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Isaiah 9:1–7 ESV

But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone. You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil. For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian. For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire. For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

THE LORD OF ARMIES, THE ONLY REFUGE

11 a Reason For

b Speech this is what the Lord said to me

c Temporal with great power,

d Divine-Action to keepI me from going the way of this people:j

12 a Command (Neg.) Do not call

b Expansion everything a conspiracy

that these people say is a

c Emphasis conspiracy.k

d Command (Neg.) Do not fear what they fear;l

do not be terrified.

13 c Command You are to regard

b Emphasis (c) only

a Topic (c) the Lord of Armies

c Command as holy.m

d Emphasis (e) Only he

e Command should be feared;n

f Emphasis (g) only he

g Command should be held in awe.

14 a Prediction He will be a sanctuary;o

b Elaboration but for the two houses of Israel,

he will be a stonep to stumble over

and a rock to trip over,q

Stone to.. rock to.. - Lk. 2:34; Rm. 9:33; 1 Pt. 2:8 ("destined to")

Supplied and

c Elaboration a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

"inhabitants of Jerusalem" - SK

15 a Prediction Many will stumble over these;r (28:13; 59:10; Lk20:18; Rm 9:32)

b Result they will fall and be broken; (fall and be broken to pieces by judgment)

c Prediction they will be snared and captured.

16 a Command Bind up the testimony.s (Tie it up) Testimony - written legal testimony of Yahweh

b Command Seal up the instruction among my disciples. (Seal it shut)

17 a Pronouncement I will wait for the Lord,u

b Characterization who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob.v

(Dt. 31:13; Is. 1:15; 45:15; 54:8 (especially this verse for grace)

c Pronouncement I will wait for him.

18 a Exclamation Here

b Topic (c) I am with the children the Lord has given mew

c Status to be signs and wonders in Israel

d Source from the Lord of Armies

e Characterization who dwells on Mount Zion.

19 a Background-Speech (d) When they say to you,

b Command “Inquire of the mediums and the spiritists

c Characterization who chirp and mutter,”x

d Question (Yes) shouldn’t a people inquire of their God?J

Supplied Should they

e Question (No) inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?y

Supplied Go

20 a Exclamation to God’s instruction and testimony!z (Instruction is likely God's Law and Testimony is a written assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact - namely Isaiah)

The all sufficiency of God's word - Is. 1:10; Lk. 16:29)

b Background-Condition (c) If they do not speak according to this word,

c Implication there will be no dawn for them. (There will be no hope of salvation for them!)

21 a Prediction They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. (Intense trouble and difficulty of Assyria)

b Background-Temporal (c) When they are famished,

c Prediction they will become enraged, and,

d Prediction looking upward,

c Prediction will curse their king and their God.

22 b Prediction They will look

a Emphasis (b) toward the earthaa

c Exclamation and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction,

d Emphasis (e) and

e Prediction they will be driven into

d Emphasis (e) thick darkness.

Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Is 8:11–22.

BIRTH OF THE PRINCE OF PEACE

1 a Contrast Nevertheless, the gloom of the distressed land will not be

b Background-Temporal (23c) like that of the former times

Supplied when

c Divine-Action he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali.ab

d Background-Temporal (23e) But in the future

e Divine-Action he will bring honor to the way of the sea, to the land east of the Jordan,

Supplied and to

f Elaboration Galilee of the nations.

2 a Topic (1b) The people walking in darkness

b Experience have seen a great light;ac

d Emphasis (1e) a light

e Event has dawned

on those

c Topic (1e) living in the land of darkness.ad

3 a Divine-Action You have enlarged the nation

Supplied and

b Divine-Action increased its joy.K,ae

Supplied The people

c Action have rejoiced before you

as they rejoice at harvest time

Supplied and

d Comparison as they rejoice when dividing spoils.a

4 a Reason For

e Divine-Action you have shattered

b List-Item (3e) their oppressive yokeb

c List-Item (3e) and the rod on their shoulders,

d List-Item (3e) the staff of their oppressor,

e Divine-Action just as you did on the day of Midian.c

5 a Reason For

b Topic (4d) every trampling boot of battle

c Elaboration (4b) and

d Prediction the bloodied garments of war

will be burned as

e Elaboration fuel for the fire.

6 a Reason For

b Emphasis (5c) a child

c Event will be born for us,

d Emphasis (5e) a son

e Event will be given to us,d

f Prediction and the government will be on his shoulders.e

g Prediction He will be named

h List-Item Wonderful Counselor,f

i List-Item Mighty God,g

j List-Item Eternal Father,h

k List-Item Prince of Peace.i

7 a Topic (6b) The dominion will be vast,

and its prosperity

Supplied will

b Denial never end.j

He will reign on the throne of David

and over his kingdom,

c Purpose to establish and sustain it

with justice and righteousness

d Background-Temporal (6f) from now on and forever.

e Emphasis (6f) The zeal of the Lord of Armies

f Prediction will accomplish this.k

Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Is 9:1–7.