¹For this cause I Paul, the  ²prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you, the Gentiles —

 ¹If indeed you have heard of the  ²stewardship of the  ³grace of God which was given to me for you,

That by  ¹revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I have written previously in brief,

By which, in reading it, you can perceive my understanding in the  ¹mystery of Christ,

Which in other generations was  ¹not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy  ²apostles and prophets in  ³spirit,

That in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are  ¹fellow heirs and  ²fellow members of the Body and  ³fellow partakers of the promise through the gospel,

Of which I became a  ¹minister according to the  ²gift of the grace of God which was given to me according to the operation of His  ³power.

To me,  ¹less than the least of all saints, was this grace given to announce to the Gentiles the  ²unsearchable  ³riches of Christ as the gospel

And to enlighten all that they may see what the  ¹economy of the  ²mystery is, which  ³throughout the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things,

In order that now to the  ¹rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies the multifarious  ²wisdom of God might be made known through the  ³church,

According to the  ¹eternal purpose which He  ²made in  ³Christ Jesus our Lord,

In whom we have boldness and  ¹access in confidence through  ²faith in Him.

Therefore I ask you not to faint at my afflictions for your sake, since they are your glory.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the  ¹Father,

Of whom every  ¹family in the heavens and on earth is  ²named,

 ¹That He would grant you, according to the  ²riches of His glory, to be  ³strengthened with  ⁴power through His  ⁵Spirit  ⁶into the inner man,

That Christ may make His home in your  ¹hearts through  ²faith,

that you, being  ³rooted and grounded in  ⁴love,

May be full of strength to  ¹apprehend with  ²all the saints what the  ³breadth and length and height and depth are

And to know the  ¹knowledge-surpassing love of Christ,

that you may be filled  ²unto all the  ³fullness of  ⁴God.

 ¹But to Him who is able to do superabundantly above all that we  ²ask or think, according to the  ³power which operates in us,

To Him be the  ¹glory in the  ²church  ³and in  ⁴Christ Jesus unto  ⁵all the generations forever and ever. Amen.

In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the  ¹Lord sitting on a high and lofty throne, and the train of His  ²robe filled the temple.

Seraphim  ¹hovered over  ²Him, each having six wings: With two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

And one called to the other, saying:
 ¹Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of hosts;
The whole earth is filled with His glory.

And the  ¹foundations of the threshold  ²shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with  ²smoke.

Then I said,
Woe is me, for I am finished!
For I am a man of  ¹unclean lips,
And in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell;
Yet my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.

Then one of the seraphim flew to me with an  ¹ember in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.

And he touched my mouth with it and said,
Now that this has touched your lips,
Your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is  ¹purged.

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall  ¹I send? Who will go for Us? And I said, Here am I; send me.

And He said to me,  ¹Go and say to this people,
Hear indeed, but do not perceive;
And see indeed, but do not understand.

Make the heart of this people numb;
Dull their ears,
And seal their eyes;
Lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
And their heart perceive and return, and they are  ¹healed.

And I said, For how long, Lord? And He said,
Until cities lie devastated,
Without inhabitants,
And houses are without people,
And the land is devastated and a waste;

And Jehovah has sent men far away from it,
And desolate places abound in the midst of the land.

But there will still be a tenth part in it;
And it in turn is to be burned
Like a terebinth or an oak,
Whose stump remains after its felling;
Its stump will be a holy seed.

In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they were not able to prevail against it.

And it was reported to the house of David that Aram allied with  ¹Ephraim, and his heart and the heart of his people quivered as the trees of the forest quiver in the face of a wind.

Then Jehovah said to Isaiah, Go out to meet Ahaz, you and  ¹Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the road to the Fuller's Field;

And say to him, Be careful and be quiet; do not fear, and do not be fainthearted because of these two smoking firebrand stubs, at the burning anger of Rezin and Aram, and the son of Remaliah.

Because Aram and Ephraim and the son of Remaliah have planned evil against you, saying,

Let us go up against Judah and make it sick with terror and break it open for ourselves, and let us set the son of Tabel in its midst as king;

Thus says the Lord Jehovah,
It shall not stand, and it shall not happen;

For the head of Aram is Damascus,
And the head of Damascus is Rezin;
And in another sixty-five years
Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
And the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah;
If you do not believe, surely you will not remain standing.

Then Jehovah spoke further to Ahaz, saying,

Ask for a sign from Jehovah your God;  ¹make it as deep as  ²Sheol, or make it as high as high can go.

And Ahaz said, I will not ask, and I will not try Jehovah.

And he said, Hear now, O house of David, is it too small a thing for you to exhaust the patience of men that you will exhaust the patience of my God as well?

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will conceive and will bear a son, and she will call his name  ¹Immanuel.

He will eat curds and honey  ¹until he knows how to refuse evil and choose good.

For before this boy knows how to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.

Jehovah will bring upon you and your people and the house of your father such days as have not been since the days when Ephraim turned away from Judah; He will bring upon you the king of Assyria.

And in that day Jehovah will whistle for the  ¹flies which are at the ends of the rivers of Egypt and for the  ¹bees which are in the land of Assyria.

And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and the clefts of the cliffs and on all the thornbushes and on all watering places.

In that day the Lord will shave with the razor hired from beyond the  ¹River, with the king of Assyria, the  ²head and the  ²hair of the legs; and it will take away the  ²beard as well.

And in that day each man will keep alive only a milk cow and two females of the flock.

And because of the abundance of milk produced, he will eat curds; for everyone left behind in the midst of the land will eat curds and honey.

And in that day every place where there could be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become thorns and thistles.

Men will come there with arrows and bow, for all the land will be thorns and thistles.

And to all the hills that once were hoed with the hoe you will not go for fear of thorns and thistles; but they will become a place for cattle to roam in and for sheep to trample.

Then Jehovah said to me, Take a large tablet and write on it in plain letters, For  ¹Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

And I will take faithful witnesses, Urijah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

And I went to the prophetess, and she  ¹conceived and bore a son. And Jehovah said to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

For before this boy knows how to call, Father, and, Mother, they will carry off the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria before the king of Assyria.

Then Jehovah spoke further to me, saying,

Because these people have rejected
The gently flowing  ¹waters of Shiloah, and exult
In Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

Now therefore the Lord is bringing up upon them
The mighty and abundant  ¹waters of the Euphrates,
The king of Assyria and all his glory;
And it will overflow all its channels,
And go over all its banks.

It will sweep through Judah; it will overflow and rise
Until it reaches the neck;
And the spreading out of its wings
Will fill the breadth of Your  ¹land, O Immanuel.

Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered;
Hearken, all you distant places of the earth:
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

Take counsel, yet it will be frustrated;
Speak the word, yet it will not stand;
For God is with us.

For Jehovah spoke to me in this way with great force and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

You shall not call it conspiracy
All that this people calls conspiracy;
And you shall not fear what they fear nor hold it in awe.

You shall sanctify Jehovah of hosts;
He shall be the One to fear and He shall be the One to hold in awe.

Then He will become a  ¹sanctuary, yet a stone to strike against
And a rock of stumbling
To both houses of Israel,
A trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And many will stumble  ¹at these,
And will fall and be broken to pieces,
And will be snared and taken captive.

Bind up the  ¹testimony; seal the instruction among my disciples;

And I will wait on Jehovah, who hides His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look eagerly for Him.

See,  ¹I and the  ¹children whom Jehovah has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who abides on Mount Zion.

When they say to you, Inquire of the necromancers and the familiar spirits, who twitter and mutter; say to them, Should not a people inquire of their God? Should they go to the dead on behalf of the living —

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because in them there is no dawn.

And they go through it hard-pressed and hungry; and when they are hungry, they rage and curse their king and their God. They turn their faces upward,

And they look to the earth, but, there is only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish and being thrust into darkness.

But gloom does not remain in the place where there was anguish: formerly He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali contemptibly, but afterward He treats the way of the  ¹sea, across the Jordan, with glory,  ²Galilee of the nations.

The people who walked in the darkness
Have seen a great  ¹light;
Upon those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death
Light has shined.

You have  ¹multiplied the nation;
You have increased their gladness;
They are glad before You as with the gladness of harvest,
As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

For You break the yoke of their burden
And the staff on their shoulder,
The rod of their oppressor,
As in the day of  ¹Midian.

For all the boots
Of those who in boots trample in the battle-quake
And the garments
Rolled in blood
Are for burning;
They are fuel for fire.

For a  ¹child is born  ²to us,
A  ¹Son is given  ²to us;
And the  ³government
Is upon His shoulder;
And His name will be called
 ⁴Wonderful Counselor,
 ⁵Mighty God,
 ⁵Eternal Father,
 ⁶Prince of Peace.

To the increase of His  ¹government
And to His  ¹peace there is no end,
Upon the  ²throne of David
And over His kingdom,
To establish it
And to uphold it
In justice and righteousness
From now to eternity.
The zeal of Jehovah of hosts
Will accomplish this.