Verse 9

Isaiah 8:9

Free Bible Version

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

Original Language Text

hebrew

רֹ֤עוּ עַמִּים֙ וָ/חֹ֔תּוּ וְ/הַֽאֲזִ֔ינוּ כֹּ֖ל מֶרְחַקֵּי אָ֑רֶץ הִתְאַזְּר֣וּ וָ/חֹ֔תּוּ הִֽתְאַזְּר֖וּ וָ/חֹֽתּוּ

English Translation

Shepherd nations and be gathered, and let all the farthest parts of the earth listen, be gathered and be girded, be gathered and be girded.

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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... Focus ↗

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...

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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