Isaiah 7:14–25

¹⁴Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you ^aa sign: The virgin will conceive, ^bhave a son, and name him Immanuel. ^cd15By the time he learns to reject what is bad and choose what is good, ^ehe will be eating butter ^fand honey. ^g16For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned. ¹⁷The Lord will bring on you, your people, and the house of your father, such a time as has never been since Ephraim separated from Judah ^h—the king of Assyria ⁱis coming.”

¹⁸On that day ^j

the Lord will whistle ^kto the fly

that is at the farthest streams of the Nile

and to the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

¹⁹All of them will come and settle

in the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks, ^l

in all the thornbushes, and in all the water holes.

²⁰On that day the Lord will use a razor ^mhired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria ⁿ—to shave the head, the hair on the legs, and to remove the beard as well.

²¹On that day

a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,

²²and from the abundant milk they give

he will eat butter,

for every survivor in the land will eat butter and honey. ^o

²³And on that day

every place where there were 1,000 vines,

worth 1,000 pieces of silver,

will become thorns and briers. ^p

²⁴A man will go there with bow and arrows

because the whole land will be thorns and briers.

²⁵You will not go to all the hills

that were once tilled with a hoe,

for fear of the thorns and briers.

Those hills will be places for oxen to graze

and for sheep to trample.