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8 Moreover, the LORD said to me, “Take a great scroll and write with a man’s pen: ‘Make speed to the spoil. Hurry to the prey.’”
2 Then I took to myself faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the Priest and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.
3 Afterward, I went in to the Prophetess, who conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, “Call his name, Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.
4 “For before the child shall have knowledge to cry ‘My father and my mother’, he shall take away the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Assyria.”
5 And the LORD spoke yet again to me, saying,
6 “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah (which run softly) and rejoice with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
7 “now, therefore, behold, the LORD brings up the waters of the river upon them, mighty and great. And the king of Assyria, with all his glory, shall come up upon all their rivers and go over all their banks,
8 “and shall break into Judah, shall overflow and pass through, shall come up to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
9 “Gather together on heaps, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces! And listen, all you from far countries! Gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces! Gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces!”
10 Take counsel together, but it shall be brought to nothing. Pronounce a decree, but it shall not stand. For God is with us.
11 For the LORD spoke this to me, in the taking of my hand, and taught me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 “Do not say, ‘A conspiracy’ to all that which this people says is conspiracy, or fear their fear or be afraid of them.
13 “Sanctify the LORD of Hosts and let Him be your fear. And let Him be your dread.
14 “And He shall be a Sanctuary; but as a stumbling stone to both the Houses of Israel, and as a rock to fall upon, and as a snare, and as a net to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 “And many among them shall stumble, and shall fall, and shall be broken, and shall be snared, and shall be taken.
16 “Bind up the Testimony. Seal up the Law among My disciples.”
17 Therefore, I will wait upon the LORD, Who has hidden His Face from the House of Jacob. And I will look for Him.
18 Behold, I, and the children whom the LORD has given me, are as signs and as wonders in Israel, by the LORD of Hosts, Who dwells on Mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say to you, “Inquire of those who have a spirit of divination and of the soothsayers who whisper and murmur”, should not a people inquire of their God, rather than the living of the dead?
20 Inquire of the Law and of the Testimony. If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 Then those who are afflicted and famished shall wander to and fro. And when they become hungry, they shall be enraged and curse their king and his gods and shall look upward.
22 And when they shall look to the earth, they shall behold trouble and darkness, vexation and anguish, and shall be driven to wickedness.
9 Yet, the gloom shall not be as the affliction was at first, when He lightly touched the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, nor afterward when he was more grievous by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the Gentiles.
2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great Light. Those who dwelled in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the Light shined.
3 You have multiplied the nation, not increased joy. Men rejoice when they divide a spoil.
4 For You have broken the yoke of their burden, and the staff of their shoulder, and the rod of their oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5 Surely every battle of the warrior is with noise, and with tumbling of garments in blood. But this shall be with burning and devouring of fire.
6 For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given. And the government is upon His shoulder. And His Name shall be called: Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 The increase of His dominion and peace shall have no end. He shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment, and with justice, from henceforth, forever. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will perform this.
8 The LORD has sent a Word into Jacob, and it lighted upon Israel.
9 And all the people shall know—Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria— who say in the pride and presumption of their heart,
10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will build it with hewn stones. The wild fig trees are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.”
11 Nevertheless, the LORD will raise up the adversaries of Rezin against him and join his enemies together,
12 Aram in front and the Philistines behind. And they shall devour Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, His wrath is not turned away. But His hand is stretched out still.
13 For the people do not turn to Him Who strikes them, nor do they seek the LORD of Hosts.
14 Therefore, the LORD will cut off head and tail from Israel, branch and rush, in one day.
15 To the ancient and the honorable man, He is the head. And to the prophet who teaches lies, He is the tail.
16 For the leaders of the people cause them to err. And those who are led by them are devoured.
17 Therefore, the LORD shall have no pleasure in their young men. Nor will He have compassion on their fatherless and on their widows. For everyone is a hypocrite and wicked. And every mouth speaks folly. For all this, His wrath is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burns as a fire. It devours the briers and the thorns, and will kindle in the thick places of the forest. And they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
19 By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts shall the land be darkened. And the people shall be as the meat of the fire. No man shall spare his brother.
20 And he shall cut on the right hand and be hungry. And he shall eat on the left hand and shall not be satisfied. Everyone shall eat the flesh of his own arm.
21 Manasseh-Ephraim and Ephraim-Manasseh, they both shall be against Judah. For all this, His wrath is not turned away. But His Hand is stretched out still.
12 Doubtless, it is not profitable for me to boast. Yet, I will now come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 More than fourteen years ago I knew a man in Christ, (whether he was in the body, I cannot tell, or out of the body, I cannot tell; God knows.) who was taken up into the third heaven.
3 And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell; God knows).
4 How that he was taken up into Paradise, and heard words which cannot be spoken, which are not possible for man to utter.
5 Of such a man I will boast. Of myself I will not boast, except that it be of my weakness.
6 For though I would desire to boast, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should think me above that which he sees in me, or hears of me;
7 and lest I should be exalted out of measure through the abundance of revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, because I should not be exalted out of measure.
8 For this thing I implored the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.
9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you. For My power is made perfect through weakness.” Therefore, rather, I will very gladly boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
10 Therefore, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in anguish for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
55 Hear my prayer, O God, and do not hide Yourself from my supplication.
2 Hear me and answer me. I mourn in my prayer and make a noise
3 for the voice of the enemy, for the troubling of the wicked; because they have brought iniquity upon me and furiously hate me.
4 My heart trembles within me; and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5 Fear and trembling have come upon me; and a horrible fear has covered me.
6 And I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away and rest!
7 “Behold, I would wander far off and lodge in the wilderness. Selah.
8 “He would hurry for my deliverance from the stormy wind and tempest.”
9 Destroy, O LORD, and divide their tongues; for I have seen cruelty and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof. Both iniquity and mischief are in the midst of it.
11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof. Deceit and guile do not depart from her streets.
12 Surely my enemy did not defame me (for I could have borne it); nor did my adversary exalt himself against me (for I would have hidden myself from him).
13 But it was you, O man, even my companion, my guide, and my intimate.
14 We delighted in consulting together; and went into the House of God as companions.
15 Let death seize them. Let them go down quick into the grave; for wickedness is in their dwellings, even in the midst of them.
16 I will call to God and the LORD will save me.
17 Evening and morning, and at noon, I will pray and make a noise; and He will hear my voice.
18 He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle against me, for many were with me.
19 God shall hear and afflict them, even He Who reigns of old. Selah. Because they do not change, therefore they do not fear God.
20 He laid his hand upon such who are at peace with Him. He broke His Covenant.
21 The words of his mouth were softer than butter; yet war was in his heart. His words were more gentle than oil; yet they were swords.
22 Cast your burden upon the LORD, and He shall nourish you. He will not allow the righteous to fall forever.
23 And You, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of corruption. The bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days. But I will trust in You. To him who excels: A Psalm of David on Michtam, concerning the dumb dove in a far country, when the Philistines took him in Gath
4 Do not overwork to be rich. Cease from your own understanding.
5 Will you set your eyes on that which is nothing? For riches takes to her wings, as an eagle, and flies into the sky.
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