 1 In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of King Uzziah of Judah, King Rezin of Syria, and Pekah the son of King Remaliah of Israel, went toward Jerusalem to war against it but could not overcome it. 2 It was told the house of David saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved by the wind. 3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the Fuller's Field. 4 Say to him, Be careful and be quiet. Do not fear, nor be timid of heart because of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah; 5 because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted against you saying, 6 Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and break her for ourselves, and set a king in the midst of it, the son of Tabeal. 7 Thus says the Lord God, It shall not stand, nor shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty five years Ephraim shall be broken 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 The Lord spoke again to Ahaz saying, 11 Ask a sign of the Lord your God. Ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I tempt the Lord. 13 He said, Hear now, house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men. But will you also weary my God? 14 So, the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive and bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Immanuel. 15 He will eat butter and honey until he knows to refuse evil and choose good. 16 For before the child knows to refuse evil and choose good, the land that you loathe will be forsaken before both its kings. 17 The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on your father's house, days that have not come since the days that Ephraim departed from Judah the king of Assyria. 18 In that day, the Lord will hiss for the fly at the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 They shall come and all of them shall rest in the desert valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorns, and on all the pastures. 20 In the same day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by those Beyond the River, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet. And it shall also sweep away the beard. 21 In that day, a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep. 22 From the plentiful supply of milk that they will give, he will eat butter. For everyone who is left in the land will eat butter and honey. 23 In that day, every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver it will become briers and thorns. 24 Men will come there With arrows and with the bow because all the land will become briers and thorns. 25 All the hills that were hoed with the hoe will not be there for fear of briers and thorns. But it will be for the sending out the ox and for trampling sheep.
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