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Isaiah 8

  1. 1Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take you a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
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  2. 2And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
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  3. 3And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
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  4. 4For before the child shall have knowledge 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.
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  5. 5The LORD spoke also unto me again, saying,
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  6. 6Forasmuch as this people refuses the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
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  7. 7Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
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  8. 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.
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  9. 9Associate yourselves, O all of you people, and all of you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and all of you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and all of you shall be broken in pieces.
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  10. 10Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
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  11. 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,
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  12. 12Say all of you not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear all of you their fear, nor be afraid.
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  13. 13Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
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  14. 14And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a animal trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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  15. 15And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
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  16. 16Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
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  17. 17And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
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  18. 18Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwells in mount Zion.
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  19. 19And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mumble: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
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  20. 20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
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  21. 21And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
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  22. 22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
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