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7 : 1 In the days ofAhaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah,Rezin the king of Syria andPekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it.
7 : 2 When the house of David was told,Syria is in league withEphraim,the heart of Ahazand the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
7 : 3 And theLordsaid to Isaiah,Go out to meet Ahaz, you andShear-jashubyour son, at the end ofthe conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field.
7 : 4 And say to him,Be careful,be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these twosmoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria andthe son of Remaliah.
7 : 5 Because Syria, with Ephraim andthe son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying,
7 : 6 Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer itfor ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,
7 : 7 thus says the LordGod:It shall not stand,and it shall not come to pass.
7 : 8 For the head of Syria isDamascus,and the head of Damascus is Rezin.And within sixty-five yearsEphraim will be shattered from being a people.
7 : 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,and the head of Samaria isthe son of Remaliah.If youare not firm in faith,you will not be firm at all.
7 : 10 Again theLordspoke to Ahaz,
7 : 11 Aska sign of theLordyourGod; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.
7 : 12 But Ahaz said,I will not ask, and I will not put theLordto the test.
7 : 13 And hesaid,Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that youweary my God also?
7 : 14 Therefore theLord himself will give you a sign.Behold, thevirgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his nameImmanuel.
7 : 15 He shall eatcurds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.
7 : 16 For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will bedeserted.
7 : 17 TheLordwill bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house such days as have not come since the day thatEphraim departed from Judah&emdash;the king of Assyria.
7 : 18 In that day theLordwillwhistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
7 : 19 And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, andin the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.
7 : 20 In that daythe Lord willshave with a razor that ishired beyondthe River&emdash;with the king of Assyria&emdash;the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.
7 : 21 In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep,
7 : 22 and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eatcurds and honey.
7 : 23 In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekelsof silver, will becomebriers and thorns.
7 : 24 With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns.
7 : 25 And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fearof briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.