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Isaiah

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. 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. 3 Then said the LORD 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; 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. 5 Be­cause Syr­ia, Ephraim, and the son of Re­mali­ah, have tak­en evil coun­sel against thee, say­ing, 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 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, nei­ther shall it come to pass. 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. 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. 10 More­over the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, say­ing, 11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it ei­ther in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nei­ther will I tempt the LORD. 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 God al­so? 14 There­fore the Lord him­self shall give you a sign; Be­hold, a vir­gin shall con­ceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Im­manuel. 15 But­ter and hon­ey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 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. 17 The LORD 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. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD 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. 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. 20 In the same day shall the Lord 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. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nour­ish a young cow, and two sheep; 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. 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. 24 With ar­rows and with bows shall men come thith­er; be­cause all the land shall be­come briers and thorns. 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.