Isaiah 8

vayyomer Adonai elay qakh-lekha gillayon gadol ukhetov alayw bekheret enosh lemaher shalal khash baz

GOD said to me, “Get yourself a large sheet and write on it in common script ‘For Maher-shalal-hash-baz’;

ve'a'idah li edim ne'emanim et uriyyah hakkohen ve'et-zekharyahu ben yeverekhyahu

and call reliable witnesses, the priest Uriah and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah, to witness for Me.”

va'eqrav el-hannevi'ah vattahar vatteled ben vayyomer Adonai elay qera shemo maher shalal khash baz

I was intimate with the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son; and GOD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

ki beterem yeda hanna'ar qero avi ve'immi yissa et-khel dammeseq ve'et shelal shomeron lifne melekh ashur

For before the boy learns to call ‘Father’ and ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria, and the delights of Rezin and of the son of Remaliah, shall be carried off before the king of Assyria.”

vayyosef Adonai dabber elay od lemor

Again GOD spoke to me, thus:

ya'an ki ma'as ha'am hazzeh et me hashiloakh haholekhim le'at umesos et-retsin uven-remalyahu

“Because that people has spurned The gently flowing waters of Siloam”—

velakhen hinneh adonay ma'aleh alehem et-me hannahar ha'atsumim veharabbim et-melekh ashur ve'et-kol-kevodo ve'alah al-kol-afiqayw vehalakh al-kol-gedotayw

Assuredly, The Sovereign will bring up against them The mighty, massive waters of the Euphrates, The king of Assyria and all his multitude. It shall rise above all its channels, And flow over all its beds,

vekhalaf bihudah shataf ve'avar ad-tsavvar yaggia vehayah muttot kenafayw melo rokhav-artsekha immanu el

And swirl through Judah like a flash flood Reaching up to the neck. But with us is God, Whose wings are spread As wide as your land is broad!

ro'u ammim vakhottu veha'azinu kol merkhaqqe-arets hitazzeru vakhottu hitazzeru vakhottu

Band together, O peoples—you shall be broken! Listen to this, you remotest parts of the earth: Gird yourselves—you shall be broken; Gird yourselves—you shall be broken!

utsu etsah vetufar dabberu davar velo yaqum ki immanu el

Hatch a plot—it shall be foiled; Agree on action—it shall not succeed. For with us is God!

ki khoh amar Adonai elay kekhezqat hayyad veyissereni millekhet bederekh ha'am-hazzeh lemor

For this is what GOD said to me, upon taking me by the hand and charging me not to walk in the path of that people:

lo-tomerun qesher lekhol asher-yomar ha'am hazzeh qasher ve'et-mora'o lo-tire'u velo ta'aritsu

“You must not call conspiracy All that that people calls conspiracy, Nor revere what it reveres, Nor hold it in awe.

et-Adonai tseva'ot oto taqdishu vehu mora'akhem vehu ma'aritskhem

None but GOD of Hosts Shall you account holy; Give reverence to [God] alone, Hold [God] alone in awe.

vehayah lemiqdash ule'even negef uletsur mikhshol lishne vatte yisra'el lefakh ulemoqesh leyoshev yerushalai͏m

[God] shall become a sanctuary, A stone people strike against: A rock people stumble over For the two Houses of Israel, And a trap and a snare for those Who dwell in Jerusalem.

vekhashelu vam rabbim venafelu venishbaru venoqeshu venilkadu

The masses shall trip over these And shall fall and be injured, Shall be snared and be caught.

tsor te'udah khatom torah belimmuday

Bind up the message, Seal the instruction with My disciples.”

vekhikkiti la-Adonai hammastir panayw mibbet ya'aqov veqivveti-lo

So I will wait for GOD, whose face is hidden from the House of Jacob, and in whom I will trust.

hinneh anokhi vehayeladim asher natan-li Adonai le'otot ulemofetim beyisra'el me'im Adonai tseva'ot hashokhen behar tsiyyon

Here stand I and the children GOD has given me as signs and portents in Israel from GOD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

vekhi-yomeru alekhem dirshu el-ha'ovot ve'el-hayyidde'onim hametsaftsefim vehammahgim halo-am el-elohayw yidrosh be'ad hakhayyim el-hammetim

Now, should people say to you, “Inquire of the ghosts and familiar spirits that chirp and moan; for a people may inquire of its divine beings—of the dead on behalf of the living—

letorah velitudah im-lo yomeru kaddavar hazzeh asher en-lo shakhar

for instruction and message,” surely, for those who speak thus there shall be no dawn.

ve'avar bah niqsheh vera'ev vehayah khi-yirav vehitqatsaf veqillel bemalko uvelohayw ufanah lema'elah

And they shall go about in it wretched and hungry; and when they are hungry, they shall rage and revolt against their king and their divine beings. They may turn their face upward

ve'el-erets yabbit vehinneh tsarah vakhashekhah me'uf tsuqah va'afelah menuddakh

or they may look below, but behold Distress and darkness, with no daybreak; Straitness and gloom, with no dawn.

ki lo mu'af la'asher mutsaq lah ka'et harishon heqal artsah zevulun ve'artsah naftali veha'akharon hikhbid derekh hayyam ever hayyarden gelil haggoyim

For if there were to be any break of day for that [land] that is in straits, only the former [king] would have brought abasement to the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali—while the later one would have brought honor to the Way of the Sea, the other side of the Jordan, and Galilee of the Nations.