And I went in to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then Jehovah said to me, Call his name, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Then Jehovah said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller's Field.

For before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you loathe shall be forsaken by both its kings.

Yet it pleased Jehovah to crush Him; to grieve Him; that He should give His soul as a sin-offering. He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in His hand.

A seed shall serve Him; it shall be recounted of Jehovah to the coming generation.

And again: I will put My trust in Him. And again: Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.

Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

I am like a wonder to many, but You are my strong refuge.

I will set My face against that man and make him desolate as a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.

Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your companions who are sitting before you; for they are men of significance. For, behold, I will bring forth My Servant, the BRANCH.

And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we became spectacles to all creation, both to angels and to men.

To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and wander homeless.

being defamed, we entreat. We have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

indeed while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and afflictions, and also while you became companions of those who were so treated;

Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!

What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah has founded Zion, and the poor of His people shall take refuge in it.

Then the moon shall be abashed, and the sun shall be ashamed, when Jehovah of Hosts shall reign on Mount Zion, in Jerusalem, and before His elders, in splendor.

For David had said, Jehovah the God of Israel has given rest to His people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem always;

Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwells in Zion; declare His deeds among the nations.

Thus says Jehovah: I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem shall be called a City of Truth, and the mountain of Jehovah of Hosts, the Holy Mountain.

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable multitude of angels,