Old Testament
Isa 6:1~9:7
Isa 6
1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting on a high and lofty throne, and the train of His robe filled the temple.
2 Seraphim hovered over Him, each having six wings: With two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
3 And one called to the other, saying: Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of hosts; / The whole earth is filled with His glory.
4 And the foundations of the threshold shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then I said, Woe is me, for I am finished! / For I am a man of unclean lips, / And in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell; / Yet my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with an ember in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.
7 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 purged.
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us? And I said, Here am I; send me.
9 And He said, Go and say to this people, Hear indeed, but do not perceive; / And see indeed, but do not understand.
10 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 healed.
11 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;
12 And Jehovah has sent men far away from it, / And desolate places abound in the midst of the land.
13 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.
Isa 7
1 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.
2 And it was reported to the house of David that Aram allied with Ephraim, and his heart and the heart of his people quivered as the trees of the forest quiver in the face of a wind.
3 Then Jehovah said to Isaiah, Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the road to the Fuller’s Field;
4 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.
5 Because Aram and Ephraim and the son of Remaliah have planned evil against you, saying,
6 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;
7 Thus says the Lord Jehovah, / It shall not stand, and it shall not happen;
8 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.
9 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.
10 Then Jehovah spoke further to Ahaz, saying,
11 Ask for a sign from Jehovah your God; make it as deep as Sheol, or make it as high as high can go.
12 And Ahaz said, I will not ask, and I will not try Jehovah.
13 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?
14 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 Immanuel.
15 He will eat curds and honey until he knows how to refuse evil and choose good.
16 For before this boy knows how to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.
17 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.
18 And in that day Jehovah will whistle for the flies which are at the ends of the rivers of Egypt and for the bees which are in the land of Assyria.
19 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.
20 In that day the Lord will shave with the razor hired from beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the legs; and it will take away the beard as well.
21 And in that day each man will keep alive only a milk cow and two females of the flock.
22 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.
23 And in that day every place where there could be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become thorns and thistles.
24 Men will come there with arrows and bow, for all the land will be thorns and thistles.
25 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.
Isa 8
1 Then Jehovah said to me, Take a large tablet and write on it in plain letters, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
2 And I will take faithful witnesses, Urijah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. And Jehovah said to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
4 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.
5 Then Jehovah spoke further to me, saying,
6 Because these people have rejected / The gently flowing waters of Shiloah, and exult / In Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
7 Now therefore the Lord is bringing up upon them / The mighty and abundant waters of the Euphrates, / The king of Assyria and all his glory; / And it will overflow all its channels, / And go over all its banks.
8 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 land, O Immanuel.
9 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.
10 Take counsel, yet it will be frustrated; / Speak the word, yet it will not stand; / For God is with us.
11 For Jehovah spoke to me in this way with great force and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 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.
13 You shall sanctify Jehovah of hosts; / He shall be the One to fear and He shall be the One to hold in awe.
14 Then He will become a sanctuary, 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.
15 And many will stumble at these, / And will fall and be broken to pieces, / And will be snared and taken captive.
16 Bind up the testimony; seal the instruction among my disciples;
17 And I will wait on Jehovah, who hides His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look eagerly for Him.
18 See, I and the children whom Jehovah has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who abides on Mount Zion.
19 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 —
20 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.
21 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,
22 And they look to the earth, but there is only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish and being thrust into darkness.
Isa 9
1 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 sea, across the Jordan, with glory, Galilee of the nations.
2 The people who walked in the darkness / Have seen a great light; / Upon those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death / Light has shined.
3 You have multiplied 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.
4 For You break the yoke of their burden / And the staff on their shoulder, / The rod of their oppressor, / As in the day of Midian.
5 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.
6 For a child is born to us, / A Son is given to us; / And the government / Is upon His shoulder; / And His name will be called / Wonderful Counselor, / Mighty God, / Eternal Father, / Prince of Peace.
7 To the increase of His government / And to His peace there is no end, / Upon the throne 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.
New Testament
Eph 3:1~21
Eph 3
1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you, the Gentiles —
2 If indeed you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God which was given to me for you,
3 That by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I have written previously in brief,
4 By which, in reading it, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,
5 Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in spirit,
6 That in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the Body and fellow partakers of the promise through the gospel,
7 Of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God which was given to me according to the operation of His power.
8 To me, less than the least of all saints, was this grace given to announce to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel
9 And to enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things,
10 In order that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies the multifarious wisdom of God might be made known through the church,
11 According to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord,
12 In whom we have boldness and access in confidence through faith in Him.
13 Therefore I ask you not to faint at my afflictions for your sake, since they are your glory.
14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,
15 Of whom every family in the heavens and on earth is named,
16 That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man,
17 That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be full of strength to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth and length and height and depth are
19 And to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.
20 But to Him who is able to do superabundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power which operates in us,
21 To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all the generations forever and ever. Amen.