Lexicon :: Strong's H1121 - bēn

The vision of [the prophet] Isaiah the son of Amoz concerning [the kingdom of] Judah and [its capital] Jerusalem, which he saw [as revealed by God] during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Ah, sinful nation,

A people loaded down with wickedness [with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing],

Offspring of evildoers,

Sons who behave corruptly!

They have abandoned (rejected) the LORD,

They have despised the Holy One of Israel [provoking Him to anger],

They have turned away from Him.

The word [from God] which Isaiah son of Amoz saw [in a vision] concerning [the nation of] Judah and [its capital city] Jerusalem.

Now let me sing for my greatly Beloved [LORD]

A song of my Beloved about His vineyard (His chosen people).

My greatly Beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile slope (the promised land, Canaan).

Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of [fn]Aram (Syria) and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they could not conquer it.

Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz [king of Judah], you and your son [fn]Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the highway to the [fn]Fuller’s Field;

“Because these people (Judah) have refused the gently flowing waters of [fn]Shiloah

And rejoice in Rezin [the king of Aram] and Remaliah’s son [Pekah the king of Israel],

For to us a Child shall be born, to us a Son shall be given;

And the government shall be upon His shoulder,

And His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,

Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Ephraim and Judah will [unite and] swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines toward the west;

Together they will plunder the sons (Arabs) of the east.

They will possess Edom and Moab,

And the sons of Ammon will be subject to them.

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw [in a prophetic vision]:

Their bows will cut down the young men [of Babylon];

They will take no pity on the fruit of the womb,

Their eyes will not look with compassion on the children.

“How you have fallen from heaven,

O [fn]star of the morning [light-bringer], son of the dawn!

You have been cut down to the ground,

You who have weakened the nations [king of Babylon]!

“Prepare a slaughtering place for his sons

Because of the wickedness [the sin, the injustice, the wrongdoing] of their fathers.

They must not rise and take possession of the earth,

And fill the face of the world with cities.”

“The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,

And the kingdom from Damascus

And the remnant of Aram (Syria);

They will be like the [departed] glory of [her ally] the children of Israel,”

Declares the LORD of hosts.

In that day the strong cities of Aram and Israel will be like [fn]deserted places in the forest,

Or like branches which they abandoned before the children of Israel;

And the land will be a desolation.

The princes of [fn]Zoan are complete fools;

The counsel of the Pharaoh’s wisest advisors has become stupid.

How can you say to Pharaoh,

“I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings?”

O my threshed people [Judah, who must be judged and trampled down by Babylon], my afflicted of the threshing floor.

What I have heard from the LORD of hosts,

The God of Israel, I have [joyfully] announced to you [that Babylon is to fall].

“Then it will come to pass in that day

That I will summon My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah.

In that day the LORD will thresh [out His grain] from the flowing stream of the River [Euphrates] to the Brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

“Woe (judgment is coming) to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD,

“Who carry out a plan, but not Mine,

And make an alliance [by pouring out a libation], but not of My Spirit,

In order to add sin to sin;

For this is a rebellious people, lying sons,

Sons who refuse to listen to

The law and instruction of the LORD;

Return to Him from whom you have so deeply defected, O sons of Israel.

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “For the LORD, the God of Israel says this, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,

In those days Hezekiah [king of Judah] became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said, “For the LORD says this, ‘Set your house in order and prepare a will, for you shall die; you will not live.’”

“It is the living who give praise and thanks to You, as I do today;

A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent [messengers with] letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he had heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

“I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’

And to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’

Bring My sons from far way

And My daughters from the ends of the earth,

For the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker says this,

“Ask Me about the things to come concerning My sons,

And give Me orders concerning the work of My hands.

[The LORD answered] “Can a woman forget her nursing child

And have no compassion on the son of her womb?

Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

“Your [fn]builders hurry;

Your destroyers and devastators

Will go away from you.

“The children of your bereavement [those born in captivity] will yet say in your ears,

‘The place is too cramped for me’;

Make room for me that I may live here.

This is what the Lord GOD says,

“Listen carefully, I will lift up My hand to the [Gentile] nations

And set up My banner to the peoples;

And they will bring your sons in the fold of their garments,

And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

Indeed, this is what the LORD says,

“Even the captives of the mighty man will be taken away,

And the tyrant’s spoils of war will be rescued;

For I will contend with your opponent,

And I will save your children.