Isaiah

8

¹Then the Lord said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.[ † ]Isaiah 30:8Habakkuk 2:2 ²And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”[ † ]2 Kings 16:10

³And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ⁴For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”[ † ]2 Kings 17:6Isaiah 7:162 Kings 15:29

⁵And the Lord spoke to me further:

⁶“Because this people has rejected

the gently flowing waters of Shiloah

and rejoiced in Rezin

and the son of Remaliah,

⁷the Lord will surely bring against them

the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—

the king of Assyria and all his pomp.

It will overflow its channels

and overrun its banks.

⁸It will pour into Judah,

swirling and sweeping over it,

reaching up to the neck;

its spreading streams will cover

your entire land, O Immanuel!

⁹Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered;

pay attention, all you distant lands;

prepare for battle, and be shattered;

prepare for battle, and be shattered!

¹⁰Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted;

state a proposal, but it will not happen.

For God is with us.”

¹¹For this is what the Lord has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:

¹²“Do not call conspiracy

everything these people regard as conspiracy.

Do not fear what they fear;

do not live in dread.

¹³The Lord of Hosts is the One

you shall regard as holy.

Only He should be feared;

only He should be dreaded.

¹⁴And He will be a sanctuary—

but to both houses of Israel

a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,

to the dwellers of Jerusalem

a trap and a snare.

¹⁵Many will stumble over these;

they will fall and be broken;

they will be ensnared and captured.”

¹⁶Bind up the testimony

and seal the law among my disciples.

¹⁷I will wait for the Lord,

who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob.

I will put my trust in Him.

¹⁸Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.[ † ]Hebrews 2:13Psalms 71:7

¹⁹When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?[ † ]1 Samuel 28:8Isaiah 29:4Psalms 106:28 ²⁰To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.[ † ]Isaiah 1:10Isaiah 8:16Luke 16:29Isaiah 8:22Micah 3:6

²¹They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.[ † ]Revelation 16:11 ²²Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.