Isaiah 8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
Isaiah 8

¹ Then the Lord said to me, ‘Take a large piece of parchment  and write on it with an ordinary pen:  , Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

² I have appointed  trustworthy witnesses #– #the priest Uriah and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.’

³ I was then intimate with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The Lord said to me, ‘Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

⁴ for before the boy knows how to call “Father”, or “Mother”,  the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria.’

⁵ The Lord spoke to me again:

⁶ Because these people rejected the slowly flowing water of Shiloah and rejoiced with   Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

⁷ the Lord will certainly bring against them the mighty rushing water of the River Euphrates – the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will overflow its channels and spill over all its banks.

⁸ It will pour into Judah, flood over it, and sweep through, reaching up to the neck; and its flooded banks will fill your entire land, Immanuel!

⁹ Band together,  peoples, and be broken; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for war, and be broken; prepare for war, and be broken.

¹⁰ Devise a plan; it will fail. Make a prediction; it will not happen. For God is with us.  ,

¹¹ For this is what the Lord said to me with great power, to keep  me from going the way of this people:

¹² Do not call everything a conspiracy that these people say is a conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not be terrified.

¹³ You are to regard only the  Lord of Armies as holy. Only he should be feared; only he should be held in awe.

¹⁴ He will be a sanctuary; but for the two houses of Israel, he will be a stone  to stumble over and a rock to trip over, and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹⁵ Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be snared and captured.

¹⁶ Bind up the testimony. Seal up the instruction  among my disciples.

¹⁷ I will wait for the  Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will wait for him.

¹⁸ Here I am with the children the Lord has given me  to be signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of Armies who dwells on Mount Zion.

¹⁹ When they say to you, ‘Enquire of the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,’  shouldn’t a people enquire of their God?  Should they enquire of the dead on behalf of the living?

²⁰ Go to God’s instruction and testimony!  If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

²¹ They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upwards, will curse their king and their God.

²² They will look towards the earth  and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.