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¹AND it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jothan, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Romaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. ²And it was told the house of David, saying, Aram is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart and the heart of his people were moved, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind. ³Then Yahvah said to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool which is in the highway of the palace's field; ⁴And say to him, Listen and be quiet; do not fear, nor be frightened by these 2 weakening trouble-makers, by the fierce anger of Rezin, and by the son of Romaliah ⁵Because Aram, Ephraim, and the son of Romaliah have taken evil counsel against you, saying, ⁶Let us go up against Judah and destroy it, and let us make a breach in it and set a king in the middle of it, even the son of Tabeal; ⁷Thus says Yahvah God, It will not stand, nor will it come to pass. ⁸For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and after 65 years Ephraim will be broken, so that it will no longer be a people. ⁹And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Romaliah's son. If you do not believe, surely you will not understand.

¹⁰Moreover, Yahvah spoke again to Ahaz, saying, ¹¹Ask for yourself a sign of Yahvah your God; ask something in the depth, or in the height above. ¹²But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I tempt Yahvah my God. ¹³And he said, Hear now, oh house of David; it is a small thing for you to weary men, but will you also weary my God? ¹⁴Therefore, the Lord himself will give you a sign; Look, a virgin will conceive and bear a son, and will call his name Immanuel. ¹⁵Butter and honey he will eat, that he may know how to refuse the evil and choose the good. ¹⁶For before the child will know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose 2 kings you are harassed will be forsaken.

¹⁷Yahvah will bring on you and on your people and on your father's house days that have not come from the day when the king of Assyria parted Ephraim from Judah. ¹⁸And it will come to pass on that day that Yahvah will whistle for the flies that are in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bees that are in the land of Assyria. ¹⁹And they will come and will rest all of them in the valley of Jathoth and in the holes of the rocks and in all the dens. ²⁰On that day the Lord will shave with a sharp razor the region that is beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and he will also shave off the beard. ²¹And it will come to pass in that day that a man will rear a young cow and 2 sheep; ²²And it will come to pass because of the abundance of milk that they will give, he will eat butter; for butter and honey will everyone eat who is left in the land. ²³And it will come to pass in that day that every place where there were 1,000 vines, worth 1,000 silver pieces, will become briers and thorns. ²⁴With arrows and with bows will men come there, because all the land will be filled with briers and thorns. ²⁵And on all the hills that once were plowed with a plow, you will not go for fear of briers and thorns; but it will become pasture for cattle and for the treading of sheep.