hen yourselves, and be overcome, gird
yourselves, and be overcome.

8:10. Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and
it shall not be done: because God is with us.

8:11. For thus saith the Lord to me: As he hath taught me, with a strong
arm, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:

8:12. Say ye not: A conspiracy: for all that this people speaketh, is a
conspiracy: neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

8:13. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let him be your fear, and
let him be your dread.

8:14. And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone of
stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a
snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

8:15. And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken
in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.

8:16. Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

8:17. And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from the house
of Jacob, and I will look for him.

8:18. Behold I and my children, whom the Lord hath given me for a sign,
and for a wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth in mount
Sion.

8:19. And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of diviners,
who mutter in their enchantments: should not the people seek of their
God, for the living of the dead?

Seek of pythons... That is, people pretending to tell future things by a
prophesying spirit.-Ibid. Should not the people seek of their God, for
the living of the dead?... Here is signified, that it is to God we
should pray to be directed, and not to seek of the dead, (that is, of
fortune-tellers dead in sin,) for the health of the living.

8:20. To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not
according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.

8:21. And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and
when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and
their God, and look upwards.

8:22. And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble and darkness,
weakness and distress, and a mist following them, and they cannot fly
away from their distress.

Isaias Chapter 9

What joy shall come after afflictions by the birth and kingdom of
Christ; which shall flourish for ever. Judgments upon Israel for their
sins.

9:1. At the first time the land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephtali was
lightly touched: and at the last t