Isaiah 7:10-25 ▼

10 Then Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

11 “Ask a sign for yourself from Yahweh your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”

12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not test Yahweh!”

13 Then he said, “Listen now, O house of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well?

14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.

15 He will eat curds and honey in order that He will know to refuse evil and choose good.

16 For before the boy will know to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.

17 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house days which have never come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah—the king of Assyria!”

18 And it will be in that day, that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

19 And they will all come and rest upon the steep ravines, on the crevices of the cliffs, on all the thorn bushes, and on all the watering places.

20 In that day, the Lord will shave with a razor—one hired from regions beyond the River (that is, the king of Assyria)—the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.

21 And it will be in that day, that a man may keep alive a heifer and a pair of sheep;

22 and because of the abundance of the milk produced, he will eat curds, for everyone that is left within the land will eat curds and honey.

23 And it will be in that day, that every place where there used to be one thousand vines, valued at one thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.

24 People will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars and thorns.

25 As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.