The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Isaiah 07
1 In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham,
the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin
the king of Syria and Pekah the son of
Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to
Jerusalem to war against it, but could not
prevail against it.
2 David’s house was told, “Syria is allied
with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and
the heart of his people, as the trees of the
forest tremble with the wind.
3 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out
now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub
your son, at the end of the conduit of the
upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s
field.
4 Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm.
Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be
faint because of these two tails of smoking
torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and
Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son
of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you,
saying,
6 “Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it
apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves,
and set up a king within it, even the son of
Tabeel.”
7 This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It
shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and
the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within
sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in
pieces, so that it shall not be a people.
9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and
the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If
you willnot believe, surely you shallnot be
established.’ ”
10 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
11 “Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it
either in the depth, or in the height above.”
12 But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t
tempt Yahweh.”
13 He said, “Listen now, house of David.
Is it not enough for you to try the patience
of men, that you will try the patience of my
God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give
you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his
name Immanuel.†
15 He shall eat butter and honey when
he knows to refuse the evil and choose the
good.
16 For before the child knows to refuse
the evil and choose the good, the land
whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
17 Yahweh will bring on you, on your
people, and on your father’s house days
that have not come, from the day that
Ephraim departed from Judah, even the
king of Assyria.
18 It will happen in that day that Yahweh
will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part ofthe
rivers of Egypt, and for the
bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 They shall come, and shall all rest in
the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the
rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.
20 In that day the Lord will shave with a
razor that is hired in the parts beyond the
River, even with the king of Assyria, the
head and the hair of the feet; and it shall
also consume the beard.
21 It shall happen in that day that a man
shall keep alive a young cow, and two
sheep.
22 It shall happen, that because of the
abundance of milk which they shall give
he shall eat butter, for everyone will eat
butter and honey that is left within the
land.
23 It will happen in that day that every
place where there were a thousand vines
worth a thousand silver shekels,‡ will be
for briers and thorns.
24 People will go there with arrows and
with bow, because all the land will be
briers and thorns.
25 All the hills that were cultivated with
the hoe, you shall not come there for fear
of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the
sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread
on.”