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Isaiah 8:1

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    8:1 (in cut-in letters) Lit. with a cutting or indelible writing-tool Codd.* with a wight’s writing-tool

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    8:1 Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz means Booty-Quick-Plunder-Hurrying

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1219

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 296-297

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 111-112

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1219; it-2 296; ip-1 111-112;

    ad 843; w62 501; w46 311; pn 46

Isaiah 8:2

Footnotes

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    8:2 Var. and I will have Conj.* and I had

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 111-112

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 111-112;

    ad 843; pn 46

Isaiah 8:3

Footnotes

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    8:3 Lit. I came near the prophetess

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1219

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 698

    The Watchtower,

    11/15/2013, pp. 16-17

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 8, 112

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1219; it-2 698; w13 11/15 16-17; ip-1 8, 112;

    ad 843, 1349; w58 688; w46 311; pn 46; w33 302

Isaiah 8:4

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 572

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 296-297

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 112

  • Publications Index

    it-1 572; it-2 296-297; ip-1 112;

    w58 688; w46 311; pn 46

Isaiah 8:5

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    pn 36

Isaiah 8:6

Footnotes

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    8:6 (admire) Unc.; codd.* rejoice with

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 941

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 40, 651-652, 928

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 113-114

  • Publications Index

    it-1 941; it-2 40, 651-652, 928; ip-1 113;

    ad 658, 909, 1319, 1492; w66 550; bf 542; w51 183; w46 308; pn 36

Isaiah 8:7

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 941, 1187

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 113-114

  • Publications Index

    it-1 941, 1187; ip-1 113;

    ad 658, 822; w46 310; pn 36, 45

Isaiah 8:8

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1187

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1101

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 113-114, 116

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1187; it-2 1101; ip-1 113-114, 116;

    ad 658, 822; g69 8/8 16; w67 380; w46 310, 312; pn 36, 45, 48

Isaiah 8:9

Footnotes

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    8:9 (Know) Var. Break or Be wicked

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    8:9 (be dismayed) Or be shivered (three times)

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 114

    The Watchtower,

    4/1/1987, pp. 19-20

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 114; w87 4/1 19-20;

    w74 615; nh 276; w52 275; w46 312; pn 16, 50, 52, 63; w40 71; w36 172; w34 316; jh 15, 134; w31 11; ph30 54

Isaiah 8:10

Footnotes

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    8:10 Lit. to have it baffled

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 114

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/1987, pp. 27-28

    4/1/1987, pp. 19-20

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 114; w87 4/1 19-20; w87 9/1 27-28;

    w74 615; nh 276; w52 275; w46 312; pn 16, 50, 52, 63; tf 246; w42 6; w40 71; w34 316; jh 134; pp 318; ph30 54

Isaiah 8:11

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 114-115

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 115;

    nh 276; pn 16, 56

Isaiah 8:12

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 114-115

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/1987, pp. 20-23, 27-28

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 114-115; w87 9/1 20-23, 27-28;

    w83 12/15 21-22; w65 263; nh 276; w48 221; w46 314; pn 16, 33, 56

Isaiah 8:13

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 114-115

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 115;

    w52 372; w50 90; w46 314; pn 16, 56

Isaiah 8:14

Footnotes

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    8:14 Codd. become a sanctuary and a stone

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Bible Questions Answered, article 146

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 417

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 815

    The Watchtower,

    10/1/2008, p. 5

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 115

    “All Scripture,” pp. 123, 253

  • Publications Index

    ijwbq article 146; it-1 417; it-2 815; w08 10/1 5; ip-1 115; si 123, 253;

    bw 55-56; w77 29; w74 761; w72 443; w66 29; im 246; bf 428; ns 263; w51 595; w46 315; pn 58; rw 37; w43 37, 54; w42 7; w40 294; g37 6/30 625; w33 139; w32 38

Isaiah 8:15

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 115

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 115;

    w46 315; pn 58; w43 54; w42 7; fw 54

Isaiah 8:16

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 628

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 115-116

  • Publications Index

    it-1 628; ip-1 115-116;

    ad 451; w57 596; w51 444; w46 315; pn 59

Isaiah 8:17

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 115-116

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 115-116;

    pn 59

Isaiah 8:18

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 1219

    Isaiah’s Prophecy II, p. 407

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 116

    The Watchtower,

    4/1/1987, p. 12

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1219; ip-2 407; ip-1 116; w87 4/1 12;

    w80 11/15 16, 19; w66 534, 753, 755-756; w60 38; w59 150; w58 687, 691, 695; w57 596; w54 351; nh 239; w51 206; w49 292; w48 375; w46 315; pn 59; w43 216; w42 294; w36 105; w35 295; w33 301; w32 9; w30 69

Isaiah 8:19

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Enjoy Life Forever!, lesson 29

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 118-120

  • Publications Index

    lff lesson 29; ip-1 118, 120;

    us 33; w77 643; g74 4/22 28; g71 5/22 27-28; lg 10; w46 316; pn 61

Isaiah 8:20

Footnotes

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    8:20 that has no magic and that he has no daybreak are two translations of the same Hebrew words; it is not clear whether the words mean one thing and belong with verse 20 or mean the other thing and belong with verse 21, nor whether there was originally any connection between verse 20 and verse 21 at all

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, pp. 121-122

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 121-122;

    w77 643-644; w53 296; lg 10; w46 316; pn 61; g42 7/8 25

Isaiah 8:21

Footnotes

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    8:21 Or curse by his king and

  • *

    8:21 Or and his god Or and his gods

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    8/15/2013, p. 11

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 123

  • Publications Index

    w13 8/15 11; ip-1 123;

    w77 643-644

Isaiah 8:22

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Isaiah’s Prophecy I, p. 124

  • Publications Index

    ip-1 124;

    w77 643-644; w34 90; jh 92

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The Bible in Living English
Isaiah 8:1-22

Isaiah

8** And Jehovah said to me “Take a great bulletin-board and write on it in cut-in letters ‘For Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz,’ 2* and have it attested for me by authoritative witnesses, Priest Urijah and Zecariah the son of Jeberekiah.” 3* And I had intercourse with the prophetess, and she became pregnant and had a son; and Jehovah said to me “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, 4 because before the child knows how to call ‘papa’ and ‘mamma’ they shall carry the wealth of Damascus and the booty of Samaria before the king of Assyria.”

5 And Jehovah spoke to me yet again, saying 6* “Since this people do not care for the soft-flowing water of Shiloah but admire the hubbub of Rason and the son of Remaliah, 7 therefore here is the Lord bringing up on them the vast and voluminous water of the River, the king of Assyria and all his masses, and it shall rise in all its channels and go over all its banks 8 and off into Judah, washing everything away and passing off; it shall reach to the neck, and its spread of wing shall be the full breadth of your country, God-Is-With-Us.”

9** Know, peoples, and be dismayed; give ear, all remotest parts of the earth; mobilize and be dismayed, mobilize and be dismayed. 10* Get up a plan and have it baffled, draw up a program and it will not come off, because God is with us.

11 For Jehovah said to me in the grip of his hand, and warned me from going on this people’s road, 12 “You are not to say ‘A plot’ on every occasion on which this people says ‘A plot,’ nor fear their object of fear nor be overawed: 13 Jehovah of Armies you are to revere as holy, and he is your object of fear and of awe. 14* And he shall become a stone to strike against and a rock to stumble over for the two houses of Israel, a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 15 and many among them shall stumble and fall and break their bones, and be snared and caught.”

16 Pack up admonition, seal up instruction, among my learners, 17 and I will wait for Jehovah, who veils his face from the house of Jacob, and count on him. 18 Here I and the children God has given me are for tokens and portents in Israel from Jehovah of Armies who makes his abode on Mount Sion. 19 And when they say to you “Consult this and that sort of chirping and moaning mediums; should not each people consult its gods, on behalf of the living the dead, 20* for instruction and admonitions?”—if they do not speak by this formula that has no magic, . . . that he has no daybreak. 21** And he will pass along it in hardship and hunger; and when he is hungry he will lose his temper and abuse his king and his God, and turn his face upward 22 and look toward the earth, and find scanty room and darkness to fly in, narrow limits and murkiness to stray in.

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