unoccupied
and the land is desolate and ravaged,
12 until the LORD has driven men far away
and the land is utterly forsaken.
13 And though a tenth [remains] in [the land],
A Message to Ahaz
7 Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, [was] king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram[fn] marched up to [wage] war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower [the city].
2 When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim,[fn] the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.
3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub[fn] to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct [that feeds] the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field, 4 and say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or disheartened over these two smoldering stubs of firewood—over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah. 5 For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted your ruin, saying: 6 ‘Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it[fn] among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.’ 7 But this is what the Lord GOD says:
8 For the head of Aram is Damascus,
[and] the head of Damascus is Rezin.
Ephraim will be shattered as a people.
9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.
The Sign of Immanuel
10 Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying, 11 “Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, [whether] from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”
12 But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask; I will not test the LORD.”
13 Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well? 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin[fn] will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.[fn] 15 By the time He knows [enough] to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey. 16 For before the boy knows [enough] to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
Judgment to Come
17 The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike [any since] the day Ephraim separated from Judah—[He will bring] the king of Assyria.”
18 On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
19 And they will all come and settle
in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks,
in all the thornbushes and watering holes.
20 On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates[fn]—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well. 21 On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep, 22 and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.
23 And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand [shekels] of silver,[fn] only briers and thorns will be found. 24 Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be [covered with] briers and thorns. 25 For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become [places] for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
Assyrian Invasion Prophesied
8 Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary[fn] stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.[fn] 2 And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”
3 And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 4 For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”
5 And the LORD spoke to me further:
6 “Because this people has rejected
the gently flowing waters of Shiloah
7 the Lord will surely bring against them
the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates[fn]—
the king of Assyria and all his pomp.
swirling and sweeping over it,
its spreading streams will cover
your entire land, O Immanuel![fn]
9 Huddle together,[fn] O peoples, and be shattered;
pay attention, all you distant lands;
prepare for battle, and be shattered;
prepare for battle, and be shattered!
10 Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted;
A Call to Fear God
11 For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:
everything these people regard as conspiracy.
Do not fear what they fear;[fn]
13 The LORD of Hosts is the One
14 And He will be a sanctuary—
a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,[fn]
15 Many will stumble over these;
they will be ensnared and captured.”
[and] seal the law among my disciples.
who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob.
I will put my trust in Him.[fn]
18 Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me[fn] as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
Darkness and Light
19 When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God [instead]? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? 20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
21 They will roam the land dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God. 22 Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
Unto Us a Child Is Born
(Matthew 4:12–17, Mark 1:14–15, Luke 4:14–15)
9 Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
2 The people walking in darkness
have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of the shadow of death,
a light has dawned.[fn]
3 You have enlarged the nation
and increased its joy.
The people rejoice before You
as they rejoice at harvest time,
as [men] rejoice in dividing the plunder.
You have shattered the yoke of their burden,
the bar [across] their shoulders,
and the rod of their oppressor.
5 For every trampling boot of battle
and [every] garment rolled in blood
will be burned as fuel for the fire.
6 For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given,
and the government will be upon His shoulders.
And He will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of [His] government and peace
[there will be] no end.
He will reign on the throne of David
and over his kingdom,
to establish and sustain it
with justice and righteousness
from that time and forevermore.
The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
Judgment against Israel’s Pride
8 The Lord has sent a message against Jacob,
and it has fallen upon Israel.
9 All the people will know it—
Ephraim[fn] and the dwellers of Samaria.
With pride and arrogance of heart
they will say:
10 “The bricks have fallen,
but we will rebuild with finished stone;
the sycamores have been felled,
but we will replace them with cedars.”
11 The LORD has raised up the foes of Rezin against him
and joined his enemies {together}.
12 Aram[fn] from the east and Philistia from the west
have devoured Israel with open mouths.
Despite all this, His anger is not turned away;
His hand is still upraised.
Judgment against Israel’s Hypocrisy
13 But the people did not return to Him who struck them;
they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
14 So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail,
[both] palm branch and reed in a single day.
15 The head is the elder and honorable man,
and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.
16 For those who guide this people mislead them,
and those they mislead are swallowed up.
17 Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men;
He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows.
For every one of them is godless and wicked,
and every mouth speaks folly.
Despite all this, His anger is not turned away;
His hand is still upraised.
Judgment against Israel’s Unrepentance
18 For wickedness burns like a fire
that consumes the thorns and briers
and kindles the forest thickets,
which roll upward in billows of smoke.
19 By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts
the land is scorched,
and the people are fuel for the fire.
No man even spares his brother.
20 They carve out what is on the right,
but they are still hungry;
they eat what is on the left,
but they are still not satisfied.
Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.[fn]
21 Manasseh [devours] Ephraim,
and Ephraim Manasseh;
together they turn against Judah.
Despite all this, His anger is not turned away;
His hand is still upraised.
Woe to Tyrants
10 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes
2 to deprive the poor of fair treatment
and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people,
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning
when devastation comes from afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?
4 Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives
Judgment on Assyria
5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger;
the staff in their hands is My wrath.
6 I will send him against a godless nation;
I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage,
to take spoils and seize plunder,
and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
7 But this is not his intention;
For [it is] in his heart to destroy
8 “Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.
9 “Is not Calno like Carchemish?
10 As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms
whose images [surpassed] those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 and as I have done to Samaria and its idols,
will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”
12 So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes. 13 For he says:
‘By the strength of my hand I have done [this],
and [by my] wisdom, for I am clever.
I have removed the boundaries of nations
and plundered their treasures;
like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
14 My hand reached as into a nest
to seize the wealth of the nations.
Like one gathering abandoned eggs,
15 Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it?
Does a saw boast over him who saws with it?
It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it,
[or] a staff lifting him who is not wood!
16 Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease
among [Assyria’s] stout warriors,
and under his pomp will be kindled
17 And the Light of Israel will become a fire,
In a single day it will burn and devour
Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
18 The splendor of its forests and orchards,
A Remnant Shall Return
20 On that day the remnant of Israel
and the survivors of the house of Jacob
but they will truly rely on the LORD,
21 A remnant will return[fn]—a remnant of Jacob—
22 Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea,
overflowing with righteousness.
23 For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out
the destruction decreed upon the whole land.[fn]
24 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says:
“O My people who dwell in Zion,
and lifts his staff against you
My fury [against you] will subside,
and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
26 And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them,
as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb.
He will raise His staff over the sea,
27 On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders,
because your neck will be too large.[fn]
28 [Assyria] has entered Aiath
storing their supplies at Michmash.
29 They have crossed at the ford:
“We will spend the night at Geba.”
30 Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim!
the people of Gebim take refuge.
32 Yet today they will halt at Nob,
shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion,
at the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts
will lop off the branches with terrifying power.
The tall trees will be cut down,
the lofty ones will be felled.
The Root of Jesse
11 Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse,
and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—
the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and strength,
the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.
3 And He will delight in the fear of the LORD.
He will not judge by what His eyes see,
and He will not decide by what His ears hear,
4 but with righteousness He will judge the poor,
and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth.
He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth
and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
5 Righteousness will be the belt around His hips,
and faithfulness the sash around His waist.
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
and the leopard will lie down with the goat;
the calf and young lion and fatling will be together,[fn]
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will graze with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant will play by the cobra’s den,
and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.
9 They will neither harm nor destroy
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD
10 On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him,[fn] and His place of rest will be glorious. 11 On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush,[fn] from Elam, from Shinar,[fn] from Hamath, and from the islands[fn] of the sea.
12 He will raise a banner for the nations
and gather the exiles of Israel;
He will collect the scattered of Judah
from the four corners of the earth.
13 Then the jealousy of Ephraim[fn] will depart,
and the adversaries[fn] of Judah will be cut off.
Ephraim will no longer envy Judah,
nor will Judah harass Ephraim.
14 They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west;
together they will plunder the sons of the east.
They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab,
and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
15 The LORD will devote to destruction[fn]
the gulf[fn] of the Sea of Egypt;
with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand
He will split it into seven streams
for men to cross with dry sandals.
Joyful Thanksgiving
Although You were angry with me,
I will trust and not be afraid.
For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song,
and He also has become my salvation.”
3 With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation, 4 and on that day you will say:
Make His works {known} among the peoples;
declare that His name is exalted.
5 Sing to the LORD, for He has done glorious things.
Let this be known in all the earth.
The Burden against Babylon
13 [This is] the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
2 Raise a banner on a barren hilltop;
that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded My sanctified ones;
I have even summoned My warriors
4 Listen, a tumult on the mountains,
like that of a great multitude!
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,
like nations gathered together!
The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing
5 They are coming from faraway lands,
the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—
6 Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near;
it will come as destruction from the Almighty.[fn]
7 Therefore all hands will fall limp,
and every man’s heart will melt.
8 Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them;
they will writhe like a woman in labor.
They will look at one another,
their faces flushed with fear.
9 Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—
cruel, with fury and burning anger—
to make the earth a desolation
and to destroy the sinners within it.
10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations
The rising sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light.
11 I will punish the world [for its] evil
and the wicked for their iniquity.
I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant
and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
12 {I will make} man scarcer than pure gold,
and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,
and the earth will be shaken from its place
at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts
on the day of His burning anger.
like a sheep without a shepherd,
each will return to his own people,
each will flee to his native land.
15 Whoever is caught will be stabbed,
and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces
and their wives will be ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes,
18 Their bows {will dash} young men to pieces;
they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
they will not look with pity on the children.
19 And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms,
the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans,
20 She will never be inhabited
or settled from generation to generation;
no nomad will pitch his tent there,
no shepherd will rest his flock there.
21 But desert creatures will lie down there,
and howling creatures will fill her houses.
Ostriches[fn] will dwell there,
and wild goats will leap about.
22 Hyenas will howl in her fortresses
Restoration for Israel
14 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob. 2 The nations will escort [Israel] and bring it to its homeland.
Then the house of Israel will possess [the nations] as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
The Fall of the King of Babylon
3 On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced 4 you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon:
and how his fury[fn] has ended!
5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked,
6 It struck the peoples in anger
it subdued the nations in rage
7 All the earth is at peace and at rest;
8 Even the cypresses[fn] and cedars of Lebanon
“Since you have been laid low,
no woodcutter comes against us.”
to meet you upon your arrival.
It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—
It makes all the kings of the nations
10 They will all respond to you, saying,
“You too have become weak, as we are;
11 Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol,
along with the music of your harps.
12 How you have fallen from heaven,
O day star,[fn] son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the ground,
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will sit on the mount of assembly,
in the far reaches of the north.[fn]
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
15 But you will be brought down to Sheol,
to the lowest depths of the Pit.
16 Those who see you will stare;
“Is this the man who shook the earth
[and] made the kingdoms tremble,
17 who turned the world into a desert
who refused to let the captives
18 All the kings of the nations lie in state,
19 But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch,
covered by those slain with the sword,
like a carcass trampled underfoot.
20 You will not join them in burial,
since you have destroyed your land
and slaughtered your own people.
will never again be mentioned.
21 Prepare a place to slaughter his sons
for the iniquities of their forefathers.
They will never rise up to possess a land
or cover the earth with their cities.
22 “I will rise up against them,”
her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.
God’s Purpose against Assyria
24 The LORD of Hosts has sworn:
“Surely, as I have planned, so will it be;
as I have purposed, [so] will it stand.
25 I will break Assyria in My land;
I will trample him on My mountain.
His yoke will be taken off [My people],
and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
26 This is the plan devised for the whole earth,
and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
Philistia Will Be Destroyed
28 In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:
29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines,
that the rod that struck you is broken.
For a viper will spring from the root of the snake,
and a flying serpent from its egg.
30 Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture,
and the needy will lie down in safety,
but I will kill your root by famine,
and your remnant will be slain.
31 Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city!
Melt away, all you Philistines!
For a cloud of smoke comes from the north,
The Burden against Moab
15 [This is] the burden against Moab:
3 In its streets they wear sackcloth;
on the rooftops and in the public squares
they all wail, falling down weeping.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
their voices are heard as far as Jahaz.
Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out;
5 My heart cries out over Moab;
her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,
as far as Eglath-shelishiyah.[fn]
With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith;
they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up,
[and] the greenery is no more.
7 So they carry their wealth and belongings
over the Brook of the Willows.[fn]
8 For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab.
9 The waters of Dimon[fn] are full of blood,
but I will bring more upon Dimon—
Moab’s Destruction
to the mount of Daughter Zion.
3 “Give us counsel;
render a decision.
Shelter us at noonday
with shade as dark as night.
Hide the refugees;
do not betray the one who flees.
4 Let my fugitives stay with you;
be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.”
When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased,
and the oppressors have vanished from the land,
5 in loving devotion[fn] a throne will be established
A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness
will sit on [it] in faithfulness.
6 We have heard of Moab’s pomposity,
his exceeding pride [and] conceit,
let them wail together for Moab.
Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth,
8 For the fields of Heshbon have withered,
along with the grapevines of Sibmah.
have trampled its choicest vines,
which had reached as far as Jazer
Triumphant shouts have fallen silent
over your summer fruit and your harvest.
10 Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard;
no one sings or shouts in the vineyards.
No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses;
I have put an end to the cheering.
11 Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp,
my inmost being for Kir-heres.[fn]
12 When Moab appears on the high place,
and enters his sanctuary to pray,
13 This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab. 14 And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few [and] feeble.”
The Burden against Damascus
17 [This is] the burden against Damascus:
“Behold, Damascus is no longer a city;
it has become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken;
they will be left to the flocks,
which will lie down with no one to fear.
3 The fortress will disappear from Ephraim,[fn]
and the sovereignty from Damascus.
like the splendor of the Israelites,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
4 “In that day the splendor of Jacob will fade,
and the fat of his body will waste away,
5 as the reaper gathers the standing grain
and harvests the ears with his arm,
like an olive tree that has been beaten—
two or three berries atop the tree,
four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
7 In that day men will look to their Maker
and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8 They will not look to the altars
they have fashioned with their hands
or to the Asherahs and incense altars
they have made with their fingers.
9 In that day their strong cities
will be like forsaken thickets and summits,
10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge.
Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots
and set out cuttings from exotic vines—
11 though on the day you plant
on the day of disease and incurable pain.
12 Alas, the tumult of many peoples;
they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations;
they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
13 The nations rage like the rush of many waters.
He rebukes them, and they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,
like tumbleweeds before a gale.
14 In the evening, there is sudden terror!
Before morning, they are no more!
A Message to Cush
18 Woe to the land of whirring wings,[fn]
2 which sends couriers by sea,
in papyrus vessels on the waters.
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,
to a powerful nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers.
when a banner is raised on the mountains,
4 For this is what the LORD has told me:
“I will quietly look on from My dwelling place,
like shimmering heat in the sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife
and remove and discard the branches.
6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey,
and to the beasts of the land.
The birds will feed on them in summer,
and all the wild animals in winter.
7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—
from a people tall and smooth-skinned,
from a powerful nation of strange speech,
The Burden against Egypt
19 [This is] the burden against Egypt:
Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud;
The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him,
and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.
2 “So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian;
[brother] will fight against brother, [neighbor] against neighbor,
city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.
3 Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them,
and I will frustrate their plans,
so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead,
4 I will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of a harsh master,
and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
5 The waters of the [Nile] will dry up,
and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up;
the reeds and rushes will wither.
and all the fields sown along the Nile,
will wither, blow away, and be no [more].
8 Then the fishermen will mourn,
all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament,
and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
9 The workers in flax will be dismayed,
and the weavers of fine linen will turn pale.
10 The workers in cloth[fn] will be dejected,
and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.
11 The princes of Zoan are mere fools;
Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice.
12 Where are your wise men now?
what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan have become fools;
the princes of Memphis[fn] are deceived.
The cornerstones of her tribes
14 The LORD has poured into her
Egypt has been led astray in all she does,
as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
A Blessing upon the Earth
16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them. 17 The land of Judah will bring terror to Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble over what the LORD of Hosts has planned against it.
18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.[fn]
19 In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the center of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD near her border. 20 It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them. 21 The LORD will make Himself known to Egypt, and on that day Egypt will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and fulfill them.
22 And the LORD will strike Egypt {with a plague}; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.
23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.
24 In that day Israel will join a three-party alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing upon the earth. 25 The LORD of Hosts will bless them, saying, “Blessed [be] Egypt My people, Assyria My handiwork, and Israel My inheritance.”
A Sign against Egypt and Cush
20 Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured [it], 2 the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist [and] the sandals from your feet.”
And [Isaiah] did so, walking around naked and barefoot.
3 Then the LORD said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,[fn] 4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and 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 on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’ ”
Babylon Is Fallen
21 [This is] the burden against the Desert by the Sea:
Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev,
[an invader] comes from the desert,
2 A dire vision is declared to me:
and the destroyer still destroys.
Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media!
I will put an end to all her groaning.”
3 Therefore my body is filled with anguish.
Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor.
I am bewildered to hear,
5 They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet,
Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
6 For this [is what] the Lord says to me:
[and] have him report what he sees.
7 When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen,
riders on donkeys, riders on camels,
he must be alert, fully alert.”
8 Then the lookout[fn] shouted:
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon![fn]
The Burden against Edom
11 [This is] the burden against Dumah:[fn]
One calls to me from Seir,[fn]
“Watchman, what is left of the night?
Watchman, what is left of the night?”
“Morning has come, but also the night.
The Burden against Arabia
13 [This is] the burden against Arabia:
In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge,
14 Bring water for the thirsty,
15 For they flee from the sword—
and from the stress of battle.
16 For this [is what] the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count [it], all the glory of Kedar will be gone. 17 The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.”
The Valley of Vision
22 [This is] the burden against the Valley of Vision:
that you have all gone up to the rooftops,
Your slain did not die by the sword,
nor were they killed in battle.
3 All your rulers have fled together,
All your fugitives were captured together,
having fled to a distant place.
“Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly!
over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5 For the Lord GOD of Hosts has [set] a day
of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—
6 Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen,
7 Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,
and horsemen are posted at the gates.
On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest. 9 You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool. 10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall. 11 You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
12 On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts
called for weeping and wailing,
13 But look, there is joy and gladness,
butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,
eating of meat and drinking of wine:
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”[fn]
14 The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing:
this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts.
A Message for Shebna
15 This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, [say] to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace: 16 What are you doing here, and who [authorized] you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?
17 Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you, 18 roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots {will remain}—a disgrace to the house of your master. 19 I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.
20 On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. 21 I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22 I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.[fn] 23 I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.
24 So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.
25 In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.”
The Burden against Tyre
23 [This is] the burden against Tyre:
Wail, O ships of Tarshish,[fn]
2 Be silent, O dwellers of the coastland,
whose traders have crossed the sea.[fn]
the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre;
she was the merchant of the nations.
4 Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea,
5 When the report [reaches] Egypt,
they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.
wail, O inhabitants of the coastland!
whose origin is from antiquity,
8 Who planned this against Tyre,
whose merchants are renowned on the earth?
9 The LORD of Hosts planned it,
to defile all its glorious beauty,
to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.
10 Cultivate[fn] your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish;
11 [The LORD] has stretched out His hand over the sea;
that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.
12 He said, “You shall rejoice no more,
O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon.
Get up and cross over to Cyprus—
even there you will find no rest
13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans[fn]—
The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures;
they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces.
They brought it to ruin.
for your harbor has been destroyed!
15 At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
so you will be remembered.”
17 And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. 18 Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.
God’s Judgment on the Earth
24 Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth
2 people and priest alike, servant and master,
maid and mistress, buyer and seller,
lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
3 The earth will be utterly laid waste
and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.
4 The earth mourns and withers;
the world languishes and fades;
the exalted of the earth waste away.
5 The earth is defiled by its people;
they have transgressed the laws;
they have overstepped the decrees
and broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,
and its inhabitants must bear the guilt;
the earth’s dwellers have been burned,
7 The new wine dries up, the vine withers.
All the merrymakers now groan.
8 The joyful tambourines have ceased;
the noise of revelers has stopped;
9 They no longer sing and drink wine;
strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.
10 The city of chaos is shattered;
every house is closed to entry.
11 In the streets they cry out for wine.
rejoicing is exiled from the land.
its gate is reduced to rubble.
like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
14 They raise their voices, they shout for joy;
from the west[fn] they proclaim the majesty of the LORD.
15 Therefore glorify the LORD in the east.
Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel
in the islands[fn] of the sea.
16 From the ends of the earth we hear singing:
But I said, “I am wasting away I am wasting away
the treacherous deal in treachery.
17 Terror and pit and snare await you,
18 Whoever flees the sound of panic
and whoever climbs from the pit
For the windows of heaven are open,
and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
19 The earth is utterly broken apart,
the earth is shaken violently.
20 The earth staggers like a drunkard
Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,
and it falls, never to rise again.
21 In that day the LORD will punish
and the kings of the earth below.
22 They will be gathered together
They will be confined to a dungeon
23 The moon will be confounded
for the LORD of Hosts will reign
Praise to the Victorious God
2 Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble,
The fortress of strangers [is] a city [no more];
3 Therefore, a strong people will honor You.
The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
4 For You have been a refuge for the poor,
a stronghold for the needy in distress
For the breath of the ruthless
You subdue the uproar of foreigners.
As the shade of a cloud cools the heat,
so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
6 On this mountain the LORD of Hosts
will prepare a lavish banquet for all the peoples,
a feast of aged wine, of choice meat,
7 On this mountain He will swallow up
the shroud that enfolds all peoples,
the sheet that covers all nations;
8 He will swallow up death forever.[fn]
The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face[fn]
and remove the disgrace of His people
from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
9 And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God;
we have waited for Him, and He has saved us.
This is the LORD for whom we have waited
Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
But Moab will be trampled in his place
as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
11 He will spread out his hands within it,
as a swimmer spreads [his arms] to swim.
His pride will be brought low,
despite[fn] the skill of his hands.
A Song of Salvation
26 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.
2 Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—
3 You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind,
because GOD the LORD [is] the Rock eternal.
5 For He has humbled those who dwell on high;
He brings it down to the ground;
7 The path of the righteous is level;
You clear a straight path for the upright.
8 Yes, we wait for You, O LORD;
[we walk] in the path of Your judgments.
are the desire of [our] souls.
9 My soul longs [for You] in the night;
indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn.[fn]
For when Your judgments [come] upon the earth,
the people of the world learn righteousness.
10 Though grace is shown to the wicked man,
he does not learn righteousness.
In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly
and fails to see the majesty of the LORD.
11 O LORD, Your hand is upraised,
They will see Your zeal for Your people
The fire [set] for Your enemies
12 O LORD, You will establish peace for us.
For all that we have accomplished,
13 O LORD our God, [other] lords besides You have ruled over us,
but Your name alone do we confess
the departed spirits will not rise.
Therefore You have punished and destroyed them;
You have wiped out all memory of them.
15 You have enlarged the nation, O LORD;
You have gained glory for Yourself;
You have extended all the borders of the land.
16 O LORD, they sought You in their distress;
when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.
17 As a woman with child about to give birth
writhes and cries out in pain,
so were we in Your presence, O LORD.
18 We were with child; we writhed in pain;
We have given no salvation to the earth,
nor brought any life into the world.
19 Your dead will live; their bodies will rise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!
For your dew is like the dew of the morning,
and the earth will bring forth her dead.
20 Go, my people, enter your rooms
and shut your doors behind you.
Hide yourselves a little while
until the wrath has passed.
21 For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.
The LORD’s Vineyard
27 In that day the LORD [will take] His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent[fn]—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea. 2 In that day:
“Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
If only thorns and briers confronted Me,
I would march and trample them
I would burn them to the ground.
5 Or let them lay claim to My protection;
[yes,] let them make peace with Me.”
6 In the days to come, Jacob will take root.
and fill the whole world with fruit.
7 Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors?
Was she killed like those who slayed her?
8 By warfare and exile[fn] You contended with her
and removed her with a fierce wind,
as on the day the east wind [blows].
9 Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for,
and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this:[fn]
When he makes all the altar stones
no Asherah poles or incense altars
10 For the fortified city lies deserted—
a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken.
There the calves graze, and there they lie down;
they strip its branches {bare}.
Women come and use them for kindling;
for this [is] a people without understanding.
Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them,
and their Creator shows them no favor.
12 In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates[fn] to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one. 13 And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
The Captivity of Ephraim
28 Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s[fn] drunkards,
to the fading flower of his glorious splendor,
set on the summit above the fertile valley,
[the pride] of those overcome by wine.
Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest,
like a driving rain or flooding downpour,
he will smash [that crown] to the ground.
3 The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards
4 The fading flower of his beautiful splendor,
[set] on the summit above the fertile valley,
will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest:
Whoever sees it will take it in his hand [and] swallow it.
5 On that day the LORD of Hosts will be a crown of glory,
a diadem of splendor to the remnant of His people,
6 a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment,
and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.
7 These also stagger from wine
and stumble from strong drink:
Priests and prophets reel from strong drink
They stumble because of strong drink,
muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.
8 For all their tables are covered with vomit;
there is not a place without filth.
To whom is He explaining His message?
To infants just weaned from milk?
To babies removed from the breast?
“Order on order, order on order,
line on line, line on line;[fn]
a little here, a little there.”
11 Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues,
He will speak to this people[fn] 12 to whom He has said:
“This is the place of rest, let the weary rest;
13 Then the word of the LORD to them will become:
“Order on order, order on order,
a little here, a little there,”
A Cornerstone in Zion
(1 Corinthians 3:10–15, Ephesians 2:19–22, 1 Peter 2:1–8)
14 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers
who rule this people in Jerusalem.
15 For you said, “We have made a covenant with death;
we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol.
When the overwhelming scourge passes through
it will not touch us,
because we have made lies our refuge
and falsehood[fn] our hiding place.”
16 So this is what the Lord GOD says:
a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;
the one who believes will never be shaken.[fn]
17 I will make justice the measuring line
Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies,
and water will flood your hiding place.
18 Your covenant with death will be dissolved,
and your agreement with Sheol will not stand.
When the overwhelming scourge passes through,
19 As often as it passes through,
it will sweep through morning after morning,
The understanding of [this] message
20 Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on,
and the blanket too small to wrap around you.
21 For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim.
He will rouse Himself as [in] the Valley of Gibeon,
to do His work, His strange work,
and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
or your shackles will become heavier.
Listen and Hear
Pay attention and hear what I say.
24 Does the plowman plow for planting every day?
Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
25 When he has leveled its surface,
does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin?
He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots,
27 Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge,
and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin.
But caraway is beaten out with a stick,
28 Grain for bread must be ground,
but it is not endlessly threshed.
Though the wheels of the cart roll over it,
Woe to David’s City
the city [of] Ariel where David camped!
and there will be mourning and lamentation;
she will be like an altar hearth[fn] before Me.
3 I will camp in a circle around you;
I will besiege you with towers
and set up siege works against you.
you will speak from the ground,
Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground;
your speech will whisper out of the dust.
5 But your many foes will be like fine dust,
the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff.
6 you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts
with thunder and earthquake and loud noise,
with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.
going out to battle against Ariel—
laying siege and attacking her—
8 as when a hungry man dreams he is eating,
as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking,
then awakens faint and parched.
So will it be for all the many nations
who go to battle against Mount Zion.
9 Stop and be astonished;
blind yourselves and be sightless;
stagger, but not from strong drink.
10 For the LORD has poured out on you
He has shut your eyes, O prophets;
He has covered your heads, O seers.
11 And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.” 12 Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”
“These people draw near to Me with their mouths
but their hearts are far from Me.
Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.[fn]
14 Therefore I will again confound these people
The wisdom of the wise will vanish,
and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.[fn]”
to hide their plans from the LORD.
In darkness they do their works and say,
“Who sees us, and who will know?”
16 You have turned things upside down,
as if the potter were regarded as clay.
Shall what is formed say to him who formed it,
Can the pottery say of the potter,
“He has no understanding”?
Sanctification for the Godly
[will not] Lebanon become an orchard,
and the orchard seem like a forest?
18 On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll,
and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
19 The humble will increase [their] joy in the LORD,
and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the ruthless will vanish,
21 those who indict a man with a word,
who ensnare the mediator at the gate,
deprive the innocent of justice.
22 Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob:
“No longer will Jacob be ashamed
and no more will his face grow pale.
23 For when he sees his children around him,
they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,
The Worthless Treaty with Egypt
30 “Woe to the rebellious children,”
“to those who carry out a plan [that is] not Mine,
who form an alliance, but against My will,
2 They set out to go down to Egypt
to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection
and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.
3 But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame,
and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.
4 For though their princes are at Zoan
and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
5 everyone will be put to shame
because of a people useless to them.
They bring neither help nor benefit,
but only shame and disgrace.”
6 [This is] the burden against the beasts of the Negev:
Through a land of hardship and distress,
they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people of no profit to them.
7 Egypt’s help is futile and empty;
8 Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence
it will be for the days to come,
9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children,
children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
“Do not prophesy to us the truth!
11 Get out of the way; turn off the road.
Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
12 Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says:
“Because you have rejected this message,
trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
13 this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail,
whose collapse will come suddenly—
14 It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar,
shattered so that no fragment can be found.
Not a shard will be found in the dust
large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth
or to skim the water from a cistern.”
15 For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said:
your strength would lie in quiet confidence—
16 “No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.”
but your pursuers will be faster.
17 A thousand [will flee] at the threat of one;
at the threat of five you will all flee,
God Will Be Gracious
18 Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you;
therefore He rises to show you compassion,
Blessed are all who wait for Him.
19 O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you. 20 The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see [Him].
21 And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.” 22 So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
23 Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures. 24 The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
25 And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
27 Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar,
with burning anger and dense smoke.
and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
28 His breath is like a rushing torrent
He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction;
He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
as on the night of a holy festival,
like one who walks to the music of a flute,
going up to the mountain of the LORD,
30 And the LORD [will cause] His majestic voice to be heard
and His mighty arm to be revealed,
striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire,
and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
31 For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD;
He will strike them with His scepter.
32 And with every stroke of the rod of punishment[fn]
that the LORD brings down on them,
the tambourines and lyres [will sound]
as He battles with weapons brandished.
33 For Topheth has long been prepared;
it has been made ready for the king.
Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,
with plenty of fire and wood.
The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur,
sets it ablaze
Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt
31 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,
who trust in their abundance of chariots
and in their multitude of horsemen.
They do not look to the Holy One of Israel;
2 Yet He too [is] wise and brings disaster;
He does not call back His words.
He will rise up against the house of the wicked
and against the allies of evildoers.
3 But the Egyptians are men, not God;
their horses are flesh, not spirit.
When the LORD stretches out His hand,
and the one he helps will fall;
4 For this is what the LORD has said to me:
or a young lion over its prey—
and though a band of shepherds is called out against it,
it is not terrified by their shouting
so the LORD of Hosts will come down
to do battle on Mount Zion [and] its heights.
5 Like birds hovering overhead,
so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem.
He will shield it and deliver it;
He will pass over it and preserve it.”
6 Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel. 7 For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
They will flee before the sword,
and their young men will be put to forced labor.
9 Their rock will pass away for fear,
and their princes will panic at [the sight of] the battle standard,”
A Righteous King
32 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness,
and princes will rule with justice.
2 Each will be like a shelter from the wind,
like streams of water in a dry land,
like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
3 Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed,
and the ears of those who hear will listen.
4 The mind of the rash will know and understand,
and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.
5 No longer {will} a fool be called noble,
6 For a fool speaks foolishness;
and speaks falsely about the LORD;
and deprives the thirsty of drink.
7 The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive;
he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies,
even when the plea of the needy is just.
The Women of Jerusalem
9 Stand up, you complacent women;
10 In a little more than a year you will tremble,
For the grape harvest will fail
and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
11 Shudder, you ladies of leisure;
tremble, you daughters of complacency.
and put sackcloth around your waists.
12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
13 and for the land of my people,
overgrown with thorns and briers—
even for every house of merriment
14 For the palace will be forsaken,
The hill[fn] and the watchtower will become caves forever—
15 until the Spirit is poured out
Then the desert will be an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest.
16 Then justice will inhabit the wilderness,
and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.
17 The work of righteousness will be peace;
the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.
18 Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place,
in safe and secure places of rest.
19 But hail will level the forest,
and the city will sink to the depths.
The LORD Is Exalted
33 Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed,
When you have finished destroying,
When you have finished betraying,
and our salvation in time of trouble.
3 The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice;
the nations scatter when You rise.
4 Your spoil, [O nations,][fn] is gathered as by locusts;
like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.
5 The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high;
He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6 He will be the sure foundation for your times,
a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
The fear of the LORD is [Zion’s] treasure.
7 Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets;
the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
The treaty[fn] has been broken,
the witnesses[fn] are despised,
and human life is disregarded.
9 The land mourns [and] languishes;
Lebanon is ashamed and decayed.
Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
10 “Now I will arise,” says the LORD.
“Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.
11 You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble.
Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
12 The peoples will be burned to ashes,
like thorns cut down and set ablaze.
13 You who are far off, hear what I have done;
you who are near, acknowledge My might.”
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
“Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire?
Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”
who refuses gain from extortion,
whose hand never takes a bribe,
who stops his ears against murderous plots
and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
16 he will dwell on the heights;
the mountain fortress [will be] his refuge;
17 Your eyes will see the King in His beauty
and behold a land that stretches afar.
18 Your mind will ponder the former terror:
“Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?”
19 You will no longer see the insolent,
a people whose speech is unintelligible,
who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
the city of our appointed feasts.
a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander;
its tent pegs will not be pulled up,
nor will any of its cords be broken.
21 But there the Majestic One, our LORD,
[will be] for us a place of rivers and wide canals,
where no galley with oars will row
and no majestic vessel will pass.
they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail.
Then an abundance of spoils will be divided,
[and even] the lame will carry off plunder.
Judgment on the Nations
34 Come near, O nations, to listen;
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it,
the world and all that springs from it.
2 The LORD is angry with all the nations
and furious with all their armies.
He will devote them to destruction;[fn]
He will give them over to slaughter.
3 Their slain will be left unburied,
and the stench of their corpses will rise;
the mountains will flow with their blood.
4 All the stars of heaven will be dissolved.
The skies will be rolled up like a scroll,
Judgment on Edom
5 When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,
then it will come down upon Edom,
upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
6 The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood.
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 And the wild oxen will fall with them,
the young bulls with the strong [ones].
Their land will be drenched with blood,
and their soil will be soaked with fat.
8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.[fn]
9 [Edom’s] streams will be turned to tar,
her land will become a blazing pitch.
10 It will not be quenched—day or night.
Its smoke will ascend forever.
From generation to generation it will lie desolate;
no one will ever again pass through it.
11 The desert owl and screech owl will possess it,
and the great owl and raven will dwell in it.[fn]
The LORD will stretch out over [Edom]
and a plumb line of destruction.
12 No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,
and all her princes will come to nothing.
13 Her towers will be overgrown with thorns,
her fortresses with thistles and briers.
She will become a haunt for jackals,[fn]
14 The desert creatures will meet with hyenas,
and one wild goat will call to another.
There the night creature[fn] will settle
15 There the owl will make her nest;
she will lay and hatch her eggs
and gather her brood under her shadow.
Even there the birds of prey will gather,
16 Search and read the scroll of the LORD:
Not one of these will go missing,
because He has ordered it by His mouth,
and He will gather them by His Spirit.
17 He has allotted their portion;
The Glory of Zion
35 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad;
the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
and rejoice with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon.
They will see the glory of the LORD,
and steady the feeble knees![fn]
4 Say to those with anxious hearts:
Behold, your God will come with vengeance.
With divine retribution He will come to save you.”
5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
6 Then the lame will leap like a deer
and the mute tongue will shout for joy.
For waters will gush forth in the wilderness,
7 The parched ground will become a pool,
the thirsty land springs of water.
In the haunt where jackals[fn] once lay,
there will be grass [and] reeds and papyrus.
The unclean will not travel it—
only those who walk in the Way—
and fools will not stray onto it.
and no vicious beast will go up on it.
but the redeemed will walk upon it.
10 So the redeemed of the LORD will return
Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem
(2 Kings 18:13–37, 2 Chronicles 32:1–8)
36 In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah. 2 And the king of Assyria sent [the] Rabshakeh,[fn] with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
3 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.
4 The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis [of] this confidence of yours? 5 You claim [to have][fn] a strategy and strength for war, but [these are] empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
6 Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 7 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?
8 Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! 9 For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 10 So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’ ”
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew[fn] in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
12 But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
13 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you. 15 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
16 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me[fn] and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern, 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18 Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? 20 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
21 But [the people] remained silent and did not answer a word, for [Hezekiah] had commanded “Do not answer him.”
22 Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of [the] Rabshakeh.
Isaiah’s Message of Deliverance
37 On hearing [this report], King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD. 2 And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz 3 to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them. 4 Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah, 6 who replied “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’ ”
Sennacherib’s Blasphemous Letter
8 When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
9 Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush:[fn] “He has set out to fight against you.”
On hearing this, Sennacherib sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 “Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah:
‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all [the other] countries, devoting them to destruction.[fn] Will you then be spared? 12 Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue [those nations]—[the gods of] Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar? 13 Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’ ”
Hezekiah’s Prayer
14 So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:
16 “O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. 17 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
18 Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands. 19 They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
20 And now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.[fn]”
Sennacherib’s Fall Prophesied
21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him:
23 Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
24 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord,
to the heights of the mountains,
to the remote peaks of Lebanon.
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
the finest of its cypresses.[fn]
I have reached its farthest heights,
and drunk [foreign][fn] waters.
I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
Now I have brought it to pass,
that you should crush fortified cities
27 Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power,
They are like plants in the field,
scorched[fn] before it is grown.
28 But I know your sitting down,
29 Because your rage and arrogance against Me
I will put My hook in your nose
30 And this will be a sign to you, [O Hezekiah]:
But in the third year you will sow and reap;
you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
31 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah
32 For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem,
and survivors from Mount Zion.
33 So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria:
He will not come before it with a shield
or build up a siege ramp against it.
34 He will go back the way he came
Jerusalem Delivered from the Assyrians
(2 Kings 19:35–37, 2 Chronicles 32:20–23)
36 Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up[fn] the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there. 38 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery
(2 Kings 20:1–11, 2 Chronicles 32:24–31)
38 In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’ ”
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, 3 saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done [what is] good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, 5 “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. 6 And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.[fn] 7 This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: 8 I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’ ”
Hezekiah’s Song of Thanksgiving
9 [This is] a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
10 I said, “In the prime[fn] of my life
I must go through the gates of Sheol
[and] be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
11 I said, “I will never again see the LORD,
[even] the LORD, in the land of the living;
I will no longer look on mankind
with those who dwell in this world.
12 My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me
I have rolled up my life like a weaver;
from day until night You make an end of me.
13 I composed myself[fn] until the morning.
Like a lion He breaks all my bones;
from day until night You make an end of me.
14 I chirp like a swallow or crane;
My eyes grow weak [as I look] upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed be my security.”
He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this.
I will walk slowly all my years
because of the anguish of my soul.
16 O Lord, by [such things] men live,
and in all [of them] my spirit [finds] life.
You have restored me to health
but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion,
for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
18 For Sheol cannot thank You;
cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
19 The living, only the living, can thank You,
fathers will tell their children
we will play songs on stringed instruments
21 Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
22 And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”
Hezekiah Shows His Treasures
39 At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about [Hezekiah’s] illness and recovery. 2 And Hezekiah welcomed [the envoys] {gladly} and showed them what was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his entire armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
3 Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those [men] come from, and what did they say to you?”
“They came to me from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”
4 “What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked.
“They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD of Hosts: 6 The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD. 7 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
8 But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “At least there will be peace and security in my lifetime.”
Prepare the Way for the LORD
(Matthew 3:1–12, Mark 1:1–8, Luke 3:1–20, John 1:19–28)
40 “Comfort, comfort My people,”
2 “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
that her forced labor has been completed;
her iniquity has been pardoned.
For she has received from the hand of the LORD
“Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness;[fn]
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.[fn]
4 Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill made low;
the uneven [ground] will become smooth,
and the rugged land a plain.[fn]
5 And the glory of the LORD will be revealed,
and all humanity together will see it.”[fn] For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
The Enduring Word
And I asked, “What should I cry out?”
and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
7 The grass withers [and] the flowers fall
when the breath of the LORD blows on them;
Here Is Your God!
O Jerusalem, herald of good news.
10 Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might,
and His arm establishes His rule.
and His recompense accompanies Him.
11 He tends His flock like a shepherd;
He gathers the lambs in His arms
and carries them close to His heart.
He gently leads the nursing [ewes].
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?
Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,
or weighed the mountains on a scale
13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD,[fn]
or informed Him [as] His counselor?[fn]
14 Whom did He consult to enlighten Him,
and who taught Him the paths of justice?
and showed Him the way of understanding?
15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
they are considered a speck of dust on the scales;
He lifts up the islands[fn] like fine dust.
16 Lebanon [is] not sufficient for fuel,
nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.
17 All the nations are as nothing before Him;
He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
18 To whom will you liken God?
To what image will you compare Him?
19 To an idol that a craftsman casts
and a metalworker overlays with gold
20 One lacking such an offering
chooses wood that will not rot.
to set up an idol that will not topple.
Has it not been declared to you from the beginning
Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth;
its dwellers are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
23 He brings the princes to nothing
and makes the rulers[fn] of the earth meaningless.
24 No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown,
no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground,
than He blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
25 “To whom will you liken Me,
or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.
He leads forth the starry host by number;
Because of His great power and mighty strength,
and why do you assert, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the LORD,
and my claim is ignored by my God”?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary;
His understanding is beyond searching out.
29 He gives power to the faint
and increases the strength of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall.
31 But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength;
they will mount up with wings like eagles;
God’s Help to Israel
41 “Be silent before Me, O islands,[fn]
and let the peoples renew their strength.
Let them come forward and testify;
let us together draw near for judgment.
2 Who has aroused one from the east
[and] called him to his feet in righteousness[fn]?
[and] subdues kings [before him].
He turns them to dust with his sword,
to windblown chaff with his bow.
3 He pursues them, going on safely,
hardly touching the path with his feet.
4 Who has performed this and carried it out,
calling forth the generations from the beginning?
I, the LORD—the first and the last—
the ends of the earth tremble.
They approach and come forward.
and says to his brother, “Be strong!”
7 The craftsman encourages the goldsmith,
[and] he who wields the hammer
[cheers] him who strikes the anvil,
saying of the welding, “It is good.”
He nails it down so it will not be toppled.
8 “But you, O Israel, My servant,
descendant of Abraham My friend—
9 I brought you from the ends of the earth
and called you from its farthest corners.
I have chosen and not rejected you.
10 Do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be afraid, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you; I will surely help you;
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
11 Behold, all who rage against you
will be ashamed and disgraced;
will be reduced to nothing and will perish.
12 You will seek [them] but will not find them.
Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.
13 For I am the LORD your God,
who takes hold of your right hand
14 Do not fear, O Jacob, you worm,
I will help you,” declares the LORD.
“Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge,
new [and] sharp, with many teeth.
You will thresh the mountains and crush them,
and reduce the hills to chaff.
16 You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away;
But you will rejoice in the LORD;
you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 The poor and needy seek water, but there is none;
their tongues are parched with thirst.
I, the LORD, will answer them;
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers on the barren heights,
and fountains in the middle of the valleys.
I will turn the desert into a pool of water,
and the dry land into flowing springs.
19 I will plant cedars in the wilderness,
acacias, myrtles, and olive trees.
I will set cypresses[fn] in the desert,
20 so that all may see and know,
Meaningless Idols
21 “Present your case,” says the LORD.
“Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.
22 “Let them come and tell us what will happen.
so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome.
Or announce to us what is coming.
23 Tell us the things that are to come,
so that we may know that you are gods.
Yes, do something good or evil,
that we may look on together in dismay.
Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
25 I have raised up [one] from the north, and he has come—
one from the east who calls on My name.
He will march over rulers as if they were mortar,
like a potter who treads the clay.
26 Who has declared [this] from the beginning,
so that we may say: ‘He was right’?
No one announced it, no one foretold it,
27 I was the first to tell Zion:[fn]
28 When I look, there is no one;
there is no counselor among them;
29 See, [they are] all a delusion;
Here Is My Servant
42 [ “] Here is My Servant, whom I uphold
My Chosen One, [in whom] My soul delights.
[and] He will bring justice to the nations.
2 He will not cry out [or] raise [His voice],
nor make His voice heard in the streets.
3 A bruised reed He will not break
and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish;
He will faithfully bring forth justice.
4 He will not grow weak or discouraged[fn]
before He has established justice on the earth.
In His law the islands will put their hope.”[fn]
5 This is what God the LORD says—
who spread out the earth and its offspring,
who gives breath to the people on it
and life to those who walk in it:
6 “I, the LORD, have called you
and I will take hold of your hand.
I will keep you and appoint you
to be a covenant for the people
7 to open the eyes of the blind,
to bring prisoners out of the dungeon
I will not yield My glory to another
A New Song of Praise
10 Sing to the LORD a new song—
His praise from the ends of the earth—
you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,
you islands,[fn] and all who dwell in them.
11 Let the desert and its cities raise their voices;
[let] the villages of Kedar [cry aloud].
Let the people of Sela sing for joy;
let them cry out from the mountaintops.
12 Let them give glory to the LORD
and declare His praise in the islands.
13 The LORD goes forth like a mighty one;
He stirs up His zeal like a warrior.
14 “I have kept silent from ages past;
I have remained quiet and restrained.
But now I will groan like a woman in labor;
15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills
and dry up all their vegetation.
I will turn the rivers into dry land[fn]
16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know;
I will guide them on unfamiliar paths.
I will turn darkness into light before them
and rough places into level ground.
These things I will do for them,
17 But those who trust in idols
Israel Is Deaf and Blind
look, you blind [ones], that you may see!
19 Who is blind but My servant,
or deaf like the messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like My covenant partner,
or blind like the servant of the LORD?
20 Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch.
Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”
21 The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness,
to magnify His law and make it glorious.
22 But this is a people plundered and looted,
all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons.
They have become plunder with no one to rescue them,
and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
23 Who among you will pay attention to this?
[Who] will listen and obey hereafter?
24 Who gave Jacob up for spoil,
and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the LORD,
against whom we have sinned
They were unwilling to walk in His ways,
and they would not obey His law.
Israel’s Only Savior
43 But now, this is what the LORD says—
and He who formed you, O Israel:
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name; you are Mine!
2 When you pass through the waters,
and [when you go through] the rivers,
When you walk through the fire,
the flames will not set you ablaze.
3 For I [am] the LORD your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
I give Egypt [for] your ransom,
Cush[fn] and Seba in your place.
4 Because you are precious and honored in My sight,
I will give men in exchange for you
and nations in place of your life.
5 Do not be afraid, for I am with you;
I will bring your offspring from the east
6 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’
and My daughters from the ends of the earth—
7 everyone called by My name and created for My glory,
whom I have indeed formed [and] made.”
8 Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind,
and who have ears but are deaf
9 All the nations gather together
Who among them can declare this,
and proclaim to us the former things?
Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them,
so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”
10 “You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD,
“and My servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may consider and believe Me
and there is no Savior but Me.
12 I alone decreed and saved and proclaimed—
[I,] and not some foreign god among you.
So you are My witnesses,” declares the LORD,
13 Even from eternity I [am] He,
A Way in the Wilderness
14 Thus says the LORD your Redeemer,
“For your sake, I will send to Babylon
and bring them all as fugitives,
in the ships in which they rejoice.
15 I am the LORD, your Holy One,
the Creator of Israel, [and] your King.”
16 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea
and a path through the surging waters,
17 who brings out the chariots and horses,
the armies and warriors together,
to lie down, never to rise again;
to be extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
18 “Do not call to mind the former things;
pay no attention to the things of old.
19 Behold, I am about to do something new;
even now it is coming. Do you not see it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness
20 The beasts of the field will honor Me,
the jackals[fn] and the ostriches,[fn]
because I provide water in the wilderness
to give drink to My chosen people.
Israel’s Unfaithfulness
(Judges 2:10–15, Jeremiah 2:23–37)
22 But you have not called on Me, O Jacob,
because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.
23 You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings,
nor honored Me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings,
nor wearied you with frankincense.
24 You have not bought Me sweet cane with [your] silver,
nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices.
But you have burdened Me with your sins;
you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
who blots out your transgressions for My own sake
and remembers your sins no more.
26 Remind Me, let us argue the matter together.
State your case, so that you may be vindicated.
and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.
28 So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary,
and I will devote Jacob to destruction[fn] and Israel to reproach.”
The LORD Has Chosen Israel
44 But now listen, O Jacob My servant,
2 This is the word of the LORD, your Maker,
who formed you from the womb [and] who will help you:
“Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant,
Jeshurun,[fn] whom I have chosen
3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land,
and currents on the dry ground.
I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants,
and My blessing on your offspring.
4 They will sprout among the grass
like willows[fn] by flowing streams.
5 One will say, ‘I [belong] to the LORD,’
another will call himself by the name of Jacob,
and still another will write on his hand, ‘The LORD’s,’
and will take the name of Israel.”
the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts:
“I am the first and I am the last,
Let him declare [his] case before Me,
since I established an ancient people.
Let him foretell the things to come,
Have I not told you and declared it long ago?
9 All makers of idols are nothing,
and the things they treasure are worthless.
Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend,
10 Who fashions a god or casts an idol
11 Behold, all his companions will be put to shame,
for the craftsmen themselves are only human.
Let them all assemble and take their stand;
they will all be brought to terror and shame.
12 The blacksmith takes a tool
he fashions [an idol] with hammers
and forges [it] with his strong arms.
Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength;
he fails to drink water and grows faint.
13 The woodworker extends a measuring line;
he marks it out with a stylus;
and outlines it with a compass.
He fashions it in the likeness of man,
that it may dwell in a shrine.
or retrieves a cypress[fn] or oak.
He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.
He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
He takes some of it to warm himself,
He also fashions it into a god and worships it;
he makes an idol and bows down to it.
16 He burns half of it in the fire,
and he roasts meat on that half.
He eats the roast and is satisfied.
Indeed, he warms himself and says,
“Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”
17 From the rest he makes a god, his graven image.
He bows down to it and worships;
he prays to it and says,
“Save me, for you are my god.”
18 They do not comprehend [or] discern,
for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see
and [closed] their minds so they cannot understand.
19 And no one considers in his heart,
no one has the knowledge or insight to say,
“I burned half of it in the fire,
and I baked bread on its coals;
Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it?
Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
His deluded heart has led him astray,
Jerusalem to Be Restored
21 Remember these things, O Jacob,
for you are My servant, O Israel.
I have made you, [and] you are My servant
O Israel, [I] will never forget [you].
22 I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud,
Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
23 Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this;
shout aloud, O depths of the earth.
Break forth in song, O mountains,
you forests and all your trees
For the LORD has redeemed Jacob,
and revealed His glory in Israel.
your Redeemer who formed you from the womb:
who alone stretched out the heavens,
who by Myself spread out the earth
25 who foils the signs of false prophets
and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
26 who confirms the message of His servant
and fulfills the counsel of His messengers,
‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’
27 who says to the depths of the sea,
‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
‘My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire,’
‘Let its foundation be laid.’ ”
God Calls Cyrus
(2 Chronicles 36:22–23, Ezra 1:1–4)
45 This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed,
whose right hand I have grasped
so that the gates will not be shut:
I will break down the gates of bronze
and cut through the bars of iron.
3 I will give you the treasures of darkness
and the riches hidden in secret places,
so that you may know that I [am] the LORD,
the God of Israel, who calls you by name.
4 For the sake of Jacob My servant
I have given you a title of honor,
5 I am the LORD, and there is no other;
from where the sun rises to where it sets,
I am the LORD, and there is no other.
7 I form the light and create the darkness;
I bring prosperity and create calamity.
I, the LORD, do all these things.
8 Drip down, O heavens, from above,
and let the skies pour down righteousness.
Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout
and righteousness spring up with it;
9 Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—
10 Woe to him who says to his father,
‘What have you brought forth?’ ”
the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker:
“Concerning things to come, do you question Me about My sons,
or instruct Me in the work of My hands?
It was My hands that stretched out the heavens,
and I ordained all their host.
13 I will raise up [Cyrus] in righteousness,
and I will make all his ways [straight].
but not for payment [or] reward,
14 This is what the LORD says:
“The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,[fn]
along with the Sabeans, men of stature,
they will come over in chains and bow down to you.
‘God is indeed with you, and there is no other;
15 Truly You are a God who hides Himself,
16 They will all be put to shame and humiliated;
the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.
17 [But] Israel will be saved by the LORD
with an everlasting salvation;
you will not be put to shame or humiliated,
who created the heavens—He [is] God;
He formed the earth and fashioned it;
He did not create it to be empty,
but formed it to be inhabited:
19 I have not spoken in secret,
from a place in a land of darkness.
I did not say to the descendants of Jacob,
20 Come, gather together, and draw near,
you fugitives from the nations.
Ignorant [are] those who carry idols of wood
and pray to a god that cannot save.
21 Speak up and present your case—
yes, let them take counsel together.
Who announced it from ancient times?
truth has gone out from My mouth,
a word that will not be revoked:
Every knee will bow before Me,
every tongue will swear [allegiance].[fn]
24 Surely they will say of Me,
‘In the LORD alone [are] righteousness and strength.’ ”
will come to Him and be put to shame.
Babylon’s Idols
Their idols [weigh down] beasts and cattle.
The images you carry are burdensome,
2 The gods cower; they crouch together,
but they themselves go into captivity.
3 “Listen to Me, O house of Jacob,
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
who have been sustained from the womb,
4 Even to your old age, I will be the same,
and I will bear you up when you turn gray.
I have made you, and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and deliver you.
5 To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal?
To whom will you compare Me, that we should be alike?
6 They pour out their bags of gold
and weigh out silver on scales;
they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god,
so they can bow down and worship.
7 They lift it to their shoulder
they set it in its place, and there it stands,
They cry out to it, but it does not answer;
it saves no one from his troubles.
take it to heart, you transgressors!
9 Remember what happened long ago,
for I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and [there is] none like Me.
10 I declare the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times what is still to come.
I say, ‘My purpose will stand,
and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
11 I summon a bird of prey from the east,
a man for My purpose from a far-off land.
Truly I have spoken,
and truly I will bring it to pass.
I have planned it,
and I will surely do it.
12 Listen to Me, you stubborn people,
far removed from righteousness:
13 I am bringing My righteousness near;
it is not far away, and My salvation will not be delayed.
The Humiliation of Babylon
47 [ “] Go down and sit in the dust,
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O Daughter of the Chaldeans![fn]
For you will no longer be called
2 Take millstones and grind flour;
strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,
[and] wade through the streams.
3 Your nakedness will be uncovered
and your shame will be exposed.
4 Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His name—
5 “Sit in silence and go into darkness,
For you will no longer be called
and I placed them under your control.
even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
7 You said, ‘I will be queen forever
You did not take these things to heart
O lover of luxury who sits securely,
‘I [am], and there is none besides me.
or know the loss of children.’
9 These two [things] will overtake you in a moment,
loss of children, and widowhood.
They will come upon you in full measure,
in spite of your many sorceries
and the potency of your spells.
10 You were secure in your wickedness;
Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray;
you told yourself, ‘I [am], and there is none besides me.’
11 But disaster will come upon you;
you will not know how to charm it away.
that you will be unable to ward off.
Devastation will happen to you
12 So take your stand with your spells
with which you have wearied yourself
perhaps you will inspire terror!
13 You are wearied by your many counselors;
let them come forward now and save you—
your astrologers who observe the stars,
who monthly predict your fate.
14 Surely they are like stubble;
They cannot deliver themselves
There will be no coals to warm them
15 This is what they are to you—
those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—
Israel’s Stubbornness
48 [ “] Listen to this, O house of Jacob,
you who are called by the name of Israel,
who have descended from the line of Judah,
who swear by the name of the LORD,
but not in truth [or] righteousness—
2 who indeed call yourselves after the holy city
and lean on the God of Israel;
the LORD of Hosts [is] His name.
3 I foretold the former things long ago;
they came out of My mouth and I proclaimed them.
Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.
4 For I knew that you are stubborn;
your neck is iron and your forehead [is] bronze.
5 Therefore I declared it to you long ago;
I announced it before it came to pass,
so that you could not claim, ‘My idol has done this;
my carved image and molten god has ordained it.’
6 You have heard [these things]; look at them all.
Will you not acknowledge [them]?
From now on I will tell you of new things,
7 They are created now, and not long ago;
you have not heard of them before today.
8 You have never heard; you have never understood;
for a long time your ears have not been open.
For I knew how deceitful you are;
you have been called a rebel from birth.
9 For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath;
for the sake of My praise I will restrain it
so that you will not be cut off.
10 See, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
11 For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act;
Deliverance Promised to Israel
and Israel, whom I have called:
13 Surely My own hand founded the earth,
and My right hand spread out the heavens;
14 Come together, all of you, and listen:
Which [of the idols] has foretold these things?
The LORD’s chosen ally will carry out His desire against Babylon,
and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.[fn]
and he will succeed in his mission.
16 Come near to Me and listen to this:
From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
from the time it happened, I was there.”
And now the Lord GOD has sent me,
17 Thus says the LORD your Redeemer,
who teaches you for your benefit,
who directs you in the way you should go.
18 If only you had paid attention to My commandments,
your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants would have been as [countless as] the sand,
and your offspring as [numerous as] its grains;[fn]
their name would never be cut off
or eliminated from My presence.”
Declare it with a shout of joy,
let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying,
“The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”
21 They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts;
He made water flow for them from the rock;
He split the rock, and water gushed out.
The Servant and Light to the Gentiles
49 Listen to Me, O islands;[fn]
pay attention, O distant peoples:
The LORD called Me from the womb;
from the body of My mother He named Me.
2 He made My mouth like a sharp sword;
He hid Me in the shadow of His hand.
He made Me like a polished arrow;
3 He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel,
in whom I will display My glory.”
4 But I said, “I have labored in vain,
I have spent My strength in futility and vanity;
yet My vindication is with the LORD,
and My reward is with My God.”
who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant
that Israel might be gathered to Him—
for I am honored in the sight of the LORD,
and My God is My strength—
6 He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant,
to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
and to restore the protected ones of Israel.
I will also make You a light for the nations,
to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”[fn]
the Redeemer [and] Holy One of Israel,
to Him who was despised [and] abhorred by the nation,
because of the LORD, who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.”
“In the time of favor I will answer You,
and in the day of salvation I will help You;[fn]
I will keep You and appoint You
to be a covenant for the people,
to apportion its desolate inheritances,
9 to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’
and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’
They will feed along the pathways,
and find pasture on every barren hill.
10 They will not hunger or thirst,
nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them.[fn]
For He who has compassion on them will guide them
and lead them beside springs of water.
11 I will turn all My mountains into roads,
and My highways will be raised up.
12 Behold, they will come from far away,
from the north and from the west,[fn]
and from the land of Aswan.[fn]”
13 Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth;
break forth in song, O mountains!
For the LORD has comforted His people,
and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
14 But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me;
15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or lack compassion for the son of her womb?
16 Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;
your walls are ever before Me.
17 Your builders[fn] hasten back;
your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around.
They all gather together; they come to you.
As surely as I live,” declares the LORD,
“you will wear them all as jewelry
19 For your ruined and desolate places
will now indeed be too small for your people,
and those who devoured you will be far away.
20 Yet the children of your bereavement
‘This place is too small for us;
make room for us to live here.’
21 Then you will say in your heart,
‘Who has begotten these for me?
so where did they come from?’ ”
22 This is what the Lord GOD says:
“Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations,
and raise My banner to the peoples.
They will bring your sons in their arms[fn]
and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
23 Kings will be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
and lick the dust at your feet.
Then you will know that I am the LORD;
those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”
24 Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty,
or the captives of a tyrant[fn] be delivered?
25 Indeed, this is what the LORD says:
“Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away,
and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved;
I will contend with those who contend with you,
and I will save your children.
26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;
they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine.
Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD,
Israel’s Sin
50 This is what the LORD says:
“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce
Look, you were sold for your iniquities,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
2 Why was no one there when I arrived?
Why did no one answer when I called?
Is My hand too short to redeem you?
Or do I lack the strength to deliver you?
Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea;
I turn the rivers into a desert;
the fish rot for lack of water
The Servant’s Obedience
(Matthew 27:27–31, Mark 15:16–20, Luke 22:63–65, John 19:1–15)
to sustain the weary with a word.
He awakens Me morning by morning;
He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
5 The Lord GOD has opened My ears,
and I have not been rebellious,
6 I offered My back to those who struck Me,
and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard.
I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
7 Because the Lord GOD helps Me,
therefore I have set My face like flint,
and I know that I will not be put to shame.
8 The One who vindicates Me is near.
Who will dare to contend with Me?
9 Surely the Lord GOD helps Me.
See, they will all wear out like a garment;
10 Who among you fears the LORD
[and] obeys the voice of His Servant?
Who among you walks in darkness
Let him trust in the name of the LORD;
11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
who array yourselves with firebrands,
walk in the light of your fire
and of the firebrands you have lit!
Salvation for Zion
51 “Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness,
Look to the rock from which you were cut,
and to the quarry from which you were hewn.
2 Look to Abraham your father,
and to Sarah who gave you birth.
When I called him, he was but one;
then I blessed him and multiplied him.
3 For the LORD will comfort Zion
and will look with compassion on all her ruins;
He will make her wilderness like Eden
and her desert like the garden of the LORD.
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and melodious song.
4 Pay attention to Me, My people,
for a law will go out from Me,
and My justice [will become] a light to the nations;
I will bring it about quickly.
5 My righteousness draws near,
and My arms will bring justice to the nations.
The islands[fn] will look for Me
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
for the heavens will vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment,
and its people will die like [gnats].
But My salvation will last forever,
and My righteousness will never fail.
7 Listen to Me, you who know what is right,
you people with My law in your hearts:
do not be broken by their insults.
8 For the moth will devour them like a garment,
and the worm will eat them like wool.
But My righteousness will last forever,
My salvation through all generations.”
put on strength, O arm of the LORD.
as in generations of old.
Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces,
who pierced through the dragon?
10 Was it not You who dried up the sea,
who made a road in the depths of the sea
for the redeemed to cross over?
11 So the redeemed of the LORD will return
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee.
12 “I, even I, am He who comforts you.
Why should you be afraid of mortal man,
of a son of man who withers like grass?
13 But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker,
and laid the foundations of the earth.
You live in terror all day long
because of the fury of the oppressor
But where is the fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive will soon be freed;
he will not die in the dungeon,
and his bread will not be lacking.
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
the LORD of Hosts [is] His name.
16 I have put My words in your mouth,
and covered you with the shadow of My hand,
God’s Fury Removed
you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD
you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—
the cup that makes men stagger.
18 Among all the sons she bore,
among all the sons she brought up,
there is no one to take her hand.
19 These pairs have befallen you:
they lie at the head of every street,
They are full of the wrath of the LORD,
21 Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one,
22 Thus says your Lord, the LORD,
even your God, who defends His people:
“See, I have removed from your hand
From that goblet, the cup of My fury,
23 I will place it in the hands of your tormentors,
who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’
Deliverance for Jerusalem
clothe yourself with strength, O Zion!
Put on your garments of splendor,
For the uncircumcised and unclean
Rise up [and] sit [on your throne], O Jerusalem.
Remove the chains from your neck,
O captive Daughter of Zion.
3 For this is what the LORD says:
and without money you will be redeemed.”
4 For this is what the Lord GOD says:
“At first My people went down to Egypt to live,
then Assyria oppressed them without cause.
declares the LORD.
For My people have been taken without cause;
those who rule them taunt,[fn]
declares the LORD,
and My name [is] blasphemed continually
all day long.[fn]
6 Therefore My people will know My name;
therefore they will know on that day
7 How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of those who bring good news,[fn]
who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings,
who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
8 Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices,
when the LORD returns to Zion.
9 Break forth in joy, sing together,
for the LORD has comforted His people;
10 The LORD has bared His holy arm
in the sight of all the nations;
all the ends of the earth will see
11 Depart, depart, go out from there!
come out from it, purify yourselves,
you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
The Servant Exalted
13 Behold, My Servant will prosper;[fn]
He will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.
14 Just as many were appalled at Him[fn]—
His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man,
and His form [was marred] beyond human likeness—
15 so He will sprinkle[fn] many nations.
Kings will shut their mouths because of Him.
The Suffering Servant
(Acts 8:26–40, 1 Peter 2:21–25)
53 Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?[fn]
2 He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no [stately] form or majesty to attract us,
no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief.
Like one from whom men hide their faces,
He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
4 Surely He took up our infirmities
yet we considered Him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was pierced for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him,
and by His stripes we are healed.[fn]
6 We all like sheep have gone astray,[fn]
each one has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid upon Him
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet He did not open His mouth.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,
8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away,
and who can recount His descendants?
A Grave Assigned
(Matthew 27:57–61, Mark 15:42–47, Luke 23:50–56, John 19:38–42)
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with a rich man in His death,
although He had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in His mouth.[fn]
10 Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him
and when His soul is made a guilt offering,[fn]
He will see [His] offspring, He will prolong His days,
and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
11 After the anguish of His soul,
He will see [the light of life][fn] and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many,
and He will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great,[fn]
and He will divide the spoils with the strong,[fn]
because He has poured out His life unto death,
Future Blessings for Zion
54 “Shout for joy, O barren woman,
break forth in song and cry aloud,
because more [are] the children of the desolate woman
[than] of her who has a husband,”[fn] says the LORD.
2 “Enlarge the site of your tent,
stretch out the curtains of your dwellings,
and drive your stakes in deep.[fn]
3 For you will spread out to the right and left;
your descendants will dispossess the nations
and inhabit the desolate cities.
4 Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame;
do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated.
For you will forget the shame of your youth
and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
5 For your husband is your Maker—
the LORD of Hosts [is] His name—
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
He is called the God of all the earth.
6 For the LORD has called you back,
like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit,
like the rejected wife of one’s youth,”
7 “For a brief moment I forsook you,
but with great compassion I will bring you back.
I hid My face from you for a moment,
but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,”
9 “For to Me this is like the days of Noah,[fn]
when I swore that the waters of Noah
would never again cover the earth.
So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you
10 Though the mountains may be removed
My loving devotion will not depart from you,
and My covenant of peace will not be broken,”
says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
11 “O afflicted city, lashed by storms,
surely I will set your stones in antimony
and lay your foundations with sapphires.[fn]
12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
your gates of sparkling jewels,
and all your walls of precious stones.
13 Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD,[fn]
and great [will be their] prosperity.
14 In righteousness you will be established,
for it will not come near you.
15 If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me;
whoever assails you will fall before you.
16 Behold, I have created the craftsman
who fans the coals into flame
and forges a weapon fit for its task;
and I have created the destroyer
to wreak havoc.
17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
Invitation to the Needy
55 “Come, all you [who are] thirsty,
without money and without cost!
2 Why spend money on that which is not bread,
and your labor on that which does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.
3 Incline your ear and come to Me;
listen, so that your soul may live.
I will make with you an everlasting covenant—
My loving devotion promised to David.[fn]
4 Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations,
a leader and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon a nation you do not know,
and nations who do not know you will run to you.
For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel,
6 Seek the LORD while He may be found;
7 Let the wicked man forsake his way
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
9 “For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth,
so My ways are higher than your ways
and My thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven
and do not return without watering the earth,
and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
11 so My word that proceeds from My mouth
but it will accomplish what I please,
and it will prosper where I send it.
12 You will indeed go out with joy
the mountains and hills will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush, the cypress[fn] will grow,
and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up;
this will make a name for the LORD,
an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”
Salvation for Foreigners
56 This is what the LORD says:
“Maintain justice and do what is right,
for My salvation is coming soon,
and My righteousness will be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man who does this,
and the son of man who holds it fast
who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it
and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
3 Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say,
“The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.”
4 For this is what the LORD says:
“To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
5 I will give them, in My house and within My walls,
better than that of sons and daughters.
I will give them an everlasting name
6 And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD
all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it
and who hold fast to My covenant—
7 I will bring them to My holy mountain
and make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
for My house will be called a house of prayer[fn]
who gathers the dispersed of Israel:
Israel’s Sinful Leaders
9 Come, all you beasts of the field;
eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.
10 [Israel’s] watchmen are blind,
they are all mute dogs,
they cannot bark;
they are dreamers lying around,
loving to slumber.
They are shepherds with no discernment;
they all turn to their own way,
each one seeking his own gain:
12 “Come, let me get the wine,
let us imbibe the strong drink,
The Blessed Death of the Righteous
that the righteous are taken away
God Condemns Idolatry
3 “But come here, you sons of a sorceress,
you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
5 who burn with lust among the oaks,
who slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?
6 Your portion [is] among the smooth [stones] of the valley;
Even to them you have poured out a drink offering
[and] offered a grain offering.
Should I relent because of these?
7 On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed,
and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
8 Behind the door and doorpost
you have set up your memorial.
Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed;
you climbed up and opened it wide.
And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved;
you have gazed upon their nakedness.
9 You went to [Molech][fn] with oil
You have sent your envoys[fn] a great distance;
you have descended even to Sheol itself.
10 You are wearied by your many journeys,
but you did not say, “There is no hope!”
You found renewal of your strength;
therefore you did not grow weak.
11 Whom have you dreaded and feared,
to remember Me [or] take this to heart?
Is it not [because] I {have} long been silent
12 I will expose your righteousness and your works,
let your companies [of idols] deliver you!
Yet the wind will carry off all of them,
Healing for the Repentant
“Build it up, build it up, prepare the way,
take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”
15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“I dwell in a high and holy place,
and with the oppressed and humble in spirit,
to restore the spirit of the lowly
and revive the heart of the contrite.
16 For I will not accuse you forever,
for then the spirit [of man] would grow weak before Me—
the breath of life I have made.
17 I was enraged by his sinful greed,
so I struck him and hid [My face] in anger;
I will guide him and restore comfort
19 bringing praise to their lips.
Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD,
“and I will heal them.”
20 But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea,
and its waves churn up mire and muck.
True Fasts and Sabbaths
58 “Cry aloud, do not hold back!
Raise your voice like a ram’s horn.
Declare to My people their transgression
and to the house of Jacob their sins.
2 For day after day they seek Me
like a nation that does what is right
and does not forsake the justice of their God.
They ask Me for righteous judgments;
they delight in the nearness of God.”
[Why] have we humbled ourselves,
“Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please,
and you oppress all your workers.
4 You fast with contention and strife
to strike viciously with your fist.
You cannot fast as you do today
and have your voice be heard on high.
5 Is this the fast I have chosen:
a day for a man to deny himself,
and to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
and a day acceptable to the LORD?
6 Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen:
to break the chains of wickedness,
to untie the cords of the yoke,
7 Isn’t [it] to share your bread with the hungry,
to bring the poor and homeless into your home,
to clothe the naked when you see him,
from your own flesh and blood?
8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will come quickly.
Your righteousness will go before you,
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you remove the yoke from your midst,
the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,
10 and if you give yourself to the hungry
and satisfy the afflicted soul,
then your light will go forth in the darkness,
and your night will be like noonday.
11 The LORD will always guide you;
He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.
12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins;
you will restore the age-old foundations;
you will be called Repairer of the Breach,
Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.
13 If you turn your foot from [breaking] the Sabbath,
from doing as you please on My holy day,
if you call the Sabbath a delight,
and the LORD’s holy [day] honorable,
if you honor it by not going your own way
or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,
14 then you will delight yourself in the LORD,
and I will make you ride on the heights of the land
and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
Sin Separates Us from God
(Psalm 14:1–7, Psalm 53:1–6, Romans 3:9–20)
59 Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save,
2 But your iniquities have built barriers
and your sins have hidden [His] face from you,
3 For your hands are stained with blood,
and your fingers with iniquity;
and your tongue mutters injustice.
no one pleads his case honestly.
They rely on empty [pleas]; they tell lies;
they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5 They hatch the eggs of vipers
Whoever eats their eggs will die;
crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
6 Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing,
and they cannot cover themselves with their works.
and acts of violence are in their hands.
they are swift to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;
ruin and destruction[fn] lie in their wake.
8 The way of peace they have not known,[fn]
and there is no justice in their tracks.
They have turned them into crooked paths;
no one who treads on them will know peace.
9 Therefore justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not reach us.
We hope for light, but there is darkness;
for brightness, [but] we walk in gloom.
10 Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall,
groping like those without eyes.
We stumble at midday as in the twilight;
among the vigorous we are like the dead.
We hope for justice, but [find] none,
for salvation, but it is far from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before You,
and our sins testify against us.
Our transgressions are indeed with us,
13 rebelling and denying the LORD,
speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
and righteousness stands at a distance.
For truth has stumbled in the public square,
and whoever turns from evil becomes prey.
The LORD looked and was displeased[fn]
16 He saw that there was no man;
He was amazed that there was no one to intercede.
So His own arm brought salvation
and His own righteousness sustained Him.
17 He put on righteousness like a breastplate,
and the helmet of salvation on His head;
The Covenant of the Redeemer
18 So He will repay according to their deeds:
and recompense to the islands.[fn]
19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD
and His glory where [it] rises.
For He will come like a raging flood,
driven by the breath of the LORD.[fn]
20 “The Redeemer will come to Zion,
to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,[fn]” declares the LORD.
21 “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,”[fn] says the LORD. “My Spirit [will not depart] from you,[fn] and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children [and] grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
Future Glory for Zion
60 Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
2 For behold, darkness covers the earth,
and thick darkness [is over] the peoples;
but the LORD will rise upon you,
and His glory will appear over you.
3 Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
4 Lift up your eyes and look around:
They all gather and come to you;
your sons will come from afar,
and your daughters will be carried on the arm.
5 Then you will look and be radiant,
and your heart will tremble and swell [with joy],
because the riches of the sea will be brought to you,
and the wealth of the nations will come to you.
6 Caravans of camels will cover your land,
young camels of Midian and Ephah,
[and] all from Sheba will come,
and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.
7 All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you;
the rams of Nebaioth will serve you
and go up on My altar with acceptance;
I will adorn My glorious house.
8 Who are these who fly like clouds,
9 Surely the islands[fn] will wait for Me,
with the ships of Tarshish[fn] in the lead,
to bring your children from afar,
to the honor of the LORD your God,
10 Foreigners will rebuild your walls,
and their kings will serve you.
Although I struck you in anger,
yet in favor I will show you mercy.
11 Your gates will always stand open;
they will never be shut, day or night,
so that the wealth of the nations may be brought into you,
with their kings being led in procession.
12 For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish;
[it] will be utterly destroyed.
13 The glory of Lebanon will come to you—
its cypress,[fn] elm, and boxwood together—
to adorn the place of My sanctuary,
and I will glorify the place of My feet.
14 The sons of your oppressors
will come and bow down to you;
will fall facedown at your feet
and call you the City of the LORD,
Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 Whereas you have been forsaken and despised,
I will make you an everlasting pride,
16 You will drink the milk of nations
and nurse at the breasts of royalty;
you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
17 Instead of bronze I will bring you gold;
I will bring silver in place of iron,
I will appoint peace as your governor
and righteousness as your ruler.
18 No longer {will} violence be heard in your land,
nor ruin or destruction within your borders.
But you will name your walls Salvation
19 No longer will the sun be your light by day,
nor the brightness of the moon shine on your [night];[fn]
for the LORD will be your everlasting light,
and your God will be your splendor.[fn]
20 Your sun will no longer set,
for the LORD will be your everlasting light,
and the days of your sorrow will cease.
21 Then all your people will be righteous;
they will possess the land forever;
they are the branch of My planting,
the work of My hands,
so that I may be glorified.
22 The least [of you] will become a thousand,
The Year of the LORD’s Favor
61 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me,
because the LORD has anointed Me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives
and freedom to the prisoners,[fn]
2 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor[fn]
and the day of our God’s vengeance,
3 to console the mourners in Zion—
to give them a crown of beauty for ashes,
and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair.
So they will be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins;
they will restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities,
the desolations of many generations.
5 Strangers will stand and feed your flocks,
and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
6 But you will be called the priests of the LORD;
they will speak of you as ministers of our God;
you will feed on the wealth of nations,
and you will boast in their riches.
7 Instead of shame, [My people will have a] double portion,
and [instead of] humiliation, they will rejoice in their share;
and so they will inherit a double portion in their land,
and everlasting joy will be theirs.
8 For I, the LORD, love justice;
in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense
and make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 Their descendants will be known among the nations,
and their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will acknowledge
that they are a people the LORD has blessed.
10 I will rejoice greatly in the LORD,
for He has clothed me with garments of salvation
and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress,
as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth brings forth its growth,
and as a garden enables seed to spring up,
Zion’s Salvation and New Name
62 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still,
until her righteousness shines like a bright light,
her salvation like a blazing torch.
2 Nations will see your righteousness,
You will be called by a new name
that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.
3 You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD,
a royal diadem in the palm of your God.
4 No longer will you be called Forsaken,[fn]
nor your land named Desolate;[fn]
but you will be called Hephzibah,[fn]
for the LORD will take delight in you,
and your land will be His bride.
5 For as a young man marries a young woman,
and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
so your God will rejoice over you.
6 On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen;
they will never be silent day or night.
shall take no rest for yourselves,
until He establishes Jerusalem
and makes her the praise of the earth.
8 The LORD has sworn by His right hand
“Never again will I give your grain
nor will foreigners drink the new wine
9 For those who harvest [grain]
will eat it and praise the LORD,
will drink the wine in My holy courts.”
10 Go out, go out through the gates;
prepare the way for the people!
Build it up, build up the highway;
raise a banner for the nations!
11 Behold, the LORD has proclaimed
and His recompense goes before Him.”
12 And they will be called the Holy People,
God’s Vengeance on the Nations
63 Who is this coming from Edom,
from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments?
Who is this robed in splendor,
marching in the greatness of His strength?
“It is I, proclaiming vindication,[fn]
and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?
3 “I have trodden the winepress alone,
and no one from the nations was with Me.
and trod them down in My fury;
their blood spattered My garments,
and all My clothes were stained.
4 For the day of vengeance was in My heart,
and the year of My redemption had come.
5 I looked, but there was no one to help;
I was appalled that no one assisted.
So My arm brought Me salvation,
God’s Mercies Recalled
7 I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion
and [His] praiseworthy acts,
because of all that the LORD has done for us—
the many good things for the house of Israel
according to His great compassion [and] loving devotion.
8 For He said, “They are surely My people,
sons who will not be disloyal.”
9 In all their distress, He too was afflicted,
and the Angel of His Presence[fn] saved them.
In His love and compassion He redeemed them;
He lifted them up and carried them
all the days of old.
So He turned [and became] their enemy,
[and] He Himself fought against them.
11 Then His people remembered the days of old,
Where is He who brought them through the sea
with the shepherds of His flock?
[to lead them] by the right hand of Moses,
who divided the waters before them
to gain for Himself everlasting renown,
13 who led them through the depths
like a horse in the wilderness,
14 Like cattle going down to the valley,
A Prayer for Mercy
15 Look down from heaven and see,
from Your holy and glorious habitation.
Where are Your zeal and might?
Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
though Abraham does not know us
and Israel does not acknowledge us.
our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
17 Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways
[and] harden our hearts from fearing You?
Return, for the sake of Your servants,
18 For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place,
but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.
A Prayer for God’s Power
64 If only You would rend the heavens and come down,
so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
2 as fire kindles the brushwood
[and] causes the water to boil,
to make Your name known to Your enemies,
so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
3 When You did awesome works that we did not expect,
You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
4 From ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides You,
who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.[fn]
5 You welcome those who gladly do right,
who remember Your ways.
Surely You were angry, for we sinned.
How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
6 Each of us has become like something unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;[fn]
we all wither like a leaf,
and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
7 No one calls on Your name
[or] strives to take hold of You.
For You have hidden Your face from us
and delivered us into the hand[fn] of our iniquity.
8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father;
we are the clay, and You are the potter;
we are all the work of Your hand.
9 Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure;
do not remember our iniquity forever.
Oh, look upon us, we pray;
we are all Your people!
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness.
Zion has become a wasteland [and] Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and beautiful temple,
where our fathers praised You,
has been burned with fire,
and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
12 After all this, O LORD,
will You restrain Yourself?
Will You keep silent
and afflict us beyond measure?
Judgments and Promises
65 “I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me;
I was found by those who did not seek Me.[fn]
To a nation that did not call My name,
I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’
2 All day long I have held out My hands
who follow their own imaginations,
3 to a people who continually provoke Me to My face,
and burning incense on altars of brick,
spending nights in secret places,
and polluted broth from their bowls.
5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself;
do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’
Such people are smoke in My nostrils,
a fire that burns all day long.
6 Behold, it is written before Me:
I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will pay it back into their laps,
and [for those] of your fathers,” says the LORD.
“Because they burned incense on the mountains
I will measure into their laps
full payment for their former deeds.”
“As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes,
and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’
so I will act on behalf of My servants;
9 And I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,
My elect will possess My mountains,[fn]
and My servants will dwell there.
10 Sharon will become a pasture for flocks,
and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds,
11 But you who forsake the LORD,
who set a table for Fortune[fn]
and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,[fn]
12 I will destine you for the sword,
and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered,
because I called and you did not answer,
I spoke and you did not listen;
and chose that in which I did not delight.”
13 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says:
14 My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart,
but you will cry out with a heavy heart
and wail with a broken spirit.
15 You will leave behind your name
as a curse for My chosen ones,
and the Lord GOD will slay you;
but to His servants He will give another name.
16 Whoever invokes a blessing in the land
will [do so] by the God of truth,
and whoever takes an oath in the land
will swear by the God of truth.
A New Heaven and a New Earth
new heavens and a new earth.[fn]
The former things will not be remembered,
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy
and its people to be a delight.
19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and take delight in My people.
The sounds of weeping and crying
will no longer be heard in her.
20 No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days,
or an old man fail to live out his years.
For the youth will die at a hundred years,
and he who fails [to reach] a hundred
21 They will build houses and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit,
For [as is] the lifetime of a tree,
so will be the days of My people,
and My chosen ones will fully enjoy
23 They will not labor in vain
[or] bear children doomed to disaster;
for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—
[they] and their descendants with them.
24 Even before they call, I will answer,
and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
but the food of the serpent[fn] will be dust.
Heaven Is My Throne
66 This is what the LORD says:
What kind of house will you build for Me?
Or where [will] My place of repose [be]?
2 [Has not] My hand made all these things?[fn]
And so they came into being,” declares the LORD.
“This is the one I will esteem:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit,
3 Whoever slaughters an ox is [like] one who slays a man;
whoever sacrifices a lamb [is like] one who breaks a dog’s neck;
whoever presents a grain offering [is like] one who offers pig’s blood;
whoever offers frankincense [is like] one who blesses an idol.
Indeed, they have chosen their own ways
and delighted in their abominations.
4 So I will choose their punishment
and I will bring terror upon them,
because I called and no one answered,
and chose that in which I did not delight.”
5 You who tremble at His word,
and exclude you because of My name
have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified
But they will be put to shame.”
6 Hear the uproar from the city;
[listen to] the voice from the temple!
Rejoice with Jerusalem
7 “Before she was in labor, she gave birth;
before she was in pain she delivered a boy.
8 Who has heard of such as this?
Can a country be born in a day
or a nation be delivered in an instant?
Yet as soon as Zion was in labor,
she gave birth to her children.
9 Shall I bring a baby to the point of birth and not deliver it?”
“Or will I who deliver close the womb?”
10 Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her,
11 so that you may nurse and be satisfied
you may drink deeply and delight yourselves
12 For this is what the LORD says:
“I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream;
you will nurse and be carried on her arm,
13 As a mother comforts her son,
and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”
14 When you see, you will rejoice,
and you will flourish like grass;
Final Judgments against the Wicked
15 For behold, the LORD will come with fire—
His chariots are like a whirlwind—
to execute His anger with fury
and His rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by His sword,
the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh,
and many will be slain by the LORD.
17 “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.
18 “And I, [knowing] their deeds and thoughts, am coming[fn] to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.
19 I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; [to] Tubal, Javan, and the islands[fn] far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory.
So they will proclaim My glory among the nations. 20 And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.”
21 “And I will select some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.
22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth,[fn]
which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD,
“so your descendants and your name will endure.
23 From one New Moon to another
and from one Sabbath to another,
all mankind will come to worship before Me,”
24 “As they go forth, they will see the corpses
of the men who have rebelled against Me;
for their worm will never die,
1:9 LXX had left us descendants
1:9 Cited in Romans 9:29
1:17 Or and encourage the oppressed
2:16 Or every ship of trade
3:1 Hebrew staff
3:7 Or binder of wounds
3:8 Hebrew defying the eyes of His glory
3:17 Or will uncover their secret parts
3:24 DSS; MT branding
5:10 Literally ten yoke of vineyard will yield a bath; that is, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day will yield approximately 5.8 gallons or 22 liters of wine.
5:10 Literally and a homer of seed will yield an ephah; that is, a homer of seed (approximately 6.24 bushels or 220 liters) will yield a tenth of its weight in grain.
5:17 LXX lambs
6:1 Or the hem of His robe
6:9 Hebrew; LXX ‘You shall be ever hearing, but never understanding; you shall be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ Cited in Matthew 13:14, Mark 4:12, Luke 8:10, and Acts 28:26
6:10 Hebrew; LXX For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them. Cited in Matthew 13:15, Mark 4:12, John 12:40, and Acts 28:27
7:1 That is, Syria
7:2 Or had set up camp in Ephraim, that is, the northern kingdom of Israel
7:3 Shear-jashub means a remnant shall return.
7:6 Hebrew split it open
7:14 Or young woman
7:14 Immanuel means God with us; literally and she will call His name Immanuel; DSS and His name will be called Immanuel or and He will call His name Immanuel; LXX and you will call His name Immanuel; cited in Matthew 1:23.
7:20 Hebrew the River
7:23 Hebrew a thousand of silver; that is, approximately 25.1 pounds or 11.4 kilograms of silver
8:1 Hebrew with a man’s
8:1 Maher-shalal-hash-baz means The spoil speeds, the prey hastens or Swift to plunder, quick to carry away; also in verse 3.
8:7 Hebrew the River
8:8 Immanuel means God with us.
8:9 Or Raise the war cry or Be evil or Be broken
8:10 Hebrew Immanuel; see Matthew 1:23.
8:12 Or Do not fear their threats
8:12 LXX do not be shaken; cited in 1 Peter 3:14
8:14 Cited in Romans 9:33 and 1 Peter 2:8
8:17 Or I will eagerly look for Him; cited in Hebrews 2:13
8:18 Cited in Hebrews 2:13
9:2 Cited in Matthew 4:15–16
9:9 That is, the northern kingdom of Israel
9:12 That is, Syria
9:20 Literally of his own arm
10:21 Hebrew Shear-jashub; also in verse 22; see Isaiah 7:3.
10:23 LXX He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work in all the world. Cited in Romans 9:28
10:27 Literally broken because of fatness; LXX broken from your shoulders
11:6 Hebrew; LXX the young calf and bull and lion will feed together
11:10 LXX On that day the Root of Jesse will appear, One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will put their hope; cited in Romans 15:12.
11:11 That is, the upper Nile region
11:11 That is, Babylonia
11:11 Or coastlands
11:13 That is, the northern kingdom of Israel
11:13 Or hostility
11:15 Or will completely dry up
11:15 Hebrew the tongue
11:15 Hebrew the River
13:6 Hebrew Shaddai
13:21 Literally Daughters of an ostrich or Daughters of an owl
13:22 Or serpents or dragons
14:4 DSS, LXX, and Syriac; MT the golden city
14:8 Or pines or junipers or firs
14:12 Or morning star or shining one or Lucifer
14:13 Or in the remote parts of Zaphon or on the heights of Zaphon
14:18 Hebrew house
15:5 Or Zoar, like a heifer three years of age.
15:7 Or Poplars
15:9 MT, twice in this verse; DSS and Vulgate Dibon; Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.
16:5 Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.
16:8 Or and had gone as far as the sea; that is, probably the Dead Sea
16:11 Kir-heres is a variant of Kir-hareseth; see verse 7.
17:3 Or The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, that is, from the northern kingdom of Israel
18:1 Or of many locusts
18:1 That is, the upper Nile region
19:10 Or Its pillars
19:13 LXX; Hebrew Noph
19:18 Some MT manuscripts, DSS, and Vulgate; most MT manuscripts City of Destruction
20:3 That is, the upper Nile region; similarly in verses 4 and 5
21:8 DSS and Syriac; MT lion
21:9 See Revelation 14:8 and Revelation 18:2.
21:11 Dumah is a wordplay on Edom, meaning silence.
21:11 Seir is another name for Edom.
22:13 Cited in 1 Corinthians 15:32
22:22 See Revelation 3:7.
23:1 Or Wail, O fleet of trading ships; also in verse 14
23:1 Hebrew Kittim; also in verse 12
23:2 DSS and LXX; MT whom the seafarers have enriched
23:10 DSS and some LXX manuscripts; MT Overflow
23:13 That is, the Babylonians
24:14 Or from the sea
24:15 Or coastlands
25:8 Or He will swallow up death in victory; cited in 1 Corinthians 15:54
25:8 Cited in Revelation 7:17 and Revelation 21:4
25:11 Or along with
26:9 Or my spirit within me seeks You.
27:1 Hebrew nachash; translated in most cases as snake; twice in this verse
27:8 Or By driving her away into exile or Measure by measure, by exile
27:9 LXX Therefore the guilt of Jacob will be taken away, and this is his blessing when I take away his sin; cited in Romans 11:27
27:12 Hebrew River
28:1 That is, the northern kingdom of Israel; also in verse 3
28:10 Or For He says or For it is; literally For
28:10 Or Do this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that; Hebrew sav lasav sav lasav kav lakav kav lakav (possibly meaningless sounds to demonstrate an inability to understand); also in verse 13
28:11 Cited in 1 Corinthians 14:21
28:15 Or false gods
28:16 LXX will never be put to shame; cited in Romans 9:33, Romans 10:11, and 1 Peter 2:6
29:1 Or Altar Hearth or Lion of God; probably a nickname for Jerusalem; twice in this verse, twice in verse 2, and once in verse 7
29:2 Or like Ariel; see the footnote for verse 1.
29:13 Hebrew; LXX They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men. Cited in Matthew 15:8–9 and Mark 7:6–7
29:14 Hebrew; LXX I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will hide the intelligence of the intelligent. Cited in 1 Corinthians 1:19
29:16 Cited in Romans 9:20
30:7 Hebrew Rahab-hem-shebeth
30:32 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac; MT the rod of foundation; DSS the rod of His foundation
32:14 Hebrew The Ophel
33:4 O nations is added for clarity.
33:8 Forms of the Hebrew berit are translated in most passages as covenant.
33:8 DSS; MT the cities
34:2 Forms of the Hebrew cherem refer to the giving over of things or persons, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering; also in verse 5.
34:8 Or of recompense for (Edom’s) hostility against Zion.
34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
34:13 Or serpents or dragons
34:13 Literally for daughters of an ostrich or for daughters of an owl
34:14 Hebrew Lilith
35:3 Cited in Hebrews 12:12
35:7 Or serpents or dragons
36:2 Hebrew Rabshakeh is the title of a high-ranking Assyrian military officer; here and throughout chapters 36 and 37, as well as 2 Kings 18 and 19
36:5 Literally You speak; see DSS and 2 Kings 18:20; MT I speak.
36:11 Or in the dialect of Judah; also in verse 13
36:16 Or Make a blessing with me
37:9 That is, the upper Nile region
37:11 Forms of the Hebrew cherem refer to the giving over of things or persons, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.
37:20 DSS (see also 2 Kings 19:19); MT You alone are the LORD
37:24 Or pines or junipers or firs
37:25 DSS (see also 2 Kings 19:24); MT does not include foreign.
37:27 DSS, some MT manuscripts, and some LXX manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most MT manuscripts on the rooftops and terraced fields
37:36 Hebrew When they got up
38:6 MT and LXX; DSS includes for My sake and for the sake of My servant David; see 2 Kings 20:6.
38:10 Or In the quiet or In the middle
38:13 Or I cried out; see Targum Yonaton.
40:3 Or A voice of one calling in the wilderness: “Prepare the way for the LORD
40:3 LXX make straight the paths of our God; cited in Matthew 3:3, Mark 1:3, Luke 3:4, and John 1:23
40:4 LXX Every valley shall be filled in, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low. All the crooked ways shall become straight, and the rough places plains. Cited in Luke 3:5
40:5 Literally and all flesh together will see it. Cited in Luke 3:6
40:8 Cited in 1 Peter 1:24–25
40:9 Or O herald of good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. O herald of good news to Jerusalem, lift it up,
40:13 Or mind of the LORD; see also LXX.
40:13 Cited in Romans 11:34 and 1 Corinthians 2:16
40:15 Or coastlands
40:23 Or judges
41:1 Or coastlands; also in verse 5
41:2 Or from the east, whom victory meets at every step
41:19 Or pines or junipers or firs
41:27 Or Formerly I said to Zion:
42:4 Or bruised
42:4 Or In His teaching the coastlands will put their hope; LXX In His name the nations will put their hope; cited in Matthew 12:18–21
42:10 Or coastlands; also in verse 12
42:15 Or coastlands or islands
43:3 That is, the upper Nile region
43:14 That is, the Babylonians
43:20 Or serpents or dragons
43:20 Literally and daughters of an ostrich or and daughters of an owl
43:28 Forms of the Hebrew cherem refer to the giving over of things or persons to the LORD, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.
44:2 Jeshurun means the upright one, a term of endearment for Israel.
44:4 Or poplars
44:14 Or pine or juniper or fir
45:2 DSS and LXX; MT level the terrain
45:9 Cited in Romans 9:20
45:14 That is, the upper Nile region
45:23 Literally every tongue will swear; LXX every tongue will swear by God; cited in Romans 14:11
47:1 That is, the Babylonians; also in verse 5
48:14 That is, the Babylonians; also in verse 20
48:19 Literally like the sand, and your offspring like its grains
49:1 Or coastlands
49:6 Cited in Acts 13:47
49:8 LXX In the time of favor I heard You, and in the day of salvation I helped You; cited in 2 Corinthians 6:2
49:10 Cited in Revelation 7:16
49:12 Or from the sea
49:12 That is, a region in southern Egypt (from DSS); MT the land of Sinim
49:17 DSS; MT Your sons
49:22 Hebrew in their bosom
49:24 DSS, Syriac, and Vulgate (see also verse 25); MT of the righteous
51:5 Or coastlands
51:16 Or to plant
51:19 DSS, LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate; MT How can I comfort you?
52:5 DSS and Vulgate; MT wail
52:5 LXX —on account of you My name is blasphemed continually among the Gentiles; cited in Romans 2:24
52:7 Cited in Romans 10:15
52:11 Cited in 2 Corinthians 6:17
52:13 Or will act wisely
52:14 Syriac; Hebrew at You
52:15 Or startle
52:15 LXX For those who were not told will see, and those who have not heard will understand. Cited in Romans 15:21
53:1 Cited in John 12:38 and Romans 10:16
53:4 LXX This One bears our sins and is pained for us; cited in Matthew 8:17 and 1 Peter 2:24
53:5 Cited in 1 Peter 2:24
53:6 Cited in 1 Peter 2:25
53:8 LXX In humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth; cited in Acts 8:32–33.
53:9 Cited in 1 Peter 2:22
53:10 Or and though He makes His life a guilt offering
53:11 DSS (see also LXX); MT does not include the light of life.
53:12 Or many
53:12 Or numerous
53:12 Cited in Luke 22:37
54:1 Cited in Galatians 4:27
54:2 Or and strengthen your stakes
54:9 Some manuscripts For this is like the waters of Noah
54:11 Or lapis lazuli
54:13 Cited in John 6:45
55:3 Cited in Acts 13:34
55:13 Or pine or juniper or fir
56:7 Cited in Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17, and Luke 19:46
57:9 Or to the king
57:9 Or idols
59:7 LXX misery
59:8 Cited in Romans 3:15–17
59:15 Hebrew and it was evil in His eyes
59:18 Or coastlands
59:19 Or When the enemy comes like a raging flood, the Spirit of the LORD will drive him back
59:20 LXX to remove godlessness from Jacob; cited in Romans 11:26
59:21 Cited in Romans 11:27
59:21 Literally My Spirit, who is upon you,
60:9 Or coastlands
60:9 Or a fleet of trading ships
60:13 Or pine or juniper or fir
60:19 DSS, LXX, and Targum Yonaton; MT shine on you
60:19 Or your beauty
61:1 Hebrew; LXX to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind; cited in Luke 4:18
61:2 Or to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD; cited in Luke 4:19
62:4 Hebrew Azubah
62:4 Hebrew Shemamah
62:4 Hephzibah means My delight is in her.
62:4 Beulah means married.
63:1 Or It is I, speaking in righteousness,
63:9 Or angel of His presence
64:4 Cited in 1 Corinthians 2:9
64:6 Or like a stained menstrual garment
64:7 LXX, Syriac, and Targum Yonaton; MT have made us melt in the hand
65:1 Cited in Romans 10:20
65:2 LXX to a disobedient and obstinate people; cited in Romans 10:21
65:9 Or and heirs to My mountains out of Judah; My elect will possess them
65:11 Hebrew Gad, the Babylonian god of fortune
65:11 Hebrew Meni, the Babylonian god of fate
65:17 LXX a new heaven and a new earth; see also Isaiah 66:22 and Revelation 21:1.
65:25 Hebrew nachash; translated in most cases as snake
66:2 Cited in Acts 7:49–50
66:18 Literally And I, their deeds and their thoughts, am coming
66:19 Or coastlands
66:22 LXX the new heaven and the new earth; see also Isaiah 65:17 and Revelation 21:1.
66:24 Cited in Mark 9:48