Isaiah 8 (ASV Interlinear Bible)

1And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it

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Or, in common characters

with the pen of a man, For

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That is, The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth.

Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

2and I will take unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

3And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said Jehovah unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

4For 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.

5And Jehovah spake unto me yet again, saying,

6Forasmuch as this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly,

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Or, even they that rejoice

and rejoice

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Or, with

in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;

7now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon 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;

8and 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 breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

9

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Or, Break, O ye

Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces.

10Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for

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Hebrew immanu El.

God is with us.

11For Jehovah spake thus to me

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Hebrew with strength of hand.

with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

12Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread thereof.

13Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

14And he shall be for a sanctuary; but 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.

15And

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Or, many among them shall stumble, and fall etc.

many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

16Bind thou up the testimony, seal the

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Or, teaching

law among my disciples.

17And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

18Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

19And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living should they seek unto the dead?

20To the

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Or, teaching

law and to the testimony!

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Or, surely according to this word shall they speak for whom there is no morning

if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

21And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and

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Or, curse their king and their God

curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:

22and they shall look unto the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish;

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Or, and thick darkness shall be driven away. For there etc.

and

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Or, in

into thick darkness they shall be driven away.

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