King James Version

Isaiah 9

Isaiah in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

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Open Isaiah 9:1

Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
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Open Isaiah 9:2

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
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Open Isaiah 9:3

Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
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Open Isaiah 9:4

For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
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Open Isaiah 9:5

For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
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Translation Note
In the Hebrew text this line is Isaiah 9:5. The King James calls the child “Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” The 1917 Jewish Publication Society does not translate the names. It prints “Pele-joez-el-gibbor-Abi-ad-sar-shalom.” Brenton reads “the Messenger of great counsel,” and does not print “mighty God.”
אֵל גִּבּוֹר is “mighty God” in the King James list of names. The Jewish Publication Society leaves the Hebrew names in Hebrew letters spelled in English. Christians say the child who bears the name “mighty God” is the Son. Jesus is that child, and Jesus is God.
King James Version. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Jewish Publication Society (1917). “For a child is born unto us, a son is given unto us; and the government is upon his shoulder; and his name is called Pele-joez-el-gibbor-Abi-ad-sar-shalom.”
Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English. “For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us, whose government is upon his shoulder: and his name is called the Messenger of great counsel.”
Septuagint, Brenton’s Greek (1851). παιδίον ἐγεννήθη ἡμῖν, υἱὸς καὶ ἐδόθη ἡμῖν, οὗ ἡ ἀρχὴ ἐγενήθη ἐπὶ τοῦ ὤμου αὐτοῦ, καὶ καλεῖται τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, Μεγάλης βουλῆς ἄγγελος.
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Open Isaiah 9:6

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
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Open Isaiah 9:7

Of the increase 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 it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
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Open Isaiah 9:8

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
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Open Isaiah 9:9

And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
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Open Isaiah 9:10

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
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Open Isaiah 9:11

Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
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Open Isaiah 9:12

The 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.
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Open Isaiah 9:13

For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
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Open Isaiah 9:14

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
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Open Isaiah 9:15

The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
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Open Isaiah 9:16

For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
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Open Isaiah 9:17

Therefore 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.
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Open Isaiah 9:18

For 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.
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Open Isaiah 9:19

Through 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.
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Open Isaiah 9:20

And 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:
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Open Isaiah 9:21

Manasseh, 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.

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