ISAIAH 8

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Isaiah and His Children as Signs

   1 The LORD said to me, "Take a large scroll and

write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-

Baz."  2 So I called in Uriah the priest and Zechariah 

son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me.  3 Then 

I made love to the prophetess, and she conceived and 

gave birth to a son. And the LORD said to me, "Name

him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.

4 For before the boy knows how to say 'My father' or

'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder

of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria."

   5 The LORD spoke to me again:

6 "Because this people has rejected 

   the gently flowing waters of Shiloah

and rejoices over Rezin

   and the son of Remaliah,

7 therefore the Lord is about to bring against them

   the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates--

   the king of Assyria with all his pomp.

It will overflow all its channels,

   run over all its banks

8 and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,

   passing through it and reaching up to the neck.

Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your

   land, Immanuel!"
9 Raise the war cry, you nations, and be shattered!

   Listen, all you distant lands.

Prepare for battle, and be shattered!

   Prepare for battle, and be shattered!

10 Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;

   propose your plan, but it will not stand,

   for God is with us.

   11 This is what the LORD says to me with his strong

hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of

this people:

12 "Do not call conspiracy

   everything this people call a conspiracy;

do not fear what they fear,

   and do not dread it.

13 The LORD Almighty is the one you are to regard sa holy,

   he is the one you are to fear,

   he is the one you are to dread.

14 He will be a holy place;

   for both lsrael and Judah he will be

a stone that causes people to stumble

   and a rock that makes them fall.

And for the people of Jerusalem he will be

   a trap and a snare.

15 Many of them will stumble;

   they will fall and be broken,

   they will be snared and captured."

16 Bind up this testimony of warning

   and seal up God's instruction among my disciples.

17 I will wait for the LORD,

   who is hiding his face from the descendants of

       Jacob.

I will put my trust in him.

   18 Here am I, and the children the LORD has given

me. We are signs and symbols in lsrael from the LORD

Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.

The Darkness Turns to Light

   19 When someone tells you to consult mediums

and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a

people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead

on behalf of the living?  20 Consult God's instruction

and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not

speak according to this word, they have no light of

dawn.  21 Distressed and hungry, they will roam

through the land; when they are famished, they will

become enraged and, looking upward, will curse

their king and their God.  22 Then they will look

toward the earth and see only distress and darkness

and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter

darkness.