--- title: "Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2" author: "John Calvin" translator: "William Pringle" languages: [en] shelf: "Commentaries" section: 41 of 62 url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/41/ cite: "John Calvin, tr. William Pringle, Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2, section 41. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/41/" --- # Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2 *John Calvin, tr. William Pringle* Calvin on the prophet Isaiah, volume 2 of 4. ## 41. Chapter 9 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/41/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/41/#p-N [¶0] 1 Yet the darkness shall not be, According to the affliction which happened to her, When they first lightly afflicted The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; Nor when they afterwards did more grievously afflict By the way of the sea beyond Jordan, In Galilee of the nations. [¶1] 2 The people walking in darkness Hath seen a great light. They who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Light hath shined on them. [¶2] 3 By multiplying the nation thou hast not increased the joy; They have rejoiced before thee according to the joy of harvest, As men shout in dividing the spoils. [¶3] 4 For his burdensome yoke, And the staff of his shoulder, The sceptre of his oppressor Hast thou broken, as in the day of Midian. [¶4] 5 Although every battle of the warrior is made With noise and rolling of the vesture in blood, This shall be for burning, For fuel of fire. [¶5] 6 For to us a child is born; To us a son is given; And the government hath been laid upon his shoulder; And his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The Father of the age, The Prince of Peace. [¶6] 7 To the increase of the government and to peace, There shall be no end; On the throne of David and on his kingdom, To order and establish it In judgment and justice, Henceforth, even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will do this. [¶7] 8 The Lord sent a word against Jacob, And it hath fallen on Israel. [¶8] 9 And all the people shall know, Ephraim, and the inhabitants of Samaria, Who say in the pride and haughtiness of their heart, [¶9] 10 The bricks are fallen down, and we will build with hewn stones; The sycamores are cut down, and we will substitute cedars. [¶10] 11 But Jehovah will strengthen the enemies of Rezin against him, And will aid his adversaries. [¶11] 12 Syria before, and the Philistines behind; And they shall devour Israel with open mouth. And for all this his anger is not turned away, But his hand is stretched out still. [¶12] 13 But the people have not turned to him that smote them, And have not sought Jehovah of hosts. [¶13] 14 Therefore will Jehovah cut off from Israel The head and the tail, The branch and the reed, In one day. [¶14] 15 The elder and the honourable, he is the head; And the prophet who teacheth falsehood, he is the tail. [¶15] 16 For the governors of this people are seducers, And they who are guided by them are destroyed. [¶16] 17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, And will not have compassion on the orphans and widows; For all are hypocrites and evil-doers, And every mouth speaketh villany. For all this his anger is not turned away, But his hand is stretched out still. [¶17] 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire; It shall devour the briers and thorns; Afterwards it shall kindle into the thickets of the forest, And the smoke of that which ascendeth shall go up. [¶18] 19 Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts Shall the land be darkened, And the people shall be as the fuel of fire: No man shall spare his brother. [¶19] 20 Every one shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; He shall eat on the left hand, and shall not be satisfied; Every one shall devour the flesh of his own arm: [¶20] 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; And Ephraim, Manasseh; They together shall be against Judah. And yet for all this his anger is not turned away, But his hand is stretched out still.