23_ISA_09_01 Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
23_ISA_09_02 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
23_ISA_09_03 Thou hast multiplied the nation, [and] not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, [and] as [men] rejoice when they divide the spoil.
23_ISA_09_04 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
23_ISA_09_05 For every battle of the warrior [is] with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but [this] shall be with burning [and] fuel of fire.
23_ISA_09_06 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
23_ISA_09_07 Of the increase of [his] government and peace [there shall be] no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
23_ISA_09_08 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
23_ISA_09_09 And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
23_ISA_09_10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars.
23_ISA_09_11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
23_ISA_09_12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
23_ISA_09_13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
23_ISA_09_14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
23_ISA_09_15 The ancient and honourable, he [is] the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he [is] the tail.
23_ISA_09_16 For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.
23_ISA_09_17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one [is] an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
23_ISA_09_18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke.
23_ISA_09_19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
23_ISA_09_20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
23_ISA_09_21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: [and] they together [shall be] against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.