ULT ISA Chapter 7

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7 And it happened in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, Rezin, the king of Aram, went up with Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, to Jerusalem for battle against it, but he was not able to battle against it. 2 And it was declared to the house of David, saying, “Aram has settled upon Ephraim.” And his heart shook, and the heart of his people, like the shaking of the trees of the forest from the face of the wind.

3 And Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out, please, to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the road of the Field of the Washer. 4 And you shall say to him, ‘Guard yourself and be quiet. May you not fear and may your heart not soften from the two of these smoking stubs of firewood, by the burning of the nose of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Aram has plotted harm against you, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying, 6 “Let us go up against Judah, and let us make it dread, and let us break it open for ourselves, and let us make a king reign in the midst of it, the son of Tabeel,” 7 thus says the Lord Yahweh, “It will not stand, and it will not be. 8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and within 65 years, Ephraim will be shattered from being a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe, then you will not be established.” ’ ”

10 And Yahweh added to speak to Ahaz, saying, 11 “Ask a sign for yourself from Yahweh your God. Make deep to Sheol or make high to above.” 12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not test Yahweh.”

13 And he said, “Please hear, house of David. Is it little for you to make men weary, that you also make my God weary? 14 Therefore, the Lord himself will give a sign to you. Behold, the young woman has conceived and is bearing a son, and she will call his name Immanuel. 15 He will eat curds and honey to his knowing to refuse evil and to choose good. 16 For before the boy knows to reject evil and to choose good, the land will be forsaken that you are dreading from the faces of the two kings of it. 17 Yahweh will bring upon you and upon your people and upon the house of your father days that have not come since the day of the turning of Ephraim away from Judah—the king of Assyria.”

18 And it will happen in that day, Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they will come, and they will settle down, all of them, in the valleys of desolation and in the clefts of the rocks and in all of the thornbushes and in all of the watering holes.

20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor hired from beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet, and it will also take away the beard.

21 And it will happen in that day, a man will keep alive a calf of the herd and two of the flock. 22 And it will happen, from the abundance of making milk, he will eat curds, for every one left in the midst of the land will eat curds and honey.

23 And it will happen in that day, it will be, every place where a thousand vines at a thousand of silver were there, it will become briar and thorn. 24 One will come there with arrows and with a bow, for all of the land will become briar and thorn. 25 And all of the hills that were hoed with a hoe, you will not go there for fear of briar and thorn. And it will be for the sending out of the ox and for the trampling of the sheep.