Isaiah 7

Revised Geneva Translation

7 And in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah (king of Judah), Rezin, the king of Aram, came up—and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel—to Jerusalem, to fight against it. But he could not overcome it.

² And it was told to the House of David, saying, “Aram has joined with Ephraim.” Therefore, his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved by the wind.

³ Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go forth now to meet Ahaz (you and Shear-Jashub, your son), at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the path of the fuller’s field,

⁴ “and say to him, ‘Take heed, and be still. Do not fear or be fainthearted because of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, because of the furious wrath of Rezin and of Aram and of Remaliah’s son.’

⁵ “Because Aram has taken wicked counsel against you, Ephraim and Remaliah’s son, saying,

⁶ ‘Let us go up against Judah. And let us wake them up and make a breach therein for ourselves and set a king in the midst thereof: the son of Tabel.’”

⁷ Thus says the LORD God: “It shall not stand, nor shall it be.

⁸ “For the head of Aram is Damascus. And the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years, Ephraim shall be destroyed from being a people.

⁹ “And the head of Ephraim is Samaria. And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you do not believe, surely you shall not be established.”

¹⁰ And the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

¹¹ “Ask for a sign for yourself from the LORD your God. Ask it in the depth beneath or in the height above.”

¹² But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I tempt the LORD.”

¹³ Then he said, “Hear now, O House of David. It is a small thing for you to grieve men. But will you also grieve my God?”

¹⁴ “Therefore the LORD Himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son. And she shall call His Name, ‘Immanuel’.

¹⁵ “Butter and honey shall He eat, until He has knowledge to refuse evil and to choose good.

¹⁶ “For before the Child shall have knowledge to eschew evil, and to choose good, the land that you abhor shall be forsaken by both her kings.

¹⁷ “The LORD shall bring the king of Assyria upon you, and upon your people, and your Father’s House (days that have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah).”

¹⁸ And on that day shall the LORD whistle for the fly that is at the uttermost parts of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.

¹⁹ And they shall come and shall all light in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorny places, and upon all bushy places.

²⁰ On that day shall the LORD shave with a hired razor, by those beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet. And it shall consume the beard.

²¹ And on the same day shall a man nourish a young cow and two sheep.

²² And because of the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter. For everyone shall eat butter and honey which is left within the land.

²³ And on the same day that every place which once had a thousand vines sold for a thousand pieces of silver, shall be briers and thorns.

²⁴ With arrows and with bow shall one come there, because all the land shall be briers and thorns.

²⁵ But on all the mountains which shall be dug with the mattock, the fear of briers and thorns shall not come. But they shall be for the sending out of bullocks, and for the treading of sheep.