B3 Isaiah 8
Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son.
Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, And rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son; Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them The waters of the river, strong and many, Even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: And he shall come up over all his channels, And go over all his banks: And he shall pass through Judah; He shall ooverflow and go over, He shall reach even to the neck; And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; And give ear, all ye of far countries: Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; Speak the word, and it shall not stand: For God is with us.
For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, And instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Say ye not, A confederacy, To all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; Neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; And let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
And he shall be for a sanctuary; But for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, And be snared, and be taken.
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
And I will wait upon the LORD, That hideth his face from the house of Jacob, And I will look for him.
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me Are for signs and for wonders in Israel From the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, And unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: Should not a people seek unto their God?
For the living to the dead?
To the law and to the testimony: If they speak not according to this word, It is because there is no light in them.
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: And it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, And curse their king and their God, and look upward.
And they shall look unto the earth; And behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; And they shall be driven to darkness.
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B3 Isaiah 10
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, And that write grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, And to take away the right from the poor of my people, That widows may be their prey, And that they may rob the fatherless!
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, And in the desolation which shall come from far?
To whom will ye flee for help?
And where will ye leave your glory?
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, And they shall fall under the slain.
For all this his anger is not turned away, But his hand is stretched out still.
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, And the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, And against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, To take the spoil, and to take the prey, And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Howbeit he meaneth not so, Neither doth his heart think so; But it is in his heart to destroy And cut off nations not a few.
For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
Is not Calno as Carchemish?
Is not Hamath as Arpad?
Is not Samaria as Damascus?
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, And whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, So do to Jerusalem and her idols?
Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work Upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, And the glory of his high looks.
For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, And by my wisdom; for I am prudent: And I have removed the bounds of the people, And have robbed their treasures, And I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: And as one gathereth eggs that are left, Have I gathered all the earth; And there was none that moved the wing, Or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?
Or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it?
As if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, Or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness; And under his glory he shall kindle a burning Like the burning of a fire.
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame: And it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, Both soul and body: And they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, That a child may write them.
And it shall come to pass in that day, That the remnant of Israel, And such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, Shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; But shall stay upon the LORD, The Holy One of Israel, in truth.
The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, Unto the mighty God.
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, Yet a remnant of them shall return: The consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, In the midst of all the land.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, Be not afraid of the Assyrian: He shall smite thee with a rod, And shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, And mine anger in their destruction.
And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him According to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: And as his rod was upon the sea, So shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
And it shall come to pass in that day, That his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, And his yoke from off thy neck, And the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; At Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: Cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
Madmenah is removed; The inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: He shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.
Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Shall lop the bough with terror: And the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, And the haughty shall be humbled.
And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
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B3 Isaiah 30
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, That take counsel, but not of me; And that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, That they may add sin to sin: That walk to go down into Egypt, And have not asked at my mouth; To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, And the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
For his princes were at Zoan, And his ambassadors came to Hanes.
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, Nor be an help nor profit, But a shame, and also a reproach.
The burden of the beasts of the south: Into the land of trouble and anguish, From whence come the young and old lion, The viper and fiery flying serpent, They will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, And their treasures upon the bunches of camels, To a people that shall not profit them.
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: Therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
Now go, write it before them in a table, And note it in a book, That it may be for the time to come For ever and ever: That this is a rebellious people, lying children, Children that will not hear the law of the LORD: Which say to the seers, See not; And to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, Speak unto us smooth things, Prophesy deceits: Get you out of the way, Turn aside out of the path, Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, And trust in oppression and perverseness, And stay thereon: Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, Swelling out in a high wall, Whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel That is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: So that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd To take fire from the hearth, Or to take water withal out of the pit.
For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: And ye would not.
But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; Therefore shall ye flee: And, We will ride upon the swift; Therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; At the rebuke of five shall ye flee: Till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, And as an ensign on an hill.
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, And therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: For the LORD is a God of judgment: Blessed are all they that wait for him.
For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: Thou shalt weep no more: He will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; When he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, Yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, But thine eyes shall see thy teachers: And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, When ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, And the ornament of thy molten images of gold: Thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; Thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, That thou shalt sow the ground withal; And bread of the increase of the earth, And it shall be fat and plenteous: In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground Shall eat clean provender, Which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
And there shall be upon every high mountain, And upon every high hill, Rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, When the towers fall.
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, And healeth the stroke of their wound.
Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, Burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: His lips are full of indignation, And his tongue as a devouring fire: And his breath, as an overflowing stream, Shall reach to the midst of the neck, To sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: And there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; And gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe To come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, And shall shew the lighting down of his arm, With the indignation of his anger, And with the flame of a devouring fire, With scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, Which smote with a rod.
And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, Which the LORD shall lay upon him, It shall be with tabrets and harps: And in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
For Tophet is ordained of old; Yea, for the king it is prepared; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood; The breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
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