The following is the standard Haftorah for this week's Torah reading. However, various calendar-based considerations occasionally cause different Haftorahs to be substituted for the standard ones.
Isaiah
Chapter 27
| 6. Those who came, whom Jacob caused to take root, Israel flourished and blossomed and they filled the face of the world with fruitage. |
| 7. Like the smiting who smote him did He smite him: like the slaying of his slain ones, was he slain? |
| 8. In that measure, when they sent them out, it strove with it; He spoke with His harsh wind on the day of the east wind. |
| 9. Therefore, with this shall Jacob's iniquity be atoned for, and this is all the fruit of removing his sin; by making all the altar stones like crushed chalkstones; asherim and sun-images shall not rise. |
| 10. For a fortified city is solitary, a dwelling is forsaken and abandoned like a pasture; there a calf shall graze, and there he shall lie and consume its branches. |
| 11. When its branches dry out, they shall be broken; women shall come and ignite it, for it is not a people of understanding; therefore, its Maker shall not have compassion on it, and He Who formed it shall not grant it favor. |
| 12. And it shall come to pass on that day, that the Lord shall gather from the flood of the river to the stream of Egypt, and you shall be gathered one by one, O children of Israel. |
| 13. And it shall come to pass on that day, that a great shofar shall be sounded, and those lost in the land of Assyria and those exiled in the land of Egypt shall come and they shall prostrate themselves before the Lord on the holy mount in Jerusalem. |
Chapter 28
| 1. Woe is to the crown of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim and the young fruit of an inferior fig is the position of his glory, which is at the end of a valley of fatness, crushed by wine. |
| 2. Behold God [has] a strong and powerful [wind], like a downpour of hail, a storm of destruction, like a stream of powerful, flooding water, He lays it on the land with [His] hand. |
| 3. With the feet, they shall be trampled, the crown of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim. |
| 4. And his glorious beauty shall be the young fruit of an inferior fig, which is on the head of the valley of fatness; as a fig that ripens before the summer, which, if the seer sees it, he will swallow it while it is still in his hand. |
| 5. On that day, the Lord of Hosts shall be for a crown of beauty and for a diadem of glory, for the rest of His people. |
| 6. And for a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and for might for those who bring back the war to the gate. |
| 7. These, too, erred because of wine and strayed because of strong wine; priest and prophet erred because of strong wine, they became corrupt because of wine; they went astray because of strong wine, they erred against the seer, they caused justice to stumble. |
| 8. For all tables were filled with vomit and ordure, without place. |
| 9. Whom shall he teach knowledge and to whom shall he explain the message? To those weaned from milk, removed from breasts? |
| 10. For a precept for a precept, a precept for a precept, a line for a line, a line for a line, a little there, a little there. |
| 11. For with distorted speech and in another language, does he speak to this people. |
| 12. For he said to them, "This is the rest; give rest to the weary, and this is the tranquility," but they would not listen. |
| 13. And the word of the Lord shall be for them a precept for a precept, a precept for a precept, a line for a line, a line for a line, a little there, a little there, in order that they go and stumble backwards and be broken, and be trapped and caught. |
Chapter 29
| 22. Therefore, so said the Lord to the House of Jacob, Who redeemed Abraham, "Now Jacob shall not be ashamed, and now his face shall not pale. |
| 23. For, when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst, who shall hallow My name, and they shall hallow the Holy One of Jacob, and the God of Israel they shall revere. |
Please note: These Haftorah texts follow Chabad custom. Other communities could possibly read more, less, or a different section of the Prophets altogether. Please consult with your rabbi.
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