Isaiah 8:1-22 CSB

[1] Then the LORD said to me, "Take a large piece of parchment and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-shalal-hash-baz. [2] I have appointed trustworthy witnesses-the priest Uriah and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah." [3] I was then intimate with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, "Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz, [4] for before the boy knows how to call 'Father,' or 'Mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria." [5] The LORD spoke to me again: [6] Because these people rejected the slowly flowing water of Shiloah and rejoiced with Rezin and the son of Remaliah, [7] the Lord will certainly bring against them the mighty rushing water of the Euphrates River- the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will overflow its channels and spill over all its banks. [8] It will pour into Judah, flood over it, and sweep through, reaching up to the neck; and its flooded banks will fill your entire land, Immanuel! [9] Band together, peoples, and be broken; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for war, and be broken; prepare for war, and be broken. [10] Devise a plan; it will fail. Make a prediction; it will not happen. For God is with us. [11] For this is what the LORD said to me with great power, to keep me from going the way of this people: [12] Do not call everything a conspiracy that these people say is a conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not be terrified. [13] You are to regard only the LORD of Armies as holy. Only he should be feared; only he should be held in awe. [14] He will be a sanctuary; but for the two houses of Israel, he will be a stone to stumble over and a rock to trip over, and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. [15] Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be snared and captured. [16] Bind up the testimony. Seal up the instruction among my disciples. [17] I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will wait for him. [18] Here I am with the children the LORD has given me to be signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of Armies who dwells on Mount Zion. [19] When they say to you, "Inquire of the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter," shouldn't a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living? [20] Go to God's instruction and testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them. [21] They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God. [22] They will look toward the earth and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.