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Isaias 8:5-18 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

5. And the Lord spoke to me again, saying:

6. Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of Siloe, that go with silence, and hath rather taken Basin, and the son of Romelia:

7. Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters of the river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his banks,

8. And shall pass through Juda, overflowing, and going over shall reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Emmanuel.

9. Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, end be overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome.

10. Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us.

11. For thus saith the Lord to me: As he hath taught me, with a strong arm, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:

12. Say ye not: A conspiracy: for all that this people speaketh, is a conspiracy: neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

13. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

14. And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone or stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15. And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.

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

17. And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

18. Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for a sign, and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Sion.

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