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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The LORD also told me, "Take a large tablet and write on it with a stylus pen, 'For Maher-shalal-hash-baz'. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Then I will call Uriah the priest and Jeberechiah's son Zechariah as reliable witnesses to testify on my behalf." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3After this, I was intimate with the prophetess and she conceived. Later, she bore a son, and then the LORD told me, "Call him 'Maher-shalal-hash-baz,' |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4for before the young lad knows how to call out to his father or mother, the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The LORD spoke to me again: |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Because this people have rejected the gently-flowing waters of Shiloah, and because they keep rejoicing in Rezin and Remaliah's son, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7watch out! The LORD God is about to bring the flood waters of the Euphrates River against them, mighty and strong. "It's the king of Assyria and all of his arrogance! He will rise over all of the river's channels and run over all of its banks. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He will sweep on into Judah, overflowing as he passes through, like flood waters reaching up to a person's neck. His outstretched wings will flow as wide as your land, O Immanuel!" |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Band together, you peoples, but be shattered! Listen, all you distant countries! Strap on your armor, but be shattered. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Take counsel together, but it will all be for nothing; go ahead and talk, but it will all be for nothing, for God is with us." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For this is what the LORD spoke to me, as his forceful hand was resting on me, and as he was warning me not to live the way this people were living: |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Don't call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy, and don't fear what they fear, or live in terror. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The LORD of the Heavenly Armies— he's the one you are to regard as holy. Let him be the one whom you fear, and let him be the one before whom you stand in terror! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Then he will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel he'll also be a stone with which someone strikes himself, a rock one stumbles over, a trap and a snare to those who live in Jerusalem. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Many will stumble on them; They'll fall and be broken; They'll be snared and captured. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Bind up the testimony, and seal up the teaching among my disciples. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I'll wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I'll put my trust in him. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Watch out! I and the children whom the LORD has given me are a sign and a wonder in Israel from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, who resides on Mount Zion." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"So when they advise you, 'Ask the mediums your questions, and quiz the spiritists who chirp and mutter,' shouldn't a people instead be consulting their God— and not the dead— on behalf of those who are living |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20for instruction and for testimony? Surely they are speaking like this because the truth hasn't dawned on them. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"They'll pass through the land, while greatly distressed and hungry. When they are hungry, they'll become enraged, and they'll curse their king and their god. They'll turn their faces upwards, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22or they'll look toward the earth, but they'll see only distress and darkness, the gloom that comes from anguish, and then they'll be thrown into total darkness." |
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