Isaiah:7-10

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* 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 . * 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 . * 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 ; * 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 . * Because Syria , Ephraim , and the son of Remaliah , have taken evil counsel against thee , saying , * 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 : * Thus saith the Lord GOD , It shall not stand , neither shall it come to pass . * 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 . * 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 . * Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz , saying , * Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God ; ask it either in the depth , or in the height above . * But Ahaz said , I will not ask , neither will I tempt the LORD . * 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 ? * Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; Behold , a virgin shall conceive , and bear a son , and shall call his name Immanuel . * Butter and honey shall he eat , that he may know to refuse the evil , and choose the good . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And it shall come to pass in that day , that a man shall nourish a young cow , and two sheep ; * 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 . * 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 . * With arrows and with bows shall men come thither ; because all the land shall become briers and thorns . * 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 . * Moreover the LORD said unto me , Take thee a great roll , and write in it with a man 's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz . * And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record , Uriah the priest , and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah . * And I went unto the prophetess ; and she conceived , and bare a son . Then said the LORD to me , Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz . * For before the child shall have knowledge to cry , My father , and my mother , the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria . * The LORD spake also unto me again , saying , * Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly , and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah 's son ; * Now therefore , behold , the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river , strong and many , even the king of Assyria , and all his glory : and he shall come up over all his channels , and go over all his banks : * And he shall pass through Judah ; he shall overflow and go over , he shall reach even to the neck ; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land , O Immanuel . * Associate yourselves , O ye people , and ye shall be broken in pieces ; and give ear , all ye of far countries : gird yourselves , and ye shall be broken in pieces ; gird yourselves , and ye shall be broken in pieces . * Take counsel together , and it shall come to nought ; speak the word , and it shall not stand : for God is with us . * For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand , and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people , saying , * Say ye not , A confederacy , to all them to whom this people shall say , A confederacy ; neither fear ye their fear , nor be afraid . * Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself ; and let him be your fear , and let him be your dread . * And he shall be for a sanctuary ; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel , for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem . * And many among them shall stumble , and fall , and be broken , and be snared , and be taken . * Bind up the testimony , seal the law among my disciples . * And I will wait upon the LORD , that hideth his face from the house of Jacob , and I will look for him . * Behold , I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts , which dwelleth in mount Zion . * And when they shall say unto you , Seek unto them that have familiar spirits , and unto wizards that peep , and that mutter : should not a people seek unto their God ? for the living to the dead ? * To the law and to the testimony : if they speak not according to this word , it is because there is no light in them . * And they shall pass through it , hardly bestead and hungry : and it shall come to pass , that when they shall be hungry , they shall fret themselves , and curse their king and their God , and look upward . * And they shall look unto the earth ; and behold trouble and darkness , dimness of anguish ; and they shall be driven to darkness . * Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation , when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali , and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea , beyond Jordan , in Galilee of the nations . * The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light : they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death , upon them hath the light shined . * Thou hast multiplied the nation , and not increased the joy : they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest , and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil . * For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden , and the staff of his shoulder , the rod of his oppressor , as in the day of Midian . * For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise , and garments rolled in blood ; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire . * For unto us a child is born , unto us a son is given : and the government shall be upon his shoulder : and his name shall be called Wonderful , Counsellor , The mighty God , The everlasting Father , The Prince of Peace . * Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end , upon the throne of David , and upon his kingdom , to order it , and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever . The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this . * The Lord sent a word into Jacob , and it hath lighted upon Israel . * And all the people shall know , even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria , that say in the pride and stoutness of heart , * The bricks are fallen down , but we will build with hewn stones : the sycomores are cut down , but we will change them into cedars . * Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him , and join his enemies together ; * The Syrians before , and the Philistines behind ; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth . For all this his anger is not turned away , but his hand is stretched out still . * For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them , neither do they seek the LORD of hosts . * Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail , branch and rush , in one day . * The ancient and honourable , he is the head ; and the prophet that teacheth lies , he is the tail . * For the leaders of this people cause them to err ; and they that are led of them are destroyed . * Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men , neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows : for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer , and every mouth speaketh folly . For all this his anger is not turned away , but his hand is stretched out still . * For wickedness burneth as the fire : it shall devour the briers and thorns , and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest , and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke . * Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened , and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire : no man shall spare his brother . * And he shall snatch on the right hand , and be hungry ; and he shall eat on the left hand , and they shall not be satisfied : they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm : * Manasseh , Ephraim ; and Ephraim , Manasseh : and they together shall be against Judah . For all this his anger is not turned away , but his hand is stretched out still . * Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees , and that write grievousness which they have prescribed ; * To turn aside the needy from judgment , and to take away the right from the poor of my people , that widows may be their prey , and that they may rob the fatherless ! * And what will ye do in the day of visitation , and in the desolation which shall come from far ? to whom will ye flee for help ? and where will ye leave your glory ? * Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners , and they shall fall under the slain . For all this his anger is not turned away , but his hand is stretched out still . * O Assyrian , the rod of mine anger , and the staff in their hand is mine indignation . * I will send him against an hypocritical nation , and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge , to take the spoil , and to take the prey , and to tread them down like the mire of the streets . * Howbeit he meaneth not so , neither doth his heart think so ; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few . * For he saith , Are not my princes altogether kings ? * Is not Calno as Carchemish ? is not Hamath as Arpad ? is not Samaria as Damascus ? * As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols , and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria ; * Shall I not , as I have done unto Samaria and her idols , so do to Jerusalem and her idols ? * Wherefore it shall come to pass , that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem , I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria , and the glory of his high looks . * For he saith , By the strength of my hand I have done it , and by my wisdom ; for I am prudent : and I have removed the bounds of the people , and have robbed their treasures , and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man : * And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people : and as one gathereth eggs that are left , have I gathered all the earth ; and there was none that moved the wing , or opened the mouth , or peeped . * Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith ? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it ? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up , or as if the staff should lift up itself , as if it were no wood . * Therefore shall the Lord , the Lord of hosts , send among his fat ones leanness ; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire . * And the light of Israel shall be for a fire , and his Holy One for a flame : and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day ; * And shall consume the glory of his forest , and of his fruitful field , both soul and body : and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth . * And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few , that a child may write them . * And it shall come to pass in that day , that the remnant of Israel , and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob , shall no more again stay upon him that smote them ; but shall stay upon the LORD , the Holy One of Israel , in truth . * The remnant shall return , even the remnant of Jacob , unto the mighty God . * For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea , yet a remnant of them shall return : the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness . * For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption , even determined , in the midst of all the land . * Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts , O my people that dwellest in Zion , be not afraid of the Assyrian : he shall smite thee with a rod , and shall lift up his staff against thee , after the manner of Egypt . * For yet a very little while , and the indignation shall cease , and mine anger in their destruction . * And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb : and as his rod was upon the sea , so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt . * And it shall come to pass in that day , that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder , and his yoke from off thy neck , and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing . * He is come to Aiath , he is passed to Migron ; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages : * They are gone over the passage : they have taken up their lodging at Geba ; Ramah is afraid ; Gibeah of Saul is fled . * Lift up thy voice , O daughter of Gallim : cause it to be heard unto Laish , O poor Anathoth . * Madmenah is removed ; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee . * As yet shall he remain at Nob that day : he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion , the hill of Jerusalem . * Behold , the Lord , the LORD of hosts , shall lop the bough with terror : and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down , and the haughty shall be humbled . * And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron , and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one . * And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse , and a Branch shall grow out of his roots :

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