(KJV) Isaiah 91

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⥃Unto Us a Child Is Born [ Matthew 4:12–17 † Mark 1:14–15 † Luke 4:14–15 ]

[1] Nevertheless the dimness2 [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her vexation, when3 at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward4 did more grievously afflict [her by] the way5 of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations6.7 [2] The people that walked8 in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land9 of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. [3] Thou hast multiplied10 the nation, [and] not increased the joy11: they joy12 before thee according13 to the joy in harvest, [and] as [men14] rejoice when they divide the spoil. [4] For thou hast broken15 the yoke of his burden, and the staff16 of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day17 of Midian. [5] For every battle18 of the warrior [is] with confused noise19, and garments rolled in blood; but [this] shall be20 with burning21 [and] fuel22 of fire. [6] For unto23 us a child is born, unto us a son24 is given: and the government25 shall be upon his shoulder: and his name26 shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor27, The mighty God28, The everlasting Father29, The Prince of Peace30. [7] Of the increase31 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 it32 with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal33 of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

⥃Judgment against Israel’s Pride

[8] The Lord sent a word34 into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. [9] And all35 the people shall know, [even] Ephraim36 and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride37 and stoutness of heart, [10] The bricks38 are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars. [11] Therefore the Lord shall set up39 the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join40 his enemies together; [12] The Syrians41 before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel42 with open mouth43. For all44 this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.

⥃Judgment against Israel’s Hypocrisy

[13] [¶]For the people45 turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither46 do they seek the Lord of hosts. [14] Therefore the Lord will cut47 off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day48. [15] The ancient49 and honourable, he [is] the head; and the prophet50 that teacheth lies, he [is] the tail. [16] For the leaders51 of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them52 [are] destroyed53. [17] Therefore the Lord shall have no joy54 in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every55 one [is] an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth56 speaketh folly57. For all58 this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.

⥃Judgment against Israel’s Unrepentance

[18] [¶]For wickedness59 burneth as the fire: it shall60 devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle61 in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount62 up [like] the lifting up of smoke. [19] Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land63 darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel64 of the fire: no man65 shall spare his brother. [20] And he66 shall snatch67 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, Ephraim68; and Ephraim, Manasseh: [and] they together [shall be] against Judah. For all this69 his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.

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  1. Isa 9:1, What joy shall be in the midst of afflictions, by the birth and kingdom of Christ; Isa 9:8, The judgments upon Israel for their pride, Isa 9:13. for their hypocrisy, Isa 9:18. and for their impenitency. ↩

  2. Isa 8:22 ↩

  3. 1Kgs 15:19-20; 2Kgs 15:29; 2Chr 16:4 ↩

  4. Lev 26:24, Lev 26:28; 2Kgs 17:5-6; 1Chr 5:26 ↩

  5. Matt 4:15 ↩

  6. or, Galilee the populous ↩

  7. am 3264, bc 740 ↩

  8. Isa 50:10, Isa 60:1-3, Isa 60:19; Mic 7:8-9; Matt 4:16; Luke 1:78-79, Luke 2:32; John 8:12; John 12:35, John 12:46; Eph 5:8, Eph 5:13-14; 1Pet 2:9; 1John 1:5-7 ↩

  9. Job 10:21; Ps 23:4, Ps 107:10, Ps 107:14; Amos 5:8 ↩

  10. Isa 26:15, Isa 49:20-22; Neh 9:23; Ps 107:38; Hos 4:7; Zech 2:11, Zech 8:23, Zech 10:8 ↩

  11. or, to him increased the joy ↩

  12. Isa 12:1, Isa 25:9, Isa 35:2, Isa 35:10, Isa 54:1, Isa 55:12, Isa 61:7, Isa 61:10, Isa 65:18, Isa 66:10; Ps 4:7; Ps 126:5-6; Jer 31:7, Jer 31:12-14; Acts 8:8; Phil 4:4; 1Pet 1:8 ↩

  13. Isa 16:9-10 ↩

  14. Judg 5:3; 1Sam 30:16; 2Chr 20:25-28; Ps 119:162; Luke 11:22 ↩

  15. or, When thou brakest, Isa 14:25, Isa 47:6; Gen 27:40; Lev 26:13; Jer 30:8; Nah 1:13 ↩

  16. Isa 10:5, Isa 10:27, Isa 14:3-5, Isa 30:31-32; Ps 125:3 ↩

  17. Isa 10:26; Judg 6:1-6, Judg 7:22-25, Judg 8:10-12; Ps 83:9-11 ↩

  18. etc. or, When the whole battle of the warrior was, etc ↩

  19. Isa 13:4; 1Sam 14:19; Jer 47:3; Joel 2:5; Nah 3:2 ↩

  20. or, and it was, etc ↩

  21. Isa 4:4, Isa 10:16-17, Isa 30:33, Isa 37:36, Isa 66:15-16; Ps 46:9; Ezek 39:8-10; Mal 3:2-3; Matt 3:11; Acts 2:3, Acts 2:19; 2Thess 1:8 ↩

  22. Heb. meat, Lev 3:11, Lev 3:16 ↩

  23. Isa 7:14; Luke 1:35, Luke 2:11 ↩

  24. John 1:14, John 3:16-17; Rom 8:32; 1John 4:10-14 ↩

  25. Isa 22:21-22; Ps 2:6-12, Ps 110:1-4; Jer 23:5-6; Zech 6:12-13, Zech 9:9-10; Matt 11:27, Matt 28:18; 1Cor 15:25; Eph 1:21-22; Rev 19:16 ↩

  26. Isa 7:14; Judg 13:18 *marg. Jer 31:22; Matt 1:23; 1Tim 3:16 ↩

  27. Isa 28:29; Zech 6:13; Luke 21:15; John 1:16; 1Cor 1:30; Col 2:3 ↩

  28. Isa 45:24-25; Ps 45:3, Ps 45:6, Ps 50:1; Jer 23:5-6; John 1:1-2; Acts 20:28; Rom 9:5; Titus 2:13; Heb 1:8; 1John 5:20 ↩

  29. Isa 8:18, Isa 53:10; Prov 8:23; Heb 2:13-14 ↩

  30. Isa 11:6-9, Isa 53:5; Ps 72:3, Ps 72:7, Ps 85:10; Dan 9:24-25; Mic 5:4-5; Luke 2:14; John 14:27; Acts 10:36; Rom 5:1-10; 2Cor 5:19; Eph 2:14-18; Col 1:20-21; Heb 7:2-3, Heb 13:20 ↩

  31. 2Sam 7:16; Ps 2:8, Ps 72:8-11, Ps 89:35-37; Jer 33:15-21; Dan 2:35, Dan 2:44; Dan 7:14, Dan 7:27; Luke 1:32-33; 1Cor 15:24-28 ↩

  32. Isa 11:3-5, Isa 32:1-2; Ps 45:4-6, Ps 72:1-3, Ps 72:7; Heb 1:8; Rev 19:11 ↩

  33. Isa 37:32, Isa 59:16-17, Isa 63:4-6; 2Kgs 19:31; Ezek 36:21-23 ↩

  34. Isa 7:7-8, Isa 8:4-8; Mic 1:1-9; Zech 1:6, Zech 5:1-4; Matt 24:35 ↩

  35. Isa 26:11; 1Kgs 22:25; Job 21:19-20; Jer 32:24, Jer 44:28-29; Ezek 7:9, Ezek 7:27; Ezek 30:19, Ezek 33:33 ↩

  36. Isa 7:9, Isa 10:9-11 ↩

  37. Isa 46:12, Isa 48:4; Prov 16:18; Mal 3:13, Mal 4:1; 1Pet 5:5 ↩

  38. 1Kgs 7:9-12, 1Kgs 10:27; Mal 1:4 ↩

  39. Isa 8:4-7, Isa 10:9-11, Isa 17:1-5; 2Kgs 15:29, 2Kgs 16:9 ↩

  40. Heb. mingle ↩

  41. 2Kgs 16:6; 2Chr 28:18; Jer 35:11 ↩

  42. Deut 31:17; Ps 79:7, Ps 129:3-6; Jer 10:25 ↩

  43. Heb. whole mouth ↩

  44. Isa 9:17, Isa 9:21, Isa 5:25, Isa 10:4; Jer 4:8 ↩

  45. Isa 1:5, Isa 26:11, Isa 57:17; 2Chr 28:22; Job 36:13; Jer 5:3, Jer 31:18-20; Ezek 24:13; Hos 5:15, Hos 7:10, Hos 7:16 ↩

  46. Isa 31:1; Deut 4:29; Jer 29:11, Jer 50:4-5; Hos 3:4-5 ↩

  47. Isa 3:2-3, Isa 19:15; 2Kgs 17:6-20; Hos 1:4, Hos 1:6, Hos 1:9, Hos 4:5, Hos 5:12-14, Hos 8:8, Hos 9:11-17; Hos 13:3; Amos 2:14-16, Amos 3:12, Amos 5:2-3, Amos 6:11, Amos 7:8-9, Amos 7:17, Amos 9:1-9; Mic 1:6-8 ↩

  48. Isa 10:17, Isa 30:13; Hos 10:15; Rev 18:8, Rev 18:10, Rev 18:17 ↩

  49. Isa 3:5, Isa 5:13; 1Sam 9:6 ↩

  50. Isa 28:17, Isa 29:10; 1Kgs 13:18, 1Kgs 22:22-24; Jer 5:31, Jer 14:14-15; Jer 23:9, Jer 23:14-15, Jer 23:25-27, Jer 27:9-10, Jer 27:14-15, Jer 28:15-16, Jer 29:21-22; Ezek 13:1-16, Ezek 13:19, Ezek 13:22; Hos 9:8; Mal 2:9; Matt 7:15, Matt 24:24; 2Cor 11:13-15; Gal 1:8-9; 2Thess 2:9-12; 2Tim 4:2-3; 2Pet 2:1-3; 1John 4:1; Rev 19:20 ↩

  51. etc. or, they that call them blessed, Isa 3:12; Matt 15:14, Matt 23:16-36 ↩

  52. or, called blessed of them, Num 6:23-26; 1Kgs 8:55-56; 2Chr 30:27; Heb 7:7 ↩

  53. Heb. swallowed up ↩

  54. Isa 10:2, Isa 13:18, Isa 27:11, Isa 62:5, Isa 65:19; Ps 147:10; Jer 18:21; Zech 9:17 ↩

  55. Isa 10:6; Job 15:34; Jer 5:1; Mic 7:2; Matt 16:3 ↩

  56. Isa 32:6-7; Matt 12:34 ↩

  57. or, villany ↩

  58. Isa 9:12, Isa 9:21, Isa 5:25, Isa 10:4; Ezek 20:33 ↩

  59. Isa 1:31, Isa 30:30, Isa 30:33, Isa 33:12, Isa 34:8-10, Isa 66:16-17; Num 11:1-3; Deut 32:22; Job 31:11-12; Amos 7:4; Nah 1:6, Nah 1:10; Mal 4:1; Matt 13:49-50, Matt 25:41; Mark 9:43-50 ↩

  60. Isa 10:16-18, Isa 27:4; Heb 6:8 ↩

  61. Ezek 20:47-48 ↩

  62. Isa 5:24; Ps 37:20; Hos 13:3; Joel 2:20; Rev 14:11 ↩

  63. Isa 5:30, Isa 8:22, Isa 24:11-12, Isa 60:2; Jer 13:16; Joel 2:2; Amos 5:18; Matt 27:45; Acts 2:20 ↩

  64. Heb. meat, Isa 9:5 ↩

  65. Isa 13:18; Ezek 9:5; Mic 7:2, Mic 7:6; 2Pet 2:4 ↩

  66. Isa 49:26; Lev 26:26-29; Jer 19:9; Lam 4:10 ↩

  67. Heb. cut ↩

  68. Judg 7:2; 1Sam 14:20; 2Kgs 15:30; 2Chr 28:6-8; Matt 24:10; Gal 5:15 ↩

  69. Isa 9:12, Isa 9:17, Isa 5:25, Isa 10:4; Jer 4:8 ↩