Isaiah:7

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* And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Jotham , the son of ‘Uzziyahu , the king of Judah , that Rezin the king of Syria , and Pekach the son of Remalyahu , the king of Israel , went up toward Jerusalem to war against it ; but were not able to make an attack upon it . * And it was told unto the house of David , saying , Syria is encamped with Ephraim ; and his heart trembled , with the heart of his people , as the trees of the forest are shaken before the wind . * And the Lord said unto Isaiah , Go forth now to meet Achaz , thou with Shear –yashub thy son , to the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool , on the highway of the washer ’s field ; * And thou shalt say unto him , Take heed , and be quiet ; fear not , and let thy heart not become faint because of these two stumps of smoking firebrands , before the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria , and of the son of Remalyahu . * Forasmuch as Syria , Ephraim and the son of Remalyahu , have taken evil counsel against thee , saying , * Let us go up against Judah , and besiege it , and let us make a breach therein for us , and set up as king in the midst of it the son of Tabeal : * Thus hath said the Lord Eternal , It shall not succeed , and it shall not come to pass . * For the head of Syria is Damascus , and the head of Damascus is Rezin : and within sixty and five years shall Ephraim be broken , to be no more a people . * And the head of Ephraim is Samaria , and the head of Samaria is Remalyahu ’s son . If ye will not believe , surely ye shall not have permanence . * And the Lord continued to speak unto Achaz , saying , * Ask thee a sign from the Lord thy God ; ask it in the depth , or high up above . * But Achaz said , I will not ask , and I will not tempt the Lord . * And he said , Hear ye now , O house of David ! Is it too little for you to weary men , that ye will weary also my God ? * Therefore will the Lord himself give you a sign : behold , this young woman shall conceive , and bear a son , and she shall call his name ‘Immanu –el ,. * Cream and honey shall he eat , so soon as he knoweth to refuse the evil , and to choose the good . * For before yet the child shall know to refuse the evil , and to choose the good , shall be forsaken the land , of the kings of which thou feelest dread . * The Lord will bring over thee , and over thy people , and over thy father ’s house , days that have not come , from the day that Ephraim withdrew from Judah ,––the king of Assyria . * And it shall come to pass on that day , that the Lord will call for the fly that is in the uttermost end of the streams of Egypt , and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria . * And they shall come , and shall encamp , all of them , in the desolate valleys , and in the clefts of the rocks , and upon all thorn –hedges , and upon all bushes . * On the same day will the Lord shave with the razor that is hired , from among those on the other side of the river , with the king of Assyria , the head , and the hair of the feet : and also the beard shall it entirely remove . * And it shall come to pass on that day , that a man shall nourish one young cow , and two sheep ; * And it shall happen , that for the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat cream ; for cream and honey shall eat every one that is left in the midst of the land . * And it shall come to pass on that day , that every place , where there are a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels , shall be ,––yea , this shall be to briers and thorns . * With arrows and with bows shall men enter thither ; because all the land shall become briers and thorns . * And all mountains that are worked with the mattock , there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns : and they shall serve for the pasture of oxen , and for the treading of sheep .

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