# Isaiah 8

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/8

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Yahweh said to me, "Take a large tablet and write on it in ordinary script: Maher-shalal-hash-baz."
2. I took trustworthy witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.
3. I approached the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. Yahweh said to me, "Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz."
4. For before the child knows to say "My father" or "My mother," the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried before the king of Assyria.
5. Yahweh spoke to me again, saying,
6. Because this people has rejected Shiloah's gently flowing waters and delights in Rezin and Remaliah's son,
7. Therefore, see, Yahweh brings upon them the River's strong and overflowing waters—the king of Assyria, with all his glory. They will rise over every channel and flood every bank.
8. It will surge into Judah, overflow and pass through, rise even to the neck, and the span of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.
9. Unite, O peoples, and shatter! All you distant lands, listen: arm for war, and break apart! Arm for war, and break apart!
10. Devise a plan together, but it will fail; speak out, but it will not prevail, for God is with us.
11. For Yahweh said this to me with a strong hand and warned me not to walk in the way of this people,
12. Do not call conspiracy whatever this people calls conspiracy, nor fear what they fear, nor dread.
13. Sanctify Yahweh of hosts; he is your sanctuary, and he is your fear, and he is your dread.
14. He will be a refuge, but a stone that trips them and a rock over which they stumble to both houses of Israel—a trap and a snare to those dwelling in Jerusalem.
15. Many will stumble on it, fall, shatter, get trapped, and be captured.
16. Secure the testimony. Seal the instruction among my disciples.
17. I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
18. I and the children whom Yahweh has given me stand as signs and wonders in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
19. When they tell you, "Inquire of the mediums and the sorcerers who whisper and murmur," should a people not inquire of their God? On behalf of the living, why the dead?
20. Look to the instruction and the testimony. If they do not speak according to this word, no dawn awaits them.
21. They will wander through it, anguished and famished; and when hunger overtakes them, they will rage and revile their king and their God, gazing upward.
22. They look to the earth and see distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and they are driven into thick darkness.

## Nearby chapters

[Isaiah 7](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/7.md)
[Isaiah 9](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/9.md)

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