Isaiah 7:1-17 ▼

1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that came up Rezin king of Aram, and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem to war against it. He was not able to fight against it.

2 And it was declared to the house of David, saying, Aram has rested itself upon Ephraim. His heart and the heart of his people was shaken, as are shaken the trees of the forest from the face of the wind.

3 And YHWH said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, toward the end of the conduit of the upper pool, toward the road of the Field of the Washer.

4 And say to him: Take heed and be quiet. Do not be afraid and do not be soft because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands, with the burning of the anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah,

5 because indeed Aram has plotted evil against you, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,

6 ‘Let us go up against Judah and treat it with contempt and split it apart unto ourselves, and in its midst we will make the son of Tabeal reign as king.’

7 Thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘It will not stand, and it will not come to pass.

8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you? do not stand firm in faith, surely you? will not stand firm.’”

10 And YHWH continued to speak to Ahaz, saying,

11 “Ask for yourself a sign from YHWH your God; make the request deep, or make it high above.”

12 And Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not test YHWH.”

13 And he said, “Hear now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you? to weary men, that you? would also weary my God?

14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give to you? a sign: Behold the virgin is conceiving and is bringing forth a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.

15 Curds and honey he will eat, when he knows to refuse the evil and to choose the good.

16 For before the youth knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken because of the two of her kings.

17 YHWH will bring upon you and upon your people and upon the house of your father days that have not come since the day of the turning away of Ephraim from Judah—the king of Assyria!”