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¹MOREOVER Yahvah said to me, Take a large scroll and write on it plainly, To hurry the captivity, and to record the spoil. ²And I took to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Berechiah. ³Then I went to the prophetess; and she conceived and bore a son. Then Yahvah said to me, Call his name Mesarhibshabeyotakibbaz, Hurry to take away captives; speed to take away the spoil. ⁴For before the child will know how to cry, My father and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be taken away before the king of Assyria.

⁵Yahvah spoke to me again, saying, ⁶Since this people have refused the waters of Shiloah, that flow softly, and rejoice in Rezin and the son of Romaliah; ⁷Now therefore, look, Yahvah brings up against them the waters of the Euphrates, many and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he will come up over all their brooks, and walk over all their fortified walls; ⁸And he will pass through Judah and will sweep on and go over; he will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings will fill the breadth of your land, Oh Immanuel.

⁹Tremble, Oh people, and you will be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries; gird yourselves, and you will be defeated. ¹⁰Take counsel together, and it will come to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand; for God is with us.

¹¹For Yahvah spoke thus to me, as he held me and led me aside that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, ¹²Do not say, A conspiracy, as this people has said conspiracy. You will not worship their idols nor be afraid of them. ¹³Sanctify Yahvah of hosts himself; he is your God and he is your helper. ¹⁴And he will be for a sanctuary; and for a stone of offense and for a rock of stumbling to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁵And many of them will stumble by them; they will fall and be broken and be snared and be taken. ¹⁶Bind up the testimony, seal the law, ¹⁷And in my teaching I will wait for Yahvah, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. ¹⁸Look, I and the children whom Yahvah has given me are for a sign and for a wonder in Israel from Yahvah of hosts, who lives on mount Zion.

¹⁹And when they will say to you, Inquire of men who have familiar spirits and of wise men who chirp and mutter, these men are not God's people, who inquire of the dead concerning the living. ²⁰As for the law and the testimony, if they do not speak according to this word, it is because they do not receive a bribe for it. ²¹And they will pass through the land severely beset and hungry; and it will come to pass, that when they will be hungry, they will be angry and will curse their king, and their God, and be haughty. ²²And they will look to the earth; and look trouble and darkness, tribulation and dimness will scatter them; but he will not afflict him who is in distress as in the former time.