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    Isaiah 8

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    A name long enough for a scroll is written down, then put upon a newborn child: Maher-shalal-hash-baz. The ordinary stylus is asked to carry an extraordinary piece of luggage.

    The name and the floodvv. 1–10

    The LORD orders the name onto a large scroll in an ordinary hand, appointing Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as witnesses. Then the prophetess bears a son and receives the same formidable name for him. Before the child can say “Father” or “Mother,” Damascus and Samaria will be plundered by Assyria. The gently flowing waters of Shiloah are rejected in favour of Rezin and the son of Remaliah, so the Euphrates arrives in full imperial flood, pouring into Judah up to the neck. The nations are summoned to battle, but the summons immediately trips over its own conclusion: prepare for battle, and be shattered—twice. Plans fail, proposals fail, and the little sentence at the end stands like a flag in the wreckage: God is with us.

    Sanctuary, snare, and utter darknessvv. 11–22

    With a strong hand, the LORD instructs the prophet not to follow the people's fears or call every fearsome thing a conspiracy. The LORD of Hosts is to be regarded as holy; yet the holy presence becomes, for the two houses of Israel, a stumbling stone and rock of offence, and for Jerusalem's dwellers, a trap and a snare. The testimony is bound up and the law sealed among the disciples, while the prophet waits for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. He and the children given to him stand as signs and symbols in Israel. Then come the whispering mediums and spiritists, and the brisk question of why the living should consult the dead. Those who reject the law and testimony find no dawn: only hunger, rage, curses, distress, darkness, and finally utter darkness.

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    1. Isa 8:1Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

    2. Isa 8:2And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”

    3. Isa 8:3And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

    4. Isa 8:4For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”

    5. Isa 8:5And the LORD spoke to me further:

    6. Isa 8:6“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

    7. Isa 8:7the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.

    8. Isa 8:8It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!

    9. Isa 8:9Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!

    10. Isa 8:10Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”

    11. Isa 8:11For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:

    12. Isa 8:12“Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.

    13. Isa 8:13The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.

    14. Isa 8:14And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.

    15. Isa 8:15Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”

    16. Isa 8:16Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.

    17. Isa 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.

    18. Isa 8:18Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

    19. Isa 8:19When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

    20. Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

    21. Isa 8:21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

    22. Isa 8:22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

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    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 318 passages were voted onto 22 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 10Lamentations 3:37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
    • 10Romans 8:31What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
    • 10Job 5:12He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
    • 17Hebrews 10:36–39You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
    • 17Habakkuk 2:3For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.
    • 10Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
    • 102 Samuel 15:31Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
    • 10Isaiah 7:5–7For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted your ruin, saying:
    • 10Psalms 33:10–11The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
    • 17Lamentations 3:25–26The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
    • 17Isaiah 25:9And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
    • 17Psalms 33:20Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.
    • 10Deuteronomy 20:1When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.
    • 102 Chronicles 13:12Now behold, God Himself is with us as our head, and His priests with their trumpets sound the battle call against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers, for you will not succeed.”
    • 10Joshua 1:5No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
    • 18Hebrews 2:13–14And again: “I will put My trust in Him.” And once again: “Here am I, and the children God has given Me.”

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