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A Call to Trust the Lord

11 The Lord has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said,

12 “Don’t call everything a conspiracy, like they do,
    and don’t live in dread of what frightens them.
13 Make the Lord of Heaven’s Armies holy in your life.
    He is the one you should fear.
He is the one who should make you tremble.
14     He will keep you safe.
But to Israel and Judah
    he will be a stone that makes people stumble,
    a rock that makes them fall.
And for the people of Jerusalem
    he will be a trap and a snare.
15 Many will stumble and fall,
    never to rise again.
    They will be snared and captured.”

16 Preserve the teaching of God;
    entrust his instructions to those who follow me.
17 I will wait for the Lord,
    who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob.
    I will put my hope in him.

18 I and the children the Lord has given me serve as signs and warnings to Israel from the Lord of Heaven’s Armies who dwells in his Temple on Mount Zion.

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Wait for Yahweh

11 For Yahweh said this to me while his hand weighed heavily on me,[a]
    and he warned me not to walk[b] in the way of this people, saying,
12 “You must not call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy,
    and you must not share its fear,[c] and you must not be in dread.
13 You shall regard Yahweh of hosts as holy,
    and he is your[d] fear, and he is your dread.
14 And he will become like a sanctuary and a stumbling-stone,
    and like a stumbling-rock for the two houses of Israel,
    like a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many shall stumble among them,
    and they shall fall and they shall be broken,
    and they shall be ensnared and they shall be caught.”
16 Bind up the testimony;
    seal the teaching among my disciples.
17 And I will wait for Yahweh,
    who hides his face from the house of Jacob,
and I will await him.

18 Look! I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me are like signs and portents in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, the one who dwells on the mountain of Zion.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:11 Literally “with the strength of the hand”
  2. Isaiah 8:11 Literally “instructed me from walking”
  3. Isaiah 8:12 Literally “fear its fear”
  4. Isaiah 8:13 The Hebrew is plural