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Proverbs 14

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¹ And in that day they will roar against them (Judah) like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land, in fact, there is darkness and distress; Even the light will be darkened by its clouds.

² In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw [in a vision] the Lord sitting on a throne, high and exalted, with the train of His royal robe filling the [most holy part of the] temple.

³ Above Him seraphim (heavenly beings) stood; each one had six wings: with two wings he covered his face, with two wings he covered his feet, and with two wings he flew.

⁴ And one called out to another, saying, "Holy, Holy, Holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is filled with His glory."

⁵ And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, and the temple was filling with smoke.

⁶ Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am ruined, Because I am a man of [ceremonially] unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts."

⁷ Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs.

⁸ He touched my mouth with it and said, "Listen carefully, this has touched your lips; your wickedness [your sin, your injustice, your wrongdoing] is taken away and your sin atoned for and forgiven."

⁹ Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

¹⁰ And He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on listening, but do not understand; Keep on looking, but do not comprehend.'

¹¹ "Make the heart of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Otherwise they might see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed."

¹² Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered, "Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, And houses are without people And the land is utterly desolate,

¹³ The LORD has removed [His] people far away, And there are many deserted places in the midst of the land.

¹⁴ "And though a tenth [of the people] remain in the land, It will again be subject to destruction [consumed and burned], Like a massive terebinth tree or like an oak Whose stump remains when it is chopped down. The holy seed [the elect remnant] is its stump [the substance of Israel]."

¹⁵ Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of[1] Aram (Syria) and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they could not conquer it.

¹⁶ When the house of David (Judah) was told, "Aram is allied with Ephraim (Israel)," the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled as the trees of the forest tremble in the wind.

¹⁷ Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz [king of Judah], you and your son[2] Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the highway to the[3] Fuller's Field;

¹⁸ and say to him, 'Take care and be calm, do not fear and be weak-hearted because of these two stumps of smoldering logs, on account of the fierce anger of [King] Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah (Pekah, usurper of the throne of Israel).

¹⁹ Because Aram, along with Ephraim (Israel) and the son of Remaliah, have planned evil against you (Judah), saying,

²⁰ Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it; and let us breach its wall and tear it apart [each of us taking a portion] and set up the son of Tabeel over it as its [puppet] king,

²¹ for this is what the Lord GOD says, "It shall not stand nor shall it happen.

²² For the head (capital) of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is [King] Rezin (now within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken to pieces and will no longer be a people).

²³ And the head (capital) of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son [King Pekah]. If you will not[4] believe [and trust in God and His message], be assured that you will not be established."'"

²⁴ Then the LORD spoke again to [King] Ahaz, saying,

²⁵ Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God [one that will convince you that God has spoken and will keep His word]; make your request as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven.

²⁶ But Ahaz said, "[5] I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!"

²⁷ Then Isaiah said, "Hear then, O house of David! Is it too small a thing for you to try the patience of men, but will you try the patience of my God as well?

²⁸ Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Listen carefully, the[6] virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and she will call his name Immanuel (God with us).

²⁹ He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.

³⁰ For before the child will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land (Canaan) whose two kings you dread will be deserted [both Ephraim and Aram].

³¹ The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim (the ten northern tribes) separated from Judah—[He will call for] the king of Assyria."

³² In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the[7] mouth of the rivers and canals of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

³³ These [armies, like flies and bees] will all come and settle on the steep and rugged ravines and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thorn bushes and in all the watering places.

³⁴ In that day [when foreign armies swarm the land] the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from the regions beyond the Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), [that razor will shave] the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard [leaving Judah stripped, shamed and scorned].

³⁵ Now in that day [because of the poverty caused by the invaders] a man will keep alive only a young milk cow and two sheep;

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1	And in that day they will roar against them (Judah) like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land, in fact, there is darkness and distress; Even the light will be darkened by its clouds.
2	In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw [in a vision] the Lord sitting on a throne, high and exalted, with the train of His royal robe filling the [most holy part of the] temple.
3	Above Him seraphim (heavenly beings) stood; each one had six wings: with two wings he covered his face, with two wings he covered his feet, and with two wings he flew.
4	And one called out to another, saying, "Holy, Holy, Holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is filled with His glory."
5	And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, and the temple was filling with smoke.
6	Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am ruined, Because I am a man of [ceremonially] unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts."
7	Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs.
8	He touched my mouth with it and said, "Listen carefully, this has touched your lips; your wickedness [your sin, your injustice, your wrongdoing] is taken away and your sin atoned for and forgiven."
9	Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
10	And He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on listening, but do not understand; Keep on looking, but do not comprehend.'
11	"Make the heart of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Otherwise they might see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed."
12	Then I said, "Lord, how long?" And He answered, "Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, And houses are without people And the land is utterly desolate,
13	The LORD has removed [His] people far away, And there are many deserted places in the midst of the land.
14	"And though a tenth [of the people] remain in the land, It will again be subject to destruction [consumed and burned], Like a massive terebinth tree or like an oak Whose stump remains when it is chopped down. The holy seed [the elect remnant] is its stump [the substance of Israel]."
15	Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of[1] Aram (Syria) and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they could not conquer it.
16	When the house of David (Judah) was told, "Aram is allied with Ephraim (Israel)," the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled as the trees of the forest tremble in the wind.
17	Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz [king of Judah], you and your son[2] Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the highway to the[3] Fuller's Field;
18	and say to him, 'Take care and be calm, do not fear and be weak-hearted because of these two stumps of smoldering logs, on account of the fierce anger of [King] Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah (Pekah, usurper of the throne of Israel).
19	Because Aram, along with Ephraim (Israel) and the son of Remaliah, have planned evil against you (Judah), saying,
20	Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it; and let us breach its wall and tear it apart [each of us taking a portion] and set up the son of Tabeel over it as its [puppet] king,
21	for this is what the Lord GOD says, "It shall not stand nor shall it happen.
22	For the head (capital) of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is [King] Rezin (now within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken to pieces and will no longer be a people).
23	And the head (capital) of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son [King Pekah]. If you will not[4] believe [and trust in God and His message], be assured that you will not be established."'"
24	Then the LORD spoke again to [King] Ahaz, saying,
25	Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God [one that will convince you that God has spoken and will keep His word]; make your request as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven.
26	But Ahaz said, "[5] I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!"
27	Then Isaiah said, "Hear then, O house of David! Is it too small a thing for you to try the patience of men, but will you try the patience of my God as well?
28	Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Listen carefully, the[6] virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and she will call his name Immanuel (God with us).
29	He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.
30	For before the child will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land (Canaan) whose two kings you dread will be deserted [both Ephraim and Aram].
31	The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim (the ten northern tribes) separated from Judah—[He will call for] the king of Assyria."
32	In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the[7] mouth of the rivers and canals of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
33	These [armies, like flies and bees] will all come and settle on the steep and rugged ravines and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thorn bushes and in all the watering places.
34	In that day [when foreign armies swarm the land] the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from the regions beyond the Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), [that razor will shave] the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard [leaving Judah stripped, shamed and scorned].
35	Now in that day [because of the poverty caused by the invaders] a man will keep alive only a young milk cow and two sheep;

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