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Isaiah 8

8 And Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself a great tablet and write on it with the stylus of a man, ‘For Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.’ ” 2 And I had faithful witnesses attest for me, Uriah the priest and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I drew near to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. And Yahweh said to me, “Call his name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, 4 for before the boy knows to call out ‘my father’ or ‘my mother,’ one will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria to the face of the king of Assyria.”

5 And Yahweh added to speak to me again, saying, 6 “Because this people has rejected the waters of Shiloah, the ones going gently, and there is rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah, 7 so therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many—the king of Assyria and all of his glory. And it will go up over all of its channels and go over all of its banks, 8 and it will sweep into Judah. It will overflow and pass through until it reaches the neck. And the spreading out of its wings will be the fullness of the breadth of your land, Immanuel.”

9 Shout, peoples, and shatter!

And listen, all of the distant ones of the earth!

Gird yourselves and shatter!

10 Consult counsel, but it will be thwarted;

speak speech, but it will not stand,

for God is with us.

11 For thus Yahweh said to me with strength of hand, and he instructed me against walking in the way of this people, saying,

12 “You shall not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy,

and you shall not fear its fear, and you shall not dread.

13 Yahweh of armies, him you shall sanctify,

and he shall be your fear, and he shall be your dread.

14 And he will be a sanctuary,

but a stone of tripping and a rock of stumbling to the two of the houses of Israel,

a trap and a snare to the dweller of Jerusalem. 15 And many will stumble over them and fall and be broken,

and they will be snared and captured.”

16 Bind up the testimony;

seal the instruction among my disciples.

17 And I will wait for Yahweh, the one hiding his face from the house of Jacob,

and I will hope in him.

18 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me

are for signs and for wonders in Israel,

from Yahweh of hosts, the one dwelling on Mount Zion.

19 And when they say to you, “Seek to ritual pits and to familiar spirits, the ones chirping and muttering,” should not a people seek to its God? To the dead, on behalf of the living? 20 To the instruction and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is that there is no dawn for him. 21 And one will pass through it, distressed and hungry. And it will happen when he is hungry that he will become angry and curse his king and his God. And he will look upward, 22 and he will look at the earth, and behold, trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish, and into thick darkness he will be driven away.