Isaiah 8 (NET)

Isaiah 8:1¹The Lord told me, “Take a large tablet and inscribe these words on it with an ordinary stylus: ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 30:8Hab 2:2-3Isa 8:3Job 19:23-24Jer 36:2Jer 36:28Jer 36:32Rev 13:18Rev 21:17

Isaiah 8:2²Then I will summon as my reliable witnesses Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 16:10-112 Cor 13:12 Kgs 16:15-162 Kgs 18:2Ruth 4:10-11Ruth 4:2

Isaiah 8:3³I then approached the prophetess for marital relations; she conceived and gave birth to a son. The Lord told me, “Name him Maher Shalal Hash Baz,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 1:3-92 Kgs 22:14Isa 7:13-14Judg 4:4

Isaiah 8:4⁴for before the child knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 9:112 Kgs 16:92 Kgs 17:32 Kgs 17:5-6Deut 1:39Isa 10:6-14Isa 7:15-16Isa 7:8-9Jonah 4:112 Kgs 15:29

Isaiah 8:5⁵The Lord spoke to me again:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 7:10

Isaiah 8:6⁶“These people have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and melt in fear over Rezin and the son of Remaliah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 9:7Neh 3:151 Kgs 7:162 Chr 13:8-18Isa 5:24Isa 7:1-2Isa 7:6Jer 18:14Jer 2:13Jer 2:18

Isaiah 8:7⁷So look, the Lord is bringing up against them the turbulent and mighty waters of the Euphrates River —the king of Assyria and all his majestic power. It will reach flood stage and overflow its banks.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 17:12-13Amos 8:8Amos 9:5Gen 6:17Isa 7:17Isa 7:202 Kgs 17:3-62 Kgs 18:9-12Dan 11:10Dan 11:22

Isaiah 8:8⁸It will spill into Judah, flooding and engulfing, as it reaches to the necks of its victims. He will spread his wings out over your entire land, O Immanuel.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 7:14Isa 30:28Matt 1:23Isa 28:14-22Ezek 17:3Isa 10:28-32Isa 22:1-7Isa 29:1-9Isa 36:1-22

Isaiah 8:9⁹You will be broken, O nations; you will be shattered! Pay attention, all you distant lands of the earth. Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 14:5-61 Kgs 20:11Prov 11:21Ps 37:14-15Isa 17:12-13Isa 7:1-2Joel 3:9-14Isa 28:13Isa 37:36Isa 54:15

Isaiah 8:10¹⁰Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted. Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lam 3:37Rom 8:31Job 5:12Prov 21:302 Sam 15:31Ps 46:11Isa 7:5-7Ps 33:10-11Isa 41:10Ps 46:7

Isaiah 8:11¹¹Indeed this is what the Lord told me quite forcefully. He warned me not to act like these people:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 3:14Prov 1:15Acts 4:20Jer 15:19Jer 20:7Jer 20:9Ps 32:8Ezek 2:6-8

Isaiah 8:12¹²“Do not say, ‘Conspiracy,’ every time these people say the word. Don’t be afraid of what scares them; don’t be terrified.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:14-15Luke 21:9Isa 51:12-13Ps 53:5Isa 30:1Luke 12:4-52 Kgs 16:5-7Isa 57:9-11Isa 7:2-6Matt 28:2-5

Isaiah 8:13¹³You must recognize the authority of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. He is the one you must respect; he is the one you must fear.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 12:5Isa 26:3-4Rev 15:4Matt 10:28Ps 76:7Mal 2:5Num 20:12-13Gen 31:53Isa 29:23Num 27:14

Isaiah 8:14¹⁴He will become a sanctuary, but a stone that makes a person trip, and a rock that makes one stumble— to the two houses of Israel. He will become a trap and a snare to the residents of Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:8Rom 9:32-33Isa 28:16Luke 2:34Ezek 11:16Ps 46:1-2Prov 18:10Ps 11:6Ps 69:22Isa 24:17-18

Isaiah 8:15¹⁵Many will stumble over the stone and the rock, and will fall and be seriously injured, and will be ensnared and captured.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:44Isa 28:13Luke 20:17-181 Cor 1:23Isa 59:10John 6:66Matt 11:6Matt 15:14Rom 9:32

Isaiah 8:16¹⁶Tie up the scroll as legal evidence, seal the official record of God’s instructions and give it to my followers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 12:4Heb 3:51 Cor 2:14Deut 4:45Isa 29:11-12Mark 4:10-11Mark 4:34Matt 13:11Rev 19:101 John 5:9-12

Isaiah 8:17¹⁷I will wait patiently for the Lord, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:36-39Hab 2:3Isa 25:9Lam 3:25-26Ps 33:20Isa 54:8Deut 31:17-18Heb 9:28Ps 27:14Isa 50:10

Isaiah 8:18¹⁸Look, I and the sons whom the Lord has given me are reminders and object lessons in Israel, sent from the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, who lives on Mount Zion.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 2:13-14Luke 2:34Zech 8:3Heb 12:22Isa 53:10Ps 71:71 Chr 23:25Isa 24:23Ps 22:30Ps 9:11

Isaiah 8:19¹⁹They will say to you, “Seek oracles at the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, from the magicians who chirp and mutter incantations. Should people not seek oracles from their gods, by asking the dead about the destiny of the living?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 10:13Lev 20:62 Chr 33:6Ps 106:28Lev 19:311 Sam 28:8Deut 18:11Isa 19:3Isa 29:4Jer 10:10

Isaiah 8:20²⁰Then you must recall the Lord ’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 1:192 Tim 3:15-17Isa 30:8-11Acts 17:11John 5:39Ps 119:130Jer 8:9John 5:46-47Mark 7:7-9Isa 8:16

Isaiah 8:21²¹They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 9:20Prov 19:32 Kgs 25:3Deut 28:33-34Deut 28:53-57Exod 22:28Isa 8:7-8Jer 14:18Jer 52:6Job 1:11

Isaiah 8:22²²When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:30Jer 13:16Matt 22:13Matt 8:12Jer 30:6-7Job 18:18Jude 1:13Prov 14:32Zeph 1:14-152 Chr 15:5-6