I saw a child lead the beasts
and the nations flee the light.

NARRATOR:

A twig will grow out of the stump of Jesse, And a sprout from his roots will bear fruit.

And the spirit of Jehovah will settle upon him,
The spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
The spirit of counsel and of mightiness,
The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah.

And he will find delight in the fear of Jehovah.
He will not judge by what appears to his eyes,
Nor reprove simply according to what his ears hear.

He will judge the lowly with fairness,
And with uprightness he will give reproof in behalf of the meek ones of the earth.
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth
And put the wicked to death with the breath of his lips.

Righteousness will be the belt around his waist,
And faithfulness the belt of his hips.

The wolf will reside for a while with the lamb,
And with the young goat the leopard will lie down,
And the calf and the lion and the fattened animal will all be together;
And a little boy will lead them.

The cow and the bear will feed together,
And their young will lie down together.
The lion will eat straw like the bull.

The nursing child will play over the lair of a cobra,
And a weaned child will put his hand over the den of a poisonous snake.

They will not cause any harm
Or any ruin in all my holy mountain,
Because the earth will certainly be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah
As the waters cover the sea.

In that day the root of Jesse will stand up as a signal for the peoples.
To him the nations will turn for guidance,
And his resting-place will become glorious.

In that day Jehovah will again offer his hand, a second time, to reclaim the remnant of his people who are left from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

He will raise up a signal for the nations and gather the dispersed ones of Israel,
And he will gather together the scattered ones of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

The jealousy of Ephraim will be gone,
And those who show hostility to Judah will be done away with.
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
Nor will Judah show hostility toward Ephraim.

And they will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west;
Together they will plunder the people of the East.
They will thrust out their hand against Edom and Moab,
And the Ammonites will become their subjects.

Jehovah will divide the gulf of the Egyptian sea
And wave his hand over the River.
With his scorching breath he will strike it in its seven torrents,
And he will cause people to walk across in their sandals.

And there will be a highway out of Assyria for the remnant of his people who are left,
As there was for Israel in the day he came out of the land of Egypt.

ISAIAH 12

NARRATOR:

In that day you will certainly say:

SPEAKER (THE PEOPLE):

“I thank you, O Jehovah,
For although you were angry with me,
Your anger gradually subsided, and you comforted me.

Look! God is my salvation.
I will trust and feel no dread;
For Jah Jehovah is my strength and my might,
And he has become my salvation.”

With rejoicing you will draw water
From the springs of salvation.

And in that day you will say:
“Give thanks to Jehovah, call on his name,
Make his deeds known among the peoples!
Declare that his name is exalted.

Sing praises to Jehovah, for he has done magnificent things.
Let this be made known in all the earth.

Cry out and shout for joy, you inhabitant of Zion,
For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

ISAIAH 13

NARRATOR:

A pronouncement against Babylon that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw in vision.

JEHOVAH:

“Raise up a signal on a mountain of bare rocks.
Call out to them, wave your hand,
So that they may come into the entrances of the nobles.

I have issued the command to those whom I have appointed.
I have summoned my warriors to express my anger,
My proudly exultant ones.”

NARRATOR:

Listen! A crowd in the mountains;
It sounds like a numerous people!
Listen! The uproar of kingdoms,
Of nations gathered together!
Jehovah of armies is mustering the army for war.

They are coming from a distant land,
From the extremity of the heavens,
Jehovah and the weapons of his wrath,
To bring ruin to all the earth.

NARRATOR (CALL TO THE PEOPLE):

Wail, for the day of Jehovah is near!
It will come as a destruction from the Almighty.

That is why all hands will go limp,
And every man’s heart will melt with fear.

The people are panic-stricken.
They are seized with convulsions and pain,
Like a woman in labor.
They look at one another in horror,
With faces inflamed by anguish.

Look! The day of Jehovah is coming,
Cruel both with fury and with burning anger,
To make the land an object of horror,
And to annihilate the land’s sinners from it.

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations
Will not give off their light;
The sun will be dark when it rises,
And the moon will not shed its light.

JEHOVAH:

“I will call the inhabited earth to account for its badness,
And the wicked for their error.
I will put an end to the pride of the presumptuous,
And I will humble the haughtiness of tyrants.

I will make mortal man scarcer than refined gold,
And humans scarcer than the gold of Ophir.

That is why I will make the heavens tremble,
And the earth will be shaken out of its place
At the fury of Jehovah of armies in the day of his burning anger.”

NARRATOR:

Like a hunted gazelle and like a flock with no one to gather them,
Each will return to his own people;
Each will flee to his own land.

Whoever is found will be pierced through,
And whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

Their children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes,
Their houses will be looted,
And their wives will be raped.

JEHOVAH:

“Here I am raising up against them the Medes,
Who regard silver as nothing
And who take no delight in gold.

Their bows will shatter young men;
They will show no pity on the fruit of the womb
Nor mercy to children.

And Babylon, the most glorious of kingdoms,
The beauty and the pride of the Chaldeans,
Will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.

She will never be inhabited,
Nor will she be a place to reside in throughout all generations.
No Arab will pitch his tent there,
And no shepherds will rest their flocks there.

The desert creatures will lie down there;
Their houses will be filled with eagle owls.
The ostriches will reside there,
And wild goats will skip about there.

Howling creatures will cry out in her towers,
And jackals in her luxurious palaces.
Her time is near, and her days will not be prolonged.”

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