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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 BSB</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">BSB</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="/berean/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">Berean Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/isaiah/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Assyrian Invasion Prophesied<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.” <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.” <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the LORD spoke to me further: <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Because this people has rejected <p class="indent2"> the gently flowing waters of Shiloah <p class="indent1"> and rejoiced in Rezin <p class="indent2"> and the son of Remaliah, <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>the Lord will surely bring against them <p class="indent2"> the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span>—<p class="indent2"> the king of Assyria and all his pomp. <p class="indent1stline"> It will overflow its channels <p class="indent2"> and overrun its banks. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>It will pour into Judah, <p class="indent2"> swirling and sweeping over it, <p class="indent2"> reaching up to the neck; <p class="indent1"> its spreading streams will cover <p class="indent2"> your entire land, O Immanuel!<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Huddle together,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> O peoples, and be shattered; <p class="indent2"> pay attention, all you distant lands; <p class="indent1"> prepare for battle, and be shattered; <p class="indent2"> prepare for battle, and be shattered! <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; <p class="indent2"> state a proposal, but it will not happen. <p class="indent2"> For God is with us.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span>” <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Fear God<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../ecclesiastes/8.htm#10">Ecclesiastes 8:10–13</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people: <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Do not call conspiracy <p class="indent2"> everything these people regard as conspiracy. <p class="indent1"> Do not fear what they fear;<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span> <p class="indent2"> do not live in dread.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">h</a></span> <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The LORD of Hosts is the One <p class="indent2"> you shall regard as holy. <p class="indent1"> Only He should be feared; <p class="indent2"> only He should be dreaded. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent2"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And He will be a sanctuary—<p class="indent1"> but to both houses of Israel <p class="indent2"> a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">i</a></span> <p class="indent1"> to the dwellers of Jerusalem <p class="indent2"> a trap and a snare. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Many will stumble over these; <p class="indent2"> they will fall and be broken; <p class="indent2"> they will be ensnared and captured.” <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Bind up the testimony <p class="indent2"> and seal the law among my disciples. <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will wait for the LORD, <p class="indent2"> who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. <p class="indent2"> I will put my trust in Him.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">j</a></span> <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">k</a></span> as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion. <A name="20"></a><p class="hdg">Darkness and Light<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Hebrew <i>with a man’s</i><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>Maher-shalal-hash-baz</i> means <i>The spoil speeds, the prey hastens</i> or <i>Swift to plunder, quick to carry away</i>; also in verse 3.<br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Hebrew <i>the River</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <i>Immanuel</i> means <i>God with us</i>.<br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> Or <i>Raise the war cry</i> or <i>Be evil</i> or <i>Be broken</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> Hebrew <i>Immanuel</i>; see <a href="../matthew/1.htm#23">Matthew 1:23</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> Or <i>Do not fear their threats</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">h</span> LXX <i>do not be shaken</i>; cited in <a href="../1_peter/3.htm#14">1 Peter 3:14</a><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">i</span> Cited in <a href="../romans/9.htm#33">Romans 9:33</a> and <a href="../1_peter/2.htm#8">1 Peter 2:8</a><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotesbot">j</span> Or <i>I will eagerly look for Him</i>; cited in <a href="../hebrews/2.htm#13">Hebrews 2:13</a><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">k</span> Cited in <a href="../hebrews/2.htm#13">Hebrews 2:13</a><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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