Isaiah 8
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Isaiah 8:1
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Then the LORD said to me, "Take for yourself a large tablet and write on it in ordinary letters: Swift is the booty, speedy is the prey.
Isaiah 8:2
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~"And I will take to Myself faithful witnesses for testimony, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."
Isaiah 8:3
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So 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 booty, speedy is the prey) Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
Isaiah 8:4
Isaiah 8:5
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Again the LORD spoke to me further, saying,
Isaiah 8:6
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"Inasmuch as these people have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah And rejoice in Rezin and the son of Remaliah;
Isaiah 8:7
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"Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the strong and abundant waters of the Euphrates, {Even} the king of Assyria and all his glory; And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks.
Isaiah 8:8
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"Then it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through, It will reach even to the neck; And the spread of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
Isaiah 8:9
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"Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered; And give ear, all remote places of the earth. Gird yourselves, yet be shattered; Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.
Isaiah 8:10
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"Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; State a proposal, but it will not stand, For God is with us."
Isaiah 8:11
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For thus the LORD spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
Isaiah 8:12
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"You are not to say, `{It is} a conspiracy!' In regard to all that this people call a conspiracy, And you are not to fear what they fear or be in dread of {it.}
Isaiah 8:13
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"It is the LORD of hosts whom you should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, And He shall be your dread.
Isaiah 8:14
Isaiah 8:15
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"Many will stumble over them, Then they will fall and be broken; They will even be snared and caught."
Isaiah 8:16
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Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
Isaiah 8:17
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And I will wait for the LORD who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even look eagerly for Him.
Isaiah 8:18
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Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
Isaiah 8:19
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When they say to you, "Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter," should not a people consult their God? {Should they} {consult} the dead on behalf of the living?
Isaiah 8:20
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To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
Isaiah 8:21
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They will pass through the land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse their king and their God as they face upward.
Isaiah 8:22
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Then they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and {they will be} driven away into darkness.
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