“Let’s go up against Judah and [a]terrorize it, and take it for ourselves by assault and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” this is what the Lord [b]God says: “(A)It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass. For the head of Aram is (B)Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken to pieces, so that it is no longer a people),

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 7:6 Or demolish
  2. Isaiah 7:7 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord

“Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it.” Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says:(A)

“‘It will not take place,
    it will not happen,(B)
for the head of Aram is Damascus,(C)
    and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.(D)
Within sixty-five years
    Ephraim will be too shattered(E) to be a people.

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