Isaiah 7
7
Isaiah Reassures King Ahaz
1#2Ki 15:37; 16:1And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
2#Isa 7:13; 8:12It was said to the house of David, “Aram is allied with Ephraim.” Then his heart trembled and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood tremble with the wind.
3#2Ki 18:17; Isa 36:2Then the Lord said to Isaiah: Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field, 4#Dt 20:3; Isa 30:15and say to him, Take heed, and be quiet. Do not fear nor be fainthearted because of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin with Aram and of the son of Remaliah, 5because Aram, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have taken evil counsel against you, saying, 6Let us go up against Judah, and trouble it, and let us make a breach there for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel. 7#Isa 8:10Thus says the Lord God:
It shall not stand,
nor shall it come to pass.
8#Isa 17:1–3; Ge 14:15 For the head of Aram is Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
Now within sixty-five years
Ephraim shall be broken so that it is not a people.
9#2Ch 20:20 The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.
If you will not believe,
surely you shall not be established.
The Sign of Immanuel
10Moreover the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying: 11#Isa 37:30; 38:7–8Ask for a sign from the Lord your God. Make it either as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven.
12But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I tempt the Lord.
13#Isa 43:24; 7:2Then he said, “Hear now, O house of David. Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? 14#Isa 8:8; Mt 1:23; Isa 9:6Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: The virgin#Heb. young woman. shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.#Or God with us. 15#Isa 7:22Curds and honey he shall eat at the time that he knows enough to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16#Isa 8:4For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread shall be forsaken of both her kings. 17#Isa 8:7–8; 10:5–6The Lord shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father’s house, days that have not come from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.”
18#Isa 5:26In that day the Lord shall whistle 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#Isa 2:19; Jer 16:16They shall come, and all of them shall rest in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorns, and on all bushes. 20#Isa 8:7; 10:15In that same day the Lord shall shave with a hired razor, from regions beyond the River,#Euphrates River. with the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the legs, and it shall also remove the beard. 21#Isa 5:17; Jer 39:10In that day a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep, 22#Isa 7:15and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he shall eat curds; for everyone who is left in the land shall eat curds and honey. 23#Isa 5:6In that day every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels#About 25 pounds, or 12 kilograms. of silver, shall become briers and thorns. 24With arrows and with bows shall men come there because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25On all hills that used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns. But it shall be for pasturing oxen and for sheep to tread.
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Isaiah 7
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The Sign to Ahaz
1This happened in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah. Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went#The Hebrew is singular up to Jerusalem for warfare against it,#Literally “her” but he was not able to fight against it.#Literally “her” 2When it was reported to the house of David, saying “Aram stands by Ephraim,” his heart and the heart of his people shook like the shaking of the trees of the forest because of the wind.
3Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the washer’s field. 4And you must say to him, ‘Take heed and be quiet! You must not fear, and your heart must not be faint because of these two stumps of smoldering firebrands, because of the fierce anger of#Literally “because of the fierceness of the anger of” Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah. 5Because Aram has plotted evil against you with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying, 6“Let us go up against Judah and let us tear her apart, and let us lay it open and so bring it unto ourselves,#Literally “and let us break through her to us” and let us install the son of Tabeel as king in her midst.” 7Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass. 8For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people. 9And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe then you will not endure.” ’ ”
10And Yahweh continued to speak to Ahaz, saying, 11“Ask for a sign for yourself from Yahweh God; make it deep as Sheol or make it high as above.” 12But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put Yahweh to the test.”
13Then he said, “Hear, house of David! Is it too little for you to make men weary, that you should also make my God weary? 14Therefore the Lord himself will give you#The Hebrew is plural a sign. Look! the virgin#Or “young woman” is with child and she is about to give birth to a son, and she shall call his name ‘God with us.’ 15He shall eat curds and honey until he knows to reject the evil and to choose the good. 16For before the boy knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.#Literally “the land which you dread will be abandoned because of the face of her two kings”
That Day
17“Yahweh will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your ancestor#Or “father” days that have not come since the day Ephraim departed from Judah: the king of Assyria.” 18And this shall happen: On that day, Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the stream of Egypt and the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19And all of them will come and settle in the rivers of the cliffs and in the clefts of the rocks and on all of the thornbushes and watering places. 20On that day, the Lord will shave the head and the hair of the feet with a razor of the one hired from beyond the river—with the king of Assyria—and it will even take off the beard. 21And this shall happen: on that day, a young man will keep a young cow of the herd and two sheep alive. 22And this shall happen: because of the abundance of milk production, he will eat curds, for every one that is left in the midst of the land will eat curds and honey. 23And this shall happen on that day: Every place where there are a thousand vines#Hebrew “vine” for a thousand silver pieces will become briers,#Hebrew “brier” and it will be thornbushes.#Hebrew “thornbush” 24One will go there with arrows and bow, for all of the land will be briers#Hebrew “brier” and thornbushes.#Hebrew “thornbush” 25And as for all of the hills that they hoed with the hoe, you will not go there, for fear of briers#Hebrew “brier” and thornbushes.#Hebrew “thornbush” And it will become like pastureland for cattle and overtrodden land for sheep.
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