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- And Jehovah said to me, Take thee a great tablet, and write thereon with a man's style, concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
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- And I took unto me to witness, sure witnesses, Urijah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
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- And I came near to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son;
and Jehovah said unto me, Call his name, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
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- For before the lad knoweth to cry, My father!
and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
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- And Jehovah spoke again to me, saying,
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- Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah which flow softly, and rejoiceth in Rezin and in the son of Remaliah,
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- therefore behold, the Lord will bring up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory;
and he shall mount up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
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- and he shall pass through Judah;
he shall overflow it and go further, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!
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- Rage, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces!
And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth: Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!
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- Settle a plan, and it shall come to nought;
speak a word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
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- For Jehovah spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and he instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
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- Ye shall not say, Conspiracy, of everything of which this people saith, Conspiracy;
and fear ye not their fear, and be not in dread.
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- Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify;
and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
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- And he will be for a sanctuary;
and for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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- And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
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- Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
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- And I will wait for Jehovah, who hideth his face from the house of Jacob;
and I will look for him.
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- Behold, I and the children that Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel, from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.
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- And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto the necromancers and unto the soothsayers, who chirp and who mutter, [say,] Shall not a people seek unto their God?
[Will they go] for the living unto the dead?
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- To the law and the testimony!
If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.
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- And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry;
and it shall come to pass when they are hungry, they will fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and will gaze upward:
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- and they will look to the earth;
and behold, trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into thick darkness.
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