Verse 1
Isaiah 8:1
Literal Standard Version
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And YHWH says to me, “Take a great tablet to yourself, and write on it with an engraving tool of man, || To hurry spoil, enjoy prey.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔/י קַח לְ/ךָ֖ גִּלָּי֣וֹן גָּד֑וֹל וּ/כְתֹ֤ב עָלָי/ו֙ בְּ/חֶ֣רֶט אֱנ֔וֹשׁ לְ/מַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז
English Translation
And the Lord said to me, "Take for yourself a large tablet and write on it with a stylus of a human, 'Quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil.'"
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Chapter 8 Context
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And YHWH says to me, “Take a great tablet to yourself, and write on it with an engraving tool of man...
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And I cause faithful witnesses to testify to me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.
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And I draw near to the prophetess, and she conceives, and bears a son; and YHWH says to me, “Call hi...
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for before the youth knows to cry, My father, and, My mother, one takes away the wealth of Damascus...
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And YHWH adds to speak to me again, saying,
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“Because that this people has refused || The waters of Shiloah that go softly, || And is rejoicing w...
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Therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up on them, || The waters of the river, the mighty and the g...
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And it has passed on into Judah, || It has overflown and passed over, || It comes to the neck, || An...
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Be friends, O nations, and be broken, || And give ear, all you far-off ones of earth, || Gird yourse...
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10
Take counsel, and it is broken, || Speak a word, and it does not stand, || Because of Immanuel!”
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For thus has YHWH spoken to me with strength of hand, and instructs me against walking in the way of...
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12
“You do not say, A confederacy, || To all to whom this people says, A confederacy, || And its fear y...
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13
YHWH of Hosts—Him you sanctify, || And He is your Fear, and He your Dread,
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And He has been for a sanctuary, || And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, || To t...
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And many among them have stumbled and fallen, || And been broken, and snared, and captured.”
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16
Bind up the testimony, || Seal the Law among My disciples.
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And I have waited for YHWH, || Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, || And I have looked...
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Behold, I, and the children whom YHWH has given to me, || Are for signs and for wonders in Israel, |...
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And when they say to you, “Seek to those having familiar spirits, || And to wizards, who chatter and...
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To the Law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, “That there is no dawn to i...
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And it has passed over into it, hardened and hungry, || And it has come to pass, || That it is hungr...
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And it looks attentively to the land, || And behold, adversity and darkness! Dimness, distress, and...
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