Chapter 8.
Moreover, the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it
with a man's pen concerning Meher-shal-al-hashbaz.
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah
the son of Jeberechiah.
And I went unto the prophetess, and she conceived, and bare a son.
Then the Lord said to me, Call his name Meher-shal-al-hashbaz.
For 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.
The Lord spake also unto me again, saying, Forasmuch as this people refuseth
the waters of Shiloh, that go softly, and rejoice in Rezan and Remeliah's son,
now therefore behold the Lord bringeth 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, and 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 thy land, O Immanuel.
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces,
and give ear, all ye of far countries.
Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught.
Speak the word, and it shall not stand.
For God is with us.
For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I
should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Say ye not a confederacy to all
them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy?
Neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself, and let him be your fear, and let him be
your dread.
And he shall be for a sanctuary, but for a stone of stumbling, and for a
rock of offense, to both the houses of Israel, for a gin, and for a snare to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared,
and be taken.
Bind up the testimony.
Seal the law among my disciples.
And I will wait upon the Lord that hideth his face from the house of Jacob,
and I will look for him.
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs, and for
wonders in Israel, from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in Mount Zion.
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits,
and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter.
Should not a people seek unto their God?
For the living to the dead, to the law, and to the testimony?
If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
And 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.
And they shall look unto the earth, and behold trouble and darkness,
dimness of anguish.
And they shall be driven to darkness.