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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 8 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Isaiah 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/7.htm" title="Isaiah 7">◄</a> Isaiah 8 <a href="../isaiah/9.htm" title="Isaiah 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/8-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Assyrian Invasion Prophesied<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the Lord said to me, Take to thyself a volume of a great new <i>book</i>, and write in it with a man's pen concerning the making a rapid plunder of spoils; for it is near at hand. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And make me witnesses <i>of</i> faithful men, Urias, and Zacharias the son of Barachias. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And I went in to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me, Call his name, Spoil quickly, plunder speedily. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For before the child shall know <i>how</i> to call <i>his</i> father or <i>his</i> mother, <i>one</i> shall take the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria before the king of the Assyrians.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the Lord spoke to me yet again, <i>saying</i>,<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Because this people chooses not the water of Siloam that goes softly, but wills to have Rassin, and the son of Romelias <i>to be</i> king over you;<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon you the water of the river, strong and abundant, <i>even</i> the king of the Assyrians, and his glory: and he shall come up over every valley of yours, and shall walk over every wall of yours:<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and he shall take away from Juda <i>every</i> man who shall be able to lift up his head, <i>and every one</i> able to accomplish anything; and his camp shall fill the breadth of thy land, <i>O</i> God with us.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Know, ye Gentiles, and be conquered; hearken ye, even to the extremity of the earth: be conquered, after ye strengthened yourselves; for even if ye should again strengthen yourselves, ye shall again be conquered.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And whatsoever counsel ye shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nought; and whatsoever word ye shall speak, it shall not stand among you: for God is with us.<p> <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Fear God<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Thus saith the Lord, With a strong hand they revolt from the course of the way of this people, saying,<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Let them not say, <i>It is</i> hard, for whatsoever this people says, is hard: but fear not ye their fear, neither be dismayed.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Sanctify ye the Lord himself; and he shall be thy fear.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And if thou shalt trust in him, he shall be to thee for a sanctuary; and ye shall not come against <i>him</i> as against a stumbling-stone, neither as against the falling of a rock: but the houses of Jacob are in a snare, and the dwellers in Jerusalem in a pit.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Therefore many among them shall be weak, and fall, and be crushed; and they shall draw nigh, and men shall be taken securely.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then shall those who seal themselves that they may not learn the law be made manifest. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And <i>one</i> shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in him. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Behold I and the children which God has given me: and they shall be <i>for</i> signs and wonders in the house of Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in mount Sion.<p> <A name="20"></a><p class="hdg">Darkness and Light<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And if they should say to you, Seek those who have in them a divining spirit, and them that speak out of the earth, them that speak vain words, who speak out of their belly: shall not a nation diligently seek to their God? why do they seek to the dead concerning the living? <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For he has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no gifts to give for it. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> when ye shall be hungry, ye shall be grieved, and ye shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers' ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and anguish, and darkness so that <i>one cannot</i> see;<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>