Isaiah 8 | BSB Bible Study

Isaiah 8:1 (BSB)
Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Isaiah 8:2 (BSB)
And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”

Isaiah 8:3 (BSB)
And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Isaiah 8:4 (BSB)
For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah 8:5 (BSB)
And the LORD spoke to me further:

Isaiah 8:6 (BSB)
“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

Isaiah 8:7 (BSB)
the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.

Isaiah 8:8 (BSB)
It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!

Isaiah 8:9 (BSB)
Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!

Isaiah 8:10 (BSB)
Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”

Isaiah 8:11 (BSB)
For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:

Isaiah 8:12 (BSB)
“Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.

Isaiah 8:13 (BSB)
The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.

Isaiah 8:14 (BSB)
And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.

Isaiah 8:15 (BSB)
Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”

Isaiah 8:16 (BSB)
Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.

Isaiah 8:17 (BSB)
I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.

Isaiah 8:18 (BSB)
Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

Isaiah 8:19 (BSB)
When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Isaiah 8:20 (BSB)
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

Isaiah 8:21 (BSB)
They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

Isaiah 8:22 (BSB)
Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

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