Isaiah 7
Isaiah's Message to
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And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz
the son of Jotham, the son of Uzzi'ah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remali'ah, king of
Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not
prevail against it. 2 Kgs. 16.5 · 2 Chr. 28.5, 6
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And it was told the house of David,
saying, Syria is confederate with E'phra-im. And his heart was
moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are
moved with the wind.
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Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and She'ar-ja'shub 1 thy
son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of
the fuller's field;
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and say unto him, Take heed, and be
quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted for the two tails of these
smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of
the son of Remali'ah.
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Because Syria, E'phra-im, and the son of
Remali'ah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
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Let 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 Tab'e-al:
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thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to
pass.
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For the head of Syria is Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and
five years shall E'phra-im be broken, that it be not a
people.
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And the head of E'phra-im is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remali'ah's son. If ye
will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
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Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
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Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the
height above.
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But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither
will I tempt the LORD.
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And 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?
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Therefore the Lord himself shall give you
a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall
call his name Imman'u-el. Mt. 1.23
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Butter and honey shall he eat, that he
may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
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For 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.
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The LORD shall bring
upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days
that have not come, from the day that E'phra-im departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
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And 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.
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And 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.
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In 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.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep;
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and 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.
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And 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.
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With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers
and thorns.
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And 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.
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