VII. 1 And it came to pass the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uaziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but succeeded not in warring against it.
2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Aram rested
upon Ephraim. And his heart was shaken, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are shaken with the wind.
3 And the LORD said unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted for these two tails of smoking firebrands. for the fierce anger of Rezin with Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.
5 Because Aram hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,
6 Let us go up against Judah, and terrify it, and let us take it by storm for ourselves, and set up a king in the midst of it, even ’ the son of Tabeal:
7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years Vshall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the-head of Samaria is ’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
10 And the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask, going deep or mounting high.
12 And Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
13 And he said, Hear ye now, house of David; is its too little for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, the is with child, and beareth a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15 Butter and honey shall he eat, as he leameth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16 For before the child learn to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land shall be forsaken, whose two kings thou fearest.
17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy ’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; the king of Assyria.
18 And it shall be in that. day, that the LORD shall hiss to the fly that is at the end of the rivers of Egypt, and to the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the precipitous valleys, and in the crevices of the rocks, and upon all thorn bushes, and upon all pastures.
20 In that day shall the LORD shave with the razor that is hired, (which is) beyond the river, the king of Assyria; the head, and. the hair of the feet, and the beard also shall it sweep away.
21 And it shall be in that day, that a man shall nourish a heifer of kine, and two sheep;
22 And it sheu be, from the abundance of milk they give, he shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall everyone eat, that is ’ left in the land.
23 And it shall be, in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall be I for briers and thorns.
24 With arrows and with bows shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
25 And all the hills thatwere hoed with the hoe, thou shalt not come hither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.
Isaias. . ed. Richard Rusden Ottley. Germany. 2016.
Sponsored by University of Leipzig.
Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.