6. Because this people hath forsaken the waters of Shiloah that go
softly, and joy with respect to Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
7. therefore, behold! the Lord (is) bringing up upon them the waters
of the river, its strong and many waters, to wit, the king of Assyria
and all his glory, and it shall come up over all the channels and go
over all its banks, 8. and it shall pass over into Judah, overflow
and pass through, to the neck shall it reach, and the spreading of
its wings shall be the filling of the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!
9. Be wicked and be broken, and give ear all the remote parts of the
earth! Gird yourselves and be broken; gird yourselves and be broken!
10. Devise a plan, and it shall be defeated; speak a word, and it
shall not stand: for God (is) with us.
11. For thus said Jehovah unto me in strength of hand, and instructed
me away from walking in the way of this people, saying, 12. Ye shall
not call conspiracy everything which this people calleth conspiracy,
and its fear ye shall not fear nor be afraid. 13. Jehovah of hosts,
Him shall ye sanctify; and He shall be your fear, and He shall be
your dread. 14. And He shall be for a holy thing, and for a stone of
stumbling and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel; for
a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15. And many
shall stumble over them, and fall and be broken and be snared, and be
taken.
16. Bind up the testimony, seal the law, in my disciples. 17. And I
will wait for Jehovah, that hideth His face from the house of Jacob,
and will expect Him. 18. Behold, I and the children which Jehovah
hath given me are (for) signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah
of hosts, the (One) dwelling in mount Zion. 19. And when they shall
say to you, Seek unto the spirits and to the wizards, the chirpers
and the mutterers: should not a people seek to its God, for the
living to the dead? 20. To the law and to the testimony: if they
speak not according to this word, (they are they) to whom there is no
dawn. 21. And they shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry:
and it shall be that when they are hungry they shall fret themselves,
and curse their king and their God, and shall look upward. 22. And to
the earth he shall look; and behold distress and darkness, dimness of
anguish, and (into) darkness (he shall be) driven. [-- Or, The
dimness of anguish and of darkness is dispelled.]
IX.--1. For (there shall) not (be) darkness (for ever) to her who is
now distressed. As the former time degraded the land of Zebulon and
the land of Naphtali, so the latter glorifies the way of the sea, the
bank of the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.
2. The people, those walking in the dark, have seen a great light:
the dwellers in the shadow of death, light has beamed upon them.
3. Thou hast enlarged the nation, Thou hast increased its joy: (they)
rejoice before Thee like the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they
divide the spoil; 4. that the yoke of his burden, and the rod of his
shoulder, and the staff of the one driving him, Thou hast broken as
in the day of Midian. 5. For all the armour of the armed man in the
tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, food
of fire. 6. For a son is born to us, a son is given to us, and the
government is upon his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful,
Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7. To
the increase of the government and to the peace there shall be no
end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to establish it
and to confirm it, in justice and in righteousness from henceforth
and for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall do this.
8. The Lord sent a word unto Jacob, and it came down into Israel.
9. And they know, the people, all of them, Ephraim and the inhabitant
of Samaria, in pride and in greatness of heart saying, 10. "Bricks
are fallen, and hewn stone will we build; sycamores are felled, and
cedars will we substitute." 11. And (now) Jehovah raises up above him
the enemies of Rezin, and he will instigate his own enemies: 12. Aram
before, and Philistia behind, and they devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this His wrath does not turn back, and still His hand is
stretched out.
13. And the people has not turned to Him that smote them, and Jehovah
of hosts they have not sought. 14. And Jehovah has cut off from
Israel head and tail, branch and root, in one day. 15. The elder and
the favourite, be (is) the head, and the prophet teaching falsehood,
he (is) the tail. 16. The leaders of this people have been seducers,
and the led of them (are) swallowed up. 17. Therefore the Lord will
not rejoice over their young men, and on their orphans and their
widows He will not have mercy, for every one of them is profane and
an evil-doer, and every mouth (is) speaking folly. For all this His
wrath is not turned back, and still is His hand outstretched.
18. For wickedness burneth as the fire, thorns and briers it
consumes, then kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll
themselves upward, a column of smoke. 19. In the wrath of Jehovah of
hosts the land is darkened, and the people is like food of fire: one
another they do not spare. 20. And he tears on the right hand, and is
hungry (still), and devours on the left, and (still) they are not
satisfied; each the flesh of his (own) arm they devour: 21. Manasseh
Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh, (and) together they (are) against
Judah. For all this His wrath is not turned back, and still His hand
(is) stretched out.
X.--1. Woe unto them that decree decrees of injustice, and that write
oppression which they have prescribed; 2. to turn aside from judgment
the weak, the right of the poor of my people, that widows may be
their spoil, and the fatherless they plunder. 3. And what will ye do
in the day of visitation, and in the ruin (which) shall come from
far? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your
glory? 4. It does not bow beneath the prisoners, and (yet) they shall
fall beneath the slain. For all this His wrath is not turned back,
and still His hand is stretched out.