7:1 And it came to pass in the days of Achaz
[the son] of Joatham, the son of Ozias, king of Judah, there came up Rasim
king of Aram, and Phakee son of Romelias, king of Israel, against Jerusalem
to war against it, but they could not take it.
7:2 And a message was brought to the house of David, saying, Aram has
conspired with Ephraim. And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people,
as in a wood a tree is moved by the wind.
7:3 And Yehovah said to Esaias, Go forth to meet Achaz, thou, and thy son
Jasub who is left, to the pool of the upper way of the fuller's field.
7:4 And thou shalt say to him, Take care to be quiet, and fear not, neither
let thy soul be disheartened because of these two smoking firebrands: fr
when my fierce anger is over, I will heal again.
7:5 And [as for] the son of Aram, and the son of Romelias, forasmuch as they
have devised an evil counsel, [saying],
7:6 We will go up against Judea, and having conferred with them we will turn
them away to our side, and we will make the son of Tabeel king of it;
7:7 thus saith Yehovah of hosts, This counsel shall not abide, nor come to
pass.
7:8 But the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rasim; and
yet within sixty and five years the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from
[being] a people.
7:9 And the head of Ephraim is Somoron, and the head of Somoron the son of
Romelias: but if ye believe not, neither will ye at all understand.
7:10 And Yehovah again spoke to Achaz, saying,
7:11 Ask for thyself a sign of Yehovah thy Elohim, in the depth or in the
height.
7:12 And Achaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yehovah.
7:13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a little thing for
you to contend with men? and how do ye contend against Yehovah?
7:14 Therefore Yehovah himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin
shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call
his name Emmanuel.
7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows either to prefer evil
[or] choose the good.
7:16 For before the child shall know good or evil, he refuses evil, to
choose the good; and the land shall be forsaken which thou art afraid of
because of the two kings.
7:17 But Elohim shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the house
of thy father, days which have never come, from the day that Ephraim took
away from Judah the king of the Assyrians.
7:18 And it shall come to pass in that day that Yehovah shall hiss for the
flies, which [insect] shall rule over a part of the river of Egypt, and for
the bee which is in the land of the Assyrians.
7:19 And they all shall enter into the clefts of the land, and into the
holes of the rocks, and into the caves, and into every ravine.
7:20 In that day Yehovah shall shave with te hired razor of the king of
Assyria beyond the river the head, and the hairs of the feet, and will
remove the beard.
7:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a man shall rear a
heifer, and two sheep.
7:22 And it shall come to pass from their drinking an abundance of milk,
[that] every one that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey.
7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, [for] every place where there
shall be a thousand vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become barren
land and thorns.
7:24 [Men] shall enter thither with arrow and bow; for all the land shall be
[barren] ground and thorns.
7:25 And every mountain shall be certainly ploughed: there shall no fear
come thither: for there shall be from [among] the [barren] ground and thorns
that whereon cattle shall feed and oxen shall tread. |
7:1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz
the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of
Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward
Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
7:2 And 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.
7:3 Then said Yehovah unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and
Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the
highway of the fuller's field;
7:4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be
fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce
anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel
against thee, saying,
7:6 Let 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:
7:7 Thus saith Yehovah GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to
pass.
7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin;
and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not
a people.
7:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is
Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
7:10 Moreover Yehovah spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
7:11 Ask thee a sign of Yehovah thy Elohim; ask it either in the depth, or in
the height above.
7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yehovah.
7:13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you
to weary men, but will ye weary my Elohim also?
7:14 Therefore Yehovah himself shall give you a sign; Behold, the young woman
shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good.
7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the
good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
7:17 Yehovah shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy
father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed
from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
7:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Yehovah shall hiss for the
fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee
that is in the land of Assyria.
7:19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate
valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all
bushes.
7:20 In the same day shall Yehovah shave with a razor that is hired,
namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the
hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
7:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young
cow, and two sheep;
7:22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall
give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is
left in the land.
7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where
there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for
briers and thorns.
7:24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land
shall become briers and thorns.
7:25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not
come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending
forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle. |