A Song about the Lord’s Vineyard
5Now I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a rich and fertile hill.H7891Judah’s Guilt and Judgment
8What sorrow for you who buy up house after house and field after field, until everyone is evicted and you live alone in the land.H1945Isaiah’s Cleansing and Call
6It was in the year King Uzziah died that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple.H8141A Message for Ahaz
7When Ahaz, son of Jotham and grandson of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, set out to attack Jerusalem. However, they were unable to carry out their plan.H31172The news had come to the royal court of Judah: “Syria is allied with Israel against us!” So the hearts of the king and his people trembled with fear, like trees shaking in a storm.H5046H1004H1732H559H758H5117H669H3824H5128H3824H5971H6086H3293H5128H6440H7307
3Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Take your son Shear-jashub and go out to meet King Ahaz. You will find him at the end of the aqueduct that feeds water into the upper pool, near the road leading to the field where cloth is washed.H559H3068H3470H3318H7125H271H7610H1121H7097H8585H5945H1295H4546H3526H7704
4Tell him to stop worrying. Tell him he doesn’need to fear the fierce anger of those two burned-out embers, King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah.H559H8104H8252H3372H7401H3824H8147H2180H6226H181H2750H639H7526H758H1121H7425
5Yes, the kings of Syria and Israel are plotting against him, saying,H758H669H1121H7425H7451H3289H559
6‘We will attack Judah and capture it for ourselves. Then we will install the son of Tabeel as Judah’s king.’H5927H3063H6973H1234H4427H4428H8432H1121H2870
7But this is what the Sovereign Lord says. “This invasion will never happen; it will never take place;H3541H559H136H3069H6965
8for Syria is no stronger than its capital, Damascus, and Damascus is no stronger than its king, Rezin. As for Israel, within sixty-five years it will be crushed and completely destroyed.H7218H758H1834H7218H1834H7526H8346H2568H8141H669H2865H5971
9Israel is no stronger than its capital, Samaria, and Samaria is no stronger than its king, Pekah son of Remaliah. Unless your faith is firm, I cannot make you stand firm.”H7218H669H8111H7218H8111H7425H1121H539H539 H1696H3254H271H559
The Sign of Immanuel
10Later, the Lord sent this message to King Ahaz:H306811“Ask the Lord your God for a sign of confirmation, Ahaz. Make it as difficult as you want—as high as heaven or as deep as the place of the dead.”H7592H226H3068H430H7592H6009H1361H4605
12But the king refused. “No,” he said, “I will not test the Lord like that.”H271H559H7592H5254H853H3068
13Then Isaiah said, “Listen well, you royal family of David! Isn’t it enough to exhaust human patience? Must you exhaust the patience of my God as well?H559H8085H1004H1732H4592H3811H582H3811H430
14All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us’).H136H5414H226H5959H2030H3205H1121H7121H8034H410H6005
15By the time this child is old enough to choose what is right and reject what is wrong, he will be eating yogurt and honey.H2529H1706H398H3045H3988H7451H977H2896
16For before the child is that old, the lands of the two kings you fear so much will both be deserted.H5288H3045H3988H7451H977H2896H127H6973H6440H5800H8147H4428
17“Then the Lord will bring things on you, your nation, and your family unlike anything since Israel broke away from Judah. He will bring the king of Assyria upon you!”H3068H935H5971H1H1004H3117H935H3117H669H5493H3063H4428H804
18In that day the Lord will whistle for the army of southern Egypt and for the army of Assyria. They will swarm around you like flies and bees.H3117H3068H8319H2070H7097H2975H4714H1682H776H804
19They will come in vast hordes and settle in the fertile areas and also in the desolate valleys, caves, and thorny places.H935H5117H1327H5158H5357H5553H5285H5097
20In that day the Lord will hire a “razor” from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—and use it to shave off everything: your land, your crops, and your people.H3117H136H1548H8593H7917H5676H5104H4428H804H7218H8181H7272H5595H2206
21In that day a farmer will be fortunate to have a cow and two sheep or goats left.H3117H376H2421H1241H5697H8147H6629
22Nevertheless, there will be enough milk for everyone because so few people will be left in the land. They will eat their fill of yogurt and honey.H7230H2461H6213H398H2529H2529H1706H398H3498H7130H776
23In that day the lush vineyards, now worth 1,000 pieces of silver, will become patches of briers and thorns.H3117H4725H505H1612H505H3701H8068H7898
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24The entire land will become a vast expanse of briers and thorns, a hunting ground overrun by wildlife.H2671H7198H935H776H8068H7898
25No one will go to the fertile hillsides where the gardens once grew, for briers and thorns will cover them. Cattle, sheep, and goats will graze there.H2022H5737H4576H935H3374H8068H7898H4916H7794H4823H7716
H559H3947H1419H1549H3789H582H2747H4122 2I asked Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah, both known as honest men, to witness my doing this.H5749H539H5707H5749H223H3548H2148H1121H3000 3Then I slept with my wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. And the Lord said, “Call him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.H7126H5031H2029H3205H1121H559H3068H7121H8034H4122 4For before this child is old enough to say ‘Papa’ or ‘Mama,’ the king of Assyria will carry away both the abundance of Damascus and the riches of Samaria.”H5288H3045H7121H1H517H2428H1834H7998H8111H5375H6440H4428H804 5Then the Lord spoke to me again and said,H3068H1696H3254H559 6“My care for the people of Judah is like the gently flowing waters of Shiloah, but they have rejected it. They are rejoicing over what will happen to King Rezin and King Pekah.H3282H5971H3988H4325H7975H1980H328H4885H7526H7425H1121 7Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a mighty flood from the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria and all his glory. This flood will overflow all its channelsH136H5927H4325H5104H6099H7227H4428H804H3519H5927H650H1980H1415 8and sweep into Judah until it is chin deep. It will spread its wings, submerging your land from one end to the other, O Immanuel.H2498H3063H7857H5674H5060H6677H4298H3671H4393H7341H776H6005H410 9“Huddle together, you nations, and be terrified. Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, but you will be crushed! Yes, prepare for battle, but you will be crushed!H7489H5971H2865H238H3605H4801H776H247H2865H247H2865 10Call your councils of war, but they will be worthless. Develop your strategies, but they will not succeed. For God is with us!”H5779H6098H5779H6565H1696H1697H6965H410 H559H2393H3027H3256H3212H1870H5971H559 12“Don’t call everything a conspiracy, like they do, and don’t live in dread of what frightens them.H559H7195H5971H559H7195H3372H4172H6206 13Make the Lord of Heaven’s Armies holy in your life. He is the one you should fear. He is the one who should make you tremble.H6942H3068H6635H4172H6206 14He will keep you safe. But to Israel and Judah he will be a stone that makes people stumble, a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.H4720H68H5063H6697H4383H8147H1004H3478H6341H4170H3427H3389 15Many will stumble and fall, never to rise again. They will be snared and captured.”H7227H3782H5307H7665H3369H3920 16Preserve the teaching of God; entrust his instructions to those who follow me.H6887H8584H2856H8451H3928 17I will wait for the Lord, who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my hope in him.H2442H3068H5641H6440H1004H3290H6960 18I and the children the Lord has given me serve as signs and warnings to Israel from the Lord of Heaven’s Armies who dwells in his Temple on Mount Zion.H3206H3068H5414H226H4159H3478H3068H6635H7931H2022H6726 19Someone may say to you, “Let’s ask the mediums and those who consult the spirits of the dead. With their whisperings and mutterings, they will tell us what to do.” But shouldn’t people ask God for guidance? Should the living seek guidance from the dead?H559H1875H178H3049H6850H1897H5971H1875H430H2416H4191 20Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark.H8451H8584H559H1697H7837 21They will go from one place to another, weary and hungry. And because they are hungry, they will rage and curse their king and their God. They will look up to heavenH5674H7185H7457H7456H7107H7043H4428H430H6437H4605 22and down at the earth, but wherever they look, there will be trouble and anguish and dark despair. They will be thrown out into the darkness.H5027H776H6869H2825H4588H6695H5080H653
110[A psalm of David.] The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit in the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet.”H4210H1732H3068H5002H113H3427H3225H7896H341H1916H7272 2The Lord will extend your powerful kingdom from Jerusalem; you will rule over your enemies.H3068H7971H4294H5797H6726H7287H7130H341 3When you go to war, your people will serve you willingly. You are arrayed in holy garments, and your strength will be renewed each day like the morning dew.H5971H5071H3117H2428H1926H6944H7358H4891H2919H3208 4The Lord has taken an oath and will not break his vow. “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”H3068H7650H5162H3548H5769H1700H4442 5The Lord stands at your right hand to protect you. He will strike down many kings when his anger erupts.H136H3225H4272H4428H3117H639 6He will punish the nations and fill their lands with corpses; he will shatter heads over the whole earth.H1777H1471H4390H1472H4272H7218H7227H776 7But he himself will be refreshed from brooks along the way. He will be victorious.H8354H5158H1870H7311H7218
The Coming Assyrian Invasion
8Then the Lord said to me, “Make a large signboard and clearly write this name on it: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.”H3068A Call to Trust the Lord
11The Lord has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said,H3068110[A psalm of David.] The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit in the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet.”H4210
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