Isaiah 8 Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Coming Assyrian Invasion

8 Then the Lord said to me, ‘Take a large piece of parchment^[a] and write on it with an ordinary pen:^[b]^(A) Maher-shalal-hash-baz.^[c] ²I have appointed^[d] trustworthy witnesses – the priest Uriah and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.’^(B)

³I 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, ⁴for before the boy knows how to call “Father”, or “Mother”,^(C) the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria.’^(D)

⁵The Lord spoke to me again:

⁶Because these people rejected
the slowly flowing water of Shiloah
and rejoiced with^[e] Rezin
and the son of Remaliah,^(E)
⁷the 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.
⁸It will pour into Judah,
flood over it, and sweep through,
reaching up to the neck;^(F)
and its flooded banks^[f]
will fill your entire land, Immanuel!^(G)

⁹Band together,^[g] peoples, and be broken;
pay attention, all you distant lands;
prepare for war, and be broken;
prepare for war, and be broken.
¹⁰Devise a plan; it will fail.^(H)
Make a prediction; it will not happen.
For God is with us.^[h]^(I)

The Lord of Armies, the Only Refuge

¹¹For this is what the Lord said to me with great power, to keep^[i] me from going the way of this people:^(J)

¹²Do not call everything a conspiracy
that these people say is a conspiracy.^(K)
Do not fear what they fear;^(L)
do not be terrified.
¹³You are to regard only the Lord of Armies as holy.^(M)
Only he should be feared;^(N)
only he should be held in awe.
¹⁴He will be a sanctuary;^(O)
but for the two houses of Israel,
he will be a stone^(P) to stumble over
and a rock to trip over,^(Q)
and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
¹⁵Many will stumble over these;^(R)
they will fall and be broken;
they will be snared and captured.

¹⁶Bind up the testimony.^(S)
Seal up the instruction^(T) among my disciples.
¹⁷I will wait for the Lord,^(U)
who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob.^(V)
I will wait for him.

¹⁸Here I am with the children the Lord has given me^(W) to be signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of Armies who dwells on Mount Zion. ¹⁹When they say to you, ‘Enquire of the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,’^(X) shouldn’t a people enquire of their God?^[j] Should they enquire of the dead on behalf of the living?^(Y) ²⁰Go to God’s instruction and testimony!^(Z) If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

²¹They 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. ²²They will look towards the earth^(AA) and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.

Footnotes

8:1 Hb obscure
8:1 Lit with the pen of a man
8:1 = Speeding to the Plunder, Hurrying to the Spoil
8:2 Vg; MT, one DSS ms read I will appoint; one DSS ms, LXX, Syr, Tg read Appoint
8:6 Or and rejoiced over
8:8 Lit its outspread wings
8:9 Or Raise the war cry,or Be shattered
8:10 Hb Immanuel
8:11 DSS; MT reads instruct
8:19 Or gods

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised (CSBA)

Isaiah 8 Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Coming Assyrian Invasion

The Lord of Armies, the Only Refuge

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