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. Isaiah ( Arabic: , romanized : Ishay) is not mentioned by name in the Quran or the Hadith, but appears frequently as a prophet in Islamic sources, such as Qisas Al-Anbiya and Tafsir. 15Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. 7And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon., 8But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good. For he thought, At least there will be peace and security in my lifetime., Prepare the Way for the LORD(Matthew 3:112; Mark 1:18; Luke 3:120; John 1:1928). 11I said, I will never again see the LORD. 24And no resident of Zion will say, I am sick.. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have extended all the borders of the land. Hezekiahs Illness and Recovery(2 Kings 20:111; 2 Chronicles 32:2431), 1In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. 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. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, Send them back!. 11Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction.b Will you then be spared? 8For He said, They are surely My people. Landscape and your righteousness like waves of the sea. 22Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: 23For when he sees his children around him. 3to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, do not come near me, for I am holier than you!. and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, and chose that in which I did not delight.. I will make with you an everlasting covenant. upon the people I have devoted to destruction. So they will be called oaks of righteousness. 9And in that day it will be said, Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. 13You who are far off, hear what I have done; Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? 13this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail. will be like forsaken thickets and summits, 10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation. 16Search and read the scroll of the LORD: they will dwell in it from generation to generation. 22Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, 23For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out, the destruction decreed upon the whole land.c. 4I will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of harsh masters. 18If only you had paid attention to My commandments. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it. Again, to memorialize a message, he sired a son of the prophetess (his wife) and saddled the child with his message as a name: Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Speed-spoil-hasten-plunder), referring to the imminent spoliations by the Assyrians. He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; He will rise up against the house of the wicked. A Call for Faith and the Sign of Immanuel ( Isaiah 7:1-25) 5. Egypt has been led astray in all she does. Hodgins was a limited participant Tuesday in the Giants ' walk-through practice due to an ankle injury, Dan Salomone of the team's official site reports. 3Then the LORD said, Just as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,a 12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand. and for Jerusalems sake I will not keep still. He nails it down so it will not be toppled. Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, 13Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD,g. Presumably, Isaiah was already prepared to find meaning in the vision before the arrival of that decisive moment. 1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help. 18Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children. Updates? Four eminent Hebrew prophets addressed themselves to the people of Israel and Judah in the latter half of the 8th pre-Christian century: Amos, Hosea, Micah, and Isaiah. 2The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. like a driving rain or flooding downpour, 3The majestic crown of Ephraims drunkards. 3For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations. 6Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 21Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one. When the overwhelming scourge passes through. as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit. Landscape a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,i. so that the nations will tremble at Your presence! who stammer in a language you cannot understand. Will you try the patience of my God as well? and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; 9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, 10For just as rain and snow fall from heaven. there will be grass and reeds and papyrus. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. The Announcement of Judgment ( Isaiah 8:1-22) Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth? Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.. 2When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim,b the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind. I will not keep silent, but I will repay; Because they burned incense on the mountains. 24Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty. 4The mind of the rash will know and understand. 9In all their distress, He too was afflicted. no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground. How the Sovereign LORD God Prepares His Servants Isaiah (6:1-13) 4. All this came to him in the form of a vision and ended as a sudden, firm, and lifelong resolve. 1Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraimsa drunkards. will be reduced to nothing and will perish. 9Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; 10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. 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. 5Surely you will summon a nation you do not know. and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts. At first My people went down to Egypt to live. 14In righteousness you will be established. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided. Since he often spoke with kings, it is sometimes suggested that Isaiah was an aristocrat, possibly even of royal stock. will come against all the proud and lofty. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. for the craftsmen themselves are only human. where His afflicted people will find refuge., The Burden against Moab(Jeremiah 48:147), on the rooftops and in the public squares. 27Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge. who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.a. 6you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts. you will not be put to shame or humiliated. so that the wealth of the nations may be brought into you. 1The wilderness and the land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. 17Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; 18No longer will violence be heard in your land. 18The splendor of its forests and orchards, 19The remaining trees of its forests will be so few, 21A remnant will returna a remnant of Jacob. 24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw. they came out of My mouth and I proclaimed them. 18We were with child; we writhed in pain; 19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. When the overwhelming scourge passes through. 19The living, only the living, can thank You, we will play songs on stringed instruments, 21Now Isaiah had said, Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover., 22And Hezekiah had asked, What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?, Hezekiah Shows His Treasures(2 Kings 20:1219). the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD. so your descendants and your name will endure. 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. It is commonly believed that Isaiah was about 20 years old when his ministry began, and he continued until his death. 1I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, 4What more could I have done for My vineyard. 1Then the LORD said to me, Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinarya stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.b 11He will spread out his hands within it. and My justice will become a light to the nations; and My arms will bring justice to the nations. 18Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing. 2Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; 3But come here, you sons of a sorceress. A Grave Assigned(Matthew 27:5761; Mark 15:4247; Luke 23:5056; John 19:3842). it will come as destruction from the Almighty.a. The Year of the LORDs Favor(Luke 4:1630). 5Therefore I declared it to you long ago; so that you could not claim, My idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained it.. 12The high-walled fortress will be brought down. 1This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev. At whom do you snarl and stick out your tongue? In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, 16For this is what the Lord says to me: Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone. 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. he even fashions it into a god and worships it; 17From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. Your breath is a fire that will consume you. and there are no stragglers in its ranks. 20Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? 6From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, only wounds and welts and festering sores. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: 17And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. 24Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies. 14It will break in pieces like a potters jar. 7The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies. Now I will lift Myself up. For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken. 15Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it. 15Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge. 26And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them. to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights. 19Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains;b. let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!. Isaiahs Commission - In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.c. How the Sovereign LORD God Prepares His Servants Isaiah (6:1-13) 4. who form an alliance, but against My will, to seek shelter under Pharaohs protection. from day until night You make an end of me. 8You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. 8 For he said, Surely they are my people, Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please. Later interpretations of Isaiahs message, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isaiah. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? to the fading flower of his glorious splendor. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 8 For he said, Surely they are my people, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit. It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, 16Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease. 15Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior. 17Lambs will graze as in their own pastures. from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? 23I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father. How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?, 21But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, Do not answer him.. 2The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him. 21And I will select some of them as priests and Levites, says the LORD. I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant. I am wasting away! 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. and whoever is captured will die by the sword. 22And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. with thunder and earthquake and loud noise. 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. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.. to disgrace all the renowned of the earth. Even there the birds of prey will gather. or settled from generation to generation; 21But desert creatures will lie down there. 10So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? 9Behold, the former things have happened, A New Song of Praise(Psalm 98:19; Psalm 149:19). 6a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment. Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? and the God of Israel is your rear guard. and the oppressors have vanished from the land, 5in loving devotiona a throne will be established, A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness. who have descended from the line of Judah, 2who indeed call yourselves after the holy city. 4Even to your old age, I will be the same. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. and will no longer conceal her slain.9 a Or my spirit within me seeks You. and to trample them down like clay in the streets. 13Her towers will be overgrown with thorns. 9For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my masters servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 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 ). 12No nobles will be left to proclaim a king. then your light will go forth in the darkness, He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land. 12Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, I cannot read., These people draw near to Me with their mouths, Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.c, 14Therefore I will again confound these people, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.d. and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel. 16Then justice will inhabit the wilderness. 7 I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord, the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel. Clicking on a chapter will show you the text of that chapter of Isaiah in the Bible (New International Version). 11You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago. 8For the moth will devour them like a garment, 11So the redeemed of the LORD will return. neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil. Isaiah, whose name means Yahweh is salvation, is best known for writing the book that bears his name in the Old Testament. 2Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this. does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, 11And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. Israels Ungrateful Rebellion and Yahwehs Gracious Invitation ( Isaiah 1:1-31) 3. 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. Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away. it will sweep through morning after morning. butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!a. and the Ammonites will be subject to them. that he has granted them according to his compassion, according to the abundance of his steadfast love. 20Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.14 a Hebrew the Ophel. 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. then Assyria oppressed them without cause. and the plea of the widow never comes before them. 9I brought you from the ends of the earth. The vision (probably in the Jerusalem Temple) that made him a prophet is described in a first-person narrative. they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god. but the food of the serpentg will be dust. 15This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace: 10Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; 11Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, 13This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab. 6But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; 7Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion. and as a sheep before her shearers is silent. 1Behold, a king will reign in righteousness. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it. 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!. and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers. Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz. and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field. For a cloud of smoke comes from the north. Isaiah, whose name means Yahweh is salvation, is best known for writing the book that bears his name in the Old Testament. Isaiah Chapter 1 Bible Options | + Text Size 1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. 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. calling forth the generations from the beginning? Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, Where is your mothers certificate of divorce. what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt. 20To the law and to the testimony! They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab. 2Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble. 5But your many foes will be like fine dust. and those who forsake the LORD will perish. 6This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys. 22For just as the new heavens and the new earth,d, which I will make, will endure before Me,. 8Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; 10For the stars of heaven and their constellations, I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant. 12You will seek them but will not find them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them. Date Written Written between (circa) 740-680 B.C., toward the end of the reign of King Uzziah and throughout the reigns of King Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. A Vikings fan appeared to flip off Giants receiver Isaiah Hodgins after a touchdown at the end of the first quarter during Sundays AFC Wild Card game. 3But Pharaohs protection will become your shame. 8as when a hungry man dreams he is eating. 3With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation, 6Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide itd among ourselves. 2So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor. 18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit, 19to those who say, Let Him hurry and hasten His work, Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come, 21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, 22Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine. 17The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from JudahHe will bring the king of Assyria.. so that mountains would quake at Your presence. 10O my people, crushed on the threshing floor. 3to tell him, This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, 2to proclaim the year of the LORDs favorb. and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood. They have seen everything in my palace, answered Hezekiah. because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal. conceiving and uttering lies from the heart. My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,. 13Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones. like one who walks to the music of a flute, 30And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard. WebBook of Isaiah, also spelled Isaias, one of the major prophetical writings of the Old Testament. 16Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with med and come out to me. 15By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey. What kind of house will you build for Me? Home The Book of Isaiah Related Media 1. Send me. He was thus commissioned to give voice to the divine word. or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? 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.. and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon. and kings to the brightness of your dawn. 22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob. Date Written Written between (circa) 740-680 B.C., toward the end of the reign of King Uzziah and throughout the reigns of King Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. 8For all their tables are covered with vomit; 11Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues. Clicking on a chapter will show you the text of that chapter of Isaiah in the Bible (New International Version). 1Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed. they will come over in chains and bow down to you. Information about that period of his life is inconclusive, however, and consists mainly of inferences drawn from the biblical text. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.. 1In the fourteenth year of Hezekiahs reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah. 6who replied, Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. 6The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens. 7Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. 25So He poured out on them His furious anger. Isaiahs experience bridges the classes and occupations. The LORD is about to shake you violently. 5On that day the LORD of Hosts will be a crown of glory. Since patriarchal times there had been an agreement, a solemn Covenant between 10Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying, Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations. 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).
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