Isaiah 8:1
And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it with a man's pen. Take sway the spoils with speed, quickly take the prey.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest, and Zacharias the son of Barachias.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:3And 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 haste to take away the prey.
Jeremiah 30:2Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Write thee all the words that I have spoken to thee, in a book.
Jeremiah 36:28Take thee again another volume: and write in it all the former words that were in the first volume which Joakim the king of Juda hath burnt.
Habakkuk 2:2And the Lord answered me, and said: Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables: that he that readeth it may run over it.
Revelation 21:17And he measured the wall thereof an hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is of an angel.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 8:1
This chapter, and the four next that follow it (to chap. xiii.) are all one continued discourse or sermon, the scope of which is to show the great destruction that should now shortly be brought upon the kingdom of Israel, and the great disturbance that should be given to the kingdom of Judah by the king of Assyria, and that both were for their sins; but rich provision is made of comfort for those that feared God in those dark times, referring especially to the days of the Messiah. In this chapter we have, I. A… Read the whole commentary →