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Isaiah Chapter 9

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The chapter announces the birth of John the Baptist, a child born of a virgin who will herald the coming of the Messiah. It also proclaims that the Messiah will bring peace and justice to Israel.

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(1) 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.
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Isaiah 8:22I Kings 15:19I Kings 15:20II Kings 15:29II Chronicles 16:4Leviticus 26:24Leviticus 26:28II Kings 17:5II Kings 17:6I Chronicles 5:26Matthew 4:15

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Joshua 4:7Matthew 4:15Matthew 4:25Matthew 19:1

(2) 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.
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Isaiah 50:10Isaiah 60:1Isaiah 60:2Isaiah 60:3Isaiah 60:19Micah 7:8Micah 7:9Matthew 4:16Luke 1:78Luke 1:79Luke 2:32John 8:12

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Isaiah 30:26Job 10:22Isaiah 5:20Matthew 4:16John 12:35II Corinthians 4:6

(3) 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.
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Isaiah 26:15Isaiah 49:20Isaiah 49:21Isaiah 49:22Nehemiah 9:23Psalms 107:38Hosea 4:7Zechariah 2:11Zechariah 8:23Zechariah 10:8Isaiah 12:1Isaiah 25:9

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Nehemiah 12:43Zephaniah 3:17II Corinthians 2:3Esther 9:22Isaiah 35:10Isaiah 51:11

(4) 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.
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Isaiah 14:25Isaiah 47:6Genesis 27:40Leviticus 26:13Jeremiah 30:8Nahum 1:13Isaiah 10:5Isaiah 10:27Isaiah 14:3Isaiah 14:4Isaiah 14:5Isaiah 30:31

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Isaiah 10:27Ecclesiastes 12:6Isaiah 8:9Jeremiah 48:17Jeremiah 23:38

(5) 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.
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Isaiah 13:4I Samuel 14:19Jeremiah 47:3Joel 2:5Nahum 3:2Isaiah 4:4Isaiah 10:16Isaiah 10:17Isaiah 30:33Isaiah 37:36Isaiah 66:15Isaiah 66:16

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Exodus 29:21Leviticus 8:30Isaiah 13:4Joel 2:5Ezekiel 44:19II Kings 7:6

(6) 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.
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Isaiah 7:14Luke 1:35Luke 2:11John 1:14John 3:16John 3:17Romans 8:32I John 4:10I John 4:11I John 4:12I John 4:13I John 4:14

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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11II Kings 4:34

(7) 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.
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II Samuel 7:16Psalms 2:8Psalms 72:8Psalms 72:9Psalms 72:10Psalms 72:11Psalms 89:35Psalms 89:36Psalms 89:37Jeremiah 33:15Jeremiah 33:16Jeremiah 33:17

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II Chronicles 9:8I Kings 9:5Psalms 99:4Amos 5:15I Kings 10:9Job 36:17

(8) The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
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Isaiah 7:7Isaiah 7:8Isaiah 8:4Isaiah 8:5Isaiah 8:6Isaiah 8:7Isaiah 8:8Micah 1:1Micah 1:2Micah 1:3Micah 1:4Micah 1:5

(9) And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
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Isaiah 26:11I Kings 22:25Job 21:19Job 21:20Jeremiah 32:24Jeremiah 44:28Jeremiah 44:29Ezekiel 7:9Ezekiel 7:27Ezekiel 30:19Ezekiel 33:33Isaiah 7:9

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Judges 12:4Isaiah 7:9Isaiah 11:13

(10) The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
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I Kings 7:9I Kings 7:10I Kings 7:11I Kings 7:12I Kings 10:27Malachi 1:4

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I Chronicles 29:2I Kings 7:10Acts 15:16I Kings 5:17I Kings 7:11Leviticus 27:33

(11) Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
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Isaiah 8:4Isaiah 8:5Isaiah 8:6Isaiah 8:7Isaiah 10:9Isaiah 10:10Isaiah 10:11Isaiah 17:1Isaiah 17:2Isaiah 17:3Isaiah 17:4Isaiah 17:5

(12) The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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II Kings 16:6II Chronicles 28:18Jeremiah 35:11Deuteronomy 31:17Psalms 79:7Psalms 129:3Psalms 129:4Psalms 129:5Psalms 129:6Jeremiah 10:25Isaiah 9:17Isaiah 9:21

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Isaiah 5:25Isaiah 9:17Isaiah 9:21Isaiah 10:4I Samuel 7:7

(13) For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
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Isaiah 1:5Isaiah 26:11Isaiah 57:17II Chronicles 28:22Job 36:13Jeremiah 5:3Jeremiah 31:18Jeremiah 31:19Jeremiah 31:20Ezekiel 24:13Hosea 5:15Hosea 7:10

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Zephaniah 2:3Zechariah 1:3

(14) Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
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Isaiah 3:2Isaiah 3:3Isaiah 19:15II Kings 17:6II Kings 17:7II Kings 17:8II Kings 17:9II Kings 17:10II Kings 17:11II Kings 17:12II Kings 17:13II Kings 17:14

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Isaiah 19:15

(15) The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
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Isaiah 3:5Isaiah 5:13I Samuel 9:6Isaiah 28:17Isaiah 29:10I Kings 13:18I Kings 22:22I Kings 22:23I Kings 22:24Jeremiah 5:31Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 14:15

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Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:12

(16) For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
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Isaiah 3:12Matthew 15:14Matthew 23:16Matthew 23:17Matthew 23:18Matthew 23:19Matthew 23:20Matthew 23:21Matthew 23:22Matthew 23:23Matthew 23:24Matthew 23:25

(17) Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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Isaiah 10:2Isaiah 13:18Isaiah 27:11Isaiah 62:5Isaiah 65:19Psalms 147:10Jeremiah 18:21Zechariah 9:17Isaiah 10:6Job 15:34Jeremiah 5:1Micah 7:2

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Isaiah 5:25Exodus 33:11Esther 9:22Isaiah 9:12Isaiah 9:21Isaiah 10:4

(18) For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
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Isaiah 1:31Isaiah 30:30Isaiah 30:33Isaiah 33:12Isaiah 34:8Isaiah 34:9Isaiah 34:10Isaiah 66:16Isaiah 66:17Numbers 11:1Numbers 11:2Numbers 11:3

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Jeremiah 44:9Exodus 19:18Isaiah 10:17Exodus 19:20Revelation 9:2Jeremiah 21:14

(19) Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
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Isaiah 5:30Isaiah 8:22Isaiah 24:11Isaiah 24:12Isaiah 60:2Jeremiah 13:16Joel 2:2Amos 5:18Matthew 27:45Acts 2:20Isaiah 13:18Ezekiel 9:5

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Zechariah 7:12Zechariah 8:14Zechariah 1:3

(20) And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
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Isaiah 49:26Leviticus 26:26Leviticus 26:27Leviticus 26:28Leviticus 26:29Jeremiah 19:9Lamentations 4:10

(21) Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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Judges 7:2I Samuel 14:20II Kings 15:30II Chronicles 28:6II Chronicles 28:7II Chronicles 28:8Matthew 24:10Galatians 5:15Isaiah 9:12Isaiah 9:17Isaiah 5:25Isaiah 10:4

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Genesis 48:20Joshua 17:8Joshua 17:9Judges 12:4Isaiah 11:13Isaiah 5:25

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