1 It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of
Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of
Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could
not prevail against it. 2 It was told the house of David, saying, “Syria
is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as
the trees of the forest tremble with the wind. 3 Then Yahweh said to
Isaiah, “Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end
of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller’s field;
4 and say to him, ‘Take heed, and be quiet; don’t be afraid, neither let
your heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for
the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 5 Because
Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against you,
saying, 6 “Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a
breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of
Tabeel;” 7 thus says the Lord Yahweh, “It shall not stand, neither shall
it happen.” 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus
is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken in pieces, so
that it shall not be a people: 9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and
the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely
you shall not be established.’”
10 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask a sign of Yahweh your
God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said,
I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh. 13 He said, “Listen now,
house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that you will
weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign:
behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knows to refuse the
evil, and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know to refuse
the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be
forsaken. 17 Yahweh will bring on you, and on your people, and on your
father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed
from Judah even the king of Assyria. 18 It shall happen in that
day, that Yahweh will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the
rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 They
shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the
clefts of the rocks, and on all thorn-hedges, and on all pastures. 20 In
that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond
the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of
the feet; and it shall also consume the beard. 21 It shall happen in that
day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep; 22 and it
shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he
shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall everyone eat that is left in the
midst of the land. 23 It shall happen in that day, that every place, where
there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers
and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bow shall one come there, because all
the land shall be briers and thorns. 25 All the hills that were dug with
the mattock, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it
shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.”
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