Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Isaias 9:6-17 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

6. For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.

7. His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

8. The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

9. And all the people of Ephraim shall know, and the inhabitants of Samaria that say in the pride and haughtiness of their heart:

10. The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones: they have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars.

11. And the Lord shall set up the enemies of Rasin over him, and shall bring on his enemies in a crowd:

12. The Syrians from the east, and the Philistines from the west: and they shall devour Israel with open mouth, For all this his indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

13. And the people are not returned to him who hath struck them, and have not sought after the Lord of hosts.

14. And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day.

15. The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

16. And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err: and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down headlong.

17. Therefore the Lord shell have no joy in their young men: neither shall he have mercy on their fatherless, and widows: for every one is a hypocrite and wicked, and every mouth hath spoken folly. For all this his indignation is not turned away, but his bend is stretched out still.