ISA-8:1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll,

and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

ISA-8:2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah

the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

ISA-8:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and

bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name

Mahershalalhashbaz.

ISA-8:4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My

father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of

Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

ISA-8:5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,

ISA-8:6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah

that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

ISA-8:7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them

the waters of the river, strong and many, [even] the king of

Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his

channels, and go over all his banks:

ISA-8:8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and

go over, he shall reach [even] to the neck; and the stretching

out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

ISA-8:9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be

broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird

yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves,

and ye shall be broken in pieces.

ISA-8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought;

speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us.

ISA-8:11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and

instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people,

saying,

ISA-8:12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all [them to] whom this

people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor

be afraid.

ISA-8:13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and [let] him [be]

your fear, and [let] him [be] your dread.

ISA-8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of

stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel,

 for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

ISA-8:15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be

broken, and be snared, and be taken.

ISA-8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

ISA-8:17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face

from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

ISA-8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me

[are] for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts,

 which dwelleth in mount Zion.

ISA-8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that

have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that

mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living

to the dead?

ISA-8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not

according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in

them.

ISA-8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and

hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be

hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and

their God, and look upward.

ISA-8:22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble

and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to

darkness. 

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