Isaiah Chapter 8 (NIV)
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Assyria, the Lord’s InstrumentThe Lord said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.
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And I will call in Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me.”
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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.
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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.”
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The Lord spoke to me again:
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“Because this people has rejectedthe gently flowing waters of Shiloahand rejoices over Rezinand the son of Remaliah,
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therefore the Lord is about to bring against themthe mighty floodwaters of the River—the king of Assyria with all his pomp.It will overflow all its channels,run over all its banks
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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!”
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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!
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Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;propose your plan, but it will not stand,for God is with us.
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Fear GodThe Lord spoke to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people. He said:
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“Do not call conspiracyeverything that these people call conspiracy;do not fear what they fear,and do not dread it.
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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,
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and he will be a sanctuary;but for both houses of Israel he will bea stone that causes men to stumbleand a rock that makes them fall.And for the people of Jerusalem he will bea trap and a snare.
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Many of them will stumble;they will fall and be broken,they will be snared and captured.”
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Bind up the testimonyand seal up the law among my disciples.
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I will wait for the Lord,who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob.I will put my trust in him.
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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.
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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?
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To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
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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.
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Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.
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