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Isaiah 8

Damascus and Samaria Fall

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Then the LORD said to me, "Take for yourself a large tablet and  awrite on it  1in ordinary letters:  2 bSwift is the booty, speedy is the prey.

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"And  1I will take to Myself faithful witnesses for testimony,  aUriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."

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So I approached the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. Then the LORD said to me, "Name him  1 aMaher-shalal-hash-baz;

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for  abefore the boy knows how to cry out `My father' or `My mother,' the wealth of  bDamascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."

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Again the LORD spoke to me further, saying,

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"Inasmuch as these people have  arejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah And rejoice in  bRezin and the son of Remaliah;

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"Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the  astrong and abundant waters of the  1 bEuphrates, Even the  cking of Assyria and all his glory; And it will  drise up over all its channels and go over all its banks.

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"Then  ait will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through, It will  breach even to the neck; And the spread of its wings will  1fill the breadth of  2your land, O  cImmanuel.

A Believing Remnant

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aBe broken, O peoples, and be  1 bshattered; And give ear, all remote places of the earth. Gird yourselves, yet be  1shattered; Gird yourselves, yet be  1shattered.

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aDevise a plan, but it will be thwarted; State a  1proposal, but  bit will not stand, For  2 cGod is with us."

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For thus the LORD spoke to me  1with  amighty power and instructed me  bnot to walk in the way of this people, saying,

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"You are not to say, `It is a  aconspiracy!' In regard to all that this people call a conspiracy, And  byou are not to fear  1what they fear or be in dread of it.

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"It is the  aLORD of hosts  bwhom you should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, And He shall be your dread.

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"Then He shall become a  asanctuary; But to both the houses of Israel, a  bstone to strike and a rock to stumble over, And a snare and a  ctrap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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"Many  awill stumble over them, Then they will fall and be broken; They will even be snared and caught."

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 aBind up the testimony,  bseal the  1law among  cmy disciples.

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And I will  await for the LORD  bwho is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even look eagerly for Him.

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 aBehold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for  bsigns and wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who  cdwells on Mount Zion.

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When they say to you, " aConsult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter," should not a people  bconsult their God? Should they  cconsult the dead on behalf of the living?

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To the  1 alaw and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because  bthey have no dawn.

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They will pass through  1the land  ahard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse  2their king and their God as they face upward.

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Then they will  alook to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be  bdriven away into darkness.



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