Isa. 8
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Then Jehovah said to me, Take a large tablet and
awrite on it in plain letters, For
1Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
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And I will take faithful witnesses,
aUrijah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
Isa. 8
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And I went to the prophetess, and she
1conceived and bore a son. And Jehovah said to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
Isa. 8
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For abefore this boy knows how to call, Father, and, Mother, they will carry off the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria before the king of Assyria.
Isa. 8
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Then Jehovah spoke further to me, saying,
Isa. 8
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Because these people have rejected
The gently flowing
1waters of
aShiloah, and exult
In Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
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8:7
Now therefore the Lord is bringing up upon them
The mighty and abundant
1awaters of the Euphrates,
The king of Assyria and all his glory;
And it will overflow all its channels,
And go over all its banks.
Isa. 8
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It will sweep through Judah; it will overflow and rise
Until it reaches the neck;
And the spreading out of its wings
Will fill the breadth of Your
1land, O
aImmanuel.
E.
Christ as Immanuel
8:9-22
Isa. 8
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8:9
Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered;
Hearken, all you distant places of the earth:
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.
Isa. 8
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8:10
Take acounsel, yet it will be frustrated;
Speak the word, yet it will not stand;
For
bGod is with us.
Isa. 8
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For Jehovah spoke to me in this way with great force and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
Isa. 8
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You shall not call
it conspiracy
All that this people calls conspiracy;
And you shall not afear what they fear nor hold
it in awe.
Isa. 8
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8:13
You shall
asanctify Jehovah of hosts;
He shall be the One to fear and He shall be the One to hold in awe.
Isa. 8
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Then He will become a
1asanctuary, yet a
bstone to strike against
And a rock of
cstumbling To both houses of Israel,
A trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Isa. 8
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And many will stumble
1at these,
And will fall and be broken to pieces,
And will be snared and taken captive.
Isa. 8
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8:16
Bind up the
1testimony; seal the instruction among my disciples;
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And I will
await on Jehovah, who
bhides His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look eagerly for Him.
Isa. 8
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8:18
aSee,
1I and the
1children whom Jehovah has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who abides on Mount Zion.
Isa. 8
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8:19
When they say to you, Inquire of the necromancers and the familiar spirits, who twitter and mutter;
say to them, Should not a people inquire of their God? Should they go to the dead on behalf of the living —
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To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because in them there is no dawn.
Isa. 8
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And they go through it hard-pressed and hungry; and when they are hungry, they rage and curse their king and their God. They turn their faces upward,
Isa. 8
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And they look to the earth, but, there is
only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish and being thrust into darkness.
