Isaiah 8:1-10 — Legacy Standard Bible

The Coming Assyrian Invasion

8Then Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself a large tablet and ^awrite on it ¹in ordinary letters: ^bConcerning ²Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ²“And ¹I will take to Myself faithful witnesses for testimony, ^aUriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.” ³Then I drew near to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ¹^,^aMaher-shalal-hash-baz, ⁴for ^abefore the boy knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of ^bDamascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”

⁵Again Yahweh spoke to me further, saying,

⁶“Inasmuch as these people have ^arejected the gently flowing waters of ShiloahAnd rejoice in ^bRezin and the son of Remaliah;⁷Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the ^amighty and abundant waters of the ¹^,^bRiver—The ^cking of Assyria and all his glory;And it will ^drise up over all its channels and go over all its banks.⁸“Then ^ait will sweep on into Judah; it will overflow and pass through;It will ^breach even to the neck;And the spread of its wings will ¹fill the breadth of ²Your land, O ^cImmanuel.

Yahweh, a Sanctuary and a Stumbling Stone

⁹“^aBe broken, O peoples, and be ¹^,^bshattered;And give ear, all remote places of the earth.Gird yourselves, yet be ²shattered;Gird yourselves, yet be ³shattered.¹⁰“^aDevise counsel, but it will be thwarted;Speak a word, but ^bit will not stand,For ¹^,^cGod is with us.”