Dual Panel1The Lord <03068> told <0559> me, “Take <03947> a large <01419> tablet <01549> and inscribe <03789> these words on <05921> it with an ordinary <0582> stylus <02747>: ‘Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz <04122>.’
2Then I will summon <05749> as my reliable <0539> witnesses <05707> Uriah <0223> the priest <03548> and Zechariah <02148> son <01121> of Jeberekiah <03000>.”
3I then had sexual relations <07126> with <0413> the prophetess <05031>; she conceived <02029> and gave birth <03205> to a son <01121>. The Lord <03068> told <0559> me, “Name <08034> <07121> him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz <04122>,
4for <03588> before <02962> the child <05288> knows <03045> how to cry out <07121>, ‘My father <01>’ or ‘My mother <0517>,’ the wealth <02428> of Damascus <01834> and the plunder <07998> of Samaria <08111> will be carried off <05375> by <06440> the king <04428> of Assyria <0804>.”
5The Lord <03068> spoke <01696> to <0413> me again <05750>:
6“These <02088> people <05971> have rejected <03988> the gently <0328> flowing <01980> waters <04325> of Shiloah <07975> and melt in fear <04885> over Rezin <07526> and the son <01121> of Remaliah <07425>.
7So <03651> look <02009>, the sovereign master <0136> is bringing up <05927> against <05921> them the turbulent <06099> and mighty <07227> waters <04325> of the Euphrates River <05104>– the king <04428> of Assyria <0804> and all <03605> his majestic <03519> power. It will reach <05927> flood stage <0650> and overflow <03605> <05921> <01980> its banks <01415>.
8It will spill <02498> into Judah <03063>, flooding <07857> and engulfing <05674>, as <05704> it reaches <05060> to <05704> the necks <06677> of its victims. He will <01961> spread <04298> his wings <03671> out over <04393> your entire <07341> land <0776>, O Immanuel <06005>.”
9You will be broken <07489>, O nations <05971>; you will be shattered <02865>! Pay attention <0238>, all <03605> you distant <04801> lands of the earth <0776>! Get ready <0247> for battle, and you will be shattered <02865>! Get ready <0247> for battle, and you will be shattered <02865>!
10Devise <05779> your strategy <06098>, but it will be thwarted <06565>! Issue <01696> your orders <01697>, but they will not <03808> be executed <06965>! For <03588> God <0410> is with <05973> us!
11Indeed <03588> this is what <03541> the Lord <03068> told <0559> me. He took hold <03027> of <0413> me firmly <02393> and warned <03256> me not to act <01870> like these <02088> people <05971>:
12“Do not <03808> say <0559>, ‘Conspiracy <07195> <07195>,’ every <03605> time these people <05971> say <0559> the word. Don’t be afraid of what scares <04172> them; don’t be terrified <06206>.
13You must recognize <06942> the authority of the Lord <03068> who commands armies <06635>. He is the one you must respect <04172>; he is the one you must fear <06206>.
14He will become <01961> a sanctuary <04720>, but a stone <068> that makes a person trip <05063>, and a rock <06697> that makes one stumble <04383>– to the two <08147> houses <01004> of Israel <03478>. He will become a trap <06341> and a snare <04170> to the residents <03427> of Jerusalem <03389>.
15Many <07227> will stumble <03782> over the stone and the rock, and will fall <05307> and be seriously injured <07665>, and will be ensnared <03369> and captured <03920>.”
16Tie up <06887> the scroll as legal evidence <08584>, seal <02856> the official record of God’s instructions <08451> and give it to my followers <03928>.
17I will wait <02442> patiently for the Lord <03068>, who has rejected <05641> the family <01004> of Jacob <03290>; I will wait <06960> for him.
18Look <02009>, I <0595> and the sons <03206> whom <0834> the Lord <03068> has given <05414> me are reminders <0226> and object lessons <04159> in Israel <03478>, sent from <05973> the Lord <03068> who commands armies <06635>, who lives <07931> on Mount <02022> Zion <06726>.
19They will say <0559> to <0413> you, “Seek <01875> oracles at the pits used to <0413> conjure up <0178> underworld spirits, from <0413> the magicians <03049> who chirp <06850> and mutter incantations <01897>. Should people <05971> not <03808> seek <01875> oracles from <0413> their gods <0430>, by <01157> asking the dead <04191> about <0413> the destiny of the living <02416>?”
20Then you must recall the Lord’s instructions <08451> and the prophetic testimony <08584> of what would happen. Certainly they say <0559> such things <01697> because their minds are spiritually darkened <07837> <0369>.
21They will pass through <05674> the land destitute <07185> and starving <07457>. Their hunger <07456> will make <01961> them angry <07107>, and they will curse <07043> their king <04428> and their God <0430> as they look <06437> upward <04605>.
22When one looks out <05027> over <0413> the land <0776>, he sees <02009> distress <06869> and darkness <02825>, gloom <04588> and anxiety <06695>, darkness <0653> and people forced <05080> from the land.