Decree to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare against to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among Wizards them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

5 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders 10 in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

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 15 their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry : and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be 20 hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

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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

the nations.

The people that walked in darkness

Have seen a great light:

They that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, 5
Upon them hath the light shined.

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.

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. battle of the warrior is with confused noise,

For every

and garments rolled in blood;

But this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

For unto us a child is born,

Unto us a son is given:

And the government shall be upon his shoulder:

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And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, 20
The mighty God, The everlasting Father, the Prince

of Peace.

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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Jehovah's The Lord sent a word into Jacob,
Anger and And it hath lighted upon Israel.
Israel's And all the people shall know,

Pride Even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria,
5 That
say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
The bricks are fallen down,

But we will build with hewn stones :

The sycomores are cut down,

But we will change them into cedars.

Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of
Rezin against him,

And join his enemies together;

The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind;
And they shall devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this his is not turned
anger
But his hand is stretched out still.

away,

For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them,
Neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel
20 Head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
The ancient and honourable, he is the head;
And the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
For the leaders of this people cause them to err;
And they that are led of them are destroyed.

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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.
For wickedness burneth as the fire:
It shall devour the briers and thorns,

Ch. 10; Ver. 1-3.

And shall kindle in the thickets of the forest,

And they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. 5
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.

And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; 10
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:
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and
they together shall be against Judah.

For all this his anger is not turned
But his hand is stretched out still.

away,

* Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, And that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

To turn aside the needy from judgment,

And to take away the right from the poor of people,

That widows

may

be their prey,

And that they may rob the fatherless!

And what will ye do in the day of visitation,

And in the desolation which shall come from far?
To whom will ye flee for help?

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Assyria And where will ye leave your glory?

the Rod Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, of God's And they shall fall under the slain.

Anger For all this his anger is not turned away,

5 But his hand is stretched out still.

O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger,

And the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
I will send him against an hypocritical nation,
And against the people of my wrath will I give him
IO a charge,

To take the spoil, and to take the prey,

And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Howbeit he meaneth not so,

Neither doth his heart think so;

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And cut off nations not a few.
For he saith,

Are not my princes altogether kings?

Is not Calno as Carchemish?

20 Is not Hamath as Arpad ?

Is not Samaria as Damascus ?

As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, And whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

25 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, So do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the