Isaiah 8
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Summary
The Messiah will be a stumbling block. Man is commanded to seek God, not peeping wizards, and to turn to God’s law for guidance.
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| (1) Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. | (1) Moreover the word of the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. |
| (4) For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. | (4) For behold, the child shall not have knowledge to cry My father and My mother before the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. |
| (19) And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? | (19) And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and |
| (20) To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. | (20) To the law and to the testimony: And if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. |
| (22) And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. | (22) And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and |
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Donald W. Parry and Janet L. Garrand Willis, “Notes on Vocabulary in Isaiah 2-11, 13-14, 29, 48-54,” in Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, ed. Donald W. Parry and John W. Welch (Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998), 409–422.
David Rolph Seely, “Nephi’s Use of Isaiah 2-14 in 2 Nephi 12-30,” in Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, ed. Donald W. Parry and John W. Welch (Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998), 151–169.
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