THE BOOK OF ISAIAH

 

Isaiah Chapter 7

1 ¶ Then 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 to Jerusalem to fight against it, but could not prevail against it.

2 And the house of David was told, Syria is allied with Ephraim. And the hearts of the king and his people shook, like trees of the forest shaking in the wind.

3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool by the road to the fuller’s field;

4 And say to him, Calm down, be quiet; do not be afraid, or fainthearted because of these two smoldering stubs of firebrands, because of the fury of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have planned evil against you, saying,

6 Let us go up against Judah, and terrify it, and conquer it for ourselves, then we can install Tabeal’s son as king in the midst of it:

7 Thus says the Lord GOD, It will not succeed, or take place.

8 For Damascus is the capital of Syria, and Rezin rules in Damascus; and within sixty-five years Ephraim will be smashed, so that it is no longer a people.

9 And the capital of Ephraim is Samaria, and Remaliah’s son rules in Samaria. If you do not believe, you will not have the strength to go on.

10 ¶ The LORD again spoke to Ahaz, saying,

11 Ask for a sign from the LORD your God; ask it from either deep in the ground, or high in the heavens.

12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, I will not test the LORD.

13 And Isaiah said, Hear then, O house of David; Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, will you also try the patience of my God?

14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign; Behold, a virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and will call his name Immanuel.

15 He will eat Butter and honey, so that he will know how to refuse evil, and choose good.

16 But before the child knows to reject what is bad, and choose what is good, the land of the two kings that you dread will be abandoned.

17 ¶ The LORD will bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father’s house, such a time as has never been, since the time that Ephraim separated from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

18 And it will come to pass in that day, that the LORD will whistle for the flies that are in the streams of the Nile Delta in Egypt, and for the bees in the land of Assyria.

19 And they will all come, and settle in the steep ravines, and clefts of the rocks, and on all thornbushes, and all the pastures.

20 At that time the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired, from those beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, that razor will shave the head, and the hair of the legs: and it will also consume the beard.

21 And it will come to pass in that day, that a man will raise a young cow, and two sheep;

22 And because of the abundance of milk that they will provide he will eat butter: for everyone who is left in the land will eat butter and honey.

23 And at that time, every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand pieces of silver, there will be briers and thorns.

24 Men will come there with bows and arrows; because the whole country will be briers and thorns.

25 And for fear of briers and thorns, you will not cultivate the hills that were tilled with a mattock: but they will be a place for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.