Isaiæ 8
1 Et dixit Dominus ad me: Sume tibi librum grandem, et scribe in eo stylo hominis: Velociter spolia detrahe, cito prædare.
And Yahweh said unto me: Take thee a large tablet, —and write thereon in plain characters, To Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ["Speed-spoil-hurry-prey".]
2 Et adhibui mihi testes fideles, Uriam sacerdotem, et Zachariam filium Barachiæ:
That I may take in attestation, faithful witnesses, —even Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.
3 et accessi ad prophetissam, et concepit et peperit filium. Et dixit Dominus ad me: Voca nomen eius, Accelera spolia detrahere: Festina prædari.
Then approached I unto the prophetess, and she conceived and bare a son, —and Yahweh said unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
4 Quia antequam sciat puer vocare patrem suum et matrem suam, auferetur fortitudo Damasci, et spolia Samariæ coram rege Assyriorum.
For before the boy shall have knowledge to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.
5 Et adiecit Dominus loqui ad me adhuc, dicens:
And again Yahweh spake unto me yet further saying:
6 Pro eo quod abiecit populus iste aquas Siloe, quæ vadunt cum silentio, et assumpsit magis Rasin, et filium Romeliæ:
Because this people hath refused the waters of Shiloah which flow softly, —and are rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
7 propter hoc ecce Dominus adducet super eos aquas fluminis fortes et multas, regem Assyriorum, et omnem gloriam eius: et ascendet super omnes rivos eius, et fluet super universas ripas eius,
now therefore, lo! the Lord is about to bring up against them the waters, strong and many, of the River ["Euphrates"], even the king of Assyria and all his glory, —and he shall rise over all his channels, and flow over all his banks;
8 et ibit per Iudam, inundans, et transiens usque ad collum veniet. Et erit extensio alarum eius, implens latitudinem terræ tuæ o Emmanuel.
and roll on throughout Judah—overflow and pass along, till unto the neck, he shall reach, —and it shall be, that, the stretching out of his wings, shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!
9 Congregamini populi, et vincimini, et audite universæ procul terræ: confortamini et vincimini, accingite vos et vincimini:
Rage, O ye peoples, —and be overthrown, And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth, —Gird yourselves and be overthrown, Gird yourselves, and be overthrown:
10 inite consilium, et dissipabitur: loquimini verbum et non fiet: quia nobiscum Deus.
Determine a plan, —and it shall be frustrated, —Speak a word, and it shall not stand, For With-us-is-GOD!
11 Hæc enim ait Dominus ad me: Sicut in manu forti erudivit me, ne irem in via populi huius, dicens:
For, thus, spake Yahweh unto me like a firm grasp of the hand, —when he admonished me, not to walk in the way of this people, saying:
12 Non dicatis, coniuratio: omnia enim quæ loquitur populus iste, coniuratio est: et timorem eius ne timeatis, neque paveatis.
Ye shall not say—A confederacy! of everything of which this people may say. A confederacy! And their fear, shall ye not fear or regard as awful:
13 Dominum exercituum ipsum sanctificate: ipse pavor vester, et ipse terror vester.
Yahweh of hosts, him, shall ye hallow, —And let, him, be your fear, and let, him inspire you with awe;
14 Et erit vobis in sanctificationem. In lapidem autem offensionis, et in petram scandali duabus domibus Israel, in laqueum et in ruinam habitantibus Ierusalem.
So shall he become a hallowed asylum, —But a stone to strike against, and a rock to stumble over unto both houses of Israel A trap and a snare to the dweller in Jerusalem;
15 Et offendent ex eis plurimi, et cadent, et conterentur, et irretientur, et capientur.
And many, shall stumble among them, —and fall and be torn, and snared, and captured.
16 Liga testimonium, signa legem in discipulis meis.
Bind thou up the testimony, —Seal the instruction amongst my disciples.
17 Et expectabo Dominum, qui abscondit faciem suam a domo Iacob, et præstolabor eum.
I will therefore long for Yahweh, Who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, —And will wait, for him.
18 Ecce ego et pueri mei, quos dedit mihi Dominus in signum, et in portentum Israel a Domino exercituum, qui habitat in monte Sion.
Lo! I and the children whom Yahweh hath given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel, —from Yahweh of hosts, who is making his habitation in Mount Zion.
19 Et cum dixerint ad vos: Quærite a pythonibus, et a divinis, qui strident in incantationibus suis: Numquid non populus a Deo suo requiret pro vivis a mortuis?
But, when they say unto you—Seek ye unto the necromancers and unto the wizards, who chirp, and who mutter, Should not a people seek, unto its God? In behalf of the living, [should it seek] unto the dead?
20 Ad legem magis, et ad testimonium. Quod si non dixerint iuxta verbum hoc, non erit eis matutina lux.
To the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, [It is], because they have no dawning day.
21 Et transibit per eam, corruet, et esuriet: et cum esurierit, irascetur, et maledicet regi suo, et Deo suo, et suscipiet sursum.
Therefore shall they pass through it hard pressed and hungry, —And it shall be when they hunger, then will they rage and revile their king and their god and turn their faces upwards;
22 Et ad terram intuebitur, et ecce tribulatio et tenebræ, dissolutio et angustia, et caligo persequens, et non poterit avolare de angustia sua.
And unto the land, shall they look hard, And lo! distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, driven away!
