Isaiah 30:8
Good News Translation
God told me to write down in a book what the people are like, so that there would be a permanent record of how evil they are.

New Revised Standard Version
Go now, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, so that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD told me to write down his message for his people, so that it would be there forever.

New American Bible
Now come, write it on a tablet they can keep, inscribe it on a scroll; That in time to come it may be an eternal witness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now therefore go in and write for them upon box, and note it diligently in a book, and it shall be in the latter days for a testimony for ever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now therefore go in and write for them upon box, and note it diligently in a book, and it shall be in the latter days for a testimony for ever.

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Isaiah 8:1 And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it with a man's pen. Take away the spoils with speed, quickly take the prey.

Deuteronomy 31:19,22 Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of Israel: that they may know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this song may be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel. . . .

Job 19:23,24 Who will grant me that my words may be written? who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book? . . .

Jeremiah 36:2,28-32 Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in it all the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel and Juda, and against all the nations from the day that I spoke to thee, from the days of Josias even to this day. . . .

Jeremiah 51:60 And Jeremiah wrote in one book all the evil that was to come upon Babylon: all these words that are written against Babylon.

Habakkuk 2:2 And the Lord answered me, and said: Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables: that he that readeth it may run over it.

the time to come.

Isaiah 2:2 And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.

Numbers 24:14 But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

Deuteronomy 4:30 After all the things aforesaid shall find thee, in the latter time thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.

Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will quickly turn aside form the way that I have commanded you: and evils shall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands.

Job 19:25 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.

Jeremiah 23:20 The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand his counsel.

Jeremiah 48:47 And I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the last days, saith the Lord. Hitherto the judgments of Moab.

Ezekiel 38:16 And thou shalt come upon my people of Israel like a cloud, to cover the earth. Thou shalt be in the latter days, and I will bring thee upon my land: that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

Hosea 3:5 And after this the children of Israel shall return and shall seek the Lord, their God, and David, their king: and they shall fear the Lord, and his goodness, in the last days.

1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit manifestly saith that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error and doctrines of devils,

2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Jude 1:18 Who told you that in the last time there should come mockers, walking according to their own desires in ungodlinesses.

Context
The Worthless Treaty with Egypt
7For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still. 8Now therefore go in and write for them upon box, and note it diligently in a book, and it shall be in the latter days for a testimony for ever.9For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children that will not hear the law of God.…
Cross References
Job 19:23
Who will grant me that my words may be written? who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?

Isaiah 8:1
And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it with a man's pen. Take away the spoils with speed, quickly take the prey.

Isaiah 34:16
Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord, and read: not one of them was wanting, one hath not sought for the other: for that which proceedeth out of my mouth, he hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

Jeremiah 30:2
Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Write thee all the words that I have spoken to thee, in a book.

Jeremiah 51:60
And Jeremiah wrote in one book all the evil that was to come upon Babylon: all these words that are written against Babylon.

Isaiah 30:7
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