Isaiah and His Children as Signs
1The Lord said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.”8:1 Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz means quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil; also in verse 3. 2So I called in Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me. 3Then I made love to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. 4For before the boy knows how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”
5The Lord spoke to me again:
6“Because this people has rejected
the gently flowing waters of Shiloah
and rejoices over Rezin
and the son of Remaliah,
7therefore the Lord is about to bring against them
the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—
the king of Assyria with all his pomp.
It will overflow all its channels,
run over all its banks
8and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,
passing through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land,
Immanuel8:8 Immanuel means God with us.!”
9Raise the war cry,8:9 Or Do your worst you nations, and be shattered!
Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
10Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;
propose your plan, but it will not stand,
for God is with us.8:10 Hebrew Immanuel
11This is what the Lord says to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people:
12“Do not call conspiracy
everything this people calls a conspiracy;
do not fear what they fear,
and do not dread it.
13The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,
he is the one you are to fear,
he is the one you are to dread.
14He will be a holy place;
for both Israel and Judah he will be
a stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall.
And for the people of Jerusalem he will be
a trap and a snare.
15Many of them will stumble;
they will fall and be broken,
they will be snared and captured.”
16Bind up this testimony of warning
and seal up God’s instruction among my disciples.
17I will wait for the Lord,
who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob.
I will put my trust in him.
18Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.
The Darkness Turns to Light
19When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? 20Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. 21Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God. 22Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.
Ashuru, Chombo Cha Bwana
18:1 Kum 27:8; Ay 19:23; Yer 20:3; 51:60; Isa 30:8; 8:3; Hos 1:4Bwana akaniambia, “Chukua gombo kubwa, uandike juu yake kwa kalamu ya kawaida jina: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Bazi.8:1 Maher-Shalal-Hash-Bazi maana yake ni Haraka kuteka nyara, Upesi kwenye hizo nyara. 28:2 2Fal 16:10; Yos 24:22; Rut 4:9; Yer 10:10-12; 32:10Nami nitawaita kuhani Uria, na Zekaria mwana wa Yeberekia kama mashahidi wangu waaminifu.”
38:3 Kut 15:20; Mwa 3:15Kisha nikaenda kwa nabii mke, naye akapata mimba, akazaa mwana. Kisha Bwana akaniambia, “Mwite huyo mtoto Maher-Shalal-Hash-Bazi. 48:4 Isa 7:8, 16; Mwa 14:15; Isa 7:8Kabla mtoto hajaweza kusema ‘Baba yangu’ au ‘Mama yangu,’ utajiri wa Dameski na nyara za Samaria zitachukuliwa na mfalme wa Ashuru.”
5Bwana akasema nami tena:
68:6 Neh 3:15; Isa 5:24; 7:1; Yn 9:7“Kwa sababu watu hawa wamekataa maji ya Shilo yatiririkayo taratibu
wakamfurahia Resini na mwana wa Remalia,
78:7 Isa 7:20; Dan 11:40; Nah 1:8; 2Nya 28:20; Isa 17:12-13; 30:28; Yos 3:15; Isa 10:16kwa hiyo Bwana yu karibu kuleta dhidi yao
mafuriko makubwa ya Mto:8:7 Yaani Frati.
yaani mfalme wa Ashuru na fahari yake yote.
Yatafurika juu ya mifereji yake yote,
yatamwagikia juu ya kingo zake zote,
88:8 Isa 7:14; 28:15; 18:6; 46:11; Yer 4:13; 48:40na kufika hadi Yuda, yakizunguka kwa kasi juu yake,
yakipita katikati na yakifika hadi shingoni.
Mabawa yake yaliyokunjuliwa
yatafunika upana wa nchi yako,
Ee Imanueli!”8:8 Imanueli maana yake Mungu yu pamoja nasi.
98:9 Isa 17:12-13; Eze 38:7; 38:3; Zek 14:2-3; Ay 34:24; Yer 46:3; 6:4; Zek 14:2; Yos 6:5Inueni kilio cha vita, enyi mataifa,
na mkavunjwevunjwe!
Sikilizeni, enyi nyote nchi za mbali.
Jiandaeni kwa vita, nanyi mkavunjwevunjwe!
Jiandaeni kwa vita, nanyi mkavunjwevunjwe!
108:10 Ay 5:12; Isa 7:7, 14; Rum 8:31; Mit 19:21; Mt 1:23Wekeni mikakati yenu, lakini itashindwa;
fanyeni mipango yenu, lakini haitafanikiwa,
kwa maana Mungu yu pamoja nasi.8:10 Kiebrania ni Imanueli.
Mwogope Mungu
118:11 Eze 3:14; 2:8; 1:3Bwana alisema nami mkono wake wenye nguvu ukiwa juu yangu, akinionya nisifuate njia za taifa hili. Akasema:
128:12 Isa 36:6; 7:2; 20:5; 1Pet 3:14; Mt 10:28“Usiite fitina kila kitu ambacho watu hawa hukiita fitina,
usiogope kile wanachokiogopa,
wala usikihofu.
138:13 Hes 20:12; Isa 29:23; Kut 20:20Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote ndiye peke yake
ikupasaye kumheshimu kuwa mtakatifu,
ndiye peke yake utakayemwogopa,
ndiye peke yake utakayemhofu,
148:14 Rum 9:33; Eze 11:16; Isa 24:17-18; Za 118:22; Yer 6:21; Lk 2:34; Isa 4:6; Lk 20:18; Eze 3:20naye atakuwa mahali patakatifu;
lakini kwa nyumba zote mbili za Israeli atakuwa
jiwe lile linalosababisha watu kujikwaa
na mwamba wa kuwaangusha.
Kwa watu wa Yerusalemu,
atakuwa mtego na tanzi.
158:15 Lk 20:18; Isa 28:13; 59:10; Rum 9:32; Mt 4:19; Lk 20:18; Isa 59:10Wengi wao watajikwaa;
wataanguka na kuvunjika,
watategwa na kunaswa.”
168:16 Dan 8:26; 12:4; Yer 32:14; Rut 4:7; Isa 29:11-12Funga ushuhuda na kutia muhuri sheria
miongoni mwa wanafunzi wangu.
178:17 Kum 31:17; Za 27:14; 22:5; Ebr 2:13Nitamngojea Bwana,
ambaye ameificha nyumba ya Yakobo uso wake.
Nitaliweka tumaini langu kwake.
188:18 Mwa 33:5; Ebr 2:13; Kut 3:12; Lk 2:34; Eze 12:6; 24:24; 4:3; Kum 28:46; Eze 12:11; Za 9:11Niko hapa, pamoja na watoto ambao Bwana amenipa. Sisi ni ishara na mfano wake katika Israeli, kutoka kwa Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote, anayeishi juu ya Mlima Sayuni.
198:19 1Sam 28:8; Isa 29:4; Hes 27:21; Law 19:31Wakati watu wanapowaambia ninyi kutafuta ushauri kwa waaguzi na wenye kuongea na mizimu, ambao hunongʼona na kunungʼunika, je, watu wasingeuliza kwa Mungu wao? Kwa nini watake shauri kwa wafu kwa ajili ya walio hai? 208:20 Mik 3:6; Isa 60:2; 1:10; Rut 4:7; Lk 16:29; Isa 9:2; 59:9; 9:2Kwa sheria na kwa ushuhuda! Kama hawatasema sawasawa na neno hili, hawana mwanga wa mapambazuko. 218:21 Ay 18:12; Kut 22:28; Ay 30:3; Ufu 16:11Watazunguka katika nchi yote, wakiwa na dhiki na njaa. Watakapotaabika kwa njaa, watapatwa na hasira kali, nao, wakiwa wanatazama juu, watamlaani mfalme wao na Mungu wao. 228:22 Ay 15:24; 3:13; Isa 5:30; Ufu 16:10; Mt 25:30Kisha wataangalia duniani na kuona tu dhiki na giza, hofu na huzuni tupu, nao watasukumiwa kwenye giza nene kabisa.
