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Isaiah 8
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Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it
with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. |
BOM: 2 Nephi 18:1-22
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| 8:2
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and
Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. |
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| 8:3
And I went unto the
prophetess; and she
conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name
Mahershalalhashbaz. |
Isaiah has sex with a prophetess who conceives
and bears a son. (You weren't expecting a daughter, were you?) God then tells
Isaiah to call his name Mathershalalhashbaz. (It has a nice ring to it, doesn't
it?)
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| 8:4
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my
mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away
before the king of Assyria.
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| 8:5
The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, |
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| 8:6
Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly,
and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; |
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| 8:7
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the
river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he
shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: |
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| 8:8
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall
reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the
breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. |
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| 8:9
Associate yourselves, O
ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of
far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces;
gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. |
If you associate or gird yourself, God will
break you in pieces.
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| 8:10
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it
shall not stand: for God is with us. |
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| 8:11
For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I
should not walk in the way of this people, saying, |
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| 8:12
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A
confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. |
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| 8:13
Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him
be your dread. |
"Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread."
Should we fear God?
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| 8:14
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a
rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem. |
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| 8:15
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared,
and be taken. |
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| 8:16
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. |
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| 8:17
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of
Jacob, and I will look for him. |
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| 8:18
Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and
for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. |
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| 8:19
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar
spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people
seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? |
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| 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word,
it is because there is no light in them. |
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| 8:21
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall
come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves,
and curse their king and their God, and look upward. |
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| 8:22
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness,
dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
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