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1 The LORD also told me, |Take a large tablet and write on it with a stylus pen, 'For Maher-shalal-hash-baz'. Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large tablet and write on it in common characters, ‘Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’ The LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.”
2 Then I will call Uriah the priest and Jeberechiah's son Zechariah as reliable witnesses to testify on my behalf.| And I will get reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me.” So I called in Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me.
3 After 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,' And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, “Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz; Then 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.
4 for 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.| for before the boy knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.” For before 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.”
5 The LORD spoke to me again: The LORD spoke to me again: The LORD spoke to me again:
6 |Because this people have rejected the gently-flowing waters of Shiloah, and because they keep rejoicing in Rezin and Remaliah's son, “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over Rezin and the son of Remaliah, “Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
7 watch 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. therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks, therefore 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 banks
8 He 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!| and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.” and 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!”
9 |Band together, you peoples, but be shattered! Listen, all you distant countries! Strap on your armor, but be shattered. Be broken, you peoples, and be shattered; give ear, all you far countries; strap on your armor and be shattered; strap on your armor and be shattered. Raise 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!
10 Take 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.| Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us. Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
11 For 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: For the LORD spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: This is what the LORD says to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people:
12 |Don't call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy, and don't fear what they fear, or live in terror. “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. “Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.
13 The 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! But the LORD of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. The 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.
14 Then 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. And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He will be a holy place; for both Israel and Judah 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.
15 Many will stumble on them; They'll fall and be broken; They'll be snared and captured. And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.” Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured.”
16 |Bind up the testimony, and seal up the teaching among my disciples. Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples. Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God’s instruction among my disciples.
17 I'll wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I'll put my trust in him. I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him. I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.
18 Watch 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.| Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion. Here 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.
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 And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living? When 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?
20 for instruction and for testimony? Surely they are speaking like this because the truth hasn't dawned on them. To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
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, They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward. Distressed 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.
22 or 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.| And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness. Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.
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