Isaiah · WEB-C
Isaiah
8
Bible textSynthetic voice (AI)
The LORD said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’; See also: Isaiah 30:8Habakkuk 2:2-3Isaiah 8:3and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.” See also: 2 Kings 16:10-112 Kings 16:15-162 Corinthians 13:1I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’ See also: Hosea 1:3-9Isaiah 7:13-14Judges 4:4For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.” See also: Romans 9:112 Kings 17:3Isaiah 7:8-9The LORD spoke to me yet again, saying, See also: Isaiah 7:10“Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son; See also: John 9:7Nehemiah 3:15Judges 9:16-20now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks. See also: Isaiah 17:12-13Amos 8:8Isaiah 7:17It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, O Immanuel. See also: Isaiah 7:14Matthew 1:23Isaiah 30:28Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered! See also: Isaiah 14:5-6Proverbs 11:21Psalms 37:14-15Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.” See also: Lamentations 3:37Romans 8:31Job 5:12For the LORD spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, See also: Ezekiel 3:14Proverbs 1:15Psalms 32:8“Don’t call a conspiracy all that this people call a conspiracy. Don’t fear their threats or be terrorized. See also: 1 Peter 3:14-15Luke 21:9Isaiah 51:12-13The LORD of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread. See also: Luke 12:5Isaiah 26:3-4Revelation 15:4He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare. See also: 1 Peter 2:8Romans 9:32-33Isaiah 28:16Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.” See also: Matthew 21:44Luke 20:17-18Isaiah 28:13Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples. See also: Daniel 12:4Hebrews 3:5Isaiah 29:11-12I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. See also: Hebrews 10:36-39Habakkuk 2:3Lamentations 3:25-26Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion. See also: Hebrews 2:13-14Luke 2:34Zechariah 8:3When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? See also: 1 Chronicles 10:13Leviticus 20:62 Chronicles 33:6Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them. See also: 2 Peter 1:192 Timothy 3:15-17Acts 17:11They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse their king and their God. They will turn their faces upward, See also: Isaiah 9:20Proverbs 19:3Deuteronomy 28:53-57then look to the earth and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness. See also: Isaiah 5:30Matthew 22:13Jeremiah 13:16
See also: Cross references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), derived in part from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Reflections
No reviewed reflections for this passage yet.
Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)16 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 8:1
Ver. 1. Book. This mystery would require a large explanation. W. --- Pen. Lit.
"style." H. ---
Write intelligibly. Here all is plain. C. --- Take. Prot. "concerning Mahershalalchashbaz." Marg.
"in making speed to the spoil, he hasteneth the prey." H. --- Chashbaz, the son of Isaias, was a sign that Syria and Israel should soon be rendered desolate; and in a more elevated sense, he shewed that Christ should overturn the powers of hell. C. --- The virgin's son took the prey from the devil, who before possessed almost all the world. W. --- Urias. Probably the high priest, who afterwards weakly complied with the king's idolatrous order. 4 K. xvi. 10. C. ---
Yet at this time, he was a credible witness. H. --- Zacharias. A person to us unknown. C.
↑ 1Isaiah 8:3
Ver. 3. Prophetess. The blessed Virgin, (S. Chrys. &c.) or to his wife. He gives his son a different name from Emmanuel, (c. vii. 14.) that they might not be confounded. --- Hasten. Heb.
Mahershalalchashbaz. v. 1. H.
↑ 3Isaiah 8:4
Ver. 4. Assyrians. Theglathphalassar, the next year, took the Damascenes to Kir, and Nephthali, Reuben, Gad, and Manasses into captivity. Yet the kingdom continued some time longer. Never was prediction more explicit. Can the pagans produce any thing similar?
↑ 4Isaiah 8:6
Ver. 6. Silence. Being willing to receive Tabeel, instead of their lawful prince.
Achaz was then terrified, and chose to become tributary, rather than to lose his crown. Herein both offended God, in whom they ought to have trusted; and the auxiliary king looked upon himself as master of the country. 2 Par. xxviii. 20. C.
--- Israel had joined with the Syrian; but was reduced to the state of captivity, while Jerusalem was preserved. W.
↑ 6Isaiah 8:7
Ver. 7. River. Euphrates, (C.) with the overflowing of which the Assyrian is compared. H.
↑ 7Isaiah 8:8
Ver. 8. Wings. Or troops. --- Emmanuel. Christ was born in the country, and Lord of it: though it might be said to belong to the son of Isaias, as being his figure. C.
↑ 8Isaiah 8:9
Ver. 9. Overcome. The defeat of Sennacherib, of the Idumeans, &c. under Ezechias, is intimated.
4 K. xviii. 8. and xix. 35.
↑ 9Isaiah 8:10
Ver. 10. God. Heb. "Emmanuel." We have a pledge of God's protection.
↑ 10Isaiah 8:12
Ver. 12. Conspiracy. In despair, they wish to submit to the enemy. v. 6. Isaias exhorts them to have recourse rather to the Lord. C.
↑ 12Isaiah 8:14
Ver. 14. Two. The wicked of both kingdoms, (H.) who choose to revolt from God. Many of Israel were led into captivity, and the territory of Juda was laid waste. C.
↑ 14Isaiah 8:16
Ver. 16. Disciples. Let some faithful witnesses keep this prophecy, (H.) that when it is verified, all may be convinced.
↑ 16Isaiah 8:17
Ver. 17. Jacob. Having resolved on their ruin. C.
↑ 17Isaiah 8:18
Ver. 18. I and my two children. C. vii. 3. and viii. 4. H. --- The actions of some were prophetical. C. xx. 2. Os. xii. 10. C. --- God announces what will happen, by the names of my children, (H.) and by their age, as well as by my mouth. C.
↑ 18Isaiah 8:19
Ver. 19. Seek of pythons. That is, people pretending to tell future things by a prophesying spirit.
--- Should not the people seek of their God, for the living of the dead? Here is signified, that it is to God we should pray to be directed, and not to seek of the dead, (that is, of fortune-tellers dead in sin) for the health of the living. Ch. ---
Mutter. Lit. "use a shrill note," strident. H. --- so Horace, (1 Sat. viii.) says---
Umbræ cum sagana resonarent triste et acutum.
--- Should. Make this reply: Should, &c.
↑ 19Isaiah 8:20
Ver. 20. Law. Sealed, (v. 16.) or to the law of Moses. Eccli. xxxiv. 28. C. --- Sept.
"why do they consult the dead concerning the living? For he gave the law to assist us." H. --- Light. They shall die or be miserable. C.
↑ 20Isaiah 8:21
Ver. 21. By it. The word of God. H. --- God. Elohim means also princes or idols.
C. ---
Whether they seek God unwillingly, or the aid of men, (v. 22.) they shall perish.
W.
↑ 21License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses