Isaiah 9:8-11
Judgment on Arrogance and Oppression
8 The Lord has sent a word against Jacob,and it will fall on Israel;
9and all the people will know,
aEphraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:
10“The bricks have fallen,
but we will build with dressed stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
but we will put cedars in their place.”
11But the Lord raises the adversaries of Rezin against him,
and stirs up his enemies.
Isaiah 9:17-20
17Therefore the Lord does not brejoice over their young men,and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is cgodless and an evildoer,
and every mouth speaks dfolly. ▼
▼Or speaks disgraceful things
fFor all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burns like ga fire;
it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
19Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts
the land is scorched,
and hthe people are like fuel for the fire;
ino one spares another.
20 jThey slice meat on the right, but are still hungry,
and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied;
keach devours the flesh of his own arm,
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