Isa 8
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And the Lord said to me, Take to yourself a volume of a great new Alex. paper, or, parchment book, and write in it with a
man’s pen concerning the making a rapid plunder of spoils;
for it is near at hand.
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And make me witnesses of faithful men, Urias, and Zacharias the son of Barachias.
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And I went in to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said
to me, Call his name, Spoil quickly, plunder speedily.
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For before the child shall know how to call his father or his mother, one shall take
the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria before the king of the Assyrians.
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And the Lord spoke to me yet again, saying,
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Because this people chooses not the water of Siloam that goes softly, but wills to
have Rassin, and the son of Romelias to be king over you;
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therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon you the water of the river, strong and
abundant, even the king of the Assyrians, and his glory: and he shall come up over
every valley of yours, and shall walk over every wall of yours:
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and he shall take away from Juda every man who shall be able to lift up his head,
and every one able to accomplish anything; and his camp shall fill the breadth of
your land, O Heb. Immanuel God with us.
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Know, you Gentiles, and be conquered; hearken you, even to the extremity of the earth:
be conquered, after you strengthened yourselves; for even if you should again strengthen
yourselves, you shall again be conquered.
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And whatever counsel you shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nothing; and whatever
word you shall speak, it shall not stand among you: for God is with us.
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Thus says the Lord, With a strong hand they Gr. disobey revolt from the course of the way of this people, saying,
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Let them not say, It is hard, for whatever this people says, is hard: but fear not
you their fear, neither be dismayed.
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Sanctify you the Lord himself; and Or, let him be he shall be your fear.
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And if you shall trust in him, he shall be to you for a sanctuary; and you shall not
come against him as against Ro 9:33 a stumbling-stone, neither as against the falling of a rock: but the houses of Jacob
are in a snare, and the dwellers in Jerusalem in a pit.
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Therefore many among them shall be weak, and fall, and be crushed; and they shall
draw nigh, and men shall be taken securely.
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Then shall those who seal themselves that they may Alex.—’not’ not learn the law be made manifest.
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And one shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house
of Jacob, and I will trust in him.
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Heb 2:18 Behold I and the children which God has given me: and they shall be for signs and
wonders in the house of Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in mount Sion.
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And if they should say to you, Seek Gr. ventriloquists those who have in them a divining spirit, and them that speak out of
the earth, them
that speak vain words, who speak out of their belly: shall not a nation diligently
seek to their God? why do they seek to the dead concerning the living?
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For he has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this
word, concerning which there are no See Hebrew gifts to give for it.
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And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, that when you shall
be hungry, you shall be grieved, and you shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers’
ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above,
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and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness,
affliction, and Or, a strait anguish, and darkness so that one cannot see; and he who is in anguish shall not
be distressed only for a time.