Daily Meditation
Let the Lord Be Your Fear
Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and
write in it with a man’s pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. And I took unto me
faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of
Jeberechiah. And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son.
Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz. 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. The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, 6 Forasmuch as this people
refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and
Remaliah’s son; now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the
waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his
glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach
even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of
thy land, O Immanuel.
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in
pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be
broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Take
counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not
stand: for God is with us. For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand,
and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Say
ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A
confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. Sanctify the LORD of
hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. And he
shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of
offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be
broken, and be snared, and be taken.
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. And
I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I
will look for him. Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are
for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in
mount Zion. 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? To the law and to the testimony: if
they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to
pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse
their king and their God, and look upward. And they shall look unto the earth;
and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven
to darkness. Isaiah 8:1-22
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