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In that day, JEHOVAH shall shave by the hired

razor,

By the people beyond the river, by the king of
Assyria,

The head and the hair of the feet;

And even the beard itself shall be destroyed.
And it shall come to pass in that day,

That if a man shall feed a young cow, and two
sheep;

From the plenty of milk, which they shall produce, he shall eat butter:

Even butter and honey shall he eat,

Whosoever is left in the midst of the land.
And every vineyard, that hath a thousand vines,
Valued at a thousand pieces of silver,

Shall become in that day briers and thorns.

With arrows and with the bow shall they come thither;

For the whole land shall become briers and thorns, And all the hills, which were dressed with the mattock,

Where the fear of briers and thorns never came, Shall be for the range of the ox, and for the treading of sheep.

CHAP. VIII.

1 AND JEHOVAH said unto me: Take unto thee large mirror, and write on it with a workman's graving tool, to hasten the spoil, to take quickly the 2 prey. And I called unto me for a testimony faithful witnesses; Uriah the priest, and Zachariah the 3 son of Jeberechiah. And I approached unto the Prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. And JEHOVAH said unto me: Call his name Maher-shalal hash-baz:

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For before the child shall know

To pronounce My Father and My Mother,

The riches of Damascus shall be borne away, And the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Assyria.

5 Yet again JEHOVAH spake unto me, saying: Because this people hath rejected

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The waters of Siloah, which flow gently:
And rejoiceth in Retsin, and the son of Remaliah:
Therefore behold the Lord bringeth up upon
them
The waters of the river, the strong and the mighty;
Even the king of Assyria, and all his force.
And he shall rise above all their channels,
And shall go over all their banks.

And he shall pass through Judah, overflowing
and spreading,

Even to the neck shall he reach :

And the extension of his wings shall be

Over the full breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!

9 Know ye this, O ye peoples, and be struck with consternation;

And give ear to it, all ye of distant lands:

Gird yourselves, and be dismayed; gird yourselves, and be dismayed.

10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; Speak the word, and it shall not stand:

For God is with us.

For thus said JEHOVAH unto me;

As taking me by the hand he instructed me,

That I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:

12 Say ye not, It is holy,

Of every thing, of which this people shall say, It is holy:

And fear ye not the object of their fear, neither be ye

terrified.

13 JEHOVAH God of hosts, sanctify ye

him ;

And let Him be your fear, and let Him be 14 And he shall be unto you a sanctuary :

But a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence,
To the two houses of Israel;

A trap, and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble,

And shall fall, and be broken; and shall be ensnared, and caught.

16 Bind up the testimony, seal the command, among my disciples.

17 I will therefore wait for JEHOVAH, who hideth his face

From the house of Jacob; yet will I look for him. 18 Behold, I, and the children,

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Whom JEHOVAH hath given unto me;
For signs and for wonders in Israel,
From JEHOVAH God of hosts,

Who dwelleth in the mountain of Sion.

And when they shall say unto you :}

Seek unto the necromancers and the wizards;
To them that speak inwardly, and that mutter:
Should not a people seek unto their God?

Should they seek, instead of the living, unto the dead? 20 Unto the command, and unto the testimony, let them seek:

If they will not speak according to this word,

In which there is no obscurity;

21 Every one of them shall pass through the land distressed and famished:

And when he shall be famished, and angry with himself,

He shall curse his king and his God:

22 And he shall cast his eyes upwards, and look down to the earth:

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And lo! distress and darkness!

Gloom, tribulation, and accumulated darkness!

But there shall not hereafter be darkness in the land which was distressed:

In the former time he debased

The land Zebulon, and the land of Naphthali;
But in the latter time he hath made it glorious:

Even the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

CHAP. IX.

1 THE people, that walked in darkness,

Have seen a great light;

They that dwelled in the land of the shadow of death, Unto them hath the light shined.

2 Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy:

They rejoice before thee, as with the joy of harvest; As they rejoice, who divide the spoil.

3 For the yoke of his burden, the staff laid on his shoulder,

The rod of his oppressor, hast thou broken, as in the day of Midian.

4 For the greaves of the armed warrior in the conflict, And the garment rolled in much blood,

Shall be for a burning, even fuel for the fire.

5 For unto us a Child is born; unto us a Son is given; And the government shall be upon his shoulder: And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, the Father of the everlasting age, the Prince of peace.

6 of the increase of his government and peace

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there

Upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; To fix it, and to establish it

With judgment and with justice, henceforth and for

ever:

The zeal of JEHOVAH God of hosts will do this.

JEHOVAH hath sent a word against Jacob; And it hath lighted upon Israel.

8 Because the people all of them carry themselves

haughtily;

Ephraim, and the inhabitant of Samaria;

In pride and arrogance of heart, saying:

9 The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn

stone;

The sycamores are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars :

10 Therefore will JEHOVAH excite the princes of Retsin against him;

And raise

up

his enemies together;

11 The Syrians from the East, and the Philistines from the West;

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And they shall devour Israel on every side.

For all this his anger is not turned away;
But his hand is still stretched out.

Yet this people have not turned unto him that smote them;

And JEHOVAH God of hosts they have not sought. 13 Therefore shall JEHOVAH cut off from Israel the head and the tail;

The branch and the rush, in one day:

14 The aged, and the honourable person, he is the head; And the prophet which teacheth falsehood, he is the tail.

15 For the leaders of this people led them astray;

And they that are led by them shall be devoured. 16 Wherefore JEHOVAH shall not rejoice over their young men ;

And on their orphans, and their widows, he shall have no compassion.

For every one of them is a hypocrite and an evildoer;

And every mouth speaketh folly.

For all this his anger is not turned away;
But his hand is still stretched out.