¹ And Jehovah said to me, Take a big tablet and write in it with a man's pen: Make haste to plunder! Hasten to the prey!

² And I took faithful witnesses to record for me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

³ And I drew near the prophetess. And she conceived, and bore a son. Then Jehovah said to me, Call his name, Hurry, plunder! Eagerly plunder!

⁴ For before the boy knows to cry, My father, or, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

⁵ Jehovah also spoke to me again, saying,

⁶ Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow softly, and rejoices in Rezin and Remaliah's son,

⁷ Behold, therefore the Lord also brings on them the channels of the River, mighty and many: the king of Assyria and all his glory. And he shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

⁸ And he shall pass through Judah. He shall overflow and go over. He shall reach to the neck; and his wings will be stretching out, filling the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

⁹ O peoples, suffer evil, and be broken! And listen, all from the far places of the earth; gird yourselves, and be broken. Gird yourselves and be broken!

¹⁰ Counsel a counsel, and it is frustrated; speak a word, and it shall not rise; for God is with us.

¹¹ For so Jehovah spoke to me with a strong hand, and taught me against walking in the way of this people, saying,

¹² Do not say, A conspiracy, to everything of which this people says, A conspiracy! And do not fear its fear, and do not dread.

¹³ Sanctify Jehovah of Hosts Himself, and let Him be your fear; and let Him be your dread.

¹⁴ And He shall be for a sanctuary, and for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling to the two houses of Israel; for a trap and for a snare to the dweller of Jerusalem.

¹⁵ And many among them shall stumble and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

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

¹⁷ And I will wait on Jehovah, who hides His face from the house of Jacob; and I will look for Him.

¹⁸ Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah has given to me are for signs and wonders in Israel from Jehovah of Hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.

¹⁹ And when they say to you, Seek to the mediums, and to wizards who peep and mutter; should not a people seek to its God, than for the living to seek to the dead?

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no dawn to them!

²¹ And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry. And it shall be, they shall be hungry; he will rave and curse his king and his God, and face upward.

²² And they shall look to the land. And, behold, trouble and darkness and gloom of anguish; and they are driven to darkness.