Isaiah 8
New International Version - Isaiah 8 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566 8:1 The Lord said to me, 'Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. 8:2 And I will call in Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me.' 8:3 Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the Lord said to me, 'Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. 8:4 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.' 8:5 The Lord spoke to me again: 8:6 'Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah, 8:7 therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the River - the king of Assyria with all his pomp. It will overflow all its channels, run over all its banks 8:8 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, O Immanuel !' 8:9 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! 8:10 Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us. 8:11 The Lord spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people. He said: 8:12 'Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy ; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. 8:13 The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread, 8:14 and he will be a sanctuary; but for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare. 8:15 Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured.' 8:16 Bind up the testimony and seal up the law among my disciples. 8:17 I will wait for the Lord , who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in him. 8:18 Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion. 8:19 When men tell 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? 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. 8:21 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. 8:22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.