Isaiah 8

Assyrian Invasion Prophesied

¹Then Yahweh said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ²And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”

³And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. Yahweh said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ⁴For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”

• IS 8:3[PROPHECY]Before the boy Maher shalal hash baz could say Father or Mother, Damascus's and Samaria's wealth would be carried off by Assyria → 2KI 15:29; 2KI 16:9

⁵And Yahweh spoke to me further:

⁶“Because this people has rejected

the gently flowing waters of Shiloah

and rejoiced in Rezin

and the son of Remaliah,

⁷the Lord will surely bring against them

the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—

the king of Assyria and all his pomp.

It will overflow its channels

and overrun its banks.

• IS 8:7[PROPHECY]Assyria would flood into Judah up to the neck but not drown it → 2KI 18:13; 2KI 19:35-36

⁸It will pour into Judah,

swirling and sweeping over it,

reaching up to the neck;

its spreading streams will cover

your entire land, O Immanuel!

⁹Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered;

pay attention, all you distant lands;

prepare for battle, and be shattered;

prepare for battle, and be shattered!

¹⁰Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted;

state a proposal, but it will not happen.

For God is with us.”

A Call to Fear God// Ecclesiastes 8:10–13

¹¹For this is what Yahweh has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:

¹²“Do not call conspiracy

everything these people regard as conspiracy.

Do not fear what they fear;

do not live in dread.

• IS 8:12[QUOTED]Quoted in the New Testament → 1PE 3:14

¹³Yahweh of Hosts is the One

you shall regard as holy.

Only He should be feared;

only He should be dreaded.

• IS 8:13[QUOTED]Quoted in the New Testament → 1PE 3:15

¹⁴And He will be a sanctuary—

but to both houses of Israel

a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,

to the dwellers of Jerusalem

a trap and a snare.

• IS 8:14[PROPHECY]A stone of stumbling and rock of offense → 1PE 2:8
• IS 8:14[QUOTED]Quoted in the New Testament → ROM 9:33
• IS 8:14[QUOTED]Quoted in the New Testament → 1PE 2:8

¹⁵Many will stumble over these;

they will fall and be broken;

they will be ensnared and captured.”

¹⁶Bind up the testimony

and seal the law among my disciples.

¹⁷I will wait for Yahweh,

who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob.

I will put my trust in Him.

• IS 8:17[PROPHECY]The Messiah would trust God and stand with the children God gave Him → HEB 2:13MEDIUM
• IS 8:17[QUOTED]Quoted in the New Testament → HEB 2:13

¹⁸Here am I, and the children Yahweh has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from Yahweh of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

Darkness and Light

¹⁹When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? ²⁰To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

• IS 8:19[DEMONIC]Should not a people seek their God? Should they consult the dead for the living?

²¹They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God. ²²Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.