Isaiah 7

Isaiah Reassures King Ahaz

7In the days of Ahaz son of Jotham son of Uzziah, king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel went up to attack Jerusalem, but could not mount an attack against it.H3117H271H1121H3147H1121H5818H4428H3063H7526H4428H758H6492H1121H7425H4428H3478H5927H3389H4421H3201H38982When the house of David heard that Aram had allied itself with Ephraim, the heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.H5046H1004H1732H559H758H5117H669H3824H5128H3824H5971H6086H3293H5128H6440H73073Then the LORD said to Isaiah, Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller's Field,H559H3068H3470H3318H7125H271H7610H1121H7097H8585H5945H1295H4546H3526H77044and say to him, Take heed, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.H559H8104H8252H3372H7401H3824H8147H2180H6226H181H2750H639H7526H758H1121H74255Because Aram—with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah—has plotted evil against you, saying,H758H669H1121H7425H7451H3289H5596Let us go up against Judah and cut off Jerusalem and conquer it for ourselves and make the son of Tabeel king in it;H5927H3063H6973H1234H4427H4428H8432H1121H28707therefore thus says the Lord GOD: It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.H3541H559H136H3069H69658For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. (Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered, no longer a people.)H7218H758H1834H7218H1834H7526H8346H2568H8141H669H2865H59719The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in faith, you shall not stand at all.H7218H669H8111H7218H8111H7425H1121H539H539

Isaiah Gives Ahaz the Sign of Immanuel

10Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying,H3068H1696H3254H271H55911Ask a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.H7592H226H3068H430H7592H6009H1361H460512But Ahaz said, I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test.H271H559H7592H5254H853H306813Then Isaiah said: "Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary mortals, that you weary my God also?H559H8085H1004H1732H4592H3811H582H3811H43014Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.H136H5414H226H5959H2030H3205H1121H7121H8034H410H600515He shall eat curds and honey by the time he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.H2529H1706H398H3045H3988H7451H977H289616For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted.H5288H3045H3988H7451H977H2896H127H6973H6440H5800H8147H442817The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on your ancestral house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria."H3068H935H5971H1H1004H3117H935H3117H669H5493H3063H4428H80418On that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is at the sources of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.H3117H3068H8319H2070H7097H2975H4714H1682H776H80419And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.H935H5117H1327H5158H5357H5553H5285H509720On that day the Lord will shave with a razor hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will take off the beard as well.H3117H136H1548H8593H7917H5676H5104H4428H804H7218H8181H7272H5595H220621On that day one will keep alive a young cow and two sheep,H3117H376H2421H1241H5697H8147H662922and will eat curds because of the abundance of milk that they give; for everyone that is left in the land shall eat curds and honey.H7230H2461H6213H398H2529H2529H1706H398H3498H7130H77623On that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.H3117H4725H505H1612H505H3701H8068H789824With bow and arrows one will go there, for all the land will be briers and thorns;H2671H7198H935H776H8068H789825and as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns; but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.H2022H5737H4576H935H3374H8068H7898H4916H7794H4823H7716