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8 : 1 Then theLordsaid to me,Take a large tabletand write on it in common characters,Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
8 : 2 AndI will get reliable witnesses,Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me.
8 : 3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then theLordsaid to me,Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
8 : 4 for before the boy knows how to cryMy fatherorMy mother,thewealth ofDamascus and the spoil ofSamaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.
8 : 5 TheLordspoke to me again:
8 : 6 Because this people has refused the waters ofShiloah that flow gently, and rejoice overRezin and the son of Remaliah,
8 : 7 therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against themthe waters ofthe River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And itwill rise over all its channels and go over all its banks,
8 : 8 and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on,reaching even to the neck, and itsoutspread wings will fill the breadth of your land,O Immanuel.
8 : 9 Be broken,you peoples, andbe shattered;give ear, all you far countries;strap on your armor and be shattered;strap on your armor and be shattered.
8 : 10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;speak a word,but it will not stand,for Godis with us.
8 : 11 For theLordspoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, andwarned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:
8 : 12 Do not callconspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, anddo not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.
8 : 13 But theLordof hosts,him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
8 : 14 And he will become asanctuary anda stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
8 : 15 And manyshall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.
8 : 16 Bind upthe testimony;seal the teachingamong my disciples.
8 : 17 I willwait for theLord, who ishiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
8 : 18 Behold, I andthe children whom theLordhas given me are signs and portents in Israel from theLordof hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
8 : 19 And when they say to you,Inquire of themediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire ofthe dead on behalf of the living?
8 : 20 To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have nodawn.
8 : 21 They will pass through the land,greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously againsttheir king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
8 : 22 And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust intothick darkness.