Isaiah 11-14

New King James Version

The Reign of Jesse’s Offspring^(A)

11 There ^(B)shall come forth a ^[a]Rod from the ^[b]stem of ^(C)Jesse,
And ^(D)a Branch shall ^[c]grow out of his roots.
²^(E)The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him,
The Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The Spirit of counsel and might,
The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.

³His delight is in the fear of the Lord,
And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes,
Nor decide by the hearing of His ears;
⁴But ^(F)with righteousness He shall judge the poor,
And decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
He shall ^(G)strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.
⁵Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins,
And faithfulness the belt of His waist.

⁶“The^(H) wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
⁷The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
⁸The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.
⁹^(I)They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
For ^(J)the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰“And^(K) in that day ^(L)there shall be a Root of Jesse,
Who shall stand as a ^(M)banner to the people;
For the ^(N)Gentiles shall seek Him,
And His resting place shall be glorious.”

¹¹It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time
To recover the remnant of His people who are left,
^(O)From Assyria and Egypt,
From Pathros and Cush,
From Elam and Shinar,
From Hamath and the ^[d]islands of the sea.

¹²He will set up a banner for the nations,
And will ^[e]assemble the outcasts of Israel,
And gather together ^(P)the dispersed of Judah
From the four ^[f]corners of the earth.
¹³Also ^(Q)the envy of Ephraim shall depart,
And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
¹⁴But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west;
Together they shall plunder the ^[g]people of the East;
^(R)They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab;
And the people of Ammon shall obey them.
¹⁵The Lord ^(S)will utterly ^[h]destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt;
With His mighty wind He will shake His fist over ^[i]the River,
And strike it in the seven streams,
And make men cross over ^[j]dry-shod.
¹⁶^(T)There will be a highway for the remnant of His people
Who will be left from Assyria,
^(U)As it was for Israel
In the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.

A Hymn of Praise

12 And ^(V)in that day you will say:

“O Lord, I will praise You;
Though You were angry with me,
Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.
²Behold, God is my salvation,
I will trust and not be afraid;
^(W)‘For ^(X)Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song;
He also has become my salvation.’ ”

³Therefore with joy you will draw ^(Y)water
From the wells of salvation.

⁴And in that day you will say:

^(Z)“Praise the Lord, call upon His name;
^(AA)Declare His deeds among the peoples,
Make mention that His ^(AB)name is exalted.
⁵^(AC)Sing to the Lord,
For He has done excellent things;
This is known in all the earth.
⁶^(AD)Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion,
For great is ^(AE)the Holy One of Israel in your midst!”

Proclamation Against Babylon

13 The ^(AF)burden^[k] against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

²“Lift^(AG) up a banner ^(AH)on the high mountain,
Raise your voice to them;
^(AI)Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
³I have commanded My ^[l]sanctified ones;
I have also called ^(AJ)My mighty ones for My anger—
Those who ^(AK)rejoice in My exaltation.”

⁴The ^(AL)noise of a multitude in the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together!
The Lord of hosts musters
The army for battle.
⁵They come from a far country,
From the end of heaven—
The ^(AM)Lord and His ^[m]weapons of indignation,
To destroy the whole ^(AN)land.

⁶Wail, ^(AO)for the day of the Lord is at hand!
^(AP)It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
⁷Therefore all hands will be limp,
Every man’s heart will melt,
⁸And they will be afraid.
^(AQ)Pangs^[n] and sorrows will take hold of them;
They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;
They will be amazed at one another;
Their faces will be like flames.

⁹Behold, ^(AR)the day of the Lord comes,
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
To lay the land desolate;
And He will destroy ^(AS)its sinners from it.
¹⁰For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not give their light;
The sun will be ^(AT)darkened in its going forth,
And the moon will not cause its light to shine.

¹¹“I will ^(AU)punish the world for its evil,
And the wicked for their iniquity;
^(AV)I will halt the arrogance of the proud,
And will lay low the haughtiness of the ^[o]terrible.
¹²I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,
A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
¹³^(AW)Therefore I will shake the heavens,
And the earth will move out of her place,
In the wrath of the Lord of hosts
And in ^(AX)the day of His fierce anger.
¹⁴It shall be as the hunted gazelle,
And as a sheep that no man ^[p]takes up;
^(AY)Every man will turn to his own people,
And everyone will flee to his own land.
¹⁵Everyone who is found will be thrust through,
And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
¹⁶Their children also will be ^(AZ)dashed to pieces before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives ^(BA)ravished.

¹⁷“Behold,^(BB) I will stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not ^[q]regard silver;
And as for gold, they will not delight in it.
¹⁸Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,
And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
Their eye will not spare children.
¹⁹^(BC)And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God overthrew ^(BD)Sodom and Gomorrah.
²⁰^(BE)It will never be inhabited,
Nor will it be settled from generation to generation;
Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there,
Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.
²¹^(BF)But wild beasts of the desert will lie there,
And their houses will be full of ^[r]owls;
Ostriches will dwell there,
And wild goats will caper there.
²²The hyenas will howl in their citadels,
And jackals in their pleasant palaces.
^(BG)Her time is near to come,
And her days will not be prolonged.”

Mercy on Jacob

14 For the Lord ^(BH)will have mercy on Jacob, and ^(BI)will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. ^(BJ)The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob. ²Then people will take them ^(BK)and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the Lord; they will take them captive whose captives they were, ^(BL)and rule over their oppressors.

Fall of the King of Babylon

³It shall come to pass in the day the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve, ⁴that you ^(BM)will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:

“How the oppressor has ceased,
The ^(BN)golden^[s] city ceased!
⁵The Lord has broken ^(BO)the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of the rulers;
⁶He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke,
He who ruled the nations in anger,
Is persecuted and no one hinders.
⁷The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
They break forth into singing.
⁸^(BP)Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you,
And the cedars of Lebanon,
Saying, ‘Since you ^[t]were cut down,
No woodsman has come up against us.’

⁹“Hell^(BQ)^[u] from beneath is excited about you,
To meet you at your coming;
It stirs up the dead for you,
All the chief ones of the earth;
It has raised up from their thrones
All the kings of the nations.
¹⁰They all shall ^(BR)speak and say to you:
‘Have you also become as weak as we?
Have you become like us?
¹¹Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
And the sound of your stringed instruments;
The maggot is spread under you,
And worms cover you.’

The Fall of Lucifer

¹²“How^(BS) you are fallen from heaven,
O ^[v]Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
¹³For you have said in your heart:
^(BT)‘I will ascend into heaven,
^(BU)I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the ^(BV)mount of the congregation
^(BW)On the farthest sides of the north;
¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
^(BX)I will be like the Most High.’
¹⁵Yet you ^(BY)shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the ^[w]lowest depths of the Pit.

¹⁶“Those who see you will gaze at you,
And consider you, saying:
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
¹⁷Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who ^[x]did not open the house of his prisoners?’

¹⁸“All the kings of the nations,
All of them, sleep in glory,
Everyone in his own house;
¹⁹But you are cast out of your grave
Like an ^[y]abominable branch,
Like the garment of those who are slain,
^[z]Thrust through with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit,
Like a corpse trodden underfoot.
²⁰You will not be joined with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land
And slain your people.
^(BZ)The brood of evildoers shall never be named.
²¹Prepare slaughter for his children
^(CA)Because of the iniquity of their fathers,
Lest they rise up and possess the land,
And fill the face of the world with cities.”

Babylon Destroyed

²²“For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts,
“And cut off from Babylon ^(CB)the name and ^(CC)remnant,
^(CD)And offspring and posterity,” says the Lord.
²³“I will also make it a possession for the ^(CE)porcupine,
And marshes of muddy water;
I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts.

Assyria Destroyed

²⁴The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying,
“Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass,
And as I have purposed, so it shall ^(CF)stand:
²⁵That I will break the ^(CG)Assyrian in My land,
And on My mountains tread him underfoot.
Then ^(CH)his yoke shall be removed from them,
And his burden removed from their shoulders.
²⁶This is the ^(CI)purpose that is purposed against the whole earth,
And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
²⁷For the Lord of hosts has ^(CJ)purposed,
And who will annul it?
His hand is stretched out,
And who will turn it back?”

Philistia Destroyed

²⁸This is the ^[aa]burden which came in the year that ^(CK)King Ahaz died.

²⁹“Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia,
^(CL)Because the rod that struck you is broken;
For out of the serpent’s roots will come forth a viper,
^(CM)And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent.
³⁰The firstborn of the poor will feed,
And the needy will lie down in safety;
I will kill your roots with famine,
And it will slay your remnant.
³¹Wail, O gate! Cry, O city!
All you of Philistia are dissolved;
For smoke will come from the north,
And no one will be alone in his ^[ab]appointed times.”

³²What will they answer the messengers of the nation?
That ^(CN)the Lord has founded Zion,
And ^(CO)the poor of His people shall take refuge in it.

Footnotes

Isaiah 11:1 Shoot
Isaiah 11:1 stock or trunk
Isaiah 11:1 be fruitful
Isaiah 11:11 Or coastlands
Isaiah 11:12 gather
Isaiah 11:12 Lit. wings
Isaiah 11:14 Lit. sons
Isaiah 11:15 So with MT, Vg.; LXX, Syr., Tg. dry up
Isaiah 11:15 The Euphrates
Isaiah 11:15 Lit. in sandals
Isaiah 13:1 oracle, prophecy
Isaiah 13:3 consecrated or set apart
Isaiah 13:5 Or instruments
Isaiah 13:8 Sharp pains
Isaiah 13:11 Or tyrants
Isaiah 13:14 gathers
Isaiah 13:17 esteem
Isaiah 13:21 Or howling creatures
Isaiah 14:4 Or insolent
Isaiah 14:8 have lain down
Isaiah 14:9 Or Sheol
Isaiah 14:12 Lit. Day Star
Isaiah 14:15 Lit. recesses
Isaiah 14:17 Would not release
Isaiah 14:19 despised
Isaiah 14:19 Pierced
Isaiah 14:28 oracle, prophecy
Isaiah 14:31 Or ranks

Hebrews 9

New King James Version

The Earthly Sanctuary^(A)

9 Then indeed, even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and ^(B)the earthly sanctuary. ²For a tabernacle was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the ^[a]sanctuary; ³^(C)and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All, ⁴which had the ^(D)golden censer and ^(E)the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were ^(F)the golden pot that had the manna, ^(G)Aaron’s rod that budded, and ^(H)the tablets of the covenant; ⁵and ^(I)above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

Limitations of the Earthly Service

⁶Now when these things had been thus prepared, ^(J)the priests always went into the first part of the tabernacle, performing the services. ⁷But into the second part the high priest went alone ^(K)once a year, not without blood, which he offered for ^(L)himself and for the people’s sins committed in ignorance; ⁸the Holy Spirit indicating this, that ^(M)the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing. ⁹It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered ^(N)which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience— ¹⁰concerned only with ^(O)foods and drinks, ^(P)various ^[b]washings, ^(Q)and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

The Heavenly Sanctuary

¹¹But Christ came as High Priest of ^(R)the good things ^[c]to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. ¹²Not ^(S)with the blood of goats and calves, but ^(T)with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place ^(U)once for all, ^(V)having obtained eternal redemption. ¹³For if ^(W)the blood of bulls and goats and ^(X)the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, ^[d]sanctifies for the ^[e]purifying of the flesh, ¹⁴how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without ^[f]spot to God, ^(Y)cleanse your conscience from ^(Z)dead works ^(AA)to serve the living God? ¹⁵And for this reason ^(AB)He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that ^(AC)those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

The Mediator’s Death Necessary

¹⁶For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. ¹⁷For ^(AD)a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives. ¹⁸^(AE)Therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood. ¹⁹For when Moses had spoken every ^[g]precept to all the people according to the law, ^(AF)he took the blood of calves and goats, ^(AG)with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ²⁰saying, ^(AH)“This is the ^(AI)blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.” ²¹Then likewise ^(AJ)he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. ²²And according to the law almost all things are ^[h]purified with blood, and ^(AK)without shedding of blood there is no ^[i]remission.

Greatness of Christ’s Sacrifice

²³Therefore it was necessary that ^(AL)the copies of the things in the heavens should be ^[j]purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴For ^(AM)Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are ^[k]copies of ^(AN)the true, but into heaven itself, now ^(AO)to appear in the presence of God for us; ²⁵not that He should offer Himself often, as ^(AP)the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another— ²⁶He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. ²⁷^(AQ)And as it is appointed for men to die once, ^(AR)but after this the judgment, ²⁸so ^(AS)Christ was ^(AT)offered once to bear the sins ^(AU)of many. To those who ^(AV)eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.