Isaiah 7:1–8

Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz

7In the days of ^mAhaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, ⁿRezin the king of Syria and ⁿPekah 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. ²When the house of David was told, ^o“Syria is in league with^{1 p}Ephraim,” the heart of Ahaz² and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

³And the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and ^qShear-jashub³ your son, at the end of ^rthe conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer’s Field. ⁴And say to him, ^s‘Be careful, ^tbe quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two ^usmoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and ^vthe son of Remaliah. ⁵Because Syria, with Ephraim and ^vthe son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, ⁶“Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it⁴ for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” ⁷thus says the Lord God:

^w“ ‘It shall not stand,

and it shall not come to pass.

⁸For the head of Syria is ^xDamascus,

and the head of Damascus is Rezin.

And within sixty-five years

Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.