Yeshayahu - Chapter 9

1. The people who walked in darkness, have seen a great light; those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death, light shone upon them.

2. You have aggrandized this nation; you have magnified the joy for them; they have rejoiced over You like the joy of harvest, as they rejoice when they divide spoils.

3. For, the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of the one who oppressed him have You broken, as on the day of Midian.

4. For every victory shout sounds with clamor, and garments wallow in blood, but this shall be burnt, consumed by fire.

5. For a child has been born to us, a son given to us, and the authority is upon his shoulder, and the wondrous adviser, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, called his name, "the prince of peace."

6. To him who increases the authority, and for peace without end, on David's throne and on his kingdom, to establish it and to support it with justice and with righteousness; from now and to eternity, the zeal of the Lord of Hosts shall accomplish this.

7. The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it has fallen in Israel.

8. And the entire people shall know- Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria-[the fallacy of what they spoke] with haughtiness and with arrogance, saying,

9. "Bricks have fallen, and hewn stones we will build; sycamores have been cut down, and we will replace them with cedars."

10. And the Lord strengthened the adversaries of Rezin over him, and his enemies He shall incite.

11. Aram from the east and the Philistines from the west, and they devoured Israel with every mouth; despite all this, His anger has not turned away, and His hand is still outstretched.

12. And the people has not returned to the One Who smites it, and the Lord of Hosts they have not sought.

13. And the Lord cut off from Israel a head and a tail, a large arch and a small arch in one day.

14. An elder and a man of esteem is the head, and a misleading prophet is the tail.

15. And the leaders of this people mislead, and those led by them are misled.

16. Therefore, over his youths, the Lord shall not rejoice, and on his orphans and his widows He shall not have mercy, for all of them are hypocrites and evil doers, and every mouth speaks obscene language; despite all this, His anger has not turned away, and His hand is still outstretched.

17. For wickedness has burnt like fire, and thorns shall consume them, and it kindled in the thickets of the forest, and they have become entangled by the thickening smoke.

18. By the wrath of the Lord of Hosts, the smoke has reached the earth, and the people has become like a conflagration of fire; no one has pity on his fellow-man.

19. And he snatched on the right and is still hungry, and he ate on the left and they are not sated; each one eats the flesh of his arm.

20. Manasseh with Ephraim, and Ephraim with Manasseh, together they shall [unite] against Judah; despite all this, His anger has not turned away, and His hand is still outstretched.