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Isaiah, Chapter 8

¹ Then the LORD said to me, “Take for yourself a large tablet and write on it^a Lit with the stylus of manin ordinary letters:^b Heb Maher-shalal-hash-bazSwift is the booty, speedy is the prey. ² And^c Another reading is take for meI will take to Myself faithful witnesses for testimony, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.” ³ So I approached the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. Then the LORD said to me, “Name him^dMaher-shalal-hash-baz; ⁴ for before the boy knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”	1 Isa 30:8 Hab 2:2 Isa 8:3 2 Ki2 16:10 Ki2 16:11 Ki2 16:15 Ki2 16:16 3 Isa 8:1 4 Isa 7:16 Isa 7:8 Isa 7:9
⁵ Again the LORD spoke to me further, saying,
⁶ “Inasmuch as these people have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah And rejoice in Rezin and the son of Remaliah;	6 Isa 1:20 Isa 5:24 Isa 7:9 Isa 30:12 Isa 7:1
⁷ “Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the strong and abundant waters of the^e Lit RiverEuphrates, Even the king of Assyria and all his glory; And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks.	7 Isa 17:12 Isa 17:13 Isa 7:20 Isa 11:15 Isa 7:17 Isa 10:5 Amo 8:8 Amo 9:5
⁸ “Then it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through, It will reach even to the neck; And the spread of its wings will^f Lit be the fullness offill the breadth of^g Or Youryour land, O Immanuel.	8 Isa 10:6 Isa 30:28 Isa 7:14
⁹ “Be broken, O peoples, and be^h Or dismayedshattered; And give ear, all remote places of the earth. Gird yourselves, yet beⁱ Or dismayedshattered; Gird yourselves, yet be^j Or dismayedshattered.	9 Isa 17:12-14 Dan 2:34 Dan 2:35
¹⁰ “Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; State a^k Lit wordproposal, but it will not stand, For^l Heb Immanu-elGod is with us.”	10 Job 5:12 Isa 28:18 Isa 7:7 Isa 8:8 Rom 8:31
¹¹ For thus the LORD spoke to me^m Lit with strength of the handwith mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,	11 Eze 3:14 Eze 2:8
¹² “You are not to say, ‘It is a conspiracy!’ In regard to all that this people call a conspiracy, And you are not to fearⁿ Lit their fearwhat they fear or be in dread of it.	12 Isa 7:2 Isa 30:1 Pe1 3:14 Pe1 3:15
¹³ “It is the LORD of hosts whom you should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, And He shall be your dread.	13 Isa 5:16 Isa 29:23 Num 20:12
¹⁴ “Then He shall become a sanctuary; But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over, And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.	14 Isa 4:6 Isa 25:4 Eze 11:16 Luk 2:34 Rom 9:33 Pe1 2:8 Isa 24:17 Isa 24:18
¹⁵ “Many will stumble over them, Then they will fall and be broken; They will even be snared and caught.”	15 Isa 28:13 Isa 59:10 Luk 20:18 Rom 9:32
¹⁶ Bind up the testimony, seal the^o Or teachinglaw among my disciples. ¹⁷ And I will wait for the LORD who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even look eagerly for Him. ¹⁸ Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.	16 Isa 8:1 Isa 8:2 Isa 29:11 Isa 29:12 Dan 12:4 Isa 50:4 17 Isa 25:9 Isa 30:18 Hab 2:3 Deu 31:17 Isa 1:15 Isa 45:15 Isa 54:8 18 Heb 2:13 Luk 2:34 Psa 9:11 Zec 8:3
¹⁹ When they say to you, “Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,” should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? ²⁰ To the^p Or teachinglaw and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. ²¹ They will pass through^q Lit itthe land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse^r Or by their kingtheir king and their God as they face upward. ²² Then they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.	19 Lev 20:6 Ki2 21:6 Ki2 23:24 Isa 19:3 Isa 29:4 Isa 47:12 Isa 47:13 Isa 30:2 Isa 45:11 Sa1 28:8-11 20 Isa 1:10 Isa 8:16 Luk 16:29 Isa 8:22 Mic 3:6 21 Isa 9:20 Isa 9:21 22 Isa 5:30 Isa 59:9 Jer 13:16 Amo 5:18 Amo 5:20 Zep 1:14 Zep 1:15 Isa 8:20


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