1And it came to pass in the
days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the
son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin
the king of Syria, and Pekah the son
of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up
toward Jerusalem to war against it,
but could not prevail against it.
2And it was told the house of
David, saying, Syria is confederate
with Ephraim. And his heart was
moved, and the heart of his people,
as the trees of the wood are moved
with the wind.
3Then said the LORD unto
Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz,
thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at
the end of the conduit of the upper
pool in the highway of the fuller's
field;
4And say unto him, Take heed,
and be quiet; fear not, neither be
fainthearted for the two tails of
these smoking firebrands, for the
fierce anger of Rezin with Syria,
and of the son of Remaliah.
5Because Syria, Ephraim, and
the son of Remaliah, have taken evil
counsel against thee, saying,
6Let us go up against Judah,
and vex it, and let us make a breach
therein for us, and set a king in
the midst of it, even the
son of Tabeal:
7Thus saith the Lord GOD, It
shall not stand, neither shall it
come to pass.
8For the head of Syria is Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin;
and within threescore and five years
shall Ephraim be broken, that it be
not a people.
9And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's
son. If ye will not believe, surely
ye shall not be established.
10Moreover the LORD spake
again unto Ahaz, saying,
11Ask thee a sign of the LORD
thy God; ask it either in the depth,
or in the height above.
12But Ahaz said, I will not
ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
13And he said, Hear ye now, O
house of David; Is
it a small thing for you to
weary men, but will ye weary my God
also?
14Therefore the Lord himself
shall give you a sign; Behold, a
virgin shall conceive, and bear a
son, and shall call his name
Immanuel.
15Butter and honey shall he
eat, that he may know to refuse the
evil, and choose the good.
16For before the child shall
know to refuse the evil, and choose
the good, the land that thou
abhorrest shall be forsaken of both
her kings.
17The LORD shall bring upon
thee, and upon thy people, and upon
thy father's house, days that have
not come, from the day that Ephraim
departed from Judah; even the
king of Assyria.
18And it shall come to pass
in that day, that the
LORD shall hiss 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.
19And they shall come, and
shall rest all of them in the
desolate valleys, and in the holes
of the rocks, and upon all thorns,
and upon all bushes.
20In the same day shall the
Lord shave with a razor that is
hired, namely,
by them beyond the river, by the
king of Assyria, the head, and the
hair of the feet: and it shall also
consume the beard.
21And it shall come to pass
in that day, that a
man shall nourish a young cow, and
two sheep;
22And it shall come to pass,
for the abundance of milk that they
shall give he shall eat butter: for
butter and honey shall every one eat
that is left in the land.
23And it shall come to pass
in that day, that every
place shall be, where there were a
thousand vines at a thousand
silverlings, it shall even be
for briers and thorns.
24With arrows and with bows
shall men come
thither; because all the land shall
become briers and thorns.
25And on all
hills that shall be digged with the
mattock, there shall not come
thither the fear of briers and
thorns: but it shall be for the
sending forth of oxen, and for the
treading of lesser cattle.