Chapter 7
1 In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham , the son of Uzziah , king of Judah , Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah , king of Israel , went up to Jerusalem to war against it , but could not prevail against it .
2 David ’s house was told , "Syria is allied with Ephraim." His heart trembled , and the heart of his people , as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind .
3 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah , " Go out now to meet Ahaz, you , and Shearjashub your son , at the end of the conduit of the upper pool , on the highway of the fuller’s field .
4 Tell him , ‘ Be careful , and keep calm . Don’t be afraid , neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah .
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah , have plotted evil against you , saying,
6 "Let’s go up against Judah , and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it , even the son of Tabeel ."
7 This is what the Lord Yahweh says : " It shall not stand , neither shall it happen ."
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus , and the head of Damascus is Rezin . Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people .
9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria , and the head of Samaria is Remaliah ’s son . If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established .’"
10 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying ,
11 " Ask a sign of Yahweh your God ; ask it either in the depth , or in the height above ."
12 But Ahaz said, " I won’t ask . I won’t tempt Yahweh ."
13 He said , " Listen now , house of David . Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also ?
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold , the virgin will conceive , and bear a son , and shall call his name Immanuel .
15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good .
16 For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good , the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken .
17 Yahweh will bring on you , on your people , and on your father’s house days that have not come , from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah , even the king of Assyria.
18 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will 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 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys , in the clefts of the rocks , on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.
20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River , even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet ; and it shall also consume the beard .
21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow , and two sheep .
22 It shall happen , that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter , for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land .
23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels , will be for briers and thorns .
24 People will go there with arrows and with bow , because all the land will be briers and thorns .
25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe , you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns ; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen , and for sheep to tread on ."