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Day 200 and 50
it was in the year King Azi died that I saw the Lord.
He was sitting on a lofty throne and the train of his robe filled the temple.
Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings with two wings.
They covered their faces with two, they covered their
feet, and with two they flew.
They were calling out to each other.
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of heaven's armies.
The whole earth is filled with his glory.
Their voices shook the temple to its foundations and the entire
building was filled with smoke.
Then I said, it's all over.
I am doomed for.
I am a sinful man.
I have filthy lips and I live among a people with filthy lips.
Yet, I have seen the king, the Lord of heaven's armies.
Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken
from the altar with a pair of tongs.
He touched my lips with it and said, see, this coal has touched your lips.
Now your guilt is removed and your sins are forgiven.
Then I heard the Lord asking.
Whom should I send as a messenger to this people who will go for us?
I said, here I am.
Send me.
And he said, yes.
Go and say to this people, listen carefully, but do not understand.
Watch closely, but learn nothing.
Heart in the hearts of these people, plug their ears and shut their eyes that way
they will not see with their eyes nor hear with their ears, nor understand with
their hearts and turn to me for healing.
Then I said, Lord, how long will this go on?
And he replied Until their towns are empty, their houses are deserted,
and the whole country is a wasteland.
Until the Lord has sent everyone away and the entire land of Israel lies deserted.
If even a 10th a remnant survive, it will be invaded again and burned.
But as a Rabin or oak tree leaves a stump when it is cut down, so
Israel's stump will be a holy seed when Ahaz son of Jotham and
grandson of Isaiah was king of Judah.
King reason of Syria and Pika son of Alaya, the King of Israel,
set out to attack Jerusalem.
However, they were unable to carry out their plan.
The news had come to the royal court of Judah.
Syria is allied with Israel against us, so the hearts of the king
and his people trembled with fear like trees shaking in a storm.
Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Take your son sheer and go out to meet King Ahaz.
You'll find him at the end of the aqueduct that feeds water into the
upper pool near the road, leading to the field where cloth is washed.
Tell him to stop worrying.
Tell him he doesn't need to fear the fierce anger of those two burned out.
Embers king.
Reason of Syria and Pika son of Alaya.
Yes, the kings of Syria and Israel are plotting against him saying, we will
attack Judah and capture it for ourselves.
Then we will install the son of Tabil as Judah's King.
But this is what the sovereign Lord says.
This invasion will never happen.
It will never take place.
For Syria is no stronger than its capital.
Damascus, and Damascus is no stronger than its king.
Reason as for Israel, within 65 years it will be crushed and completely destroyed.
Israel is no stronger than its capital.
Samaria and Samaria is no stronger than its King Pika, son of Aya.
Unless your faith is firm, I cannot make you stand firm.
Later, the Lord sent this message to King Ahaz.
Ask the Lord your God for a sign of confirmation.
Ahaz, make it as difficult as you want, as high as heaven or
as deep as the place of the dead.
But the king refused.
No.
He said, I will not test the Lord like that.
Then Isaiah said.
Listen.
Well, you Royal family of David, isn't it enough to exhaust human patience?
Must you exhaust the patience of my God as well?
All right?
Then the Lord himself will give you the sign.
Look, the virgin will conceive a child.
She will give birth to a son and will call him Emmanuel, which means God is with us.
By the time this child is old enough to choose what is right and reject
what is wrong, he will be eating yogurt and honey for before the child is
that old, the lands of the two kings.
You fear so much, will both be deserted, then the Lord will bring things on
you, your nation, and your family.
Unlike anything since Israel broke away from Judah, he will bring
the king of Assyria upon you.
That day, the Lord will whistle for the army of Southern Egypt and for
the army of Assyria, they will swarm around you like flies and bees.
They will come in vast hoards and settle in the fertile areas,
and also in the desolate valleys, caves, and thorny places.
In that day, the Lord will hire a razor from beyond the Euphrates
River, the King of Assyria, and use it to shave off everything.
Your land, your crops, and your people in that day.
A farmer will be fortunate to have a cow and two sheep or goats left.
Nevertheless, there will be enough milk for everyone because so few
people will be left in the land.
They will eat their fill of yogurt and honey in that day, the lush vineyards
now worth 1000 pieces of silver will become patches of Breyers and thorns.
The entire land will become a vast expanse of Breyers and thorns, a
hunting ground overrun by wildlife.
No one will go to the fertile hillsides where the gardens once grew for
Breyers and thorns will cover them.
Cattle, sheep, and goats will graze there.
Then the Lord said to me, make a large signboard and
clearly write this name on it.
Shallal Hash.
I asked Uriah, the priest and Zechariah son of Jabbar, both known as
honest men to witness my doing this.
Then I slept with my wife and she became pregnant and gave birth to
a son, and the Lord said, call him
for before.
This child is old enough to say Papa or Mama.
The King of Assyria will carry away both the abundance of
Damascus and the riches of Samaria.
Then the Lord spoke to me again and said, my care for the people of Judah
is like the gently flowing waters of Shiloa, but they have rejected it.
They are rejoicing over what will happen to King reason and King Pika.
Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a mighty
flood from the Euphrates River.
The King of Assyria and all his glory.
This flood will overflow all its channels and sweep into
Judah until it is chin deep.
It will spread its wings.
Submerging your land from one end to the other.
Oh, Emmanuel Huddle together you nations and be terrified.
Listen, all you distant lands, Prepare for battle, but you will be crushed.
Yes, prepare for battle, but you will be crushed.
Call your councils of war, but they will be worthless.
Develop your strategies, but they will not succeed.
For God is with us.
The Lord has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does.
He said, don't call everything a conspiracy like they do.
And don't live in dread of what frightens them.
Make the Lord of heaven's armies holy in your life.
He is the one you should fear.
He is the one who should make you tremble.
He will keep you safe.
But to Israel and Judah, he will be a stone that makes people stumble.
A rock that makes them fall.
And for the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.
Many will stumble and fall never to rise again.
They will be snared and captured, preserve the teaching of God and trust
his instructions to those who follow me.
I will wait for the Lord who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob.
I will put my hope in him.
I and the children, the Lord has given me serve as signs and warnings to Israel
from the Lord of Heaven's armies who dwells in his temple on Mount Zion.
Someone may say to you, let's ask the mediums and those who consult the spirits
of the dead with their whisperings and mutterings, they will tell us what to do.
But shouldn't people ask God for guidance?
Should the living seek guidance from the dead?
Look to God's instructions and teachings.
People who contradict his word are completely in the dark.
They will go from one place to another weary and hungry.
And because they are hungry, they will rage and curse their king and their God.
They will look up to heaven and down at the earth, but wherever
they look, there will be trouble and anguish and dark despair.
They will be thrown out into the darkness.
Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair will not go on forever.
The land of Zein and Naftali will be humbled, but there will be a time
in the future when Galilee of the Gentiles, which lies along the road,
that runs between the Jordan and the sea, will be filled with glory.
The people who walk in darkness will see a great light for those
who live in a land of deep darkness.
A light will shine, you will enlarge the nation of Israel
and its people will rejoice.
They will rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest and like warriors,
dividing the plunder for you will break the yoke of their slavery and lift
the heavy burden from their shoulders.
You will break the oppressor's rod just as you did when you
destroyed the army of Midian.
The boots of the warrior and the uniforms bloodstained by war will all be burned.
They will be fuel for the fire.
For a child is born to us, a son is given to us, the government
will rest on his shoulders and he will be called wonderful counselor.
Mighty God, everlasting Father, prince of Peace, his government
and its peace will never end.
He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his
ancestor David, for all eternity, the passionate commitment of the Lord of
Heaven's armies will make this happen.
The Lord has spoken out against Jacob.
His judgment has fallen upon Israel and the people of Israel and
Samaria who spoke with such pride and arrogance will soon know it.
They said.
We will replace the broken bricks of our ruins with finished stone and replant
the Feld Sycamore fig trees with cedars, but the Lord will bring reasons enemies
against Israel and stir up all their foes.
The Syrians from the east and the Philistines from the west will bear their
fangs and devour Israel, but even then, the Lord's anger will not be satisfied.
His fist is still poised to strike.
For after all this punishment, the people will still not repent.
They will not seek the Lord of heaven's armies.
Therefore, in a single day, the Lord will destroy both the head and the tail.
The noble palm branch and the lowly reed.
The leaders of Israel are the head and the lying prophets are the tale for the
leaders of the people have misled them.
They have led them down the path of destruction.
That is why the Lord takes no pleasure in the young men and shows no mercy,
even to the widows and orphans for they are all wicked hypocrites
and they all speak foolishness.
But even then, the Lord's anger will not be satisfied.
His fist is still poised to strike.
This wickedness is like a brush fire.
It burns not only breyers and thorns, but also sets the forests ablaze.
Its burning sends up clouds of smoke.
The land will be blackened by the fury of the Lord of Heaven's armies.
The people will be fuel for the fire and no one will spare even his own brother.
They will attack their neighbor on the right but will still be hungry.
They will devour their neighbor on the left, but will not
be satisfied in the end.
They will even eat their own children.
Manassa will feed on ra Raam will feed on Manassa and both will devour Judah.
But even then, the Lord's anger will not be satisfied.
His fist is still poised to strike what sorrow awaits.
The unjust judges and those who issue unfair laws, they deprive
the poor of justice and deny the rights of the needy among my people.
They prey on widows and take advantage of orphans.
What will you do when I punish you?
When I send disaster upon you from a distant land?
To whom will you turn for help?
Where will your treasures be safe?
You will stumble along as prisoners or lie among the dead, but even then, the
Lord's anger will not be satisfied.
His fist is still poised to strike.
What Sorrow awaits Assyria, the rod of my anger.
I use it as a club to express my anger.
I am sending Assyria against a Godless nation against a
people with whom I am angry.
Assyria will plunder them, trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.
But the king of Assyria will not understand that he is my tool.
His mind does not work that way.
His plan is simply to destroy, to cut down nation after nation.
He will say each of my princes will soon be a king.
We destroyed Kano just as we did car kamish.
Hamath fell before us as our pad did, and we destroyed
Samaria just as we did Damascus.
Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom whose gods were greater
than those in Jerusalem and Samaria.
So we will defeat Jerusalem and her Gods just as we destroyed Samaria with hers.
After the Lord has used the king of Assyria to accomplish his purposes on
Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, he will turn against the king of Assyria and
punish him for he is proud and arrogant.
He boasts by my own powerful arm.
I have done this with my own shrewd wisdom.
I planned it.
I have broken down the defenses of nations and carried off their treasures.
I have knocked down their kings like a bull.
I have robbed their nests of riches and gathered up kingdoms
As a farmer gathers eggs.
No one can even flap a wing against me or utter a peep of protest.
But can the acts boast greater power than the person who uses it?
Is the saw greater than the person who saws?
Can a rod strike?
Unless a hand moves, it can.
A wooden cane walk by itself.
Therefore, the Lord, the Lord of heaven's armies will send a plague
among assys proud troops and a flaming fire will consume its glory.
The Lord.
The light of Israel will be a fire.
The holy one will be a flame.
He will devour the thorns and breyers with fire.
Burning up the enemy in a single night, the Lord will consume a serious glory like
a fire consumes a forest in a fruitful land, it will waste away like sick people
in a plague of all that glorious forest.
Only a few trees will survive.
So few that a child could count them in that day.
The remnant left in Israel.
The survivors in the house of Jacob will no longer depend on allies who seek to
destroy them, but they will faithfully trust the Lord, the holy one of Israel.
A remnant will return.
Yes, the remnant of Jacob will return to the mighty God.
But though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the seashore,
only a remnant of them will return.
The Lord has rightly decided to destroy his people.
Yes, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven's armies has already
decided to destroy the entire land.
So this is what the Lord, the Lord of heaven's armies says.
All my people in Zion do not be afraid of the Assyrians when they
oppress you with Rod and Club as the Egyptians did long ago.
In a little while, my anger against you will end, and then my anger
will rise up to destroy them.
The Lord of Heaven's armies will lash them with his whip as he did
when Gideon triumphed over the Midianites at the Rock of aib.
Or when the Lord's staff was raised to drown the Egyptian army in the sea.
In that day, the Lord will end the bondage of his people.
He will break the yoke of slavery and lift it from their shoulders.
Look, the Assyrians are now at af.
They're passing through Migron and are storing their equipment at Mash.
They are crossing the pass and are camping at Giba.
Fear strikes the town of Rama.
All the people of Gia, the hometown of Saul, are running for their lives.
Scream in terror.
You people of Gallim.
Shout out a warning to Laisha.
Oh, poor Anna.
There go.
The people of Madina all fleeing, the citizens of gibe are trying to hide.
The enemy stops at knob for the rest of that day.
He shakes his fist at beautiful Mount Zion, the mountain of Jerusalem.
But look, the Lord.
The Lord of heaven's armies will chop down the mighty tree
of Assyria with great power.
He will cut down the proud.
That lofty tree will be brought down.
He will cut down the forest trees with an axe.
Lebanon will fall to the mighty one.
Out of the stump of David's family will grow a chute.
Yes, a new branch bearing fruit from the old root and the spirit
of the Lord will rest on him.
The spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might.
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord, he will
delight in obeying the Lord.
He will not judge by appearance nor make a decision based on hearsay.
He will give justice to the poor and make fair decisions for the exploited.
The earth will shake at the force of his word and one breath from
his mouth will destroy the wicket.
He will wear righteousness like a belt and truth like an undergarment in that day.
The wolf and the lamb will live together.
The leopard will lie down with the baby goat, the calf and the yearling
will be safe with the lion and a little child will lead them all.
The cow will graze near the bear, the cub and the calf will lie down together.
The lion will eat hay like a cow.
The baby will play safely near the hole of a cobra.
Yes, a little child will put its hand in a nest of deadly snakes without harm.
Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain for as the waters
fill the sea so the earth will be filled with people who know the Lord.
In that day, the heir to David's throne will be a banner of
salvation to all the world.
The nations will rally to him, and the land where he lives will
be a glorious place in that day.
The Lord will reach out his hand a second time to bring back the
remnant of his people, those who remain in Assyria and Northern Egypt.
In Southern Egypt, Ethiopia, and Elam.
In Babylonia, Hamath and all the distant coastlands, he will raise a flag among the
nations and assemble the exiles of Israel.
He will gather the scattered people of Judah from the ends of the earth.
Then at last, the jealousy between Israel and Judah will end.
They will not be rivals anymore.
They will join forces to swoop down on Philistia to the west.
Together.
They will attack and plunder the nations to the east.
They will occupy the lands of Edam and Moab and Amman will obey them.
The Lord will make a dry path through the Gulf of the Red Sea.
He will wave his hand over the Euphrates River, sending a mighty
wind to divide it into seven streams, so it can easily be crossed on foot.
He will make a highway for the remnant of his people.
The remnant coming from Assyria, just as he did for Israel long
ago when they returned from Egypt in that day, you will sing.
I will praise you.
Oh Lord, you were angry with me, but not anymore.
Now you comfort me.
See, God has come to save me.
I will trust in him and not be afraid.
The Lord God is my strength and my song.
He has given me victory.
With joy, you will drink deeply from the fountain of salvation.
In that wonderful day, you will sing.
Thank the Lord.
Praise his name.
Tell the nations what he has done.
Let them know how mighty he is.
Sing to the Lord for He has done wonderful things.
Make known his praise around the world.
Let all the people of Jerusalem shout his praise with joy.
For great is the holy one of Israel who lives among you.
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