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## Isaiah 8:11-18 in Context (Verses 8–21 KJV)
 
 [8 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/8) 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.*
 
 [9 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/9) ¶ 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.*
 
 [10 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/10) Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God *is* with us.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/11) ¶ 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,*
 
 [12 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/12) Say ye not, A confederacy, to all *them to* whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/13) Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and *let* him *be* your fear, and *let* him *be* your dread.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/14) 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.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/15) And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/16) Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/17) And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/18) 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.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/19) ¶ 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?
 
 [20 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/20) To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, *it is* because *there is* no light in them.*
 
 [21 ](/kjv/isaiah/8/21) 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.
 
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