The leaders and the highly respected people ¹  are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, ¹  a cudgel with which I angrily punish. ² 

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

For these are rebellious people – they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord’s law. ¹ 

This is the person who will live in a secure place; ¹  he will find safety in the rocky, mountain strongholds; ²  he will have food and a constant supply of water.

For the Lord, our ruler, the Lord, our commander, the Lord, our king – he will deliver us.

The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.

I am the Lord! That is my name! I will not share my glory with anyone else, or the praise due me with idols.

From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; ¹  I will act, and who can prevent it?”

I, I am the one who blots out your rebellious deeds for my sake; your sins I do not remember.

Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I summoned! I am the one; I am present at the very beginning and at the very end. ¹ 

For this reason my people will know my name, for this reason they will know ¹  at that time ²  that I am the one who says, ‘Here I am.’”

But he lifted up our illnesses, he carried our pain; ¹  even though we thought he was being punished, attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done. ² 

Having suffered, he will reflect on his work, he will be satisfied when he understands what he has done. ¹  “My servant ²  will acquit many, ³  for he carried their sins. ⁴ 

But they rebelled and offended ¹  his holy Spirit, ²  so he turned into an enemy and fought against them.

Carefully read the scroll of the Lord! ¹  Not one of these creatures will be missing, ²  none will lack a mate. ³  For the Lord has issued the decree, ⁴  and his own spirit gathers them. ⁵ 

For this is what the Lord says, the one who created the sky – he is the true God, ¹  the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, ²  he formed it to be inhabited – “I am the Lord, I have no peer.

For this reason the sovereign master himself will give you a confirming sign. ¹  Look, this ²  young woman ³  is about to conceive ⁴  and will give birth to a son. You, young woman, will name him ⁵  Immanuel. ⁶ 

At that time ¹  the Egyptians ²  will be like women. ³  They will tremble and fear because the Lord who commands armies brandishes his fist against them. ⁴ 

Yet he too is wise ¹  and he will bring disaster; he does not retract his decree. ²  He will attack the wicked nation, ³  and the nation that helps ⁴  those who commit sin. ⁵