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¹ And YHWH says to me, "Take a great tablet to yourself, and write on it with an engraving tool of man, || To hurry spoil, enjoy prey."² And I cause faithful witnesses to testify to me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.³ And I draw near to the prophetess, and she conceives, and bears a son; and YHWH says to me, "Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,⁴ for before the youth knows to cry, My father, and, My mother, one takes away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Asshur."⁵ And YHWH adds to speak to me again, saying,⁶ "Because that this people has refused || The waters of Shiloah that go softly, || And is rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,⁷ Therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up on them, || The waters of the river, the mighty and the great || (The king of Asshur, and all his glory), || And it has gone up over all its streams, || And has gone on over all its banks.⁸ And it has passed on into Judah, || It has overflown and passed over, || It comes to the neck, || And the stretching out of its wings || Has been the fullness of the breadth of your land, O Immanuel!

⁹ Be friends, O nations, and be broken, || And give ear, all you far-off ones of earth, || Gird yourselves, and be broken, || Gird yourselves, and be broken.¹⁰ Take counsel, and it is broken, || Speak a word, and it does not stand, || Because of Immanuel!"¹¹ For thus has YHWH spoken to me with strength of hand, and instructs me against walking in the way of this people, saying,¹² "You do not say, A confederacy, || To all to whom this people says, A confederacy, || And its fear you do not fear, || Nor declare fearful.¹³ YHWH of Hosts—Him you sanctify, || And He [is] your Fear, and He your Dread,¹⁴ And He has been for a sanctuary, || And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, || To the two houses of Israel, || For a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.¹⁵ And many among them have stumbled and fallen, || And been broken, and snared, and captured."

¹⁶ Bind up the testimony, || Seal the Law among My disciples.¹⁷ And I have waited for YHWH, || Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, || And I have looked for Him.¹⁸ Behold, I, and the children whom YHWH has given to me, || [Are] for signs and for wonders in Israel, || From YHWH of Hosts, who is dwelling in Mount Zion.¹⁹ And when they say to you, "Seek to those having familiar spirits, || And to wizards, who chatter and mutter," || Does a people not seek to its God? To the dead on behalf of the living?²⁰ To the Law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, "That there is no dawn to it."²¹ And it has passed over into it, hardened and hungry, || And it has come to pass, || That it is hungry, and has been angry, || And made light of its king, and of its God, || And has looked upwards.²² And it looks attentively to the land, || And behold, adversity and darkness! Dimness, distress, and thick darkness are driven away, || But not the dimness for which she is in distress!