6th Hour
Isa 9.9-10.4
Read in contextThus says the Lord, all
9:9And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
9:10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars.
9:11Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
9:12The 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.
9:13For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
9:14Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
9:15The ancient and honourable, he [is] the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he [is] the tail.
9:16For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.
9:17Therefore 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.
9:18For 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.
9:19Through 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.
9:20And 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:
9:21Manasseh, 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.
10:1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;
10:2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!
10:3And 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? and where will ye leave your glory?
10:4Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.