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== Yeshayahu (Book of Isaiah), Chapter 8 ==

<named id="1"/>1 And HaShem said unto me: 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it in common script: The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth;

<named id="2"/>2 and I will take unto Me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.'

<named id="3"/>3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said HaShem unto me: 'Call his name Maher-shalal-hashbaz.

<named id="4"/>4 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 carried away before the king of Assyria.'

<named id="5"/>5 And HaShem spoke unto me yet again, saying:

<named id="6"/>6 Forasmuch as this people hath refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoiceth with Rezin and Remaliah's son;

<named id="7"/>7 Now therefore, behold, the L-rd bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, mighty 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;

<named id="8"/>8 And he shall sweep through Judah overflowing as he passeth through he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

<named id="9"/>9 Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

<named id="10"/>10 Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for G-d is with us.

<named id="11"/>11 For HaShem spoke thus to me with a strong hand, admonishing me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:

<named id="12"/>12 'Say ye not: A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people do say: A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor account it dreadful.

<named id="13"/>13 HaShem of hosts, Him shall ye sanctify; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.

<named id="14"/>14 And 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 gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

<named id="15"/>15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.'

<named id="16"/>16 'Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.'

<named id="17"/>17 And I will wait for HaShem, that hideth His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him.

<named id="18"/>18 Behold, I and the children whom HaShem hath given me shall be for signs and for wonders in Israel from HaShem of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

<named id="19"/>19 And when they shall say unto you: 'Seek unto the ghosts and the familiar spirits, that chirp and that mutter; should not a people seek unto their G-d? on behalf of the living unto the dead

<named id="20"/>20 for instruction and for testimony?' --Surely they will speak according to this word, wherein there is no light.--

<named id="21"/>21 And they shall pass this way that are sore bestead and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their G-d, and, whether they turn their faces upward,

<named id="22"/>22 or look unto the earth, behold distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and outspread thick darkness.

== See also ==
* [[Yeshayahu 7|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Yeshayahu 8 Commentaries]]
* [[Yeshayahu 9|Next Chapter]]

== References ==
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