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Then the LORD said to me, "Take a large tablet and write upon it in common characters, `Belonging to Mahershalalhashbaz.'" |
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And I got reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me. |
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And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, "Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz; |
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for before the child knows how to cry `My father' or `My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria." |
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The LORD spoke to me again: |
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"Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and melt in fear before Rezin and the son of Remaliah; |
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therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory; and it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks; |
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and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck; and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel." |
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Be broken, you peoples, and be dismayed; give ear, all you far countries; gird yourselves and be dismayed; gird yourselves and be dismayed. |
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Take counsel together, but it will come to nought; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us. |
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For the LORD spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: |
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"Do not call conspiracy all that this people call conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. |
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But the LORD of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. |
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And he will become a sanctuary, and a stone of offense, and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. |
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And many shall stumble thereon; they shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken." |
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Bind up the testimony, seal the teaching among my disciples. |
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I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him. |
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Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion. |
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And when they say to you, "Consult the mediums and the wizards who chirp and mutter," should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? |
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To the teaching and to the testimony! Surely for this word which they speak there is no dawn. |
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They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry; and when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will curse their king and their God, and turn their faces upward; |
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and they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be thrust into thick darkness. |
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