Verse 3

Isaiah 8:3

Free Bible Version

3 Then I slept with my wife the prophetess, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. The Lord told me, “Call him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וָ/אֶקְרַב֙ אֶל הַ/נְּבִיאָ֔ה וַ/תַּ֖הַר וַ/תֵּ֣לֶד בֵּ֑ן וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔/י קְרָ֣א שְׁמ֔/וֹ מַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז

English Translation

And I approached the prophet, and she conceived and bore a son, and the Lord said to me, "Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz."

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Chapter 8 Context

1 Then the Lord told me, “Get a large tablet and write on it in with an ordinary pen, ‘Maher-shalal-ha... Focus ↗

2 I will need Uriah the priest and Zechariah, son of Jeberekiah, to be my trustworthy witnesses.” Focus ↗

3 Then I slept with my wife the prophetess, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. The Lord...

4 For even before the boy knows how to say ‘Daddy’ or ‘Mommy,’ the king of Assyria will carry off Dama... Focus ↗

5 Then the Lord spoke to me again, saying, Focus ↗

6 “Because this people has rejected the waters of Shiloah that gently flow and instead have rejoiced w... Focus ↗

7 the Lord is going to bring the powerful floodwaters of the Euphrates River against them—the king of... Focus ↗

8 It will sweep on into Judah, overflowing and flooding through, reaching up to the neck. Like outspre... Focus ↗

9 Pay attention, you nations, and be smashed! Listen, all you distant lands, get ready, but you will b... Focus ↗

10 You can plan your strategy, but it will be foiled; you can say what you're intending, but it won't h... Focus ↗

11 For this is what the Lord told me, holding me with a strong hand, instructing me not to follow the w... Focus ↗

12 Don't call a conspiracy everything that these people call a conspiracy. Don't fear what they fear. D... Focus ↗

13 The Lord Almighty is the one you should see as holy. He is the one you should fear, he is the one yo... Focus ↗

14 He will be a sanctuary for you. But to the royal families of both Israel and Judah he will be a ston... Focus ↗

15 Many people will stumble over them. They will fall and be broken. They will be trapped and caught. Focus ↗

16 Safeguard this testimony, seal these instructions—they are for my disciples. Focus ↗

17 I will wait for the Lord, the one who is hiding his face from Jacob's descendants. I will wait in ho... Focus ↗

18 Look, I'm here, together with the children the Lord has given me. They are signs and wonders in Isra... Focus ↗

19 When someone suggests to you, “Go and ask mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter,” shouldn't... Focus ↗

20 Go and examine God (Elohim)'s law and his instructions! If what they say doesn't correspond with God... Focus ↗

21 They will wander around the country, depressed and hungry. When they are starving they will become f... Focus ↗

22 Then they will look towards the earth and see only misery and gloom and agonizing depression, and th... Focus ↗

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