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12 Arameans from the east
    and Philistines from the west—
and they devour Israel with open mouths!

“Yet[a] for all this, his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.”[b]

Judgment for Not Repenting

13 “But the people have not returned to rely[c] on[d] him who struck them,
    nor have they sought the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.
14 So the Lord has cut off from Israel head and tail,
    palm branch and reed
        in[e] a single day—

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 9:12 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac; the Heb. lacks Yet
  2. Isaiah 9:12 DSS MT lack ready to strike
  3. Isaiah 9:13 1QIsaa MT LXX lack to rely
  4. Isaiah 9:13 So 1QIsaa; MT reads toward; LXX reads until
  5. Isaiah 9:14 So 1QIsaa LXX; the The Heb. lacks in