预言灾难降临

耶和华对我说:“你去拿块大的写字板,用通用的文字在上面写上‘玛黑珥·沙拉勒·哈施·罢斯’[a] 我会吩咐忠信的祭司乌利亚和耶比利迦的儿子撒迦利亚为这事做见证。” 我以赛亚与妻子同房,她就怀孕生了个儿子。耶和华对我说:“给他取名叫玛黑珥·沙拉勒·哈施·罢斯。 因为这孩子会叫父亲母亲之前,亚述王必把大马士革的财富和撒玛利亚的战利品洗劫一空。” 耶和华又对我说: “因为这些人拒绝接受我如西罗亚河缓缓流水般的温柔照顾,反倒因与利迅和利玛利的儿子结盟而欢喜, 我要差来亚述王的军队,使他们像幼发拉底河的洪流一样汹涌而来,淹没一切水道,漫过河岸, 席卷犹大,使整个犹大几遭灭顶之灾。他必展开双翼横扫你的土地。”愿上帝与我们同在!

列国啊,你们必被打垮、击溃!
远方的人啊,你们要听!
整装备战吧,但你们必被击垮!
整装备战吧,但你们必被击垮!
10 你们设计谋吧,但休想得逞!
你们定策略吧,但休想成功!
因为上帝与我们同在。

当敬畏主

11 耶和华大能的手按在我身上,警告我不可效法这些人。祂说: 12 “他们认为是阴谋的,你们不要认为是阴谋。他们所怕的,你们不要怕,也不要畏惧。 13 你们当尊万军之耶和华为圣,当敬畏祂,畏惧祂。 14 祂必作人的圣所,也要作以色列和犹大的绊脚石和使人跌倒的磐石,作耶路撒冷居民的陷阱和网罗。 15 许多人必被绊倒,摔得粉身碎骨;他们必被网罗缠住、捕获。” 16 我的门徒啊,你们要把上帝的训诲卷起来,用印封好。 17 虽然耶和华掩面不顾雅各家,但我仍要等候祂,冀望于祂。 18 看啊,我和祂所赐给我的儿女在以色列是征兆。这征兆来自住在锡安山的万军之耶和华。 19 有人让你们去求问那些念念有词的巫师和术士,你们不要去。你们要去求问你们的上帝,活人的事怎能求问死人呢? 20 人应该遵循耶和华的训诲和法度。人若不遵循祂的话,必看不到曙光。 21 他们必困苦,饥饿,到处流浪,并在饥饿中怒气冲冲地咒骂他们的君王,亵渎上帝。 22 他们抬头望天,低头看地,看到的尽是患难、痛苦和黑暗。他们必被扔进黑暗中。

Footnotes

  1. 8:1 玛黑珥·沙拉勒·哈施·罢斯”意思是“快速掳掠,迅速抢夺”。

The Coming Assyrian Invasion

Then the Lord said to me, “Take a large piece of parchment[a] and write on it with an ordinary pen:[b](A) Maher-shalal-hash-baz.[c] I have appointed[d] trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.”(B)

I was then intimate with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz, for before the boy knows how to call out father or mother,(C) the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria.”(D)

The Lord spoke to me again:

Because these people rejected
the slowly flowing waters of Shiloah
and rejoiced with[e] Rezin
and the son of Remaliah,(E)
the Lord will certainly bring against them
the mighty rushing waters of the Euphrates River—
the king of Assyria and all his glory.
It will overflow its channels
and spill over all its banks.
It will pour into Judah,
flood over it, and sweep through,
reaching up to the neck;(F)
and its spreading streams[f]
will fill your entire land, Immanuel!(G)

Band together, peoples, and be broken;
pay attention, all you distant lands;
prepare for war, and be broken;
prepare for war, and be broken.
10 Devise a plan; it will fail.(H)
Make a prediction; it will not happen.
For God is with us.[g](I)

The Lord of Hosts, the Only Refuge

11 For this is what the Lord said to me with great power, to keep[h] me from going the way of this people:(J)

12 Do not call everything an alliance
these people say is an alliance.(K)
Do not fear what they fear;(L)
do not be terrified.
13 You are to regard only the Lord of Hosts as holy.(M)
Only He should be feared;(N)
only He should be held in awe.
14 He will be a sanctuary;(O)
but for the two houses of Israel,
He will be a stone(P) to stumble over
and a rock to trip over,(Q)
and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 Many will stumble over these;(R)
they will fall and be broken;
they will be snared and captured.

16 Bind up the testimony.(S)
Seal up the instruction(T) among my disciples.
17 I will wait for the Lord,(U)
who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob.(V)
I will wait for Him.

18 Here I am with the children the Lord has given me(W) to be signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of Hosts who dwells on Mount Zion. 19 When they say to you, “Consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,”(X) shouldn’t a people consult their God?[i] Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?(Y) 20 To the law and to the testimony!(Z) If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

21 They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God. 22 They will look toward the earth(AA) and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:1 Hb obscure
  2. Isaiah 8:1 Lit with the pen of a man
  3. Isaiah 8:1 = Speeding to the Plunder, Hurrying to the Spoil
  4. Isaiah 8:2 Vg; MT, one DSS ms read I will appoint; one DSS ms, LXX, Syr, Tg read Appoint
  5. Isaiah 8:6 Or and rejoiced over
  6. Isaiah 8:8 Or wings
  7. Isaiah 8:10 Or For Immanuel
  8. Isaiah 8:11 DSS; MT reads instruct
  9. Isaiah 8:19 Or gods