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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 9 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</a> > Isaiah 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/8.htm" title="Isaiah 8">◄</a> Isaiah 9 <a href="../isaiah/10.htm" title="Isaiah 10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/isaiah/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Birth and Reign of the Prince of Peace</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>But there will be no <i>more</i> gloom for her who was in anguish [for with judgment comes the promise of salvation]. In earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He will make them honored [by the presence of the Messiah], by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The people who walk in [spiritual] darkness <t><p class="indent1"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>Will see a great Light; <t><p class="indent1">Those who live in the dark land, <t><p class="indent1">The Light will shine on them. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You [O God] will increase the nation, <t><p class="indent1">You will multiply their joy; <t><p class="indent1">They will rejoice before You <t><p class="indent1">Like the joy <i>and</i> jubilation of the harvest, <t><p class="indent1">As men rejoice when they divide the spoil [of victory]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For You will break the yoke of Israel’s burden and the staff (goad) on their shoulders, <t><p class="indent1">The rod of their oppressor, as at the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>battle of Midian. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For every boot of the marching warrior in the <i>battle</i> tumult, <t><p class="indent1">And [every soldier’s] garment rolled in blood, will be <i>used</i> for burning, fuel for the fire. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For to us a Child shall be born, to us a Son shall be given; <t><p class="indent1">And the government shall be upon His shoulder, <t><p class="indent1">And His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, <t><p class="indent1">Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>There shall be no end to the increase of His government and of peace, <t><p class="indent1">[He shall rule] on the throne of David and over his kingdom, <t><p class="indent1">To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness <t><p class="indent1">From that time forward and forevermore. <t><p class="indent1">The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this. <p class="hdg">God’s Anger with Israel’s Arrogance</p><poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The Lord sends a word (message) against Jacob, <t><p class="indent1">And it falls on Israel [the ten northern tribes, the kingdom of Ephraim]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And all the people know it, <t><p class="indent1"><i>That is,</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria [its capital], <t><p class="indent1">Who say in pride and arrogance of heart: <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“The bricks have fallen down, <t><p class="indent1">But we will rebuild [all the better] with ashlar (hewed stones); <t><p class="indent1">The sycamores have been cut down, <t><p class="indent1">But we will replace them with [expensive] cedars.” <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore the LORD raises against Ephraim adversaries from Rezin [king of Aram] <t><p class="indent1">And spurs their enemies on, <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west; <t><p class="indent1">And they devour Israel with gaping jaws. <t><p class="indent1">In <i>spite of</i> all this, God’s anger does not turn away <t><p class="indent1">But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment]. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Yet the people do not turn back [in repentance] to Him who struck them, <t><p class="indent1">Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts [as their most essential need]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore the LORD cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel, <t><p class="indent1"><i>Both</i> [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The elderly and honorable man, he is the head; <t><p class="indent1">And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For those who lead this people are causing <i>them</i> to go astray; <t><p class="indent1">And those who are led [astray] by them are swallowed up. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, <t><p class="indent1">Nor does He have compassion on their fatherless or their widows; <t><p class="indent1">For every one of them is godless and an evildoer, <t><p class="indent1">And every mouth is speaking foolishness. <t><p class="indent1">In <i>spite of</i> all this, God’s anger does not turn away <t><p class="indent1">But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment]. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For wickedness burns like a fire; <t><p class="indent1">It consumes briars and thorns, <t><p class="indent1">It even sets the forest thickets ablaze; <t><p class="indent1">And it swirls upward in a column of smoke. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>By the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land is burned up, <t><p class="indent1">And the people are like fuel for the fire; <t><p class="indent1">No man spares his brother. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They slice off [in discord] <i>what is</i> on the right hand but are <i>still</i> hungry, <t><p class="indent1">And they eat <i>what is</i> on the left hand but they are not satisfied; <t><p class="indent1">Each eats the flesh of his own arm. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>[The tribe of] Manasseh <i>devours</i> [the tribe of his brother] Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh, <t><p class="indent1">And together they are against Judah (the southern kingdom, the house of David). <t><p class="indent1">In <i>spite of</i> all this, God’s anger does not turn away <t><p class="indent1">But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i>have seen,</i> Hebrew perfect tense. The perfect tense is used frequently in this passage and should probably be interpreted as the prophetic future, that is, the use of the perfect (past) tense to describe a future event as a certainty.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> A reference to Gideon’s great victory over the Midianites (Judg 7:22-25).<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> The names “Israel” and “Ephraim” are used interchangeably to refer to the ten tribes of the northern kingdom.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>