Yeshayahu - Chapter 8

1. And the Lord said to me, "Take for yourself a large scroll, and write on it in common script, to hasten loot, speed the spoils.

2. And I will call to testify for Myself trustworthy witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."

3. And I was intimate with the prophetess, and she conceived, and she bore a son, and the Lord said to me, "Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

4. For, when the lad does not yet know to call, 'Father' and 'mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria shall be carried off before the king of Assyria."

5. And the Lord continued to speak to me further, saying:

6. "Since this people has rejected the waters of the Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

7. Therefore, behold the Lord is bringing up on them the mighty and massive waters of the river-the king of Assyria and all his wealth, and it will overflow all its distributaries and go over all its banks.

8. And it will penetrate into Judah, overflowing as it passes through, up to the neck it will reach; and the tips of his wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.

9. Join together, O peoples, and be broken, hearken, all you of distant countries. Gird yourselves and be broken, gird yourselves and be broken.

10. Take counsel and it will be foiled; speak a word and it will not succeed, for God is with us.

11. So has the Lord spoken to me with the overwhelming power of prophecy, and He admonished me from going in the way of this people, saying:

12. 'You shall not call a band everything that this people calls a band; and you shall not fear what it fears nor attribute strength to it.

13. The Lord of Hosts-Him shall you fear, and He is your fear, and He gives you strength.

14. And it shall be for a portent and a stone upon which to dash oneself and for a rock upon which to stumble for the two houses of Israel, who came to be for a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15. And many shall stumble upon them, and fall and be broken, and be trapped and caught.

16. Bind this warning, seal the Torah in My disciples.'

17. And I will wait for the Lord, Who hides His countenance from the House of Jacobs and I will hope for Him.

18. Behold, I and the children whom the Lord gave me for signs and for tokens in Israel, from the Lord of Hosts, Who dwells on Mount Zion.

19. And when they say to you, "Inquire of the necromancers and those who divine by Jidoa bone, who chirp and who mutter." "Does not this people inquire of its God? For the living, shall we inquire of the dead

20. For the Torah and for the warning?" If they will not say the likes of the thing, that it has no light.

21. And the one who passes therein shall suffer hardships and hunger, and it shall come to pass, when he is hungry and wroth, that he shall curse his king and his god and face upwards.

22. And he shall look to the land, and behold, distress and darkness, weariness of oppression, and to the darkness he is lost.

23. For there is no weariness to the one who oppresses her; like the first time, he dealt mildly, [exiling only] the land of Zebulun and the land of Naftali, and the last one he dealt harshly, the way of the sea, and the other side of the Jordan, the attraction of the nations.