| Chapter 9 |
| 1 | Nevertheless the dimness shall
not be such as was in 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 by the 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. |
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3 | Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased
the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men
rejoice 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 is with
confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning
and fuel of fire. |
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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 his government and peace there shall be no
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. |
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8 | The Lord sent a word into
Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. |
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9 | And all the people shall
know, even Ephraim 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
into cedars. |
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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 is stretched out
still. |
| 13
| For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,
neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. |
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14 | Therefore the LORD will
cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. |
| 15 | The
ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he
is the tail. |
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16 | For the leaders of this people cause them to err;
and they that are led of them are destroyed. |
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17 | Therefore the LORD
shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their
fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every
mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
is stretched 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 like the 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: and they together
shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
is stretched out still. |
