Bible in 90 Days

1 A vision of Isaiah, the 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 listen, O Earth! For the LORD has said, “I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against Me.

³ “The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib. Israel has not known. My people have not understood.”

⁴ Ah, sinful nation! A people laden with iniquity! A seed of the wicked! Corrupt children! They have forsaken the LORD. They have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger. They have gone backward.

⁵ Why should you be stricken anymore? For you fall away more and more. The whole head is sick and the whole heart is heavy.

⁶ From the sole of the foot to the head, there is nothing whole therein. Wounds and swelling and sores full of corruption, they have not been wrapped or bound up or softened with oil.

⁷ Your land is desolate, your cities burnt with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and devastate it, as is the overthrow of strangers.

⁸ And the Daughter of Zion shall remain like a cottage in a vineyard, like a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.

⁹ Except the LORD of Hosts had reserved to us even a small remnant, we would have been as Sodom, would have been like Gomorrah.

¹⁰ Hear the Word of the LORD, O princes of Sodom! Listen to the Law of our God, O people of Gomorrah!

¹¹ “What have I to do with the multitude of your sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full of the Burnt Offerings of rams, and of the fat of fed beasts. And I do not desire the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of goats.

¹² “When you come to appear before Me, who required this of your hands, to trample upon My courts?

¹³ “Bring no more oblations in vain. Incense is an abomination to Me. I cannot abide iniquitous new moons, or Sabbath, solemn days or solemn assemblies.

¹⁴ “My soul hates your new moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to Me. I am weary of bearing them.

¹⁵ “And when you shall stretch out your hands, I will hide My Eyes from you. And though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

¹⁶ “Wash yourself and make yourself clean. Take away the evil of your works from before My Eyes. Cease to do evil.

¹⁷ “Learn to do well. Seek judgment. Relieve the oppressed. Govern the fatherless. Defend the widow.

¹⁸ “Come now, and let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins were as crimson, they shall be made white as snow. Though they were red like scarlet, they shall be as wool.

¹⁹ “If you consent and obey, you shall eat the goods of the land.

²⁰ “But if you refuse and are rebellious, you shall be devoured with the sword.” For the Mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

²¹ How has the faithful city become a harlot? It was full of judgment. Justice lodged therein—but now, murderers.

²² Your silver has become dross. Your wine is mixed with water.

²³ Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves gifts and follows after rewards. They do not govern the fatherless. Nor does the widow’s cause come before them.

²⁴ “Therefore,” says the LORD God of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, “Ah, I will relieve Myself of My adversaries and avenge Myself of My enemies.

²⁵ “Then I will turn My Hand upon you and burn out your dross until it is pure and take away all your tin.

²⁶ “And I will restore your Judges, as at the first, and your counselors, as at the beginning. Afterward, you shall be called a City of Righteousness, a faithful city.”

²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed in judgment, and those who return in her, in justice.

²⁸ And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together. And those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

²⁹ For they shall be ashamed of the oaks, which you have desired. And you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

³⁰ For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

³¹ And the strong shall be as tinder, and their work as a spark. And they shall both burn together. And no one shall quench them.

2 The Word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw upon Judah and Jerusalem.

² It shall be in the last days that the Mountain of the House of the LORD shall be prepared in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations shall flow to it.

³ And many people shall go, and say, “Come, and let us go up to the Mountain of the LORD, to the House of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us His ways. And we will walk in His paths.” For the Law shall go forth from Zion, and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

⁴ And He shall judge among the nations and rebuke many people. And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into scythes. Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, nor shall they learn to fight anymore.

⁵ O, House of Jacob, come and let us walk in the Law of the LORD.

⁶ Surely you have forsaken your people, the House of Jacob, because they are full of the East, and sorcerers as the Philistines, and abound with strange children.

⁷ Their land was also full of silver and gold. And there was no end of their treasures. And their land was full of horses, and their chariots infinite.

⁸ Their land was also full of idols. They worshipped the work of their own hands which their own fingers had made.

⁹ And a man bowed himself. And a man humbled himself. Therefore, do not spare them.

¹⁰ Enter into the rock and hide yourself in the dust from before the fear of the LORD, and from the Glory of His Majesty.

¹¹ The high look of man shall be humbled. And the loftiness of men shall be abased. And the LORD only shall be exalted on that day.

¹² For the day of the LORD of Hosts is upon all the proud and haughty, and upon all that is exalted. And it shall be made low.

¹³ Even upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and exalted, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴ and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

¹⁵ and upon every high tower, and upon every strong wall,

¹⁶ and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

¹⁷ And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low. And the loftiness of men shall be abased. And the LORD alone shall be exalted on that day.

¹⁸ And He will utterly destroy the idols.

¹⁹ Then they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the Earth from before the fear of the LORD, and from the Glory of His Majesty, when He shall arise to destroy the Earth.

²⁰ At that day, man shall cast away his silver idols and his golden idols (which they had made for themselves to worship them) to the moles and to the bats,

²¹ to go into the holes of the rocks and into the tops of the ragged rocks from before the fear of the LORD, and from the Glory of His Majesty, when He shall rise to destroy the Earth.

²² Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils. For of what account is he?

3 For lo, the LORD God of Hosts will take away from Jerusalem, and from Judah, the support and the strength, all the supply of bread, and all the supply of water,

² the strong man and the man of war, the judge and the Prophet, the diviners and the aged,

³ the Captain of Fifty and the honorable and the counselor and the skilled craftsman and expert whisperer.

⁴ And I will appoint children to be their princes. And tyrants shall rule over them.

⁵ The people shall be oppressed by one another, and everyone by his neighbor. The children shall be insolent toward the aged, and the vile toward the honorable.

⁶ When everyone shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, and say, “You have clothing. You shall be our prince. And let this fall be under your hand.”

⁷ On that day he shall swear, saying, “I cannot be a helper. For there is neither bread in my house nor clothing. Make me no prince of the people.”

⁸ Doubtless, Jerusalem has fallen and Judah has fallen down, because their tongue and works are against the LORD, to provoke the Eyes of His Glory.

⁹ The look on their face testifies against them. Yea, they declare their sins. As Sodom, they do not hide them. Woe to their souls! For they have rewarded evil to themselves.

¹⁰ Say, “Surely it shall be well with the just. For they shall eat the fruit of their works.

¹¹ “Woe be to the wicked! It shall be evil with him. For the reward of his hands shall be given him.

¹² “Children are extortioners of my people. And women have rule over them. O, my people! Those who lead you cause you to err and destroy the way of your paths.”

¹³ The LORD stands up to plead. Yea, He stands to judge the people.

¹⁴ The LORD shall enter into judgment with the ancients of His people and their princes. “For you have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

¹⁵ “What do you mean by beating My people to pieces and grinding the faces of the poor?” says the LORD, the LORD of Hosts.

¹⁶ The LORD also says, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks, and with wandering eyes, walking and skipping as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet,

¹⁷ “therefore the LORD shall make the heads of the daughters of Zion bald. And the LORD shall uncover their secret parts.

¹⁸ “On that day, the LORD shall take away the beauty of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent ornaments

¹⁹ “the pendants and the bracelets and the veils

²⁰ “the headdresses and the leg ornaments and the sashes and the tablets, and the earrings

²¹ “the rings and the nose jewels

²² “the costly apparel and the overtunics and the cloaks and the purses

²³ “and the glasses and the fine linen and the turbans and the large veils.

²⁴ “And instead of sweet savor, there shall be stink. And instead of a girdle, a rope. And instead of dressing the hair, baldness. And instead of a robe, a belt of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

²⁵ “Your men shall fall by the sword, and your strength in the battle.

²⁶ “Then shall her gates mourn and lament. And she, being desolate, shall sit upon the ground.”

4 And on that day, seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, “We will eat our own bread and we will wear our own clothes. Only, let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

² On that day, the Branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious. And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and pleasant for those of Israel who have escaped.

³ Then he who shall be left in Zion, and he who shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy. Everyone in Jerusalem shall be written among the living

⁴ when the LORD shall wash the filthiness of the daughters of Zion and purge the blood of Jerusalem out of its midst by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.

⁵ And the LORD shall create upon every place of Mount Zion, and upon its assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For upon all the Glory shall be a defense.

⁶ And a covering shall be for shade from the heat during the day, and a place of refuge and a shelter from the storm and from the rain.

5 Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved to His vineyard. My Beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

² And He hedged it and gathered out the stones from it. And he planted it with the best plants. And he built a tower in its midst, and made a winepress therein. Then He expected it to bring forth grapes. But it brought forth sour grapes.

³ “Now therefore, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, please, between Me and My vineyard.

⁴ “What more could I have done to My vineyard that I have not done to it? Why, when I expected it to bring forth grapes, has it brought forth sour grapes?

⁵ “And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up. I will break its wall, and it shall be trodden down.

⁶ “And I will lay it waste. It shall be neither cut nor dug, but briers and thorns shall grow up. I will also Command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.”

⁷ Surely the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the House of Israel. And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. And he looked for judgment—but behold, oppression; for righteousness—but behold, a crying.

⁸ Woe to those who join house to house, lay field to field, until there is no place that you may be placed by yourselves in the midst of the Earth.

⁹ “If not,” the LORD of Hosts said in my ears, “surely many houses shall be desolate, great and fair, without inhabitant.

¹⁰ “For ten acres of vines shall yield one bath. And the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.”

¹¹ Woe to those who rise up early to follow drunkenness, and to those who continue until night. The wine inflames them.

¹² And the harp and lyre, timbrel and pipe, and wine are in their feasts. But they do not regard the work of the LORD, or consider the work of His hands.

¹³ Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they had no knowledge, and their honorable men famished. And the multitude thereof is dried up with thirst.

¹⁴ Therefore Hell has enlarged itself, and has opened its mouth without measure. And their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, shall descend.

¹⁵ And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled. Even the eyes of the proud shall be humbled.

¹⁶ And the LORD of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.

¹⁷ Then shall the lambs feed in their pasture, and the strangers shall eat in the desolate places of the fat ones.

¹⁸ Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin, as with cart ropes,

¹⁹ who say, “Let Him hurry. Let him hasten His work, so that we may see it. And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so that we may know it.”

²⁰ Woe to those who speak good of evil, and evil of good; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for sour.

²¹ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight.

²² Woe to those who are mighty at drinking wine, and to those who are strong at mixing intoxicating drink,

²³ who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away justice from the righteous.

²⁴ Therefore as the flame of fire devours the stubble, and the chaff is consumed by the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their bud shall rise up like dust, because they have cast off the Law of the LORD of hosts, and contemned the Word of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁵ Therefore the wrath of the LORD is kindled against His people, and He has stretched out His hand upon them, and has struck them, so that the mountains trembled and their carcasses were torn in the middle of the streets. For all this, His wrath was not turned away, but His hand was stretched out still.

²⁶ And He will lift up a sign to the nations from afar, and will whistle to them from the end of the Earth. And behold, they shall come quickly with speed.

²⁷ No one shall faint or fall among them. No one shall slumber or sleep. Nor shall the belt of his loins be loosened, nor the strap of his shoes be broken.

²⁸ Whose arrows shall be sharp, and all his bows bent. His horse’s hooves shall be thought of as flint, and his wheels like a whirlwind.

²⁹ His roaring shall be like a lion, and he shall roar like lion’s whelps. They shall roar, and lay hold of the prey. They shall take it away, and no one shall deliver it.

³⁰ And on that day, they shall roar upon them, as the roaring of the sea, and if they look to the Earth, behold darkness and sorrow. And the light shall be darkened in their sky.

6 In the year of the death of King Uzziah, I also saw the LORD sitting upon a high throne and lifted up. And the lower parts of it filled the Temple.

² The seraphims stood upon it. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face. And with two he covered his feet. And with two he flew.

³ And one cried to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts! The whole Earth is full of His Glory!”

⁴ And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him who cried. And the house was filled with smoke.

⁵ Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of polluted lips! And I dwell in the midst of a people of polluted lips! For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of Hosts.”

⁶ Then one of the seraphims flew to me with a hot coal in his hand, which he had taken from the Altar with the Tongs:

⁷ And he touched my mouth, and said, “Lo, this has touched your lips, and your iniquity shall be taken away. And your sin shall be purged.”

⁸ Also, I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, “Whom shall I send? And who shall go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me.”

⁹ And He said, “Go, and say to this people, ‘You shall indeed hear, but you shall not understand. You shall plainly see, and not perceive.’

¹⁰ “Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and convert and be healed.”

¹¹ Then I said, “LORD, how long?” And He answered, “Until the cities are laid waste, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,

¹² “And the LORD has removed men far away. And there is a great desolation in the midst of the land.

¹³ “But yet, in it shall be a tenth, and shall return and shall be eaten up as an elm or an oak, which has a substance in them even when they are made stumps. The Holy Seed shall be its substance.”

7 And in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah (king of Judah), Rezin, the king of Aram, came up—and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel—to Jerusalem, to fight against it. But he could not overcome it.

² And it was told to the House of David, saying, “Aram has joined with Ephraim.” Therefore, his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved by the wind.

³ Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go forth now to meet Ahaz (you and Shear-Jashub, your son), at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the path of the fuller’s field,

⁴ “and say to him, ‘Take heed, and be still. Do not fear or be fainthearted because of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, because of the furious wrath of Rezin and of Aram and of Remaliah’s son.’

⁵ “Because Aram has taken wicked counsel against you, Ephraim and Remaliah’s son, saying,

⁶ ‘Let us go up against Judah. And let us wake them up and make a breach therein for ourselves and set a king in the midst thereof: the son of Tabel.’”

⁷ Thus says the LORD God: “It shall not stand, nor shall it be.

⁸ “For the head of Aram is Damascus. And the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years, Ephraim shall be destroyed from being a people.

⁹ “And the head of Ephraim is Samaria. And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you do not believe, surely you shall not be established.”

¹⁰ And the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

¹¹ “Ask for a sign for yourself from the LORD your God. Ask it in the depth beneath or in the height above.”

¹² But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I tempt the LORD.”

¹³ Then he said, “Hear now, O House of David. It is a small thing for you to grieve men. But will you also grieve my God?”

¹⁴ “Therefore the LORD Himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son. And she shall call His Name, ‘Immanuel’.

¹⁵ “Butter and honey shall He eat, until He has knowledge to refuse evil and to choose good.

¹⁶ “For before the Child shall have knowledge to eschew evil, and to choose good, the land that you abhor shall be forsaken by both her kings.

¹⁷ “The LORD shall bring the king of Assyria upon you, and upon your people, and your Father’s House (days that have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah).”

¹⁸ And on that day shall the LORD whistle for the fly that is at the uttermost parts of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.

¹⁹ And they shall come and shall all light in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorny places, and upon all bushy places.

²⁰ On that day shall the LORD shave with a hired razor, by those beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet. And it shall consume the beard.

²¹ And on the same day shall a man nourish a young cow and two sheep.

²² And because of the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter. For everyone shall eat butter and honey which is left within the land.

²³ And on the same day that every place which once had a thousand vines sold for a thousand pieces of silver, shall be briers and thorns.

²⁴ With arrows and with bow shall one come there, because all the land shall be briers and thorns.

²⁵ But on all the mountains which shall be dug with the mattock, the fear of briers and thorns shall not come. But they shall be for the sending out of bullocks, and for the treading of sheep.

8 Moreover, the LORD said to me, “Take a great scroll and write with a man’s pen: ‘Make speed to the spoil. Hurry to the prey.’”

² Then I took to myself faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the Priest and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.

³ Afterward, I went in to the Prophetess, who conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, “Call his name, Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.

⁴ “For before the child shall have knowledge to cry ‘My father and my mother’, he shall take away the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Assyria.”

⁵ And the LORD spoke yet again to me, saying,

⁶ “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah (which run softly) and rejoice with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

⁷ “now, therefore, behold, the LORD brings up the waters of the river upon them, mighty and great. And the king of Assyria, with all his glory, shall come up upon all their rivers and go over all their banks,

⁸ “and shall break into Judah, shall overflow and pass through, shall come up to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

⁹ “Gather together on heaps, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces! And listen, all you from far countries! Gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces! Gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces!”

¹⁰ Take counsel together, but it shall be brought to nothing. Pronounce a decree, but it shall not stand. For God is with us.

¹¹ For the LORD spoke this to me, in the taking of my hand, and taught me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

¹² “Do not say, ‘A conspiracy’ to all that which this people says is conspiracy, or fear their fear or be afraid of them.

¹³ “Sanctify the LORD of Hosts and let Him be your fear. And let Him be your dread.

¹⁴ “And He shall be a Sanctuary; but as a stumbling stone to both the Houses of Israel, and as a rock to fall upon, and as a snare, and as a net to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹⁵ “And many among them shall stumble, and shall fall, and shall be broken, and shall be snared, and shall be taken.

¹⁶ “Bind up the Testimony. Seal up the Law among My disciples.”

¹⁷ Therefore, I will wait upon the LORD, Who has hidden His Face from the House of Jacob. And I will look for Him.

¹⁸ Behold, I, and the children whom the LORD has given me, are as signs and as wonders in Israel, by the LORD of Hosts, Who dwells on Mount Zion.

¹⁹ And when they shall say to you, “Inquire of those who have a spirit of divination and of the soothsayers who whisper and murmur”, should not a people inquire of their God, rather than the living of the dead?

²⁰ Inquire of the Law and of the Testimony. If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them.

²¹ Then those who are afflicted and famished shall wander to and fro. And when they become hungry, they shall be enraged and curse their king and his gods and shall look upward.

²² And when they shall look to the earth, they shall behold trouble and darkness, vexation and anguish, and shall be driven to wickedness.

9 Yet, the gloom shall not be as the affliction was at first, when He lightly touched the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, nor afterward when he was more grievous by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the Gentiles.

² The people who walked in darkness have seen a great Light. Those who dwelled in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the Light shined.

³ You have multiplied the nation, not increased joy. Men rejoice when they divide a spoil.

⁴ For You have broken the yoke of their burden, and the staff of their shoulder, and the rod of their oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

⁵ Surely every battle of the warrior is with noise, and with tumbling of garments in blood. But this shall be with burning and devouring of fire.

⁶ For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given. And the government is upon His shoulder. And His Name shall be called: Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

⁷ The increase of His dominion and peace shall have no end. He shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment, and with justice, from henceforth, forever. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will perform this.

⁸ The LORD has sent a Word into Jacob, and it lighted upon Israel.

⁹ And all the people shall know—Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria— who say in the pride and presumption of their heart,

¹⁰ “The bricks have fallen, but we will build it with hewn stones. The wild fig trees are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.”

¹¹ Nevertheless, the LORD will raise up the adversaries of Rezin against him and join his enemies together,

¹² Aram in front and the Philistines behind. And they shall devour Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, His wrath is not turned away. But His hand is stretched out still.

¹³ For the people do not turn to Him Who strikes them, nor do they seek the LORD of Hosts.

¹⁴ Therefore, the LORD will cut off head and tail from Israel, branch and rush, in one day.

¹⁵ To the ancient and the honorable man, He is the head. And to the prophet who teaches lies, He is the tail.

¹⁶ For the leaders of the people cause them to err. And those who are led by them are devoured.

¹⁷ Therefore, the LORD shall have no pleasure in their young men. Nor will He have compassion on their fatherless and on their widows. For everyone is a hypocrite and wicked. And every mouth speaks folly. For all this, His wrath is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

¹⁸ For wickedness burns as a fire. It devours the briers and the thorns, and will kindle in the thick places of the forest. And they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

¹⁹ By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts shall the land be darkened. And the people shall be as the meat of the fire. No man shall spare his brother.

²⁰ And he shall cut on the right hand and be hungry. And he shall eat on the left hand and shall not be satisfied. Everyone shall eat the flesh of his own arm.

²¹ Manasseh-Ephraim and Ephraim-Manasseh, they both shall be against Judah. For all this, His wrath is not turned away. But His Hand is stretched out still.

10 “Woe to those who decree wicked decrees and write grievous things,

² “to keep back the poor from judgment and to take away the judgment of the poor of My people. So that widows may be their prey and that they may spoil the fatherless.

³ “What will you do now, on the day of visitation, and of destruction, which shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help and where will you leave your glory?

⁴ “Without Me, everyone shall fall among those who are bound. And they shall fall down among the slain. Yet for all this, His wrath is not turned away. But His Hand is stretched out still.

⁵ “O Assyria, the rod of My wrath! And the staff in their hands is My indignation!

⁶ “I will send him to a profane nation. And I will give him a charge against the people of My wrath, to take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread them under feet like the mire in the street.

⁷ “But he does not think so, nor does his heart think so. But he imagines to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.

⁸ “For he says, ‘Are not my princes all kings?

⁹ ‘Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus,

¹⁰ ‘just as my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols (seeing their idols were above Jerusalem and above Samaria).’

¹¹ “Shall not I, as I have done to Samaria and to its idols, so do to Jerusalem and to its idols?

¹² “But when the LORD has accomplished all His work upon Mount Zion and Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and his glorious and proud looks.

¹³ “Because he said, ‘By the power of my own hand I have done it, and by my wisdom. Because I am wise.’ “Therefore I have removed the borders of the people, and have spoiled their treasures, and have pulled down the inhabitants like a valiant man.

¹⁴ “And My Hand has found the riches of the people as a nest. And as one who gathers leftover eggs, have I gathered all the Earth. And there was no one to move the wing or to open the mouth or to whisper.

¹⁵ “Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews with it? Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who moves it? As if the rod could wield itself against him who raises it, or the staff could lift itself up as if it were not wood?

¹⁶ “Therefore, the LORD God of Hosts shall send among His fat men leanness. And under His Glory, He shall kindle a burning, like the burning of fire.

¹⁷ “And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame. And it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day

¹⁸ “and shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful fields, both soul and flesh. And he shall be as the fainting of a standard bearer.

¹⁹ “And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may record them.”

²⁰ And at that day shall the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped from the House of Jacob, lean no more upon him who struck them, but shall lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

²¹ The remnant shall return (the remnant of Jacob) to the Mighty God.

²² For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, the remnant of them shall return. The decreed destruction shall overflow with righteousness.

²³ For the LORD God of Hosts shall make the determined destruction in the midst of all the land.

²⁴ Therefore, thus says the LORD God of Hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion. Do not be afraid of Assyria. He shall strike you with a rod and shall lift up his staff against you, just as Egypt did.

²⁵ “But yet a very little time and the wrath shall be consumed, and My anger, in their destruction.”

²⁶ And the LORD of Hosts shall raise up a scourge for him, according to the plague of Midian, in the rock Oreb. And as his staff was upon the sea, so he will lift it up as in Egypt.

²⁷ And at that day shall his burden be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck. And the yoke shall be destroyed, because of the anointing.

²⁸ He has come to Aiath. He has passed into Migron. At Michmash he shall lay up his armor.

²⁹ They have gone over the pass. They stayed in the lodging at Geba. Ramah is afraid. Gibeah of Saul has fled away.

³⁰ Lift up your voice, O daughter Gallim! Cause Laish to hear, O poor Anathoth!

³¹ Madmenah is removed! The inhabitants of Gebim have gathered themselves together.

³² Yet there is a time that he will stay at Nob. He shall lift up his hand toward the Mount of the daughter Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

³³ Behold, the LORD God of Hosts shall cut off the bough with terror. And they of high stature shall be cut off. And the high shall be humbled.

³⁴ And He shall cut away the thick places of the forest with iron. And Lebanon shall have a mighty fall.

11 But there shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse. And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.

² And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him—the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the LORD—

³ and shall make Him prudent in the fear of the LORD. For He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, nor rebuke by the hearing of His ears.

⁴ But with righteousness, He shall judge the lowly. And with equality, He shall rebuke for the poor of the Earth. And He shall strike the Earth with the rod of His Mouth. And with the Breath of His Lips shall He slay the wicked.

⁵ And justice shall be the belt of His loins, and faithfulness the belt of His reins.

⁶ The wolf, also, shall dwell with the lamb. And the leopard shall lie with the kid and the calf and the lion and the fat beast, together. And a little child shall lead them.

⁷ And the cow and the bear shall feed. Their young ones shall lie together. And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

⁸ And the sucking child shall play upon the hole of the asp. And the weaned child shall put his hand upon the viper’s hole.

⁹ Then shall no one hurt or destroy in all the mountain of My Holiness. For the Earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters that cover the sea.

¹⁰ And on that day the Root of Jesse which shall stand up for a sign to the people, the nations shall seek It. And His rest shall be glorious.

¹¹ And on the same day the LORD shall stretch out His Hand again a second time, to possess the remnant of His people who shall be left: of Assyria and of Egypt and of Pathros and of Ethiopia and of Elam and of Shinar and of Hamath and of the isles of the sea.

¹² And He shall set up a sign to the Nations, and assemble the dispersed of Israel, and gather the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the world.

¹³ The hatred, also, of Ephraim shall depart. And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not envy Judah, nor shall Judah trouble Ephraim.

¹⁴ But they shall flee upon the shoulders of the Philistines, toward the West. They shall spoil those of the East together. They shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab and hear the children of Ammon.

¹⁵ The LORD, also, shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian’s sea. And with His mighty wind He shall lift up His Hand over the river, and shall strike him in seven streams, and cause men to walk with shoes.

¹⁶ And there shall be a path to the remnant of His people who are left in Assyria, like it was to Israel on the day that He came up out of the land of Egypt.

12 And you shall say on that day, “O Lord, I will praise You! Though You were angry with me, Your wrath has turned away, and You comfort me!

² “Behold, God, my salvation! I will trust and will not fear! For the LORD God is my strength and song. He has also become my salvation!”

³ Therefore, with joy shall you draw waters out of the wells of salvation.

⁴ And you shall say on that day, “Praise the LORD! Call upon His Name! Declare His works among the people! Make mention of them, for His Name is exalted!

⁵ “Sing to the LORD! For He has done excellent things! This is known in all the world!

⁶ “Cry out, and shout, O inhabitant of Zion! For great is the Holy One of Israel, in the midst of you.”

13 The burden of Babel, which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.

² “Lift up a standard upon the high mountain. Lift up the voice to them. Wave the hand, so that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

³ “I have Commanded those whom I have sanctified. And I have called the mighty to My wrath, those who rejoice in My Glory.”

⁴ The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, like a great people, a tumultuous voice of the kingdoms of the Nations gathered together. The LORD of Hosts numbers the army of the battle.

⁵ They come from a far country, from the end of the heaven, the LORD with the weapons of His wrath, to destroy the whole land.

⁶ Howl! For the day of the LORD is at hand! It shall come as a destroyer from the Almighty!

⁷ Therefore shall all hands be weakened. And all men’s hearts shall melt.

⁸ And they shall be afraid. Anguish and sorrow shall take them. And they shall have pain, as a woman in childbirth. Everyone shall be amazed at his neighbor, and their faces flames of fire.

⁹ Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land waste. And He shall destroy the sinners out of it.

¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and its planets shall not give their light. The Sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

¹¹ “And I will visit the wickedness upon the world, and their iniquity upon the wicked. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will cast down the pride of tyrants.

¹² “I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even a man above the wedge of gold of Ophir.

¹³ “Therefore I will shake the heaven, and the Earth shall move out of her place in the wrath of the LORD of Hosts, and on the day of His fierce anger.

¹⁴ “And it shall be as a chased doe, and as a sheep which no man gathers. Every man shall turn to his own people and flee to his own land.

¹⁵ “Everyone who is found shall be stricken through. And whoever is caught up, shall fall by the sword.

¹⁶ “Their children also shall be broken in pieces before their eyes. Their houses shall be spoiled and their wives ravished.

¹⁷ “Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, nor be desirous of gold.

¹⁸ “With bows, also, they shall destroy the young men and shall have no compassion upon the fruit of the womb. And their eyes shall not spare the children.

¹⁹ “And Babel, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty and pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as the destruction of God in Sodom and Gomorrah.

²⁰ “It shall not be inhabited forever, nor shall it be indwelt from generation to generation. Nor shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall their shepherds make their folds there.

²¹ “But Zijm shall lodge there. And their houses shall be full of Ohim. Ostriches shall dwell there. And the hairy goats shall dance there.

²² “And Iim shall cry in their palaces, and dragons in their pleasant palaces. And that time is ready to come. And those days shall not be prolonged.”