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.
02 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.
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath
lighted upon Israel.
09 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.
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.
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to
err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
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.
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