Isaiah 7
7
1 And it happened in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Syria, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, ascended to Jerusalem to battle against it. But they were not able to defeat it.
2 And they reported to the house of David, saying: "Syria has withdrawn to Ephraim." And his heart was shaken, with the heart of his people, just as the trees of the forest are moved by the face of the wind.
3 And the Lord said to Isaiah: Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son, Jashub, who was left behind, to the end of the aqueduct, at the upper pool, on the road to the fuller's field.
4 And you shall say to him: "See to it that you are silent. Do not be afraid. And have no dread in your heart over the two tails of these firebrands, nearly extinguished, which are the wrath of the fury of Rezin, king of Syria, and of the son of Remaliah."
5 For Syria has undertaken a plan against you, with the evil of Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying:
6 "Let us ascend to Judah, and stir it up, and tear it away for ourselves, and appoint the son of Tabeel as a king in its midst."
7 Thus says the Lord God: This shall not stand, and this shall not be.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years from now, Ephraim will cease to be a people.
9 For the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe, you will not continue.
10 And the Lord spoke further to Ahaz, saying:
11 Ask for a sign for yourself from the Lord your God, from the depths below, even to the heights above.
12 And Ahaz said, "I will not ask, for I will not tempt the Lord."
13 And he said: "Then listen, O house of David. Is it such a small thing for you to trouble men, that you must also trouble my God?
14 For this reason, the Lord himself will grant to you a sign. Behold, a virgin will conceive, and she will give birth to a son, and his name will be called Immanuel.
15 He will eat butter and honey, so that he may know to reject evil and to choose good.
16 But even before the boy knows to refuse evil and to choose good, the land that you detest will be abandoned by the face of her two kings.
17 The Lord will lead over you, and over your people, and over the house of your father, such days as have not occurred since the days of the separation of Ephraim from Judah by the king of the Assyrians.
18 And this shall be in that day: the Lord will call for the fly, which is in the most distant parts of the rivers of Egypt, and for the swarm, which is in the land of Assur.
19 And they will arrive, and they all will rest in the torrents of the valleys, and in the caverns of the rocks, and in every thicket, and in every opening.
20 In that day, the Lord will shave with a razor the ones hired by those who are across the river, by the king of the Assyrians, from the head to the hairs of the feet, with the entire beard.
21 And this shall be in that day: a man will raise a cow among oxen, and two sheep,
22 and, instead of an abundance of milk, he will eat butter. For all who are left behind in the midst of the land will eat butter and honey.
23 And this shall be in that day: every place, where there were a thousand grapevines worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briers.
24 They will enter such places with arrows and bows. For briers and thorns will be throughout the entire land.
25 But as for all the mountains, which will be dug with a hoe, the terror of thorns and briers will not approach those places. And there will be pasture land for oxen, and a range for cattle."
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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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