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1Then Yahweh said to me, “Take yourself a large tablet and write on it with a common stylus pen: Maher-Halal-Hash-Baz.
2And I will require reliable witnesses as a witness for me: Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”
3And I approached the prophetess, and she conceived, and she gave birth to a son. And Yahweh said to me, “Call his name Maher-Halal-Hash-Baz.
4For before the boy knows to call ‘my father’ and ‘my mother,’ one will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria.”
5And Yahweh continued to speak to me again, saying,
6“Because this people has refused the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
7therefore look! The Lord is bringing up the waters of the great and mighty river against them, the king of Assyria and all his glory.
And he will rise above all his channels,
8And he will sweep into Judah;
He will reach, and he will spread his wings out over your entire land, God with us.”
9Be broken, you peoples, and be dismayed.
gird yourselves and be dismayed;
10Make a plan, but it will be frustrated![#Literally “Plan counsel”]
11For Yahweh said this to me while his hand weighed heavily on me,[#Literally “with the strength of the hand”]
12“You must not call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy,
13You shall regard Yahweh of hosts as holy,
14And he will become like a sanctuary and a stumbling-stone,
15And many shall stumble among them,
16Bind up the testimony;
17And I will wait for Yahweh,
and I will await him.
18Look! I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me are like signs and portents in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, the one who dwells on the mountain of Zion.
19Now if they tell you, “Consult the ghosts and the spirits, those who chirp and those who mutter. Should not a people consult its gods, the dead on behalf of the living,
20for teaching and for testimony?” surely they who speak like this have no dawn.[#Literally “if not, they say like this word that there is no dawn for him,” which could also mean “if not, let them say a word like this: that there is no dawn for him”]
21And it will pass through it distressed and hungry, and this shall happen: when it is hungry, it will be enraged, and it will curse its king and its gods, and it will face upwar[#That is, the nation; #That is, the land; #Or “God”]
22or look to the earth. But look! Distress and darkness, the gloom of affliction! And it will be thrust into darkness!