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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 NLT</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><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="../">NLT</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 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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/isaiah/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Coming Assyrian Invasion</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to me, “Make a large signboard and clearly write this name on it: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a>” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I asked Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah, both known as honest men, to witness my doing this.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then I slept with my wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. And the LORD said, “Call him Maher-shalal-hash-baz. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For before this child is old enough to say ‘Papa’ or ‘Mama,’ the king of Assyria will carry away both the abundance of Damascus and the riches of Samaria.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the LORD spoke to me again and said, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“My care for the people of Judah is like the gently flowing waters of Shiloah, but they have rejected it. They are rejoicing over what will happen to<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> King Rezin and King Pekah.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a mighty flood from the Euphrates River<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a>—the king of Assyria and all his glory. This flood will overflow all its channels <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and sweep into Judah until it is chin deep. It will spread its wings, submerging your land from one end to the other, O Immanuel.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Huddle together, you nations, and be terrified.</p><p class="line2">Listen, all you distant lands.</p><p class="line1">Prepare for battle, but you will be crushed!</p><p class="line2">Yes, prepare for battle, but you will be crushed!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Call your councils of war, but they will be worthless.</p><p class="line2">Develop your strategies, but they will not succeed.</p><p class="line2">For God is with us!<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a>”</p><p class="hdg">A Call to Trust the LORD</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The LORD has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said,</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Don’t call everything a conspiracy, like they do,</p><p class="line2">and don’t live in dread of what frightens them.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Make the LORD of Heaven’s Armies holy in your life.</p><p class="line2">He is the one you should fear.</p><p class="line1">He is the one who should make you tremble.</p><p class="line2"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He will keep you safe.</p><p class="line1">But to Israel and Judah</p><p class="line2">he will be a stone that makes people stumble,</p><p class="line2">a rock that makes them fall.</p><p class="line1">And for the people of Jerusalem</p><p class="line2">he will be a trap and a snare.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Many will stumble and fall,</p><p class="line2">never to rise again.</p><p class="line2">They will be snared and captured.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Preserve the teaching of God;</p><p class="line2">entrust his instructions to those who follow me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will wait for the LORD,</p><p class="line2">who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob.</p><p class="line2">I will put my hope in him.</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I and the children the LORD has given me serve as signs and warnings to Israel from the LORD of Heaven’s Armies who dwells in his Temple on Mount Zion.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Someone may say to you, “Let’s ask the mediums and those who consult the spirits of the dead. With their whisperings and mutterings, they will tell us what to do.” But shouldn’t people ask God for guidance? Should the living seek guidance from the dead?</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They will go from one place to another, weary and hungry. And because they are hungry, they will rage and curse their king and their God. They will look up to heaven <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and down at the earth, but wherever they look, there will be trouble and anguish and dark despair. They will be thrown out into the darkness.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:1 </span><span class="it">Maher-shalal-hash-baz</span><span class="ft"> means “Swift to plunder and quick to carry away.”</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:6a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">They are rejoicing because of.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:6b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">and the son of Remaliah.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:7 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the river.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">8:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Immanuel!</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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