Isaiah 7:1–9:1

And it came to pass in the days of ^aAhaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah king of Judah, that ^bRezin the king of Syria, and ^bPekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up towards Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. ²And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. ³Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of ^dthe conduit of ^ethe upper pool in the ^fhighway of the fuller’s field; ⁴and say unto him,

Take heed, and be quiet;

Fear not, neither be fainthearted

For the two tails of these smoking ^gfirebrands,

For the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of ^hthe son of Remaliah.

⁵Because Syria, Ephraim, and ^hthe son of Remaliah,

Have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,

⁶Let 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 Tabeal:

⁷Thus saith the Lord God,

ⁱIt shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

⁸For ^kthe head of Syria is ^lDamascus,

And ^llthe head of Damascus is Rezin;

And ^mwithin threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

⁹And the head of Ephraim is ⁿSamaria,

And the head of Samaria is ^hRemaliah’s son.

^oIf ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

¹⁰Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

¹¹Ask thee ^pa sign of the Lord thy God;

Ask it either ^qin the depth, or ^rin the height above.

¹²But Ahaz said, ^sI will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord. ¹³And he said,

Hear ye now, ^tO house of David;

^uIs it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye ^vweary my God also?

¹⁴Therefore the Lord himself shall give you ^pwa sign;

^xBehold, ^ya Virgin shall conceive, and bear ^za Son,

And shall call his name ^aImmanuel.

^15bButter and ^bhoney shall he eat,

^cThat he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

^16dFor before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good,

^dThe land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of ^eboth her kings.

¹⁷The Lord shall bring ^fupon thee,

And ^gupon thy people, and upon thy father’s house,

Days that have not come,

From the day that ^hEphraim departed from Judah;

^fgEven the king of Assyria.

¹⁸And it shall come to pass ⁱin that day,

That the Lord ^kshall hiss ^lfor the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt,

And ^kfor the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

¹⁹And they shall come, and shall rest all of them

In the desolate valleys, and in ^mthe holes of the rocks,

And upon all ⁿthorns, and upon all bushes.

²⁰ⁱIn the same day shall the Lord shave with ^oa rasor that is hired,

Namely, ^pby them beyond ^ppthe river, by the king of Assyria,

The head, and the hair of the feet:

And it shall also consume the beard.

²¹And it shall come to pass ⁱin that day,

That a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

²²And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter:

For ^bbutter and ^bhoney shall every one eat that is left in the land.

²³And it shall come to pass ⁱin that day,

That every place shall be,

Where there were a thousand vines at ^qa thousand silverlings,

It shall even be for ^rbriers and thorns.

^24sWith arrows and with bows shall men come thither;

Because ^sall the land shall become ^rbriers and thorns.

²⁵And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock,

There shall not come thither the fear of ^rbriers and thorns:

But ^tit shall be for the sending forth of oxen,

And ^ufor the treading of lesser cattle.

VIII.Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great ^aroll, and ^bwrite in it with ^ca man’s pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ²And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, ^dUriah the priest, and ^eZechariah the son of Jeberechiah. ³And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. ^4fFor before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, ^fthe riches of ^gDamascus and the spoil of ^hSamaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

⁵The Lord spake also unto me again, saying,

⁶Forsomuch as this people refuseth the waters of ⁱShiloah that go softly,

And rejoice in ^kRezin and Remaliah’s son;

⁷Now therefore behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them

^lThe waters of ^llthe river, strong and many,

Even ^mthe king of Assyria, and all his glory:

And he shall come up over all his channels,

And go over all his banks:

⁸And he shall pass through Judah;

He shall ^nooverflow and ^ogo over,

He shall reach even ⁿto the neck;

And ^qthe stretching out of ^rhis wings shall fill ^sthe breadth of thy land, O ^tImmanuel.

^9uAssociate yourselves, O ye people, and ^vye shall be broken in pieces;

And give ear, all ye of far countries:

Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces;

Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

^10wTake counsel together, and it shall ^xcome to nought;

Speak the word, and ^yit shall not stand:

For ^tzGod is with us.

¹¹For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand,

And instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

¹²Say ye not, ^aA confederacy,

To all them to whom this people shall say, ^aA confederacy;

^bNeither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

^13cSanctify the Lord of hosts himself;

And ^dlet him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

¹⁴And ^ehe shall be for a sanctuary;

But for ^fa stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel,

^gFor a gin and ^gfor a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹⁵And many among them shall stumble, and ^hfall, and be broken,

And be snared, and be taken.

¹⁶Bind up the testimony, ⁱseal the law among my ^kdisciples.

¹⁷And I will ^lwait upon the Lord,

That ^mhideth his face from the house of Jacob,

And I will ⁿlook for him.

^18oBehold, I and ^pthe children whom the Lord hath given me

Are ^qfor signs and ^qfor ^rwonders in Israel

From the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

¹⁹And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto ^sthem that have familiar spirits,

And unto ^swizards ^tthat peep, and ^uthat mutter:

^vShould not a people seek unto their God?

For the living to ^wthe dead?

^20xTo the law and to the testimony:

^yIf they speak not according to this word,

^zIt is because there is no light in them.

²¹And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and ^ahungry:

And it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves,

And ^bcurse their king and their God, and look upward.

²²And ^cthey shall look unto the earth;

And behold ^dtrouble and darkness, ^edimness of ^danguish;

And they shall be driven to darkness.

IX.Nevertheless ^athe dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation,

When at the ^bfirst ^che lightly afflicted ^dthe land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,

And ^eafterward ^fdid more grievously afflict her ^dby the way of the sea,

^gBeyond Jordan, ^hin Galilee of ⁱthe nations.