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¹ And Yahweh said to me, Take for yourself a great tablet, and write on it with the pen of common man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz;² and I will take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.³ And I went to the prophetess; and she became pregnant, and gave birth to a son. Then Yahweh said to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.⁴ For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.⁵ And Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,⁶ Since this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;⁷ now therefore, look, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks;⁸ and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the width of your land, O Immanuel.

⁹ Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces.¹⁰ Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.¹¹ For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and he turned me away [so as] not to walk in the way of this people, saying,¹² Don't say, A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither be afraid of their fear, nor be in dread [thereof].¹³ Yahweh of hosts, you shall sanctify him; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.¹⁴ And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.¹⁵ And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

¹⁶ Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.¹⁷ And I will wait for Yahweh, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.¹⁸ Look, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, who dwells in mount Zion.¹⁹ And when they shall say to you, Seek to the spiritists and to the wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek to their God? on behalf of the living [should they seek] to the dead?²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! if they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.²¹ And they shall pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:²² and they shall look to the earth, and see distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.