| Chapter 7 |
| 1 | And 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 Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward
Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. |
| 2 | And it
was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his
heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are
moved with the wind. |
| 3 | Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now
to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the
upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field; |
| 4 | And say unto
him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two
tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria,
and of the son of Remaliah. |
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5 | Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of
Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, |
| 6 | Let us go up
against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a
king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: |
| 7 | Thus saith the
Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. |
| 8 | For
the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within
threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a
people. |
| 9 |
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is
Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be
established. |
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10 | Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz,
saying, |
| 11
| Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the
depth, or in the height above. |
| 12 | But Ahaz said, I will not
ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. |
| 13 | And he said, Hear ye now, O
house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my
God also? |
| 14
| Therefore the Lord himself shall 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, that he may know 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 that thou abhorrest
shall be forsaken of both her kings. |
| 17 | The LORD shall bring upon
thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not
come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of
Assyria. |
| 18
| And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD
shall 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 | And they
shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the
holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. |
| 20 | In
the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them
beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet:
and it shall also consume the beard. |
| 21 | And it shall come to pass in
that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; |
| 22 | And
it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall
eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the
land. |
| 23 |
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall
be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even
be for briers and thorns. |
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24 | With arrows and with bows shall men
come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. |
| 25 |
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come
thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of
oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle. |
