Isaiah 8:21-9:4

New International Version

²¹Distressed and hungry,^(A) they will roam through the land;^(B) when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse^(C) their king and their God. ²²Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom,^(D) and they will be thrust into utter darkness.^(E)

9 ^[a]Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom^(F) for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,^(G) but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan—

²The people walking in darkness^(H)
    have seen a great light;^(I)
on those living in the land of deep darkness^(J)
    a light has dawned.^(K)
³You have enlarged the nation^(L)
    and increased their joy;^(M)
they rejoice before you
    as people rejoice at the harvest,
as warriors rejoice
    when dividing the plunder.^(N)
⁴For as in the day of Midian’s defeat,^(O)
    you have shattered^(P)
the yoke^(Q) that burdens them,
    the bar across their shoulders,^(R)
    the rod of their oppressor.^(S)