8 And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it ^[a]with the pen of a man, For ^[b]Maher-shalal-hash-baz; ² and I will take unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. ³ And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said Jehovah unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ⁴ For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.

⁵ And Jehovah spake unto me yet again, saying, ⁶ Forasmuch as this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, ^[c]and rejoice ^[d]in Rezin and Remaliah’s son; ⁷ now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks; ⁸ and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

^9 [e]Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. ¹⁰ Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for ^[f]God is with us. ¹¹ For Jehovah spake thus to me ^[g]with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, ¹² Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread thereof. ¹³ Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. ¹⁴ And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And ^[h]many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

¹⁶ Bind thou up the testimony, seal the ^[i]law among my disciples. ¹⁷ And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. ¹⁸ Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

¹⁹ And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living should they seek unto the dead? ²⁰ To the ^[j]law and to the testimony! ^[k]if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. ²¹ And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and ^[l]curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward: ²² and they shall look unto the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; ^[m]and ^[n]into thick darkness they shall be driven away.

9 ^[o]But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, ^[p]Galilee of the nations. ² The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the ^[q]shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. ³ Thou hast multiplied the nation, ^[r]thou hast increased their joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. ⁴ For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian. ⁵ For ^[s]all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire. ⁶ For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called ^[t]Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, ^[u]Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. ⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.