of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser
cattle.
1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen
concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of
Jeberechiah.
3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me,
Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of
Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin
and Remaliah's son;
7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and
many, eventhe king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and
go over all his banks:
8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach evento the
neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far
countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be
broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand:
for God iswith us.
11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk
in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them towhom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither
fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and lethim beyour fear, and lethim beyour dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to
both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look
for him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me arefor signs and for wonders in
Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto
wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to
the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it isbecause
there isno light in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that
when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and
look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and
they shall bedriven to darkness.
1 Nevertheless the dimness shallnot besuch as wasin her vexation, when at the first he
lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously
afflict her bythe way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the
shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, andnot increased the joy: they joy before thee according to
the joy in harvest, andas menrejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his
oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5 For every battle of the warrior iswith confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this
shall be with burning andfuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his
shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of hisgovernment and peace there shall beno end, upon the throne of David,
and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from
henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9 And all the people shall know, evenEphraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the
pride and stoutness of heart,
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut
down, but we will change them intocedars.
11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies
together;
12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand isstretched out still.
13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of
hosts.
14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
15 The ancient and honourable, he isthe head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he isthe tail.
16 For the leaders of this people cause themto err; and they that areled of them aredestroyed.
17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their
fatherless and widows: for every one isan hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh
folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand isstretched out still.
18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in
the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up likethe lifting up of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the
fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and
they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: andthey together shall beagainst Judah. For all
this his anger is not turned away, but his hand isstretched out still.
1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness whichthey have
prescribed;
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my
people, that widows may be their prey, and thatthey may rob the fatherless!
3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation whichshall come from far?
to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For
all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand isstretched out still.
5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give

him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the
streets.
7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it isin his heart to destroy
and cut off nations not a few.
8 For he saith, Arenot my princes altogether kings?
9 Isnot Calno as Carchemish? isnot Hamath as Arpad? isnot Samaria as Damascus?
10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of
Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, thatwhen the Lord hath performed his whole work upon
mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria,
and the glory of his high looks.
13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent:
and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put
down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are
left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the
mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? orshall the saw magnify
itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itselfagainst them that lift it up,
oras if the staff should lift up itself, as if it wereno wood.
16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his
glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and
devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and
they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, thatthe remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of
the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the
LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, eventhe remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yeta remnant of them shall return:
the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the
land.
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid
of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the
manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their
destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at
the rock of Oreb: and ashis rod wasupon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of
Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, thathis burden shall be taken away from off thy
shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the
anointing.
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid;