28But rebels and sinners will together be shattered. until her righteousness shines like a bright light. When the people got upg the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, Be gone!. The LORDs chosen ally will carry out His desire against Babylon, and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.a. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.b I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, Send them back!. and as a sheep before her shearers is silent. He was at home with the unprotected, the widowed and orphaned; with the dispossessed, homeless, landless; and with the resourceless victims of the moneyed mans court. Written To Isaiah's words were primarily directed to the nation of Judah and the people of Jerusalem. So you are My witnesses, declares the LORD, 16Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea. 19I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants. who blots out your transgressions for My own sake. Nothing will be left, says the LORD. 3With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation, the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament. 3Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dogs neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pigs blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. 4Because you are precious and honored in My sight, I will bring your offspring from the east, 6I will say to the north, Give them up!, and to the south, Do not hold them back!, and My daughters from the ends of the earth. and strangersc will feed in the ruins of the wealthy. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind. 11and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?. WebBook of Isaiah, also spelled Isaias, one of the major prophetical writings of the Old Testament. nor its animals enough for a burnt offering. 14I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; 18All the kings of the nations lie in state. Written To Isaiah's words were primarily directed to the nation of Judah and the people of Jerusalem. Again, to memorialize a message, he sired a son of the prophetess (his wife) and saddled the child with his message as a name: Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Speed-spoil-hasten-plunder), referring to the imminent spoliations by the Assyrians. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it. 15And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: 16O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. His writings are especially significant for the prophecies he made about the coming Messiah, hundreds of years before Jesus was born ( Isaiah 7:14; 9:1-7, 11:2-4; 53:4-7, 9, 12 ). 2This is the word of the LORD, your Maker. Please select which sections you would like to print: Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. 7Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? and I will bear you up when you turn gray. For they will be repaid with what their hands have done. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. Landscape Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; and his burden removed from their shoulders.. 10Tell the righteous it will be well with them. a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.f. for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me. 17The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever. 3Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them. and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones. A Vikings fan appeared to flip off Giants receiver Isaiah Hodgins after a touchdown at the end of the first quarter during Sundays AFC Wild Card game. He faced many hardships, but continued in his call from God. 19Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains;b. let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song. In the year that Uzziah, king of Judah, died (742), Isaiah received his and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Even there the birds of prey will gather. the mountain fortress will be his refuge; 17Your eyes will see the King in His beauty. 22No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, for they will be a people blessed by the LORD. A Vikings fan appeared to flip off Giants receiver Isaiah Hodgins after a touchdown at the end of the first quarter during Sundays AFC Wild Card game. Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained. 19The humble will increase their joy in the LORD. 11I said, I will never again see the LORD. it is not far away, and My salvation will not be delayed. says the LORD.1 a Cited in Romans 10:202 b LXX to a disobedient and obstinate people; cited in Romans 10:219 c Or and heirs to My mountains out of Judah; My elect will possess them11 d Hebrew Gad, the Babylonian god of fortune11 e Hebrew Meni, the Babylonian god of fate17 f LXX a new heaven and a new earth; see also Isaiah 66:22 and Revelation 21:1.25 g Hebrew nachash; translated in most cases as snake. they bow down to the work of their hands. and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you. Four eminent Hebrew prophets addressed themselves to the people of Israel and Judah in the latter half of the 8th pre-Christian century: Amos, Hosea, Micah, and Isaiah. I will not keep silent, but I will repay; Because they burned incense on the mountains. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies. 7Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. If the sons had not been wanted as walking witnesses to the prophets forebodings, posterity would not know of this wife or these sons. 5Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: Surely many houses will become desolate, 11Woe to those who rise early in the morning. and fails to see the majesty of the LORD. . 6Caravans of camels will cover your land. A Rebellious Nation 2 Hear me, you heavens! the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD. who stammer in a language you cannot understand. 3And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me? 18On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll. 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. or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words. 29This also comes from the LORD of Hosts. no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground. 8For the moth will devour them like a garment, 11So the redeemed of the LORD will return. 6Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel. . and all its glory like the flowers of the field. And they will be driven into utter darkness. 29Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks. 3Then the LORD said, Just as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,a 15The head is the elder and honorable man. Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, 13Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD,g. 5For as a young man marries a young woman. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God. 8Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind. even the light will be obscured by clouds. 4For this is what the LORD has said to me: and though a band of shepherds is called out against it. and to trample them down like clay in the streets. 19They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stonethe work of human hands. Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle. and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir. to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine. 15For behold, the LORD will come with fire. 3You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind. WebIsaiah 1 New International Version 1 The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. and providing seed to sow and food to eat. 6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;b. and our iniquities carry us away like the wind. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them. the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar. and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. 19O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. and the riverbed will be parched and empty. 2the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.. 19But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, They will never rise up to possess a land. 25In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest. . 24Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors. 7 I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord, the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel. Moreover, Isaiahs sympathies were emphatically with the victimized poor, not with the courtiers and well-to-do. 1This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, 3I will give you the treasures of darkness. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; 11Then His people remembered the days of old, Where is He who brought them through the sea. as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, 11And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. 1Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save. 6And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. 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