7:24. With arrows and with bows they shall go in thither: for briers and thorns shall be in all the land. 7:25. And as for the hills that shall be raked with a rake, the fear of thorns and briers shall not come thither, but they shall be for the ox to feed on, and the lesser cattle to tread upon. Isaias Chapter 8 The name of a child that is to be born: many evils shall come upon the Jews for their sins. 8:1. And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it with a man's pen. Take away the spoils with speed, quickly take the prey. 8:2. And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest, and Zacharias the son of Barachias. 8:3. And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils: Make hast to take away the prey. 8:4. For before the child know to call his father and his mother, the strength of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of the Assyrians. 8:5. And the Lord spoke to me again, saying: 8:6. Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of Siloe, that go with silence, and hath rather taken Rasin, and the son of Romelia: 8:7. 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. 8:8. 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. 8:9. Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome. 8:10. Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us. 8:11. 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: 8:12. Say ye not: A conspiracy: for all that this people speaketh, is a conspiracy: neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. 8:13. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 8:14. And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 8:15. And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken. 8:16. Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 8:17. And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 8:18. 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.