Isaiah 6-8
A coal touched his lips, and a warning touched the world.
ISAIAH — VISION AT THE TEMPLE
NARRATOR
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw Jehovah sitting on a lofty and elevated throne, and the skirts of his robe filled the temple.
Seraphs were standing above him; each had six wings. Each covered his face with two and covered his feet with two, and each of them would fly about with two.
SERAPHIM — CALLING TO ONE ANOTHER
“Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of armies.
The whole earth is filled with his glory.”
NARRATOR
And the pivots of the thresholds quivered at the sound of the shouting,
and the house was filled with smoke.
Then I said:
ISAIAH
“Woe to me!
I am as good as dead,
For I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of armies himself!”
NARRATOR
At that, one of the seraphs flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
He touched my mouth and said:
SERAPH
“Look! This has touched your lips.
Your guilt is removed,
And your sin is atoned for.”
NARRATOR
Then I heard the voice of Jehovah saying:
JEHOVAH
“Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”
ISAIAH
“Here I am! Send me!”
JEHOVAH
“Go, and say to this people:
‘You will hear again and again,
But you will not understand;
You will see again and again,
But you will not get any knowledge.’
Make the heart of this people unreceptive,
Make their ears unresponsive,
And paste their eyes together,
So that they may not see with their eyes
And hear with their ears,
So that their heart may not understand
And they may not turn back and be healed.”
ISAIAH
“How long, O Jehovah?”
JEHOVAH
“Until the cities crash in ruins without an inhabitant
And the houses are without people
And the land is ruined and desolate;
Until Jehovah removes men far away
And the deserted condition of the land becomes very extensive.
But there will still be a tenth in it,
And it will again be burned,
Like a big tree and like an oak,
Which after they are cut down leave a stump;
A holy seed will be its stump.”
ISAIAH — THE SIGN TO AHAZ
NARRATOR
Now in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to wage war against Jerusalem, but he could not capture it.
A report was made to the house of David:
MESSENGER
“Syria has joined forces with Ephraim.”
NARRATOR
And the heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people began to tremble, like the trees of the forest shaking in the wind.
Jehovah then said to Isaiah:
JEHOVAH
“Go out, please, to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool by the highway of the laundryman’s field.
You must say to him:
‘Take care to stay calm.
Do not be afraid, and do not lose heart because of these two stumps of smoldering logs, because of the hot anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.
For Syria with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah have plotted harm against you, saying:
‘Let us go up against Judah and tear it apart and conquer it for ourselves, and let us appoint the son of Tabeel as its king.’”
JEHOVAH — CONTINUING
“This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says:
It will not succeed,
Nor will it take place.
For the head of Syria is Damascus,
And the head of Damascus is Rezin.
Within just 65 years
Ephraim will be completely shattered and cease to be a people.
The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
And the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.
Unless you have firm faith,
You will not be firmly established.”
NARRATOR
Jehovah continued speaking to Ahaz:
JEHOVAH
“Ask for a sign from Jehovah your God;
it may be as deep as the Grave or as high as the sky.”
AHAZ
“I will not ask, nor will I put Jehovah to the test.”
ISAIAH
“Listen, please, O house of David.
Is it not enough that you try the patience of men?
Must you also try the patience of God?
Therefore, Jehovah himself will give you a sign:
Look! The young woman will become pregnant and will give birth to a son,
and she will name him Immanuel.
He will eat butter and honey by the time that he knows how to reject the bad and choose the good.
For before the boy knows how to reject the bad and choose the good, the land of the two kings whom you dread will be completely abandoned.
Jehovah will bring against you and against your people and against the house of your father a time such as has not come since the day Ephraim broke away from Judah, for He will bring the king of Assyria.”
NARRATOR
In that day Jehovah will whistle for the flies from the distant streams of the Nile of Egypt and for the bees in the land of Assyria,
and they will all come and settle down on the steep valleys, on the rocky clefts, on all the thornbushes, and on all the watering places.
In that day by means of a hired razor from the region of the River,
by means of the king of Assyria,
Jehovah will shave the head and the hair of the legs,
and it will sweep away the beard as well.
In that day a man will keep alive a young cow of the herd and two sheep.
And because of the abundance of milk, he will eat butter,
for everyone remaining in the land will eat butter and honey.
In that day wherever there used to be a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver,
there will be only thornbushes and weeds.
Men will go there with bow and arrow, because all the land will become thornbushes and weeds.
And all the mountains that used to be cleared with a hoe,
you will not go near for fear of thornbushes and weeds;
they will become a grazing place for bulls
and a trampling ground of sheep.
ISAIAH 8 — THE CHILD AS A SIGN
JEHOVAH TO ISAIAH
“Take a large tablet and write on it with an ordinary stylus,
‘Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’
And let me have it confirmed in writing
by faithful witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”
NARRATOR
Then I had relations with the prophetess, and she became pregnant
and in time gave birth to a son.
Jehovah then said to me:
JEHOVAH
“Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
for before the boy knows how to call out, ‘My father!’ and ‘My mother!’
the resources of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”
NARRATOR
Jehovah spoke to me again:
JEHOVAH
“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of the Shiloah
and they rejoice over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
Therefore look! Jehovah will bring against them
the mighty and vast waters of the River,
the king of Assyria and all his glory.
He will come up over all his streambeds
and overflow all his banks,
and sweep through Judah.
He will flood and pass through, reaching to the neck;
his outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land,
O Immanuel!”
NARRATOR — PROPHETIC CALL TO NATIONS
Cause harm, you peoples, but you will be shattered to pieces.
Listen, all you from distant parts of the earth!
Prepare for battle, but you will be shattered to pieces.
Prepare for battle, but you will be shattered to pieces.
Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted.
Say what you like, but it will not succeed,
For God is with us.
JEHOVAH — WARNING TO ISAIAH
With his strong hand on me, this is what Jehovah said to warn me away from following the course of this people:
“You should not call a conspiracy what this people calls a conspiracy.
Do not fear what they fear;
Do not tremble at it.
Jehovah of armies — he is the One you should regard as holy.
He is the One you should fear,
And he is the One who should cause you to tremble.”
NARRATOR
He will become as a sanctuary,
but as a stone to strike against
and as a rock to stumble over
to both houses of Israel,
as a trap and a snare
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Many of them will stumble and fall and be broken;
they will be ensnared and caught.
“Wrap up the written confirmation;
seal up the law among my disciples!
I will keep in expectation of Jehovah,
who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob,
and I will hope in him.
Look! I and the children whom Jehovah has given me
are as signs and as miracles in Israel
from Jehovah of armies, who resides on Mount Zion.”
NARRATOR — AGAINST FALSE GUIDANCE
And if they say to you:
“Inquire of the spirit mediums or of the fortune-tellers who chirp and mutter,”
is it not of their God that a people should inquire?
Should they inquire of the dead in behalf of the living?
Instead, they should inquire of the law
and of the written confirmation.
When they do not speak according to this word,
they have no light.
And each one will pass through the land afflicted and hungry;
and because he is hungry and indignant,
he will curse his king and his God as he looks upward.
Then he will look to the earth
and see only distress and darkness,
obscurity and hard times,
gloom and no brightness.
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