23:008:015 And many among them shall stumble, and
fall, and be broken,
and
be snared, and be taken.
23:008:016 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
23:008:017 And I will wait upon the lord, that
hideth his face from the
house
of Jacob, and I will look for him.
23:008:018 Behold, I and the children whom the lord
hath given me are for
signs
and for wonders in Israel from the lord of hosts,
which
dwelleth
in mount Zion.
23:008:019 And when they shall say unto you, Seek
unto them that have
familiar
spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:
should
not a people seek unto their God? for the living to
the
dead?
23:008:020 To the law and to the testimony: if
they speak not according
to
this word, it is because there is no light in them.
23:008:021 And they shall pass through it, hardly
bestead and hungry: and
it
shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry,
they
shall
fret themselves, and curse their king and their God,
and
look
upward.
23:008:022 And they shall look unto the earth; and
behold trouble and
darkness,
dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to
darkness.
23:009:001 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such
as was in her
vexation,
when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of
Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more
grievously
afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan,
in
Galilee of the nations.
23:009:002 The people that walked in darkness have
seen a great light:
they
that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon
them
hath
the light shined.
23:009:003 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not
increased the joy:
they
joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and
as
men
rejoice when they divide the spoil.
23:009:004 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden,
and the staff of
his
shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of
Midian.
23:009:005 For every battle of the warrior is with
confused noise, and
garments
rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and
fuel
of fire.
23:009:006 For unto us a child is born, unto us a
son is given: and the
government
shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall
be
called
Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father,
The Prince of Peace.
23:009:007 Of the increase of his government and peace
there shall be no
end,
upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to
order
it,
and to establish it with judgment and with justice
from
henceforth
even for ever. The zeal of the lord of hosts
will
perform
this.


