Isaiah 4:1

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

Give us today our daily bread.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”

Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him.

Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, “You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand.”

So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!

I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

It will happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.

A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

Then she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”

You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.

They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.

It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.

Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.

Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due.

For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.

“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will escape or be left to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there; for no one will return except those who will escape.’ ”

In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

“In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;

“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.

Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”

Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.