Isaiah 8

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Isaiah 8

Damascus and Samaria Fall

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1} Then the Lord said to me, “Take for yourself a large tablet and ^(A)write on it ^(a)in ordinary letters: ^(b)^(B)Swift is the booty, speedy is the prey. ^{Tools
2} And ^(c)I will take to Myself faithful witnesses for testimony, ^(C)Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.” ^{Tools
3} So I approached the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, “Name him ^(d)^(D)Maher-shalal-hash-baz; ^{Tools
4} for ^(E)before the boy knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of ^(F)Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”

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5} Again the Lord spoke to me further, saying,

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“Inasmuch as these people have ^(G)rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah
And rejoice in ^(H)Rezin and the son of Remaliah;

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“Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the ^(I)strong and abundant waters of the ^(e)^(J)Euphrates,
Even the ^(K)king of Assyria and all his glory;
And it will ^(L)rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks.

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“Then ^(M)it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through,
It will ^(N)reach even to the neck;
And the spread of its wings will ^(f)fill the breadth of ^(g)your land, O ^(O)Immanuel.

A Believing Remnant

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“^(P)Be broken, O peoples, and be ^(h)^(Q)shattered;
And give ear, all remote places of the earth.
Gird yourselves, yet be ⁽ⁱ⁾shattered;
Gird yourselves, yet be ^(j)shattered.

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“^(R)Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted;
State a ^(k)proposal, but ^(S)it will not stand,
For ^(l)^(T)God is with us.”

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11} For thus the Lord spoke to me ^(m)with ^(U)mighty power and instructed me ^(V)not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

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“You are not to say, ‘It is a ^(W)conspiracy!’
In regard to all that this people call a conspiracy,
And ^(X)you are not to fear ⁽ⁿ⁾what they fear or be in dread of it.

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“It is the ^(Y)Lord of hosts ^(Z)whom you should regard as holy.
And He shall be your fear,
And He shall be your dread.

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“Then He shall become a ^(AA)sanctuary;
But to both the houses of Israel, a ^(AB)stone to strike and a rock to stumble over,
And a snare and a ^(AC)trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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“Many ^(AD)will stumble over them,
Then they will fall and be broken;
They will even be snared and caught.”

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16} ^(AE)Bind up the testimony, ^(AF)seal the ^(o)law among ^(AG)my disciples. ^{Tools
17} And I will ^(AH)wait for the Lord ^(AI)who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even look eagerly for Him. ^{Tools
18} ^(AJ)Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for ^(AK)signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who ^(AL)dwells on Mount Zion.

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19} When they say to you, “^(AM)Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,” should not a people ^(AN)consult their God? Should they ^(AO)consult the dead on behalf of the living? ^{Tools
20} To the ^(p)^(AP)law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because ^(AQ)they have no dawn. ^{Tools
21} They will pass through ^(q)the land ^(AR)hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse ^(r)their king and their God as they face upward. ^{Tools
22} Then they will ^(AS)look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be ^(AT)driven away into darkness.

Footnotes:

a. Isaiah 8:1: ['Lit ', with the stylus of man]

b. Isaiah 8:1: ['Heb ', Maher-shalal-hash-baz]

c. Isaiah 8:2: ['Another reading is ', take for me]

d. Isaiah 8:3: ['I.e. swift is the booty, speedy is the prey']

e. Isaiah 8:7: ['Lit ', River]

f. Isaiah 8:8: ['Lit ', be the fullness of]

g. Isaiah 8:8: ['Or ', Your]

h. Isaiah 8:9: ['Or ', dismayed]

i. Isaiah 8:9: ['Or ', dismayed]

j. Isaiah 8:9: ['Or ', dismayed]

k. Isaiah 8:10: ['Lit ', word]

l. Isaiah 8:10: ['Heb ', Immanu-el]

m. Isaiah 8:11: ['Lit ', with strength of the hand]

n. Isaiah 8:12: ['Lit ', their fear]

o. Isaiah 8:16: ['Or ', teaching]

p. Isaiah 8:20: ['Or ', teaching]

q. Isaiah 8:21: ['Lit ', it]

r. Isaiah 8:21: ['Or ', by their king]

Cross references:

A. Isaiah 8:1: Isaiah 30:8; Habakkuk 2:2

B. Isaiah 8:1: Isaiah 8:3

D. Isaiah 8:3: Isaiah 8:1

E. Isaiah 8:4: Isaiah 7:16

F. Isaiah 8:4: Isaiah 7:8; Isaiah 7:9

G. Isaiah 8:6: Isaiah 1:20; Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 7:9; Isaiah 30:12

H. Isaiah 8:6: Isaiah 7:1

I. Isaiah 8:7: Isaiah 17:12; Isaiah 17:13

J. Isaiah 8:7: Isaiah 7:20; Isaiah 11:15

K. Isaiah 8:7: Isaiah 7:17; Isaiah 10:5

L. Isaiah 8:7: Amos 8:8; Amos 9:5

M. Isaiah 8:8: Isaiah 10:6

N. Isaiah 8:8: Isaiah 30:28

O. Isaiah 8:8: Isaiah 7:14

P. Isaiah 8:9: Isaiah 17:12-14

Q. Isaiah 8:9: Daniel 2:34; Daniel 2:35

R. Isaiah 8:10: Job 5:12; Isaiah 28:18

S. Isaiah 8:10: Isaiah 7:7

T. Isaiah 8:10: Isaiah 8:8; Romans 8:31

U. Isaiah 8:11: Ezekiel 3:14

V. Isaiah 8:11: Ezekiel 2:8

W. Isaiah 8:12: Isaiah 7:2; Isaiah 30:1

X. Isaiah 8:12: 1 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 3:15

Y. Isaiah 8:13: Isaiah 5:16; Isaiah 29:23

Z. Isaiah 8:13: Numbers 20:12

AA. Isaiah 8:14: Isaiah 4:6; Isaiah 25:4; Ezekiel 11:16

AB. Isaiah 8:14: Luke 2:34; Romans 9:33; 1 Peter 2:8

AC. Isaiah 8:14: Isaiah 24:17; Isaiah 24:18

AD. Isaiah 8:15: Isaiah 28:13; Isaiah 59:10; Luke 20:18; Romans 9:32

AE. Isaiah 8:16: Isaiah 8:1; Isaiah 8:2; Isaiah 29:11; Isaiah 29:12

AF. Isaiah 8:16: Daniel 12:4

AG. Isaiah 8:16: Isaiah 50:4

AH. Isaiah 8:17: Isaiah 25:9; Isaiah 30:18; Habakkuk 2:3

AI. Isaiah 8:17: Deuteronomy 31:17; Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 45:15; Isaiah 54:8

AJ. Isaiah 8:18: Hebrews 2:13

AK. Isaiah 8:18: Luke 2:34

AL. Isaiah 8:18: Psalm 9:11; Zechariah 8:3

AM. Isaiah 8:19: Leviticus 20:6; Leviticus 23:24; Isaiah 19:3; Isaiah 29:4; Isaiah 47:12; Isaiah 47:13

AN. Isaiah 8:19: Isaiah 30:2; Isaiah 45:11

AO. Isaiah 8:19: 1 Samuel 28:8-11

AP. Isaiah 8:20: Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah 8:16; Luke 16:29

AQ. Isaiah 8:20: Isaiah 8:22; Micah 3:6

AR. Isaiah 8:21: Isaiah 9:20; Isaiah 9:21

AS. Isaiah 8:22: Isaiah 5:30; Isaiah 59:9; Jeremiah 13:16; Amos 5:18; Amos 5:20; Zephaniah 1:14; Zephaniah 1:15

AT. Isaiah 8:22: Isaiah 8:20