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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then the LORD said to me, “Make a large signboard and clearly write this name on it: Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ” |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I asked Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah, both known as honest men, to witness my doing this. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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.” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then the LORD spoke to me again and said, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The LORD has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“Don’t call everything a conspiracy, like they do, and don’t live in dread of what frightens them. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Many will stumble and fall, never to rise again. They will be snared and captured.” |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Preserve the teaching of God; entrust his instructions to those who follow me. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I will wait for the LORD, who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my hope in him. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
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