Isaiah 7 — ENGLXXUP

7 Verse 1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, there came up Rezin king of Aram, and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, against Jerusalem to war against it, but they could not take it. ^{Verse 2} And a message was brought to the house of David, saying, Aram has conspired with Ephraim. And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people, as in a wood a tree is moved by the wind. ^{Verse 3} And the Lord said to Isaiah, Go forth to meet Ahaz, thou, and thy son Jashub who is left, to the pool of the upper way of the fuller’s field. ^{Verse 4} And thou shalt say to him, Take care to be quiet, and fear not, neither let thy soul be disheartened because of these two smoking firebrands: for when my fierce anger is over, I will heal again. ^{Verse 5} And as for the son of Aram, and the son of Remaliah, forasmuch as they have devised an evil counsel, saying, ^{Verse 6} We will go up against Judea, and having conferred with them we will turn them away to our side, and we will make the son of Tabeel king of it; ^{Verse 7} thus saith the Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not abide, nor come to pass. ^{Verse 8} But the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rezin; and yet within sixty and five years the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from being a people. ^{Verse 9} And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria the son of Remaliah: but if ye believe not, neither will ye at all understand. ^{Verse 10} And the Lord again spoke to Ahaz, saying, ^{Verse 11} Ask for thyself a sign of the Lord thy God, in the depth or in the height. ^{Verse 12} And Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord. ^{Verse 13} And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend with men? and how do ye contend against the Lord? ^{Verse 14} Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Immanuel. ^{Verse 15} Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows either to prefer evil, or choose the good. ^{Verse 16} For before the child shall know good or evil, he refuses evil, to choose the good; and the land shall be forsaken which thou art afraid of because of the two kings. ^{Verse 17} But God shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the house of thy father, days which have never come, from the day that Ephraim took away from Judah the king of the Assyrians. ^{Verse 18} And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall hiss for the flies, which insect shall rule over a part of the river of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of the Assyrians. ^{Verse 19} And they all shall enter into the clefts of the land, and into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves, and into every ravine. ^{Verse 20} In that day the Lord shall shave with the hired razor of the king of Assyria beyond the river the head, and the hairs of the feet, and will remove the beard. ^{Verse 21} And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall rear a heifer, and two sheep. ^{Verse 22} And it shall come to pass from their drinking an abundance of milk, that everyone that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey. ^{Verse 23} And it shall come to pass in that day, for every place where there shall be a thousand vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become barren land and thorns. ^{Verse 24} Men shall enter thither with arrow and bow; for all the land shall be barren ground and thorns. ^{Verse 25} And every mountain shall be certainly plowed: there shall no fear come thither: for there shall be from among the barren ground and thorns that whereon cattle shall feed and oxen shall tread.