{"book":"Isaiah","slug":"isaiah","ch":8,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Isaiah","prev":"isaiah/7","next":"isaiah/9","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"Then the LORD said to me,“ Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.","f":["Hebrew with a man’s","Maher-shalal-hash-baz means The spoil speeds, the prey hastens or Swift to plunder, quick to carry away; also in verse 3."],"h":"Assyrian Invasion Prophesied","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses — Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”","f":[]},{"v":3,"t":"And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me,“ Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":4,"t":"For before the boy knows how to cry ‘ Father ’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”","f":[]},{"v":5,"t":"And the LORD spoke to me further:","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":6,"t":"“ Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"“ Because this people has rejected"},{"style":"indent2","t":"the gently flowing waters of Shiloah"},{"style":"indent1","t":"and rejoiced in Rezin"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and the son of Remaliah,"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":7,"t":"the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates — the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.","f":["Hebrew the River"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"the Lord will surely bring against them"},{"style":"indent2","t":"the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates —"},{"style":"indent2","t":"the king of Assyria and all his pomp."},{"style":"indent1stline","t":"It will overflow its channels"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and overrun its banks."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":8,"t":"It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!","f":["Immanuel means God with us."],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"It will pour into Judah,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"swirling and sweeping over it,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"reaching up to the neck;"},{"style":"indent1","t":"its spreading streams will cover"},{"style":"indent2","t":"your entire land, O Immanuel!"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":9,"t":"Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!","f":["Or Raise the war cry or Be evil or Be broken"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"pay attention, all you distant lands;"},{"style":"indent1","t":"prepare for battle, and be shattered;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"prepare for battle, and be shattered!"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":10,"t":"Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”","f":["Hebrew Immanuel; see Matthew 1:23."],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"state a proposal, but it will not happen."},{"style":"indent2","t":"For God is with us.”"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":11,"t":"For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:","f":[],"h":"A Call to Fear God","style":"reg"},{"v":12,"t":"“ Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.","f":["Or Do not fear their threats","LXX do not be shaken; cited in 1 Peter 3:14"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"“ Do not call conspiracy"},{"style":"indent2","t":"everything these people regard as conspiracy."},{"style":"indent1","t":"Do not fear what they fear;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"do not live in dread."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":13,"t":"The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The LORD of Hosts is the One"},{"style":"indent2","t":"you shall regard as holy."},{"style":"indent1","t":"Only He should be feared;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"only He should be dreaded."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":14,"t":"And He will be a sanctuary — but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.","f":["Cited in Romans 9:33 and 1 Peter 2:8"],"lines":[{"style":"indent2","t":"And He will be a sanctuary —"},{"style":"indent1","t":"but to both houses of Israel"},{"style":"indent2","t":"a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"to the dwellers of Jerusalem"},{"style":"indent2","t":"a trap and a snare."}],"style":"indent2"},{"v":15,"t":"Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Many will stumble over these;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they will fall and be broken;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they will be ensnared and captured.”"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":16,"t":"Bind up the testimony [and] seal the law among my disciples.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Bind up the testimony"},{"style":"indent2","t":"[and] seal the law among my disciples."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":17,"t":"I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.","f":["Or I will eagerly look for Him; cited in Hebrews 2:13"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"I will wait for the LORD,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob."},{"style":"indent2","t":"I will put my trust in Him."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":18,"t":"Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.","f":["Cited in Hebrews 2:13"],"style":"reg"},{"v":19,"t":"When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God [instead]? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?","f":[],"h":"Darkness and Light","style":"reg"},{"v":20,"t":"To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.","f":[]},{"v":21,"t":"They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":22,"t":"Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.","f":[]}]}