Isaiah 8

Isaiah

8 ¹And [the word of][1] the LORD said to me,

The Lord

“Take for yourself a great tablet and write on it with an ordinary engraving tool: ‘Maher-shalal-hash-baz[2].’”

Isaiah

²And I took faithful witnesses for me—Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. ³And I drew close to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me,

The Lord

“Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ⁴For [behold][3] the child will [not] have knowledge to cry, ‘My father and my mother!’ [before] the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be taken away by the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah

⁵The LORD spoke unto me again, saying,

The Lord

⁶“Because this people refuse the waters of Shiloah that flow gently,
and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son,”

Isaiah

⁷now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the waters of the river,
mighty and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory;

and it will come up over all its streambed,
and go over all its banks.

⁸And it will pass over Judah;
it will overflow and go over

until it will reach the neck;
and it will stretch out its wings, filling the breadth of your land; God is with us! [Immanuel].[4]

⁹Band together, O peoples, but you will be broken;
and give ear, all distant parts of the earth;

gird yourselves, but you will be broken;
gird yourselves, but you will be broken.[5]

¹⁰Counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us! [Immanuel].

Isaiah

¹¹For thus the LORD said to me with the grasping of the hand
and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

The Lord

¹²“Do not say, ‘Conspiracy,’
whenever this people say, ‘Conspiracy’;

do not fear what they fear,
neither stand in awe.”

Isaiah

¹³You will regard the LORD of Hosts as holy; He is your fear,
and you will regard Him with awe. ¹⁴And He will be a Temple,

but He will be a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel,
a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹⁵And many among them will stumble, and they will fall,
and they will be broken, and they will be snared, and they will be captured.

The Lord

¹⁶Bind up the testimony;
seal the law among My disciples.

Isaiah

¹⁷And I will wait for the LORD, who hides His face from the house of Jacob,
and I will hope for Him.

¹⁸Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel—from the LORD of Hosts, who resides in Mount Zion. ¹⁹And when they will say unto you,

The wicked

“Seek mediums and spiritists,
who whisper and mutter—”

Isaiah

Should not a people seek unto their God?
On behalf of the living to [hear from][6] the dead?

²⁰To the law and to the testimony; [and][7] if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no dawn[8] in them.

²¹And they will pass through it, distressed and hungry;
and it will come to pass that when they become hungry,

they will become enraged
and curse their king and their gods,

and they will look upward.
²²And they will look to the earth

and behold, distress and darkness, uttermost anguish;
and they will be thrust into darkness.