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   <div class="book bkISA">
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Sign of Immanuel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now the house of David was told, &#8220;Aram has allied itself with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">has set up camp in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Ephraim&#8221;; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Isaiah, &#8220;Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:3 </span><span class="fq">Shear-Jashub </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">a remnant will return.</span></span></span><span class="content"> to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer&#8217;s Field. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Say to him, &#8216;Be careful, keep calm and don&#8217;t be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood&#8212;because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah&#8217;s son have plotted your ruin, saying, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Yet this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.7.7"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;It will not take place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.7.7"><span class="content">it will not happen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">for the head of Aram is Damascus,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="content">and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="content">Within sixty-five years</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="content">Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The head of Ephraim is Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="content">and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah&#8217;s son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="content">If you do not stand firm in your faith,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="content">you will not stand at all.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Again the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to Ahaz, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ask the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But Ahaz said, &#8220;I will not ask; I will not put the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to the test.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah said, &#8220;Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore the Lord himself will give you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> a sign: The virgin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">young woman</span></span></span><span class="content"> will conceive and give birth to a son, and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls </span><span class="fqa">son, and he </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">son, and they</span></span></span><span class="content"> will call him Immanuel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="fq">Immanuel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">God with us.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah&#8212;he will bring the king of Assyria.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Assyria, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Instrument</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will whistle for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices in the rocks, on all the thornbushes and at all the water holes. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River&#8212;the king of Assyria&#8212;to shave your heads and private parts, and to cut off your beards also. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In that day, a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> there will be only briers and thorns. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As for all the hills once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="ISA.8">
         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Isaiah and His Children as Signs</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:1 </span><span class="fq">Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 3.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So I called in Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then I made love to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For before the boy knows how to say &#8216;My father&#8217; or &#8216;My mother,&#8217; the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to me again:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because this people has rejected</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">the gently flowing waters of Shiloah</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">and rejoices over Rezin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">and the son of Remaliah,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">therefore the Lord is about to bring against them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">the king of Assyria with all his pomp.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">It will overflow all its channels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">run over all its banks</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">passing through it and reaching up to the neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">Immanuel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:8 </span><span class="fq">Immanuel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">God with us.</span></span></span><span class="content">!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Raise the war cry,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Do your worst</span></span></span><span class="content"> you nations, and be shattered!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">Listen, all you distant lands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">Prepare for battle, and be shattered!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">Prepare for battle, and be shattered!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="content">propose your plan, but it will not stand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="content">for God is with us.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Immanuel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not call conspiracy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">everything this people calls a conspiracy;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">do not fear what they fear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">and do not dread it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="content">he is the one you are to fear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="content">he is the one you are to dread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He will be a holy place;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">for both Israel and Judah he will be</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">a stone that causes people to stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">and a rock that makes them fall.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">And for the people of Jerusalem he will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">a trap and a snare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Many of them will stumble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="content">they will fall and be broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="content">they will be snared and captured.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Bind up this testimony of warning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.8.16"><span class="content">and seal up God&#8217;s instruction among my disciples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will wait for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.8.17"><span class="content">who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.8.17"><span class="content">I will put my trust in him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Here am I, and the children the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Darkness Turns to Light</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Consult God&#8217;s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="ISA.9">
         <div class="label">9</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-21 is numbered 9:1-20.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The people walking in darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.9.2"><span class="content">have seen a great light;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.9.2"><span class="content">on those living in the land of deep darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.9.2"><span class="content">a light has dawned.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You have enlarged the nation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.9.3"><span class="content">and increased their joy;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.9.3"><span class="content">they rejoice before you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.9.3"><span class="content">as people rejoice at the harvest,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.9.3"><span class="content">as warriors rejoice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.9.3"><span class="content">when dividing the plunder.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For as in the day of Midian&#8217;s defeat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.9.4"><span class="content">you have shattered</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.9.4"><span class="content">the yoke that burdens them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.9.4"><span class="content">the bar across their shoulders,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.9.4"><span class="content">the rod of their oppressor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Every warrior&#8217;s boot used in battle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.9.5"><span class="content">and every garment rolled in blood</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.9.5"><span class="content">will be destined for burning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.9.5"><span class="content">will be fuel for the fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For to us a child is born,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="content">to us a son is given,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="content">and the government will be on his shoulders.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="content">And he will be called</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="content">Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="content">Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Of the greatness of his government and peace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">there will be no end.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">He will reign on David&#8217;s throne</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">and over his kingdom,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">establishing and upholding it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">with justice and righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">from that time on and forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">The zeal of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">will accomplish this.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Anger Against Israel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Lord has sent a message against Jacob;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.9.8"><span class="content">it will fall on Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All the people will know it&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.9.9"><span class="content">Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.9.9"><span class="content">who say with pride</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.9.9"><span class="content">and arrogance of heart,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;The bricks have fallen down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.9.10"><span class="content">but we will rebuild with dressed stone;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.9.10"><span class="content">the fig trees have been felled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.9.10"><span class="content">but we will replace them with cedars.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has strengthened Rezin&#8217;s foes against them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.9.11"><span class="content">and has spurred their enemies on.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.9.12"><span class="content">have devoured Israel with open mouth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.9.12"><span class="content">Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.9.12"><span class="content">his hand is still upraised.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But the people have not returned to him who struck them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.9.13"><span class="content">nor have they sought the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will cut off from Israel both head and tail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.9.14"><span class="content">both palm branch and reed in a single day;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">the elders and dignitaries are the head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.9.15"><span class="content">the prophets who teach lies are the tail.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Those who guide this people mislead them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.9.16"><span class="content">and those who are guided are led astray.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.9.17"><span class="content">nor will he pity the fatherless and widows,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.9.17"><span class="content">for everyone is ungodly and wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.9.17"><span class="content">every mouth speaks folly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.9.17"><span class="content">Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.9.17"><span class="content">his hand is still upraised.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Surely wickedness burns like a fire;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.9.18"><span class="content">it consumes briers and thorns,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.9.18"><span class="content">it sets the forest thickets ablaze,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.9.18"><span class="content">so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">By the wrath of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.9.19"><span class="content">the land will be scorched</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.9.19"><span class="content">and the people will be fuel for the fire;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.9.19"><span class="content">they will not spare one another.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">On the right they will devour,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.9.20"><span class="content">but still be hungry;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.9.20"><span class="content">on the left they will eat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.9.20"><span class="content">but not be satisfied.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.9.20"><span class="content">Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">arm</span></span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.9.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.9.21"><span class="content">together they will turn against Judah.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.9.21"><span class="content">Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.9.21"><span class="content">his hand is still upraised.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div>
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