Isaiah 8:5

THE MESSAGE

God spoke to me again, saying: "Because this people has turned its back on the gently flowing stream of Shiloah And gotten all excited over Rezin and the son of Remaliah, I'm stepping in and facing them with the wild floodwaters of the Euphrates, The king of Assyria and all his fanfare, a river in flood, bursting its banks, Pouring into Judah, sweeping everything before it, water up to your necks, A huge wingspan of a raging river, O Immanuel, spreading across your land."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord spoke to me again:

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to me yet again, saying,

King James Version
The Lord spake also unto me again, saying,

English Standard Version
The Lord spoke to me again:

New American Standard Bible
Again the LORD spoke to me further, saying,

New Century Version
Again the Lord spoke to me, saying,

Amplified Bible
Again the LORD spoke to me, saying,

World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord spake yet againe vnto me, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Again Yahweh spoke to me further, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
And the LORD spoke to me further:

Contemporary English Version
The Lord spoke to me again and said:

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai went on speaking and said more to me:

Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke again to me, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord spoke to me again.

George Lamsa Translation
The LORD spoke to me again, saying,

Good News Translation
The Lord spoke to me again.

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh continued to speak to me again, saying,

Literal Translation
Jehovah also spoke to me again, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE spake also vnto me, sayenge:

American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto me yet again, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said again to me,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto me yet again, saying:

King James Version (1611)
The Lord spake also vnto me againe, saying,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lorde spake also vnto me agayne, saying:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to me yet again, saying,

English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto me yet again, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord addide to speke yit to me, and he seide,

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD spoke also to me again, saying,

New English Translation
The Lord spoke to me again:

New King James Version
The LORD also spoke to me again, saying:

New Living Translation
Then the Lord spoke to me again and said,

New Life Bible
The Lord spoke to me again, saying,

New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke to me again:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And again Yahweh spake unto me yet further saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to me again, saying:

Revised Standard Version
The LORD spoke to me again:

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah addeth to speak unto me again, saying:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Again the LORD spoke to me further, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ Then God told me, "Get a big sheet of paper and write in indelible ink, ‘This belongs to Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Spoil-Speeds-Plunder-Hurries).'" ²I got two honest men, Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah, to witness the document. Then I went home to my wife, the prophetess. She conceived and gave birth to a son. God told me, "Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz. Before that baby says ‘Daddy' or ‘Mamma' the king of Assyria will have plundered the wealth of Damascus and the riches of Samaria." God spoke to me again, saying: "Because this people has turned its back on the gently flowing stream of Shiloah And gotten all excited over Rezin and the son of Remaliah, I'm stepping in and facing them with the wild floodwaters of the Euphrates, The king of Assyria and all his fanfare, a river in flood, bursting its banks, Pouring into Judah, sweeping everything before it, water up to your necks, A huge wingspan of a raging river, O Immanuel, spreading across your land." But face the facts, all you oppressors, and then wring your hands. Listen, all of you, far and near. Prepare for the worst and wring your hands. Yes, prepare for the worst and wring your hands! Plan and plot all you want—nothing will come of it. All your talk is mere talk, empty words, Because when all is said and done, the last word is Immanuel—God-With-Us. God spoke strongly to me, grabbed me with both hands and warned me not to go along with this people. He said: "Don't be like this people, always afraid somebody is plotting against them. Don't fear what they fear. Don't take on their worries. If you're going to worry, worry about The Holy. Fear God -of-the-Angel-Armies. The Holy can be either a Hiding Place or a Boulder blocking your way, The Rock standing in the willful way of both houses of Israel, A barbed-wire Fence preventing trespass to the citizens of Jerusalem. Many of them are going to run into that Rock and get their bones broken, Get tangled up in that barbed wire and not get free of it." Gather up the testimony, preserve the teaching for my followers, While I wait for God as long as he remains in hiding, while I wait and hope for him. I stand my ground and hope, I and the children God gave me as signs to Israel, Warning signs and hope signs from God -of-the-Angel-Armies, who makes his home in Mount Zion. When people tell you, "Try out the fortunetellers. Consult the spiritualists. Why not tap into the spirit-world, get in touch with the dead?" Tell them, "No, we're going to study the Scriptures." People who try the other ways get nowhere—a dead end! Frustrated and famished, they try one thing after another. When nothing works out they get angry, cursing first this god and then that one, Looking this way and that, up, down, and sideways—and seeing nothing, A blank wall, an empty hole. They end up in the dark with nothing. ⁴ Then God told me, "Get a big sheet of paper and write in indelible ink, ‘This belongs to Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Spoil-Speeds-Plunder-Hurries).'" I got two honest men, Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah, to witness the document. Then I went home to my wife, the prophetess. She conceived and gave birth to a son. God told me, "Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz. Before that baby says ‘Daddy' or ‘Mamma' the king of Assyria will have plundered the wealth of Damascus and the riches of Samaria." ⁵ God spoke to me again, saying: "Because this people has turned its back on the gently flowing stream of Shiloah And gotten all excited over Rezin and the son of Remaliah, I'm stepping in and facing them with the wild floodwaters of the Euphrates, The king of Assyria and all his fanfare, a river in flood, bursting its banks, Pouring into Judah, sweeping everything before it, water up to your necks, A huge wingspan of a raging river, O Immanuel, spreading across your land."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3263. bc 741.

spake: Isaiah 7:10

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open. Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord spake also unto me again,.... In the same prophecy, or in another; the Targum is,

"the Word of the Lord added to speak with me again;''

but rather Jehovah the Father, or the Spirit of the Lord, is meant, since the Person speaking is distinguished from Immanuel, Isaiah 8:8:

saying; as follows: