Isaiah chapter 1
A sinful nation
1 The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “I nurtured children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”
4 “A sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they have turned away backward.
5 Why should you be stricken any longer? Why do you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; they have not been closed or bound up or soothed with oil.”
7 Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your land before your very eyes is devoured by foreigners, and laid waste as overthrown by strangers.
8 The daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a ruined city.
9 Unless the Lord Almighty had left us a little remnant, we would have been like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
A call to true repentance
10 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
11 “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?” says the Lord. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this of you, to trample my courts?
13 Bring no more meaningless offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies—I cannot endure iniquity and solemn feasts.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they are a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; Your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
17 learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.
18 “Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”
19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land;
20 but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Judgment and redemption of Jerusalem
21 How you have become a harlot, O faithful city! You were once full of justice, and equity dwelt in you, but now murderers abound.
22 Your silver has become dross, and your wine is mixed with water.
23 Your princes are treacherous and companions of robbers; they all love bribes and chase after rewards. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless, nor does the widow’s plea come before them.
24 Therefore, says the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: “Aha! I will take vengeance on my enemies and avenge myself on my foes.
25 I will turn my hand against you and thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities.
26 I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as in former times; afterward you shall be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her repentant ones with righteousness.”
28 But the rebellious and the sinners will be broken together, and those who forsake the Lord will be consumed.
29 Then the oaks you loved will shame you, and the gardens you chose will disgrace you.
30 For you will be like an oak whose leaf withers, and like a garden that lacks water.
31 The strong will be like tinder, and their work like a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench them.
Isaiah Chapter 2
Universal reign of Jehovah
1 The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
3 Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
Jehovah's judgment against the proud
5 Come, O house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
6 Surely you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of practices from the east, and of soothsayers like the Philistines; and they make alliances with the sons of foreigners.
7 Their land is full of silver and gold; their treasures have no end. Their land is also full of horses, and their chariots are without number.
8 Moreover, their land is full of idols, and they bow down to the work of their hands and to what their fingers have made.
9 So man has bowed down, and man has humbled himself; therefore, do not forgive them.
10 Go into the rocks, hide in the dust, from the fearful presence of the Lord and from the splendor of his majesty.
11 The haughty eyes of man will be brought low, and the pride of men will be humbled; and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the Lord Almighty will come on all that is proud and lofty, on all that is lifted up, and it will be brought low;
13 on all the lofty and majestic cedars of Lebanon, and on all the oaks of Bashan;
14 on all the high mountains, and on all the lofty hills;
15 On every high tower and every strong wall,
16 on all the ships of Tarshish and all the precious paintings.
17 Human pride will be humbled, and the arrogance of men will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
18 He will utterly remove the idols.
19 They will go into caves in the rocks and into holes in the ground, from the fearful presence of the Lord and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to strike the earth.
20 In that day people will throw away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made to worship,
21 and they will go into clefts in the rocks and into caves in the cliffs, from the fearful presence of the Lord and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to strike the earth.
22 Stop being just a man, whose breath is in his nostrils; Because what is he known for?
Isaiah Chapter 3
Jehovah's judgment against Judah and Jerusalem
1 For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah the provider and the strong man, all provision of bread and all provision of water;
2 the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder;
3 the captain of fifty and the man of renown, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the eloquent speaker.
4 And I will make youths their princes, and children shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall oppress one another, each against his neighbor; the young shall rise up against the old, and the base against the noble.
6 When one takes hold of his brother, of his father’s house, and says to him, “You have clothing, you shall be our prince, and take this ruin in your hands,”
7 he shall swear on that day, saying, “I will not take this responsibility, for there is neither bread nor clothing in my house; do not make me prince of the people.”
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah has fallen; For their tongues and their deeds have been against the Lord, provoking the eyes of his majesty.
9 The look on their faces testifies against them; like Sodom, they proclaim their sin and do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil upon themselves.
10 Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their labor.
11 Woe to the wicked! It will be disastrous for them, for what their hands have done will be done to them.
12 The oppressors of my people are children, and women rule over them. My people, your guides mislead you and turn you from the course of your ways.
13 The Lord stands to plead his case; he stands to judge the peoples.
14 The Lord will enter into judgment against the elders of his people and against their princes, for you have devoured the vineyard, and the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
15 “What do you think you are doing, crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?” says the Lord, the Lord of hosts.
Trial against the daughters of Zion
16 Likewise, the Lord says: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and with lustful eyes; when they walk they mince, and tinkle with their feet;
17 Therefore the Lord will shave the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will expose their private parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the finery of their sandals, their headbands, their crescent ornaments,
19 their necklaces, their earrings, and their bracelets,
20 their headdresses, their leg ornaments, their hair ornaments, their perfume bottles, and their earrings,
21 their rings, and their nose rings,
22 their fine robes, their cloaks, their veils, their purses,
23 their mirrors, their fine linen, their gauze, and their headdresses.
24 Instead of fragrant perfume there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well-arranged hair, baldness; instead of fine robes, sackcloth; and instead of beauty, a branding.
25 Your men will fall by the sword, and your strength in battle.
26 Her gates will lament and mourn, and she, desolate, will sit on the ground.
Isaiah Chapter 4
1 Seven women will take hold of one man at that time, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes; only let us be called by your name, and take away our reproach.”
Glorious future of Jerusalem
2 In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be for the remnant of Israel, for glory and honor.
3 Those who remain in Zion, those who are left in Jerusalem, will be called holy—every one of the living in Jerusalem whose name is recorded—
4 when the Lord washes away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleanses Jerusalem of its bloodshed by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of destruction.
5 The Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over its assemblies a cloud of darkness by day and a pillar of fire by night, for over all the glory there will be a canopy,
6 a shelter of shade from the heat of the day, a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.
Isaiah Chapter 5
Parable of the Vineyard
1 Now I will sing for my beloved a song my beloved sings about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
2 He fenced it in, cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and also dug a winepress there. Then he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded only wild grapes.
3 Now then, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield only wild grapes?
5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
6 I will make it a wasteland; it will not be pruned or cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow up. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.
7 Surely the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the pleasant planting of his. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.
Woes upon the wicked
8 Woe to those who add house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room! Will you be the only ones left in the land?
9 The Lord Almighty has declared in my ears that the many houses will be laid waste, the grand and beautiful ones without inhabitant.
10 Ten acres of vineyard will yield only a bath, and a homer of seed will produce only an ephah.
11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning to pursue strong drink, who stay up late into the night until wine inflames them!
12 At their feasts there are harps, lyres, tambourines, flutes, and wine, but they do not regard the work of the Lord or consider the work of his hands.
13 Therefore my people have gone into exile for lack of knowledge; their honorable people are parched with hunger, and their multitude withers with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its stomach and opened its mouth beyond measure; And there their glory will descend, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoiced in it.
15 Man will be humbled, and man will be brought low, and the eyes of the haughty will be lowered.
16 But the Lord of hosts will be exalted in judgment, and the Holy God will be sanctified in righteousness.
17 And the lambs will feed as in their custom; and strangers will devour the desolate fields of the rich.
18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart ropes,
19 who say, “Let him come now, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let him draw near, let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it!”
20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight!
22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and valiant men at mixing strong drink,
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of their rights!
24 Therefore, as tongues of fire devour stubble and as the flame consumes chaff, so their roots will be like rottenness and their blossoms will wither like dust, because they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them; The mountains trembled, and their corpses were thrown into the streets. Yet for all this his fury has not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
26 He raises a banner to distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth; and behold, he will come swiftly and speedily.
27 None of them will be weary or stumble; none will slumber or sleep; no one’s belt will be loosened or their sandal strap broken.
28 Their arrows will be sharpened, and all their bows bent; the hooves of their horses will be like flint, and the wheels of their chariots like a whirlwind.
29 Their roar will be like that of a lion; they will roar like a young lion, gnashing their teeth, and seize their prey; they will carry it off safely, and no one will take it from them.
30 And it will roar over him in that day like the roaring of the sea; then he will look toward the land, and behold, darkness of tribulation, and in his heavens the light will be darkened.
Isaiah Chapter 6
Isaiah's vision and calling
1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.
2 Above him were seraphim, each with 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 to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
4 At the voice of him who called, the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
5 Then I said, “Woe to me! I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
7 Then he touched my mouth with it and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
8 After this I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
9 He said, “Go and tell this people: ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’
10 Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
11 Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” He answered, “Until the cities lie in ruins and without inhabitant, and the houses are deserted and the land is utterly parched;
12 until the Lord has driven men far away and multiplied the forsaken places in the midst of the earth.
13 And if a tenth remains in it, it will again be destroyed; but as the oak and the terebinth, when they are cut down, yet the stump remains, so will the stump be, the holy seed.
Isaiah Chapter 7
Isaiah's message to Ahaz
1 In the days of Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up against Jerusalem to attack it, but they could not take it.
2 And the news came to the house of David, saying, “Aram has allied itself with Ephraim.” And his heart and the heart of his people trembled, as the trees of the forest tremble before the wind.
3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field,
4 and say to him, ‘Take heed and be calm; do not be afraid or let your heart be troubled because of these two smoldering stubs of firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.’”
5 The Syrian has taken evil counsel against you, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,
6 “Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and divide it among ourselves, and set the son of Tabeel as king over it.”
7 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “It shall not stand, it shall not come to pass.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken so that it will no longer be a people.
9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe, you will certainly not stand.”
10 The Lord also spoke to Ahaz, saying,
11 “Ask for a sign from the Lord your God, whether from the depths below or from the heights above.”
12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.”
13 Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough for you to trouble men, that you also trouble my God?
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
15 He will eat butter and honey, until he knows how to reject the bad and choose the good.
16 For before the child knows how to reject the evil and choose the good, the land of the two kings you dread will be deserted.
17 The Lord will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house days such as have not come since the day Ephraim separated from Judah, that is, from the king of Assyria.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord will hiss at the end of the rivers of Egypt, and at the bee that is in the land of Assyria;
Isaiah Chapter 8
Let the Lord be your fear.
1 The Lord said to me, “Take a large tablet and write on it with legible characters concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.”
2 So I took Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah as faithful witnesses.
3 Then I went to 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 say, ‘My Father’ and ‘My Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried off before the king of Assyria.”
5 The Lord spoke to me again, saying,
6 “ Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and has rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
7 therefore the Lord is going to bring up against them the waters of the mighty rivers—the king of Assyria and all his power— It will rise above all its rivers and flow over all its banks.
8 It will sweep through to Judah, overflowing its banks, reaching up to the neck. Spreading its wings, it will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.
9 Assemble yourselves, you nations, but be broken; listen, all you from distant lands; gird yourselves up, but be broken; prepare yourselves, but be broken.
10 Take counsel, but it will fail; speak a plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
11 For the Lord spoke to me with a strong hand and instructed me not to follow the ways of this people:
12 “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, nor fear what they fear, nor be afraid.
13 The Lord Almighty is the one you must honor as holy; he is the one you must fear and dread.
14 He will be your sanctuary; But to the two houses of Israel, it is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 Many among them will stumble and fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 I will wait for the Lord, who has hidden his face from the house of Jacob, and I will put my trust in him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
19 And if they say to you, “Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,” should not a people consult their God? 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, it is because there is no light in them.
21 They will pass through the land weary and hungry, and it will come to pass, when they are hungry, that they will become enraged and curse their king and their God, lifting their faces to heaven.
22 And they will look toward the land, and behold, distress and darkness, gloom and anguish; and they will be plunged into darkness.
Isaiah Chapter 9
Birth and reign of the Messiah
1 But there will be no more gloom for those who are in distress, like the affliction that came upon them in the first time when they lightly touched the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali. For in the end, he will fill the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, in Galilee of the Gentiles, with glory.
2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; on those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.
3 You have multiplied the nation and increased its joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as warriors rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For you have broken their heavy yoke, the bar across their shoulder, and the rod of their oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5 For every boot worn by the warrior in the tumult of battle, and every garment rolled in blood, will be burned as food for the fire.
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be on 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 David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.
The wrath of Jehovah against Israel
8 The Lord sent a message to Jacob, and it fell on Israel.
9 All the people will know it, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who in their pride and arrogance say,
10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will plant cedars in their place.”
11 But the Lord will stir up the enemies of Rezin against him and gather his foes together;
12 The Syrians from the east and the Philistines from the west; they will devour Israel with their mouths full. Yet for all this his anger has not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
13 But the people did not turn to him who struck them, nor did they seek the Lord of hosts.
14 And the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and reed, in one day.
15 The elder and venerable man is the head; the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
16 For the rulers of this people are deceivers, and those they rule are destroyed.
17 Therefore the Lord will not take pleasure in their young men, nor will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for they are all deceitful and evil, and every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
18 For wickedness blazes like a fire; it devours briers and thorns; it burns in the thickets of the forest, and they rise up like swirling smoke.
19 Because of the wrath of the Lord Almighty the land is darkened, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one will spare another.
20 Everyone will steal at the right hand and go hungry, and at the left they will eat and not be satisfied; everyone will eat the flesh of their own arm.
21 Manasseh attacks Ephraim, and Ephraim attacks Manasseh, and both of them attack Judah. Yet for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
Isaiah Chapter 10
1 Woe to those who enact unjust laws and prescribe oppression,
2 to deprive the poor of justice and to withhold justice from the afflicted of my people, to plunder widows and rob orphans!
3 What will you do on the day of punishment? To whom will you turn for help when destruction comes from afar? Where will you leave your glory?
4 Without me, they will bow down among the prisoners and fall among the slain. Yet for all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
Assyria, instrument of God
5 O Assyria, the rod and staff of my fury, in whose hand I have placed my wrath.
6 I will send him against a treacherous nation, and against the people of my wrath I will send him, to seize plunder and carry off prey, and make them to be trampled down like mud in the streets.
7 Though he does not intend it, nor does his heart imagine it this way, but his thought is to uproot and cut off many nations.
8 For he says, “Are not all my princes kings?
9 Is not Calno like Carchemish, Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand found the kingdoms of idols, their images being more numerous than those of Jerusalem and Samaria;
11 as I did to Samaria and her idols, shall I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”
12 But it shall come to pass, after the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, that he will punish the fruit of the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes.
13 For he said, “By the power of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have been prudent; I removed the borders of the peoples, and plundered their treasures, and like a mighty man I brought down those who sat on high;
14 and my hand found the wealth of the peoples as a nest; and as one gathers abandoned eggs, so I took possession of all the earth; and there was none that flapped a wing, or opened its mouth, or cried out.”
15 Shall the ax boast against him who wields it? Shall the saw exalt itself against him who wields it? As if a staff lifts up him who lifts it, or a rod lifts up him who is not wood!
16 Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will send weakness upon his mighty ones, and under his glory he will kindle a blazing fire.
17 And the light of Israel will be a fire, and his Holy One a flame, which will burn and consume in a day his briers and his thorns.
18 The glory of his forest and of his fruitful field it will utterly consume, body and soul, and will become like a standard-bearer in defeat.
19 And the trees that remain in his forest will be so numerous that a child can count them.
20 In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer rely on him who struck them down, but will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
21 The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.
22 For though your people, O Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only their remnant will return; the decreed destruction will overflow with righteousness.
23 For the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will bring about a consummation already determined in the midst of the land.
24 Therefore thus says the Lord, the Lord of hosts: My people, who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria. He will strike you with a rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did;
25 but in a very little while my anger and my wrath will be turned to an end, to their destruction.
26 And the Lord of hosts will raise up a scourge against him as the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb, and he will lift up his staff over the sea as he did by way of Egypt.
27 In that day his burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing.
28 He came to Aiath, he passed on to Migron; at Michmash he mustered his army.
29 They crossed the ford; they lodged at Geba; Ramah trembled; Gibeah of Saul fled.
30 Cry aloud, daughter of Gallim; make it heard toward Laish, poor Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is in turmoil; the inhabitants of Gebim flee.
32 Yet a day will come when he will rest at Nob; he will lift up his hand to the mountain of the daughter of Zion, to the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will strip off the boughs with violence; the tall trees will be felled, and the lofty ones will be brought low.
34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron sword, and Lebanon will fall with a crash.
Isaiah Chapter 11
The righteous reign of the Messiah
1 A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord—
3 and he will delight in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears;
4 but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
5 Righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness the sash around his waist.
6 The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together; The lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant will play near the cobra’s den, and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest.
9 They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
10 In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious.
11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant of his people who are left in Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the islands of the sea.
12 He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 Ephraim’s envy will vanish, and Judah’s enemies will be destroyed. Ephraim will not envy Judah, nor will Judah afflict Ephraim;
14 But they will fly west on the shoulders of the Philistines and plunder the eastern lands as well. Edom and Moab will serve them, and the Ammonites will submit to them.
15 The Lord will dry up the tongue of the Egyptian sea; with a mighty breath he will lift up his hand over the Nile and strike it in its seven streams, so that people can cross it in sandals.
16 A highway will be set up for the remnant of his people who are left of Assyria, just as there was for Israel when they came up out of Egypt.
Isaiah Chapter 12
Thanksgiving song
1 In that day you will say: “I will sing praise to you, O Lord; though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away, and you have comforted me.
2 Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord God is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.”
3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
4 And you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the Lord, praise his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.
5 Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the earth.
6 Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
Isaiah Chapter 13
Prophecy concerning Babylon
1 The prophecy concerning Babylon, revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz.
2 Raise a banner on a high mountain; lift up your voice to them, lift up your hand, so that they may enter the gates of the princes. I have commanded my consecrated ones; I have summoned my mighty men for my wrath, those who rejoice in my glory.
4 A sound of a multitude on the mountains, like that of a great multitude; a sound of the tumult of kingdoms, of nations gathered together; the Lord of hosts musters the army for battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the ends of the heavens, the Lord and the weapons of his wrath, to destroy the whole earth.
6 Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore every hand will be feeble, and every human heart will melt;
8 they will be filled with terror; pangs and sorrows will seize them; they will be in pain like a woman in labor; They will be astonished at each other; their faces will be like flames.
9 Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land desolate and destroy its sinners from it.
10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light; the rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light.
11 I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins; I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud and humble the haughtiness of the ruthless.
12 I will make mankind more precious than fine gold, than the gold of Ophir.
13 For I will shake the heavens, and the earth will be removed from its place, at the wrath of the Lord Almighty, in the day of his fierce anger.
14 Like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.
15 Whoever is found will be speared, and whoever is captured by them will fall by the sword.
16 Their children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives raped.
17 Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who will not care for silver, nor covet gold.
18 They will shoot the little ones with their bows, and will have no pity on the fruit of the womb, nor will their eyes spare the children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms and the splendor of the Chaldeans’ grandeur, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah, which God overthrew.
20 It will never be inhabited again, nor will people live there from generation to generation; no Arab will pitch his tent there, nor will shepherds make their flocks there.
21 But desert beasts will lie down there, and its houses will be filled with ferrets; ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about there.
22 Hyenas will howl in its palaces, and jackals in its houses of luxury; its time is near, and its days will not be prolonged.
Isaiah Chapter 14
Mockery against the king of Babylon
1For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel and settle them in their own land. Foreigners will join them and become part of the clan of Jacob.
2The nations will take possession of them and bring them to their own place, and the house of Israel will possess them as male and female servants in the land of the Lord. They will take captive those who took them captive and rule over those who oppressed them.
3On the day the Lord gives you rest from your labor and fear and from the harsh bondage to which you were subjected,
4you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon and say: “How the oppressor has stopped! How the city greedy for gold has come to an end!
5The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers;
6He who struck the peoples in fury with unending wounds, who ruled the nations in anger and persecuted them with cruelty.
7The whole earth is at rest and at peace; they sing praises.
8Even the cypresses rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you have been cut down, no one has come to cut us down.”
9Sheol below is stirred up at you; it rouses the dead to meet you at your coming; it raises from their thrones all the princes of the earth, all the kings of the nations.
10They all cry out and say to you, “Have you also become weak like us? Have you become like us?”
11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your harps; maggots are your bed, and worms cover you.
12How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
13You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the sides of the north;
14I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
15But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
16Those who see you will stare at you, they will ponder over you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,
17who made the world like a desert, who overthrew its cities, who did not release his prisoners from prison?”
18All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, each in his own tomb;
19But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, like the clothing of those slain by the sword, who go down to the depths of the pit, like a corpse trampled underfoot.
20You will not be joined with them in burial, for you have destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be named.
21Prepare their children for slaughter because of the sins of their ancestors. Let them not rise up or possess the land or fill the face of the world with cities.
22For I will rise up against them, declares the Lord Almighty, and I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and descendants, declares the Lord.
23I will make her a possession for hedgehogs and pools of water; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction, declares the Lord Almighty.
Assyria will be destroyed
24 The Lord Almighty has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have planned, so it shall be, and as I have purposed, so it shall stand.
25 I will break the Assyrian in my land and trample him down on my mountains; his yoke will be taken from them and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
26 This is the plan determined for all the earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
27 For the Lord Almighty has purposed it, and who can thwart it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
Prophecy concerning Philistia
28 In the year that King Ahaz died, this prophecy came:
29 “Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, because the rod of him who struck you is broken. For from the root of the snake will spring up a viper, and its offspring a flying serpent.
30 The firstborn of the poor will feed, and the needy will lie down in safety. But I will kill your root with famine and destroy what is left of you.
31 Wail, O gate; cry out, O city; you are dissolved, all of you, Philistia! For smoke will come from the north; not one will be left in her assemblies.
32 And what will be answered to the messengers of the nations? That the Lord has founded Zion, and to her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.”
Isaiah Chapter 15
Prophecy concerning Moab
1 A prophecy concerning Moab. Surely, Ar of Moab was destroyed by night, made silent. Surely, Kir of Moab was destroyed by night, made silent.
2 They went up to Bayith and Dibon, to the high places, to weep; Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba; every head of its people will be shaved, and every beard cut off.
3 They will put on sackcloth in its streets; on its rooftops and in its squares everyone will wail, bursting into tears.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out; their voice will be heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the warriors of Moab will wail, the soul of each one within him will lament.
5 My heart cries out for Moab; its fugitives will flee to Zoar, like a three-year-old heifer. They will go up the ascent of Luhith weeping, and raise a cry of anguish on the road to Horonaim.
6 The waters of Nimrim will be dried up, the grass will wither, the new growth will shrivel, all greenness will perish.
7 Therefore, the wealth they have acquired and stored up will be poured out into the Brook of the Willows.
8 For the weeping has surrounded the borders of Moab; their wailing has reached as far as Eglaim, and their cry as far as Beerelim.
9 And the waters of Dimon will be filled with blood; for I will bring greater evils upon Dimon, lions upon those who escape from Moab, and upon the survivors of the land.
Isaiah Chapter 16
1 Send a lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
2 Like a startled bird fleeing its nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
3 Take counsel, render justice; make your shade at midday like night; hide the exiles, do not betray the wayward.
4 Let my exiles dwell with you, O Moab; be a hiding place for them from the face of the destroyer; for the oppressor will perish, the destroyer will come to an end, the trampler will be consumed from the earth.
5 Then a throne will be established in mercy; and on it will sit, in the tent of David, one who judges and seeks justice, and hastens righteousness.
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; their pride, their arrogance, and their haughtiness are very great, but their lies will not endure.
7 Therefore Moab will wail, all of it will wail; you will wail greatly, greatly afflicted, for the cakes of grapes of Kir-hareseth.
8 For the fields of Heshbon have been cut down, and the vines of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have trampled down their choice shoots; they had reached as far as Jazer, and spread out across the wilderness; their plants spread out, they crossed the sea.
9 Therefore I will wail with the weeping of Jazer for the vineyard of Sibmah; I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for the cry of war will fall upon your crops and upon your harvest.
10 Joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field; in the vineyards there will be no singing, no rejoicing; the treader will not tread wine in the winepresses; I have silenced the cry of the winepresser.
11 Therefore my heart will resound like a harp for Moab, and my soul for Kir-hareseth.
12 And when Moab appears weary on the high places, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, it will not avail him.
13 This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab in those days;
14 but now the Lord has spoken, saying: Within three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought low, with all its great multitude; and the survivors will be few, small, and weak.
Isaiah Chapter 17
Prophecy concerning Damascus
1 A prophecy concerning Damascus: Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of Aroer will be deserted; they will become pastures; they will lie down there, and no one will make them afraid.
3 The help of Ephraim will cease, and the kingdom of Damascus; and what remains of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.
Judgment on Israel
4 In that day the glory of Jacob will fade, and the fatness of his flesh will grow lean.
5 It will be like when a reaper gathers the harvest, and with his arm he reaps the ears of grain; it will be like one who gleans in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 And there will be gleanings in it, as when an olive tree is shaken: two or three fruits on the top of the bough, four or five on its fruitful branches, says the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 In that day people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will behold the Holy One of Israel.
8 They will not look to the altars their hands have made, nor will they regard what their fingers have crafted, nor to the Asherah poles, nor to the incense altars.
9 In that day their fortified cities will be like the leftover shoots and boughs, which were abandoned because of the Israelites; and there will be desolation.
10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge, therefore you will plant pleasant plants and set out a foreign vine.
11 On the day you plant them, you will make them grow, and you will cause their seed to sprout in the morning; but the harvest will be snatched away in the day of distress and desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many peoples, who will roar like the roaring of the sea, and the tumult of nations, who will roar like the rushing of many waters.
13 The peoples will roar like the rushing of many waters, but God will rebuke them, and they will flee far away; they will be driven away like chaff on the mountains before the wind, and like dust before a whirlwind.
14 At evening time, behold, the turmoil, but before morning the enemy is no more. This is the portion of those who crush us, and the lot of those who plunder us.
Isaiah Chapter 18
Prophecy concerning Ethiopia
1 Woe to the land that casts a shadow on its wings, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2 that sends messengers by sea, in papyrus boats upon the waters! Go, swift messengers, to the nation tall and smooth-skinned, to the people feared from their earliest days, a mighty and conquering nation, whose land is divided by rivers.
3 All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, look; when a trumpet is blown, listen.
4 For thus the Lord said to me: “I will remain still and watch from my dwelling place, like clear sunshine after rain, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 For before the harvest, when the fruit is ripe and the blossom has passed and the fruits are mature, then he prunes the young branches with pruning shears, and cuts off and strips away the boughs.
6 And they will all be left for the birds of the mountains and for the beasts of the earth; the birds will feed on them in the summer, and all the beasts of the earth will spend the winter on them.
7 At that time an offering will be brought to the Lord of hosts from the people tall and smooth-skinned, from the people feared from the beginning and everlasting, a mighty and conquering nation, whose land is divided by rivers, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, to Mount Zion.
Isaiah Chapter 19
Prophecy concerning Egypt
1 A prophecy concerning Egypt. See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud and will enter Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.
2 I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and each will fight against his brother and neighbor, city against city and kingdom against kingdom.
3 The spirit of Egypt will vanish within her, and I will destroy her counsel. They will consult her idols, her sorcerers, her mediums, and her spiritists.
4 I will hand Egypt over to a harsh ruler, and a ruthless king will rule over them, says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
5 The waters of the sea will fail, and the river will dry up and become parched.
6 The rivers will recede, the streams of the deeps will be dried up and become dry, and the reeds and rushes will wither.
7 The meadow by the river, along the riverbank, and all the sown fields by the river will wither, be gone, and be no more.
8 The fishermen will also grieve; all who cast hooks into the river will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.
9 Those who work fine linen and those who weave nets will be ashamed,
10 for all their nets will be torn; and all who make fishponds will grieve.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan are foolish; the counsel of Pharaoh’s wise advisors has vanished. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?
12 Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you now, let them make known to you what the Lord of hosts has determined concerning Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan have vanished, the princes of Memphis have been deceived; those who are the cornerstone of their families have deceived Egypt.
14 The Lord has mingled a spirit of confusion within it; and they have caused Egypt to stagger in all its work, as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.
15 Nothing that head or tail, branch or reed, does will profit Egypt.
16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women; for they will be astounded and afraid at the raised hand of the Lord of hosts, which he will lift up against them.
17 And the land of Judah will be a horror to Egypt; everyone who remembers it will be afraid because of the plan that the Lord of hosts has determined against it.
18 At that time there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear by the Lord of hosts; one of them will be called the City of Herez.
19 At that time there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a monument to the Lord at its border.
20 It will be a sign and a witness to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. They will cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a prince who will deliver them.
21 The Lord will be known in Egypt, and the Egyptians will acknowledge him in that day. They will offer sacrifices and offerings and make vows to the Lord and fulfill them.
22 The Lord will strike Egypt; he will strike and heal. They will return to the Lord, and he will be gracious to them and heal them.
23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians will worship the Lord with the Assyrians.
24 In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the land.
25 The Lord Almighty will bless them and say: “Blessed is Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, Israel my inheritance.”
Isaiah Chapter 20
Prediction of the conquest of Egypt and Ethiopia by Assyria
1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,
2 at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, take off the sackcloth from your loins and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going about naked and barefoot.
3 Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has gone about naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush,
4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young men and old men, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
5 They will be dismayed and ashamed of Cush, their hope, and of Egypt, their glory.”
6 And the inhabitant of this coast will say on that day, “See what has become of our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the presence of the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?”
