Chapter 7, And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of
Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezan, the king of Syria, and Pekah, the son of
Ramaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not
prevail against it.
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.
Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou,
and Shear-Jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool,
in the highway of the fuller's field.
And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet, fear not, neither be faint-hearted for the
two tales of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezan with Syria,
and of the son of Ramaliah.
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Ramaliah have taken evil counsel against
thee, saying, 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 Tabeo.
Thus saith the LORD God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezan.
And within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a
people.
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Ramaliah's son.
If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
Moreover, the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy
God.
Ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
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?
Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign.
Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel.
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil,
and choose the good.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, and it shall come to pass in that day,
that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep.
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.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there
were a thousand vines and a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briars
and thorns.
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither, because all the land shall become
briars and thorns.
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither
the fear of briars and thorns.
But it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.