1WHILE AHAZ SON OF JOTHAM and grandson of Uzziah was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram with Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, marched on Jerusalem, but could not force a battle. 2When the house of David heard that the Aramaeans had come to terms with the Ephraimites, king and people were shaken like forest trees in the wind. 3Then the LORD said to Isaiah, Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the Upper Pool by the causeway leading to the Fuller's Field, 4and say to him, Be on your guard, keep calm; do not be frightened or unmanned by these two smouldering stumps of firewood, because Rezin and his Aramaeans with Remaliah's son are burning with rage. 5The Aramaeans with Ephraim and Remaliah's son have laid their plans against you, saying, 6Let us invade Judah and break her spirit , let us make her join with us, and set the son of Tabeal on the throne. 7Therefore the Lord GOD has said: This shall not happen now, and never shall,
8for all that the chief city of Aram is Damascus,
and Rezin is the chief of Damascus;
within sixty-five years
Ephraim shall cease to be a nation,
9for all that Samaria is the chief city of Ephraim,
and Remaliah's son the chief of Samaria.
Have ?rm faith, or you will not stand ?rm.
10Once again the LORD spoke to Ahaz and said, 11Ask the LORD your God for a sign, from lowest Sheol or from highest heaven. 12But Ahaz said, No, I will not put the LORD to the test by asking for a sign. 13Then the answer came: Listen, house of David. Are you not content to wear out men's patience? Must you also wear out the patience of my God? 14Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign: A young woman is with child, and she will bear a son, and will call him Immanuel . 15By the time that he has learnt to reject evil and choose good, he will be eating curds and honey ; 16before that child has learnt to reject evil and choose good, desolation will come upon the land before whose two kings you cower now. 17The LORD will bring on you, your people, and your house, a time the like of which has not been seen since Ephraim broke away from Judah .
18On that day the LORD will whistle for the fly from the distant streams of Egypt and for the bee from Assyria. 19They shall all come and settle in the precipitous ravines and in the clefts of the rock; camel-thorn and stink-wood shall be black with them. 20On that day the Lord shall shave the head and body with a razor hired on the banks of the Euphrates , and it shall remove the beard as well. 21On that day a man shall save alive a young cow and two ewes; 22and he shall get so much milk that he eats curds; for all who are left in the land shall eat curds and honey. 23On that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver shall be given over to thorns and briars. 24A man shall go there only to hunt with bow and arrows, for thorns and briars cover the whole land; 25and no one who fears thorns and briars shall set foot on any of those hills once worked with the hoe. Oxen shall be turned loose on them, and sheep shall trample them.
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