Old Testament · Prophets

Isaiah chapter 8

Yahweh told me, “Take a large and write on it in : ‘Belonging to Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.’”I called in — Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.Then I slept with , and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Yahweh told me, “Name him .”Because before the boy knows how to cry ‘!’ or ‘Mommy!’, the wealth of and the plunder of will be carried off to the king of Assyria.Yahweh spoke to me again:“Because this people has rejected and melts in fear before and ,”“watch — the Lord is about to bring against them — the king of Assyria in all his overwhelming power. It will rise over all its channels and spill over all its banks.”“It will sweep into Judah, flooding and overflowing, . Its spreading wings will fill the entire breadth of your land, !”Rage all you want, you peoples — you will be . Listen, all you distant lands — strap on your armor — you will be shattered. Strap on your armor — you will be shattered.Hatch your schemes — they will fall apart. Make your plans — they won’t stand. Because .This is what Yahweh said to me, , warning me not to walk the same road as this people:“Don’t call everything a just because this people calls it a conspiracy. Don’t share their fears. Don’t be terrified.”It is you should . He is the one you should fear. He is the one who should make you tremble.He will be , but also a stone that makes people stumble, a rock that makes them fall. For , a trap and a snare. For those who live in Jerusalem, a tripwire.“Many will stumble over him. They will fall and be broken. They will be trapped and caught.”Bind up this . Seal this among my .I will wait for Yahweh, who is from the . I will put my hope in him.Look — here I am, together with the children Yahweh has given me. We are in Israel, sent by Yahweh of Armies, who lives on .When they tell you, “Go consult the and the — the ones who ” — shouldn’t a people consult their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?Turn to the teaching, turn to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, it is because there is for them.They will wander through the land, and starving. And when their hunger makes them rage, they will curse their king and their God, turning their faces upward —then look toward the earth — and see only , the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into .