Isaiah 8

CLV(i) 1 And Yahweh is saying to me, "Take your large new roll, and write on it with the stylus of a mortal:To hasten-loot-hurry-plunder." 2 And I am causing to witness for me, faithful witnesses, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, son of Jeberechiah." 3 And I am coming near to the prophetess, and she is becoming pregnant, and is bearing a son. And Yahweh is saying to me, "Call his name, Maher-shalal-hash-baz." 4 For ere the lad will know how to call `abi' and `ami,' borne away shall be the estate of Damascus, and the loot of Samaria, before the king of Assyria." 5 And Yahweh is proceeding to speak to me further, saying, 6 Forasmuch as this people reject the waters of Shiloah which are going carefully, and are elated over Rezin and Remaliah's son, 7 wherefore, also, behold! My Lord is bringing up over them the waters of the stream, the staunch and the vast--the king of Assyria and all his glory. And up it goes over all its channels, and goes over all its banks." 8 And it passes on into Judah, overflows and passes till it will touch the neck. And its outstretched wings come to fill the width of your land. Emmanu-El." 9 Know, you peoples, and be dismayed! And give ear, all you far from the land! Belt yourselves and be dismayed! Belt yourselves and be dismayed!" 10 Counsel with counsel, yet it shall be annulled! Speak the word, yet it shall not be confirmed! For with us is El!" 11 For thus says Yahweh to me, as, with a steadfast hand, He disciplines me, lest I go in the way of this people, saying, 12 You shall not say what is obstinate, for all that this people are saying is obstinacy. And you shall not fear their fear nor be terrified." 13 Yahweh of hosts--Him shall you sanctify, and He shall be your fear, and He shall be your terror." 14 And if you trust Him, He comes to be for a Sanctuary, and not for a Stone to strike, nor for a Rock to stumble. Yet to the two houses of Jacob He is for a Snare, and for a Trap to the dwellers of Jerusalem." 15 And many among them stumble, and they fall and are broken, and they are trapped and seized." 16 Tie up the testimony, and seal the law among my learners, 17 I also tarry for Yahweh, the Concealer of His face from the house of Jacob, and my expectation is toward Him." 18 Behold! I and the boys whom Yahweh Elohim gives to me, are for signs and for miracles in the house of Israel, from Yahweh of hosts, the Tabernacler in mount Zion." 19 And in case they shall say to you, "Inquire of the mediums, and of the ventriloquists, and of the wizards, the chirpers and the cooers,Should not a people of its Elohim inquire? Who inquires about the living of the dead? 20 To the law and to the testimony! If they are not speaking according to this word, there is no bribe for them" 21 when hardship and famine pass through the land. And it comes, that it is famishing and wroth with itself, and it makes light of its king and his Elohim. Then it faces upward into the heavens above, 22 and beneath to the earth it will look, then behold! Distress and darkness, faintness of constraint, and the gloom of expulsion!"