Isaiah Chapter 8

• Isaiah 8:1
  Isaiah.
• Isaiah 8:2
  The LORD said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’;
• Isaiah 8:3
  and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”
• Isaiah 8:4
  I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’
• Isaiah 8:5
  For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king...
• Isaiah 8:6
  The LORD spoke to me yet again, saying,
• Isaiah 8:7
  “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
• Isaiah 8:8
  now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all...
• Isaiah 8:9
  It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the widt...
• Isaiah 8:10
  Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be...
• Isaiah 8:11
  Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
• Isaiah 8:12
  For the LORD spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
• Isaiah 8:13
  “Don’t call a conspiracy all that this people call a conspiracy. Don’t fear their threats or be terrorized.
• Isaiah 8:14
  The LORD of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
• Isaiah 8:15
  He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he w...
• Isaiah 8:16
  Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”
• Isaiah 8:17
  Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.
• Isaiah 8:18
  I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
• Isaiah 8:19
  Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.
• Isaiah 8:20
  When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with the...
• Isaiah 8:21
  Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
• Isaiah 8:22
  They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse their king and their God. ...
• Isaiah 8:23
  then look to the earth and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.