Isaiah 7:14–25

¹⁴“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, ^aa ¹virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name ^2bImmanuel.

¹⁵“He will eat ^acurds and honey ¹at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.

¹⁶“^aFor before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, ^bthe land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.

Trials to Come for Judah

¹⁷“The Lord will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house such days as have never come since the day that ^aEphraim separated from Judah, the ^bking of Assyria.”

¹⁸In that day the Lord will ^awhistle for the fly that is in the ^1bremotest part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

¹⁹They will all come and settle on the steep ¹ravines, on the ^aledges of the cliffs, ^bon all the thorn bushes and on all the ²watering places.

²⁰In that day the Lord will ^ashave with a ^brazor, ^chired from regions beyond ^dthe ¹Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.

²¹Now in that day a man may keep alive a ^aheifer and a pair of sheep;

²²and because of the abundance of the milk produced he will eat curds, for everyone that is left within the land will eat ^acurds and honey.

²³And it will come about in that day, ^athat every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become ^bbriars and thorns.

²⁴People will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars and thorns.

²⁵As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for ^1apasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.