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1Moreover the Lord said to me, Take for yourself a large book and write in it with a man’s pen: “Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.”[#Isa 30:8; #8:1 Lit. Swift is the plunder, speedy is the prey ; also in v. 3.]
2I will take to Myself faithful witnesses for testimony, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberekiah.[#2Ki 16:10–11]
3So I went in to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, Call his name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.[#8:3 See v. 1.]
4For before the child knows how to cry “My father” and “My mother,” the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
5The Lord spoke to me again, saying:
6Because this people refuses
the gently flowing waters of Shiloah
and rejoices in Rezin
and the son of Remaliah,
7now therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing upon them
the strong and plentiful waters of the Euphrates River,
even the king of Assyria and all his glory;
and he shall come up over all his channels
and go over all his banks.
8And he shall pass through Judah, he shall overflow and go over,
he shall reach even to the neck,
and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land,
O Immanuel.
9Be broken, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces.
And give ear, all you from far countries.
Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces;
gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces.
10Take counsel together, but it shall come to nothing;[#Job 5:12]
speak the word, but it shall not stand
for God is with us.
11For the Lord spoke thus to me with a strong hand and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:[#Eze 3:14]
12You should not say, “It is a conspiracy,”
concerning all that this people calls a conspiracy,
neither fear their threats
nor be afraid of them.
13Sanctify the Lord of Hosts Himself,
and let Him be your fear,
and let Him be your dread.
14He shall become a sanctuary,[#Eze 11:16]
but a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense
to both the houses of Israel,
and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15Many among them shall stumble
and fall and be broken
and be snared and be taken.
16Bind up the testimony;[#Da 12:4]
seal the law among My disciples.
17I will wait on the Lord ,
who hides His face from the house of Jacob,
and I will eagerly look for Him.
18Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of Hosts who dwells in Mount Zion.[#Lk 2:34; #Ps 9:11]
19When they say to you, “Seek after the mediums and the wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek after their God? Should they consult the dead for the living?[#Lev 20:6; Isa 19:3]
20To the law and to the testimony; if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.[#Mic 3:6; 2Pe 1:19]
21They shall pass through the land hard-pressed and hungry; when they are hungry, they shall be furious and curse their king and their God as they look upward.[#Isa 9:20]
22Then they shall look to the earth and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish. And they shall be driven away into darkness.[#Isa 5:30; Jer 13:16]