All your children will be followers of the Lord, and your children will enjoy great prosperity.

For these are rebellious people – they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord’s law.

There was no one to lead her among all the children she bore; there was no one to take her by the hand among all the children she raised.

You Israelites! Return to the one against whom you have so blatantly rebelled!

Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

They will swoop down on the Philistine hills to the west; together they will loot the people of the east. They will take over Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be their subjects.

Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet him.

“Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth! Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one are more numerous than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.

This is a message about Babylon that God revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz:

“At that time I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah.

But approach, you sons of omen readers, you offspring of adulteresses and prostitutes!

“Foreigners will take care of your sheep; foreigners will work in your fields and vineyards.

During the reign of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel marched up to Jerusalem to do battle, but they were unable to prevail against it.

Here is the message about Judah and Jerusalem that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz.

I will sing to my love – a song to my lover about his vineyard. My love had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

Syria has plotted with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah to bring about your demise.

They say, “Let’s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it. Then we’ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.”

Then I will summon as my reliable witnesses Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”

Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, they will not look with pity on children.

Look how you have fallen from the sky, O shining one, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O conqueror of the nations!