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CHAPTER 8.
AND the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it with a
man's pen. Take sway the spoils with speed, quickly take the prey.
2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the
priest, and Zacharias the son of Barachias.
3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and
bore a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the
spoils: Make haste to take away the prey.
4 For before the child know to call his father and his
mother, the strength of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria shall be taken away
before the king of the Assyrians.
5 And the Lord spoke to me again, saying:
6 Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of
Siloe, that go with silence, and hath rather taken Basin, and the son of
Romelia:
7 Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the
waters of the river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his
glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his
banks,
8 And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going
over shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall
fill the breadth of thy land, O Emmanuel.
9 Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be
overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, end be
overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated:
speak a word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us.
11 For thus saith the Lord to me: As he hath taught me,
with a strong arm, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:
12 Say ye not: A conspiracy: for all that this people
speaketh, is a conspiracy: neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let him be
your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a
stone or stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for
a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and
shall be broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my
disciples.
17 And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face
from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given
me for a sign, and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth
in mount Sion.
19 And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and
of diviners, who mutter in their enchantments: should not the people seek of
their God, for the living of the dead?
20 To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they
speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.
21 And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be
hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their
king, and their God, and look upwards.
22 And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble
and darkness, weakness and distress, and a mist following them, and they cannot
fly away from their distress.
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