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8:1  Then the LORD said to me, "Take a large piece of parchment and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
8:2  I have appointed trustworthy witnesses--Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah."
8:3  I 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,
8:4  for 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."
8:5  The LORD spoke to me again:
8:6  Because these people rejected the slowly flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
8:7  the 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.
8:8  It 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!
8:9  Band together, peoples, and be broken; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for war, and be broken; prepare for war, and be broken.
8:10  Devise a plan; it will fail. Make a prediction; it will not happen. For God is with us.
8:11  For this is what the LORD said to me with great power, to keep me from going the way of this people:
8:12  Do not call everything an alliance these people say is an alliance. Do not fear what they fear; do not be terrified.
8:13  You are to regard only the LORD of Hosts as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be held in awe.
8:14  He 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.
8:15  Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be snared and captured.
8:16  Bind up the testimony. Seal up the instruction among my disciples.
8:17  I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will wait for Him.
8:18  Here 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.
8:19  When 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?
8:20  To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.
8:21  They 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.
8:22  They will look toward the earth and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.