Isaiah 8
Damascus and Samaria Fall
1 Then the Lord said to me, “Take for yourself a large tablet and awrite on it ▼▼Lit with the stylus of man
in ordinary letters: ▼▼I.e., swift is the plunder, speedy is the prey
dMaher-shalal-hash-baz. 2And ▼▼Another reading is take for me
I will take to Myself faithful witnesses for testimony, fUriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.” 3So I approached the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, “Name him ▼▼I.e., swift is the plunder, speedy is the prey
hMaher-shalal-hash-baz; 4for ibefore the boy knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of jDamascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.” 5 Again the Lord spoke to me further, saying, 6 “Inasmuch as these people have krejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah
And rejoice in lRezin and the son of Remaliah;
7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the mstrong and abundant waters of the nEuphrates River,
That is, the oking of Assyria and all his glory;
And it will prise over all its channels and go over all its banks.
8 “Then qit will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through,
It will rreach as far as the neck;
And the spread of its wings will ▼
▼Lit be the fullness of
fill the expanse of ▼▼Or Your
your land, uImmanuel. A Believing Remnant
9 “ vBe broken, you peoples, and be ▼
▼Or dismayed
xshattered; And listen, all remote places of the earth.
▼
▼Lit Belt up your waist
Get ready, yet be ▼▼Or dismayed
shattered; ▼
▼Lit Belt up your waist
Get ready, yet be ▼▼Or dismayed
shattered. 10 “ acDevise a plan, but it will fail;
State a ▼
▼Lit word
proposal, but aeit will not stand, For ▼
▼Heb Immanu-el
agGod is with us.” 11 For so the Lord spoke to me ▼▼Lit according to the strength of hand
with aimighty power and instructed me ajnot to walk in the way of this people, saying, 12 “You are not to say, ‘It is a akconspiracy!’
Regarding everything that this people call a conspiracy,
And alyou are not to fear ▼
▼Lit their fear
what they fear or be in dread of it. 13 “It is the anLord of armies aowhom you are to regard as holy.
And He shall be your fear,
And He shall be your dread.
14 “Then He will become a apsanctuary;
But to both houses of Israel, He will be a aqstone of stumbling and a rock ▼
▼Or to trip on
of offense, And a snare and a astrap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 “Many atwill stumble over them,
Then they will fall and be broken;
They will be snared and caught.” 16 auBind up the testimony, avseal the ▼
▼Or teaching
Law among axmy disciples. 17And I will aywait for the Lord azwho is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will wait eagerly for Him. 18 baBehold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for bbsigns and wonders in Israel from the Lord of armies, who bcdwells on Mount Zion. 19 When they say to you, “ bdConsult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,” should a people not beconsult their God? Should they bfconsult the dead in behalf of the living? 20To the ▼▼Or teaching
bhLaw and to the testimony! If they do not speak in accordance with this word, it is because bithey have no dawn. 21They will pass through ▼▼Lit it
the land bkdejected and hungry, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will become enraged and curse ▼▼Or by their king
their king and their God as they face upward. 22Then they will bmlook to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be bndriven away into darkness.
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