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6 “Because that this people has rejected the waters of Shiloah, those going gently, and are rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah, 7 therefore, behold! The Lord is bringing up over them the waters of the River mighty and great—the king of Assyria and all his glory—and it will go up over all its channels and it will go over all its banks, 8 and it will pass on into Judah, overflowing and passing over—reaching to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings and is the fullness of the breadth of your land, O Immanuel! 9 Join together, O peoples, and be shattered! And give ear, all you distant lands—Gird yourselves and be shattered, gird yourselves and be shattered! 10 Take counsel—counsel—and it will be broken; speak a word; it will not stand, for God is with us. 11 For thus YHWH spoke to me, with a strong hand, and He admonished me from walking in the way of this people, saying: 12 “You? shall not say conspiracy to everything that this people says is conspiracy; and its fear you? should not fear, and you should not dread. 13 YHWH of Hosts—Him You? shall sanctify, and He is your? Fear, and He is your? Dread. 14 And He be for a sanctuary, and for a stone of striking and for a rock of falling for the two houses of Israel, for a trap and for a snare for those dwelling in Jerusalem! 15 And many will stumble over them, and they will fall and be broken and be snared and captured.” 16 Bind up the testimony, and seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I will wait for YHWH, the One hiding His face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in Him. 18 Here am I and the children whom YHWH has given to me as signs and as wonders in Israel, from YHWH of Hosts, the One dwelling on Mount Zion. 19 And when they say to you?, “Seek after the spirits and after the spiritists who whisper and mutter—” a people should not seek after its gods, on behalf of the living unto the dead, 20 to the law and to the testimony?" If they do not speak this according to the word, it is because there is not in them dawn. 21 And he will pass over into it hard pressed and hungry, and it will be that when he is hungry and becomes angry, that he will think little of his king and of his gods, and he will turn upward, 22 and will look to the earth, and behold—distress and darkness, gloom of anguish, and he will be driven away into the dark. Isaiah 8:6-22, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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