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Isaiah 9:8-21

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8The Lord sends a message against Jacob,

And it falls on Israel.

9And all the people know it,

That is, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,

Asserting in pride and in arrogance of heart:

10“The bricks have fallen down,

But we will rebuild with smooth stones;

The sycamores have been cut down,

But we will replace them with cedars.”

11Therefore the Lord raises superior adversaries against them from Rezin

And provokes their enemies,

12The Arameans from the east and the Philistines from the west;

And they devour Israel with gaping jaws.

In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away,

And His hand is still stretched out.

13Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them,

Nor do they seek the Lord of armies.

14So the Lord cuts off head and tail from Israel,

Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.

15The head is the elder and esteemed man,

And the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.

16For those who guide this people are leading them astray;

And those who are guided by them are confused.

17Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men,

Nor does He have compassion on their orphans or their widows;

For every one of them is godless and an evildoer,

And every mouth is speaking foolishness.

In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away,

And His hand is still stretched out.

18For wickedness burns like a fire;

It consumes briars and thorns;

It also sets the thickets of the forest aflame

And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

19By the wrath of the Lord of armies the land is burned,

And the people are like fuel for the fire;

No one spares his brother.

20They devour what is on the right hand but are still hungry,

And they eat what is on the left hand, but they are not satisfied;

Each of them eats the flesh of his own arm.

21Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh,

And together they are against Judah.

In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away

And His hand is still stretched out.