Isaiah 8 - Prayer Tents

8The LORD said to me, "Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz."H3068H559H3947H1419H1549H3789H582H2747H4122 2So I called in Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me.H5749H539H5707H5749H223H3548H2148H1121H3000 3Then I made love to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the LORD said to me, "Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.H7126H5031H2029H3205H1121H559H3068H7121H8034H4122 4Before the boy knows how to say 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria."H5288H3045H7121H1H517H2428H1834H7998H8111H5375H6440H4428H804 5The LORD spoke to me again:H3068H1696H3254H559 6"Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,H3282H5971H3988H4325H7975H1980H328H4885H7526H7425H1121 7therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria with all his pomp. It will overflow all its channels, run over all its banksH136H5927H4325H5104H6099H7227H4428H804H3519H5927H650H1980H1415 8and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it, passing through it and reaching up to the neck. Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land, Immanuel !"H2498H3063H7857H5674H5060H6677H4298H3671H4393H7341H776H6005H410 9Raise the war cry, you nations, and be shattered! Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, and be shattered! Prepare for battle, and be shattered!H7489H5971H2865H238H3605H4801H776H247H2865H247H2865 10Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us.H5779H6098H5779H6565H1696H1697H6965H410 11This is what the LORD says to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people:H3068H559H2393H3027H3256H3212H1870H5971H559 12"Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.H559H7195H5971H559H7195H3372H4172H6206 13The LORD Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread.H6942H3068H6635H4172H6206 14He will be a holy place; for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.H4720H68H5063H6697H4383H8147H1004H3478H6341H4170H3427H3389 15Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured."H7227H3782H5307H7665H3369H3920 16Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God's instruction among my disciples.H6887H8584H2856H8451H3928 17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.H2442H3068H5641H6440H1004H3290H6960 18Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.H3206H3068H5414H226H4159H3478H3068H6635H7931H2022H6726 19When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?H559H1875H178H3049H6850H1897H5971H1875H430H2416H4191 20Consult God's instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.H8451H8584H559H1697H7837 21Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.H5674H7185H7457H7456H7107H7043H4428H430H6437H4605 22Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.H5027H776H6869H2825H4588H6695H5080H653