Isaiah 9:3-5

Contemporary English Version

³Our Lord, you have made
    your nation stronger.^[a]
Because of you, its people
    are glad and celebrate
like workers at harvest time
or like soldiers dividing up
    what they have taken.

⁴You have broken the power
of those who abused
    and enslaved your people.
You have rescued them
just as you saved your people
    from Midian.^[b]
⁵The boots of marching warriors
and the blood-stained uniforms
    have been fed to flames
    and eaten by fire.

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Footnotes

9.3 stronger: Or “happy” or “larger.”
9.4 rescued … from Midian: The time when Gideon defeated the people of Midian in Jezreel Valley (see Judges 6–8).