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SEPTEMBER 8
18 And it shall come to pass in that day And rejoice in Rezin and in Remaliah’s
That the LORD will whistle for the fly son;
That is in the farthest part of the rivers 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord
of Egypt, brings up over them
And for the bee that is in the land of The waters of the River, strong and
Assyria. mighty—
19 They will come, and all of them will rest The king of Assyria and all his glory;
In the desolate valleys and in the clefts He will go up over all his channels
of the rocks, And go over all his banks.
And on all thorns and in all pastures. 8 He will pass through Judah,
He will overflow and pass over,
20 In the same day the Lord will shave
with a hired razor, He will reach up to the neck;
With those from beyond the River, And the stretching out of his wings
Will fill the breadth of Your land,
with the king of Assyria,
The head and the hair of the legs, O Immanuel.
And will also remove the beard. 9 “Be shattered, O you peoples, and be
broken in pieces!
21 It shall be in that day
That a man will keep alive a young cow Give ear, all you from far countries.
Gird yourselves, but be broken in
and two sheep;
22 So it shall be, from the abundance of pieces;
milk they give, Gird yourselves, but be broken in
pieces.
That he will eat curds; 10 Take counsel together, but it will come
For curds and honey everyone will eat to nothing;
who is left in the land.
Speak the word, but it will not stand,
23 It shall happen in that day, For God is with us.”
That wherever there could be a
thousand vines
Worth a thousand shekels of silver,
It will be for briers and thorns. 8:10 God is with us. The Hebrew is Immanuel.
24 With arrows and bows men will come The name of the virgin’s child (7:14) guaran-
there, teed the eventual triumph of the faithful rem-
Because all the land will become briers nant of Israel.
and thorns.
And to any hill which could be dug 11
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with the hoe, For the LORD spoke thus to me with a
You will not go there for fear of briers strong hand, and instructed me that I should
and thorns; not walk in the way of this people, saying:
But it will become a range for oxen 12 “Do not say, ‘A conspiracy,’
And a place for sheep to roam. Concerning all that this people call a
conspiracy,
Moreover the LORD said to me, “Take a
8 large scroll, and write on it with a man’s Nor be afraid of their threats, nor be
pen concerning Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. And 13 troubled.
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I will take for Myself faithful witnesses to The LORD of hosts, Him you shall
record, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son hallow;
of Jeberechiah.” Let Him be your fear,
Then I went to the prophetess, and she con- 14
3 And let Him be your dread.
ceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to He will be as a sanctuary,
me, “Call his name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz; for But a stone of stumbling and a rock of
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before the child shall have knowledge to cry offense
‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the riches of Da- To both the houses of Israel,
mascus and the spoil of Samaria will be taken As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants
away before the king of Assyria.” 15 of Jerusalem.
The LORD also spoke to me again, saying:
5 And many among them shall
stumble;
“Inasmuch as these people refused They shall fall and be broken,
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The waters of Shiloah that flow softly, Be snared and taken.”
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