Isaiah 8

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1 And the LORD said unto me: Take thee a great roll, and write on it with a man: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son -
3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, my mother, --bogatstva Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be in front of the king of Assyria.
5 And the Lord spoke to me again, saying,
6 because this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
7 bring him water of the river strong and many, the Lord - the king of Assyria and all his glory; and it rises in all his channels, and deliver all its banks;
8 and go through Judah, overflow and rise - will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!

9 Warring peoples, but tremble, and attend all distant lands! Arm, but tremble; Arm, but tremble!
10 Take counsel together, but they fall; speak the word, but it will not stand: for God is with us!
eleven For so the LORD said to me, [holding me] a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, and said:
12 `Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls a conspiracy; and do not be afraid of what he is afraid, and not be afraid.
13 The Lord of hosts - his sacred honor, and he - your fear, and He - your dread
14 And he shall be a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many of them shall stumble and fall, and be broken and entangled in the network, and will be caught.

16 Bind up the testimony, seal the revelation of my disciples'.
17 So I hope in the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 So I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they say to you: Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, unto wizards that peep, and that mutter --togda answer: should not a people seek unto their God? ask whether the living to the dead?
20 [Contact] to the law and to the testimony. If they do not say how this word, there is no light in them.
21 And they shall wander the earth, brutally oppressed and hungry; and during the famine will be angry reproach their king and their God.
22 And take a look up, and see the land; and here - the grief and darkness, thick darkness, and will be driven to darkness. But there will always be darkness, where he now sgustel.

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