5To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal? on the day of disease and incurable pain. 5Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed. and Your garments like one who treads the winepress? You have shattered the yoke of their burden. His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness. 3the commander of fifty and the dignitary. and the refuge of Egypts shade your disgrace. Isaiah is particularly well acquainted with the prophetic tradition known to his slightly older contemporary, Amos. you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! 28But rebels and sinners will together be shattered. your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze. and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. so that the nations will tremble at Your presence! and providing seed to sow and food to eat. as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. conceiving and uttering lies from the heart. 4but with righteousness He will judge the poor. 6Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen. 12In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphratesd to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one. because more are the children of the desolate woman. 9Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush:a He has set out to fight against you.. He leads forth the starry host by number; Because of His great power and mighty strength. 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 ). I have raised children and brought them up, they have despised the Holy One of Israel. 4For this is what the LORD has said to me: and though a band of shepherds is called out against it. the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh. . 26Who has declared this from the beginning. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation. Later interpretations of Isaiahs message, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isaiah. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it. Was she killed like those who slayed her? 8 For he said, Surely they are my people, you have wearied Me with your iniquities. 23I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: Lie down, so we can walk over you,. In fact, Isaiah is one of the most important books in the Old Testament. 3saying, Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4What have they seen in your palace? Isaiah asked. 9He was assigned a grave with the wicked, 10Yet it was the LORDs will to crush Him, and when His soul is made a guilt offering,g. 6Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives., 5So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah, 12I will make man scarcer than pure gold. in its time I will accomplish it quickly. and all the hired workers will be sick at heart. and as a sheep before her shearers is silent. 3With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation, 18We were with child; we writhed in pain; 19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. 4All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them. 5On that day the LORD of Hosts will be a crown of glory. will now indeed be too small for your people. 8For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. 22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. Of Isaiahs parental home it is known only that his fathers name was Amoz. 2This is the word of the LORD, your Maker. 22Let them come and tell us what will happen. 4The mind of the rash will know and understand. 19But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, They will never rise up to possess a land. 5But your many foes will be like fine dust. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.. and closed their minds so they cannot understand. and those who devoured you will be far away. 13You who are far off, hear what I have done; Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations. 11Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven., 12But Ahaz replied, I will not ask; I will not test the LORD.. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.b. that her forced labor has been completed; For she has received from the hand of the LORD, Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness;a, make a straight highway for our God in the desert.b. they will restore the places long devastated; 5Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. 2The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him. 3Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him. they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre. will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will all be brought to terror and shame. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this. and the God of Israel is your rear guard. 30And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORDs land. 2And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may hear and say, It is true.. Nothing will be left, says the LORD. Isaiah, Hebrew Yeshayahu (God Is Salvation), (flourished 8th century bce, Jerusalem), prophet after whom the biblical Book of Isaiah is named (only some of the first 39 chapters are attributed to him), a significant contributor to Jewish and Christian traditions. Introduction to The Study of the Book of Isaiah 2. or an old man fail to live out his years. and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. Isaiah 1 Isaiah 2 Isaiah 3 Isaiah 4 Isaiah 5 Isaiah 6 Isaiah 7 Isaiah 8 but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,, 9For to Me this is like the days of Noah,c, So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you. He faced many hardships, but continued in his call from God. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. His call to prophecy about 742 bce coincided with the beginnings of the westward expansion of the Assyrian empire, which threatened Israel and which Isaiah proclaimed to be a warning from God to a godless people. 7I form the light and create the darkness; and let the skies pour down righteousness. 10In a little more than a year you will tremble. Home The Book of Isaiah Related Media 1. 19And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms. In other words, he was intimately aware of the inequities and evils of human societywhich may have been no worse in Israel in the 8th century bce than many critics believed they were almost everywhere in modern times. 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 ). Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. and to trample them down like clay in the streets. the God of Israel, who calls you by name. 5For as a young man marries a young woman. 17So the pride of man will be brought low. stretch out the curtains of your dwellings. 3For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations. 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 9And I will bring forth descendants from Jacob. 26Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. 2And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh,a with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. 7Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before she was in pain, she delivered a boy. 1Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save. A Grave Assigned(Matthew 27:5761; Mark 15:4247; Luke 23:5056; John 19:3842). The LORDs chosen ally will carry out His desire against Babylon, and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.a. 2And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnessesUriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah., 3And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters. 13Then Isaiah said, Hear now, O house of David! 6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow. The Northern Kingdom collapsed, under the hammerlike blows of Assyria, in 722/721 B.C., and in 701 Jerusalem itself saw the army of Sennacherib drawn up before its walls. Since patriarchal times there had been an agreement, a solemn Covenant between no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground. 9For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain 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. Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz. . and to perform His task, His disturbing task. 17All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness. 6Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing. and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. 22For just as the new heavens and the new earth,d, which I will make, will endure before Me,. and carry your daughters on their shoulders. but the food of the serpentg will be dust. only far better!7 a Cited in Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17, and Luke 19:46. Isaiah 2 The Mountain of the House of the LORD ( Micah 4:15) 1 This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem: 2 In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. 6This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys. . 14They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the westa they proclaim the majesty of the LORD. 27Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, 29Because your rage and arrogance against Me. God is "the Holy One of Israel" (see 1:4; 6:1 and notes) who must punish his rebellious people ( 1:2) but will afterward redeem them ( 41:14,16 ). For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.h, The Suffering Servant(Acts 8:2640; 1 Peter 2:2125), And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?a. by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire. 12You will seek them but will not find them. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; 26He lifts a banner for the distant nations. Isaiah is Hebrew for "God is salvation." 4The fading flower of his beautiful splendor. 1In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: salvation is established as its walls and ramparts. 26I will restore your judges as at first. Do not speak to us in Hebrewc in the hearing of the people on the wall., 12But the Rabshakeh replied, Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?, 13Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! When the overwhelming scourge passes through. Home The Book of Isaiah Related Media 1. 16Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with med and come out to me. muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments. concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. According to 6:1, Isaiah received his call in the 29This also comes from the LORD of Hosts. How then can we escape?. then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants. 1At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiahs illness and recovery. 15If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me; whoever assails you will fall before you. 5For He has humbled those who dwell on high; You clear a straight path for the upright. Since patriarchal times there had been an agreement, a solemn Covenant between He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth. At times the prophets private life shows through the record as an aspect of his public message. The Northern Kingdom collapsed, under the hammerlike blows of Assyria, in 722/721 B.C., and in 701 Jerusalem itself saw the army of Sennacherib drawn up before its walls. 17Lambs will graze as in their own pastures. who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.a. There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them., 5Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of Hosts: 5I will give them, in My house and within My walls, 6And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it. 15So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; 16But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice. 15For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: your strength would lie in quiet confidence, 16No, you say, we will flee on horses.. 15Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islandsi like fine dust. Isaiah - Bible Book Chapters and Summary - New International Version Isaiah Bible Books of the Bible Isaiah These are all of the chapters of the book of Isaiah . 13And though a tenth remains in the land. who stammer in a language you cannot understand. but His wrath will be shown to His enemies. Written To Isaiah's words were primarily directed to the nation of Judah and the people of Jerusalem. 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. 24The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork. Isaiah 1 Isaiah 2 Isaiah 3 Isaiah 4 Isaiah 5 Isaiah 6 Isaiah 7 Isaiah 8 18Here am I, and the children the LORD has given mek as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion. Foreigners devour your fields before you, 11What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?, I am full from the burnt offerings of rams. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures. 2Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth. like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit. because the riches of the sea will be brought to you. 23And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver,h only briers and thorns will be found. the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified. will lop off the branches with terrifying power. 19O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine. 6And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him. and fails to see the majesty of the LORD. On hearing this, Sennacherib sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, or settled from generation to generation; 21But desert creatures will lie down there. and there you went up to offer sacrifices. 20The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himselfwith your own eyes you will see Him. And they will be driven into utter darkness. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). and to restore the protected ones of Israel. 13O LORD our God, other lords besides You have had dominion. 17who brings out the chariots and horses. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; He will rise up against the house of the wicked. a decree of destruction against the whole land. 7When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations. 13Then the jealousy of Ephraimf will depart. For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken. 24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw. 20No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days. a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. and all her princes will come to nothing. 26I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Isaiah, Hebrew Yeshayahu (God Is Salvation), (flourished 8th century bce, Jerusalem), prophet after whom the biblical Book of Isaiah is named (only some of the first 39 chapters are attributed to him), a significant contributor to Jewish and Christian traditions. In the year that Uzziah, king of Judah, died (742), Isaiah received his 2The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,. 16Search and read the scroll of the LORD: they will dwell in it from generation to generation. 21And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: This is the way. Landscape It is in his theology that Isaiah leans most heavily on Israelite tradition and shows an acquaintance with the thoughts of Amos.Isaiah shared with him and with the people the long-standing tradition that a special bond united Israel and its God. 11For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people: everything these people regard as conspiracy. and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate. 13this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail. Strangely, no evidence suggests that any of these knew in person any of the others. Book of Isaiah, also spelled Isaias, one of the major prophetical writings of the Old Testament. Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good. 17Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.b Isaiah: [noun] a major Hebrew prophet in Judah about 740 to 701 b.c. 7And with it he touched my mouth and said: 8Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: Be ever hearing, but never understanding; 10Make the hearts of this people calloused; Otherwise they might see with their eyes. shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion. 9In all their distress, He too was afflicted. and the blanket too small to wrap around you. and the ears of those who hear will listen. and the wealth of the nations will come to you. 20Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us. 21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. and whoever is captured will die by the sword. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; You have sent your envoysb a great distance; Is it not because I have long been silent. As he tells it, he was only too aware that, coming with such a message, he would experience bitter opposition, willful disbelief, and ridicule, to withstand which he would have to be inwardly fortified. 9The waters of Dimonc are full of blood, be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.. 8By oppression and judgment He was taken away, For He was cut off from the land of the living;e. He was stricken for the transgression of My people. 17The land of Judah will bring terror to Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble over what the LORD of Hosts has planned against it. Now I will lift Myself up. Introduction to The Study of the Book of Isaiah 2. 1Behold, a king will reign in righteousness. who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. 14So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD. the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: Have I not told you and declared it long ago? 14I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; 18All the kings of the nations lie in state. and the plea of the widow never comes before them. and while they are still speaking, I will hear. 7Your choicest valleys are full of chariots. for they have brought disaster upon themselves. but to His servants He will give another name. 13For he says: By the strength of my hand I have done this. you will not be put to shame or humiliated. declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion. when a banner is raised on the mountains. Isaiah is Hebrew for "God is salvation." 18Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place. for I am honored in the sight of the LORD. and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts. the pointing of the finger and malicious talk. 4you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: 5The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, 8Even the cypressesb and cedars of Lebanon, It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you. because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel. 1If only You would rend the heavens and come down. 4Who has performed this and carried it out. city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. and to the quarry from which you were hewn. like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land. to the fading flower of his glorious splendor. but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary. Isaiah Nichols, a transfer defensive tackle from Arkansas, announced Tuesday his commitment to Purdue football ahead of the 2023 season. 9These are rebellious people, deceitful children. The LORD is about to shake you violently. does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? 9Their descendants will be known among the nations. for the craftsmen themselves are only human. but with great compassion I will bring you back. Originating in the 8th century BCE, it was updated at least twice, in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE (the Babylonian and Persian periods) and perhaps the Hellenistic period (4th to 1st centuries BCE). 16I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will turn darkness into light before them, and say to molten images, You are our gods!. 13But the people did not return to Him who struck them; 14So the LORD will cut off Israels head and tail. 4so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocksto Egypts shame. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.. and they cannot cover themselves with their works. 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