Isaiah:7-8

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* And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham son of Uzziah king of Judah , that Rezin king of Syria , and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel , came up , to Jerusalem , to war against it , but could not prevail against it . * And it was told the house of David , saying , Syria hath settled down upon Ephraim . Then shook his heart , and the heart of his people , as the trees of a forest shake before a wind . * Then said Yahweh , unto Isaiah , Go forth , I pray thee , to meet Ahaz , thou , and Shear-jashub thy son , unto the end of the channel of the upper pool , unto the highway of the fullers field ; * and say unto him Take heed and keep thyself calmdo not fear , neither let thy heart be faint , because of these two fag-ends of smoking firebrands , in spite of the glow of the anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah . * Because Syria , hath taken counsel against thee , for mischief , Ephraim and the son of Remaliah , saying , * Let us go up against Judah , and besiege it , and break it open , for ourselves , and set up a king in the midst thereof , even the son of Tabeal , * Thus , saith My Lord , Yahweh , It shall not stand Neither shall it come to pass ! * For , though the head of Syria is Damascus , And , the head of Damascus , is Rezin , Yet within threescore and five years more , shall Ephraim be broken that it shall not be a people ; * Even though the head of Ephraim is Samaria , And , the head of Samaria , is the son of Remaliah . If ye trust not , Surely , ye cannot be trusted ! * And again spake Yahweh unto Ahaz saying * Ask thee a sign , of Yahweh thy God , Go down deep for a request , Or ascend on high ! * But Ahaz said , I will not ask Nor will I put Yahweh to the proof . * Then said he Hear , I pray you , O house of David ! Is it , too little , for you to weary men , that ye must weary even my God ? * Wherefore let My Lord Himself give you a sign , Lo ! a Virgin , being with child and giving birth to a son , thou wilt call his name Immanuel . * Curds and honey , shall he eat , by the time that he knoweth to refuse the bad and choose the good ; * for before the boy knoweth to refuse the bad and choose the good , forsaken shall be the land , at which , thou , art alarmed , of the presence of both her kings . * Yahweh will bring upon thee and upon thy people , and upon the house of thy father , days which have not come , from the day when Ephraim departed from Judah , even the king of Assyria . * And it shall come to pass in that day that Yahweh will give a signal To the fly that is in the uttermost part of the Nile-canals of Egypt , And to the bee that is in the land of Assyria . * And they shall all of them come and settle down In the desolate torrent-valleys , And in the rents of the crags , And on all the thorn-bushes , And on all the pastures , * In that day , will My Lord shave , with hired razor , even with them of the lands over the River Euphrates , with the king of Assyria , the head and the hair of the feet , yea , even the beard , will it sweep off . * And it shall come to pass in that day , that a man shall keep alive a young cow and two sheep . * Yea it shall come to pass for the abundance of the yield of milk , that he shall eat curds , for , curds and honey , shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land . * And it shall some to pass in that day , that , every place wherein there used to be a thousand vines at a thousand pieces of silver , yea , even for briars and thorns , shall it be . * With arrows and with a bow , shall one come in thither , for briars and thorns , shall be all the land . * But all the hills which , with the hoe , can be weeded , there shall not come thither , the fear of briars anti thorns , but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen , and for the tread of lesser cattle . * And Yahweh said unto me : Take thee a large tablet , and write thereon in plain characters , To Maher-shalal-hash-baz . "Speed-spoil-hurry-prey ". * That I may take in attestation , faithful witnesses , even Uriah the priest , and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah . * Then approached I unto the prophetess , and she conceived and bare a son , and Yahweh said unto me , Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz . * For before the boy shall have knowledge to cry , My father ! and , My mother ! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria . * And again Yahweh spake unto me yet further saying : * Because this people hath refused the waters of Shiloah which flow softly , and are rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah , * now therefore , lo ! the Lord is about to bring up against them the waters , strong and many , of the River , even the king of Assyria and all his glory , and he shall rise over all his channels , and flow over all his banks ; \fs15 * and roll on throughout Judahoverflow and pass along , till unto the neck , he shall reach , and it shall be , that , the stretching out of his wings , shall fill the breadth of thy land , O Immanuel ! * Rage , O ye peoples , and be overthrown , And give ear , all ye distant parts of the earth , Gird yourselves and be overthrown , Gird yourselves , and be overthrown : * Determine a plan , and it shall be frustrated , Speak a word , and it shall not stand , For With-us-is-GOD ! * For , thus , spake Yahweh unto me like a firm grasp of the hand , when he admonished me , not to walk in the way of this people , saying : * Ye shall not say A confederacy ! of everything of which this people may say . A confederacy ! And their fear , shall ye not fear or regard as awful : * Yahweh of hosts , him , shall ye hallow , And let , him , be your fear , and let , him inspire you with awe ; * So shall he become a hallowed asylum , But a stone to strike against , and a rock to stumble over unto both houses of Israel A trap and a snare to the dweller in Jerusalem ; * And many , shall stumble among them , and fall and be torn , and snared , and captured . * Bind thou up the testimony , Seal the instruction amongst my disciples . * I will therefore long for Yahweh , Who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob , And will wait , for him . * Lo ! I and the children whom Yahweh hath given me , are for signs and for wonders in Israel , from Yahweh of hosts , who is making his habitation in Mount Zion . * But , when they say unto you Seek ye unto the necromancers and unto the wizards , who chirp , and who mutter , Should not u people seek , unto its God ? In behalf of the living , unto the dead ? * To the law and to the testimony ! If they speak not according to this word ,, because they have no dawning day . * Therefore shall they pass through it hard pressed and hungry , And it shall be when they hunger , then will they rage and revile their king and their god and turn their faces upwards ; * And unto the land , shall they look hard , And lo ! distress and darkness , the gloom of anguish , driven away ! * For there is no gloom to her who had been in anguish , In the former time , he brought into dishonour The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali , In the latter time , hath he brought into honour The Lake-way over the Jordan , Galilee of the nations .

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