| New Living Translation | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Then the LORD said to me, “Make a large signboard and clearly write this name on it: Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ” | 1Then the LORD said to me, "Take a large piece of parchment and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-shalal-hash-baz. |
| 2I asked Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah, both known as honest men, to witness my doing this. | 2I have appointed trustworthy witnesses--Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah." |
| 3Then I slept with my wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. And the LORD said, “Call him Maher-shalal-hash-baz. | 3I was then intimate with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, "Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz, |
| 4For before this child is old enough to say ‘Papa’ or ‘Mama,’ the king of Assyria will carry away both the abundance of Damascus and the riches of Samaria.” | 4for before the boy knows how to call out father or mother, the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria." |
| 5Then the LORD spoke to me again and said, | 5The LORD spoke to me again: |
| 6“My care for the people of Judah is like the gently flowing waters of Shiloah, but they have rejected it. They are rejoicing over what will happen to King Rezin and King Pekah. | 6Because these people rejected the slowly flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced with Rezin and the son of Remaliah, |
| 7Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a mighty flood from the Euphrates River —the king of Assyria and all his glory. This flood will overflow all its channels | 7the Lord will certainly bring against them the mighty rushing waters of the Euphrates River-- the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will overflow its channels and spill over all its banks. |
| 8and sweep into Judah until it is chin deep. It will spread its wings, submerging your land from one end to the other, O Immanuel. | 8It will pour into Judah, flood over it, and sweep through, reaching up to the neck; and its spreading streams will fill your entire land, Immanuel! |
| 9“Huddle together, you nations, and be terrified. Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, but you will be crushed! Yes, prepare for battle, but you will be crushed! | 9Band together, peoples, and be broken; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for war, and be broken; prepare for war, and be broken. |
| 10Call your councils of war, but they will be worthless. Develop your strategies, but they will not succeed. For God is with us! ” A Call to Trust the LORD | 10Devise a plan; it will fail. Make a prediction; it will not happen. For God is with us. |
| 11The LORD has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said, | 11For this is what the LORD said to me with great power, to keep me from going the way of this people: |
| 12“Don’t call everything a conspiracy, like they do, and don’t live in dread of what frightens them. | 12Do not call everything an alliance these people say is an alliance. Do not fear what they fear; do not be terrified. |
| 13Make the LORD of Heaven’s Armies holy in your life. He is the one you should fear. He is the one who should make you tremble. | 13You are to regard only the LORD of Hosts as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be held in awe. |
| 14He will keep you safe. But to Israel and Judah he will be a stone that makes people stumble, a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare. | 14He will be a sanctuary; but for the two houses of Israel, He will be a stone to stumble over and a rock to trip over, and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. |
| 15Many will stumble and fall, never to rise again. They will be snared and captured.” | 15Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be snared and captured. |
| 16Preserve the teaching of God; entrust his instructions to those who follow me. | 16Bind up the testimony. Seal up the instruction among my disciples. |
| 17I will wait for the LORD, who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my hope in him. | 17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will wait for Him. |
| 18I and the children the LORD has given me serve as signs and warnings to Israel from the LORD of Heaven’s Armies who dwells in his Temple on Mount Zion. | 18Here I am with the children the LORD has given me to be signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of Hosts who dwells on Mount Zion. |
| 19Someone may say to you, “Let’s ask the mediums and those who consult the spirits of the dead. With their whisperings and mutterings, they will tell us what to do.” But shouldn’t people ask God for guidance? Should the living seek guidance from the dead? | 19When they say to you, "Consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who chirp and mutter," shouldn't a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? |
| 20Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark. | 20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them. |
| 21They will go from one place to another, weary and hungry. And because they are hungry, they will rage and curse their king and their God. They will look up to heaven | 21They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God. |
| 22and down at the earth, but wherever they look, there will be trouble and anguish and dark despair. They will be thrown out into the darkness. | 22They will look toward the earth and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness. |
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