Isaiah 8:11-18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹¹ The Lord spoke thus to me while his hand was strong upon me and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:^{(A) 12} “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what it fears or be in dread.^{(B) 13} But the Lord of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.^{(C) 14} He will become a sanctuary, a stone one strikes against; for both houses of Israel he will become a rock one stumbles over, a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.^{(D) 15} And many among them shall stumble; they shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”^(E)

Disciples of Isaiah

¹⁶ Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples.^{(F) 17} I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.^{(G) 18} See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.^(H)