Isaiah 9
9:1Drink this first quickly! Quickly act! O place of Zebulun, the land of Naphtali, and the rest on the coast, and on the other side of the Jordan, Galilee of the nations!
9:2The people going in darkness beheld a great light! The ones dwelling in a place and shadow of death, light shall radiate upon you.
9:3The greatest part of the people you led down in gladness, and they shall be glad before you as the ones being glad in a harvest, and in which manner the ones dividing spoils.
9:4Because the yoke, the one being situated upon them was removed, even the rod, the one upon their neck; for the rod of the extractors he effaced as in the day against Midian.
9:5For every apparel and garment assembled by treachery, they shall pay with reparation; and they shall want to even if it became scorched.
9:6For a child was born to us; a son was given to us, of whom the sovereignty became upon his shoulder; and his name is called, Messenger of great counsel, wonderful, counselor, mighty God, potentate, ruler of peace, father of the eon about to be. For I will bring peace upon the rulers, and his health.
9:7And great is his sovereignty, and of his peace there is no end upon the throne of David, and his kingdom to set it up and to take hold in judgment; even with righteousness from the present and into the eon. The zeal of the lord of Hosts shall do these things.
9:8The lord sent death upon Jacob, and it came upon Israel.
9:9And all the people of Ephraim shall know, and the ones settling in Samaria, with insolence and a haughty heart, saying,
9:10The bricks are fallen, but come, we should dress stones. And we should fell sycamine trees and cedars, and we should build for ourselves a tower.
9:11And God shall dash down the ones rising against mount Zion, against him; and he shall efface his enemies --
9:12Syria from the dawn of the sun, and the Greeks from the descent of the sun, the ones devouring Israel with their whole mouth. In all these things the rage is not turned, but still there is the high hand.
9:13And the people did not turn until they were struck, and the lord of the forces they did not seek.
9:14And the lord removed from Israel the head and tail, the great and small, in one day;
9:15the old man, and the ones admiring persons -- this is the head; and the prophet teaching lawless things -- this is the tail.
9:16And the ones declaring this people blessed shall be misleading. And they misled so that they should swallow them down.
9:17On account of this the lord shall not be gladdened over their young men; and upon their orphans and their widows he shall not show mercy. For all are lawless ones and wicked ones, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all these things his rage shall not turn away, but still his hand is high.
9:18And lawlessness shall burn as fire. And as dry wild grass it shall be devoured by fire, and shall be burnt in the thickets of the grove, and shall devour together all the things round about the hills.
9:19On account of the rage of the anger of the lord the entire land burns, and the people will be as ones incinerated by fire. A man shall not show mercy on his brother.
9:20But one shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall hunger; and he shall eat of the left, and in no way shall a man be filled up eating the flesh of his arm.
9:21For Manasseh shall eat Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; for together they shall assault Judah. For all these things the rage shall not turn, but still his hand is high.