Old Testament
Isa 9:8~12:6
Isa 9
8 The Lord sends out a word against Jacob, / And it descends upon Israel.
9 And all the people know it, / Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, / Saying in pride and haughtiness of heart,
10 The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone; / The sycamores have been felled, but we will put cedars in their place.
11 Then Jehovah exalts the adversaries of Rezin against them / And goads their enemies on.
12 Aram from the east and the Philistines from the west: / They devour Israel with an open mouth. / By all this His anger is not turned; / His hand is still outstretched.
13 Yet the people do not turn to Him who strikes them, / Nor do they seek Jehovah of hosts.
14 Then Jehovah cuts off from Israel head and tail, / Palm branch and marsh reed in one day.
15 The elder and the highly regarded — he is the head; / The prophet and the teacher of falsehood — he is the tail.
16 And those who lead this people are those who mislead them; / And those who are led are those who are confused.
17 Because of this the Lord will not rejoice in their young men, / And He will not have compassion on their orphans and widows; / For all of them are profane and evildoers, / And every mouth speaks foolishness. / By all this His anger is not turned; / His hand is still outstretched.
18 For wickedness burns like a fire; / It devours thorn and thistle, / And burns in the forest thickets; / And they roll up into a column of smoke.
19 At the overflowing wrath of Jehovah of hosts a land is burned up, / And the people are like fuel for fire; / No one spares even his brother.
20 One carves on the right side, but is hungry; / And another eats on the left side, but is not satisfied. / Each eats the flesh of his own arm:
21 Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; / These together against Judah. / By all this His anger is not turned; / His hand is still outstretched.
Isa 10
1 Woe to those who decree decrees of iniquity, / To the busy writers who are busy writing trouble,
2 In order to turn the poor away from judgment, / And to tear justice away from the afflicted among my people; / That widows may be their spoil, / And they may plunder orphans.
3 And what will you do for the day of visitation, / And for the devastation that comes from afar? / To whom will you flee for help? / And where will you leave your glory,
4 Unless one crouches behind prisoners, / And they fall behind the slain? / By all this His anger is not turned; / His hand is still outstretched.
5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger! / The staff which is in their hand is My indignation.
6 Against a profane nation I send them out, / And against the people of My overflowing wrath I command them, / To make spoil of the spoil and to make plunder of the plunder, / To make them a trampling ground, like street mire.
7 But they do not think so, / And their heart does not conceive it so; / For destroying is in their heart, / And the cutting down of no few nations.
8 For they say, / Are not my princes all kings?
9 Is not Calno like Carchemish, / Or Hamath like Arpad, / Or Samaria like Damascus?
10 Since my hand has reached / The kingdoms of the idols, / And their graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 Shall I not do, as I have done / To Samaria and its idols, / The same to Jerusalem and its images?
12 But when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He says, I will punish the fruit of the king of Assyria’s haughtiness of heart and the glory of his haughty eyes.
13 For he has said, / By the strength of my own hand I have done it, / And by my own wisdom; for I have understanding. / And I have removed the boundaries of the peoples; / And their stored possessions I have plundered. / And like a bull, I brought down those who sit on thrones.
14 And my hand reached in, like in a nest, / For the wealth of the peoples; / And like one who gathers abandoned eggs, / I myself gathered in all the earth; / And none fluttered a wing, / Or opened a beak and chirped.
15 Should the ax glorify itself above him who chops with it? / Or should the saw magnify itself above him who wields it? / It would be like the rod wielding him who lifts it up, / Like the staff lifting up him who is not wood.
16 Therefore the Lord Jehovah of hosts will send / Leanness to his fat ones; / And under his glory He will kindle a kindling, / Like the kindling of fire.
17 And the Light of Israel will become a fire, / And his Holy One a flame; / And it will burn and devour his thorns / And his thistles in one day.
18 The glory of his forest and of his garden land / He will destroy, both soul and body; / And he will be like a sick man wasting away.
19 And what is left of the trees of his forest will be so few in number / That a young boy could record them.
20 Then in that day the remnant of Israel and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped will no longer rely upon him who strikes them, but they will rely upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
22 For though your people, O Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant among them will return. Annihilation is strictly decided, overflowing with righteousness.
23 For utter destruction and a strict decision is the Lord Jehovah of hosts performing in the midst of the whole land.
24 Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah of hosts, O My people dwelling in Zion, do not fear Assyria, who strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you the way Egypt did.
25 For in a very little while My indignation will be completed, and My anger will be turned toward their destruction.
26 And against them Jehovah of hosts will rouse up a whip like the stroke against Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea, and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.
27 And in that day their burden will be removed from your shoulders, and their yoke from off your neck; and the yoke will be broken due to the fatness.
28 He comes against Aiath; / He passes through Migron; / At Michmash he deposits his gear.
29 They go through the pass, saying, / Geba will be our lodging overnight. / Ramah is quaking; / Gibeah of Saul flees away.
30 Scream with your voice, O daughter of Gallim! / Listen carefully, Laishah! O poor Anathoth!
31 Madmenah flees; / The inhabitants of Gebim seek refuge.
32 So it is this very day when he halts at Nob. / He swings his hand over the mountain of the daughter of Zion, / Over the hill of Jerusalem.
33 But now the Lord Jehovah of hosts / Is lopping off the boughs with an awful crash: / Those which are tall in height are hewn down, / And those which are lofty are laid low.
34 And He chops away the forest thickets with an iron ax; / And Lebanon falls at the hands of a majestic One.
Isa 11
1 Then a sprout will come forth from the stump of Jesse, / And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
2 And the Spirit of Jehovah will rest upon Him, / The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, / The Spirit of counsel and might, / The Spirit of the knowledge and fear of Jehovah.
3 He will delight in the fear of Jehovah: / He will neither judge by what His eyes see, / Nor decide by what His ears hear.
4 But He will judge the poor in righteousness, / And decide with equity for the afflicted of the land. / And He will strike the land with the rod of His mouth, / And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.
5 Righteousness will be that which girds His loins, / And faithfulness will be that which girds His hips.
6 And the wolf will dwell with the lamb; / And the leopard will lie down with the kid, / And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; / And a young boy will lead them about.
7 The cow and the bear will graze; / Their young will lie down together; / And the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child will play by the cobra’s hole, / And upon the viper’s den / The weaned child will stretch his hand.
9 They will not harm nor destroy / In all My holy mountain, / For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah, / As water covers the sea.
10 And in that day the root of Jesse, / Who stands as a banner to the peoples — / Him will the nations seek, / And His resting place will be the glory.
11 And in that day the Lord, / By His hand for the second time again, / Will recover the remnant of His people / Who remain, from Assyria and from Egypt, / From Pathros, Cush, and Elam, / From Shinar, Hamath, and the islands of the sea.
12 He will lift up a standard to the nations, / And will gather the outcasts of Israel; / And the dispersed of Judah He will assemble / From the four corners of the earth.
13 And Ephraim’s jealousy will depart, / And the adversaries in Judah will be cut off; / Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, / Nor will Judah be hostile to Ephraim.
14 And they will fly down upon the shoulders of the Philistines on the west; / Together they will plunder the children of the east. / Edom and Moab will come into the grasp of their hand, / And the children of Ammon will submit to them.
15 And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the sea of Egypt; / And He will wave His hand over the River with the scorching of His wind, / And He will strike it into seven streams, / And march men through it dryshod.
16 And there will be a highway from Assyria / For the remnant of His people which remain, / As there was for Israel / In the day that they came up from the land of Egypt.
Isa 12
1 And you will say in that day, / I will praise You, O Jehovah. You were angry with me, / But Your anger has turned and You have consoled me.
2 God is now my salvation; / I will trust and not dread; / For Jah Jehovah is my strength and song, / And He has become my salvation.
3 Therefore you will draw water with rejoicing / From the springs of salvation,
4 And you will say in that day, / Give thanks to Jehovah; call upon His name! / Make His deeds known among the peoples; / Remind them that His name is exalted.
5 Sing psalms to Jehovah, for He has done something majestic! / Let it be made known in all the earth!
6 Cry out and give a ringing shout, O inhabitant of Zion, / For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.
New Testament
Eph 4:1~16
Eph 4
1 I beseech you therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
2 With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one another in love,
3 Being diligent to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace:
4 One Body and one Spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism;
6 One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8 Therefore the Scripture says, “Having ascended to the height, He led captive those taken captive and gave gifts to men.”
9 (Now this, “He ascended,” what is it except that He also descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He who descended, He is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens that He might fill all things.)
11 And He Himself gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as shepherds and teachers,
12 For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ,
13 Until we all arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
14 That we may be no longer little children tossed by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching in the sleight of men, in craftiness with a view to a system of error,
15 But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ,
16 Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.